DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2511, 23 January 1877, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Monday.

The Tokomairiro arid Lawrence railway line was opened to-day as far as Waitahuna. There was no demonstration, it being postponed till the line is completed to Lawrence.'

A newspaper runner has been summoned this afternoon for selling copies of the Daily Times and Star within the precincts of the Dunedin Railway Station. The case is brought for the purpose of testing Messrs Reed and Fenwick's rights to exclude all but their own papers by virtue of their contract recently entered into with the Government, giving them the privilege, among other things, to sell literature on the platform of the Dunedin Railway Station. This day. An equity suit was opened in the Supreme Court yesterday, which, according to counsel for the plaintiff, leads to a question of forgery and possibly of perjury, and possesses features as romantic as those celebrated cases recorded in Warren's "Ten Thousand a Year," and Anthony Trollope's " Orley Farm." The plaintiff is Thomas Robertson, an old settler living at Anderson's Bay, and he seeks to . set aside a deed of conveyance to his son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs D. M. Ross, of Timaru, on the ground that the deed in question was procured by fraudi The property involved is said to be worth £8003.. At yesterday's sitting of the Court defendant and plaintiff were examined, and the further herring of the case was adjourned till ten o'clock this morning.