DUNEDIN.
Saturday.
. Ec the proprosal of Christchurch for a conference on subsidy for charitable aid to municipalities, the Star says:—"As Duuedin shares pro rata in cost along with all the other local governing bodies in this provincial district, which is only fair, the movement to be initiated in Canterbury can receive no sympathy from our City Council.''
A proposal is now before the Harbor Board that the import and export docks shown on the engineer's plan should form one dock, if its position is moved a little. It gives general satisfaction. The new dock will be exactly one chain nearer town, and will have Stuart street for its southern boundary. A proposition ( will be made at the adjourned meeting to dredge the northern side of the steamer basin to a depth of 22 feet. When the dock is finally determined, the contractor will push on the reclamation work with all possible despatch, to which end he has sent home for five powerful travelling cranes, to be used in connection with the rocky-walling contract.
Sunday,
An accident occurred at Henderson and Co.'s contract on the Outramand Mosgiel railway line on Saturday evening. A number of trucks were being driven by an engine, when the buffers fouled, and a man named Clarke was killed, and fire others seriously hurt.
On Saturday afternoon a meeting of the Council, Professors, and members of the Otago University was held, when the
Chancellor, on behalf of the New Zealand University, presented Samuel Solomon with a diploma of 8.A., and Peter Seaton If ay with a certificate of honour. The attendance was large. The. Chancellor congratulated Solomon on the sue-. cess of his scholastic career, and. then delivered a long address, in which he referred- to the difficulties which the University had to encounter and the means taken to overcome them, and pointed out. the present and future benefits which result from sound intellectual training.
King Phillip has been sold to O'Kane, of Mosgiel, for £200.
Two cases of sticking up in Dunedin by night have been reported to the police within the past week.
Vincent Pyke has taken the initiative towards holding a conference in Dunedin for the purpose of considering in what respect the Counties Act need be amended. *
(from oub own correspondent.)
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2604, 14 May 1877, Page 2
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378DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2604, 14 May 1877, Page 2
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