DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2645, 30 June 1877, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Friday. The first half-yearly_ s jiieeting of the Dunedin Co-operative Store Company were held last night. The receipts for the half-year were £3,054 and expenditure £2,942. Liabilities, £1,887 ; assets, £1,831. Two Good Templars made themselves conspicuous at the meeting. It appears that repeated promises had been given by the Good Templar bodies to assist the co-operative store pro-

vided that no bottle license was obtained for it. The promised support was not rendered, only two Good Templars responding to the circulars which had been sent to their various lodges inviting (hem to become shareholders in the company. The directors of the company recently obtained a bottle license, and now two or three Good Templar shareholders are protesting against it. During yesterday's sitting of the Supreme Court in Banco, a rule nisi was obtained, calling upon a solicitor to show cause why he should not answer statements contained in certain affidavits presumedly alleging misconduct. In such case it is the practice not to mention the name of the solicitor, and this practice was followed yesterday. The Times states that Sir Francis Dillon Bell has accepted a seat in the Legislative Council, and that Mr A. B. C. Strode has been asked by the Govern? ment to become a member of that House.