DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3434, 24 December 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Last night. James Brogden, of the firm of John Brogden and Sons, is on hit way out to the colony in connection with matters in dispute between that firm and the Government.

In the Supreme Court to day, Me Donald, Williamson's attorney, obtained an injunction against D'Orsay Ogden, H. F. Toole and McLean of the Juvenile Trobadours, with costs, to restrain them from performing " H.M.S. Pinafore " in New Zealand. Proceedings are (o be taken against other persona. At the City Conncil meeting to-day Cribb mored "That the Council requests the Mayor to, resign his office on the ground that he does not hold it by right of popular election as intended by the Legislature when framing the Municipal Act." As there was an objection to the suspension of s'.anding orders, the motion oopld not be put. It was eventually decided by a large majority that the mayoral salary for the ensuing year should be £1. Councillor Fish did not rote. •

The ship Bruce, from Calcutta, went ashore on the middle bank at the entrance between the North and South Channel, at about 2 p.m. She came in without a pilot, and in defiance of the signal that the bar was dangerous. The tug Kaputu towed her off at 5 p.m. The following advices of a rise in ironware came to hand yesterday p«r Botomahana from Melbourne: —It has been agreed by the iron merchants of Melbourne to advance the price of following lines to take effect on January 1, '80; bar iron, £53; shoeiag bars, £13; girder plates and boiler plates, £13; blsck sheets to £20; gudge, £15; fence wire, Nos. 6, 7, 8, £14, £1410s, and £15 respectfully; galvanised iron selling free at £27 per ton.