DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4299, 11 October 1882, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Yesterday.

Episoopaliaas and WesleyaasBishop NerilleVin his opening address at the Synod to-day, referred at some length to the cjuqstioo of effecting a union

between^the Wesleyans and Episcopalians in Otago, and expressed the hope that t% nq*distant day this.^ou'd come to pass.

wSj*% Rough PassageJpiilsiZealandia, which arrived from LoijiloV today, after a passage of 84 days froip land to land, experienced terrific weather while crossing the southern ocean.,. She comes iato port with the front,of the saloon staved in, and with the loss of her poop ladder, part of her bulwarks* her forecastle, and head rails-

The seamen were washed out of the forecastle, and their chests carried, overboard.

This day. The Burns Statue Committtee has given an order to Sir John Steal for the pedestal to be of grey granite, and the basement of Port Chalmers bluestone. *

Jas. Mills, the well known gunsmith, and a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, died yesterday. Seven members of the M Battery (Queenstown Arti'lery), and eight from the Arrow Rifles have entered with the local secretary for the New Zealand Rifle Association meeting. The Union Steamship Company hare given a cup of the value of thirty guineas to be fired for The ( trophy was purchased by Mr Mills when in England lately.