DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4444, 3 April 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Yesterday.

The whole of the stacks of Jackson Mcc at St. Bathan's have bi an burned. Their value is £600; they were uninsured.

Major Atkinson delivered the first of bis addresses to-night in Dunedin to an audience of 500 or 600 people. He went over exactly the same ground as in Christchurch, generally referring to one remark made by Mr Montgomery to the effect that it was unusual and extraordinary for a Treasurer to address public meetings throughout the colony without asking his hearers to take party views. Regarding this he said that he thought it would be a bad day for the colony when a Treasurer could not address the public on matters of importance without giving them a party coloring. A vote of thanks wr.s carried on the motion of C. S. Reeves.

The Treasurer is to have a conference on Wrdnesday with the representatives of the Friendly Societies in Dunedin on the subject of his National Assurance scheme. The inquest on the boy Wain was continued today, and further adjourned. Mr John Hislop, Secretary to the Education Department, arrived to-day by the Waihora.

This day. During the passage of the Waihora from Greenock to Melbourne, Gopeland Jacobs, a second class passenger, died of consumption.—Alex. McDonald, the assistant steward, was missed on the 11th March, and coild not-be found, although a strict search was made for him. tie had previously been suffering from debility and it is supposed that he either jumped or fell overboard some time during the previous night.