DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4483, 18 May 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Thjs day

Mr Green received a vote of confidence at Waikouaili last night. He said he would approve of Major Atkinson's National Insurance Scheme, and a Land Tax from whatever side of the House it came. ■ -i '■ ■ '. Last night's escort brought down £25,000 worth of gold. , Yesterday. A special meeting of the Harbor Board was held to-day, when authority was given to the Chairman to ascertain

from Sir John Coode whether the proposed improvements! at the Heads would prejudice his full scheme; whether he approved of. the material proposed to be used/in their a construction; whether he considered it inadvisable to carry out the west wall to the full extent, before commencing the east wall from Taiaroa Heads, or whether the latter cannot be postponed till the west wall is completed, so that the effect can be definitely ascertained ; also what is his opinion as to the reliability of Barr's estimate of the cost. It was resolved that Sir John Coode be informed that the dredging done has had the effect of deepening the bar by two feet, notwithstanding that there have been many storms this year 4. ■.

Mr Henry Clark, the County Chairman, will be a candidate for Bruce.

The sensational story from Teviot has turned out to have been a false alarm, the police haviug received the following telegram from the constable stationed in the district: —" Pound the bones of a human being in a gully twenty nine miles from Roxburgh, in the ranges. They are all disconnected and decoyed. There is no appearanc of foul play. It looks as if the body had been there for the last eight or ten years, and that the deceased person had been lost in the snow. There is no chance of identification."