DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4492, 29 May 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Yesterday.

A deputation of the School Committee is to wait on the Education Board to ask them not to ignore the Committee in the appointment of pupil teachers.

Mr Sorsytb, the patentee of the rabbit exterminator, sued Mr Albert Dornwell for money, due for having cleared of rabbits a farm of 550 acres. Evidence was given by several witnesses that no rabbits survived the poisonous fqmes administered in the burrows by the plaintiff, and although rabbits were to be seen a few days after the land was said to be cleared, they must hare come in from a . neighbouring farm. , The magistrate was of opinion that Forsyth had carried out fyis contract to clear the land, and gave judgment accordingly For being refused liquor when drunk, a man named Gawn brutally assaulted a landlord of an hotel, damaging property, and also assaulted a coustabie. lie received sentence today of six weeks' imprisonment, 'without'the option of a tine.

This day

The Caroline* immigrants all' found ready engagements as domestics from 7s to 14s per week. The dearth is as bad as ervt.

The Otago Dailp Times declares that the City' Licensing Committees have agreed in future to allow no hotel in the city to. keep open after 11 o'clock at night, and to strictly administer the^Act.