DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4599, 1 October 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Saturday. The Refrigerating 00. has received a cablegram intimating that the average price realised fpr the lonic's cargo is 6f i.

This day. The criminal sessions opened torday, Judge Williams, in his charge, said the Grand Jury had few cases to consider, and none of them presented any special difficulties. With respect to the case agaiust the boys named Boy, charged with firing guns at a passing train and trilling" a man on the engine, it did not appear plain which ]ad had $red the fatal shot, but the circunjstan'Qe fhafc if; Yes

fired by one of them would justify a true bill being returned against both.

The Union SSCo

The Union Company contemplate starting a weekly service to Sydney, via Auckland, for which purpose the Arawata is now being overhauled. The Takapuna" is expected to commence running in the middle of November. She is to run between Lyttelton and Manukau, via Wellington and Taranaki, only connecting at Lyttelton with the express train, and making three trips each fortnight. She will leave Lyttelton on Sunday, Thursday, and Monday, and the Manakau on the intervening Monday, Saturday, and Thursday,, occupying forty hours on the passage. Special conditions attach to travelling by her; no increase is to be made on the present ordinary single fares, but return tickets will not be issued/ nor will she be available for passengers holding through tickets or forwarding passes. The company intends to introduce the Haslam refrigerating machine, on one of their steamers, so that dairy produce can be carried between New Zealand and the Australian colonies. They also intend to bring out a cargo boat capable of storiog from 30,000 to 40,000 carcases of sheep in a frozen state, and so enable coastal towns to send stock to any port where a vessel is loading frozen meat for the London market.