DUNEDIN, Saturday.

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DUNEDIN, Saturday.

The newly-established Corn Exchange was opened to-day. Mr Donald Stronach, Chairman of the committee, gave a shoit addres. About fifty farmers and dealois were present. Monday. A second case, in which £2,)0 damages are claimed, will be hcaid at the .Supreme Court to-morrow before Mr Justice Williams. The plaintiff is Terence Dunn, a commercial traveller, and tho defendant is Hugh Morris, a photogiapher. The plaintiff alleges that his daughter, Mary Christina, aged 17 ye.vis, bore to the de fendant a child, which died on Fcbruaiy 20th last. The defendant denies the allegation in the plaintiffs statement of claim. At the Police Court to day, Norah Walsh was committed for trial for abandoning her child on the Pine Hill road. It appeared that the cries of the infant attracted the notice of a passerby, but as the night was dark it was only after half-an-hours' search that he discovered it. A three-roomed hou^c belonging to Robert G. Anderson, stationmaster at Burkes, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The building was insured for £150, an 1 the furniture foi £100 in the London and Lancashire Office.