SCARCITY OF HOUSES OF DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1484, 12 November 1874, Page 3

SCARCITY OF HOUSES OF DUNEDIN.

0A SKELETON FOR AUCKLAND

\nriT7 T/IBRI BOY WINS THE ALU CAI CUTTA SWEEP.

rtffISTBRNATION OF GOLDSC BOROUGH'S BACKERS.

DUNEDIN.

(prom our own Correspondent.) This day. ftinse room is still scarce in Dunedin. "immigration Barracks are full of inmates to find assistance outside. recent railway collision case has been idinConit Amos, the locomotive fore%ffas charged with negligence. It was tSn that although another train was due JjL time of the collision there was no Ld on duty, and no danger signal disO, The defendant, however, wa3 not fH responsible, and the case was dismissed. Captain. Hutton is preparing a Bkeleton M for the Auckland Museum. Tj, fl result of the Melbourne Cup race Cloned intense surprise here. Thei !Tners were considered rank outsiders. A tar small pots boiled over. One knowing tatcher, up toHaricot's pedigree, won heavily. The Dnnedin School Committee has .solved to limit the number of prizes—one to eiuh class—with power to the head masters jo grant certificates of merit to other jcholars. Measles are prevalent, and not confined to om. Many adults, are suffering. The whence is attributed to indiscriminate during the past year. The first prize of £500 in the Dunedin (jjcatta Sweep on the Melbourne Cup was pin by a boy at the Taieri, who last week offered to sell his ticket for £5 to a Dunedin iporting man, who refused to buy.