DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 2046, 31 August 1876, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

(From our own correspondent.) This day.

Political Meetings.

The papers are discussing the number attending meeting on Monday, the Guardian putting it down at 1,200. The Star replies that the shed will not hold a thousand, while it was only half full. Meetings are to be held in suburbs during the wa«k. The Meeting To-NigH, The resolutions to be presented at Caveraham meeting to-night cenßure the 'acts of the Ministry, as dictated by a desire to pawn or sell the waste lands of the province, and thank the district representatives for endeavours to preserve the present independence of the province, and hope that the Otago members, in the event of failing to preserve that independence, will return in a body the meeting pledging itself to support them in preserving our rights at all hazards. The North Otago Times which has been so strong supporting Sir Julius Voeel, this mornins; describes him as a political traitor. It says painful, paltry, and piti&ble in the extreme is the exhibition made of himself by the Premier of the Colony, and the question, whether ever before in the history of the responsible Government any statesman so completely covered himself with shame and disgrace, as did Sir Julius Vogel on Tnesday evening. He has preferred his own ease to his country's good. Fire Caused by a Child. A fire, which destroyed two cottages this afternoon, was caused by a child setting fire "to tarpaulin and his own clothes, of which he had just stripped himself. Eaten by Rats. On Saturday an " old hatter " known about Tuapeka as " French Jack," was found dead in a but at Bungtown ; a large part of the body having been eaten by rats.