OTAGO.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3888, 7 February 1870, Page 4

OTAGO.

We have Duneclin papers to the 29th. Messrs. J. Cargill and 0. 0 Gralinm, M.H.TI.s, aie about to proceed to England. T\\o little guls, the children of Mr. It. W. D.xniels., Queenstown, Otago, have had a nanow escape fiom being poisoned by eating tutu benies,. The prompt administration of an emetic, it is said, alone aveited the fatal consequences. Madame and the Misses Carandini, accompanied Ly Mi Sheivin, have amved at Dunedm fiom Melbourne. A Com t of Inquiry has acquitted Captain Gibson of all blame in connection with the lov> of the Laique Laughing Water. Mr. Thatcher and his company have opened the .Masonic Hall to a veiy large audience. A number of persons at East Taieii, who had eaten some bairacouta, which a man had just been hawking about for sale, weie seized with vomiting, and became so ill that some of them have not yet lecovered. Dr. ! Inglis, who attended the sufteiers, imputes then indisposition to their havm« eaten the fish, winch appears to have been exposed to the moon's j,a\s A tei i lficN. W gale sa\ ept over Port Chalmei s fiom two to four o'clock oa the 27th, doing considerable damage on shore. Dr. Basire's fiont verandah was entirely carried away, and the dfljus, being dashed against Captain Loadcn's back door, situated at a distance of 20,) fi'ct off, bioke it m. All the vessels m the haibour, though heeling over considerably, l emamed fast to their moorings. The annual mooting, to the memoiy of Tfobei t Biun^ weieheld m Dime din and in Cc'vei.^ham.