DUNEDIN.
October 11
Seven members of the M. Battery (Queenstowii Artillery) and eight from the Arrow Rifles have entered with the local secretary for the New Zealand Rifle Association meeting. The Union feteamship Company have given a cup of the value of thirty guineas to be fired for. The trophy was purchased by Mr Mills when in England lately.
'I he Burns statue committee have given the order to Sir John Steel. The pedestal is to be of grey granite, and the basement of Port Chalmers blue stone.
Mr James Mills, the well-known gunsmith, and a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, died yesterday. Bishop Neville, in his opening address at the Synod, referred at some lerjgth to the question of effecting a union between the Wesleyana and Episcopalians in Otago, and expressed the hope that at no distam day this would come to pass.
The Papakaio murder case was continued at the Supreme Court yesterday till 530 p.m. Eight witnesses having been examined, the Court adjourned.
The Zealaudia, which arrived from London yesterday after a passage of 84 days from land to land, experienced terrific weather while crossing the Southern Ocean. She came into port with the /rout of the saloon staved id,
and the loss of her poop ladder, part of her bulwarks, her forecastle, and head rails. The seamen were washed out of the forecastle, and their chests carried overboard.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3513, 11 October 1882, Page 3
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233DUNEDIN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3513, 11 October 1882, Page 3
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