DUNEDIN.
October 27,
Immense interest is felt here in the Melbourne Cup race, and the latest news is largely sought for. A £7000 consultation was drawn last night, and fully £100 daily passes through the totalisator.
The recent wet and boisterous weather has done a good deal of damage in the interior to lambiog, and also to grain and fruit crops, etc. It is stated that the lambing will not give ten per cent, on some Btations in high country. The planet Venus is plainly visible at Queenstown in sunlight now.
The Port Chalmers branch of the Australasian Institution of Marine Engineers have purchased from the Municipal Council a section of ground for the purpose of erecting thereon a monument to the memory of the engineers who lost their lives in the Tararua, and also to the memory of David Rentoul, second engineer of the Wakatipu, who was accidentally killed in the engine-room at sea. The monument was unveiled this afternoon in the presence of members of the institution and friends of the deceased.
The residence of Mr Sanford, editor of the local paper, was burned down at Arrowtown yesterday. The furniture wae insured io the Liverpool and Globe for £250. His family of six children were saved with difficulty.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3527, 27 October 1882, Page 3
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