DUNEDIN. 21st August.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 22 August 1876, Page 2

DUNEDIN. 21st August.

At a meeting this afternoon of the so-called unemployed 200 were present, presided over by the notorious John M'Laren. A deputation appointed by the meeting went to the Provincial Government offices to lay their grievances before the Deputy-Superintendent. Mr. Turnbull not being there, they went to hi* private office, when he refused them an audience. Tlieu they waited on the M ayor, who promised them stone-cracking to-morrow at 2s per yard. The deputation returned to the meeting, which gave three groans for the Deputy-Superintendent and three cheers for the Mayor. A fire brigade meeting on Saturday determined to send a champion team North to-day to compete for the'Ballarat Cup, as per agreement in Victoria. If this be refused, the Dunedin men are willing to meet the Wellington men and contest for another cup. Should the Wellington champion men decline the contest for the Ballarat Cup, all the correspondence bearing on the subject will be published. A deputation waited upon the Mayor this morning, to ask him to fix a date upon which the ratepayers may assemble to record their protest against the Abolition and County System Acts, and also to endorse the action taken by their representatives in the House of Representatives. Mr. Deans, manager of the Acclimatisation Society, was a passenger by the Arawata, and brought with him upwards of a thousand fish ova which had been procured by him in Tasmania. Most of them are eggs of the salmon trout, which is already naturalised in Otago ; but it is the desire of the Acclimatisation Society that these fish should be bred in large numbers, and it is their intention, therefore, to retain several of the fish to be obtained from the eggs which they have just imported for purposes of breeidng. The ova look very healthy.