DUNEDIN. This Day.
Judge Bathgate yesterday decided on a test case tbat a railway employe is personally responsible for neglect of performance of duty in short-shipping goods. At a parade on Wednesday night, the whole of the Volunteers, with three exceptions, volunteered for active service. The Works Committee of the Harbor Board recommend that Peter Denny, James Qal1 braith, and John Darling be a Commission at Home to superintend the procuring of a dredge for the harbor; also, that the jetty accomodation be extended at a cost of £12,000, in consequence of increased railway demands. The Education Board stave three months' notice to Mr. Scott, schoolmaster at Tnapeka, who was charged with falsifying his school accounts. The local committee wished him to be leniently dealt with. The Board, Mr. Green alone dtpsenting, carried a resolution in favor of Bible reading in schools. William Gourlay, a colored man, received a sentence of two months' imprisonment for an attempted criminal assault. Green received a vote of confidence from the Blueskin portion of his constituency. The Star sa\s tbat Mallard has demanded a departmental inquiry into his action re Athenseum.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 547, 27 June 1879, Page 2
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187DUNEDIN. This Day. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 547, 27 June 1879, Page 2
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