DUNEDIN. Ist July.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 2, 2 July 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN. Ist July.

The first of tbe cases against the Corporation for allowing the storm to injure the goods iv the cellars of various merchants Ia town is being tried. North and idcoullar have saed the Corporation for £1000. The case was adjourned till to-morrow. The Atheneeum Committee met this evening. It appears that the committee have received no communication from the insurance company, and tenders are beiug called for the re-erection of tbe building. The committee resolved to wait upon tbe local agent, and failing a satisfactory arrangement, to apply to tbe head office. Ow'ng to the bad weather the unemployed have not yet been started on the Stratu-Taieri railway section. The Union Steamship Company have purchased the Waitaki from the Oamaru Steam Navigation Company. They will replace the Waitaki by a small boat for the Dunedin and Oamaru trade, and the Waitaki will trade with tha Northern ports, to wait for the mail at convenient seasons. This Day. In Banco to-day, a motion was made to strike a solicitor off the rolJs for refusing to deliver up moneys belonging to a client. It is reported that the Waikouaiti bridge, which cost the county upwards of £4000, is seriou-ly injured by the floods. At the Resident Magistrate's Court the police stated that they would abandon further proceedings against the Reids for sly grog selling if they cleared out. The Court was crowded whilst the charge against Cummocks, for setting fire to the Athenseum, was being heard. The ex-librarian v/as subjected to a severe cross-examination by prisoner's counsel, but his testimony was unshaken.