DUNEDIN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10599, 7 March 1895, Page 6

DUNEDIN NEWS.

[Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, March G. The jury in the case of arson against Jacob Van Stein, of Kaitangata, after being locked up all night, returned a verdict of guilty. Evidence as to character was called. The prisoner was sentenced to five years’ hard labour. This concluded the criminal sittings. Thirteen hundred children from the Albany Street school were taken out to Pnrakanui by rail to-day. Lawrence scholars to tho number of three hundred and fifty were brought into town this forenoon. The weather is magnificent. . The glowing description of the possibilities of Central Otago for vine-growing has induced the Chamber of Commerce to ask Signor Brogato to address a public meeting on his return here, and he has consented to do so. The officers of the Survey Department have received intimation that they will not be permitted to make tracings for payment in their own time, as it involves interference with private enterprise. Mias Jessie 3i. Eutherford, Otago University, has received intimation that-she has won the John Tinlino Scholarship for English language and literature. Mr A. D. 'Wiikiason has passed the final section of the B.A. degree, and gained a senior scholarship in Latin. At the Education Board meeting tc-day it was announced that Messrs H. Clark, A. M’Kerrow and D. Borne had boon elected. Mr Borrie, who was defeated last year, replaces Mr J. J. Eainscy, of Hyde. The Board adopted a scheme for the reconstruction of the training college on a simpler and less expensive basis. Before the Tariff Commission, A. Miller tendered evidence that a largo class of property was escaping taxation, namely, riparian rights. The manager for Messrs A. and T. Inglis’s boot factory differed from the views put forward by the bootmakers’ associations here and at Christchurch, and opposed the tariff .they proposed. The witness asked for an increase of 25 per cent. A sheep dip and twino manufacturer asked that white yarn used for making twine should bo admitted free. A white shirt-maker asked that tho dutyshould bo taken off linen used for making fronts, cuffs and frilliaga. A fish salesman asked that the present duty on cotton nets, equal to 25 per cent, should bo removed ; that Australian frozen ducks and mutton birds from the Islands be admitted free, and that a duty bo placed on imported cod liver oil.