SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 546, 31 January 1878, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

[frojj our owx CORRESPONDENTS.J I puxedjn, Januaiy :31. Captain MTarlano was last night presented by the officers and crew of the Rotorua with a gold watch and albert chain on his retirement from active service. The Colonial Bank report, giving a dividend of G per cent., has been unanimously adopted, A complimentary vote of thanks was passed to the directors and officers. Mr. Tt, Oliver was elected director, and Messrs. K. Ramsay and W. P. Street were appointed auditors at the annual meeting of the Duuedin Athenaeum. The proposal to keep the institution open till II p.m. was negatived. Mr. jSecretan, Secretary to the Canter- j bury Cricket Association, has written to the Secretary of the Otago Cricket Asso- j

eiation, that Canterbury cannot send a team to Dunedin this year, because her players cannot get .away, through the team going to Auckland, and a long duration of the Auckland match. Flatly denies the rumour that Canterbury declined to play eleven even. In the District Court, in the case of Henry Dodd v. New Zealand Insurance Company—claim of L2OO on an insurance policy—judgment for the defendants was given. Dr. Murphy has admitted to the Medical Association that he committed a breach of professional etiquette, and his explanation has been accepted. A wooden house, occupied by a wellknown woman named Catherine Barnes, was burned this morning. There was no watei available.

Hippocampus and Venus Transit have arrived by the Hawea.