DUNEDIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3420, 27 March 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

[BPBOIAL.J Maeoh 26. Two little boys, of eight and nine yespeo-j -. : ■■■..) A .-:.'■ ■ -in'yy Vl I

i. £• were cllar g ed to-day wifch obstruofcing fche Porfc Chalmers Railway line, by plaoing stones on the rails. The offence took place a few days ago, and resulted in a train narrowly escaping an upset. Counsel for the defence stated the boys had playfully placed the pebbles on fche rails to see them getting ground into powder. On account of their age, and the absence of any felonious intent, the case was dismissed. Frederick Duder, a carpenter from Timaru, was prosecuted for breaking into a house of ill-tame on New Year's morning, and damagf S Ono <* tbe women described Duder as the leader of the larrikins. Dofendant brought a prize fighter and two other witnesses to prove that he only knocked at the door, and drank tho health of the inpiates. Duder was consequently dismissed. /Tour miles and a half of tramway havo falready been laid in tho city, and the engines f and cars will be landed from the Benares in a j week. In a fortnight tho cars will be running between the cricket oval and Water of Leith.

JDr Hector, the Government Geologist, returned to tho Arrow today, after a visit to the Macetown reefs. He speaks well of the prospects of the permanency of the several lines of reefs, and is of opinion tliat they extend over a very large portion of North Otago, in the direction of Mount Aspiring. r The Star says— We have been permitted to /make the following extract from a letter rejceivod by a gentleman in town .—" General I Grant, U.S., purposes making a tour through Ithe East and the Australian Colonies, in the \U.S. steamer Richmond." A special meeting of the shareholders in the 9 ii j Co-operative Newspaper Company is called to confirm a resolution passed yesterday authorising tho directors to tako steps for the voluntary winding up of the Company. It is probable that another evening papor will be started immediately. Master George Olutsain, aged 10 years, who has shown great talent as a composer and pianist, is to be sent to Europe to complete his musical education. The professional and amateur musicians of the City will probably tender him a benefit; performance before his departure.

[speoial to the star.]

March 27.

Charles Benson, a man of colour, who described himself as a cook, was sent to gaol for a week to-day for vagranoy. The cvi* dence showed that lately he had been loitering about the streets at night, and lasfc evening ho was arrested while kneeling over a drunken seaman whom ho had mistaken for his mate.

The Chairman of the Tuapeka County Council has appealed to the Education Board on behalf of library for the Lawrence Gaol. He states that the prisoners have no means of profitably employing their leisure time. Some of tho School Committees are forwarding remonstrances against the constant resignations and transfers of teachers, and threatening to resign if the teachers are nofc kept to their posts for several months at a time.