DUNKDIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3486, 13 June 1879, Page 3

DUNKDIN.

-f ' ..'*.';- [SPKOIAIb] The total contributions to the Iv.itang.ta Belief Fund amount to upwards of £15,000. Of this sum aboufc £10,000 was collected in Otago alone, while fully half the total contributed, is represented by sums of £1 and ■-under. • Brother John Hyde Harris, Eight Worshipful District Grand Master for .the Province of Otago and Southland, K.C., hag intimated to the various Lodges undor his jurisdiction, hia deeire that the members should \?ear Masonic mourning for a period of three months out of respect to the memory df the late brother, John Lv-zar, D.G.M., for tho Province of Westland, and late Deputy D. G.M. for this Province.

The T Harbour Board to-day resolved to appeal against the taxation of its reserves under the Land Tax Act on tho following grounds :— (a) That the foreshore reserves proposed to be taxed do not come within the definition " land " (see interpretation clause); (b) That the foreshore reserves aro "public reserved" and not endowments tor the general purposes of the Board, but public reserves set aside "for speci 6c purposes set forth in the Crown grant, tho Board only being appointed trustees to sea tho" trust" executed j (c) Tbat public resoi yes were exempted, oxcopt such as arc occupied by tenants. ' A Chinaman; . was arrested:; to ; day for attempting topass a counterfeit Indian rupee for a two-shilling piece. Ten similar coins were found in his posßeesioni They have the proper^ " ring, " „and would readily pass at Bight. ' ' *; - : ■••-■• Attothfe'r tri_l of Mr T. 0. Burt's method for the puriGcalion and disposal of sewage was mado to-day, in tho presenco of the Hon J." Macandrew arid Mr W. N. Blair, engineer, with'inust satisfactory results.