DUNEDIN ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4791, 7 September 1883, Page 3

DUNEDIN ITEMS.

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WORKING MBS AGITATOBS.

PEDE3TBIAN MATCHES. SOMETHING; LIKE DUTCH CHEESE. DUNEDIN, S-PT. 6. Although the works for the unemployed at Mullooky Gully havo been open for a fortnight, only thirty-five men have so far sought work there. None of those who took a prominent part in the agitations held reoently have availed themselves of the opportunity. The tender of Kincaid, M'Queen and Co., a looal foundry firm, has been acoepted for the iron-work in connection with the new Dunedin railway bridge. The amount is not ' yet disclosed, but there were fiftoen tenders, I and tho Fublio Works Department consider tbem highly satisfactory, as showing tbat the work can be turned out in the Oolony at about the same prioe similar work Would oost at Home. The Bey Lindsay Maokie, pastor of the Presbyterian First Chnroh, died to-night, aged 39. He leaves a widow and three ohildren. Austin and Seymour have managed to oome to terms with referenoe to the proposed 24 hours and 48 hours pedestrian matohes with JBd wards.the Australian ohampion. The first of the two events will come off in Dunedin in five weeks' time, the seoond a week later. The conditions give Austin the right to name whioh event shall take place first, and also the right to name Soott, or any other man he may think proper, for the 48 hours' walk. Bcott has already been named for the shorter distanoe, and if he shows anything like his old form, he will also be named for the longer distance. At the Polioe Oourt to-day, the Boslyn Borough Counoil proceeded against James Durston, soap-boiler and bone-dust manufacturer, for having premises whioh were a nuisance. The Town Olerk explained that the proceedings were taken under the Public Health Act, in consequence of a petition by residents- He said of hie own kn ow ledge that the smell oould be notioed 100 yards away, aooording to the direotion of the wind. There were at least three distinct smells— (l) of ground bones (2) of melting tallow (3) of storage of refuse. Borne witnesses said the smells caused water in tanks to beoome stagnant, that they could be cut with a knife, aad tbat only the Government analyst (Professor Black) could tell what they really were like. The defendant admitted that to most people the smell from hii premises was offensive. He had lived beside it for years and done well on it, but people who were not educated up to it did not relish it. Medical evidence was given that while the smells were decidedly unpleasant they were certainly not injurious to health, and a witness in the trade said the imell purged the air, and was something like that of a prime Dutch cheese. The defence was that the best praotioal means were used to abate the nuisanoe, and the Magistrate said this was proved. He dismissed the case on the grounds that though there was a nuisance there was no statutory penalty for it. DUNEDIN, Bbpt. 7. Ihe Premier, replying to Dunedin r< the manufacture of railway rolling stook in the Colony, makes a lengthy answer, saying in oonolusion, "I will take an early opportunity of conferring with the Minister of Works on the sub jeot, with the desire, as far bb possible in the interests of the Colony, of giving effeot to your representations and wisheß." The Standard Insuranoe 00. have deolared an interim dividend of 7£ per oent.