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Western Star, Issue 455, 22 June 1881, Page 2

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(Peess Association.) | -J. Atjckdawd, Tuesday. A special meeting of licensed vic : tuallers?has been, convened to consider the proposals from Dunedin. There has been no sickness on board the City of ifew York. The passengers are to be quarantined for twelve days from the date of her departure from Sydney. The outward passengers have been taken to the quarantine 'ground. f Jhe steamer leaves to-night ■ or early in the moniirig. Weueinoton, Tuesday, . Dr Skae, Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, is dangerously ill, suffering from a severe attack of erysipelas, i At a meeting, of ,tbe .Central-Board of Health, some surprise was expressed that no later information had been received bn tbe, i subject of outbreak of small pox at Sydney. A-letter was read frqpi' tbe.. Mayor of Auckland, pointing oqt; that neither the City Council nor the Harbor Board could efficiently exorcise the functions of a Local Board of Health under section 6, inasmuch the Council had no jurisdiction over the harbor, and the Harbor Board had none over (Quarantine Island. Mr Dick* the President, stated moreover* that, the Government were advised that the harbor did not come under the category .of the Local Board as Capable of being a. Local Board of Health. .After due consideration, the Central' Board decided to det under 14th section of the Act, and as there was no existing local body having the necessary extent of jurisdiction, to ap- ¥ point three persons to be a Local Board ;of Health.- Accordingly the Mayor of : Auckland, the Chairman of the Har--1 bor Board* and the Harbor Master of the port were appointed* with full jurisdiction over the' harbor and Quarantine It was further resolved to make similar appointments at each port where vessels trade to and from Sydney. The Mayor, Harbor Master* and Chairman of Harbor Board iireach forming a Local Board of Health. • '• ' : 1r - -

Dtjnedin, Tuesday. ; A man named John M'Elbenny was killed by .the tram car on the Caversh'am road running ..over , him. De-, ceased, who' was drunk, attempted to cross .the line right in front of the car, which was going at the rate of only a mile an houivlm.- «.• i. - ' • Boyd, aged 80, diedsuddenly ifbm heart disease"last night at Hillside. t: r;jr