The Chairman, in bringing the matter forward, laid a list of the runs, with descriptions of the country, 1 c , upon the table, and aaid there were only two oi ..- c runs— Nos 98 and 92— the former Mr Tesche ker's, the latter Dr Webster's— regarding which, in : < opinion, there could bo any doubt as to the advis i>' ■> .ility of re-leasing The country wai hilly and rough, - \al a carrying capacity <.f only one sheep to every three acres and five acres Still in both cases the runs were adjacent to hundreds, the land in which had all been disposed of, and it was possible if put up lor sale the land might be sold to advantage. The list of runs, their tenants, and the decisions come to in each, were as follows :— Run No 98 —Kauroo district ; 8000 acres ; carry 2650 iheep ; rough and hilly— \T H Tenchemakar,

THE THEATRES, &c

The Kelly and Leon Minstrels and Burlesque Opera Company were to bring their Dunedin season to a close at the end of the week. This troupe has met with most encouraging success during the month it has remained here, the houses having been well filled almost every night. This vreek a double change of pro gramme has taken place, and the entertain ments, if anything, have increased in merit thereby. The more one sees of Leon the more does one become convinced of his remarkable cleverness. His personation of a Spanish dan seuse in the burletta ' ' Uncle Jack "is astonish ingly graceful and skilful, and his other three characters in the same production are also vqry finished and natural conceptions. The Min strels will next visit Oamaru and Timaru, and will afterwards go on to Ohristchurch to join the steamer for Melbourne vi& the Bluff. Mr Liddy, who ia well known in Melbourne as the proprietor of a theatrical rendezvous in Bourke street, has arrived in Dunedin, and bi ings with him a minstrel and dramatic com pany — the Georgias — a combination of the Ori ginal Georgias and the Only Origioal Georgias, both, of which companies recently played " Uncle Tom's Cabin " in Sydney at the same time. The troupe will produce the dramatisa tion of Mrs Stowe's famous little work here in a few days. 