OUR DUNEDIN LETTER.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 40, 17 August 1870, Page 5

OUR DUNEDIN LETTER.

—o—(From our own Oui're*poaelent.) M\ August 'At last the weather has cleared it is to be hoped that the change only a temporary one. For the last three days ws have not had a single drop of rain. The roads in the town are comparativelydry, and in the country they are greatlyimproved. With this first burst of Siteing weather, trade seems to have BU The shopkeepers are looking quite 9 hearted again ; and compared with t9 two months the town is in a perfec!9 moil of bustle and business. Wednesday last was the election day a new Town Councillor in the place of Mi 1 Fish, who has resigned his seat in order to take possession of the Mayoral Chair. The two candidates who came forward I were Messrs E. B. Cargill and J. T. lin j and it is probably many years siiHk two such eminently suitable men contested tho seat for one Ward. <Jg9 not think that our new Mayor 'g&k much judgment or sense of the duU-JB his position in taking the active part he ™ did in thise lection. He had, however, the \ satisfaction of seeing his own man returned. \ It was a hard-fought battle, and Mr Cafe-. gill only obtained his seat by a majorityJfc| 12 out of 346 votes registered. Mr lin took his defeat in excellent part, aH magnanimously promised the South Ward to give them another fin next year. H The new Town Council seem to 9 begun their work with some spirit. 11:9 their rule, crossing sweepers* and st9 sweepers are not altogether unknown, 9 we may hope for the future not to beJfcd to plunge over our boots in mud 9 endeavours to cross Princes-street. 9 I hear that Mr Chaplin has givejH contract for the Port Chalmers R«S9 favour of a well known firm in H There is now every prospect of :9 progress being made in the nmtte9 Surveyor is actively engaged in 9 levels for tho proposed line, and l 9 dently expect in the course of a fe-JM to see employment cut out for a jfoffl of the idle hands who are at preserjfi ing about the streets of tho city. jHHH9 The E. P. Bouverie, from Glas<9 rived yesterday, bringing a fresh si 9 hands for the labour market (if 9 market exists in Otago at the presoiH She landed 220 steerage wherever one turns to-day, he is sH see some of these unfortunate "ne\vc9 who have just arrived in the laud <.:9 dreams, and have yet to experien9 difference that exists between the re 9 the ideal. ■ The Supremo Court is at present h9 a sitting in Bankruptcy. The casraS investigation are many of them of 9 flagrant nature, and calculated to <j9 strate the necessity that exists for 9 modification of tho laws on this point. 9 practice of filing is by no means less 9 valent than it was, and it strikes me I many are doing it at once, in fear 9 moro stringent statute coming into Ae^9 Gold robberies seem to bo all now, and Dunedin is not fttnsation of this kind. A Krning home by tho Queen of thes99|fl |pst the run of his box, coutainingßj of gold. The poor fellow sat on h9 during tho whole passage to Port C!n9 but lost it on going aboard tho shi9 to convey him and his treasure ■ |ffe].estial Empire. A reward of .£5(9 [-f trail for conviction, of the thief an 9 ..M»ij. 'of the booty. 'teofl ' n the theatrical world, Mr 1 the Masonic Hall, and ?ffir9 jumping houses. Mr Heller a tremendous name in Australia botl9 conjuror and a pianist. His snccesr.9 no means undeserved. His tricks ar9 clever and perfectly his conversation is lively and nl<9 But at the piano, Mr Heller oxceod9 self. T never remember to have more remarkable, and, at the samo < 9 more pleasing performance. Somo >9 Dunedinites are highly indignant :9 tadoa of others patronising a perfor9 j|f this kind, given by a stranger, wl9 pike all the profits away with liii 9 pat spend them in the town. For i|9 *{mrt, I do not think that people a|a9 given to looking at mutters of thipfl such a philosophic manner, but ra9 the practical light of spending thoir9 whore they can good value ft 9 the shape of their own ainuseinent9 most assuredly now di>9 and this they will do fjfl 1.-'tfe-eo weeks at any rnte.^g^