DUNEDIN NOTES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 127, 16 April 1872, Page 5

DUNEDIN NOTES.

By 0. P. Q.

By the electric telegraph on Tuesday last came the gratifying announcement that the [South had won the Representative Match, North p. South, being the last of the contests in the Colonial Prize Firing of ]872 ; villi the still more gratifying intelligence that [Sergeant Cowie, of No. 2 Company Dunedin i Llities, being the highest scorcer, brings with him to Ocago the Challenge Cup. Each of j the representatives of the winning team re- | reived a new Snider rifle and £5. In addition to the Champion Bait, won by Captain | Wales, of No. 1 Company, and the Challenge Cup, Otago takes by far the largest share of [ the money prizes, so that we have still reason ; to be satisfied with the efforts of our Volunteers to maintain the prestige which Ov.igo j has gained in the matter of rifle shooting. i The dangerous proximity of one or two of the North island men to the champion, : throughout the contest, and the fact that the second and third prizes of the aggregate | shooting have gone to other Provinces, prove [that unremitting practice will have to be I kept up by our men if the chief trophies have Ito be secured for Otago next year. It seems to be matter of universal congratulation that Captain Wales has again pulled off—by the | way that expression seems rather out of place :it should rather be put on—the Belt; and he will no doubt receive a warm welcome on his return. The death by drowning of prior young .Tanverin on Sunday caused quite a sensation I among his numerous acquaintances when the ! melancholy tidings were brought to town I from the scene of the occurrence, a small bay I or inlet three or four miles round the coast jto the south of the Meads. What makes the melancholy occurrence all the more sad is the fact—of course unkuo.vn to him at the time—that a few more strokes of his limbs would have placed him in shallow water, as the dee]) water into which he and his companion had suddenly stepped when wading , across the neck of the bay in which the fatality occurred was little more than the width !of a street. The great weight of his saturated i clothes, however, and of the gun, shot, and 'other things which he carried, thoroughly j exhausted him, and he sank to rise no more, . | after bidding farjwcll to his c impanion, I lar- • iris, who was struggling to reach the shore a< •j no great distance from him. Harris, afte.i I severe exertions, managed to reach the land. II and brought the sad news of his companion's ' j death to town. All the etibrts to recover the I body which have since been made have ' proved unavailing. J , j The almost universal closing of places ol ! business on Saturday last at one o'clock gavi [; the town quite a holiday aspect. With om . jor two unimportant exceptions of small re , itul establishments, the holiday may bo saic to have been general. Perhaps the most re markablo contrast, to the usual Saturday as , ! pect of Dunedin was, however, in the evening | The city on Saturday evenings has hither!. r j ] >resented a very busy aspect—the shops bril -jliantly lighted until a late hour, and th j streets thronged with people passing up am • j down and admiring the displays made in th , i shop windows, shown off to the best advan ' | tago by the brilliant gaslights. On Saturda; last, however, "the sjeno was changed," am Dunedin looked dark and gloomy in the div s ! starlight. Whether the change will prov I permanent, or merely temporary, is an ope t question. I hope the former, for of all n : cht el in the week that of Saturday is the one o n which people desire a respite from the cart e and labour of the six days which it brings t ,r i a close. One of the good efterts of the move I ment is the releasing from business of th l " ; many young women employer! in the draper '" ! establishments, who have hitherto on Satin ~ day nights been kept hard at work until toi „. eleven, and even half-past eleven o'clock, hi ; k who can now spend the evenings with the j friends like other people, as it is only rig] :t they should be in a position to do. For th i- ,g""d point alone the closing of the shops ■ ie Saturday night at any rate snould universal be supported by the general public.