DUNEDIN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 306, 6 March 1868, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

March 2ml 1868. (FROM OUR O'.VX COKHEK'OXDENT.) So dull has the metropolis been (luring the past week, that I hardly know how to supply my usual quota of information for your readers. Everything here is 11 it stile aiul unprofitable ; political matters are in a pi rfoct state of qniescanos, if I except sundry deputations in connection with the late floods, which are as usua' met with the usual clop trap, aid a pari tude of pifimises that nobody ever dreams will be fullilled : it ti] pears that nothing will arouse the apathy of

over members, until tin toscin Bounds lor the assemblage of the Council on the Bth prox.. The Knglish Panama mail arrived on Friday last, the news was wholly unimportant, the Fenians, or rather the fear of Fenian movements in Erg land alone furnishing topics for conV( rs :tion. The no orious Garrett appears to be absorbing a good deal of public attention ; it will 1) • in the recollection of your readers, that some five years ago this notorious character, who, after a long career of crime on the other side, condescended to visit our shores, ami after but a short respite was convictt d of sticking up twenty three persons in one d >y on the Maungatua ranges, and sentenced to six years imprisonment'; that Se tence was commuted to the ordinary time, in consequence of good conduct during the term of his incarceration, and some four weeks ago he was liberated, but in conscquencejif injures recived whi'e woikihg asV convict in the quarry, he was necessitated to 1.0 into the hospital; while there, he was arrested by the Police, and sent to Victoria as a convict illegally at large The Melbourne Po'ice Miuis'rate, Mr Sturt, appears however to think that our energetics Commissioner was a little too fast, and the result is, that Mr. Garret has been politely requested to return to Otago. Amongst th-fishionaMe. notices, I have to chronicle the arrival in Dunedin of Mr. Sullivan, the lnro of the Mann<rn,tapn trajredies, who came to Tort Chalmers by the Phcebe on Friday last, and wrs from thence conveyed t.) Caldwell's Hotel, in the dray of Mr. J, "Podso'i, tho spirited proprie tor officiating as Jehu. /Vs a matter of course, the public were on the qui vive to obtain a sight of tlrs notorious criminal, but they were disappointed, for so well had the police laid their measures, thai hj • was safely in hi< q larers, before any one was tho wiser. A new illus'ruted paper has been started hero, which bids fair to as sumo n le-'dhif position, more especii ally for the goldfithls, it would, ms a i matt"r of course be out of place for n* to cvi'ieiso it, however 1 send you th" remarks of the " Evcnincr '•tar" " Wfh-v» received the first number oftlwXe-.v Z-al-md ITerall" published i'i Punedin tin's morning. It contains t«n vrv excellent illustration ■-. and each of them will bear favorable eo-nparison with the wood engravings of ihe English il'ustrated paper 'I lie reading columns are c ir »fullv com piled and well arranged, and the comm°reia and shipping reports appeared to have received proper attention. If th" projectors of this, the latest add tion to the newspaner press of the Co. lonv, continue to issue a journal equal to the on under notice, we have no doubt that they will every month find the public ready patrons