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Dunstan Times, Issue 356, 19 February 1869, Page 2

We are glad to be able to state that tenders have been accepted for the Shotover and Pleasant River Bridges. For the first, Mr. Aldrichs’ tender, for -£■1,159 15s 2d, was the successful tender, for the Pleasant River Bridge, Messrs MTver and Co’s tender for the construction, for £1,283. The Government to find the girders, was accepted. Evening Star. Mr. Driver has been elected mem ber to represent Roslyn in the House of Representatives by a majority of two hundred and sixteen over his opponent, Mr. Allen. On Friday last the Dunedin Fine Arts Exhibition was formally opened by his Honor the Superintendent. The attendance of ladies and gent'emen was very good, the hall being well filled. The exhibits comprise paintings, etchings, drawings, engravings, chromo-lithographs, photographs, statuary, bronzes, carvings, and other tr asures of art.

The Government Gazette notifies the appointment of Andrew Thompson as Inspector of Weights and Measures for the Dunstan District. The district comprises all that area bounded towards the north by the province of Canterbury, towards the cast by the Hawksbury and Mount Ida districts, towards the south by the Tuapeka district, and towards the west by the Umbrella, Cairnmuir, Pisa, and Earnslaw Ranges. The Gazette announces that the next Criminal Session of the Supreme Court will be opened on Monday, the Ist of March, and the Civil Session on the 10th of March. The cheap meat agitation is not confined to Dunedin. Prom the local paper we learn that complaints are being made at Queenstown of the excessive prices charged there by the butchers. Nor do the complaints refer to meat alone; flour and bread are also the subjects of complaint.— Daily Times At a meeting of the Acclimatization Society, upon the motion of Mr. Vogel, it was resolved that the Mayor of Queenstown should be written to, informing him that the Society would be glad to give fifty young trout for the district, if the Corporation would defray the expense of their conveyance, and of providing for their reception.—Daily Times. The Bank of New .Zealand have established an agency at the Tcviot. This will, no doubt, be a great con- { venience to the residents in that district. A requisition was yesterday taken round the 'town for signature calling upon Councillor Atkins to resign. The reason assigned for taking this action is the frequent absence of that gentleman from the deliberations of the Council. fcr£'jgj

Dr. Niven late of Tapanui, formerly Government Health Officer at Port Chalmers will act in the place of Dr. Shaw at the Dunstan District Hospital for the next three months, Dr. Shaw having obtained leave of absence for that period. In the Timaru Herald appears an advertisement, offering one thousand quiet old ewes for the sum of 50/. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Clyde Town Council was held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday evening last, at which J. Hazlett,Esq., J.P., Mayor, and Councillors Ziele ;i Patterson, Clark, and Hastie were present. After the minutes of the .previous meeting had been read and confirmed, the inward and outward correspondence was read, received, and adopted. The Mayor laid before the Council a memorial he had received, with a request that he would exert himself to obtain signatures to the same. The memorial is to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, praying that a Bill be laid before the House during the next Ssssion, exempting Mr. Henry Smythies from the penalties inflicted on him for a breach of the Legal Practitioners’ Act. The Town Clerk laid on the table sis plans for the new Town Hall which had heed received by dim in answer to the advertisement. There not being the full council present, it was resolved that the final consideration of the plans be deferred till Saturday next (to-morrow), at 8 p.m , to allow of all the Councillors to express an opinion. Accounts to the amount of 30/. Gs. 2d. were passed for payment. Mr. Anthony Brough was appointed Solicitor to the Council. A vote of thanks to Jhe chairman closed the meeting. We learn upon good authority that the Provincial Government intend shortly to despatch Mr. Warden Robinson to inspect the workings at the Maerwhenua, with a view to determine upon the advisability or otherwise of proclaiming that District a Goldfield.— Oamaru Times.

A complimentary dinner was given last evening, at Ryan’s Bendigo Hotel to Mr. Bate, Mining Surveyor on the occasion of liis leaving the District. A number of gentlemen sat down and partook of the very excellent spread supplied by Host Ryan. The evening was spent most pleasantly. . In our last week’s issue, we notified the reduction in the Survey Staff of this District, since then, we have been given to understand that Queenstown has lost the services of the resident Mining Surveyor, Mr. Wright, and further, that the work hitherto performed by the Mining Surveyors on the Gold-fields, will in future be done by contract.

We have been given to un derstand that Mr. W. 'lheycrs, of Alexandra, is fixing the plant of a brewery at the rear of Ids premises ; there can be no question, but success will attend the undertaking, at any rate our most hearty wishes arc with him. A correspondent, writing from the Drybroad Diggings, informs us that, since the mail service between that place and Black’s has been performed by the police, the number of letters despatched from there is not a tithe of what it was In fact, now there are about a dozen where there used to be one hundred on an average. The reason he assigns for the reduction is that, under the old system, thirty hours elapsed between the arrival and departure of the mails, while by the present arrangement barely half an hour is given to answer letters in. Mr. George Fache informs us the prices realized at the sales of household furniture, Jewellery and other effects, held by him during the past week were highly satisfactory. A petition is lying at the Office of this paper awaiting signatures, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, praying that an Act be passed, exempting Mr. Henry Smithies from the penalties inflicted by summary proceedings in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, for an infringement of the Legal Practitioner’s Act. Accompanying the petition is a Subscription list to enable Mr. Smithies to procure evidence from England in support of his petition to the General Assembly, We have been requested by Mr. G. Fache to draw attention to the Sale by Auction of the Bankrupt Estate of Mr. Robert Love of Black’s No. 3, which will take place on Tuesday next, the 23 rd instant.

The Masonic Ball at Queenstown on Friday last was a thorough success. About fifty couples were present, Clyde, Crotnwell, and the Arrow contributed a large number of visitors. The ball was held in the Masonic Hall, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion, dancing being kept up till the wee hours of morning had long fled. A handsome collation was prepared hy Host Eichardt, of the Queen’s Anns Hotel, whore they adjourned during the interval between the dances. The ball was duly opened in Masonic fashion, the Brethren appearing in full regalia. There were partners in the first dance: Brother Dr. Douglass W.M., and Mrs. Weaver; P.M., Brother Weaver, and Mrs. Atkins; P.M., Brother Tyree, and Mrs. Harris; S.W., Brother Ross, and Mrs. Black. In a letter to the Daily Times Bishop Jenner says :—“ Allow me, in conclusion, to inform or remind your correspondents, that I am not here as Bishop of Dunedin. I have not assumed that title since I landed in New Zealand. It has, I may also observe, been my fixed intention, ever since my arrival, not to officiate in any church in the Colony until my posi tion should be more clearly defined than it has been since the decision of the General Synod. By my signature below, I simply claim the title assigned to me by the Royal Mandate under which I was .consecrated. —I am, Xc, Henry Lascelles Jenner, Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland, in the Colony of New Zealand.”