DUNEDIN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 668, 5 February 1875, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

o—(rnoM oce co-R-REsposnr.ifT.l Dunedin, Feb. 2nd. A ra?e of fearful sudden death occurred here an Sunday last. Shortly after one o’clock, p.m., a well-dressed man, a little over thirty years of age, was brought to the Shamrock Hotel in a cab from the “Wanganui steamer, which had just arrived from Invercargill. Unon arriving at the hotel entrance he asked for some one to assist him, when Mr Hetherington. the proprietor, and two of the hoarders rushed to help him. “While lifting him out of the cab he remarked that his hanls were cold, and told them to hold him by the wrists. While carrying him up the hall towards a bed room he suddenly expired. Medical assistance was at once sought, but it proved of no avail, as the unfortunate man was, on Dr So'.lcy’s arrival, pronounced to be quite dead. The deceased was very respectably connected, and had come out to the Province possessed of a considerable sufu of money. Only lately he had received LI 500 from homo, and ho had been living at Invercargill, where he has a brother. During the voyage round he appeared to be unwell, but there were no serious symptoms. The only noticeable feature observed was that upon the steamer’s arrval at the whatf he appeared in a great hurry to secure the services of a cab. The body > was subsequently removed to the hospital. Professor Ulrich has visited the quartz reefs at Saddle Hill, and has given a favorI able opinion of them. It really seems quite surprising that large bodies of stone in reefs nine feet thick, should exist at such a short distance from Dunedin, yielding at the rate of 6 dwts. to the ton for 2000 tons crushed, and to find crushing machinery standing > idle, and the workings fallen in. Mining enterprise must he at a fearful discount in the chief city of New Zealand. I sec. by the Tuapeka Times, that “ Timon ” has made a present to the editor of the Dunstan Times, which was bestowed with much ceremony upon that distinguished, or rather extinguisher of Timon, who vegetates at Clyde. Having mot several Dunstan residents, I am informed

that the whole thing only has oxistenoo in tho disordered brain of Timon himself; while that tho letter containing a report of tho imaginary ceremony is the outpouring of his own diseased imagination. It is certainly a very poor joke, but Timon, as you must know, is really worked out. His jokes are old and stale j and it is high time, as ymi suggested, that he should bo corked up in his old whisky barrel and sent floating out to sea. Wonders will never cease, and the lion lias lain himself down with the lamb. Squatterdom, and that great exponent of public opiuion which says, “ Of the people,” “To the people,” and “For tho people,” have joined hands. Captain Baldwin is now tho Manager of tho Dunedin Guardian and Mercury newspapers. However, let the Captain’s opinions be whatever they may, as an old Goldfields’ resident I wish h : m every success in his new undertaking. The Dunedin Cricketers have just returned from Christchurch—like the fabled dogs in the story—“ carrying their tails behind them,” after their serious defeat. Such a complete chawing up they never experienced before. I have not heard the exact scoriae, but the odds against Otago were something frightful. Some of your Queenstown neighbors, in town lately, have -been horribly'horing the General and Provincial Government authorities, asking for all sorts and sizes of concessions, both possible and impossible. Your old friend Mr Vincent Pyke, as member for the Lakes, headed two of the deputations. Upon the last occasion it is said he saved the credit of tho gentlemen forming it, as the ono deputed to dilate upon the virtues of a scheme for a railroad to Martin’s Bay and Milford Pound said so much, that the real object of the mission was in a state of fog. Mr Donald Reid, the gentleman waited upon—suppose I invent a word, and say “ deputated ” —became quite uneasy at the torrent of eloquence showered upon him, and seemed to view avith horror the prospect in store for him at the coming session of the Provincial Council, when members newly elected as well as old would be found begging and praying for something. Things in town look pretty busy, but there are sad complaints about the dullness of trade up-country. Port Chalmers was never so full of splendid vessels before, and presents a very gay and animated appearance ; hut the wool season is always a busy one here. The deficiency of nearly a quarter of a million sterling in our gold exports for the past year is seriously commented upon ; but, in reality the reduction in the population during the same period is proportionately much greater, and there isreally nothing to be wondered at.