Among the exports by the J, N. Fleming were two bales of Mosgiel tweed, which were an order received by last mail from one of the first houses in Glasgow. We believe his Excellency the Governor and Lady Fergusson will pay Dunedin a visit in the first week of December, and will afterwards make a tour of the Province.
The value of the principle of life assurance has received a special illustration in the case of the death of the late Mr Andrew Fleming, rector of the Invercargill grammar school, who assured $n £he Australian Mutual Provident Society for LI, 000. The policy of the deceased is of little more than six month’s duration, the second payment only having been made after the commencement of the illness, which terminated in death.
The District officers, Provincial Grand Master Bro. Beissel, Provincial 0. S. Bro. Sligo, and Past officers and brethren of the M.U.1.0.0.F,, representing the various lodges in Dunedin, made an official visit to the Loyal Prince of Wales Lodge, Port Chalmers, on Wednesday evening. After the business was over, the District officers expressed themselves highly pleased with the progressive state of the lodge. They were afterwards entertained Jjy the Port brethren at a first-class supper. The usual loyal toasts were drunk and responded to; and after spending a very pleasant evening, the Dunedin brethren returned to town, well, satisfied with their reception. The final performance of “ Pygmalion and Galatea” attracted a fair audience to the Queen’s Theatre last evening. The cast was the same as on previous occasions, with the exception of the part of Chrysoe, which, owing to the sudden indisposition of Mr Hoskins, undertaken by Mr Newton at a very short notice. This promising actor i played well, and is /entitled to great credit for the manner in which fie Represented the character. “ The Crown Prince ” (Concluded the entertainment, Mr Steqle takes a benefit tonight, “Narcisse 1 ” and “The I,rish At- 1 torney ” constituting the programme. We; trust there will be a liberal response to M r Steele’s appeal. On their recent visit to Lawrence, Dr Webster, Mr Shand, and Mr T. Bastinge, accompanied by Mr J, T. Thompson, made a personal inspection of the land on Bellamy and Smith’s runs proposed to bo opened, partly as a Hundred and partly on the deferred payment system. We ( Tuapeka Times) believe they pronounced a considerable portion of the land surveyed by Mr Connell, under the Keid Government, as utterly unfit
for agricultural settlement, and selected instead some of the fine, undulating country on Mr Smith’s run, on the river side*of the present agricultural lease holdings. The survey of this land, we are informed, will be let by contract ; and as soon as the boundaries are fixed upon, it will be declared open for occupation and sale. Had these gentlemen simply accepted the land previously surveyed, a largo portion of the most broken part of Bellamy run would have been included in the Hundred, and the run would have been, in a groat measure, rendered unworkable. If the same inspection had been made by the Reid Government before they attempted to throw open the 17,000 acres, we have no doubt the great law suit which cost the Government so much money, and which is not yet settled, would have been avoided, and the land which is now to bo allocated as a Hundred might by this time have been all under occupation The Reid Government entirely depended upon departmental reports, whereas the present Government see for themselves and act upon their own judgment. The two systems therefore, on being contrasted, show very favorably on the side of the present Government.
The Bruce Herald's Parliamentary correspondent telegraphed last night:—“Mr Vogel shows signs of awakening to the necessity to encourage settlement. The runholders and capitalists are getting alarmed at the signs of the times. The result staring in their face is land for settlement or taxation. Mr Luckie, a strong Government supporter, has sounded the key note of a new party —“ Land for the people and people for the land.” The coming struggle will be the land question. The Upper House is op posed to a reform of the land laws, and threw out the proposition of the Provincial Council to extend the deferred payment system to 100,000 acres. They are likely to refuse the extension of the deferred payment system to Southland. Watchfulness and cool determination must be the mottoes of the leaders of the liberal land policy, while the people must be enthusiastic in support. !f Mr Vogel declares against land monopoly he will receive the support of some of his present opponents. The Government are not likely to swallow the pill administered by the Upper House, although it is possible, as they show great weakness, that other courses are open: prorogation for a short time to make large additions to the Upper House, reconstruction of Ministry, or a dissolution. The last would be the most manly course, and if an appeal to the country on the land question were made, it would be successful, Mr J. L. Gillies has given notice of a question, asking for branches of the immigration depots at Milton and Palmerston, on completion of the railway lines. It is understood he will receive a favorable reply.” At yesterday’s meeting of the City Council, the following letter from Messrs Webb and Fulton was read “ Adverting to our letter of July 1, in which we intimated that a company had been provisionally formed for the purpose of constructing a street tramway in this City, and asking for a concession of he right to do so under the Tramways Act, 1872, we have now the honor to band your Worship translations of those portions of the Parliamentary Reports on Tramways which are not in the English language. We shall be glad to receive a reply to our former letter as early as the convenience of Council will permit. We take this opportunity of drawing your Worship’s attention to the answers given to the questions of the Parliamentary Committee as to the width of streets in which tramways have been successfully used, >nd the manner in which tramways interfere with ordinary traffic. From these it appears that tramways in use on the continent of Europe and in America are constructed for the most partin streets much narrower than those of Dunedin, and that they do not cause any impediment to the ordinary traffic. In Berlin the average width of the street is 24 English feet; in Brussels about the same ; in Madrid even much narrower streets are traversed by the tramway cars. At Bdvres, on the Paris and Versailles tramway, the width of the street from curb to curb is only 31ft. In Vienna, lift is left on each side of the tramway for ordinary traffic, At Washington, double track tramways are constructed in streets 60ft wide. At Copenhagen, the width of the streets in which tramways are actually at work are 22, 26, and 30 feet respectively, Of one of the Constantinople tramways it is reported as follows ‘ One street in Galata, the traffic of which is equal to 600 foot passengers, two or three public carriages, and 19 horses every quarter of an hour, is only 2.lft 9in in width, including the footpaths. Through this street the tramway cars carry as many as 7,000 passengers per day.’ At the same time, in all these cases, no interference with the ordinary traffic is reported, whilst in many cases the confusion caused in the streets by the number of vehicles necessary to convey as many passengers as now use the tramway cars would be insupportable. It may therefore be confidently predicted that the concession now asked fur would, whilst affording great convenience to the public, bg without any hurtful effect upon that portion of the street traffic, which the tramway could not provide for,”—Cr, Barnes was for disposing of the matter very summarily. He did not believe in tramways at all, and wanted the Council to set their faces against the thing ; but Or. Reeves, who said he was a strong believer in their usefulness, and Cr. Ramsay considered something should bo done, and on their recommendation the letter was sent to the Works Committee, with instructions to bring up a definite report on the subject.
The annual amateur athletic sports in connection with the Dunedin Cricket Club, will be held on October 4, in the Caledonian grounds. The programme W}U he seen in our advertising columns.
The first number of the Christian Record ” has been published, and m many respects it is superior to most journals of its class. As it is intended, if possible, to supply reading adapted generally to members of Protestant Churches, the matter is of general rather than sectarian interest. The information includes the doings of all churches; and the style is remarkably free from sectarian bias, and from that patronising style which, though very popular as a means of religious teaching some thirty years ago, is happily becoming obsolete. It contains much very interesting matter—social and religious. It is neatly printed by Messrs Coulls and Culling, and if supported by able contributors, as we trust it wilfbe, it bids fair to supply a much needed means of uniting the Protestant Churches through'a recognition of their being engaged in a common effort for a common good,
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