DUNEDIN.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 59, 12 May 1877, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

May 5. The. Suburban Councils have agreed to extend the term of Mr Proudfoot's tramway concession to fourteen years at an annual rental for the first ten years of £50, and £100 for, the rest of the term. '. ; The absnrdity of the present system of teaching m the grammar and elementary schools is' exciting attention ; also, the great cost of the high class schools above the amount of school fee's. ' The " Star'! warns 'friends ; to settlement that the -squatters will stick at nothing to keep their runs. Aletter m the "Times "suggests, that the Press Agency be discharged like other incompetent servants', and an.intelligent Agency established. .Complaints are loud and con starit. It is now admitted that the .English, Eleven ■ could have wok the match here easililjbut it did not suit their' book. FisPand Gilles, the Secretary, have had a great row at the. Harbor Board; .Fish rated him with assuming too much, arid the whole functions of the Board. Queer rumors are circulating' as to several transactions . of eight brokendown swells m belltoppers, who have been noticed working as one gang on the Lawrence railway. ■ '■ A large building society is being organised. An unlimited capital is proposed, so as to swallow, up; the small established societies. Reynolds and the ring are reported to be iirit. ; --•. .Gisborne's election is considered to bode ill to the . Ministry, who are very unpopular here, especially Reid, who has.given great offence by his. manner of treating people, especially his old bucolic, .chums. }.'' -/•.. - • : -Atkinson's great speech is laughed at: . t : ■ Monday. An unseemly disturbance took place m- St.AAndrew'B Presbyterian Church yesterday, at the 11 o'clock; service. It seems that a .majority .of the; congregation wished for the introduction r of^ the English Presbyterian ; Hymn Book, but there are,; some., dissentients. When service .commenced, yesterday morning by singing avhymn, ; Mr J. P. Miller .gotr on" the" platform arid "commenced to re,ad a protest against the hyma book; ; TJltimatejy, his voice was drowned by that of the minister and the music' of ; the choir, but, he ende,d by throwing his , written": - ! protest at; the. minister^ arid it : fell among the congregation I Much indignation is said to befelt with regard to" Miller's action;, "" .' •