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Otago Daily Times, Issue 182, 16 June 1862, Page 5

An Irish Doctoh going .without his Dinner. —The Irish papers have been full of the j^riefs ot Doctor Corrjgan, who went to the Dublin Lord Mayor's dinner, and went out again, impransus, or in plain un-Esculapian Saxon —fasting. He is Physician to the Queen, or something grand like that. By right of his dignity, he should have been placed (at least he thought so) inter primores, that is, at a table raised upon a dais, where the LordLieutenant, with his hott and the great officers of State, regaled themselves. But when he approached that endoi the Hound Room (Hibcrnice loquamur), lo! the seats were all preoccupied; and the Doctor was invited to join the Judges and General Officers, the Membsrs of Parliament, and Privy Councillors, the Captains, the Skerifls, the Aldermen, the Country Squires, the Barristers, and the Clergy, at a long table on the floor. Many a gentleman of high degree might have deemed all these very good company. But not so the Physician to the Queen. He took the affront in such a dudgeon that he w heeled about incontinently on his well- booted heel, gave himself the spur of indignation, and trotted ofij impatient of savoury odours which might have tempted a weaker

SEPARATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The following memorial on the subject of " separation " has bcon addressed to His Excellency Sir Dominic Daly, from 245 residents in the South-eastern portion" of South Australia, who object to their district being attached to that portion of the territory, now Victorian, which certain enthusiasts i^roposed to separate and form into a new colony, to be called Princeland. — " May it it please your Excellency,—We, your Excellency's humble petitioners, resident in the south-eastern district of South Australia, having ascertained that certain inhabitants of the Western District of Victoria have formed themselves into an association, having for its avowed object the separation from Victoria of the Western District of that prov'nee, and the separation frcra South Australia of the south-eastern district of this province, the whole to be formed into a separate colony, to be called Princeland, desire to record our decided dissent from any such separation and annexation, as we consider that the proposed separation and annexation of this district would be most prejudicial to our interests. Your memorialists were at first disposed to treat this movement with indifference, as we considered such a scheme impracticable ; but as the association has recently sent into the different townships of this .district two paid agents for the purpose of obtaining signatures to a memorial to be forwarded to Her Majesty the Queen, praying for the separation above mentioned, and as we fear that our silence might be construed into assent with that memorial, we feel it our duty respectfully to request your Excellency to use your influence with the Imperial Government, in order to prevent any such separation, so far as South Australia is concerned. And your memorialists will ever pray." His Excellency replied as follows :—"Government House, Adelaide, 21st May, ISG2. Gentlemen, —It affords me no slight gratification to find, by the numerous and influential signatures attached to your memorial, that so large and respectable a body of residents in the south-eastern district of this province are unanimems in testifying their love for their adopted land, and their satisfaction with its Government, by recording their decided objection to the proposed scheme for separating that district from South Australia, and uniting it with the Western District of Victoria, for the purpose of forming a new province, to be called Princeland. I shall take an early opportunity of recommending to the favorable consideration of Her Majesty's Government the prayer of the memorial —that no such separation may take place, so far as "regards South Australia."— Argus.