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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2507, 2 April 1881, Page 3

It will be perceived from a Dunedin telegram that the Government has at last decided ,to superannuate Mr Watt, the Police Magistrate there, whose presence on the Bench has long been a menace to the police, and a terror to little children, and whose variable decisions and extraordinary eccentricities have given the utmost dissatisfaction to the public. This is a step which the late Government failed to take although its members must have been aware of the false position which Mr Watt occupied, and it is one on which the present Government may be fairly congratulated. Mr Watt’s successor, Mr Simpson, is an experienced energetic and careful Magistrate, andjunder his regime their is reason for thinking that the police and the public will be amply protected. Further and remarkable evidence of the wide distribution of gold about Wellington has been brought under the notice of the ** Times.” On Thursday, says our contemporary! we inspected two samples of auriferous quartz, which we were assured came from Kilbirnie—the quartz is compact, slightly crystalline, and impregnated with pyrites. One of the pieces shows two or three specks of gold, the other has gold running through it, in both cases the gold being coarse and of good quality. The person who discovered it avers that he broke out a quantity of stone from the lode