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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 45, 14 April 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

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f>ft*X »CK OTTN CORRESPONDENT.] DTJNEDIN, Monday, 6th April. On /'Thursday last, at the Court josse, the nomination was held for a [mber for the General Assembly, to [(resent 1 South Dunedin. There were bee candidates, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. [tten, Commissioner of Crown Lands, W^SJr. Yogel, editor and one of the to proprietors of the Daily Times — Mr htten, as you «re aware, being the iiSr. .A mutuality of commercial inf63ts ife not on this occasion permitted interfere with political distinction, hd is to become the elected of the tlth Dunedinites will be decided tote but not in time to send the resulthis letter. Mr. Vogel claims his sction on the; grounds of being a oroilgh paced and a land former. He is likely to be strongly pported, but I doubt the " Old entity*' will be dead against him, in lich case his chance of being rerned will be Very small. The election for Superintendent iHes off on Thursday next. Major dhafdson is every day becoming more rsdrtal and abusive, by which I judge at he deems his likelihood of being turned as something more than uibtful. The Major is pursuing a iSC unjustifiable course in taking .Vantage of his position, and setting aeial machinery to work to blacken idge Harris, and earn for himself a ost undeserved popularity,— a task t difficult for anyone sufficiently uiirupulous to effect. The murderer of Eldon bas> up to e present time of writing, succeeded baffling the attempts of the police to ke him. However, he cannot long cape. A. slight exodus has occurred k Diggers i leaving Dunedin both for Victoria d to your Province in considerable inaber.3. The Titania left here last iek, crowded with a class of men it mid have been desirable, if possible, have retained among us. Another fire which might have proved structive to a large and valuable jek of buildings occurred here on onday last. The premises of Messrs. irsaith, Fry, and Co. were discovered be on fire, and had it not been for e promptitude of some of the memra of the Fire Brigade, the whole ildings, and probably all there adjoinI and in proximity, would have been stroyed. St. Paul's Church — the new Church England — a very handsome building is consecrated yesterday. It was filled iinconvenience, many being compelled Jretire, unable to obtain admission. »ear, but how far true it is I cannot ■*, that tiic trustees intend charging [fc lady seatholders half as mucn . ao «-o J a yearly fee as is demanded for lies ; the reason assigned being that Jaales, by the preposterous extension Eslaeir dresses by means of steel hoops Jo. crinoline, occupy nearly twice the [4m. The proprietor of one of our Aatres, on the same plea, puts the loss (■ruing to him at something like two llusand pounds in the season, through a excessive amplitude of modern tale eostume. He proposes either raise the priee of admission money, gives the option of ladies leaving ir hoops in charge of the female in iting until they again leave the jtre. This is not a bad idea. A it laughable affair happened here on arsday last in re the erinoline sance. A lady was seen passing ag High-street with a fiddle danig at her hind skirts. She had gone i a shop to make a purchase, when had inadvertently hooked on to a in standing near the door. The ghter of some boys (rude unpolished | ijDkeys) caused my lady to turn ' ?jnd, when she discovered the abtach%t she had formed, and truly, as she Iped down to effect a release of the 'Imona, she looked more foolish than Ir you would wish to see a '% under such untoward cireuml *ces. To earry back the fiddle was what she was compelled to do |all the laws of lady-like honor, but *jyas a penance she would certainly "Je given much to escape from. "•■ ertbeless, she did her duty like a line, amid the jeers, shouts, and de- « e laughter of a number of boys, „; not a few men. I hope the lesson be useful to her, and a caution to '„ ler sex who witnessed or were in*led of such a disagreeable feminine jbition. "The butchers, it is said, will raise jlprice of meat to one and sixpence iXpound this week. I sincerely trust niwill not be the case. Small traders, Iworking classes, and married men jft families, filling subordinate situa0* cannot afford to pay such a famine it4e ; nor do I think that anything Plan organised monopoly eould bring j*ip this. If we are called upon »b«^ eighteen pence per pound for IwW meat, the Government must so serious a matter by sinkdl/41l considerations of pleuro"tltnpnia and its consequences, ripening all the Victorian ports M : exportation of cattle. Meat 1 absolute necessary of life daring eua winter season, when fish is scarce lu frequently unobtainable, and when 1 'thec substitute can be procured. S *?• a tejust now a great many family terwnach pinched in mean 8, and inn onaeijuences will be very serious if a ! feheri^' or cattle dealers' monopoly The bakers have also \seir minds that we shall feel tjttnce of bread ; the masters have *J4 in raising the four-pound loaf to ygtt pence, awhile the landlords, not £». behind ia\ such matters, have t«f denbling their rents. Some memH\°£ the loafing fraternity have , Id at a conclusion bow they shall I V of thenufelres through the

winter season, this being a bad time for loafing operations. It is proposed to incur a friendly debt in order to hate judgment entered against them in the Magistrate's Court, that they may be arrested and placed in the debtors' gaol. There, they say, is warmth light, shelter, wholesome food, attend, > antie, and nothing to do. It wilanswer all purposes until spring sets inl and fine weather comes again, or until, there is a new rush, when they can loaf upon the lucky diggers for a turn. Good Friday was kept here as a close holiday. Excursion trips, picnics, and | out door amusements were the general' order. The day wis remarkably fine ' but overcast. From the Wakatip there is little i news. The two townships are progressing most satisfactorily} and at Queenstown, I am told, some really substantial and extensive buildings ar- in the course of erection* A vessel named the Betsy Perlbach, now at Melbourne, has on board of her a number of Negretti rams and ewe3. These are intended for New Zealand, and although the wool is not remarkable for fineness and is short in staple, it is considered that by a judicious cross a very valuable wool-bearing sheep will be obtained. A great amount of sickness just now is reported with us, the complaints being low fever and dysentery, arising, so the medical profession say, from deficient drainage and bad water. To pass along Princes-street during the day is a positive inconvenience, from the disagreeable smells which pervades every portion of it. Wheu it is explained that over fifty houses of business in the most central block of the city only contains three necessary out-offices, I need say no more as to the cause of it* A decimating fever or a destroying conflagration will set all to rights. I only hope the first and greatest sufferers will be the members of the Town Board; The Separation question is being revived here with greater spirit than has lately been displayed in the Cause. A petition has been drawn up to forward to the home government, and is merely waiting revision before it is despatched. I fear that unless the whole of the provinces in the Middle Island are unanimous in the matter, the prayer of the petition will be thrust on one side. What are you, so staunch a Separationist, doing in the matter? The Alhambra, from Melbourne, is reported as " coming round, 1 ' but whether this be really the case I cannot say. No news of any import is expected from Melbourne. The inhabitants of that city gloat over any little circum* stance they can get hold of to our detraction, and some of the papers are quite jubilant upon emigration from Victoria to these shores having in a measure ceased. They have not much to rejoice at when it is considered that the escorts of this Province have brought down in one week more than ail the Victorian returns combined can show in the same period. There is additional news respecting fresh discoveries on the West Coast. The existence of a practicable pass to the sea above Lake Wanaka has been found by Dr Haast. P.S. — A man giving his name as Job Johnston has been arrested by Detective Tuckwell and charged with the murder of Eldon. He was brought up on Saturday and remanded for ten days. There is no doubt entertained but what the prisoner is the real criminal. I take the following from the Daily Telegraph ; — .Job Johnston, the man brought into town at noon yesterday, was then brought up on the information .of Detective Tuckwell, charged witk the Ba«xder of tl Yorkey," alias M'Eldon. Tuckwell stated that the accused was arrested on Cavershani aiQad yesterday morning-.; that 'he answered tfco the .description of the (supposed saurderer of Yorkey in every particular, being swarthy and foreign in his look, and wearing also a white eoat, t blue shirt and baota, all according to the description given, even to two spota in the trousers ; he wore. Accused had given most unsatisfactory replies to intarrojatories as to what he had been, doing for the last fortnight, and did not know what money he had in his pocket when arrested. He said he had twelye ounces of gold and turned out to have twenty- threes he said he had twenty-thrse pounds in notes, and thirty-two pounds were found on him. There w also found on him a dp: sit roeeipt for £300. He (Tuckwell) askeu for a remand for seven days. Aecused, who is wild both in his voice and appearance, and who is also rather hard of hearing, said that if he could see his mates, they eould say that he was working at the time the murder was committed. The Magistrate told him that he must account for his whereabouts during the last fifteen or sixteen days — the murder haying been committed last Tuesday week. In the meantime his description tallied exactly, in the minutest particular, with that given of the supposed murderer. He stood remanded for a week."