HORSEWHIPPING SCENE AT DUNEDIN. Dunfdin, March 11.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 93, 14 March 1885, Page 3

HORSEWHIPPING SCENE AT DUNEDIN. Dunfdin, March 11.

Cqnsidebable sensation was created in Rattray-street yesterday afternoon by a commission atrent, who is the son of cne of our prominent clergymen, horsewhipping a wel]*known musician, who is also conductor of tbe Choral Society Set-ing the former is over six feet and the assailed is barely five feet, some idea of tbe ludicrous scene may be imagined. The latter wa* severely punished, and took his retreat by flight as soon as he Could emerge from the hands of his assailant It is understood that some reflections parsed on the commission agent's family led to the fracas. The affair w 1» be the subject of a Police Court prosecution.

Writing on the length of the passage between England and Aut-traiin, a corespondent to a South Australian paper says :— "When the time comes for such boats as I the Oregon and America to call he»e there | seems no feasible reason why our mails could not reach us in 24 days, to be further reduced if the Umbria proves a success. Make up the distance as follows :—: — London to Brindi i, by rail say .. 2£days Brindißi to Alexandria (by a fast steamer, of course) . . . . 2 do. Alexandria to Suez, by rail.. .. 01 do. Suez t.o Adelaide, 7,798 miles .. 18£ do. Stoppages 0'! do. 24 days. This Would give time for one coaling between Suez and Adelaide. Many people will look upon this as Utopian now ; but in 1888, when the P. and O. contraot ceases) their opinions probably will be modified."