ROUGH ON DUNEDINITES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 242, 13 March 1880, Page 2

ROUGH ON DUNEDINITES.

A travelling correspondent of a Brit ish.; pape is very rough on Dunedin, Mowrites to his journal as follows : “ Dunedin contains a few fair shops v- ry* badly stocked to a home idea, and mo»tfrightful charges, really a right down-, robbery ; trifling little things, worth, a bait sixpence, they asked half-a-crowm ■ for, and all on the same pla; . Swindling* j pec pio in Dun‘din is thought nothing* i of, Mr the staple reason that there aro- J such a lot ■ f silly, soft, and ignorant- I quality out here from country places at j home. Everybody very smart, and that accounts for outwitting the oilier. There are, course, h most and respectable here, but they arc few ami far and generally nold themselves aloof the riff-raff of colonel societies. of pretty walks about Dunedin, but two drives, which get stale in The harbour at the port connected ra?’. All the English ships lie tin re, and thus came Dunedin inconvenience. The bar at the of the harbour is very bad, and very often bump on entering, not oftßH going out, as they ; ave to take away. There is a miserably* cricket ground on a small patch the my The JBo anioal Gardens well opt, but very small. There ar-.» H no en of suburbs, with grand homes in ■ all dir ions, and some few homes a& ■ p tched a-pleasant places ; but, generally H speaking the houses aro wretchedly ■ mean ana shabby, and tho through the cracks would almost kid a polar bear. The climate of Dunedin is very wet and cold in winter, very windy in summer, and there . is * : lB strong similiarity between and climate, both equally cold and which has a very rebellious effect on Jio hilarity of Irish people. The great* bulk are of Scotch origin of the worst type, and indeed the English arc much better. It would re; lly seem as the very scum of Great Britain and the good remains. The people Dunedin, a few private families excepted* are, without excaption, the meanest, basest, the most depraved, and the ign.-raut set I have ever come with. Being originally the dregs sweepings of home lu-tltJ could be expected. But tJIT airs that some of the young"’ Sh'oba themselves Is almost intolerable to people from Home colonial is a fearful egotist and when he is sat upon by English and open manlin* s- ,he crins. es before like a coward. The women aye worse than the men, and excel all iu vulgarity, coddish pride, and impudence, and a general degraded depraved nature. Nothing gives vulgar upstarts more pleasure snubbing respectable and inofifensivl^H newcomers, although one can easily the lurking j cab may that they try hid \ and the" cringing servility if thej B think anything can be gained by being '" sweet and oily in manner. In a wird,-kt they are ‘ ill bred hypocrites.’ ” -T