DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2907, 10 June 1878, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Saturday. Millar, who was recently/ fined 20s and "costs for assault, has forwarded a complaint to the Minister of Justice against Mr I. N. Watt, who was the presiding Magistrate on the occasion referred to. The basis of Millar's complant is that a few weeks previously Mr Watt, in a case where a much more flagrant breach of the peace occurred, inflicted only a penalty of Is, and ordered plaintiff to pay his own costs.

Messrs C. S. Beeves and B. Oliver are mentioned as probable candidates for the representation of Dunedin, in the place of Mr Larnach.

The contest between the Education Board and the School Committee is about to be brought to a crisis by the latter inviting applications for a vacancy in one of the Dunedin district schools. /

Mr Macandrew's resignation as a member of the Otago University Council was received to-day. He expressed regret that the Otago University has ever consented to waive its claim to a royal charter, for had it not done so there could be no doubt but such charter would have been granted ere now, and the University would have been saved from the imputation of having sold its birthright for a mess of pottage. This was a great

blunder, and no time should be lost in retracting it. He thought there could be no difficulty in the way of the Otago University obtaining a charter of its own. The Council decided to invite applications for a lecturer on surgery, at a salary of £200 a year, in connection with the medical school. * This day. s Mr C. S. Reeves has intimated that he intends offering himself as a candidate for the Dunedin vacancy, but does not say i in what interest.