DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3387, 30 October 1879, Page 4

DUNEDIN.

Last night. Mr Thos. Glendinning, of Kirkpatrick, Glendinning and Co., got his left leg broken through jumping out of a train car when it was in motion, near Wise's Corner. At yesterday's sitting of the Anglican Diocesan Synod, Archdeacon Edwards intimated that he had resigned the Archdeaconate. The Loftus Troupe treating Duaedinites. The performance of the Loftus Troupe last night was highly indecent, and police proceedings hare been taken against the individual members of the company. The information charges them for that on the27th October, at Dunedin, in tho Princes Theatre, they did unlawfully act in an indecent manner in the burlesque known as "The Indian Princess" contrary to the Lincensed Theatre Ordinance, 1872. Lateb. The Blonde's in Court. At the Police Court this morning, Linnie Leslie, Emma Dubois, Geneveve St. Marc, Minnie Esmond, and Nellie Inwan were charged with having acted in a burlesque known as "The Indian Princess, at the Princess Theatre, contrary to Licensed Theatre Ordinance 1872. E. Cook appeared for* defendants, who were not in attendance. The case was adjourned till 2 o'clock on his application. They appear in person at 2 o'clock tomorrow, in the B.M. Court. The Loftus Troupe repeated Monday night's performance to a full downstairs audience last night. The objectionable features of the after*piece were omitted. There was an unusually large crowd of persons gathered about the City Police Court this morning long before eleven, o'clock, it being understood that the Loftus Variety Troupe case would be proceeded with. When the doors were thrown open there was considerable scrambling for seats, and the Court-house would nothing like hold the number who thronged the place. The cases were dismissed on technical objections raised by the counsel for the defendants. J. C. Davis was sued by Wells and Atkinson for £12 6s for advertising the Loftus Troupe. Davis denied the liability, stating that DeLias was responsible for the amount, but admitted he was one •of the proprietors of the Loftus Troupe. Judgment for plaintiff, £8 16s.