AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4695, 14 April 1894, Page 2

AROUND DUNEDIN.

[By Scotch Mist.J.

Thcro have been two very sudden doaths at tho Grand Hotel sinco I wrote you last. Thn verdict in Loth cases was heart disease accelerated by tho uso of alcohol. I suppose the hotel keepers are doing their best to get rid of tho stock in 1 their cellars before they get notice to i closo altogether. It would, I think, bo i only fair to let I ho licensees know at onoe which houses are to be olojod, so as to give them ample time to niaKo other arrangements to earn their living instead of keeping them in suspense as they are doing iiow. This has been a week of deadly diOnesa as far as amusements go. The only tiling worth going to was a tlirrn diy'j Fancy Fair, held in the Choral Hall, in aid of the debt on All Saints' Anglican Ohurcta, Bishop Seville, assisted by the incumbent (the Rev. A, K. Fitchett), opened the Fair. In his opening speech the Bishop stated the 4# on tho Church was £2,800 and although many despaired of paying oil' this amount ho did not, and he hoped aoc.u to ask the assistance ot the public in raising funds for building a oathedral in our midst, the want of which was folt very much. Now, 1 beg leavo to differ with his lordship, His ideas have alwaysbeen prematura, Tho debts of tho ohurcheß in Dunedin should all bo paid off before luoh a stupendous undertaking as build" in|( a cathedral is taken in hand. Bishop Noville in his rivet zealonsness l 'Bome :hreo years ago had a fhuologioal College built "for' tho young cqlonjals tp 'he irained. This has tpn most unsnoces?* •ul from a llnanoial point of viow, as live students has been tho most the college has over had, The time is scarcely ripe yet to mako nstitutionß of this kind pay in tho lolony. Now, for tho benefit of your lady •eadera I must tell you about the Iresaes of tho fair-stallholders, They ill woro their hair powdered, and Iressed in the fashion of 1830. itches on their faces, (which byo-the-lye did not enhance' thoir beauty), •lack (tresses with white lace''and mus\ in fichus, looking' most sombre and [uaitit.' Minuets (which are t'o be the ashioi)ablo dances,' | this if'inter), ,'ere dansei' every ovening by eight idios most craoefully. Tho way they janipulated their fans wag truly cjiarmig, The first t?o evenings the takings mounted to *I6Q, I have not heard yet •hat tlio sum total was.

The Jewish community held their feast of Purlm last week. Tho festival of Put (or casting looie) is an old established one, instituted in the days of Queen Esther, and observed by tho Jews annually. The children met in the afternoon, and after partaking of wonderful oreations of cako and sweetmeats enjoyed I iManJ' beforo leaving, the adults following suit in'the evening. :1 I see the Rational Dress Reform movement in Uhristchurch have received a snub, Iteeems that a lady, Mrs David Burn, appeared at tho lectures attired in serge' kniokors, frilled and lapd at tho pees,"wltli v&St and coat like any of tho roalo'itqdents might y ear, Although a married lady, this"* costunio attrauted too much notioo from the male sex, so the Board of Guardians paßsod a resolution to the effect that for tho future no lady member of the Rational Dress Reform League attend tho lectures unless dressed like tho majority of her sex,