AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4706, 30 April 1894, Page 2

AROUND DUNEDIN.

|By Bootoh Mist.]

You will regret to hear (hat Dr. * Stuart, of Knox Church, ut very seriously ill again. After service hut "■ Sunday night Dr,,.Watr, who officiating, asked who were in sympathy with th7| ■"■-; pastor to. remain and offer up apeolal priyer for his recovery. The Eevd. D. M." Dayidaon, lata colleague of Dr. Stewart, bailed on the 19th instant in the Ruapebu, bo that Knox Church is now on outsiders for religious nnfiißtfiP '~"~ tious, I was quite pleased the other evening wqeo visiting theDunedin Photo, graphio Society's exhibition at the beautiful.pictures of the Wairarapa and Seventy Mile Bush, The lecturer, Mr Williams, who seemed to know all about that part of the country, was most entertaining, especially when ho described your wonderful Bimutaka railway, and the. scenery of Siberia. From hia descriptjj|jf the Wairarapa must be exceedinglyfyetiy, lakes and valleye»b Yesterday bankers, having a holiday, quite a flutter in town. Messrs Piscoe and Stott invited all the matagers 'and clerks, their wives, sister and oousinß, to a grand picnic at Silverstream. Six four-in-hands were engaged, to take the crams d« k crane of pionioers out for a day's enjoyment. The morning was glorious for driving, a hot wind was blowing, and the sun shining brightly whon the four-in-hands blazing with the '■- bright colours of the ladies dresses , dashed through Princes street, but alas 1 Jupiter Pluvius wanted a change t as well as the bankers, and after a , few hours of lovely warm weather, the wind veered round to the south, ' and we had hail and icily cold rain, w.bich continued steadily until late in [ the evening, for variety of climate [ Dunedin takes the palm over all tho ' other large oentreß in thß Colony. | There has been plenty in the way ;of amusements this week, The [ Hellers Claiivoyante Company drawj ing crowded bouse, I (Madame Heller I»prsimPH|H| j really,a bona fide clSfvoyant. Tho"^"" . Enterprise Minstrels (an amateur t company) also have done good buaiI nesa, having engaged "Charley" r Hugo, who has lately arrived from Australia with a lot of the newest comio songs: " Linger Longer Loo," and " Daisy Bell "are being whistled by every one in the street, and are almost as fascinating as " Ta-ra-ra bom-de-By," • A sad fatality happened opposite the Triangle yesterday, when a young lad named George Carson, aged 17 years, fell down, and expired almost immediately. HisboJywad placed in un express and carted round trying to find a lodging for it until the coroner could hold an inquest over it. It \i a disgrace to our city having no morgue; how often are bodies found floating in the harbour, and it is the same cry, Mo one likes to have the corpse brought to their house, How« ever, when there is a Budden death of . this kind it is a windfall for tho looal newspapers, for columns of letters are sent in on the mortuary question, and still no morgue appears, the subject dies a natural the next corpse is d&^LdF'&mtß Our mußioal magaztnejlhe "Triad," has commenced its second year, and with its last number haa given two songs," The Merry Merry Sunßhine" being exceedingly bright and pretty. It is in the scale of 0, and is com« poßod by Stephen Glover. Miss' Mongredien, an artiste, from Melbourne, sang it here at one of the 6d»pops" a few weeks ago. ' '. Writing of musio, everybody ia learning the banjo now-a-daye, tho violin and piano are nowhere. The banjo oases are terribly inconvenient in a tram, as they are quite as long as most of the young ladies that cany them are tall. I should suggest they should be charged as passengers. Ladiesor gentlemen learning the banjo should have very small and pretty hands, as the playing of this instrument shows the beauty or coarsentßß of the hand to perfection. The commercial community seem well pleased that the reconstruction of the Loan and Mercantile scheme has gone through, and prophesy a big future for it, Wiping off all its bad debts with a splendid businees at its back it can't help coming out right. The shareholders will have to pay their £s los per abafe, of course, but they will hnd they will get good interest for their money. Tho weather haa been squally and wet. The township of Kelso was flooded nearly a foot and a half of wator in every house. The loss of etook haa been very great, . I hear Mr Fish, onr Mayor, has been tryiuganew move. I would suggest that as he is swimming so near the bottom he should get under the rockd and stay there, for he never will be missed.