AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4749, 16 June 1894, Page 2

AROUND DUNEDIN.

[By 1-fIOIOU JlST.].,lv:r : ':*y±i Our winter agricultural show was -V held this week and has been one oKtho %:~ : i best over held in this' district,* * ! It? iwaa : :?ri largely patronised. Over 1000 country' '■£; "pcoplonnived at tho railway station"--'' occupying 52 carriages, from the South '•.'• tho evening before ,tho.Show...opened,. :; and tho next rao/uing between 50J and ;S 603 arrived from tho.north, soithat the ' ; " X city was full of faraiors and has been - quito lively. . v; Nottho least interesting feature of '- the Show was an enormous chceso.' Tea v pounds worth of silver, was distributed \: through the cheese, which was'cut'Hip • oud sold at a shilUug pcf,ib, There wcro m'auyluckyioucs'who got thoir shining back .in tho chegaa they tooHA home for supper; ones got better by finding 2s Cd. OFMpKdcr. : ful how that enormous cncosd.sold id';, so short a time. > .<".' ' ■ •'..'■'i\-; thatall the shares in the New, Zealand Loan and • 1 Mercantile Company havo been readily K taken upinUtago.andinmany instances' '■ ■:■ tho whole of the amount of calls'paidin a lump sum, It is to bo hoped that ; " tho shareholders iu other large; confros ■'..'. are coming to the scratchalso, when the " ; busiucss of the Company will boom'< again and so things will briglitcnup! all . round. . , ._ r; v I regret to have to iclLyou "tliafyAo V liev. J. B. Fallowed, Theoretical Tutor of thoSelwyn College, and incumbent of St Martin's 'Anglican Church, has sentin his resignation. Hero is acUauco .. foryouM'nsfcrtonians to get/almost • clonucnt divino! Tlierc has beena breeze'of somo kind. I believe between this reverend gentle- : ~ man and His lordship Bishop Neville. : I suppose, as Knox Cimrchhad */rii&« ' some time ago, they want to bo hrtlic fashion and intend following suit. What the actual bono of contention is lam not certain, but of this I'm sure, Bishop Neville is in tlio wrong, Novcr, I think, since their school-boy days have tho licensees of Hotels been so anxious abont(Sviw,bad marks against their nameVil? Licensing Coroniitfee have their work cutout which hotels to closoaud which hotels to allow to remain open, while thei publicans aro wringing their hands with : , anxiety, and tho lawyers are coolly • , pocketing the fees. As 25 houses must' be closed under tho new Act tho task is ; rather a difficult one, ,:, r ; • ' Ourßalcluthafriendsarcinaqnaudary, : iornfterharagbceiicongrahilatedfroni , far aud near on being tho only strict , having gained total Prohibition, lo I and t behold Mr It Hawkins, K.M., yostcr- , day granted three wholesale licenses. It . seems the words 'publicaus.accommoda- . turn and bottle licenses' only were used t in tho recent Act, andthe crafty publi. cans of Olutha gained the license under .the old Act; of'Bl, referring to whole- . salo licenses, and (he good fellows aro ■ putting each other on (ho back fortheir . own cleverness, aud tho Prohibitionists 3 aro tcanug wildly round tho placo look- • nig up law books, iutcrviowhiglno ML , nud ransackiu'g their brains how-aud s m whatway-thcy can frustrate thoso s wily publicans.' • <-^:- I The lalo Vincent Pyko wajj buiicd in JJuncdminonr lovely northern e'emel tery. Tho fuueral was a Masonic ono, j and although not "particularly largo it was a representative one.. I'licro aro many animus lo: fill his placo, ScoLJit, MoKcuzio; Afr TWw \w docs not stana ting the Larnach and onoorwWaT mint' iu luapcka. Most of our members with thcirfamilies arc leaving here on tho IStli for the Empire City, '. The Middle Island Dairy Association hadn conference ibis weok.iu our. city :1 at a most oppoiiuno time "when tho t farmorswero all gathered here, for ■tho e show. Dairy matters wero generally s discussed, and it seemed to bo tho r prc. f vaijuig opinion thcrd was too ■ -mucbtida glove business and lecturing done by tho Govcruuiont oxneits. It was utanit mously siatcd that what' is wautod '• in tho Colony—which by the .way '■ is admitted to bo par «:cci!eiic« s tlib dairying coiiuti/ of the world, is, d thorough practical export instruction in; i- thonvtof makiog butter aud chceso; highly adapted for the English markot, I, both asircgards tho first-ratotrado and y the second-class consumption for tho

working population, It was thereto proposed to divide the daiiying districts; havo instructors appointed, these gentle? mep to form classes to tpach all whom it may concern, tho nit of butlor-aud chcesomaking, and personalty superintend the same at tho different factories for exportation. .If tho forcgohig could' b» brought about wp migl)t nnticipato ft boom for New Zealand.