AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4799, 14 August 1894, Page 2

AROUND DUNEDIN.

[By Scotch Mist.]

I 1 Quarrels and. squabbles vary tl. mouotony of life, and especially do the; excite more interest when it is public squabbling, and the onlookers enjoy it all tbc more, being able to criticise both sides freely, This is a prologue relating to a discussion going on just now as to whether the Hoslyn people should have trams running on Sunday or not? Every suburb in Dunedui enjoysthe luxury of trams on the Sabbath. Ocean Beach, St. Clair, Cavcrshain, Mornington, and North East Valley, Anderson's Bay also beiug reached by omnibus every three-quarters of an hour, Eoslyn i tho oidy exception. Tho Cable Trainwa; Company of lloslyn is a private ouc,au< tho principal shareholders strict Sab batarians, hence the difficulty. Hoslyn is, I think, tho.most beautiful suburb of Duncdin, and. if a proper tram seryico was in operation, numbers moro would live there. The hill is frightfully steep and few ladies and children would think of walking up. Numbers living there are engaged during tho. week and have only Sunday afternoon to take their wives and little ones out for a strpll,and it must get very monotonous to. confine one's promcnade.to the top .of the hill. If there were no Suuday trams at all, like Auckland City, no one would think about them, as ovcryonc would boon tho same footing, and lioslyn no v worso off than tho rest of the suburbs.

': Walter Bentlcy opened hero last week with "Tlio Silcnco of Dean Maitland.". Although highly effective. and dramatic, it did liot do the novel justice, and lots of people objected to the' bringing of eliurch mattcraoh to the stagcashedid in the last scene. The Silver Kiug is drawing large houses at present, but as there is no leading lady of the company the play suffers in consequence. : :'.'", '''■■'. :•.'':;: "■'.; . On Sunday Walter Bentlcy gave an exceedingly interesting lecture on Church and Mage. Mr Bentlcy--to give him his right name-Mr Bcgg, is tlio son of, a Presbyterian clergyman who preached hero sonio years ago. Some of his brothers aro residing in Duncdin at the present time. He was supported on the platform by Mr Dow nio Stewart, one of tlio leading lights of Knox! What would ourforcfathers have tho Knox Church, somo of tho ciders also being on the platform. (Shades of thought of the elders and deacons of tho Presbyterian Church, attendingalccturo on the stage ou tho Sabbath.) The lecture was Mof anecdotes and "no ono hearing tho roars of laughter would have imagined it was Suuday night. I would send you some of the anecdotes, but as tho lecture will in all probability be repeated-in ; Wellington, it would hardly be fail to forestall Waltor Bout- ; A. and T. Inglis, tho largest cash emporium arc holding thcirannual salo and tho crush in the shop is so great that the doors havp to be occasionally closed to allow those insido to bo served properly they havo 100 assistants, arid'they arc all kept busy, \ i■ ■• Not to bo, behind Wellingtonians | it is proposed to hold a week's musical.fcstival during ■ September on, tho lines of those ; recently held in Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide when the Newbury and Spado, Company return from their tour north. It is much'to be regretted that the Bcllo Cole Company, tlirough a little jealousy, should havo split off from the Newbury Company. I hear that the quarrel aroso from tho wish of Madamoßollo Cole that the Company should place her namo beforcVMiss' Emily,' Spada, Mr Newbury's wife. :Thc members of our Benevolent Trustees Board met yesterday, and amongst tho numerous applicants for; relief was one who expressed liimself thus—" Will you give or find nio employment round about Duncdin? Say yes or no j I don't like palaver j; I am no loafer (as ray poor wifo called mo) but I'm a drunkard, perhaps-onco or twice a year when up the 'country. It's a poor man that cannot havo a spree in a free country." i Ono hundred and seventy pounds was yesterday handed over by tho Pelichct Bay ! Committoo to' the' [Benevolent Trustees (thcresultof public subscriptions) so that ; it might be uti ; lized for the benefit of the unemployed, l It is to be Loped tho Board willsee their way to placing a number of men on the Pelichct Bay works, and making that lovely, sheet of .water ornamental lor the j summer/;s'oasbn' ! by niakirig'i'drive round it, Since Mr Seddori opened the floodgates there somo weeks ago, a commodious boat houselias been built. : ,

• Most of. bur. sporting for the Christchurch Eaecs yostcrday. It is to be hoped they will havo better feather; tlian illas 'bceniproplicsicd liy piir local prophet (Mr Paiilin) for us,/4V<i aro threatened with .thunder; lightning, hail, rain, and snoWi A .-./; ■.■::.>■■ I hope Mastcrton and Wellington are still standing hi the same place as whon I, last wrote,- as I have no news as yet of that terrible earthquake coming off, lvlucli was prophesied to tato. place, !