AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4806, 23 August 1894, Page 3

AROUND DUNEDIN.

[By Scotch Mist.]

If my notes to-day should be vague and bordering on lunacy, please blame the prevailing epidemic • influenza—for the town is full of it, the street I am living in is full of it, the room lam sitting in is full of it, and last-but not least—l am full of it!

Mr W. S. Fitzgerald, Hector for many years of the Training College, has been appointed to the position of temporary Inspector of Schools, which he has ucccptod. He commences his duties next week.

The annual gathering of the Gaelic Society took place this week and was a huge success. Poor old Dr, Stuart's face was sadly missed, he having been the Chief of this Society for many years. The Hon, John MacGrcgor, having i taken his place, was in the chair, and delivered an address. Then followed a lengthy Scotch concert. Mr Arthur Salvnui, being in splendid voice, captivated his hearers—being beyond doubt the best vocalist of the evening. At rather a late hour the Ball commenced, the enthusiasm of the pipers and dancers outviciug each other, until the "wee sum' hours."

One of ourlocnluewspaperolliees "the Times" has got a magnificent new machine for the printing paper, the best yet imported into the colony. I have seen it at work and felt quite astonished at the work it is capable of doing. The machine measures 1!) feet long by 0 feet and is capable of printing 21,000 papers an hour. So don t say wo are not going ahead.

Wo have no less a personage than Mrs Yates, Mayor of Oncliimga, visiting our romantic city. She is accompanied by a niece. Sho lias, I hear, promised to grace the Women's Franchise league .Demonstration, which is to take place in the course of a few days. She attended the Council meeting last, night, and was introduced formally by the Mayor. Surely |it was not for this only she paid us avi sit, My favourite spook suggests she may have an eye on our Mayoral chair, as soon as Mr Fish (Mayor) vacates, as she has heard rumours that our City Council wants someone with a firm hand to keep them in order. Having brought the New Plymouth City Fathers into subjection, she finds it rather tame there now, and is looking round for fresh fields and pastures new, I was quite pleased to read in last week's D.uu Times that you Mastertonians had actually been able to get £250 together to offer to a respectable Anglican pastor. You evidently find you can't gel on without one. In this connection, I may as well let you know (hut the llev. J. P. Fallowcs, a Cambridge man, and a most eloquent expounder of the Gospel, is leaving Duncdin about the lirst week in December for the North Island, where he intends again to commence working when a suitable opening occurs. Why does such a clever man leave the Diocese of Diiucdin ? I think I hear you ask. Well, the truth is Bishop Neville is most unpopular with his clergy; too much of an autocrat,