DUNEDIN NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4832, 22 September 1894, Page 3

DUNEDIN NOTES.

[By Scotch Hist.]

Robberies have beenmostfrcquent in Dunodin within the hist fow weeks, and citizens don't feel as secure of their homes and shops as formerly, , mid far more attention is being bestowed on locks and bars, There is quite a surfeit of amuse- ] monts here just now of every variety, j Miss Leila Aduir has been keeping | us in an agony of suspense for tlio I last fortnight. This lady is supposed ■ to be a parachutist, but neither she j or her balloon have gone up yet. , Last night she intended going np by ] electric light and moonlight in the ] Caledonian Grounds. A promenade j concert and the Switchback entertaining the public while the balloon ; was being inflated, Somo hundreds i of peoplo were present who felt J woefully disappointedwhenitbeeamo J known that the balloon had burst, i Tho Belle Cole Company opened 1 in tho Garrison Hall last night to a 1 splendid house, but there was much regret when the manager had to apologise for two of their number, who were Buffering from iniluonsMi. Tho Montague-Turner Company have had the theatre full nightly, Mrs Turner, who is severing her con- , nection entirely ivith the stage takes . a benefit to-morrow, Death has removed one of Dun- J ediu's best known men this week. I i

UUIIId UWt MIUUII lUUII Llllti WUUK, 1 refer to poor Donald Petrio. Anyone who has ever visited Dunedin will remember a little hump-backed man standing at the Bank of New, Zealand corner, selling papers, or else have seen him at the 'Railway Station, It was his proud boast that for the last'2s years he had never failed to seo every train off during! that time, Poor Donald was seized with a paralytic stroke. His wife died tlio r.oxt day, leaving a baby three weeks old and six other children, The shock of his wife's death evidently hastened his end, husband and wife dying within four days of each other. Many friends liavo come forward, and 1 am glad to say that the four youngest children have all been adopted, and substantial subscriptions aro cflming into help the others. Ferguson and Mitchell were alarmed on reaching their beautiful shop in Princes Street the other morning, to find the back part of it in ruins, Immediately at the rear of theirpremisesis an embankment,and tlio snow and rain we have had lately, caused part of it to slip, so it most inconviently slipped into Ferguson and Mitchell's office People now-a-days seem to be afraid of trusting their mouey in tlio bank, and prefer being their own bankors, Only this week a bachelor died at the north end of the city, and when some of his relatives were sadly folding away his clothes, feeling they wcro unusually bulky in somo parts, examined them more closely, and found no less than L4OO in LI notes sewn carefully in his under garments. So much for New Zealand Banks! I