AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5097, 7 August 1895, Page 3

AROUND DUNEDIN.

[llY " SCOTCH MIST."]

Wo have been decidedly fortunate lately, having quite a number of firstclass lecturers in our midst, On Wednesday the Rev. Thos. Tait, of Melbourno, who is occupying the pulpit of the First Church, gave a most intollectiml and humorous lecture in the Garrison Hall, entitled, "An Evening in .Society," There was a packed audience, about 2,500 being present, Mr George Femvick was in tho chair, and made a neat speech ! when introducing the lecturer. During the ovening Mr Tait recited no less than six times, giving the audience an idea of what, kind of pieces to choose for drawingroom audiences, sonic of lliem being quite new to Dunedin. " The Frenchman of number S Colae-street;" "The Nervous Young Man;" "The Silent Man;" and " Hoop La," the latter being a most pathetic piece, relating the career of a citrus boy, The committing to memory of any of these pieces would be of benelicial valne intellectually to anyone.

The unemployed fund, for whom 11 his lecture was given, must have linen materially augmented. Mr Frederic Viliiers, the war artist and correspondent is to give three lectures, commencing on tho i'ltli. Mr Viliiers is almost too wellknown to need extended mention. Jle has been present at every important war during the last 20 years. As special artist lie represented the Graphic, through the Busso-Turkisii war; wasoll H.M.S. Condor, commanded by his friend Lord Charles Beresford at the bombardment of Alexandria, and represented the same paper through the Afghan War 1878-80; the Nile Expedition for the relief of Gordon; the Servian and Bulgarian War, and during the war in Burmah. His lectures are to be illustrated by realistic .sketches and snap-shot photogiaphs taken during| the various battles, including the taking of Port Arthur, so we may expect another rich intellectual treat,

We are all perfectly sick of the snow, for a whole week now we have had the ground entirely covered again to an extent of four to six inches. The severe frosts at night preventing it molting and causing pedestrians to perform numerous acrobatic evolutions in anything but a graceful manner. The school-boys are, I think, the only ones who thoroughly appreciate the skating and sliding on the ice, and they certainly are taking every advantage of their opportunities. The winter is the seveiest ever known in the experience of the oldest residents of Otago.

Dr. Belcher has caused much surprise and regret in our midst by his lesignation of the rectorship of the Otago Boys' High School. I hear it

is due entirely to private business matters which necessitate his paying ii visit to the old country at an early date.

A deiilh from exposure to I lie cold occurred last night at St. Clair. An elderly man named Nicholas Been, who is a jobbing gardener, went into the hotel at St. Clair at half-past four o'clock and remained there for some time, He had some drinks, but was quite capable of walking home; but it is surmised the intense cold alfected him and he fell some 000 yards away from the hotel, where he laid all night and froze, A man on his way to work at 7.30 this morning found liini, but he was beyond all human aid. lie leaves a wife and three children, A curiosity in the shape of a new Bible was received by the Librarian of the Athenamm by the last 'Frisco mail. This book bears the following inscription " Oshape, From the Trustee for the children of Shalam. Dona Ana, New Mexico." In a leaflet accompaning " Oshape," we are told that the world is indebted to Mr J. B. Newburgh, a dentist of Now York, for this remarkable book. He says that " Oshape" was mechanically written through his hands by some other intelligence than his own. For SO weeks his hand wrote for half an hour before sunrise, and then it ceased and he was told to read and publish the book " Oshape." Whether this is true or not the fact remains there is the book, and I hope shortly to be ableto get a peep into its pages, when perhaps I may write more of its history, LADIES IN PARLIAMENT. I. They're going to give the ladies votes, Now won't that be a treat ? Andsomo of them in Parliament 01 course will have a seat. Well, if they do all I can say Is that it seems to mo That something very much like this We very soon shall see. cnonus— They'll try to flirt with the Speaker And they'll laugh at the Sergeant-at-Arms, And fill the aged members with most serious alarms. They'll gigglo and chatter and make such a fuss— Oh I shan't wc just repent, Tho day we let the ladies Into Parliament. 11. Now, when the ladies take their seats. May I be there to see, For every afternoon at live They'll order in tho tea, Now Mr Buchanan, pass the cake, The muffins please this way, Sir Patrick Buckley's Rot tho cream, But the sugar has gone astray 1 CiionusSit down now dear Mr Speaker, For we haven't finished quite, Anil il you try to hurry us up We'll stop here allthe night, Sd they'll giggle and chatier and make such a fuss—--01 shan't wc just repent, The day we let the ladies Into Parliament. 111. Suppose a married lady, With her baby on her knee, Is crying " Chucky I Chucßy 1" While the infant screams with glee, And all the timo the Premier Is trying to make a Epeecfa, While" Order I" shouts the Speaker just, As loud as he cau screech, . CIIOBUB,— But they'll chuck the Speaker under tho chin, And they'll tickle the Sergeanl-at-Arms, And fill the aged members with Most serious alarms. They'll giggle and chatter and make such a fuss — Oh! shan't we Just ropont The day we let the ladies Into Parliament I IV. Well then perhaps dear Mr Hogg Will introduce a Bill, Tfl fijrn out all tho ladios just Bccsuse they won't sit still. But if tho ladies prove too strong, Whj this will happen then: They'll introduce another Bill, And turn out all the men { CHOBUB— hurrah for petticoai government, We ought to be pleased I'm sure, ThoreH be more old women in Parliament Than ever there were before I And thay'Jl gigglo and chatter, and make /such a fuss Oh I shan't we justrepont, Tho day wc let tbs ' Into Parliament,

Mr Angus Smith, son of tho late Dr, Smith of Greytown, lias succeeded Mr Harold Brooke as Kcmpthorne, Prosser and Co.'s representative on the West Coast of North Island. The &ti miner says that Mr J. Dovonshire is remoring his horses and plant to the Club Hotel stables, Pahiatua, where ho will also conduct his livery stables. At tho Palmerston North Police Court yesterday Isaac Levy, liconsee of the Albion Hotel, was liucd £5 on each of the _ charges of selling liquor during prohibited hours and permitting gambling in his hotel. The convictions were ordered to be endorsed on the license A charge of sly-grog selling against Cecilia jacohsen was dismissed.