DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1494, 24 November 1874, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

(From our own Correspondent.)

This day. The Auckland's shipment is the finest lot ollmmigrants who have come here for some tine.

Jfr McOlune of Invercargill, who refused to comply with the seventeenth section of hi Public Health Act, on the ground that then he became a member of the College of Surgeons, he subscribed to a declaration filch bound him not to divulge information entrusted him professionally, iv received by mail the opinion of fie Lancet to which he submitted the pestion. The Lancet says that there is wapecific undertaking of the kind, but it is ijeneral undertaking on the part of a new lember to demean himself honorably in fa practice of his profession, but even if a ije-law of the College forbade the disclosure acquired in a professional way, fe could not override an obligation to iralge such information at the bidding of ilaw for State purposes or for the ends of slice. It may be a question whether the te should impose the duty on medical i or on the friends of a parent ; but every k'h experience teaches that the State has leepwjt interest in such information, and jentitled to demand it. The State which ajses such a duty on medical men should if them for discharging it, and pay them r!L"

Another shipment of salmon ova will be sat from the Clyde to Otago. Mr Frank Wand will procure and pack the ova, tkich will be obtained in the Tay and Forth, swell as in one or two English rivers. Bishop Jenner has been making his grievBees public, the occasion being the publicaoa by the " Standard " of a report of the roceedings in the Gen°ral Synod of the a§licau Church in New Zealand in May ist. Dr. Jenner recapitulates the history of He case, and virtually calls Bishop Neville a Klismatical intruder into his see He goes »to renew his challenge, and refers the question to arbitration. "I am ready," he *ys, " to offer almost any advantage to the nthorities of the Ne«r Zei'aad Church as ngards either the choice of arbitrators or the wis of arbitration. I will pledge myself tot to revoke my resignation even if the ward i should be in my favor. If it goes gainst me I will freely retract and apologise Sw all I have hitherto maintained.

The b-ig Vision, Capt Lov^rock, after a Andid run of six days from Kaipara arrived ibis morning Heavy gale blowing to-day.