DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1662, 16 June 1875, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day. Auckland Passengers. The following are the Taranaki's passengers for the Mannkau : Mr and Mrs Ireland and child, Miss Campbell, and Mr Pole. Disgraceful Legal Practices. . , The Guardian has a caustic article on the legal profession. It complains of the want of a healthy tone of pubJic opinion to prevent scenes like these which occurred in the case of Macassey v. Bell : one practitioner calling another a scoundrel, or threatening to pull another's nose, and winds up—" We have heard reports of a barrister, defending a prisoner for life, obtaining an adjourn- ..^ »nent of the Court for ten minutes, dur- '"?<&» critical part of the speech for the ' : and*withdrawing with the prisoner jJ^De an*eroom an<l literally extorting him, by threatening to throw up Ibis tfi ,ypkf y a, fee of £50, in addition to what he

guarantee that such a seemingly incredible transaction did not mviilK ifki i.'ccc pomiets to return to the subject. Rise in the Price of Meat. Raising the price of butcher's meat is condemned as unjustifiable by all the papers. SwtaSSS? BUggest starti^ac°-°pe-

' Capital Crushing. , ■ i'e^£ r nmwell Com Pan y last crushing yielued 840 ounces from 100 tons. Railway Proposals. Referring to Mr Wallace's proposals of Government, the Star says it might, almost be thought the Council had £214,000 at its disposal for railways, instead of no money at a j appropriation had already ex™el™ estimated revenue by nearly £100,000 Tfet, nothing daunted, there is to be no cessation from entering up liabilities until the General Go" vernment have power to over - run to the tune of £314,000. The protest appears to have been of no avail with Provincial Councillors, as Mr Driver stated, it seems as if members were in an agony of fear that the Colonial Government would step in and bring their little reign to an end without the province being first pledged to construct a railway to their own doors. Last night the Council threw out by a small *najoiir.y several lines the Government proposed, but to-day the Superintendent sent down messages authorising the construction of lines out of revenue of loan, and for making preliminary sutvey of lines to cost in the aggregate over

Harbour Dues. The Harbour Board propose to raise £12,000 yearly by wharf dues on all goods landed by railway. They will charge a shilling a ton at Dunedin wharves, and two shillings on goods beyond prove. Ton shipments, half price ; on vessels, £d per ton gross\per day; steamers the same.—[Messages are received from the telegraph-office in such a fearfully gaibled condition that we frequently have to guess at the meaning. The foregoing we cannot even unravel in that way.—Ed E.S ]

Alleged Bigamy.

A bigamy case will occupy the attention of the City Bench in . a few days. The offender is Mrs Schmidt, wife of a German tailor, of Oxford Terrace, Christchurch, to whom she has been married some time. She came to Dunedin on a spree nob long since, and while here contracted a second marriage when the true state of things came to the knowledge of husband number two, having taken her with the fact that herfirst husband was alive, a scene followed and the woman went back to Christchurch, where on Wednesday last she was arrested.