DUNEDIN.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 74, 7 September 1865, Page 4

DUNEDIN.

(From our own Correspondent.) Monday, September 4, 1865. We have had another week: of very fine weather, and our young ladies are beginning to sail along; the streets in light arid variegated, ; and, I may add, 'entrapping' \ attire, f ■.■•■,':<.": The owners of the . steamer Lady Darling , must be making a nice little: fortune out of •the West Coast Rush., This steamer, in consequence of her quick and safe passages has become the favourite, and a goodly number I of digger3Jin -town at present when asked \ if

they are*goirig*to n H6latilfea,*feplyrn the affir''iHative,""Sdddrig,"tHSt': they ' are' waiting for the Lady Darling.: She^ftf/fche Heads on Tuesday last with nearly passengers on board,,.. The Miskin left on the following morning with a- full complement of diggers, and the fine screw steamer Egmont, belonging to the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail Company, left this afternoon with over 350 passengers. Besides these steameis, several small sailing ships have gone to Hokitika during the past week. The -news from the West Coast goldfields continues \ r ery good, and as the summer advances there can be no doubt of a great influx of miners to the El Dorado. It is "ixjoted here that a monster meeting will shortly be held for the purpose of considering the advisability of permitting the Chinese to come and settle on dur goldfields'. Should the Government be inclined, by pressure from Avithout, to consent to their coming, it woAild riot be long ere our goldfields sAvarmed with thousands of the persevering, filthy Celestials. But, as our real digger seems to have an innate hatred to John" Chinaman, in the:;event of their.immigration to this Proyince, it js hard'to say Avhat feuds might result,. The almost idle police force, now to be; found at the various stations on the goldfiels,. would then require to be strengthened, but' at the same time there can be no question that from •the busy plodding habits of the Chinese a great increase Avould at once be given to the escort amounts. - ;-•"'' ':'---' ; The Quarterly Criminal Sessions ,of the Supreme Court opened on Friday last;, Justice Richmond presiding. The calendar is light— the principal cases being those of Jarvey, for poisoning his Avife ; Riordan, for arson, and Davis and Evereste fordiighway robbery in the. bushranging style— a, most ludicrous game to play' in this, almost harren-of-bush country. -In consequence of .the absence of Dr. Macadam and Iris Assistant, Jarvey's trial has been postponed to the 11th, but a telegram from the Bluff ,this ; morning brought the very melancholy -intelligence of the death of Dr. Macadam on board the Alhambra yesterday. Dr. Macadam was an analytic chemist of no mean order,, and brother to Dr. Stevenson Macadam, Lecturer in Chemistry to the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. The two Macadams were the favorite pupils of the late gifted Prof essor George Wilson. Riordan's trial is a continued one from the June Sessions, as, after the jury had found him . guilty, his counsel took exception to the validity of the indictment, and the then Acting Crown Prosecutor admitted that it was wrong ! A ease of this kind happening shews the strong necessity of -having' for Crown Prosecutor "a gentleman of acknoAvledged legal ability, and that important office has.now been admirably filled up by the appointment of the Hon, James Prendergast. While Avriting of legal matters I may mention that our 'Punch' a few weeks ago had a very clever little jotting under the head of "Hews of the Week, " which stated that "The Articled Law Clerks in Dunedin have ' resolved to do away with the study of the law in the Province.' " The fhit is almost too palpable to need explanation. Articled Law Clerks in England now-a-days are really students, attend recognised classes and so forth, and when the time comes, after ex-aminations-are ushered into the profession in a bona fide sterling way. There are in Dunedin, and in all the other large towns of New Zealand, numerous Articled Clerks, and consequently, some fine day the Colony will haA r e showered upon it a new batch of Barristers, Solicitors, and Notaries Public. Granted that a few of them have really studied laAv before they came to this. Colony, how many young Colonials are there who can only learn its 'practice'' here? On' the days set apart by the respective Judges for the examination of such, it woidd be interesting to be present to hear their, answers to questions oil the pus Civilis Romanus," and the log?'.,^C- disquisitions of Grotius thereon. It would also be gratifying to know under Avhat professor's the study the principles of the science, .and how many copies (if any) they have seen of the works of Justinian, Grotius, Blackstone, Erskine, Story, and of Levi's Commercial ■ Code, the Cope Napoleon, and the Statutes at Large ! It is a lamentable fact that legal education in NeAV Zealand is a myth ! LaAv Clerks here know, it may be, the simple forms required in conveyancing and for pro- . cess business, and also the general rowtine of legal machinery; but they are . shamefully ignorant of the principles and established • points in cases, illustrative of the noblest ' science in the vvoiid. Is it too late to conA^ert our Exhibition Building into a University ? It is said it will shortly become an Hospital. I would like to see it converted into an hospital for the cure of the halt, the lame, and the blind in science, literature and art, and it Avould be an honor and an eternal boon to Otago and to civilised society. > The fine large ship Peter Denny, one of ; Henderson's line, arrived from Glasgow in the end of the week, and her- passerigers, numbering over 170, -were brought here this ; forenoon. . There: are about 70 . young, . fair, : and-sonsie Scotch lassies amongst .the num- - ber, and by way of a qiiiet 'hint : to'^the i bachelors in your wide agricultural district, • . 1 1 have heard it stated that I they are not all : \' engaged.' , f . ,