Our Dunedin Letter.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1027, 30 March 1894, Page 6

Our Dunedin Letter.

(From Our Own Cokiiespondent.) "After a storm a calm," is a very old adage and is rery applicable to Dunedin just now. Last week we were considerably excited on the licensing committee and "no license" votes, but thiaNveek things have settled down, and a visitor would feel surprise at being told that a week ago these ques^i .ns were served up to us at breakfast, dinner, aud tea, and then agaiq over our whisky on Jess excit-

ing beverages in the evening. As I predicted in my last the reduction of licenaes was carried in Dunedin, Caversham, and Chalmers electorates, and temperance committees in all three returned by lai-ge majorities, and in the latter district, prohibition in reference to bottle licenses has gained the day. We had beautiful: weather during the Easter holidays which were duly observed byalland sundry in true holiday fashion road, rail, and water being utilised to the fullest extent by large numbers of people. We have now settled down to our usual every day life until some further excitement comes along to disturb our equanimity. The Roman Catholic Cathedral was largely attended on Good Friday, when special service peculiar to 4he communion were celebrated, and on Easter Sunday large congregations also prevailed, and all the Anglican Churches were very much in evidence. | The Rev. J. Jolly was duly inducted at South Dunedin Presbyterian Church last week and received a capital welcome thon, and on the following evening when a a. social was held. Mr Jolly will have a large district to preside, and from his well known ability and energy should prove a power for good i" his ministration. I understand ho was very sorry to leave tha Lawrence district where he had done good work, but felt it his duty to accept the larger sphere of usefulness, though at considerable pecuniary loss in the way of stipend. The Tuapeka Times, which is always evolving something sensational in the imaginative mind of the individual who runs its literary department, recently published a paragraph to the effect that our respected R.M. , Mr Carew, was about to retire on a pension, and that he \va3 to be succeeded by Mr Hawkins from your district. Such a statement, although coming from such a quarter, createda little flutter among us, for we should be very sorry to lose the valuable services of Mr Carew, who is considered one of the ablest magistrates in the Colony, and who is good for active service for many years to come. The volunteer encampment at Waitati was a great success as far as actual soldiering was concerned, the locality being ' specially suitable for such a gathering, but owing to some feeling in the matter a number of volunteers did not take part, and the attendance of the public was limited. As illustrating the fact that figures can be made to show peculiar arrangements, a correspondent to the Daily Times assuming that all who voted for MiFish at the licensing election plumped for | him, and in addition were probably all | anti-prohibitionists, points out that had the election bumi confined to eight moderates and eight temperance candidates, and the votes cast for Mr Fish— viz., 1679, given to each of the moderate candidates in addition to what they polled, seven would have been returned, and only one temperance man, Mr Wardrop, would have been successful. The aggregate voting would have shown 40,528 for the moderates and 33,699 for the temperance party. His is a very ingenious way of | putting matters, but scarcely likely to have eventuated practically.