OTAGO.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1285, 13 April 1860, Page 3

OTAGO.

Bt the Comet, which arrived in harbour yesterday forenoon, we are in receipt of file* up to the 30th ult. Extracts from the " Colonist 11 of that date will be found b«l«w. The contents of the Monthly Summary in that paper may be described— -to borrow a word made use of in the same when speaking of the " political atmosphere" of the province— ai " breezy." The new Province*' Act ii beginning to loom in the distance, and men's minds are troubled : whilst Dunedin trembles for its sovereignty, < » and stigmatized the Act as "iniquitous." We do not remember to have seen the word "iniquitous" made use of there 10 long^as'feparationist ideas were confined to the far north/.buMt" appears now, as we are' informed that there can.ba "hole and corner work" even amongst the kindly Scots, and that efcn tho remembrance of the effeot produced by Dr. Menzies kilt and hose when he sojourned at the seat of Government, and danced long and well in the cause of Scotch nationality, cannot »w .him from, the wrath of his indignant countrymen,— to soon as he goes in for separation. Muriliikuis in disgrace at Dunedin, and the kilt and ' bonnet wilTonlydare show themselves at Invercargill. In our shipprng-oolumh will be found an extract from „ the same paper, 'complaining of unfair play to Otago in the matter of steam communication. ' ' ' ; Accounts generally- from' Otago are good, and' the 'harvest seems f£;havejbeen a very, good one. . . ■<_, ' ";, ' r ' " rh ''' -..' >> " - • l , '»' -' ' - > 'I .-.. J •'- ' 'ii' .