DUNEDIN. This Day.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 548, 28 June 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN. This Day.

Seven, insolvencies havo been filed during the week. The banquet to Judge Bathgate, on his leaving for England, was a decided success. In the course of bis speech he said that it was not generally known that his appointment as Magistrate was unsolicited and wholly unexpected. When the offer was made by tbe then Premier, he refused to accept it unless the whole of the Cabinet, without a dissenting voice, approved it. Out of 18,000 cases brought before him during five and a half-year's Magistracy, only 25 cases had been appealed against, and of these 25 appeals the Supreme Court upheld 18. He had no holiday save one week at Christmas during that time, and he thought he had now earn= d a lengthened holiday. There are twelve cases set down for trial at the next criminal sessions; none of the offences are very serious. Government has asied tie Benevolem Institution to start an association for establisning a Deaf and Dumb Institution. It was decided to entertain the proposal, provided satisfactory arrangements were made for its support. The committee strongly recommended Government to keep in view the desirability of associating it with the scheme for the iormation of an Orphan Asylum to receive children untsinted with crime. Mr. Ballance doubte the policy of connecting the latter with the Deaf and Dumb Institution, but leaves the question over for further consideration. Government do not propose to control the institution, or to interfere with its working in any way. The asso-

ciation must make their own arrangements for the inmates from other parts of the colony. Miss Mitchell proceeds to Dunedin to render i assistance in establishing the institution.