DUNEDIN.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 6, 20 May 1863, Page 9 (Supplement)

DUNEDIN.

(from our own correspondent.) May 12, 1863. The following letter from our Dunedin correspondent was " crowded out" of our last issue:— The Gothenburg sailed for Melbourne on Saturday with 80 passengers, and 934 ozs. 3 Arts. gold. The Alhambra with the English mail will sail on the 13th instant Although the weather for the last week has been very fine, yet the town seems quite dull, and business men generally complaining of the times. The enquiry into the conduct of the Captain of the Mary and Edith, for carrying too much sail while entering the Heads, through which Captain Gunn and five Maories lost their lives, resulted in a fine of £SO for a breach of the harbor regulations, but at the same time the Bench rally exonerated the Captain from any blame, it having been proven that the Captain was not aware of the accident till too late to render any available assistance. There are two candidates in the field for the representation of Dunedin in the Provincial Council, viz.—Mr. Jas. Kilgour, and Mr. J. 8. Webb; Mr. Switzer is also spoken of as a candidate, requisitions having been presented to all the above gentlemen asking them to stand. Mr. Sheath, the Government Inspector of Telegraphs, is at present in Dunedin from Canterbury, for the purpose of making arrangements with the Government for a telegraph line between Christchurch and the Bluff. The Canterbury people have already invited tenders for the materials for their portion of the line. It is probable the line will pass through Queenstown. A brutal assault was committed on a policeman named Parker, on Sunday morning, by two ruffians named Lanty and Merriott. The constable is literally one mass of cuts and bruises, and his body much injured from the severe kicking he received. He at present lies dangerously ill in the hospital, and is too bad to appear against the fellows. The case occupied the Police Court the greater part of the 11th, and is remanded for the production of further evidence; bail refused. The Marsh Troupe will appear in the Princess's Theatre next week, having made arrangements with Messrs. Holt and Wolfe, the present lessees, who are about disbanding their company, and talk of getting over stars of the first magnitude from the sister colonies. Professor Bushell still draws full houses at the Masonic Hall. He will shortly visit your neighborhood. Dunedin was brilliantly illuminated for the last few nights by gas, several jets being lighted in Princes-street. The vestibule of the Theatre was also lit up on Saturday night, but owing to some defect in the pipes or over pressure of gas, it did not act very well.