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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 190, 29 November 1876, Page 2

Thebe are but few readers of the Dunedin papers who have not been made acquainted with the name of R. W. BakewelLj M.D., &c., &c., whose opinions and ideas became public property through the happy medium of the Press. Some months since the worthy medico, disgusted with a people by whom he was so ill appreciated, turned his back upon Otago, and sought "fresh fields and pastures new." We now find he has settled down in Motueka, a thriving town in the thriving Province of Nelson; but although the Doctor has shaken the dust from his feet, he cannot forget his old love, and the Dunedin Star is favoured (?) with a meteorological discovery which he has made, and discloses in the following words : —" The mildness of the climate has such a soothing effect that even Scotchmen become suave, modest, and polite, cease to be argumentative, and will allow you to make an assertion with which they do not agree without contradicting you point blank. They stick to the " siller" though." Does the leopard change his spots 1