THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1866.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23321, 13 October 1937, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. “Inveniam viam aut faciam.” [Established November 1861.] DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1866.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO

A suggestion made by a correspondent in another column is well worthy consideration. Let, he says, all the members resign. By such a course personal controversy will be saved, a convenient method of testing public opinion be provided, and whichever side is right, something more approaching to, if not a complete unanimity of .he Otago members be obtained. We really think those who do not fear to do so should resign. The suggestion seems an excellent one.

It has been explained that Mr A. J. Burns, one of the members of the House of Representatives, was not purposely included amongst those whose parliamentary conduct received such unmistakable condemnation from the people of Dunedin on Thursday, but was mistaken for another member, and received the correction intended for him.

Should the weather prove fine, the members of the Dunedin Cricket Club intend commencing practice to-day . . Amongst the matches to take place this season may be mentioned those with the Elevens of Waikouaiti and Oamaru, as well as the annual Inter-Provincial match with Canterbury, which we understand will probably take place about January or February next. A challenge has been sent from Southland to the D.C.C., the cricketers of that Province being anxious to meet an Eleven from this Province, at Invercargill, some time during the ensuing season. We hear that the public meeting convened for Monday evening, in order to allow Messrs Paterson and Reynolds to address their constituents, will be held in the Princess Theatre, and not in the Provincial Horse Repository. It is certainly desirable that such a change should be made ; for a meeting in the Repository must cause discomfort to everyone present, and from discomfort there would probably result great interruption to the speakers. It appears from a paragraph in the “West Coast Times,” that a gang of plundering ruffians, some 20 in number, made a descent upon Stafford Town on Friday morning, and committed several barefaced depredations. From one store a cash-box containing L 25 was abstracted, and L3O was filched out of the till of another, and numerous petty thefts were committed besides. These losses becoming known, business people were chary of admitting strangers into their establishments and ejected without ceremony several suspicious looking characters, whose intentions it was very evident were of a predatory character. The “ Tuapeka Recorder ” of Tuesday published the Amended Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, and introduced it as follows: —“ We have received another instalment from Wellington towards the dismemberment of the Colony of New Zealand, as the following will show, and the sooner this separation is brought about the better for all concerned. The retrogressive Ministry, backed by the clod poles of Wellington, carry things with a hight hand, regardless of either common sense or reason, and detrimental to the best interests of the Middle Island.”