DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2038, 16 July 1875, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

This day. , Mr Macandrewi M.H.%, addressed his constituents vJt Port Chalmers last night, and declared himself a thorough Separatipni,st. He promised that the Lower Harbor should be dredged and made generally satisfactory v A unanimous vote %of confidence was passed. The two morning papers engaged a special train to take down .their ,, reporters- and,bring them back.

Thursday. The argument re attachment of Keid, Bastings, and Clark", members of the Waste Lands Board, for contempt of injunctions of the Supreme Court,- was 'adjourned till Saturday. - 'A match' between' Scott and JSdwariis {has fallen through.. ; , -,:T'Mfs".Ba<oilipoJc>lier benefi^last night, ;the', jiiece' selected tfoengrli Befchosjgope." All three paperi condemn the pi«£e as immoral; {The Star says -it is ar disgrace to the'sjtage, and an insult to the audience. In the*tninl scene of the second act a low assignation " house is; .represented. The Guardian describes ifc as,,bad. p», the renowned Bristol house here, tne proprietor of which was recently imprisoned for harbouring prostitutes. The Times characterises the scene as a poor imitation , of fast life among the Traviata'of New York. The house was crowded, and tonight it is expected to be equally as full owing to the notices in the papers. ' The members of the Typographical Association appear to hare fallen out among themselves. Mr Allen Wright writes to the Northern papers and stateg that the members of the Association do not endorse the leset , £>f, Mr f lie: G rove, ' r the 'secretary.* Another letter signed**' Comin'the Star, states that the "statements'made by Mr Le Grove are, in the main, true, but that when the trade was prosperous in Auckland, compositors thought they could do what they liked. The writer instances the fact that on one v occasion in the Herald office, out of a companionship of fifteen men, only five turned up to their work to get out a night paper, and that this champion of the Auckland compositors was conspicuous* By sence' "on the "above-men-tioned occasion. - T ;