DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2165, 11 December 1875, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Friday. Two more cases of scarlet feyer are reported to-day in a locality where it will be difficult to isolate the bouses, six of them being divided by three wooden partitions. This has at last roused up the Board of Health to action, and at a meeting to-day the following resolution was passed ?~ <f That the health officers at the Bluff and Port Chalmers be directed to make an inspection of vessels arriving from Melbourne, in terms of section 64 of the Public Health Act, and that the authorities of Westland be requested to Co-operate by giving similar instructions to the health officers at Hoki-

tika." Had this been done before, as suggested by the Times, no fresh cases would have broken out. A fever hospital is also to be built.

Sir John Richardson has given a lengthy reply to the requisition asking him to stands for Dunedin city. JJ c reviews very fully his connection with political life since 1861. He states that unexpected constitutional changes of a fundamental character are always to be deprecated, as they deprive the people of a right which is at once their duty and privilege to exercise. He concluded by stating that if there is one consolation amid the uncertainty and complications of the preseiSt crisis, he can find it in the fact that the people themselves will have to decide the question, and through the instrumentality of the ballot-box, free and uninfluenced. After thanking them for the compliment paid, he declined the proffered honor,