DUNEDIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3357, 11 January 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

[SPKCIAL TO Till; STAK.'j Jan. 11. I The single females by the immigrant ship Oamaru, from Glasgow, wero disembarked this morning and convoyed to the Cavershum Barracks, whore they will bo hired out early next week. They aro a promising lot, and appear to have boon carefully selected by I )u> liome agents. Since tho Otago University was moved from tho City to the Water of Loith, it, has been found almost impracticable to get a meeting of the Council. Yesterday, as usual, there was no quorum, and it is now intended to hold the next meeting in the Education Board's Oflico. Mr Stout's speech last evening is considered ono of the best he has ever delivered in this City. Ho spoke for upwards of two hours, and was frequently applauded. The theatre was crowded with working men, and tho leading citizens, An able-bodied woman named Turner applied at the Police Court to-day for the admission of two children to tile Industrial School, when the master of the school, Fitchener, came into tho Courtand prof rstcd against the schools and the Police Court being made a convenience of by parents who wished i to be relieved of their children. Ho said at present tho school was so overcrowded that he had just written on the subject to the Minister of Justice. There were in the schools 100 under eight years of age, besides 17 infants, and at the present rate there would be between 400 and 500 in two years. Owing to want of accommodation and inadequate provision for infants, they wero dying rapidly. The last infant admitted had to be farmed out. The Resident Magistrate suggested that tho provisions of the Act should be enforced, and that run-away fathers should be apprehended and punished. The children in question were sent to the School for five md seven years respectively. James Paterson, a wealthy settler from Southland, was charged with stealing a pair >f gold earrings from a woman of bad repute, ivitn whom Tie had spent his Christmas Eolidaye Dunodin. Paterson, who was

alleged to hare removed the -jewelry unconsciously while suffering from his debauch, was defended by a leading barrister and discharged.