DUNEDIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3438, 18 April 1879, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

[SPEOIAI.,] Apeil 17. So disgracefully did some of the Volunteers returning from Invercargill behave themselves when in Dunedin on Tuesday night, that the interference of the police on more than one occasion had to be invoked. An information

haa been laid against a man named Eastwood, belonging to tho Timaru corps, for his disorderly conduct, and he will have to answer to the charge at the City Police Court so soon as tho warrant can be executed.

Hiscocks and Haymun'B dramatic company aro doing splendid business with " Ten Nights in a Bar-room." Numbers have been turned

away from the doors. / To-night's Star Bays : " Apractical refutation lof tho opinion so freely expressed regarding ithe unsuitability of Port Chalmers harbour Bfor vessels of great draught of water is the "fact that the Benares, which on good autho- * rity we aro informed drew 22 feet on arrival, ■was brought over the bar in safety. Our i i Northern contemporaries havo beon very j eager to publish the Btory of the Stad .V Haarlem being taken to Lyttelton rather than f. risk crossing tho bur during a dangerous V. ground swell. We doubt much if they will i havo tho honesty to mention that the Benares is now comfortably moored within tho port." The Public Works Department is calling for tenders for the reclamation of at least

forty acres of the upper harbour. Tho following telegram from tho Minister for Public Works, addressed to Messrs Oliver, Bastings, and Driver, M.H.B.'s, has been received : — " You must be under some misapprehension re Addington Workshops. You cannot mean that there aro to bo no workshops in Canterbury, or that the romoval of the existing workshops from Christchurch to Addington is detrimental to Dunedin, or implies that tho principal railway workshop in; the Middle Island is to bo at Addington. The whole of the railway station ground at Ohristohurch is roquired for other purposes, henco the removal of the shops to Addington, as provided by the Appropriation Act. I legret that thiß should offend tho morcantilo people at Dunedin. — J. Maoandbew."

An inquest was held at tho Lunatic Asylum to-day on the body of J. C. Patterson, 55 years of age. Deceased, who is a well-known •journalist, was formerly sub-editor of the Melbourne Argus, and arrived at the Bluff about two months ago. He was then insane and made two attempts at suicide. Tho cause of death was general paralysis. Tho Secretary for Education at Wellington (Mr J. Hislop) is about to bo presented by the members of tho Educational Institute of Otago and Southland with a testimonial, in recognition of his services in the causo of Education and in token of estoem.

An accident happened nfc about half-past two this afternoon to a man named William Martin. It appears that ho was employed at the railway station, and was engugcd on tho turntable turning a truck into the smithy's yard, and being unable to get away in time, or having no room, ho was squeezod between the truck he wus helping to turn and those on the main line, causing a fracture of tho skull. He was taken to tho hospital, whore liis injuries were immediately attended to.