DUNEDIN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 273, 24 April 1873, Page 6

DUNEDIN.

(From our own Correspondent.)

The great breach of promise trial, "Wenkheim v. Arndt, has of course been the all-engrossing subject of talk during the week. As might have been expected, the courthouse was crowded during the heariug of the trial, and great interest was manifested in the proceedings. It is not often that a gentleman who has been jilted can muster sufficient courage to bring the object of his misplaced affection within the pale of the law for her heartless conduct, and certainly the rather small sum which juries usually estimate as the price of broken hearts in such cases is not calculated to make these actions become more frequent. "One farthing damages, and pay your own costs," is decidedly n)t a" cheering announcement to be compelled to listen to, and no doubt Mr. Julius "Wenkheim regrets his ungallant. proceedings against his scm 'time fiancee, and his acknowledged " bitterest enemy," her lord and mister. Poor Wenkheim ! Thou art to be comiserated, with thy blighted hopes, future cheerless prospect, and heavy pecuniary loss. Thou hast, however, the satisfaction of knowing that thou art only one of the many who have " loved not wisely, but too well ; " and must c'en console thyself with the philosophic reflection that •' there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it," and maintain with the hope that thou ruay'st again telegraph the magic words, " Thy Wenkheim," to one who will prove more worthy of thy confidence. It is said that the newly-elected member for Dunedin in the Provincial Council, Mr. H. S. [Fish, jun., will shortly be gazetted as Provincial Treasurer. T f the report is correct, Mr. Fish has not been long in procuring a share of the Provincial loaves and fishes. Notwithstanding the gloomy prognostications of increased taxation ■which we hear from day to day, Wanedill people seem to have considerable faith in the future of their fair city, judging from the high prices brought by allotments of land when they chance to be offered for sale at auction. Messrs. Driver, Stewart and Co. held a sale of freeholds at their rooms, High-street, on Saturday, consisting of nine quarter-acre sections in the city, and of sections in the new township of South Duuedin, situated immediately beyond the gasworks, and having frontages to the Anderson's Bay, Hillside, and St. Kilda roads. Of the city freeholds only two were allowed to go at the price offered, viz., about £250, although they are a long distance from the centre of the city, probably twenty minutes' walk. To my mind the price offered seemed more than their value by £50, yet the owner seems to anticipate a further increase in value. The sections in South Dunedin township brought high prices, some even reaching £100. The average of the sile was very much higher than that obtained for sections in the township of Forbury, sold some fifteen months since, and which is in close proximity to the South Dunedin township. There seems to be little question now that the whole of the flat between Dunedin and the Ocean Beach will, before any great length of time has elapsed, become a neighborhood. The houses in Forbury township are already very numerous, and their number is being constantly augmented. The new Roman Catholic organ, the " New Zealand Tablet," will make its appearance in a week's time, the contract for its printing and publishing having been given to Messrs. Mills, Dick and Co. I understand that a large number of subscribers have been procured, and that there is every probability of it proving a success.