DUNEDIN.

Western Star, Issue 279, 11 January 1879, Page 5

DUNEDIN.

(from otjr own correspondent.) January. 6th. During the holiday season the weather has been all that could bo desired, ahd everyone seemed to make the most of (the joyous occasion, some picknicking. some boating, some shooting, others riding or driving into the country ; everywhere around the city could be seen groups of

individuals eager in their desire after the goddess pleasure.

On Christmas eve and early on Christmas morning bands of singers might be heard in various parts of the city singing the Christmas Waits, which, I understand, proves a lucrative amusement for those who take the trouble of this Waiting on the public. A good many persons spent the day at the Caledonian Sports held in (he Peninsula. The Brass Band of the Tomahawk, enlivened the sports considerably by the music they rendered at intervals during the dav. Hogmaney or New Years eve was what may well be termed a rowdy night in Dunedin. The chief seats of rowdyism were at the north end of the Area le and in McLaggan S'rect, close to the Police Court. On such occasions the larrikins delight in doing all the havoc that lies in their power as near the eyes of the Police as possible. Princes street vyas not free altogether for bands of boys and even men. were busy with flour doing their best to dust the clothes of passers by. These mischievous youths did not confine their exertions to gentlemen, but ladies in many instances fared as ill as did the sterner sex in this abuse. Flour of course falls lightly, and those individuals who were the unhappy occupants walked the streets for a certain time in blissful ignorance of the fact that their clothes resembled those of the “ dusty miller.” A but?.-. bar of these offenders had the honor of facing the Bench, and paying a trifle for their offensive amusement. The day was beautifully fine, which contributed largely to the success of all out door sports, the chief of which were the Caledonian games at Kensington. A good many thousands visited these games on the first and second. Saturday the fourth being wet and showery the games wore postponed till Monday, when considerable interest was manifested in the wrestling for the champion belt which resulted in favor.of Tyson the N. Z. Champion, who now holds' the belt as his private property. Burton’s Australian Circus closed a very sue-', ccssful season on Saturday night. It leaves today for Milton, en route for Invercargill.. The Rev. J. "W. Inglis, of Ballarat, has been delivering lectures in the Temperance and Oddfellows’ Halls during tho past weak. The lectures have not been so well attended as one would suppose, judging from the ability of the lecturer. He preached in the First Church on the last Sabbath of tho year, and also gave an address in the Queen’s Theatre on ’the same erenin g.

Mr R. H. Leary, ex-Mayor, was elected, withI out opposition, councillor for High Ward, in room i of Mr Walter, May3r. On the 2nd of January the Peninsula Agricultural Show was for the first time held in Mr Sim’s paddock, about seven miles from town. The show of horned cattle, as well as that of butter and cheese, was good. Horses and sheep were interiorly represented, demonstrating; a > is generally understood, that the Peninsula is famed for excellent butter, milk, and cheese. I had almost omitted to mention that the electric light was exhibited on Mr Proudfoot’s Hotel, Ocean Beach, on New Year’s Eve, with great success. From a distance of fully two miles, in the vicinity of Russell ard Cannongate streets, the light was equal to, if not brighter than, a full moon in a cloudless sky. The Rev. Mr Eitchett has resigned his charge at the Trinity Wesleyan Church, and has gone to Melbourne, it is thought, to make his bow to the Bishop there, with a view to accepting a living in an Episcopal Church.