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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 386, 1 October 1903, Page 4

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J BY WIER,] (From our own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday, 8 p.m. )wing to the second batch of U s for the new station at Duned og considered excessive the Min has decided to have the work a i out by day labour by the Eailw partment. It is expected the oi al plan will now be carried o [ an imposing structure erect* irk will commence at an early dal Phe report of the Committee in t wtown licensing' cases is to t .„(. *T—4- *.iu„ —-„ _jl •..:•:.' • *

Owing to the second batch of tenders for the new station at Dunedin being considered excessive the Minister has decided to have the work carried out by day labour by the Eailway Department. It is expected the original plan will now be carried out and an imposing structure erected. Work will commence at an early date. The report of the Committee in the Newtown licensing' cases is to the effect that the present position is due to defects in the regulations of the Local Elections Act. They recommend Government to bring down legislation to remedy this, and to provide the machinery for a second poll where the first is declared void The report that this be. referred to Government for consideration caused a warm debate in the but the matter was talked out, no decision being arrived at. The (Southland footballers beat Canterbury by 16 to 6. In the Supreme Court to day, John Melwood, who pleaded guilty to theft from a dwelling house at Dunedin, wa? sentenced to 12 months hard labour; and Otto Heerdigan, for theft at Invercargill, was sentenced to 6 months. The gold exported from Dunedin for September totals 18,883 ounces, valued at £78,977.

Arthur Clark, a half-caste Maori, aged 10, was caught on Monday last in the act of setting fire to a building at Otaki, used temporarily as a Native College. He had been sent to school against his will, and this was his revenge. The Japanese Progressive Parly have issued a manifesto insisting on the necessity of restraining Russia from encroaching on China, and menacing Oorea. Rusßia has forty, warships at Port Arthur, besides keeping forty under steam in Sclienway Bay, [The Burnside market was not available when the telegraph office dosed.]