DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11479, 12 January 1903, Page 5

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(sracw. *o "tvm ; v DUNEDIN, J_uw«y,;|Ot| : - : ;i The "Times" cbaxttteriftaa tha vice between New Zealand and Jw£| tinctly unsatisfactory and pointing, akd adds:—"lt is ImpoSaflA. _*> ; exporters in the colony to do \nSMkt African firms when they cfmnoi week ,or even to » month, whsa that are wanted out be landed or Capetown, or Port Elisabeth, as the *•*•! may be. Already memhanta hava .Jwij-M reject important orders far this Vsrj The fact » that shippers find lUiaW»lli*„ 1 baulked in their effort* to make sorvioe. An appHoatkm ,wl(Wi ilmitmoJ a few days ago frocea mutton from- fm Qb»)m&-W*»£ duced the extraordinary rapty tb<* tk# i#ij 1 aex could not visit that teefe'atojm* ahipment of at least »,0M iuW, wWe-.", , represent., probably oae-fottlih of tfc» ael's carrying capuaht, wi»^«wra»»seit-Jit will at once stria the pub__:tb_t'ft t peculiar service which tha odle-T to subsidise, when an applicant* !&.«*s. i tation for freight from Pert C_»l*«» i»; coolly met with audi ab _ Tho Hon. W. Hall-Jones kit this morning. H* proceed* to tigftojjNm and Oulverdea at the beginning of A deputation waited on him W*-)kmmtis and urged tha speedy Catli» River i*Uwa&- Th*Wm£mjm bed to have all tha surveys put once, and to.tisit the d-trtct wi*i_ : ***f n-onths. Several member* of Jl_t'£*Mte3 tion chamctertwd the red back *&&**: at Catlirw for in-uufacturing v*ip<mm';illsuperior to American *ah. Owing t* of communication manufacturaßi am 10MMk> to obtain it. _' ~ i A deputation from the Bffck«*trtrV Union waited on tba HBniaUr ot Netty Works, and asked for the appo__iaa_t.hr an expert bricklayer m in»p*-or fe »HPh i? intend Oovenaaent contracts witka,viaVoC' preventing subletting, and to see that I **'} work waa properly carried out. _%f P»3 W. Hali-Jonw replied, in. regard to *&*<. letting, that it was precluded under in tlie general eonditiowi of o«_m_«yHW|».f leas there were uhiuialaiMWi f The Government endearouied to «•» ttjklf. the contractors did their own ■paction. As far as tha railway •t-tfaav waa ooncerned, it wouW probably J* M*\ by the Rsiiiray Department, wfcfefc vrMJfef invite tenders and superintend the «r«etttfc%< He would bring the aaattar under tha ak_»? of the Minister ofß*ii*»y» on Iw M***:' to Wellington. - h i\