DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11484, 17 January 1903, Page 3

DUNEDIN NOTES.

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DUNKUIN. January 16Mr Sidty, who ttlf-*!aphed to the FKmi- :■ him to discontinue the fever huspital at GiverslKun fotihwith. has received a reply that the matter will be brought before Cabinet, Mr Xeddon adding that he doet not approve a fever hospital or hospitals for contagious or infectious diseases being placed in centres of popula tion. Scarlet, fever cases are being freely reported to the Health Department, and another batch was sent to the hospital today. Another death is reported iv tl»e city. i'atrick and Mary O'Brien, boarding-bouse-keepere, were charged to-day witli selling drink without a license. The lacts showed that two men visited the house on Sunday morning, and were supplied wita beer, which they paid for. The -Magistrate dismissed the case against the mule accused, and this the woman's second offence, she was fined- £20 and costs. Five sudden deaths, most of them b*ing in the country, were reported to the police to-day. Mr J. A. Millar's electioneering expenses cams to £98, and Mr J. F. Arnold's io £95. The hearing of the petition against the Punedin licensing poll, fixed for next Tuesday, will be adjoinned by consent for a week or a, fortnight. Miss Connie McLeakey, who obtained the New Zealand Royal Academy gold nw-dal for 1901 for sinking and instrumental music, sing.s at Christchureb. at Easter, and leaves for England at the cud of Uie year. The "Star." dealing with the Premiers speech at Grey town, says:—"The Premier does not appear to have pointedly referred to economy in expenditure, although retrenchment, wherever practical, consistently with efficiency in the Public Service, is" manifestly imperative, considering the heavy charges which the revenue will have to* bear. So far the action ot Cabinet in regard to the Dofenee Department indicates a recognition of duty, and 't may not unreasonably be taken as an augury of movements in the same direction. The State of Victoria is an object lesson which should , not be without its moral. The somewhat recklees piling up of expenditure, with feeble efforts at a judicious but needed economy, has there resulted in financial conditions which have necessitated heavy increases of taxation. Much might have* been clone to meet the difficulty had retrenchment been sternly taken in hand earlier, and all superfluous expenditure rigorously curtailed when the Federal Govtrnmeni took over certain large services."