DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 6

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(special to "the press.")

DUNEDIN, January 17.

There are now seven scarlet fever cases, all girla, at the fever hospital. A typhoid caae has also been reported.

The Waiporj Electric Falle Company, Whose works we in cujaso of construction," hare evolved an ambitious project, namely, the supply of electric light and motive power to Dunedin and the surrounding districts. The power •will be generated at a very high voltage, probably 20,000 volts, and then transmitted by copper wire on poles a dietanoe of twenty-six miles to a cub-station near Dunedin. If necessary, 7000 horse power can be reached. xne works will be completed within twelve months. The inquiry into the Mataura local option poll, will be commenced on Monday, and the %Vaikouaiti, Dunedin, Chalmers, and Caversham inquiries will all be adjourned. The settlers on the Barnego Estate, recently acquired by the Government, and cut up for settlement, are much exercised at present owing to the fact that the-Clutha river is making inroads into the top of Barnego Flat. There are a number of dairy farme in the locality, and eeveral of them .have suffered to an extent that is almost alarming, and, to make matters worse, the erosion threatens to continue and to spread into other farms than those already affected. A section of the Queenstown residents are up in arms against the action of the Government in advertising excursions to the head of Lake Wakatipu for the benefit of Sunday excursionists. The Bey. Wilson has obtained the signatures of over 150 of the Queenstown residents, besides a large number of visitors, to a petition protesting against the Sabbath desecration involved in tie running of the steamers. The petitioners affirm that these Sunday excursions have been forced upon them by the Government,, for no one in the town asked for such a thing. They say that the Government pretends that it is running the steamers on Sunday for the benefit of visitors, whereas all the visitors, when asked, have signed the petition against the Sunday steamers.

Bishop Neviil faae received a letter from Archdeacon Balfour, of Bloemfontein, in which a project, for the erection there ot a Cathedral tower, at a probable cost of £6000, in thanksgiving for peace and in memory of those who fell in the Orange River Colony, is brought under the notice of the dioceee of Dunedin. Sir J. G. Ward has given instruction* to extend the Wakatipu excursion ticket from Saturday Tuesday, instead of Monday, and to run steamer excursions from Queenstown to the Head of the Lake on Monday, instead of Sunday, wiiich vril meet the protest from Wakatipa against the desecration of the Sabbath.