DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11501, 6 February 1903, Page 8

DUNEDIN NOTES.

HARVESTING OPERATIONS.

THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

(SPECIAL TO "THE PBBS8.") DUNEDIN, February 5. Special harvesting of the wheat crop in the Upper Clutha Valley started a fortnight ago, and is now general, and tixeshing out of the stook starts this week- Tbe average yield promises to be a fair one, although the season has been too dry. Some of the crops at Hawea Flat and the Forks are expected to yield 50 bushels to the acre. The oat crop, on the other hand, will be considerably below the average.

The City Council has decided to make on effort to secure a vieit from the Admiral of the Australian Squadron and his staff. The Mayor is authorised to communicate with the Governor through the Premier in the event of the Australian Squadron coming to New Zealand, inviting the Admiral to Dunedin. Arrangements for the reception and entertainment of the distinguished visitors, should they accept the invitation, are entrusted to the Finance Committee.

The City Council tramways loan debentures, bearing 4 per cent., are now on offer over tho counter at par. Mr HaTman Reeves, of the Stock Exchange, was to-day presented with a piece of plate, in honouor of his marriage to Miss M- Allen, of Ckristchiirch, and prior to leaving for South Africa. riie house of Mr H. L. Tapley. shipping was entered by a burglar last evening. Mr Tapley seized and kept him for an hour and a quarter, but was unable to get any answer from either police station by telephone.

Councillor Tapper, who represent* the Council on the Benevolent Institution, last r.ight wanted an enquiry into the number of apparently able-bodied men applying for ulief. He said the fame of the comforts provided had spread abroad, and brought people from other centres, and there was clanger of their manufacturing professional loafers. He suggested that they make lome of them work as stone-breakers. TheCouncil declined to act.

The Waipori Electric Power Company is reported to have undertaken to supply a Sydney firm with two thousand horsepower for the production of carbide. This would mean the establishment of works and the employment of a number of men here.