DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11506, 12 February 1903, Page 3

DUNEDIN NOTES.

FALLEN tSOLDIERS* MEMORIAL.

(srt'crAL fo "the press.".) • DUNEDIN, February 11. At a meeting of the -Otago Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Committee, the following resolution was passed on the motion of Mr Fenwick:—"The Committee regret that the Dunedin Presbytery; evidently owing to want of knowledge of the. metnodx adopted by tiie Committee in the carrying on of the work of obtaining funds lor the erection of «i monument .to toe men of Otago who lost their lives in Africa, have passed a motion at the recent meeting reflecting on the committee, and that the secretary send to the clerk of the Presbytery a plain stfttenvjnt of the work the committee has performed." At the last meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery a resolution was passed declining to take up a special collection on b^halt of the fund, on the ground that the members nolicited over and over again.

Dr. Clark, ox-member for Caithness, and the famous pro-Boer and iriend of Kruger and Leyus, arrived at Dunedin last night.

The Governor, accompanied by Viscount Northland and Major Alexander, left for Timaru this morning, en route to the Hcj mitage.

Mr J. S. Montgomery, formerly of Blan Holt's Company, died in the hospital at Sydney on Friday last from typhoid fever. He was for some time a school teacher in Otago. A pang of pickpockets is believed to be working the trains and railway stations. Robberies arc being reported to the stationmaster here almost daily. The champion double ecuUers, McGrath and Prieet. have left for the Wanganui Championship Meeting.