DUNEDIN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 5

DUNEDIN.

Duncdin, November 26.

It is .estimated that the cost of the electric reticulation of the city will be about £80,000.

' A woman, seeking help, told tho Benevolent Trustees this morning, that one of her young girls was learning dressmaking in a private dressmaking establishment, and was receiving 4s. a week. Tho dressmaker's address was taken.

Mr. A. Slingcr, tho Drainage Board Engineer, who lias had experience of volunteering in England, is working up tho scheme for , forming-.a 'second mounted corps in Duncdin. ■ ,

: JiThroe clover sketches in water-colours, painted by Lionel Terry for the Karitane Jjloriic, aro nawv on view in town. All are enclosed in.oWef frame, and aro intended to interest children: '.-One scono shows a- little ,girl,watching n sitting hen and counting the jchickens before/they, are hatched. Another tlepicts two childrelvvplaying draughts. Tho thirds displays a little girl receiving a lesson ■in sewing. .: . Tho Rev. A. Don,..when opening tho first church bazaar -this'-afternoon, made, reference to the habit which existed in. past days of raffling goods at. church bazaars. "In one case," he said,' ".a'barrel of beer presented by a brower was raffled. It was won by the brewer's .daughter."