DUNEDIN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 4

DUNEDIN.

■■ ■ ' December 5. _ 1 eoplo here are wanting to know why the rise in tho price of kauri in Auckland from 18s. to 19s. 6d. is-followed by an advance m Duncdm from 28s. to 325. It is an increase of Is. 6d. in one place and 4s. in tho other. If we go on at this rate it will soon bo as cheap to build our cottages of marblo and make bur dog kennels of cedar. Infectious Diseases Hospital. The ostimated cost of the Infectious Disoases Hospital was £5000. The Hospital Board has decided that a building costing this amount would be too olaborato, and Mr. Wales was instructed to considerably modify the plans. It was stated that a building costing £2000 would meet the city's requirements. ■ Obituary. . Mr. Henry Lawson-Johnston, woll known m sporting and pigeon-shooting circles, died this morning at St. Clair. Ten.days ago he stooped under tho table in his own diningroom to pick up something, having a corkscrew in his hand, and when he rose his wife and Mr. D. M'Donald (who resided with deceased) noticed that ho was bleeding profusely from a small wound on tho head. Mr. M'Donald made a pad, which stopped the flow, but during the noxt fow days, every time the pad was taken off, tho blood ran again. Dr. Delautour was called' in, and bandaged the wound. Early this morning Mr. M'Donald heard a noise in deceased's room, which caused him to hasten there. Deceased was so obviously unwell that a doctor was sent for, but by the time he arrived Mr. Johnston was dead. Deceased will bo remembered as a farmer at Berwick, and as tho owner of several race-horses, including Pitch -and Toss, Brin, and Vaiiekercs. Mrs. Johnston owned Red Morn until recently. Mr. W. J. Hall, cnginoor, died this morning after a severe attack of influenza. He was much respected. Mr. Hall was consulting engineer to the Roslyn and Mornington Councils in connection with their water supply schemes. Tho Roslyn Reservoir is completod. Strange to relate, the Roslyn Borough has recently lost two engineers. Sir. G: M. Barr, the Borough's previous adviser, died not "long ago. The Dentistry Case. Tho application' for a re-hearing of the dentistry caso cannot como on before February.