DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2128, 29 October 1875, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

This day. At a meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory- Company^theprpnfc' and loss account showed a balance of £3922, which added to £1326, the reserve fund last year," gives a total sum for disposal in the shape of profits of £5248. A dindend of waS'd(?clared.

" Thursday. A meeting was he'd last night at the Temperance Hall to consider the desirability of starting a working man's paper, and after much talking a committee was formed to further the object. When the toast of " The Press " was proposed at the banquet last night it was received with hisses and groans. Only a few persons ;rose. It was hurried over before any one could rjs6;to respond. At last, after another toast had been given, a person named Fleming replied, and declared that he was a Provincialist, and of course got applauded The committee throughout has treated the Press very discourteously. ;Afe-first it refused them tickets, and then on the Press declaring they would take no further notice of the proceedings tickets were sent. It was at one time decided to refuse all the papers tickets except the Tablet (Catholic organ) and that journal was to get £5 to report the speeches if the * Hibernian. Society joined in the procession, but this they refused to do.