DUNEDIN, Sunday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1775, 20 November 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN, Sunday.

The piiwle»os foi fclio Agiienltuial Show, which takes place on Wednesday and Tlmr.^d.iy, chow a total of £7tfS, again.st tr~>3 foi 1882. 'Die (liiocbnis of the M wgiol Wnllen Kactoiy h.ne given •£.'?") to tins local Mechanics' Institute on condition that the whole of the factoiy hands should tcscoivu fiee admission to the Institute dm ing the cm»ent year. Mi Dryden, nunagei of tin 1 factory, nifoimud the committee that the company had boon in the habit of doing something foi their employes every yeai, giving them either a picnic 01 a soiree, and this year tln-y woie tivnig a new evpuiiiucnt. They recogni-ed the fact th.it the butter informed the workmen weio the betttu their work w.i-. likely to bo. The company hoped the woikinon would appieeiate tlie .step taken, ljut it wa>i only e\peiiniental. Whether it would be continued 01 not depended on the .unouiitof appiociation shown uy the employes of tin* company. Mo^b Speeding, Street, and Outline, all in the city council, wore nominated for the liiayoialty to-day. The strong south-wo^ter lvii set in, accompanied by iai:i. The Taieii plain is lepoited to h.ivo been flooded to-day, but no paitjcular-i aieto hand. Monday. Traffic was ro-auned thi-> morning. (Jordon Bios', nuriciy, in the \ alley, has been coinpletol\ wrecked by the flood>: The e-itimated loss is £400. (Jhas. Adie, groom to Calcutt and (4ood wood, \i,b diowued in trying to cios.s the ci eek to got to the Cioodwood 1 ailway station. Xi»\\n fiom P.ilmoi.ston states tlhit Foster, another of the ))assongois in the buggy from which Hobbs lost his life, died this afternoon. Jk- leaves a w ife and two chikhen at r.ilmorston. The con luctof the two young men named Slo.ine, who went to the ic.scuu of the party on Saturday night, is upoken of in the highest term^. One of them di\cd after I(1o-.ter, and brought him out by the hail of the head. They had a small boat, and it capsized, and both had to swim a^hoie. At the inquest on Hobbs the oioner specially thanked the Sloanes on behalf of the jiuy.