DUNEDIN NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1902, Page 2

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(Special to the "Star.")

DUNEDIN, this day

MORGAN, CABLE AND CO

At a supper tendered to Messrs J. Morgan and J. Cable, on their retirement from the well-known engineering- firm of Morgan, Cable and Co., Port Chalmers, Mr Galbraith, representing the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co , said that direct shipping companies to and from New Zealand consumed 60,000 tons of coal per year, and he thought it was a great shame when these companies had vessels lying idle in New Zealand ports that the Government did not give them carriage of troops to South Africa,, instead of employing vessels of Companies that never spent a, penny in the colony.

Mr Joseph Sparrow mentioned that the Union Steam, Shipping Company now had sixty-eight steamers, and employed 2,100 hands, and he had no doubt when that Company were associated with an all red line, as he sincerely hoped they would be, the development would be infinitely greater. OTAGO CENTRAL RAILWAY. The Otago Central Railway League are promoting a public .meeting for Tuesday week, when resolutions will be passed urging on the Government the importance of pushing on the line without delay. CITIZENS' LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Mr E. Carr, Manager of the Citizens' Lite Assurance Company, has been transferred to Auckland, and is succeeded here by Mr J. Palker, formerly connected with the Company's business in Newcastle, New South Wales AFTER THE BOOM. A complete electric and lighting plant, belonging to the Tinnaburn Gold Dredging Company, now lying on the company's claim at Miller's Flat, was offered for sale by auction on Saturday, and was passed in after one solitary bid of £200.