DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12545, 14 July 1906, Page 7

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(SPECIAL TO "tHS PRESS.") DtJNEMN, July 13. Although the exact amount collected for Mr 'Farquharson, the Rhodes scholar, has not been disclosed, it was 6tated at a meeting last evening that the replies to the circular requesting for a total of about £175 had been very generous—in fact, so much was collected that it was agreed that all who had sent cheques should have tho balance above three guine.-is returned to them. The reason for this was that a similar appeal to the public might occur annually, and in each year the sum realised should not bo more than enough to send tho echolar Home deoently. Thomas Buddicomb, a jockey of high standing, and well known in the South Island a few years ago, was this morning 6ent to gaol for a month for indecency. It was stated that he had given away completely to drink; that prohibition orders had proved ineffectual, and that his friends had tried to influence him in the right path without avail. A syndicate is boing formed to work a valuable antimony field at Alexandra South. The claim consiets'of 100 fierce. It is estimated that the mine will yield an output of 100 tons a mouth, and the gross value of this, if it contain* 40 per cent, 'of antimony, would be £-1000. The cargo of tho steamer Rose Casey, ashore on tho New River bar, is iner.red in tho National Office for £180, the Standard for £50, and tho China Traders Insurance for £10. The Indemnity Mutual Marine** Co. also has a line of £400 or £500 on a certain transhipment on board the vessel. The insurance policy on the hull and engines expired in October, aud was not renewed. ; Mr Breon, who is well-known in Labour circles, readying to certain criticisms, cays:—"That Sir Joseph Ward has <wmo good work for New Zealand 1 do not dispute, but I stJl say that I knew ol nothing of tmpoTt?»no3 ■that he has don«> for the to.k?rß of New Zealand. My experience in ths Labour movement hot* proved that the worker is iittle, if •any, better tiff, end that after fifteen years of the Liberal Labour Alliance, poverty and Euffer/ng still exist In "God's Own Country," send wiiJst women and chi!- ---! dron are oompeZil-cd to go food less. aJtd : insuftjcier.'tJy ojjucj, we have no rcoaon to be ,proud. 'line Labcmr Party are the OGwy party £ho/t aim at removing these blots a-nd , ai'tor due refloeti«n, have concluded tihat the most prao.ioaJ method of bringing about industrial a.nd. social reform is to become in politics a force equal m ■we.gjbt tto their prepomderanee among the eksotore."