DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13008, 9 January 1908, Page 4

DUNEDIN NOTES.

-———♦ ;.. .(special to "tboc' pbess.' l ) "' DUNEDIN, Jaenary 8.- ---• The Kaifcorai Band have-decided to enter for the BaUaraf (Victoria) ooetpetitionsto be hold abou* October nest. ThWwiU be the first time* a, send has left Dtmedin for these oompotitioos. The trip will cost about £500. Sir Joseph Ward is expected, to return south at the and of the'month and accompany tho Minister for Lends on, a tour of Central Otago in February. " ' '' MrD.P. North, brother of. Mr F. North, the American tourist who lost his life in the vicinity of tey Greenstone river in April or May last, has arrived in the Wakatipu district from America, and is making a thorough, invostigation into the circumstances surrounding tho disappearance of bis brother. He has visited the Greenstone, and ho wilt probably make a searchof one or two parts or tlio rivor.' Tho missing man. left roost of his papers and personal property in his portmanteaux in Melbourne. A business mac seen to-day agreed that there was not much prospect of flour, or bread being any cheaper for the next nine months at any rate. .The la-test cablegrams pointed to a firming market. Oatmeal, it is said, will.be much cheaper this year than last. Valid reasons for tho prediction as to the high price of bread and flour can be found in the last estimato to hand of the world's wheat crop by "Boerbohxn," the Bible of tie wheat world. It show* that tho areas sown in wheat were all smaller than lest year, snd the crops show an alarming decrease. Tho yield of wheat, in fact, ia little nose than half tibe avoraga of tha pro* sating ty.xm* ...