DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13101, 28 April 1908, Page 4

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(srECUI TO "THK KIESS.")

DUNEDIN, April 27.

The Hon. J. A. Millar, iMLrndster of Customs and Marino, intends visiting Otago on departmental business in the early part, of next will probably wake a lengthened stay hero. Is ds the hon. gentleman's intention to address his .constituents while in Dunedin. ■ •■''■ ~ .Mr Gcscoigne; head of the State ' Coal Deraartmemt, who -raited Dunedin last week, fined up aH arron«etmient6 for the lease of a piece of Harbour Board ground in "the vaoindty of Rattray efereet for -hhe e&taihlktaentof a, branch of the State Coal Department here. Ho Haß returned to Wellington to male©, final arrangement* for the opening of tjie depot. v •'.'••" .:3lr Richard Rickaird, thjp respresCTtotiv© of Messrs West wood and Wnishifc, of England,- the contractors tor tho snippl<v and erection of tho nriHuHV cubic feet gasholder at the gasworks, arrived here on Saturday. A staff of mem. are bering Twongihib out from • Hoime to construct the holder, and they will a,rrire> 'torre at an early date. I* v 'anticipated that the whole" >of tie work wi2l he completed hy- thds time next tear. It js not considered likely that butter during tfc'a winter months will ftuH below its mresent price of 1b 3d .per lb 'Mr W. J. Bojt. manoger Taieri and Peninsula -Malic Supply Company, when questioned, said that u-i'J-css forced the company would not reduce their prices. The supply of niiik was fast falling off, .and it was more -than Likely that in Juno next tho price of milk would ibe raiised. Other enquiries go to confirm Mr Bolt's statement as to tho slackening supplies, and tihe various expressions of Opinion elbow that the price of milk is sure to bet increased in June next.

Because tihe local market was baine of kerosene and .bonzine it wa® thought that tlhere was a ahorUige in the output. Such, however, is not the case. There ie plenty of-bortlh commodities. The temporary bareness d tho market was on account of two unfortunate delnys which wore occasioned by the lack of space for 30,000 cases "in t!ho boats leavting X«w Yco-k, and .by a delay brought about by the strike in Sydney. There' are now two large ahiipmente of both oils on thedr way to >"«w Zealand. The pau'c© of neither of the oils is to be raised.