DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13376, 18 March 1909, Page 3

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(ppecial to "tiie rKESS.") DUNEDIN, March 17

Tho "Star," in commending tho Government's appointment to the High Commissioner's office, remarks:—"Wo hope Mr Donne's activities will not bo confined to London. There has beer, so much centralisation in tho past that tlie. possibilities of commercial relationship with the provincial districts liavo not been sufficiently Tecognised. In regard to immigration, too, seeing that farmers and farm labourers aro specially required in tho Dominion, the now agent should try to cot aaid keep in direct touch with tho agricultural provinces. Wo havo littlo doubt that Mr Donne's appointment will produce excellent results." Tho Attorney-General (the Hon. Dr. Findlay) comes to Dunedin to-morrow evening for tho purpose of delivering a lecture on Friday night on "Prison Reform." Ho leaves for the north by tho first express on Saturday. Th© City mayoral election will be fought out between the nresent Mayor (Mr J. McDonald, and Cr. Walker, whom he defeated last year. A representative ' Dunedin butcher was shown tho telegram from Christchurch, and asked how the quotations there compared with Dunedin prices. "For some time," ho said, "prices have been lower 'hero than in Christchurch, and from to-morrow reductions will come into force which will make the difference greater. Tho prices will then bo:—Mutton chops 6d, forequartor 2.d, legs 4_d, shoulders 3jd and 4d, loins 4_d. Beef, rump steak 7d (it has been 8d), beof steak 6d, sirloin 6d_ ribs 6d, gravy beef 4d." With the last part of tho telegram, statins that "the trade havo been enjoying a very fair measure of prosperity, and that at a timo when they had to nay very much more for their meat than what they pay now," tho tradesman spoken to entirely disagreed. "Last season and the season before 1 do not think thero was a butcher in the whole trade who did well," ho said. He admitted, however, that thoy wero doing well just now, but the good times had not continued long enough to recompense them for what they had lost.