DUNEDIN NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 128, 31 May 1904, Page 6

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(BT TELKORArn — OWN <:(>KUIiSI'ONI)BNT,J DUNKDIN, This Day. Tho Onmaru Harbour Board yesterday i"Cholvod to request tho Engineer to conhult Mr. Mcatton, of Thnuru (provirhsd his terms aro .satisfactory), on plants for a deep-water wharf, with a view to submitting a joint report to tho Board. Tho Minister of Lands will represent tho (.{ovenuncut :it the opening of tho Dunedin winter show on Wednesday. Intcivst centres in tlvo horseshoe bhirJd. competition for tho best-dressed couit. This competition lihs now been running for five years, during which time, the Taieri court lvi« won it twice, tho Waihemo coart twice, ami the Waimate court once. The trophy eventually becomes the property of the Socieiy liaving Avon it most timos in vino years. Tho groator part of Mr. Millar's address to his constituents last night dealt with the liquor question. . Ho dechtrad himself an opponent of tho Prohibition cose, and throw down the giiuntlet to Mr. Adnins, President of tho New Zealand Alliance, to oppose him at tho general olection. Ho said ho would nob vote for any measure to validate tho poU ut Biuco or Newlown, because he was nof, in favour of rctrospectivo action. Special privileges must not be granted, to Newtown or Bruco, uuless CJialmers was also placed in tlio sumo position. At tho meeting last night of the Otago .Rugby Union Committee, one player who had been reported for using bad language mis suspended for a fortnight. Resumption of work on tuo Anderaon's Ikry tramline Avill alworfj much sm-plus labour. A considcrabk> nHmher of men havo been idle sineo tho suspension of tramway construction.