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[BY TELEGIUrH— -OWN COHKESI'ONDEKT.J DUNEDIN, This Day. Partly on account of tho plague ia Australia, the local Hc-alth Department is making a koufit-io-housc in»p?ction of Dunedin and th« suburbs. The Kaikorai Band, which is the crack band here, will tbe severely handicapped at the Exhibition contest "next week bjr the absence of its first trornhon-; playet, who is (suffering from typhoid fever. Ths absence of Mr. Boyd will necessarily spoil a fine combination of th& quartet party, and the trombone trio. The Gas Works profito for some tim« have been going up about £1000 a. month. The year started in MaTch with a credit of £11,400, <md the credit at the present tine is over 1 £16,000. Th» year's operations will' probably chow tha gas department to be the best paying department tho city possesses. By the will of the late Miss Dalrympte, who took much interest in the Girls* High School. £100 has teen bequeathed to the manageifs of the cchool, to be used, and expended for the purpose of distribution of prizes among deserving pupils. Seeing (hat the southern resorvoir ia nearly empty, the pressure over the district will hi considerably lowered from vow on. There are only four million gallons left, and it will 'be shut off gradually. Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., al rived at Qneenstown fost night, having walked from Te Anau with a paTty, including a surveyor, for tho purpose of examining the po>«3Jblc tourist tracks between tli« two laics. The party .went through parts little known, and found three or four good alternative routes. They unanimously selected one embracing an extoniive system of small and large lakes. -Mi. Mackenzie considers tho forming of the tourist track would tend greatly to the development of Western Ota<*o uxi. Martin Buy. °

ilia weeidy meeting of the Pioneer Lodge of Good Tomplars was held vi tbo Rechabite Chamben, Manners-street on Monday night, Bro. A. B. Thomson P.G.r., presiding. There wa« a good attendance of members. Two candidates were initiated. Tho quarterly report* were received and adopted. They showed the lodges to be m a sound position Ihe newly-appointed officers were installed by Bro. Atkinson. Bros. KeliV and Atkinson. wero recommended for tv positions of CD. Nad L,.j),