DUNEDIN NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 121, 20 November 1908, Page 7

DUNEDIN NOTES.

fB? Tbiegbaph. — Special to The Post.] DUNEDIN, This Day. The steamer Papanui, due here on Monday from London, has on board a dozen red deer (two stags and ten hinds) for tho Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, also some Leicester rams and ewes for New Zealand breeders. His Majesty's ships, Powerful, Pegasus, and Challenger, wil 1 be in Dunedin from 11th to 14th December. An old lady who has resided at Port Chalmers since the early sixties, exercised her electoral rights for the first time on Tuesday. /PBESS ASSOCIATION.* FOUND DROWNED. AUCKLAND, 19th November. The body of a middle-aged man named Marshall Edward Albaugh, well known as a trainer of trotting horses, was found in the Halswell river yesterday afternoon. An inquest was held to-day, when a verdict of found drowned was returned. PREPARATIONS ON THE NIMROD. CHRISTCHURCH, 19th November. The work of getting the British Antarctic exploration ship Nhnvod ready for sea is proceeding apace, and tho crew have, been engaged during the past two days in bending the vessel's sails and putting the finishing touches to the rigging. Yesterday the vessel was engaged in taking 210 tons of vVeslport coal from the hulk Darra. Tho Nimrod's bunkers were filled and the balance of the coal ia being put into the holds. The vessel will also take on board 50 tons of Blackball coal, thus making a total of 260 tons. Practically tha whole of the stores and foodstuffs are now stored in the shed on the wharf, but a few small packages containing gifts from the friends of members of the oxpedition have still to arrive, but will be in port by the end of this week. The stores will be loaded into tho holds, and once they are on board there will be little left to do before the Nimrod sets out on Ist December from Lyttelton on her second voyage to the Antarctic. NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY. DUNEDIN, 19th November. 'The annual meeting of shareholders in tho National Insurance Co. was held today. The' annual report stated that the net revenue for the year amounted to £12a,577 3s 2d. After paying an interim dividend of £7500, there is a surplus of £23,090 Is Bd, to which has to be added the balance from last year, £29,399 11s lOd, total £52,429 13s fid. The directors added to the reserve fund £15,000, leaving £37,429 13s 6d, and recommended the payment of a further dividend of 9d per Bhare. (making a total distribution for the year of Is 6d per share), which will absorb £7500, and to carry forward £29,929 13s 6d. The chairman (Mr. Kempthorne) said the results showed an improvement on the previous year, the revenue being somewhat better and the losses a few thousand pounds less. The report was adopted Commenting on the fact that the company paid £3841 8s lid to the Government in taxes, Mr. John Mill said he presumed this was mostly for income tax. He did not think they should be called upon to pay such a large amount to tho Government, which might in a way be considered a rival concern. He hoped this amount would not be employed to elbow the company out of business.