DUNEDIN NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14976, 23 April 1909, Page 11

DUNEDIN NOTES.

[Fnoiir Ocr Correspondent.] DUNEDIN, April 22. Speaking a*, the send-off tendered to Air Duthie, president of the Otago Agricultural Association on the eve of his departure on a visit to England, Mr John Mill, a well-known stevedore, said. “It is due to the enterprise of men like Mr Duthie that we owe so much of oux success. If we go back to the early days I ask who started the Alosgiol 'Woollen Mills? You will (ind it was an -Otago man. If you go to Roslyn Woollen Mills you will find that it was an Otago man who started them. If you go to the New Zealand Shipping Company you will find that an Otago man started that company. If you go to the Westport Coal Company you will find that it was the energetic men of Otago who started that, and if you go to tho Union Steam Ship Company—the greatest of all—you will find _ that it was started by Otago men like Mr Duthie, who has made such a. 6Uocess of his business.” Little doubt now exists that William Buchanan, a lunatic with a criminal bent and record, committed • the acts of inoendiarism which alarmed Waitati and the townships to the north early yesterday morning. Buchanan has served three years in Dunedin for breaking and entering, and admits having at an earlier date set fire to three stacks at Clinton. _ Tjis record is in itself conclusive evidence .when coupled with his escape from Seacliif an Tuesday morning. Buchanan escaped from Seacliff on Tuesday morning. He does not seem to have been regarded as a man likely to seek escape, for he was working with two other men on the windmill when this opportunity came. The asylum record of him seems to have been good. It is true that he escaped from Sunnyside once before, but during a threemonths’ evasion of capture no act or violence was traced to "him. Messrs W. J. Charters and F. Pattullo will represent the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society at the Agricultural Conference in Wellingtoo* j The electric power and lighting department of the city Corporation is by no means proving what pessimists did. not hesitate to predict of it, a brake on an up-grade. The excess of income over expenditure for last quarter was j£B47.