DUNEDIN

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 43

DUNEDIN

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, January 15. The Railway Workshops employees at Hillside usually invite the city and Caversliam members to their picnic. This year a question arose whether it was advisable to ask Mr Barclay after liis declaration concerning the war, and a meeting of the men was held last night to consider the question. The upshot was a resolution, unanimously arrived at, not to invite Mr Barclay, but to give his ticket to Mr Carncross. The Mataura Presbytery to-day adopted a resolution calling the attention of tho publishing committee of the “Christian Outlook” to the leading article on the war in the issue of January 11th, as presenting sentiments of a disloyal and anti-Bri-tish spirit, which are opposed to the loyalty of tho Presbyterian Church, besides presenting a false impression regarding the conduct of the British Army and of the British Government, and being calculated to wound the feelings of a great body of the members of the Churcli.

Mr Reece, ex-Mayor of Christchurch, arrived hero after a ten months’ trip to South Africa, Great Britain and the Continent. He expressed himself very much struck with the cleanliness and general municipal management of the cities he had visited in Germany and France. They were an object lesson in that department of municipal management. The question of municipal politics was, he found, attracting a great amount of attention all over the world, and in consequence the work of municipalities was being taken up by men of the highest position and intelligence. The most notable feature generally with regard to municipal matters was the desire that all public services should be carried out by the cities themselves, and not by contractors.