OUR DUNEDIN SPECIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9098, 16 March 1901, Page 3

OUR DUNEDIN SPECIAL

j (Special to Herald.) \ DUNEDIN, this day. Trooper Hutchison, who went to the ' front as reporter with the Fourth Con- ' tingent, and whose treatment on the Monowai, by instructions of the Pre- ' mier was brought before the House last session, has joined the Royal Artillery. J The New Zealand Cricket Council pur- ' pose communicating immediately with the M&rylebone Club with a view to inducing the English cricketers to include this ' colony m their itinerary. j At the annual business meeting of the Mosgiel Baptist Church it was unanimously resolved, "That this Church an-, jnual meeting assembled records its sinjcere gratitude to the Bey. J. K. Elliott, of Wellington, for his opportune and courageous protest against the recent official desecration of the Sabbath." Otago will be represented at the rifle meeting at Wanganui by 28 competitors, who leave to-mwrrow. Included m the number are Lieutenant- Colonel Smith, ex-champion, and Privates G. Fraser and T: Frazer, of Kaitangata, C.P.O. Woollett, Dunedin Navals, and Captain Armstrong, of Dunedin, all wellknown competitors at these meetings. Following is the representation: District Staff 2, Dunedin Navals 1, Peninsula Rifle Club % Dunedin City Guards 2, Waikari Rifles 1, Dnnedin ,Engineers 1, Kaitangata Rifles 6, Tuapeka Mounted Rifles 7, Otago Hussars 2, Dunedin Rifle Club 4. -- Otago will be represented against Southland m the Inter-provincial Fours at Waihola Regatta on the 23rd by Columb (stroke), W. Mitchell (3), Braithwaite (2), and J. McGrath (bow)., The Silver Cloud, severely damaged by a collision near Sydney Heads, is a well-known trader, to New Zealand ports. She is-a wooden three-mastefl schooner, built m 1874 at Sunderland, and is-owned by Mr T. AJ. Carlow, of Auckland. Captain Heays is m charge. Evidently Air C. C. Graham, S.M., has not a high opinion of the truthfulness generally of witnesses called m the Police Court. His attention having to-day been call^S to the fact that a youngster did not seem to understand the nature of an oath, His Worship directed that the ; boy make ah affirmation that he would speak the truth. He then said: "Judging from my experience here, 1 think it is very little matter whether the witnesses are sworn or not nowadays." The first round for this year's chqinpionship of- the Otago Glolf Club begins to-morrow. There are 36 entries, and as the green is m excellent condition, a capital contest is anticipated. The aftermath of the dredging boom : Another crop of 'shareholders had judgment entered up against them to-day. It was the Smoke Creek Dredging Com-, pany t who sued for calls on the present occasion. Oh the othfer hand, .judgment was entered against the Waikake : Green Gold Dredging Company for £77 for mining goods supiplied, the New Zealand Hardware Company being the claimants.'