Peter Dowden

The annual report of the Tourist Department records "another unsatisfactory year at the Mount Cook Hermitage."

In the Government statistician’s returns for July the population of New Zealand is estimated at 1,248,216 (exclusive of Maoris, who numbered 52,571 at the 1921 census), against 1,217,722 in the...

Wellington, August 11: The Minister of Railways, in the course of a statement on railway finance this afternoon, said the revenue for the three periods ending June 24, 1922, showed a decrease in...

Kaitangata v YMCA: These teams met on the Oval.

The sinking of the Egypt, like all great disasters, called forth many examples of the "lovely virtue" that is courage and one of the brightest of them was that of Mr Arthur William Hardwick, one of...

A large piece of the cliff wall has fallen on to SH 6 in Barrytown, Grey District and is blocking the road.

At a ratepayers’ meeting at Wairoa, a farmer stated that he had sold his last season’s wool at £26 a bale, but the charges had been so great that he had netted only 18 shillings 2 pence a bale.

The cable reports as to the condition of the Cornwall’s shipment of apples on arrival in London will be gratifying to Otago growers and confirm the belief that under similar conditions Otago apples...

The following wireless message has been received. "9.46pm SOS from France. Position: Latitude 21.28, longitude 165.03."

The annual show of the Dunedin Fanciers Club was opened yesterday in the Brydone Hall.

Mr W. Begg, who is contesting the Dunedin North election in the interests of the Liberal Party, addressed the electors in the North-East Valley Town Hall last evening.

The fortnightly meeting of the Field Club was held on Saturday last, when about 20 members and friends proceeded by motor (via Mosgiel) to Powder Creek.

There are many instances of dogs performing intelligent feats, but the collie dog Sharp, a photograph of which appears in the current issue of the Otago Witness, is another of those instances.

The members of the South Dunedin Presbyterian Church entertained Mr and Mrs A. Kilgour, old members of the congregation, at a social gathering last night in the Reid Hall on the occasion of their...

The King and Queen visited Terlincthun cemetery, and concluded their tour of the battlefields.

The Otago Lawn Tennis Association’s Easter tournament was concluded yesterday under conditions which were easily the worst experienced during the whole course of the play.