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structure some little distance beyond. The thoroughfare striking up the hill round tin- 

 corner of the Grand 1 Intel is High Street, one and a half miles in length, along which a 

 branch tram-line, worked by cable, extends to the borough of Mornington. Nearer tin- 

 harbour stand the fine imposing offices of 

 The Otago Daily Times and The Evening Star 

 newspapers, the Union Steam-ship Company 

 and the Otago Harbour Hoard. The Queen's 

 Theatre is in Prince's Street, and another 

 and larger one, the Princess's, is situated a 

 short distance up High Street. At the southern 

 end of Prince's Street lies the Southern Recrea- 



THE DUNEDIN TOWN HALL. 



tion Ground, at the seaward side of the thoroughfare, with the Caledonian Ground 

 at its back, and, on the opposite side of the street, the Southern Cemetery, the 

 largest necropolis of the place. 



Holding on his way through the borough of South Dunedin, towards the ocean 

 beach, the visitor soon arrives at the borough of St. Kilda, and at length reaches the 

 Forbury Race-course, where the Dunedin Jockey Club carries out its periodical meetings, 

 and Avhere the annual contest for the " Dunedin Cup " takes place amid accessories that 

 distantly remind one of the " Melbourne Cup." Horse-racing is a passion 'with Xew 

 Zealanders, and nowhere else in the colon)- does it so overmastering!)- dominate all other 

 sports as in the capital of Otago. Over the sand-hills which skirt the entrance, one may 

 pass by a few steps to the magnificent ocean beach, through which it is fondly hoped 

 a canal may some clay be cut from the Pacific straight through to the harbour of 

 Dunedin. The two prominent headlands which bound either side of the beach are each 

 crowned by a battery of guns to repel any attempt at a hostile landing from the offing. 

 Seaward there is nothing to break the level horizon of the ocean, while as a holiday 

 resort the beach is not to be excelled. It is a heritage for which the people of the 

 city may justly feel thankful. The railway extends as far as Anderson's Bay, the 

 nearest point of the Peninsula, and thence one ma}' prolong a pleasant walk along the 

 fore-shore opposite Dunedin to Portobello, returning over the crest of the Peninsula 

 Hills, from which some enchanting bits of scenery meet the eye. From the Southern 



