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its Telephone Exchange, several foot-ball anil cricket clubs, lawn tennis, curling and bowling 

 clubs, its Choral Society, anil similar institutions. The Lunatic Asylum is situated at Sea- 

 cliff, eighteen miles out of Dunedin, and is said to be the finest of the kind in 

 the colony. The magnitude and variety of the manufacturing industries of Dunedin 

 attest the energy and 

 enterprise of the citi- 

 zens. At one of the 

 engineering establish- 

 ments, that of Messrs. 

 Kincaird, M 'Queen & 

 Co., several iron steam- 

 ships have been built, 

 one of two hundred 

 tons ; and a monster 

 dredge, capable of rais- 

 ing hard clay from a 

 depth of thirty feet at 



the rate of a hundred -.,WMfc>~v. *v 



tons an hour, was built 

 to the order of the 

 Otago Harbour Hoard. 

 Thirteen dredges have 

 been turned out from 

 this establishment. 

 The firm recently con- 

 structed a complete 

 plant for the manufac- 

 ture of Bessemer steel, 

 which has been com- 

 menced by Messrs. 

 Smellie Brothers, at 

 Burnside. In another 

 of the foundries of 



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Dunedin (that of the Messrs. Burt), a speciality is made of manufactures of copper, brass 

 and lead ; about one hundred and fifty men and boys are constantly employed at these 

 works. The making of lead pipes and chandeliers, electric bells, and various descriptions of 

 electroplated goods, affords occupation for a large number of hands and an extensive plant. 

 To Otago is ilue the credit of establishing the first completely successful woollen 

 mill, the Mosgiel Factory, which was started in 1871, in consequence of a bonus of 

 one thousand five hundred pounds offered by the Provincial Government of that day. 

 A complete plant was imported from Scotland by Mr. A. J. Burns, to whose indomitable 

 energy, the success of the enterprise is due. Skilled workmen accompanied the machinery 

 to the colony. The Company have now a capital of fifty-six thousand pounds ; they 

 have accumulated a reserve fund of nineteen thousand pounds, and written twenty-seven 



