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thousand pounds off their plant account, besides paying yearly dividends of from six to ten 

 per cent. They have spent eighty thousand pounds on plant and buildings, and employ 

 four hundred hands. This very successful factory, which has established a reputation for 

 its manufactures all over Australasia, has been the pioneer of main- other woollen-mills. 

 In fact, all the chief centres of population, moved by a spirit of emulation, have followed 

 the example of Dunedin. In Otago, besides the Mosgiel factory, there is a woollen- 

 mill at Oamaru, and a worsted and woollen mill at Roslyn. The latter, which is owned 

 by Messrs. Ross and Glendenning, employs between four hundred and five hundred 

 hands, and uses up wool exceeding the produce of a hundred and twenty thousand 

 sheep. The manufacture of clothing has given rise to another mammoth factory in 

 Dunedin, Messrs. Hallenstein Brothers' establishment, which has twenty-six brunches in 

 all parts of the colony, being the largest of its kind in New Zealand. The business of 

 manufacturing chemists has been developed by the New Zealand Drug Company, whose 

 head-quarters are at Dunedin. The community has already laid the substantial founda- 

 tions of manufacturing prosperity, and the great smoke-stacks which may be seen rising 

 in various parts of the city are monster 'signal-posts reared by industrial energy which 

 even now excite in the mind of the beholder visions of a future Birmingham or Sheffield, 

 rivalling their Old World prototypes arising on a site where forty years ago stood 

 the primeval forest. 



The tourist who desires, to visit the famous lakes of the Otago District must take 

 the southern train from Dunedin, and journeying some six or seven miles out and crossing 

 the broad and fertile Taieri Plain, which abounds with the signs of agricultural operations 

 and of advancing settlement, he will note to the right low hills devoid of timber, with the 

 Taieri River meandering towards its outlet near the ocean beach ; while, stretching far 

 away to the left, a rolling prairie, bounded on the horizon by ranges of hills, spreads 

 before his eye, and in the middle distance lie the townships of Mosgiel and Outram, 

 nine miles apart, and connected by a branch line of' railway. Mosgiel is noteworthy as 

 being the head-quarters of the Mosgiel Woollen Company, whose mills of brick and 

 cement are equipped with the most improved machinery, and lit up with the electric- 

 light. Sixteen miles farther on through this bountiful valley, an ample sheet of water, 

 marged in parts with sedges affording promise of game to the sportsman, breaks upon the 

 view, and Lake Waiholo is reached, and here the train stops in order that passengers 

 may obtain refreshments. This Lake is a favourite resort for sportsmen in the shooting 

 season. Ten miles more, and the train makes the cheerful and attractive little township 

 of Milton, with its potteries, lime-kilns and flour and oatmeal mills, as well as coal- 

 mines. It is said that the first white-ware manufactured south of the Line was turned 

 out of these potteries, and its oatmeal is certainly to be met with in every town of the 

 colony. Two miles beyond Milton,- a branch line strikes off to the south-west, and 

 terminates at Lawrence, the centre of the gold-mining district of Tuapeka. Twelve miles 

 farther along the main line, and the traveller arrives at Stirling, whence a branch line 

 penetrates to the Kaitangata coal-mines. From Stirling the route passes by a massive 

 bridge across the Clutha, the largest river in the South Island, and draws up at the 

 township of Balclutha. A long stretch of forty-seven miles lies between this place and 

 Gore, a town in the district of Southland, formerly a separate province. Thence the 



