As the dredging of the harbour and the pro secution of other works for the improvement of the harbour are now being vigorously car ried on under instructions from the Otago Harbour Board, it may nofc be out of place to quote, for our Board's encouragement, the recent remarks of Provost Bain, of Glasgow, regarding the deepening of the river Clyde. While presiding at the annual festival given to the employes of fche Clyde Trustees last December, he stated that—"a .century ago the river was from 4ffcto Sft in deDthat high water ;it was now 22ft deep. There were then 200 yards of quay ; now there are about 7000 yards. The revenue at that time was I £150 a year; now it was £192,000." The 1 accomplishment of such results as these I figures represent should to some extent stimulate the Otago Board to continue to I push on the work it has so pluckily taken in hand. From the Bruce Herald we learn that a recent meeting of the Kaitaugata Coal Com pany confirmed the resolution passed at a former meeting, in favour of an amalgama tion with the Kaitangata Railway I ompany. The. latter agreed to take over the liabilities and assets of the Coal Company, and a com mittee was appointed to complete the ar rangement. At a subsequent meeting of the Railway Company, the following gentlemen were elected directors :—Messrs James Da vidson (chairman), A. J. Smyth, W. Aitche son, Regd. M'Donald, and Dr J. G. Smith. Ifc was arranged that contracts should imme diately be called for fencing off the line of railway agreed upon.
