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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 126, 30 May 1919, Page 8

An inquiry regarding the death of Waldemar Lepin, who was killed on the waterfront yesterday, will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon.

Some 2000 bales were put through at the wool valuation held at Wanganui last week. This about completes the season's operations, and the .Wanganui Chronicle learns the total turnover since the. season : opened in October ; last amounts to 39,835 bales—an increase of some 5000 bales on last year's output.

A mighty builder'of railways, tho late George Pauling was known from the Cape to the Congo, and from Beira to Angola, as the constructor of almost every mile of line throughout South Africa. _ What Cecil Rhodes dreamed Paulijng built, and there is a quaint story of their close association. On his frequent journeys to and from England, Rhodes ensured fresh eggs for breakfast by taking- a coop of hens on board the steamer. Pauling, his frequent fellow-traveller, was asked why he did nob indulge in a Bimilar luxury. "Oh!" said Pauling, "I don't bother about the hens. I give tho bo'euu a sovereign and I get Rhodes'a eggs."

The wit and quickness of repartee which characterises Sir F. E. Smith, the new Lord Chancellor, with a salary of £10,000, at the age of 46, is proverbial. In. one of his early cases he was opposed by an. elderly, prosy, long-winded lawyer, who spoke for six hours in his concluding address. Then Sir Frederick rose. Looking at the Judge and jury he smiled slightly and said: —"Your Honour, I will follow the example of my learned friend who ha 3 just concluded and submit the case without argument."

Many years ago, writes a correspondent to an American paper, I was the guest of the governor of a "dry" State in America, and I still recall the astonishment with which I saw him take down a large family Bible and put it on the dinner table. The grace before meat he extract-' ed from it, however, was some very fine old Bourbon whisky, for the "Bible" was a. dummy. My host told me that booksellers import hundreds of such "Bibles" filled with spirits. Cigar stores also stocked walking sticks and umbrellas that did duty for flasks.

According to estimates prepared by ex--pexts, there is enough soft coal in the fourWestern Provinces of Canada to supply the world for two centuries. The niincs of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, have scarcely been tapped, but have produced a total in one year of 6,000.000 tons, to the value of over £5,000,000. The coal is of a. very good grade, and is equally serviceable for steam purposes and household heating. The Canadian Dominion. Geological Survey lias estimated that the coal-beds of these provinces, with Eastern. British Columbia, contain, a total oE 143,430,000,000 tons, covjm»s : m.-affs^st.- 87.002 s.qtta«a jnjlofc,