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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 January 1901, Page 4

A telegram received at Wellington states that the Pieton brewery and plant were destroyed by fire last week. The property was owned by Mrs Steel, and was lately occupied by Thomas Harley. It was insured for £3OO with the New Zealand Insurance Company. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is likely that an inquest will be held. Apropos of the agitation among teachers for a colonial scale of salaries, the President of the Education conference stated that a headmaster of a large school in Wellington told him recently that he had lost the services of a young man a certificated teacher, of considerable ability and power of control. This young man had accepted a position in a commercial concern, where his salary was double that which he had received as a teacher. Pahiatua boasts a crack marksman, who is credited by the Herald with having the other day, when class-firing, aimed at one target and planked a bull's-eye on another 14 or 15 yards away from it. " New Zealand is noted for the large number of laws it can't carry out, and the School Atlcndarco Act is one of them." Remarked by a teacher at the Educational Institute Conferer.ce. Mr J. C. Young, who left Westport for South Africa as a member of the Second Contingent, and was appointed confidential secretary to Captain Grcenwtfod, Military Director of Railways, Pretoria, now occupies the post of chief clerk in tho engineering department of, tho railways. He has an engagement running to September next, at a salary of £350 a year, with a saloon passage to New Zealand guaranteed. it cannot be conceived how many healthy lives have and are being ruined by drinking an inferior class of tea. By drinking solely the colebrated Beehive Teas you are certain of having a firstclass article and thus not only provide yourself with a refreshing beverage, but also a healthy stimulant. Gbiffen and BMITH.—ADVTi