NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 January 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 North Island Prospecting.

Napier, January 12. A party consisting of A. Mac Kay, Government Geologist, W. Mackay, assistant Geologist, and R. Yuill, begin a prospecting survey of Kaimangaroa range this week- The instructions of the Govern mont are to make a thorough survey of the district to be explored. Rotorua Springs. Wellington, This Day. Donne, reporting to Ward on the Rotorua baths grievances, recommends that the wishes of the majority concerned should be respected, and use of garments when bathing in public baths be prohibited. Those who object to nude bathing have the option of private baths. Donne thinks it inadvisable to make any increase of charges without providing improved accommodation or other compensating advantages, and that former charges be again adopted, and the charge for the use of towels abolished, but that private baths be charged for at an advance of 25 per cent on charges for public baths. Tourist Department. In all probability J. E. Donne, who is to have charge of tourist branch of the Railway Department will also be appointed Secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce. Anxious to have another go. Trooper Yon Blarcmberg, a Wanganui invalided -trooper, presented himself at Camp this morning to join the Sixth Contingent, but was found to bo medically unfit, and is likely to be so for another couple of months. Subsiding Railway Embankment.. Burnett, Inspecting Engineer, reports to the Railway Department that the huge embankment between Weddcrburn and Ranfurly on the Otago central line is subsiding at the rate of 2 feet per day. The Department docs not anticipate an interruption in the traffic, but believes in the near future it will be necessary to use lighter engines than those now running. New Zealanders in South Africa.

Milner cables that Private Miller of Raglan was severely injured at Pretoria on the 27th, as the result of an accident, also that Private Hey wood has been discharged from the hospital at Pretoria. The Gape Gable. Wellington, This Day. The position in regard to the Cape Cable is that the Agents-General for Victoria and New South Wales has been instructed to sign an agreement with the Eastern Extension Company supplementary to that of April last under which those colonies will get the benefit of reduced rates from the Ist of February and the grant of £2,000 for the Cape Cable will be done away with. It is considered probable that New Zealand will join in the arrangement. Only a Porpoise. The museum authorities arc of opinion that the sea monster found on Westralia coast may turn out to be a porpoise whale of which there are some skeletons in their collection. Fish Slime in Golden Bay. Local scientists smggest that the cause of the destruction of fish in Golden Bay may be sulphurous exhalations from the bottom of the sea, following up a seismic convulsion. Wellington Magistrate’s Court. Wellington, January 13. The annual returns of the local Magistrate’s Court for 1900 show that 3548 civil plaints were entered and 2867 came to a hearing. The aggregate amount claimed was £37,249 and the sum recovered was £22,247 ._ In the criminal division 2897 persons were taken into custody or summoned, and 2020 of that number were summarily convicted. Of these 1060 were con vietions for drunkenness. Forty-nine neglected children were taken into custody and 44 were sent to various homes or reformatories.

A total of 229 distress warrants were issued during the year,