NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 March 1901, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

— The late Sir Arthur Sullivan left £‘82,19:1 10s ml. Forty-five years ago the. Victorian Cross was instituted by the Sovereign whose name it bears.

Sir James Wfilcocks, who was in command during the Ashanti campaign, has arrived at Plymouth. Some strong comments are made by the Napier Daily Telegraph as to the manner in which that point on of the new Municipal Corporation Act relating to the preparation of the burgess rolls lias been drafted. Our contemporary maintains, that there has lidcii great official bungling and that the Act appears to have been so rushed through in the first place, and been so supplemented by contradictory and impossible regulations in the second, aslo bob; quit ) chaotic to (he provisions for preparing rolls and holding elections.

Wo (the Guardian i understand that the Hokitika Tennis Club are arranging a match with the G rev month Club on Easier Monday on the Local courts. This is very much to hi regretted and we trust that it is not too late to alter the date to the proceeding Saturday or some other day more convenient to both Clubs. On the above mentioned date there is a race mooting both in Hokitika and Kumara, and as many as wish to witness the match will also wish to be at the races, it is to be hoped some arrangement will be made to get an alteration in dates.

A lad named Ernest Bunn (says the Buller Post) had a very narrow escape from being killed on Sunday last. lie was trying to catch a horse when the animal kicked him on the head inflicting a very ugly wound. Mr Ball was sent for, and on his arrival dressed the wound and advised the careful attention. The little fellow is progressing as favourably as can be expected. At the request of the Inspector-Gene-ral of Police in New South Wales, the New Zealand Police Department lias subpoenaed the following persons to give evidence in the Conway case: —Mr C. M. Brooke, of Chsistchurch, from whom it is alleged Mrs Smith purchased strychnine. Mr A. G. Winstone, who is in Mr Brooke’s employ; Mr Dennis Fogarty, licensee of the Oxford Hotel, Christchurch, where Conway stayed; and Constable Trchey, of Sumner, to whom the deceased reported the lots of his property.

Twelve Maori Councils under the Act of last session have been elected. Several elections have yet to be held. The nomination of candidates for the Councils under (ho Maori Lands Administration Act has been fixed for 2fi:h April, and the elections for the 17th May. At the Annidale (New South Wales) Commonwealth demonstration, (he States of the Commonwealth were represented by a kangaroo, with a disjointed (ail, significant of New Zealand’s aloofness.

Arrangements arc being made for a demonstration to be given by upwards of 4000 Maoris on the occasion of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall’s visit to Rotorua. An cady issue of fifty millions of British war consols is anticipated. Colonel Byron, of Queensland, has been Gazetted an extra aide to the Duke of York.