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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 April 1901, Page 3

Mr. Berry, Chief Postmaster, informs ns that the inward Christcluirch mail will arrive at the Otira this afternoon, and will come on by to-morrow morning's train via Kumara. The outward mail will arrive at the Bcaley this evening. At all coal-mines immense pries of coaldust, which cannot bo sold, accumulate. In the anthracite and bituminous regions of Pennsylvania these dumps aggregate many millions of ton?. All efforts so far to devise means of utilising this wasted

portion of the mineral by compressing it ioto bricmeiis have been open to serious objections, mainly due either to the cost of the burning quality of the agglomerating material. For some time past experiments have been in progress at Chicago in the line of blowing coal-dust into the lire box with air. The idea is not a new one, but novel mechanical devices have been invented to produer: the proper admixture, and it is now said that the suacess achieved has been so great than it will pay better to pulverise good lump coal and burn it as dust than as lumps. An increase of 25 to 40 per cent, in steam producing capacity is secured and all stoking in done mechanically.

A Wellington firm has received from a ! Taranaki storekeeper a somewhat remarkable letter, in which ho says:—"'l beg to notify you that I have decided not to receive any commercial representative from this date onward. I am compelled to adopt this course to save myself from being insupportably harasssd by the importunities of a c'ass who may literally be sa'd to now outnumber my customers. Any quotation on mercantito information I may desiro I will obtain by post, wire, or telegram. This notification may servo to save those who may be gentlemen (bu*. for their unfortunate profession) from pcssiblo insult should they have obtendeu themselves cm my time in ignorance of this warning." The letter concludes with a request that its substance may be communicated to others. Professor Morris, of Melbourne University, who lias been collecting materials in New Zealand for a life of Captain Cook, is surprised at the small amount of manuscript bearing on the life of the great navigator to be found in this colony. Mr A. Turnbull, of Wellington, has the best lie lias seen. This, he says, was kindly placed at his disposal, and from it he extracted many facts of considerable value. A good deal of his time has been spent in examining the historic Skip Cove, Pelorus Sound, which Captain Cook visited in the Endeavour no less than seven times. At Cook's Cove, near Poverty Bay, lie found numerous names carved, alleged to be those of Cook's men. These, or many of them, lie is unable to identify. Duiing the homeward voyage of th West African iteamer Olcr.da, a non commissioned officer of the Ashanti ex pedition, who was being sent homo undo arrest, committed suicide by cutting hi throat. He was buried at sea,