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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 May 1901, Page 3

The lemains of the unfortunate man were found in the cellar of Ashton's Hotel. The Inangahua County Chairman, Mr Walter Irving, CO., Mr Montgomerie, District Surveyor, Mr Garven, County Engineer, and members of the Railway Extension Committee, yesterday pointed out to the gentlemen appointed to report on tho proposed deviation at Reefton the various alternative routes to that originally fixed upon by the Midland Railway Company. One course suggested is to cross the Inangahua river near the Phoenix Brewery with station at Mr Dawson's paddock and adjacent thoroughfare to slaughter yards continuing the line along the Crampton Road and Buller Road to strike lino originally surveyed. The second proposed route is to continue the line to south bank of Inangahua, crossing near Bridge street, and after crossing Broadway at Ross street to continue at rear of Government offices and School of Mines, thence across Bridge street, having station on the Reserve at the rear of tho Convent. Tho surveyors says the Herald gave courteous attention to the various suggestions but offered no opinion as to tho merits of the routes suggested. During tho month of April 14,338 cwt of butter, valued at £63,958, was exported from New Zealand. In tho corresponding month of last year 9368 cwt, valued at £40,437, was shipped. Tho cheese exports of last month were 9505 cwt, valued at £21f295, against 13,724 cwt of the declared value of £29,525. Up to the present time (says an exchange) about 20,000 tons coal have been taken out of the Mokau mines. Of lliat quantity 8000 tons have been obtained during the past two and a-half years. The Sydney syndicate which has purchased the property for £13,000 has had a steamer specially built for the trade, and will shortly begin operations on an extensive scale. The mines are at present leased to Mr Stubbs, of New Plymouth, who obtains 8s Od a ton for the coal. The screened coal sells at Waitara for 20s per ton. Before the new steamer can go up the Mokau River snags will have to be removed at an estimated cost of £IOOO. Miss Olive Monalesen, daughter of a European resident of Bombay, has just been married to the young Rajah of Jhind, lord of a native State in India. The wedding took place according to the Sikh rites, the bride being fully aware that the groom had already had at least two wives. Three generations of a family named Croker appeared side by side recently in the dock of a London Police Court. Many of the early pioneers state it as their conviction that the climate is changing throughout New Zealand, tho seasons being mnch later than in former years, and the weather this year (says the Lyt- . telton Times) certainly gives ground for the supposition. Residents in tho Wakatipu district state that the harvest now takes place there in March and April, whereas in the "seventies" harvesting was general in January and early February. Ricciotti Garibaldi, a son of tho famous leader and a lieutenant in the Italian navy, will attend the unveiling in Chicago on 30th September of tho monument to his father. The centenary of Victor Hugo is to be celebrated next yeaa; but meanwhile a little preliminary celebration is to be held in the inauguration of the group executed by the sculptor Barrias. The Cornwallis Wests have not yet become reconciled to the marriage of their youthful son to the widowed Lady Randolph Churchill, and have on various occasions made her feel tho brunt of their wrath. But tho bride of a few months does not resent iheir treatment, for she, too, is a mother of two sons of a mismurriageable ago, to whom sho is passionately dovoted. "Why, of course, I can quite understand Mrs Cornwallis West's annoyance," sho is reported to have said to a group of stiends the other day ; "how can she help feeling cross ? I am sure I would be jnst as angry as possible if she had been a widow, and had attempted to marry my Winston I" Mrs Carrie Nation has demanded the abolition of the-" Carrie Nation cocktail," the invention of R. C. Willes, a cafe proprietor of Binghampton, N. Y., and Scranton, and will institute a suit for ten thousand dollars' damages for the use of hor name in advertising the cocktail. A few weeks ago Mr Willes conceived the idea of christening a new drink the " Carrie Nation cocktail.,, He advertised it extensively and it became very popular. As an example of tho costly work the cable companies have undertaken, it is stated that the repairs and renewals to the Australian-New Zealand cab es by the Eastern Extension Company's cablerepairing steamer Recorder, which extended over three months, have cost at the rate of £l2O a day, aud this exclusive of the charge for the portions of new cables. At the meeting of the Hokltika Borough Council on Friday Mr Lahman is to move '• That tho Council obtain tho services of a competent engineer to report upon ; (a) A sufficient water supply for domestic purposes aud otherwise for tho Borough of Hokitika ; (b) A complete drainage scheme for the said Borough. Such report to embody specifications of necessary works and estimates of tho probable cost.'

IPhk Great American Steel fl feaion,of which we have heard lately, is now in full swing jHHßtrolling" and "bossing" "i America in the iron line. ■i ed capitalisation is dMQQ). divided intoaflM K'- 100 aPI any p er PKoiLibination, the concern a lot of firms, with capitalization of nearly £2150,000,000, and it is stated that the nianasjrng director, Mr C. M. Schwab, now of the Carnegie firm, is to have a salary of £16,000 per annum. The explanation of the filed capitalization heing merely nominal is that certain technical advantages are thereby secured, such as a reduced incorporation fee and the privilege of revising the character of incorporation. The new combine owns its own harbours, fleets, railways, coal and iron mines, furnaces, forge:s and mills, which are the largest and' most perfectly equipped in the" world. It will be within its power to produce more metal than is turned out by the total efforts of British firms, and as its declared policy is to con- • verse the trade and prices in America and swamp the foreign market with its surplus, the prospect is not bright for our manufacturers. Mr Carnegie ig said to have made £80,000,000 out of the new deal, but the profits of his firm last year were no less than £8,000,000. Mr Carnegie poses as a p'hilantrophist, and writes long letters to the Press pointing out the evils of immense wealth. But such too often is human nature.

America is a land of wanders and eccentricities', so readers wi 1 be quite able to admit; the possibility of the situation created in the following incident. It seems that a meteorite fell on a farm a few weeks ago. Nobody quite knew what to do with it, though everybody who had any claim to the strange thing wanted it- The ground landlord claimed it because the meteorite was not on the ground when the lease was drawn up. Then the landlord changed his ground and claimed the thing as " flying game," while the farmer retaliated with the claim that the meteorite was " ground game " because it had neither wings nor feathers aud could not fly. Goodness only knows how the case would have ended between landlord and tenant if they had continued claiming and counter-claiming on different grounds, but the difficulty was surmounted by the intervention of the revenue officer, who forfeited the meteorite on the ground that it was an article which had been introduced into the country without paying duty, and then prosecuted the farmer for smuggling.

Tbe German law of libel is a curiosity. An editor recently said in his paper that a certain gentleman was an unmannerly boor, in consequence of which a libel action was brought against the paper. The verdict given seemed to show that the only fault was the expression was that it was not strong enough. The case was taken from court in the usual way until it reached the highest tribunal. The final decision was that the editor would have been perfectly justified if he had said that the plaintiff actually " was like an unmannerly boor," but since.;he had said that the plaintiff " was an unmannerly boor " he had committed iibel. Jin Germany it is libellous to call a man a pig or an ass; but, if you combine the two, and call the man a pig-ass, then there is no libel, because such an animal does not exist. The favorite combination among Germans is pig-dog.—-Schwein-hundt.