GENERAL NEWS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 May 1901, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

The trouble at the Philippines is practically ended.

It is stated that 700 Boers have determined to settle in Canada.

The United Kingdom has 30,000,000 sheep, France 20,000,000, Argentina 74,600,000. According to the Pretoria correspondent of the ‘Standard’ there are still 16,500 Boers in tho field.

The claims of Nasby as a sanatorium for consumptives are to be pressed on the Minister of Public Health on his next visit to the district.

The South Australian (Holder) Government cease to exist to-day. Only two of tho original members remain. Mr Jenkins, Chief Secretary, will re-form the Ministry. Much indignation has been caused among the old women inmates of the Shoreditch Workhouse (London) by the action of the Board of Guardians in stopping their allowance of snuff. Herr Yon Buri, who hasbeen appointed by the General Government to be Imperial Consul-General at Sydney for Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji, assumed office on the Istinst.

A Mormon colony has been - discovered in Paris with a temple in a private house. The male members number sixteen, having fifty-eight wives. One man has seven wives with just one child each. Another has three wives and sixteen children. All the Paris Mormons are respectable and industrious citizens.—‘ Echo.’

“ I entirely refuse to believe,” Dr Ingram, the Bishop of London, has written to a correspondent, “ that lam leaving the East End. I may not be there so often, but I love it all the same.” The Liverpool City Coroner recently held an inquest' on the body of Michael Harvey, sixty-nine, boatman. It was stated that the old man, during his career as a river boatman, had saved no fewer than twenty-five lives. In the regulations for the staff the British Postmaster-General has ordered that the word “ intoxicated ” is to be substituted for “ getting drunk,” the former being defined as “noticeably under the influence of drink or suffering from its affects.”

Mr B. E. Wise says the New' South Wales State Government has definitely declared in favour of a reduction of the number of members of the Assembly by at least a fourth. This would bring the total down to 94. In 1899 the number of subscribers to the Sydney Hospital for sick children was 244, and the amount of their subscriptions £lOlO 16s. Last year the number was 510, and the amount contributed £4616 12s 6d.

The Bank of Adelaide made a profit of £49,498 and a dividend of 8 per cent was declared at the annual meeting. An abstract of the money order remittances from West Australia made during April sho * that they were distributed as follows London, 4C04; South Australia, 4000; Victoria, 14,000; New South Wales, 5000; Queensland, 903; Tasmania, 400; New Zealand, 500; Germany, 426; total, 29,135.

The total gold exports from West Australia during the month of April amounted to 150,0180 z, valued at ;£567,751. It is stated by the New Zealand Trade Review that the Flourmillers’ Association is rumoured to bo not quite a happy family, and there are also reports that in spite of the penalty provided for withdrawal from the compact in less than two years, it is not at all improbable that a breach will take place before long. The Westport Collector of Customs is advised that Custom Houses throughout the colony are to bo closed on the 24th "nst, as a mack of respect to the memory of the late Queen and Empress. The Inter-State Conference of League of Wheelmen has decided to establish Australian Federal Cycling Union Championships for the next racing season, and fixed on a 25 mile Inter-State Race being allotted to New Zealand.

Captain F. B, Hughes, who was a passenger by the Monowai from the South on Saturday last, is on his way back to South Africa. He had a number of recruits with him, and will bo joined by others at Melbourne. He will leave Melbourne on May 17th by the Sophocles for the Cape. His recruits will join tin Prince of Wales’ comp my or Brabant’s Light Horse. In this week’s Gazette appear Ordcrs-in-Council altering the scale of witnesses’ expenses in District Courts to those payable i u Magistrate’s Courts, and also fixing a new scale of fees for District Courts.

The health authorities of New Zealand, in view of the reports of the plague from Queensland and England, are taking steps to see that everything is kept in readiness for emergency at the plague hospitals and quarantine stations.