NEWS AND NOTES.
The largest number of co operative labourers engaged on any one Government work during May was 1087 (of wliom 87 were artisans on the Gisborne-Karaka railway. According to Mr Barton, this session of the Federal Parliament will last fully six months, and probably longer. Sixteen thousand persons are now receiving old-age pensions in Victoria, the average payment weekly being 8s per head. This necessitates an appropriation of £335,000 a year.
His Majesty bas granted permission for the Sydney Exchange to be designated “The Royal Exchange, Sydney.” One would hardly credit that a sixroomed wooden house built, of Southland timber, would cost £6OOO. Yet such is a fact. The house is being erected near Oamaru, will be of two storeys, with a argo hall in the centre lighted by a skylight. The balcony runs round the upstairs, and all tho rooms open into the hall. The design is new, and the ornamentation elaborate. He married her under false pretences. Tie told her that he earned £1 a week, and that greatly influenced her in marrying him. They lived happily for about six weeks and then he took to drink. This story of connubial bliss was told to Mr Bishop, S.M. at Christchurch the other day. The Melbourne police are not at a 1 pleased with the manner in which the extra services during tho royal visit are to be rewarded. The chief commissioner has decided to grant them two days’ leave but the men contend chis is poor rtcognition, seeing that many of them worked at least six days’ overtime. Three men, Miners, Cree, and Eout who were convicted of assault on a woman at Kensington (Melbourne), have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment each, with solitary confinment. It is expected in Brisbane that the whole of the Pacific cable will be laid by March of next year, a date much ahead of contract time.
That great illusion, “ Pepper’s Ghost,” Belongs to days of yore, The smartest conjurer cannot boast He’s puzzled people more. Many ailments now-a-days Are just as tricky sure, For coughs and colds we’ll sing the praise Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 June 1901, Page 4
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357NEWS AND NOTES. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 June 1901, Page 4
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