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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 June 1901, Page 3

DREDGING SHARE MARKET.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Donedin, This Day. The following sales were recorded at the Dunedin Stock Exchange to-day :

An instance of the vanity of the young colonials is furnished by the following extract of the report of the Headmaster of the Gisbornc school:—" The highest attendance was on Monday last when the attractive prospect of being photographed brought the number of 687 scholars out of a roll number of 700." This, as Mark Twain would say, "fairly absorbs the pastry." A well-known resident of New Plymouth, who arrived by the Manawatu train the other night, was relieved of his pocket-book containing £25 before he had left the railway platform.—Wellington Post.

In a recent article, commenting on Maori works of art, the Wanganui Herald says:—Ere it is too late, it is to be hoped that the Legislature will pass an act forbidding the traffic in Maori works of art and their exportation.'as otherwise the time is not very far distant when it will be necessary for Macauley's New Zealander to visit Europe if he wants to see and admire the handiwork of the ancient Maori carvers and makers of ornately and grotesquely decorated weapons, mates and other things, of which the later day arrivals in the colony know nothing and care less. Volunteers in Victoria can earn as much as £7 10s per man capitation per annum, as against £2 10s in New Zealand. The sum of £2 per man is granted in the ordinary way, and the remaining £5 goes in personal payment, the recipient? being paid according to the number of drills attended, etc. When a corps is in a sound position the men often earn to themselves from £5 to £6 10s per annum. The Port Molyneaux correspondent of the Free Press, Balclutha, is informed that a party has taken up five acres on the beach to work the deposits of black sand with some new improved appliances.

c The Rev. Father Hiekson, parish priest i ofßeeftui. has say 3 the Pest applied to s have the Catholic schools examined by 1 the Government School Inspector on his next annual visit. His request was refused on the ground that the Inspector's time was too fully occupied. This is the ; second time Fathor Hickson's application '■ has been refused. . The following paragraph is current in Sydney exchanges:—"The directors of the Union Steam Ship Co. are carefully watching the progress of the works for the removal of the bar at Macquario Heads (Tasmania), and hope that there will be snfficient water and trade to warrant the inclusion in the large number of their boats trading to Straham of a 2000ton passenger steamer. Several have already been mentioned as suitable, and the choice will doubtless lie between the Moura (late North Lyell), 2027 tons, 3000 h. p.; the Eotoiti, 1159 tons, 1250 h. p.; and the Mapourikai 1203 tons, 1200 h. p. These boats are all new, and were specially built for working bad harbours." The Mayor of Cambridge (Mr Buck.land) estimates that for an expenditure of £6OOO the town can get an efficient water supply, with enough surplus water to allow of a profit of £IOO per annum after all expenses are paid. He also intends to I see what can be done in the way of lighting the town by electricity. At the sitting of the Mataura Licensing Committee the other day a solicitor, Mr Inder, was ordered by the Chairman of the Bench (Mr Stratford) to be placed under arrest for contempt, on account of his conduct in Court, and was ultimately fined £2 for obstructing the business. Mr Inder asked for a stay of proceedings, and said he would apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition,

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