NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1901, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand was not going to let Old England call in vain, Together they the foemen met, And side by side were slain. 1 Tis said ‘ disease kills more t ban war, ’ And nothing can be truer, When coughs and colds knock at the door, Take Woods’Geeat Peppeemi nt Cube A Maori, writing to an Auckland paper says: —“There are over 700 landless natives in Waikato, who have lost their land by war and the reckless system of purchase by the Crown, by which they have been robbed of the means of growing food. If reckless land-selling is not stopped, you and your pakehas may have to find food for the starving Maoris, which will cost you far more than allowing them to hold the mere remnant of their land which is left.”

Consideration was given by the Victorian Cabinet recently to the unemployed question, but nothing really effective was devised to overcome the difficulty. The Minister of Railways intimated that work would be found for a numbeiqof men on the Beach Forest and Warburton railways and the Minister for Public Works promised to absorb a few men on works at Mount Fatigue. Some gentlemen well known in the Taieri have been attempting (says the Advocate) to open up a cattle trade between Now Zealand and South Africa. It is said that dairy cows landed at Durban are worth £3O. A difficulty, however, has arisen with ship-owners. They will not guarantee to land the cattle, and this creates a stumbling block in the way of a cattle trade being done.

The total cost of the Napier esplanade which is one mile 58$ chains in length, was £13,006 3s 6d. The money was provided by loan for which a rate varying from a penny to sixpence is levied on property in close proximity to tho parade for eight years. Tho section from Coote road northwards was principally built by prison labor, Tho esp’anade is under the solo control of tho Borough Council, A sensation has been caused at Queenstown (N.S.W.) by the return to that town of a young man named Angus Cameron, who was believed to have been lost in the bush 12 years ago. It appears that Cameron left tho town suddenly for reasons of his own, leaving his parents in ignorance of his movements. His father grieved greatly over tho loss of his son, and it is believed that this led to the father’s death.