NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 July 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The first balloon ascent took place in 1783.

There are 6,742 locks and keys in the Grand Opera House, Paris. Earl Russell’s trial on a charge of bigamy commences in London on the XSlh.

The worn-out uniforms of the British Army, when sold, bring back into the War Office treasury close upon £30,000 a year. The Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are asking the Canterbury M.H.R’s to support the society’s appeal tn the Government for a £ for £ subsidy. During the Royal visit in Wellington 16,110 passengers were carried over the Government railway, crossing the Rimutaka incline, and 23,160 passengers to and from Wellington on submarine lines. Records of the Irish Emigrant Society show that 25,182 personV entered at the port of New York as immigrants in 1900. This is an increase of 2,137 over the preceding year. There were 11677 males and 13,455 females, who brought 373,670 dollars,

“Our own” at Wellington wires“ The Hon. Mr Carroll’s present from the Duke of York was a handsome watch on a stand, together with medallion portraits of the ducal pair. The gift is to be handed over to the native chief at Gisborne in trust for Mr Carroll’s wife. The Duke before leaving, pressed the Hon Mr Carroll to visit England, and to bring Mrs Carrol! along with him. His Highness also intimated that, in that event, he would expect the Native Minister and Mrs Carroll to become his guests.’’ Captain Dreyfus’s book is likely to have a good sale, but if his brother, Mathieu Dreyfus, were to write the secret history of the agitation for a revision of the infamous process it would easily beat all records. The intrigues of Esterhazy and the General Staff which were published to the world arc as nothing to those yet untold. Perhaps it is out of pity for two well-known journalists who took a strong stand against Dreyfus that the book is unwritten. Its revenge would be too terrible.—‘Evening News.’

News by the mail states that ex-Presi-dent Pretorius died at Potchefstroom on the 19th of May, after two days’ illness, at the age of eighty-three. His remains were followed to the grave by over a thousand townspeople and refugees. When Prince Alexander of Teck was at Potchefstroom, coresident Pretorius called upon the Prince and promised that he would work for He had no sympathy with the late administration of the Transvaal.