NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 July 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[PBR PBSB3 ASSOCIATION.] Serious Mining Accident, Waihi, July 11. Two miners named Hawkins and Nelson, employed in the Woodstock mine, Karangahiki, met with a serious accident through an explosion in the main level. The former's eyes and chest are severely injured. Both were taken to the hospital. New Zealander Receives a Commission. Wellington This Day. News by the mail from the Cape states that Vernon Stewart, son of Major Stewart M.H.B. has accepted a Commission in the Imperial Begiment. Municipal Abbatoirs. It is understood that the committee of the City Council has selected a site at Ngahauranga for the Municipal Abbatoirs. Licensing Difficulty. No Judgements were given in the Appeal Court this morning The Bench, sat as the Supreme Court, to hear a mo-' tion to quash the granting of a license to the Hotel Commonwealth at New Plymouth. The ground of the objection is that what was done amounts to an attempted evasion of the provisions of the Licensing Aota against the removal of licenses.

Wreck of a Barque. Auckland, This Day. The Norwegian barque Norden, from Capetown to Fiji, was wrecked on a reef at Suva on June 27th. The hull has been purchased by the Union Steamship Company. There is little hope of floating the vessel. Present to the Duke. Tukino, chief of the Ngatituwharetoa tribe, has left for Wellington with a fine model of a Maori carved house, which he presented to the Duke of York. The Maori addresses will be placed inside the house and shipped to London. The Druids held their regular meeting last evening, when three candidates were ..duly initiated into the mysterious work of the Order, and anew nomination was made for initiation at next meeting. The Social Committee announced that tho next social would be held on Tuesday evening, and the card contest with tho Foresters would be held on Monday next at 8 o'clock. The meeting closed at 9.30 in harmony. Owing to large exportafions of potatoes to South Africa, the f.o.b. price at ports of shipment has increased from 45s ruling a few weeks ago, to 110 s to 120 s, While growers will no doubt consider the rise very opportune, the great army,of consumers will be inclined to take a different view, of the matter .- Exchange,