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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 July 1901, Page 3

Regarding a young lady at one time resident in Greymouth the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says:—New Zealand lady artists have another representatine in the Paris Salon in the person of Miss Napier-Bell, one of whose pictures has been accepted and hung there. Miss Napier-Bell, too, was a student at Etaplee, as is also, at the present time, Miss Iso Rae, another New Zealander.

The financial position of the Napier Borough is not at all satisfactory. It was stated at the last meeting of the Borough Council that the monthly expenditure was largely in excess of the revenue. When the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act came into operation Mr Handysides, manager of the Nightcap Coal Company, drew attention to the fact that prior to the passing of that act coal mine owners paid to the Government, under a pie-existing statute, Jd and £d per ton on non-bituminous and bituminous coal respectively, as their contribution to an accident fund. When the new act came into operation making owners wholly responsible for all accidents, it was expected that the tonnage levy would be discontinued, but in reply to a letter on the subject Mr Handyside ha 3 received the following from the Mines Department—"ln reply to your letter of the 14ch ult., I am directed to inform you that payments under section 69 of 'The Coal Mines Act, 1891" will have to be. continued, as that section is aot effected by 'The Workers' Compensation for Accident Act, 1900."

It was thirty-three years on Tuesday since Te Kooti and his followers landed in Poverty Bay, and caused such bloodshed and devastation. To-day Te Kooti is forgotten, and Poverty Bay is one of the most prosperous and progressive districts in all New Zealand.

A rnnholder writing to the Hastings Rabbit Board made the statement that every rabbit killed on his estate had cost him 10s.

A turret clock is being constructed by one of the most famous makers in the world for the town of Hawera. It will probably arrive by the Karamea on 22nd September, when it will be at oncd erected by Mr Sargent. The Christchurch City Council has decided to utilise the provisions of the M'Lean Act to regulate motor car traffic in that city. The Act provides for the granting of licenses, and the Council intends to stipulate in the license the limit of speed at which the motor may travel in the city. Scarlet fever and diptheria were very prevalent in Timaru last week, and the focal Health Officer reports that cases of infectious diseases are on the increase. The fact is attributed .largely to defective drainage. Mr J. Oreluston, of Dunedin, estimates that the city could .obtain over six thousand horse-power from the Taieri system. To produce this amount of power for twenty-four hours daily by means of steam engines would cost something like £IOO,OOO per annum, whereas the water power electrically transmitted will not cost £4 per h.p. for all charges, or a totat of, say, £25,000, leaving some £75,000 to credit.