NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 July 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Applications for advances to settlers from the Nelson District for the year ending 31st March last numbered 157, the amount applied for being and the amount authorised *£45,330,

In the explosions at Vesuvius last year blocks of lava were thrown as high as 1800 ft, and Professor Matteucci estimates that one weighing 30 tons required 610,000 horse power to eject it.

How eye-strain can cause nose-bleeding is a mystery, says Invention. Yet Dr. Bonj. Edison reports a case of frequent attacks of nose-bleeding, which ceased when a dtifoct of vision was remedied by suitable glasses.

A private telegram (says the W. C. Times) received in town yesterday states the Right Hon the Premier lias been laid up for the past day or two with a rather severe cold. It was, however, expected that he would be able to get about again to-day or to-morrow.

We regret, to announce (West Coast Times) the death of Mr Michael Ryan lace of Gillespie’s Beach, who left here in company with his brother John about three months ago for the benefit of his health. At the time of his death he was residing with Mrs Quinn of Palmerston North, well known here. Mr Ryan was a popular young man and much sympathy is felt for his mother and relatives in South Westland.

A Liverpool carter met his death under peculiar circumstances. He was working at the docks and, while standing near the chain horse, it caught him in its teeth, threw him down, and trampled on him, inflicting terrible injuries. Miss Josephine Holman, it is announced, is to marry Signor Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy. Signor Marconi was travelling to Europe on the American liner St. Paul, and on the same boat was Miss Holman, who is a young New York lady with a host of English friends. They met, and the engagement was very soon announced. Miss Holman is a daughter of the late Mr Justice Holman, of Indiana.

“ The logical outcome of some of the the speeches delivered by Councillors on this Bill (Young Persons’ Protection) is that everyone found in the streets should be at once locked up. I have generally found that those who are the greatest ‘ rips ’ when they are young arc the worst of reformers when they grow old.’—Hon. G. McLean, in the Legislative Council.

We regret to learn that Trooper George Morgan, who has just returned from South Africa, is now dangerously ill at his mother’s residence, Kumara, suffering from pne monia and ’typhoid fever. Trooper Morgan went through the arduous campaign in Africa without a day’s illness, and must have contracted the disease on board the troopship.

Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. report the sale of Mr G. H. Batchelor’s farm and hotel at Arahura yesterday at the satisfactory price of £B3O, to Mr J. Mandl the well known brewer, after spirited competition. It is very_ gratifying to notice the strong disposition to -invest in good properties in our own district, Several investors were present from the Grey and other districts, and competed eagerly from the first hid of £6OO.

The number of Civil servants, railway servants and others employed by the Government in Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago, during the year ended 81st March, 1900, and the amounts paid to them, was as follows:—Auckland 2218, £275,936; Wellington, 3885, £497,503; Canterbury, 2492, £335,315; Otago, 2940, £328,172. A curious circumstance, which is not generally known was referred to at the meeting of the Council of the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society on Monday. This, (says the Press) was the migration of the godwit, which, Dr Moorehouse stated, migrates to Siberia to nest. The birds go by way of the Philippine Islands, Japan, etc, and return to New Zealand every season. It is the intention of the Railway Department to do all the casting and heavy iron work for the South Island railways at the Addington workshops in future, instead of letting it by contract to private firms. The new foundry has just been started, and is pronounced by experts to bo one of the finest and most complete in the colony. The mother of Mr Pirani, M.H.R, died at Palmerston North last night. The deceased lady was well known on tile Coast. All the newspapers in the Federal States (Tasmanian excepted, because the cable is not State-owned) are to receive telegraphic reports of parliamentary debates at the rate of Is 6d for the first 100 words and 6d fer every additional 50 words. News relating to departmental business will bo transmitted to the Press at ihe same rales.

Captain Jenkins, an old identity in shipping circles, died in North Sydney a short time ago. He arrived in New South Wales in 1854 as second mate of the Abbeyland, of London, and commenced his Australian career, amongst the ships that he commanded being the Sunshine a.'.d the Nation’s Hope. ,Ho eventually became a partner in the firm of Merriman and Fairclough and in the sixties he sailed the John Knox between Sydney and New Zealand. In 1874 he retired from the sea.

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