NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 August 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr G. H. Swan, ex-Mayor of Napier, has been appointed a representative of the Government on the Napier Harbour Board.

According to the War Cry, Commissioner M’Kie, who will succeed CommandBooth in the charge of the Australasian branch of the Salvation Army, will arrive in Australia early in November. The Arawa District Maori Council has made a bye-law prohibiting smoking by any child under sixteen years of age, and in the event- of any parent failing to prevent a child smoking a fine of 5s will be inflicted.

It is reported, says our Dunedin corresp mdent, that Colonel Webb will be shifted to Wellington, and Colonel Eobin will have charge of the Otago district. Mr W. W. McOardle, formerly of Pahiatua, is to bo candidate for the Waikato seat at the next general election, in the Government interest.

The socialists of Auckland have decided to form a society to carry on socialistic work in New Zealand, and to endeavour to educate the workers in the principles of socialism. A Foxton resident met with a peculiar accident last week. He walked through the window of his bedroom, -which was situated on the second floor. Beyond a severe bruising and shaking, however, he was unharmed.

Many of the Taranaki settlers arc going in for dehorning their cattle this season, while the majority of the dairy farmers in some of the districts have got all their dairy herds put through the process with very satisfactory results. A visitor recently from Brazil says the whole country is perpetually intoxicated by coffee. It is brought to the bedside the moment one wakes, and just before he drops to sleep, at meals and between meals on going out and coming in. Men, women, and children drink it with the same liberality, and it is fed to babies in arms. The effect is apparent in trembling hands, twitching eyelids, yellow, dry skin, and a chronic excitability worse than that produced by over-indulgence in alcohol.

On the 16th ult. the Hawke’s Bay Presbytery, on behalf of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Pew Zealand, communicated with the Premier strongly protesting against Sunday work in the various branches of the public service, and more particularly upon the railways, where it had been most prominent in connection with the Royal! reception. The protest has apparently borne fruit, and the Presbytery have again written to the Premier, expressing their satisfaction on learning that a circular had been sent to the traffic manager of the railways directing that Sunday trains to be discontinued except in necessitous cases.