GENERAL NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 August 1901, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

During the voyage of the mail steamer Sierra from San Francisco to Auckland a steerage passenger for Sydney, named Kennelly, was missed, and it is supposed be jumped overboard during a fit of temporary insanity.

The Mangaweka correspondent of the Wairarapa Daily Times mtatts that so fav from tbe Mako ine viaduct being well in hand, the concrete foundations are not laid. The excavations for the foundations have been dug out, but for weeks past the work has b -en suspended, and the holes at present are full of water. There were three bankruptcies in the colony last week -two hotelkeepers, at Kohukohu, and a builder, at Gisborne.

The Nelson Mail states that the ore in Chrome mine at the Croixelles, which appeared to have given out a few weeks ago, has been picked up lower down the hill, and the pro.-pects aro as good as ever.

The flaxmills in the Foxton, Kereru, and Piaka districts, numbering about 10, are working daily, a ready sale being found for the weekly output of fibre. The market for fibre still continues satisfactory. The Premier is in favor of cadet corps being tiken over by the Education Departm nt. The Government, he said intends to see that they are properly looked after and rendered efficient.

" The evidence of the employees was a ! pleasant surprise ; they were happy with' the employers The lion and the lamb were lying down together. I hope the lamb was not inside the lion. That often occurs." Hon. G. Jones on the evidence of the employees as to the Shops and Offices Bill.

Westland is the only part of the colony which vtessrs Browne and Isaac, the Inspectors appointed by tho Edusation Department under tho Manual Act, have noc yet visited. Both are now in Wellington, and will leave for Nelson and West Coast at the end of tho present month. That section of the House which has been agitating for an increase in the honorarium is somewhat exercised at the absence from tho Estimates of any vote for that purpose, especially in view of the fact, as they say, that a virtual promise has been given that the pay of members will bo increased, and a statement effect made in the Governor's Speech. As no Bill on tho subject has yet appoared, it is likely tnat a question will be put on tho order paper inquiring anxiously as to the intentions of the Government in regard to the honararium. The Mail agent on the Sierra reports that the day before the vessel left San Francisco with the mails all the firemen and coal passers went out on strike. New men ware engaged, but the majority of them were inexperienced, and could not keep up a full head of steam. This accounts for the delay in the arrival of the vessel.