NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 3 September 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PBB FBESS ASSOCIATION.)

Gold Export. Wellington, This Day. The gold export returns for August was 30,7420 z, valued at £117,503. For the last eight it was 279,5850 z, valued at £1,079,476. [The export of gold from Oreymouth for last month was 6,6520 z lOdwt Igr, valued at £22,652 2s.] Church Union Celebration. Dunedin, September 2. Intimations have received that a Presbyterian Union celebration is to be held in October. The United Assembly of the Australian church has' appointed Dr. Meiklejobn (Moderator) as delegate. The N. S. Wales church has appointed Eevs. Dr Bruce and John Ferguson. Dr Whitelow, the delegate from the United Free Church df Scotland, will be in Dunedin in a few days and efforts are being made to induce him to remain as delegate of that church. The Westport Bar. Wbstpobt, This Day. The recent floods cleared away the accumulation of sand at the Bullec bar, which has now a splendid entrance. The Eotokino. sailed to-day drawing twenty feet seven inches, with tides one foot below ordinary spring tides, and if the Admiralty collier Penarth was here to-day she could take five thousand tons of coal across the bar.

Hr Christopher’s Transfer.

Wellington, This Day. In consequence of Mr Christopher’s transfer from Greymouth to Petone workshops, of which he will be manager, F. Jones, from the chief railway engineer’s office, Wellington, will become Bailway District Engineer at Greymouth, and will also have supervision and maintenance of its branch at Westport. G. Richardson, District Railway Engineer at Westport is to have control of the locomotive branches on all West Coast lines. . A Boom to Travellers. Wellington This Day. Arrangements are being made by the Bailway Department and the Manawatu Bailway Coy. to considerably shorten the train journey between New Plymouth and Wellington, and between Napier and Wellington if arrangements can be made with the Union Coy. 24 hours will be saved in its time now occupied in the journey between Auckland and Dunedin and there will be a saving of several hours in the Napier-Dunedin journey.

in Old Identity Gone. Nelson, This Day. ‘Ben” Crisp, one of the oldest and best

known residents of Nelson, died last night in his ninety-fourth year. He claimed to be the oldest colonist in New Zealand,. having left England in 1819. He arrived in Nelson in 1842, and has lived here ever since, He has been a total abstainer since 1848, and formed its first Band of Hope in Nelson. For some 50 years, until seven years ago, he gave the children of Nelson a treat every Queen’s Birthday, He was a trustee of the Nelson Wesleyan Church, of which he has been a member for 57 years. Death'was caused by a fall, otherwise be would probably have completed the century.!