NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 September 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Encouraging rep arts are to hand from Harden, Now South Wales, where splendid gold has been discovered. An applicant for an old-age pension at Grafton, New South Wales, was killed as the result of attempting to kick a football. Two Chinese women were fined £io each, or six months’ imprisonment, at Tamworth (N.S.W.) Police Court for robbing a man named Charles Manners of. £5.

The New South Wales wool exports last month showed an increase of 2044 bales, compared with the corresponding period last year. It is impossible that Sir Alexander Binney, late Engineer-in-Chief to the Loudon County Council, will visit Sydney to report on the re-arrangement of the wharves and resumed areas. >

For the June quarter the imports into South Australia were £1,723,214, as compared with £1,548,662 for the same period of last year. Exports were £1,797,736, as compared with £1,661,097 last year. During J illy at the Victorian Government freezing works no fewer than 25,000 head of poultry were dressed for export. In the corresponding month of last year there was no exports of poultry. The demands are still maintained.

The annual report of the Department of Education (N.S.W.) shows that the gross enrollment at the primary schools during the year was 270,888 pupils, an increase of 5851. 5063 teachers were employed at the end of the year, an increase of 179.

In accordance with the Wine Adulturation Bill, which prohibit! the use of salicylic acid by vignerous in Victoria, 3000 gallons of wine, valued at 5s per bottle, were recently destroyed by the Customs officers.

A deputation representing the Chamber of Manufactures in Adelaide lias requested the Premier of South Australia to suspend factory legislation in that State, and to leave the whole question of dealing with factories, wages, and hours of labour to the Federal Parliament. The Premier promised to modify the regulations dealing with the subject, and to take other action.

The claims made upon the Government in connection with the demolition of buildings, injury to goods etc., consequent upon the cleansing operations carried out during the plague in Sydney, number 528. The amount claimed was £7921 12s 4d, but the amount recommended to be paid was only £994 17s Gd. An attempt to export infected apples from Victoria to West Australia was frustrated by an inspector, who refused to pass the consignment. The State Minister for Agriculture described the fruit, which was being forwarded by a well-known apple-grower, as “rotten with codlin moth, and almost all the diseases that infect orchards.

A somewhat romantic case is likely io come before the Wellington Land Board. A lady possessed of a considerable amount of money over twenty years ago adopted a three-year old boy, whose mother was believed to be dying. The foster-mother invested in land, and built a fine residence in the Forty-mile Bush. Among other properties, she purchased a village section with a nice garden and residence, for her adopted son. The latter in the meantime discovered his mother in the South Island. Mother and son are now resolutely clinging to the village section, while the fostermother, having a mortgage over the property, seeks to dispossess them.