NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 September 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

In reference to the suggestion of the Coal Mines Commission that a Chief Inspector should bo appointed, to whom other inspector-; should report, the Hon. J. McGowan explains in addition to what he stated in the House on the subject, that the inspectors have already absolute pawer to take any step they think necessary for the safety of a mine without referenco <o the Minister. Hence to considers a Chief Investor unncc-rsssary. "TVIr Massey, the leader of the Opposition, or sub leader of the Opposition, or whatever he is," ventured Mr O'Meara, "Oh ! say general manager." suggested Mr Seddon,

Mr Seddon puts the cost of our share of the war at £138,000, and says that were it a million the colony would be ready "to foot the bill for the grand Old Country which at the present time ensured the liberty of the world." "One of tli3 social customs that play the mischief with our working men."— The Chief Justice on the habit pf treating to drinks,

The dirtiest man on record seems to have been discovered in Castlemaine, Victoria. Patrick Drislane, arrested for vagrancy, was in a very dirty condition, and Sergeant Armstrong informed the Bench that when Drislane was forced to have a bath at the gaol a few days ago, the sum of 19s Id was found in the bath. This he said had apparently stuck to the dirt on his body. Three half-crowns were also found in the man's beard, and there were tufts of grass between his toes. The course of justice is evidently at times marked by unexpected happenings in Algeria. A short time ago a man named Bonrgoin vas liberated from 4ho prison of Bone and arrested as a deserter not long after at Nemours. He admitted that hisnamc wasßourgoin, but protested that he wa3 not a deserter. He was, nevertheless, taken back to Bone by the gendarmes, and there it was discovered that his arrest was a mistake. The strangest part of the story, however, is that as soon as the military authorities released him, Bourgoin was taken into custody by the Public Prosecutor on a cuarge of "imposture to the prejudice of the Htate'' in causing himself to be fed and transported at the public charge, and he is now doing a month's imprisonment for that offence.

News has been received by Mr Seddon that he has been elected a rice-president of the Institute of Marine Engineers of England.

Seven bore-holes put down into the cave area of the Cardiff mine by the old Company gave excellent proof of the existence of a bed of firm, hard coal.

The two guns from South Africa, which had been placed on the lawn outside Parliamentary Buildings, have suddenly been removed from the grass plot, They now find a place immediately at the entrance to the buildingsThere is a boom in hotel_ building at Gisborne. At ihe present lime no less than four new hotels are in course of erection or about to be built, and to two others extensive additions are being made.

Speaking in tho financial debate, Mr Colvin advocated a larger expenditure upon the goldfields, and supported the proposal for a State coal mine. " We give a fair value for the land we buy."—Mr Carncross. " £60,000 below its value," said Captain Bussell, with sly reference to Hatuma. Mr Carncross retorted that no one believed in that offer.

An interesting pension claim is now occupying attention at Kaipoi as to the value of a wife's life interese in an estate. The husband, under the old Act showed he had no property and was dependent on his second wife's estate. In this the wife only has a life interest, and cannot mortgage or, of course, sell it, and the valuation is over £7OO.

Mr Willia (Wanganui) likens the clouds of figures that have been floating about the House for days past to swarming bees, and he has come to the conclusiou that some of them have taken shelter in the bonnets of some hon. members, who cannot get them out. "Flies, you mean," suggested Mr Pirani. "There's no flies on tho Government," answered some Ministerialist, in the slang of the day. Who wouldn't be a brainless fool

With heaps of glist'nlng gold, Than some poor scholar fresh from school Thrust homeless on the world ? Who would'nt rather lose his wealth, Than coughs and colds endure ? Then be content, enjoy good health,

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