NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 September 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Mount Benger Mail understands that the firemen on several of the upcountry dredges have received notice to quit, through not being able to produce certificates.

A man named J. Patterson has been fined 40s and 3s the value of plants stolen from the Oamaru public gardens. The Ciiretakersaw him pulling up plants and patting them in his pockets.

“ To keep abreast of the English law is too much,” remarked Judge Conolly in the Supreme Court at Gisborne a few days ago. “It is enough to keep abreast of our own at the rate we are going.” Despite repeated applications by Tagus troopers at the local Defence Office (says the Lyttelton Times), the headquarters office at Wellington declines to be worried into any undue haste in the matter of forwarding medals to those who were unable to receive them at the official presentation at Invercargill. A small consignment was forwarded a few days ago for distribution, but there was not enough to go round and the disappointed soldiers will have to possess their souls in patience until the sluggish department has another access of energy. Discharges are now being posted to Contingents, but the pay for active service is still outstanding in many cases. It is a matter for speculation among the troopers as to whether they are entitled to a month’s furlough after arrival in the colony, pay up to the time that they are officially informed of their discharge,

A fatal accident occurred at Hepburn, three miles from Daylesford (Vic.), on August 30, when, through a fall of earth in a tunnel, a man named James Quadti, aged 31, was crushed to death. The Premier of New South Wales states that as a result of inquiries the Government has decided to place £SOOO on the Estimates for the establishment of commercial agencies in London, South Africa and China.

King Edward VII is not only the possessor of a remarkably musical, distinct, and penetrating voice, but ho uses ii with the skill of a trained elocutionist. Ho still retains, however, a slight German accent, which no amount of training seems able to entirely eliminate,

When the roll was called at Buckingbong and Lake Midgeon stations, in the Naraudera district (N.S.W.), on September 2nd, all the shearers and rouseabouts objected to sign the pastoaalists’ agreement, and refused to go to work. Two hundred men camped.two miles from Buckiugboug. A solicitor named James Roberta, practising at Bendigo (Victoria), has been suspended from practice for two years, at the instance of the Law Institute or Victoria. It 'was alleged that Roberts had converted to his own use the sura of .£193 12s 4d, received on behalf of a client. At Mornington (Vic.) on August 30th, a young man named John Diamond was engaged in dismantling a lofty flagstaff, when the structure collapsed, and fell a distance of 50ft, breaking his neck. WADE’S WORM FIGS are more effective and not unpleasant; most children thrive after taking them. Price 1/WADE’S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever an -1 prevent blotches. Price 1/-