NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 November 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(per press association). Large Fire. Dunedin, Nov 14. Information is to hand that the Bruce County Council offices were gutted. Only the wall is now standing. Also the shops occupied respectively by a butc er and chemist were totally destroyed. The Victoria Company has a policy of £SOO on the County Council Chambers. Supposed Leprosy. Auckland, This Day. Dr Macgil), District Health Officer for Auckland, was lately asked to report on a supposed case of leprosy at Kawakawa. He finds the disease is not leprosy. Rain Badly Needed. Auckland, t'his Day. Tongan news state that unless rain is soon the copra crop will be ruined. Fijian Revenue. The Fiji revenue for the nine months of the present year was £83,091, or a decrease of £961 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. Successful Timber Company. Leyland and o‘B ien’s Timber Coy pays a dividend of 10 per cent and a bonus of 2i percent. The Company carries forward £3,000. Arrow Junction Dredging Company. Dunedin, Nov 13. The shareholders in the Arrow Junction Gold Dredging Company have resolved to go into liqffidation, and sell the dredge to the Morven Ferry Company. Payment to be partly in shares and partly in cash. Ward Farmers’ Association. The liquidation of the Ward Formers’ Association has been completed, and Judge Williams made an order that the liquidation bond be delivered to be cancelled. The books of accounts to bo handed to the purchaser of the book debts and other books and documents to be retained for three months and then destroyed. Agricultural Show. Wanganui, Nov. 13. Entries for the Agricultural Show are a record for the Colony being nearly 5,000. There is likely to be an increase in horses, the total being 503. In the cooking competition there as many as 70. Ministers on the Wing. Wellington This Day. The Premier visits the Palmerston show on Friday, Ths Native Minister has left for Gisborne to see his wife who is seriously ill. The Minister of Education and Public Works will return from South on Sunday. The Minister of Lands loaves for Oaraaru at the end of the week. Child Scalded to Death, Nelson, Nov 13. The Collingwood correspondent of the Colonist, telegraphs that last night the three year old son of Mr John Richards of Ferntown in the absence of his mother pulled a bucket of scalding water over himself. The child died. Pure Bred Poultry. Wellington, Nov 13. The Department of Agriculture has sent an order to England for sixty pure bred fowls of various breeds. Drowned in a Dam. At the inquest concerning the death of Mary Smith who was found drowned in a dam, a verdict of accidental death was returned. It appeared the woman had so much improved that she was about to be liberated from a public institution but had fretted at not having received a letter from her husband and presumably threw herself into the water in a fit of melancholia. Post-sessional Address. New Plymouth, Nov 31. Mr Ell M.H.R., addressed a fairly largo public meeting to-night on the subject of a State Bank and currency. He received a vote of thanks and the following resolution was passed :—That in the opinion of this meeting the question of establishing a State Bank is worthy of the careful consideration of the Government of this colony. Taranaki Iron Sand.

Favourable news has been received from Cadman and Smith of the prospects of the early flotation of a company to work the iron sand. Smith has been elected a member of the iron and steel institute of Great Britain.