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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 December 1901, Page 3

In the list of handicaps for the swimming sports the name of R. Collins was inadvertently omitted, his handicap for’the 100 jards being 19 secs., and for the 50 yards breast stroke 5 secs, Holland has 10,100 windmills, each of which drains 310 acres of land, at an average cost of Is an acre a year. Tbe Mayor of Stratford baa been informed by the Minister for Public Works that it is impossible to open the Toko line before the New Year, but that tbe official opening will in all probability take place about the middle of January. A. binder-twine factory is to be established by the leading farmers in the Bruce district. A scheme for the establishment of a gymnusium for tbe use of pupils in the primary and secondary schools in Invercargill is under the consideration of the educational authoii.ias in that town. A conference has been arranged between the Napier Borough Council and the Hawkes Bay Education Board, with a view to the initiation of a systematic scheme of manual technical instruction classes in Napier.

The report of the Irish Eegistrargeneral for last year throws remarkable light on the distribution of cancer in that country. The most prosperous, the longest settled, the most populous, and the least Celtic counties suffer most*

Trout seem to be very abundant in the Galatea district (says the Botorua paper) and some exceptionally good hauls have been made during the last week. Twentytwo fish were taken by W. F. Bird in one day, totalling 801bs weight. Mr Murphy’s catch for one day was 12 fish, weighing 401bs altogether. The fire-reel station at Brook-street, Nelson was entered the other day, and the gear there so interfered with that it would hare been useless in case of fire.

No less than 10 applications for disolution of marriage were before Mr Justice Conolly during the Auckland sittings of Supreme Court. In all ten cases decrees nisi were granted. Extensive deposits of kauri gum have been found on an island in Tauranga Harbor as a depth of Bft to 10ft. A syndicate has been formed to take out the gum, which is believed to exist in very large quantities. Aboat 200 men are to employed. The Mines Department is being urged to assist in ascertaining the extent of the coal deposit in the Kaureranga Valley, just outside the Thames Borough, There was a novel entry at the Egmost A. and P. Show in the form of an exhibit of butter typical of a landscape. In the background were butter trees, a house of butter, and a butter countryside, and in the foreground were butter and sheep, and the ducks mads of our “staple product.” There is said to be only one sudden death among women to eight among men.

More than a million people are treated in the hospitals of London each year. The value of the mining machinery in the Transvaal is not far from £10,000,000. Prizes amounting to £2,250 are offered by the War Office for the best traction engine for military purposes.