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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 760, 31 July 1894, Page 3

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Govt being asked to give a bonus for the manufacture of glass.

Capt. of s.s. Gothic presented with a purse of SOOsovs. by passengers! What for ?

Ex-hotelkeepers of Christchurch and Sydenham—whose houses were refused renewals last month arc petitioning Parliament for compensation. Won’t get any. Photographs of fine display of stag’s heads in a Wellington gunmaker’s shop window are to be sent to English newspapers Field, Sketch, and other illustrated journals. Melbourne : When detectives informed Mrs Needle that poison had been discovered in bodies of her husband and children, she replied ‘ A few more of my friends died lately. I can give you their names. The information wiil be useiul if you want to dig them up.’ Captains Babot, Rose, and Bendall examined before Committee appointed by Legislative Council to consider the question of shipment, of damp wool. Mr Murray, when giving evidence before Select Committee of Legislative Council on Bank of N. Z. Bills, said that of £1,000,000 the Govt was guaranteeing to the Bank, £500,000 would be devoted to carrying on operations until money from wool and grain came in, and other moiety in paying off debentures of the Assets Cov.

Hobart: Govt prefers claim against N. Z. Govt for expenses in providing for shipwrecked crew of barque Indiana, lately wrecked on Cape Barren. Claim is made on ground that the vessel is registered in N. Z. [This is Inter Colonial reciprocity.] Hawker’s and Pedlars Bill provides that license fees be paid to Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of district in which they are collected by local authority. Penalty for having spirituous liquor in pedlars conveyance is £lO.

Big fire at Greymouth ; buildings destroyed : North & Co’s (drapers, in whose premises fire began), IMills furniture warehouse. Kettle Bros, grocers, Melbourne Hotel, 2 offices and small shops. Insurances £5,000. Had flames got hold on other side of street Greymouth would have been ruined, as strong wind was blowing at time.

Mr James Wallace retired from position of General Manager, and Secy, of Manawatu Railway Coy. The machinery and plant for Bell’s (London) match factory in Wellington is in course of erection. Expected it will be ready for work in a month. Govt proposals as to liquor law will be a consolidating and amending measure under title of ‘ The Licensing Bill,’ which will sweep out of existence all present licensing laws, including- the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, and introduce various amendments of proceedure. Stated in the lobbies the Bill will provide that one-half must vote to make a poll effective, but that bare majority of those voting shall be all that is necessary. Major Steward desires to see revision of maximum number of votes allowed to county ratepayers, and provision by which County Councils shall be required to call meeting of ratepayers at least once a year to discuss county affairs.