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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 8, 6 September 1901, Page 4

The two meat-freezing companies in Christchurch pay annually £ 100,000 i i wages, Chief School Inspector Lee is to (.ease his official connection with tne Wellington Education Board at the end of the present year. A well-known Ballarat old identity died in the local benevolent institution on July 31st, at the age of eightyeight years. In the early days of the diggings John "Van Buren was the driver of Cobb and Co.’s coaches between Geelong and Ballarat, and was known on the road as “ Gin and Bit1c -s. ” He was a native of the United i nates.

Tisnaru Harbor Board received 30 applications for post of resident eng neer at £4OO a year. The Russian harvest is largely a failure, and stocks and food supplies 1 ow.

The Inglewood Record says: —Thera are more written notices in the windows of Inglewood other-town in Taranaki. fuitp notice the the and v an

A mountain of logs—lo,ooo,oooft. of them- —is about to be towed across the Pacific. A similar experiment tried in the Atlantic some years ago resulted in a stormy smash-up that left acres of timber floating on the waters. But the Robertson Raft Company has been very successful in “ lafting” timber from Oregon to San Francisco, and is thus encouraged to bolder ventures in cheap transportation. Over 1000 tons of heavy chains will be used in constructing the raft: and if it reaches the Orient in safety the profit will be stupendous. Detective Inspector Christie, of Melbourne, “ the Royal shadow, ” was the recipient of valuable presents from the Duke and Duchess. These include a solid silver photo frame, surmounted with a gold medallion, and the Royal arms, and containing autograph photographs of their Royal Highnesses. The Dnehess gave Mr Christie an emerald and diamond pin valued at £7O, and the officers of the Ophirgave him a set of gold sleeve links.

Money is surely abundant at Home. The issue of a million British Treasury bills were covered seven-fold at the lowest rate of interest since the begintaing of the war. At the Working Men’s Club,Napier, Roberts, the billiard chainMr Gib herd by 148 him 650 points out

jrr sympathisers at. Middles- ■ Colony, have been each V' tv o months’ imprisonment Beintertai nmg the enemy.

It is said that an interesting divorce case in which two well-known Dannevirke residents will finger prominently, will he heal’d at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Napier.

The Rev L. M. Isitt (writes the London correspondent cf the Dunedin Star under date sth July) is about to enjoy a well earned holiday, after a long and fatiguing mission. After a short visit to Lady Henry Somerset at Eastnor Castle, he is off with Dr Aked of Liverpool, for a couple of months’ cycle tour through Switzerland. From nevt September up to June, 1902, he is booked to reuse the British people to Ihe necessity of a solution of the drink question. A 1 tin ugh he found that t e war greatly hindered his mission, people having n > mind for social probkms or ref .rms, he has sown much good seed, which he Lusts will bear fru'q. in less troublous times. A lecture on lew Zealand always closes Mr Is’tt’s mission, and everywhere the colony eeir.s to awaken extraordinary interest.