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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 34, 6 December 1901, Page 3

The export of timber from Greymouth for the current year will not fall much short of 24*000,000 feet, which represents a. money value of about .£90.000.

The Lyttelton Times says that the steamer Shrewsbury left Lyttelton on Saturday evening with a cargo of 118,067 eighty-pound bags of oats, shipped to the order of the Imperial Government for Durban, South Africa.

A Temuka lady (reports the Leader) received on her wedding day a present of ,£2. She asked her husband what she should do with it, and he said "Invest it in a Tattersall's sweep." She did so, and drew two horses, with the result that she is now ,£260 wealthier than when she invested her £2.

According to Mr Winston Churchill, M.P., the present guerilla war in South Africa is perhaps the severest •service ever required in the British Army.

It transpires that an arrangement has been made between the Master Baker's Association and the flour miller's, that the millers' "combine" shall refuse to deal with all bakers who are in the habit of under-cutting the rates agreed upon by the Master- Bakers' Association by refusing them supplies,, the bakers in their turn shunning all the outside mills. The arrangement applies to the whole Colony. The bakers claim that the position was forced upon them by the demands of the workmen and by the under-cutt-ing of rivals. There are persistent rumours at Home, which time may or may not verify, that the King, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, will visit the various parts of the Empire when the war is over and circumstances generally favorable. Such a visit would be in strict keeping with the policy of consolidation which seems to be the great aim of our present gracious Sovereign,, and we should not be suprised to find there. i was truth in the rumour.