West Coast Coal Trade.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3018, 2 October 1888, Page 2

West Coast Coal Trade.

The demand for coal at (baport, says the GrayKiver ArjusTw Sep-; tember 12tli, has never, perhaps, been nearly go active as during the last eight or ten days; nor have the coal miners at Brunrierton at any previous period been so fully employed, There have been inoro big steamers, too, than we have ever seen before in the Bame space of time. It is to be hoped if only for the sake of the people and miners ofßrunuerton, who depend more upon the output of coal than their Greymouth neighbors, that this ■ ibcreased coal traffic may ■ continue ;■ because for a very, long time past the numbers of coal miners in, district has been out of allwoption • to the quantity of-work 'td*oo""doiie. J' In some;'instances: the;'mbri.werei making barely half tiirid,- and "the'V luxury : of .being now able/jftjjnake; full time must be appreciated. Althoughthemnesat" Brunnerton are equal to a much larger output than mb yet been seen, here,- more hands wilPte required before that can be accomplished;and, as a matter of fact, we believe that the Grey Valley Coal Company would employ more if they could get them. : But just now they are not soejjily': got. It is not long since a niwßer left us for Westport, and as coal mining is fairly brisk there at present, ; no surplus hands may bo expected ' from that quarter.. Indeed, thatmay be said to bo the case all over New Maud just now, owing largely, no.< doubt, to the strike at Newcastle, ■) 1 New. South'Wak; anda>;]ohg.aß; "■ the xoal- mastersi ..and; their winerai V: decline - to .arrange upon a take policy the cbal'^nei^:aiid : coal-J piasters of • this colony caiinot foil to makott harvest, ,\

I■• . , I E^cutlo^yiUiey. Robeit Hewart was executed, at Darhnghurst Gaol at 9.10 Qk: on 1 September 11, The mutiwfa of Thomas Park, which took pmoo in ono of the cells of the 'Central Police Court on the afternoon of May 25th last, was the crirao for which Hewart forfeited his life, and seeing that the concurrence of opinion m to bis s sanity is upanimoua on tho pajfc of '' (ill who hß\u tm him'fat* bjj,/

sftrfi; arrest, it will stand out as one of tho ~ mostinexplioable deeds of senseless perpetrated during these later the colony's history. The ||£w history of the man shows that he S>i£>* y &3 a sailor, a native of the county: p||S of Durham, and that for. tho last : ji ; seven years he had been employed in the intercolonial trade as a seaman. 'O-\-[: In spite of all .warning to tho con■yV./ trary, ho entertained a lively hope of '- ■ ; reprieve until tho morning of tho :s; exeoution, when, he fairly faced his . approaching fato, and mot doath with V mingled sensibility and courngo. Though very pale, ho boro himsolt ! , firmly in the dread procession through tho corridors and gallery leading to f. the scaffold, which ho readied without assistance, as Canon Rich recited \ in a loud voice the last solemn words of tho burial service. Standing beneath the beam, Hewart asked those standing near him to wipo the - tears from his eyes, as his arms wero , ; pinioned, and upon this boing done mJh gazed steadily upon the officials reporters for the Press in the yardjjelow, carried bis eyes on to the eight or nine spectators beyond the palings, and devoted his attention to those standing around him, Shaking hands with tho two clergymen and those of tho warders that he knew, he uttered with coherence, but in a low and agitated voice, several sentences, whicli wero only imperfectly audible in the yard below, " I hope the Lord will forgive me; lam not deserving this death, but tho Lord will save my soul." Then recognising Dr Manrico O'Connor (the gaol surgeon), who was standing below, he called out: "Good-bye, doctor." After.ft pmse he added; .JL''May the Lord hav.. mercy on me; I w, have written a Btate:.:ont; all will see \ » it; aftor my death it will bo mado >lj|dded :•" Good-bye; good bye to all that know me, and give thorn my best respects." He did not shriuk when the cap was placed over his head, and fortunately stood perfectly still during the five or six seconds in which the assistant hangman was neglecting his duty of pulling the lever. Finding tho man incapable of understanding tho signal to withdraw the bolt, the executioner cried " Let go I" in a loud voice. Still tho assistant hesitated, and had tho prisoner struggled or fainted, a sceno of horror might have resulted, Ab it wis the hangman rushed to tho lever with an oath, and instantaneous death followed upon the more than usually long drop of Bft. The oondomned did not move a limb, and thore can be no doubt that the sontonceof tho lawwas mercifullyjcarried out. The prisoner's , statement is a positive assertion of his |& innocence. The Whitechapel Murders. .

- Says the Daily Times: The cableas published in the Australian papers throw a littlo more light on the mysterionsWhitechapel murders which have created such a sensatiou in London. It'appears that the whole of the four victims wero women hence the reason why, as is slated in the cablegrams, women were arming themselves for protection. The first of these murders appear to havo been committed as far buck as the 7th . August. On that date a woman was found dead in George Yard Buildings Wbitechapel with 39 Btaba in her body. An inquest. was held on the 10th August, but on that date the body had not been identified, three women who had seen it identifying it under three different names. The coroner, in adjourning the inquest for a fortnight, said it was one of the most dreadful murders anyone could imagine. The man must have been «i perfect savage to inflict such a number of Wounds on a defenceless woman in such a way. The nature of the wounds may be gathered from the ovidence oi Dr Millen, who said' . there were 39 stabs on the body. The woman was about 30 years ol ' age, and tho body was well nourished. He had made a post mortem examination, and found that tbo left lung was penetrated in Gve places and the right lung in two places, The heart, which was rather fatty, was penetrated in one place, and that would be sufficient to cause death. The liver was healthy but was penelratod in five places, and the stomach,: which was perfectly healthy, was penetrated in six places. The witness did not think all tho wounds wero inflicted with tho same instrument. The wounds generally might have been indicted by a knife, but such an instrument could not have inflicted one of the wounds, which went through the chest bone, His -~ opinion was that the wounds were by some kind of dagger, and that all of them wero caused during Dight,

1 j , A MerohantFooled(Modern Society) Hero is a good story. A wealthy merchant, whose bulky form and fine iron grey whiskora may frequently be Been together about the Exohange, had a game put up on him the otlior morning, which for malice aforethought, cussednoss, and deep-dyed aggravation, is unparalleled by any instance mentioned in history. Ho was leaving his suburban residence to catch his train for the city on the morning mentioned, when, on opening the hall door, a sight presented itself which froze his blood and upended bis hair like bristles on the back of a fretful old boar; for thcro, on tho floor of the porch, in the Bunshine, lay a baby in a shirt box—a .. very young baby with a very bald jL head, and it kicked up its heola and crowed in a manner wliioh showed that it quite concurred in the arrangemfjnt, if not a party thereto, On tho \m&\ of. tho babo was pinned a hotiee, calling upon tho respected merchant to take his child and be kind to it, and heaven would forgive liim. To describe tho manner in which the gentlemen's angry passions rose f and boiled over the cages would take up too muoh of our valuable space; suffice it to say that in two seconds bo had that box and its contents on the dining room table and was roaring for the servants and poh'ce, and demanding in imperious tones if a man was a wel nurse to have everybody's wall-eyed infants thrust upon his hands. '' M this stage the baby entered its protest with the force and volubility of a trombone, and all the residents and visitors poured into tho room to mako inquiries as to who ■had been trodden on, Foremost among these was the ■ lady of the hotise, who had received the impression that the house was on g fire or her husband was being slain I by a daylight robber, "Good 7/ Heavens, Georgo I what are you doing with Tilly?" she gasped, and snatching the child out of the ' box; sho proceeded to hush it with energetic pats on the back and ineligible) babble. . t';Tilly ?'! gasped George with Upok/qf a man # is !ust recovering from a kiok of a cart MA; witliw : MtliWgljttliit' w

had been sold suggested itself to him, and. ho looked round for soinobody to kil 311 the impulse of the mom.'nt. 'ho babe was his lawful and -.wall-beloved daughtor, who had found her why into the family a few weeka previously, and whom he had failed to recognise in consoquonce of tho shook to his norvous system, and hor marked resemblance to all babios of her age. There wero staying-in the house at the time three impish fouialo servants two frivolous,young,ladies, .and-a youthful male rolativo of tho merchant ; if anyone oan point out which of those six perpetrated the oruel hoax, they will, on application at George's office, rocoivo a reward of five pounds,

A mutilated letter has been picked up nt Kndina, 9(S miles N.W. of Adelaide, which is helieytd to ha tho..original written by General Gordon, dated 31st July, 1881, expressing his tlutcitiiiimtiou ' to stand by Khartoum. Tho only solution to the discovery of tho document in auch a placo iB the fact that a number of Arab hawkers'wero recently at Kadina, At Birmingham Police Court, Mr. Jelf, a well-known solicitor, who recoutly failed for upwards of £30,009, surrdudered to undorgo a term of two mouth's imprisonment, in default of paying £BSO that lio hid boon ontrusted with by a lodge of Oddfellows.

Given up by tho Doctors. " Is it possible that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by bo simple a romedy?" "laesiuoyou it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing hut Dr Soule's Amorican Hop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said ho must die, from Kidney and Livor troublo!" uenuine without a bunch uf green hops on the whito label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the buttle. Bewake of all the vilo poisonous stuff made to imitato tho above 2012