NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1898, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

INTERPROVINCIAL. Very shortly the whole of the coal-hew-ing work at the Granity Mine, West Coast, will be done by machinery. Mr. Major will contest the Hawera seat at the next general election. Word was received in New Plymouth by the last English mail that a strong English syndicate had purchased the patent rights of Edison's treatment of ironsand for the world, with the exception of the United Slates and Canada, 'and that the syndicate was taking preliminary steps for exploiting the Tarauaki deposits. Coal won from the Mokau deposits is said to be now little inferior in heating power to the best Westport coal. The Auckland City Council Investigation Committee as to the alleged stuffing of the City South roll has found up to the letter X 52 names on for properties that appeared in other names as owners on the valuation roll. The consideration of the question of the Dunedin City Council's acquiring the city tramways has been adjourned till the return of Mr. Fenwick, Chairman of Directors of the tramway company. The Maoris around Hawera are going in extensively for cropping this j'ear, and besides a fair quantity of grain, root crops are being largely planted. A factory for the manufacture of condensed milk was to have been opened near Sentry Hill, Tarauaki, this week. The Marlborough Express has been shown a fine nugget of gold unearthed by a miner in one of the Langley Dale gullies. It is flattened and oval in shape, and weighs 2oz I7dwt. The bursting of the kerosene lamp uspd for heating an incubator on Mr. Reeves's farm at Tauranga set fire to a shed a few nights ago and did damage to the extent of £150. The Southland County Council has adopted the resolution originated by the Hutt County Council protesting against the exorbitant and monstrous charges for valuations as made by the Government. To show that the small birds nuisance is not a myth in the Temuka district, the Leader mentions that a settler the other day shot no fewer than 95 with four shots, the birds having gathered uear the feeders.