HUNTLY MINING DISASTER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 32, 7 February 1891, Page 5

HUNTLY MINING DISASTER.

, ■*. The cases against Kaye and McClellan were further gone on wibh ab Huntly, before Captain Jackson, R.M., yesberday afternoon. The examination of Thomas Carless as to the accident took up the greater part of the afternoon, but no new facts were elicited, ib being a repetition of statements made ab bhe inquest. The Court did not sit late to-day, but adjourned about noon. There is little chance of Collins' case being taken on Monday, as an amount of expert evidence has yeb to be hoard in the present case.

A novelty in the way of advertising is the handy illustrated catalogue and price list which has just been issued from the Star Office f° r the Auckland Direct Importing Company. Special prominence has been given in it to the Company's parcel system, the money for which is returned if goods are not approved of, as well as the prices of the goods in stock. Some beautiful illustrations of the latest styles in hats and bonnets, directionsforself-measuremenb, descripbion and block of premises, rules for conducting business, calendar for 1891, San Francisco and Direct Mail Service, Inland Parcel Posb, Telegraphic Guide, a form for wills, sbabistics, etc., all help to make up a useful and instructive pamphlet. The price list is nicely printed on calendered paper, and the wrapper is on tinted paper and printed in colours, and reflects great credit on tho Star Printing Department.

Writing on the subject of police removals the "Post" says:—"lt is satisfactory to know that the new Minister in charge of the department has lost no time.in putting the brake on Lieutenant-Colonel Humeaction as Commissioner of Police, in recklessly ' removing members of the police force from one part of the colony to the other, without any advantage to the public service but to the great loss and injury of the men removed. The transfers insisted on during the last few months have been simply scandalous, and have nearly ruined many of the best men in the force. Homes have been broken up, children taken away from profitable employment, and the most serious hardships inflicted, simply at the whim of the Commissioner, without any possible increase in efficiency, although bhe cost of the transfers must have been very considerable. Mr Seddonhas already done good service by pulling the Commissioner up. Ib is to be regretted that Captain Russell allowed him such a free hand. He has been enabled.to inflicb greab injustice on deserving officers, and to create a very large amount of well-grounded dissatisfaction in the police force.,"