NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 146, 17 December 1897, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

INTERPROVINCIAL. It is reported that the discoverers of the petroleum deposit at Kotuku, in the Greymouth district, have received £3000 for onethird of their interest in the find. At the Wealth of Nations mine, Eeefton, last week, a man named John Dixon, whilst working in a cage putting guides in <i shaft, fell with the cage a distance of 150 ft. Hi? spinal column is injured. The Government has decided to refund whatever duty may be paid on the statue of the Queen which the Auckland people have arranged to import. Mr. G. F. Naylor, a brother of the late Dr. Naylor, organist of York Minster, has been appointed to the position of additional pianoforte teacher to the Nelson School of. Music. The Canterbury Trades Council has decided to write to the other Trades Councils of the colony requesting them to co-operate in the retention of Ben Tillett in the colony. Some of the men on the co-operative works at Jackson's have only worked 20 days in several months, owing to the exceptionally bad weather. The rainfall on the "West Coast in November was I4iin. There were only eight days during the month upon which no rain fell. The rainfall for October and November was 2ft 10£ in. This is at the rate of 10ft 3iu for 12 months. A School Committee Conference at Oamaru has resolved to ask the Minister of Education to make bookkeeping a subject for the lifth and sixth standards. A giant raft comprising from 1100 to 1200 silver pine sleepers was brought from Lake Maliiuapna to Greymouth recently. It is the largest quantity yet brought down in i a single raft. '. Since its inception the Westport Cgal Co.- - has paid in wages alone upwards of £1,000,000. : The Chairman of the Christcliurch Ac- ' cliraatisation Society says .that in clean clover - seed alone the humble bee is worth £50,000 < a j'ear to the country. Since Sister Christian's arrival in Christ- '. church an Order of Deaconesses has been i founded in connection with the Durham- '. street Circuit of the Wesleyan Church. . The Hawera School Committee proposes J that united action should be taken with the < view of having school inspectors placed ' under tho authority of the Education De- J partment. < The whole of the records of the Auckland < Yacht Club were destroyed by the fire on j the Queen-street Wharf recently. ____________ < The half-yearly meeting of Court Epuni, i A.O.T 1 ., was held at Petone last night, Bro. ' A. B. Jarman, C.R., presiding. The fol- ] lowing were elected as officers for • the J ensuing six months: — C.R., Bro. A. E. < Jarman; S.C.It., Bro. J. H. Lash; S.W., j Bro. W. Bailey ; J.W.. Bro. P. Bray ; 5.8., j Bro. U. Ashcroft; J. 8., Bro. G.Bowles; ] Minute See;., Bro. 11. G. Brooks ; Auditor, '. Bro. G. Palder; Surgeon.", Drs. Ross and t Purely. The takings for the evening 1 amounted to over £64i J

DEATHS Birr.iri.c\.— On 4th November, 1897, at Clifton, England, of typhoid fever, Ruth, eldest daughter of Richard C. and Jauet Buikley ; aged 19 year*.. Hutton-.— On 15th December, 1597, at her residence, 07, Tory -street, Snv.ih An j, beloved wife of AY. G. Hutlou, mid bister U> Mr*-. John Crowther, uged 87 jeiu-b : deeply resicttud. Joso.S. — At his residence, o;uu.u'u, Geoi ije Joi:es, father of the Hon. Gcoii,'C Jones, mid I'red. Jones, of Welling-ton, an hij 81st year.