LATE MINING NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue LXVII, 30 January 1904, Page 6

LATE MINING NEWS.

[lit TELEOKAPU — PUKSS ASSOCIATION. 1 DUNEDIN, This Day. Dredging returns : — Electric No. 2, 620 or. ; Ulnckwnter River, 88oz lldwt ; Island Block, 220z sdwt. REEFTON, This Day. Additional ivturns: — Pactolus No. 1, 240/. 7dwt for 133 hours ; I'actolus No. 2, /J2om ldwt for 121 hours ; Callaghau'a Creek, 270z 13dwt for 138 hours ; Buller Junction, 290z for 113 houis.

Tho Mayor hns rgivnl to receiw a deputation from (ho Trades and Labour (Council or> TucAday night in .support of iUi request tluit ho svlwuld call v public meeting U> obtain an t i xpre.«eion of opinion upon the importation of Cliinc&o labour into tho Tran.sviial. Tho tleallli Department lia« now discontinued tln> practice of taking the names and addresses of passengers landing hero from Lyttelton. "The Government is compelling settlers to clear from the land the best ciop that it will ever produce, and it will become a bod of noxious weeds and a nuisance." —Mr. H. G. Ell, M.H.R., on the regulations regarding the clearing of bush land. Mrt». Hustings, wife of Mr. George R. Hastings, painter, Douglas Wallacestreet, foil down *ome «iops outside her residence y«rterday and sustained concussion of the' brain. She \yas removed to tho Hospital. ' At the Land Board meeting, N. P. Neilson, of Mataroa, naked permission to build a butter factory on Hectioius 7 and 8, block 0, Mataroa Township, two uuoifered Crown land (sections. Tho condition undertaken was that the whole business, including; the land, Van to be pur- j chased in three years' time by a co-opera-tive company of flettlers'in* the district. The Board went into tho matter at aoine length, and then decided that the request be acceded to on the usuul conditions ; that tho agreement be first completed to the satisfaction of tho Commissioner of .Crown Lands ; and that other settlers bo allowed to join the company in proportion to the milk supplied. by thoin. France, remarks Mr.* Frnzer-Wyatt, envoy of the British Naw League, owns more square miles in Afwca than does Britain. It is mostly sand— yet not all Html. In tho Indo-Chinese peninsula Franco is carving out an empire. Also, fiho has annexed Madagascar, and ."-hut out Biitish trade— both acts contrary to* her agreement with Britain. Still, friendship is growing up between Britain and Franco, though it is by no means complete, aft the Franco-Russian alliance still exist*. Mr. Wyatt passed over the British occupation of Egypt (which in French oyos i« a peifidy as black as Madagascar) with the remark that the regeneration of the fellah is " out: of the tnoßt wonderful instances* of good government the world has known." The following subscription!) are acknowledged by the Hon. Treuburer of the Society for tho Protection of Women and Children : — Messrs. J. E. Nathan and D. J. Nathan, £1 Is oach ; Messrs. Stewart, M. Myers, F. Polity, A. Gray, and J. M'Uowau, 5a each. In the ca.se of Peter O. Micklcson v. Isiibefin. Munni and Win. Mm ray, Mr. Baldwin, on behalf of plaintiff, moved before tho Chief JuM-ieo this murning for •n interim injunction to restrain the defendant Munro from granting any person any right to cut or icmove timber from section 21, block 10, Haulapu district, a lid tv restrain thu clufcncl.uit Murray from entering upon the land nnd removing any timber during the pending of tho .'igreeinent with Micklcson. The application waa gianted subject to ccitain conditions. Tho inqufwt on the body of tlio lalo W. Main, mlio died, from injuiie.s received on the wharf yesterday, was commenced thus afternoon before Mr. James Ashcroft, CorouM-. Tho medical evidence und that of dotwi.«*d'«> hi other wa« taken, and the enquiry •uu.i then udjourni-d until 11 u.ni. on Monday, nt the Coroner's Ofiice. iiv order to benv evidoiiw a.H to the. utate of the appliances in uw at tho tiiuu of tho accident.