ASBESTOS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1909, Page 8

ASBESTOS.

DEPOSITS IN NELSON. Mr. H... E. Cook (chairman) and Mr. J. B. King, directors of the Auckland Asbestos Company, returned from a visit to the company's property at Motueka to-day. To a reporter of the Evening Post, Mr. Cook said at present developmental work only was being done on the property by an engineer who had been manager to the Canadian Asbestos Com pany. He was proving the property, and results so far had been extremely satisfactory. Asbestos which will give a fibre half an inch long pays, being utilised for millboards and roofing slates; but there had been found on the property outcropping veins of asbestos with fibre 2j inches long. "The surface deposits are enormous," Mr. Cook added, "but we wash to prove their depth." The magnitude of the property will be understood, Mr. Cook continued, when he said that it extended for a distance of 2000 to 3000 feet from the top of the range to the river below, with asbestos cropping out all the way down. Three tons sent to England were imperfectly cleaned and not properly treated, nevertheless it realised £20 a ton. The directors were satisfied with ail surfaceindications, but were not prepared at. to put up a permanent milting' ''phurf> until further work of developing and proving had been done.

A plea of gWfcty was entered in fche< S.M. Cauct to-day by a yoang man— Henry Fraser Marshall— charged with •theft, of a bicycle belonging to Harold Lyon. Accused was remanded till Friday for sentence. Marshall had also a second charge preferred against him — ,one of theft, at Otahuhu, of a cheque for £5, the property of Herbert Masters. A remand until Friday was also granted in Hhis case. The Moana, which arrived to-day : from Sydney, brought a Hereford bull, consigned" to Mr. G. M. Curric, of Wellington. The animal arrived in splendid condition. "We were chatting over a mug of beer together, discussing the prospects of the winter, when Anderson, who was eating his lunch, said something about me. I went over to him, and was going to throw my beer over him, but somehow my mng slipped, and caught him on the eye." So stated a newspaper vendor named Alexander Stephens, when v^chaa-ged, in- the S.M. Court to-day, with unlawfully assaulting Christian Anderson. The affair was a bar-room one, ,a«d Stephens had previously appeared on tiie rfiarge, but a remand was necessary, as complainant was not fit to gijfe evidence. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., held that accused must be convicted. Whatever provocation there may have been, he said, it did not justify accused's action. He would be fined £3, half of which would be devoted towards payment of complainant's medical expenses. The penalty for default was .fixed at a fortnight's imprisonment. Mrs. Eli«e Sfeutnpf, of New York, will hold a meeting at the New Century Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Tontlew p.rt> invited for the supply of .uniforms tmd overcoats for Government messengers v