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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 6

The- following cablegram nas been sent} to the head office of the Grand Junction,, London : — " Martha lode, No. 5 level, east. — In cross-cutting to tlie south ati 820 feet, a reef has been met with, averaging £2 7s per ton over a width of) 7 feet. Have not yet reached hanging)' wall." Great interest is being taken, by thai ratepayers of Eastbourne in the proposal of the Borough Council to borrowi, i) 17,000 for the purpose of carrying outj Mr. R. L. Mesta-yer's water and dTaini age soheme. A public meeting of rate-*, payers to discuss the matter will bo lieldj to-night. A youth of twenty yearst of age was convicted at the Magistrate's Court to^ day of being a rogue and vagabond in; that he collected subscriptions for a* wreath under false pretences. As this was his first offence, he was ordered byj Mr. Eiddell, S.M., to come up for seni tenoe when called upon. There is on, exhibition in one of thai windows of the D.I.C. a large model of! the Orient liner Otway, at present int< Sydney. The dimensions of the model are:— Length 12ft 6in, .width 2ft 6m*, height 4ft 6in. It has already been exhibited at Christchurch and Dunedinl' .(where it attracted considerable atten-t tion), and it will afterwards be taken, on to Auckland and Sydney. The} model came originally from; England. The Bushey Park estate, near Pal^ merston South, the property of Miv Roderick M'Kenzie, is (telegraphs ourj Dunedxn special correspondent) ab pre*, sent being inspected by the Government! Valuer with a view to its purchase for} closer settlement. The estate contain^ <&!40 acres of what is considered good* wheat-growing laad. Mr. E. H. dark. M.P., is negotiating with the Minister) for Lands with a view to arranging that* applicants for farms on Bushey Park* shall be examined by the land boards nearest to their present places of resi. dence, r Apparently, matters are -still at a d«ak lock in connection with t-ire strike of! waterside workers at. lVa*. A oon-v' ference, held at W^.gton, betoeM ?J T^$ tlV< *, oi J b * &bi PP^S comp R ni<3 interested and the waterside workers,, proved abortive, and the position has been accentuated by the fact that crews Mid officers of the vessels trading tor Pafcpa^wao have been working the cargo! of late, are members both of the Sea? mens Hnion and the Merchant Service*, Guild. Probably a conference betw«eni these two bodies will shortly be nefcC with a view of taking some defeat* stand. Additional help for the striker*' has come m the shape of a donation ofi ±125 from the Lyttelton Wharf Labouwrs*' Union, and those of the strikers who. have obtained other weak are gftano, financial assistance to their felowS workers, who have so far been unabla to obtain other employment. According to a cojs-espomfent, who,, •mates to the editor, a drain at tile niter, section of Daniel and Constable stjreet^ is causmg hooseholdere.in, the immediate! locality some concern Every time, tfaet writer jurors, there is a rainfall more than a -b.ea.vy mist, the drain becomes choked, and pedestrians are held np v On Thursday evening the drain wia again blocked with an oaK>rpJu& of water, and "as a consequence a number ofi reavdents were delayed in getting to, then* homos." Our correspondent fears that some of tliese citizens who received! the: wetting may be none the better in health throngh the exposure, which he attibutes to the City Council's neglect. The council, he adds, has been ap-i pealed to repeatedly on the matter, has promised to do something, but so far there has been no performance. The writer adds:— "There is no time for compliments and ' beg pardon ' when one sees sewage bubbling and splashing into back yards." The council is exhorted* to look into the matter. The number of hotels closed during 1 1910 by tho Victorian Licenses Reduction Board, was 99, making a total, sinca the initiation 'of the board's work, of 410. _ The annual report of the board! explains that in determining the muni ber of hotels to be closed all over fch« State, the board estimates the probable amount of compensation as nearly as it can, but actual amounts shown in evidence in compensation cases sometimes exceed the estimate, while surrenders which come in after the principal compulsory closings have been completed stilt further affect the position, and may necessitate the apportionment of th« kter closings to the next year's fund. The work in 1907 did not commence tiTE late in the year, and consequently a considerable balance of that year v s fund* was carried forward to 1908, but the subsequent years showed as under: — Amount of compensation payable out of the next year's fund— l9oß, £6336;' 1909, £1464; 1910, £9295. HoteU closed, but compensation not fixed by 31st December— l9oß, ( 12; 1909, 7*; i 1910, — . The following is a summary of the deprivations and compensations from May, 1907, to December, 1910: — Deprivations— 1907, 65 hotels; 1908, 143; 1909, 103; 1910, 99; total closed, 410. Compensations (amounts awarded! owners and licensee)— l9o7, 63 hotels, £32,596; 1908, 133 hotels, £66,581;. 1909, 108 hotels, £41,669; 1910, 106 hotels, £54,143; total, 410 hotels, amount of compensation, £194,9895, average per hotel, £475. Why fetter yourself with baggage when we check it free to your destination ? You've no bother. Baggage arrives soon as you, and you pay only, trifle for express. New Zealand Ex« press Company, Ltd.— Advt. For the next few weeks two rival inter* ests will ocoupy practically every household in tho limpiro City, viz., Summer Holidays and Summer Sales. Even the mere man will be more or less affected thereby, while- tho ladies, of course, are deeply oonccrned with both. The Sale that stands out abovo all others for the value and variety available will be found at tho establishment of C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street. This house has a great and ¦« ell-earned reputation for value, and two Special "Lines of Sunshades now on offer at 2s lid and 4s lid will onhanco the prestige- of the store. Those goods cannot bo described, and they. are soiling too fast for any list to remain accurate See them without delay.— Advt. Messrs. Harcourt and Co., who are advertising a new list of city properties, report that the market is rapidly hardening, and they suggest that investors should inspect early. They add that the demand for money is now being met, consequently there will be fewer forced sales.