CUSTOM DUTIES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 July 1901, Page 3

CUSTOM DUTIES.

The following custom duties were collected at port of Greymouth for the week ended 27th July, 1901

That extraordinary clever company, Ferry's—the Human Prog—will appear at the Opera House on Saturday. Owing to the debate between the Trinity Debating Society and Kumara Debating Society on Wednesday evening next, Mr Rae’s Lantern and Phonograph entertainment which was to have been given on Thursday has been postponed till Thursday evening August Bth.

It is stated that £40,000 is due to the returned soldiers of New South Wales.

The Church of England Nursing Association, New South Wales, is to be placed in a position to supply trained nurses to the sick poor in their own homes. The vitriol-throwers are still at work in Melbourne, despite the reward of £IOO offered by the Government for their arrest.

The complete list of insurance on Hordern’s stock and buildings gives the total amount at £394,718, nearly all covered in Australia, Stephen Norman, ane of the first employees of the late Edward Henry, at Portland, Victoria, died in Melbourne on the 16th instant at the age of 107 years. Some of the witnesses examined by the Victorian Commission, sitting in Brisbane, with regard to the operation of the Early Closing Act on their businesses, pproved of the law, whilst others said t was opposed to the interests of the small traders.

During the year ended 30th June, Victoria imported 7,711,962 ft super, of New Zealand white pine. At the Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, Miss Muriel Elsie Richard was awarded a gold medal for piano solo by pupils under 16; now she has also, after protest, been awarded the gold medal for piano solo for pupils under 18. Export trade in citrus fruits from New South Wales is assuming large dimensions and the Department of Agriculture warns growers against allowing the scale to get hold of their orchards.

The Victorian Saving Banks Commissioners have decided to call for tenders for a further issue of Government guarantee debentures for £IOO,OOO at 3 per cent with a currency of 10 years. The minimum has been fixed at £96.

Cooktown advices conveys news that about 1860 ozs of gold have been brought by passengers on the Jessie Riley from New Guinea. The gold is said to have come from Woodlark Island and the mainland.

Mr Rhodes is very anxious (says Col. Mackay) to get Australians co settle in Rhodesia, but the colonel warns his fel-low-countrymen to be very sure of their ground before they leave Australia for an untried land, such as Rhodesia.

Major-General French, who was specially appointed by the Federal Cabinet, together with Major Bridges and Major Owens of New Bouth Wales, and Colonel Finn, of Queensland, to report on the defences of Thursday Island, states that they are in an excellent condition, and reflect great credit upon the Queensland Government.

News has reached Adelaide that Ernest Warman, a member of Cockrun’s pros- . pecting party, has been murdered by an Afghan employee. Last November another member of the expedition was killed by blacks near Hector’s Pass, in the Musgrave Ranges. Professor Kernot has given £3OO for the equipment of a class in the iron foundry at the Workingmen’s College, Melbourne, of which he is an ex-President.

Among the applicants for an old age pension at Orange, New South Wales, was a woman 101 years of age. The sweating evil in Sydney is said to be almost exclusively confined to industries in which female and child labour are employed. At an inquest in Melbourne concerning the death of Laceday Catherine Mackay, who committed suicide, the police in charge of the case stated that before the body was identified over 500 people presented themselves at the morgue to see the body, either to identify it if possible, or what is more likely, to satisfy a morbid curiosity. At the same time, scores of telegrams and letters came to hand from parents in thr country asking for further details in the description of the clothing, etc., worn by deceased. They indicate pretty clearly that a largo number of girls have disappeared from their homos in recent years, and have not been traced by their anxious relatives.

A sum is being put on the New South Wales State Estimates for the establishment .of commercial agencies In the East and in South Africa, as well as in London. The best man possible is to be got for the position of Commercial Agent in London, regardless of party influences. It is reported that three inter-State jam manufacturers are combining to deal with the markets of the Commonwealth under Federation,

At a caucus of the Queensland Parliamentary Labour Party Mr Browne was re-elected leader, Mr Turley Vice-Chair-man, Mr M'Donnell Secretary and Whip, and Messrs Kerr and Givens Executive.

The eleven biggest Kalgoorlie mines won 80,0970z5?0f gold in June, as compared with 70,8960 z in May.

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Customs Duties .. £416 16 10 Beer Duty .. 19 11 6 Light Dues... ... 3 1 Total .. £436 11 5