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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 263, 23 October 1916, Page 2

During,last session Mr. W. T. Jennings, M.P., brought tinder the notice of the Minister of Mines the desirability of an inspection of an outcrop of coal near Otiwa. King Country. This has been made by departmental officers, and it is understood the report is an excellent one as regards the quality of the coal, size of seams, and suitability of getting to market. The member has written to the Government, asking that the mine be opened as a State coal mine.

In a letter to a friend, published in a Western Australian paper, an Anzac convalescent in London wrote as follows: —“Two ladies took Tom and myself to a shivoo at Wimbledon last week. All women present, except two parsons and an artist with whiskers like a doormat. They all wanted to know about Australia, and Tom was magnificent I He told a group of breathless listeners that the kangaroo was the fiercest animal in the world, and that he had often seen one knock a bullock over a six-wire fence with its tail. I felt the atmosphere too oppressive, and moved to the other side of the hall. I stood it as well as I could, but when 1 saw them shifting the tables to one side it struck me that they might start some ghastly kiss-in-the-ring game, so I cleared. Give me Gallipoli every time.

A London correspondent, writing on September Sth, tells us that the “Times,” remarking on the wreck of the Tongariro, remarked that it might involve' the market “in one of the heaviest marine losses since the Titanic disaster, for although the liner had discharged 2000 tons of cargo at Auckland, she had on board 7500 tons of general goods for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers, which may be valued at £500,000. The hull was insured against all risks for £Bl,OOO, and, in addition, there were amounts places against the risk of total loss only and on homeward freight, etc., total insurances in connection with the ship to about £170,000, and raising the sum involved in the casualty to not far short of £700,000.”