WEST COAST NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14681, 12 May 1908, Page 10

WEST COAST NOTES.

' [From Our Cob bus con ukst.] May JO, Councillor Eldon Coat re has been elect-,'e>d,-Mayor of Grey month vice Mr Joseph Vl'etrie, deceased. The- now Mayor is a son of tin old Groymoutli family and is the second native of the town to oc-upy the position. Mr Daniels, of tlio Union Company’s staff, has left. Westport for Dunedin to 'confer with the directors -as to the iwl- , visibility of a ttempting to launch the stranded Taviuni through the western, breakwater. The vessel was driven, along in that direction until she held by tne anchors placed out by the men urider -Mr Dan.i6l.Vs orders. A kaolin nitty deposit has been disx»Torsd in the Roe I ton district. ibis ' meanfl another potential industry in. the Tnangalum district wliirh is so singularly rich in its variety of minerals of n useful kind.