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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 222, 19 September 1896, Page 3

An influential syndicate in Napier has acquired the lease of about 12 miles of seabeach from the Taranaki and Patea Harbour Boards, for the purpose of floating a company in London to work the ironsand deposits thereon. The syndicate has also leased .27 acres at Pdtea as a site for the : proposed smelting works. The patent Tights of a new process of converting the sand into a marketable commodity have been secured. Electricity plays an important part in the mode of treatment. The leases are made out in the name of Messrs Ot. H. Swan, H. P. Cohen, and T. W. Balfour; and Mr K. E. Potts will do the floating in England. " At" $he Bow-street Police Court recently, before Sir John Bridge, Patrick Mehan, a licensed pedlar, was charged wtih disorderly conduct. , Inspector Faulkner, of the D division, saw the prisoner going .from house to house in Woburn square ringing the visitors' bells and offering his goods for sale in a manner which caused great annoyance. When cautioned, he became so abusive and violent that it wa3 necessary to take him into custody. Attne station prisoner said — "It's my beastly temper j lam very sorry." Prisoner said that he had held » license since ,1878, and went on to show excuses for ' ' his conduct j but Sir John stopped him, Baying — " You have someone in Court .'who pleads for you much better than .you can do for yourself. As you entered the Court I saw your child in its mother's arms, and it cried ont • Daddy ' in a way 4 that convinces me that you have been I , 'a.loving father. Inconsequence, 1 shall • give you one more chance. You must enter into your own recognizances to be of good behaviour for six months. Don't come here again. You appear to have .been drinking. Follow my advice, and >take the pledge and keep it." Prisoner— " I will, Bir, thank yon, your Worship." The child was a bright little follow About two years old, and during the proceedings he was stroking his mother's face, kissing her, and telling her not to "cry. The New Zealand Governimnt, it will t. be remembered, made some in ney out of the stamp collecting craze when the new post cards were introduced by changing the colour of the cards. Now South Wales also recently catered for the stamp collector, and this means of raising revenue is now openly acknowledged by some of the Crown colonies. Thus we have Sir Francis Fleming, tte Governor of the Leeward Islands, iuforming Mr Chamberlain (hat " the increase of revenue in Antigua was made up by £1825 having been realised by the sale of obsolete postage stamps." The revenue of Domin ca was increased in the same way by AC39, that of the Virgin Islands by £953, and that of Montserrat (the sces-e of Sir Hercules UobiDSon's first colonial appointment in 1854) by £296. The shipment of an old carriage to the Thames recalls (says the Aucklaud correspondence of the" Otago Daily Times") an inci'lent conneoted with the earliest history of the Thames golddelcis, and the romance of gold-mining — nameiy, the discovery of gold in the famous Shotover claim by Hunt, Clarkson, and party. One of the lucky party, on the strength of tlie rich yield accruing from the find, ordered a cariiago lrom Cousins and Atkins - the best that could be made, and regardless of expense. The carriage built to such an order was turned out in first-class style (a style of some twenty-seven years ago), (jut when it was completed a lady friend of the wealthy owner refused lo enter it nnless thesieps were gilded, and her fancy ■ was humoured. Since then this oarraigu has done duty as a cab in the city foi many years, and latterly it has been chiefly used as a mourning or horae carriage. It Das DOW been re-shipped to (he ' Thames, to do duty on the roads as a pub' lie cab. For * pain-in the chest apiece of flanno' dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Bain nd bound on over the seat of pain, anc another on the back between the sboulderß ; will afford prompt relief. This is especially valuable in caaes where the pain is causec by a oold and there is a tendency toworc neumonia. For sale by Jamks BoOif. '

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