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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 201, 28 July 1906, Page 2

The overdraft of the Timaru Borough Council now stands at £5000. It is notified in tho "Gaaette" ~ that Lieut. -G. A. Rollbie has re- -. signed his commission in the Stoke 3 - n;fles. . -I er An invention of an/ fxqteho&th •c- by itr J. S. JIsP h f?rspn, of Wakex- field, has been gazetted. es • :'s Messrs Wayne and Jones, who recently came from Wales to inspect the Parapara on behalf of a syndicate, ar n . rived by ihe Pateena this morning, and l ]. transshipped at the outer anchorago intc the Lady Barkly, which conveyed them ?c j to Parapara, ' ' ' c i The death Is announced of Madame L ) Heller, who was well-known here as r. n . visiting clairvoyant and lecturer. She died at the Wellington Hospital of heart „ disease on the 23rd inst. Madame Heller was a woman of a kindly disposition, and had many friends outside her business circle. Owing to the death of Mr W. Robertson and the consequent memorial service et at the Baptist Church to-morrow (Sunle day evening), the previously announced s service for young men will be postponed es until the following Sunday, le a A private letter reemvod in Wellington states that from 100 to ISO Canadian farmers, who are dissatisfied with theii j; lot in the Dominion, intend throwing up i,, their selections, with the intention of s settling in the North Island of New Zen , v land. ,f What might almost be called "boom" !S rates still prevail in the values of agri ;e cultural properties in the Oamaru dis j. trict, and more particularly of sections governed by the several cases in which very large premiums were paid for such 1 sections. The other day the "Oamaru Mail" hea-rd authoritatively of a case in 'f which a leaseholder of 600 acres has been '• offered little short of £3000 for his good- '■■ will and improvements, 4,' he latter being a liberally computed at £1500. Yet even * so tempting a proposition as this did not lead to a sale. During: the long and stormy trip ol the schooner Maroro frpm Hokianga to Sydnoy, a magnificent j display of St. Elmo's firo was witnessed on board. Groat balls of fire rolled along the yards, and rushed , up the masthead. Tho ocean was 'UnlliaTCtly illumintytod. , The coal hulk WoodMrk, which i has ,, 7 fc £. over 33 years done service i in Wellington harbour, has been 1 i condemned. The old craft had - i quite a romantic history Tho i Woodlark is stated to have been i builf, at Burmah over 70 years 1 ago, and was constructed of teak t . throughout, even Jto the decking ' and planking. Her early career I the story goes, -was spent in sup- i pressing Chinese 1 pirates, but, ow- a ing to .her linferior sailing- qjuali- B ties, she was diverted into a less t exciting trade— the transport of fc coolies between China and India I Subsequently the jWoodlark- went s whaling, and i>.o years agw v»a ii under command of Captain Jackson h Barry, Captain W, R. WilWams. p nro-prietor pf the Blaok IDiamopd J Fleet, purchased the WoQdlark at Newcastle 30 years .ago, and f. brought her to Wellington to be '■ converted into a coal hulk. The old hulk passed to the Union Go. about 18 years ago. Over 50 years g ago the Woodlark was sheeted With) a English oak whilst in Sy<toey t Ii s A consignment of 1000 tone, of P cement is to toe shippotl by tile C Maryborough Dime and IBement F Company from Wellington for San b Francisco by the steamer Pondo; d The order is the result ot tha great E deiaand for building materials that P has followed the earth^juake end h fire. O M Attention fs directed to M.M Anstlce'B H new aJveitisenwnt !b fe-aay's fetfiite t