GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10378, 1 March 1897, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

fjjr TELEGRAPH.—PRKSS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Saturday. Mr. Freybkro has patented a process for reducing the bulk of New Zealand barks, and thus enabling them to be exported for tanning purposes, The process is also applicable to wattle bark. The City Council k inquiring into a process of treating wood blocks with napthaline, a waste product of candle factories, which toughens and solidifies wood, and is believed to cheapen the cost. It is suggested that experimental lengths be laid down with various sorts of timber. The Alameda'j mail which left) Auckland on January 23rd, reached London on February 24th. A new Mining Bill of a consolidating character is being prepared, and will bo discussed at a conference of goldfielria wardens here. The Railway Department has been constructing a large number of waggons (150) to replace stock sold to Western Australia, and 200 for extension of traffic. The work is Dow completed, and will entail the discharge of some hundred bands who had been taken on, The Maori election petition case will bo heard at New Plymouth on March 31st before the Chief Justice and Judge Conolly, Grkymodth, Sunday. • The coal exports for the week are 33.89 tons; timber, 98,667 feet 1052 sleepers. Wkstport, Saturday, The coal export for the week .ended today was 3554 tons as follows! Wpstpqrt Coal Company, 3430 tons; ' Cardiff Company, 134 tons. CiiRiSTOHUROH, Saturday. Mrs. Empson, caretaker of the Lichfleldstreet Fire Station, was suddenly attacked with illness on Thursday. She was taken to the hospital, and died shortly , aftqr admission. A ll examination showed that two tumours which had burst caused her death, . James Anderson, charged with presenting a revolver at Mrs. King on Thursday night, wasdeclared insane by two doctors yesterday, and committed to the Sunnyside Asylum, Dunkdin, Friday. \ In ' Chambers, leave was piyen to the liquidators of the Colonial Bank to examine Mr. Henry McKenzie, late genera.l manager, The application was unopposed. The list of contributors to Walter Uuchrie and Co, was settled, with the exception of two oases, ' "'. ' "'/'■ * '-' ' A freehold city property, with a frontage to High-stab of ,47 feet 4 inches, by a. depth of $0 feet) with some offices thereon,' re»lUod £4000 on Friday at auqtion. /.!,;'.:,. j !•',' John Williams, alias McKonzie, a young men, remanded to Wellington g'n.Friday on a charge of alleged weloning.".' ,;;.•;=