GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
-,•'>-;wf-.f] .•»'.«••:« ■■■■■i-i-wiiT . [BY TELEGRAPH,—PRESS ASSOCIATION.! J ".: . t vf-i Greymooth, Monday. Tub coal : expoab ' for. last week was 1644 tonsl3cwb. : ' It has rained almosb continuously for five weeks.'-; t ■ ■■■ An old identity Ahaura, named John Russell, a blacksmith, died on Saturday. ' ?, !■,-[• i Westport, Monday. . The coal export for week ending Saturday was .4237 tons;; Westpprb Coal Company, 3279 tons lCcwb; Cardiff Company, 957 tons 4cwt. ' > • Wellington, Monday.'•' Some women say that a man attempted to set fire to a store ab Brooklyn on Saturday night. '-They gave 1 the alarm, and the fire '• was! pub ■■ out), but 1 the man was nob caught.'-,' l 1 ' ,:i . - Christchdrch, Monday. 1 -Mr. William Wilson, the first mayor of Christchurch, a very old settler in Canterbury, died this morning, aged 78. ; ' '■'' « The entries for the forthcoming Canterbury: Agricultural • and > Pastoral Association's Show number 1747, made up as follows Sheep, 1626 ; • cattle, 133; ' horses, 205;• pigs, 42 (sheep dogs, 11 dairy produce, 103 ; cured and preserved meats, 45; seeds, 16; -New Zealand manufactures, 16; implements and machinery, 500; carriages, 60. In addition to these there will' be 27 tents, filled mostly with colonial manufactures. •' Lasb year the• total entries were 1818. There is an increase in .'sheep and cattle, bub a falling off in horses. ' 1 ' " . ■ • r :• ■ ' Donedin, Monday.'; ' The' City ' Mayoralty) nominations are: Mr. E. B.' Cargill, and Councillors Gore, Swan, and Hardy. ■ • , ? - The ' Dunedin * Cycling Club to-nighb carried a resolution,'by : a large majority, to affiliate. with the League of New Zealand Wheelmen. ■' " :-v :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10595, 9 November 1897, Page 5
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253GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10595, 9 November 1897, Page 5
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