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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1511, 14 February 1901, Page 10

The post office at Paremata has been closed. Arrangements have been made to make a delivery of correspondence from Porirua three times a week. Tenders are invited for the snpplv of grass seed for improved farm settlements. On the 19th inst. Messrs Harcourt and -* 1 . 1 ] . sel \ at their rooms, 298 acres of freehold land at Waitotara. As will be noticed by referring to Messrs ilannah and Co., s advertisement over tiie leader, they will commence their anI l ] ia 1 stocktaking sale of boots and shoes on Monday morning at 10 o’clock.

Tenders.are invited for drainage in connection with St. Alark's church property. 9. n blth inst. Messrs Macdonald C ?* will sell at their rooms; Mr G. Phillips s property on the WaiwetuIsamai road. Lower Hutt, containing $ acres, suitably subdivided, with six-roomed house and outbuildings. Tho City Council invites tenders for the erection of the new Te Aro tenths and other works and for a concrete sea wall and reclamation along Clyde quay. Mr Herbert W. Egerton is about to afca ride from John o J Groats to Landes End on a motor oar. The distance is 880 miles.

Four and a half tons of green oak will make a ton of charcoal; of pine, six tons. Twelve pounds of charcoal are equal to 101 b of coal.

Some of the machines for making matches which are used in these days make 200 revolutions a minute each, and turn out aboxit 2,500,000 matches daily.