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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 42

Torquay has adopted a by-law which is intended to prevent people from us ng bad language in their own houses. Mrs J. L. Kelly, who has never recovered- from the effects of the accident that befel her fourteen months ago on board, the s.s. Athenic, is now in a very critical condition—dropsy having supervened upon heart trouble—and the absent members of the family have been summoned to Wellington. Messrs John Foster (president of the Trades and Labour Council of Westland), H. Betts (secretary of the Inangahua Miners’ Union), George Newton (©resident of the Brunner Coal Miners’ Union), D. O’Brien (delegate representing the Millerton Coal Miners’ Union), T S. Cairns and J. Hollows (representing the Otago Coal Miners’ Union) are ab present in town. Their visit is in connection with proposed amendments to legislation affecting the interests of miners. They are to remain in town for some clays, and are to have interviews with Ministers during the present week. Additional delegates are expected within the next few days from Waihi and other mining centres of Auckland. By the Union Company’s steamer Moeraki, which sailed from Wellington on Saturday. 160 two-tooth Shropshire rams were shipped by Mr C. W. Reid, of Elderslie, Oamaru, to Messrs Dalgety and Co., Limited, Sydney. There was on board also a line of fifty Romney Marsh ewes, consigned by Mr J. W. Reid to Messrs Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Sydney. The Mokoia, which left Lyttelton for Melbourne on Saturday, took a line of 100 rams, shipped by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company.