OMNIUH GAIHERUM

Otago Witness, Issue 2292, 3 February 1898, Page 30

OMNIUH GAIHERUM

The export of cod from Westport last week wv3 5632 toes, the Westporb Coal Company contributing 5061 ton 3 and the Cardiff Company 621 tons.

The effect; of cheap trains from Wellington to Pefcone is that there are now no empty houses iv the township, and a number of new ones ara being built.

A large fire ie burning ah South Carterton. Much damage has been done tD the fences and grass. A settler at Kuutson loat a stack of oata and a large shed.

The Gazette contains the information that Mr Arthur Bently Worchiagton, of the Sfiudenta ot Truth, ia .aja officiating minister within the nv. aning of ths Marriage Act.

Tib Hon. W. Hall- Jones spent the 27th ulb. in visiting the scene of tibo fii-LS at Oxford aud Bsrchhill. Ke gave £20 to the relief fund. He left, for Wellington on Thursday.

Tor B'ackball Company exported from Greymouth last week 771 locs and the Bruaaer Company 1972 tons of coai. The -weekly timber r-zpo;r, from the Gn;y was represenced by 250.677tt.

The Prtmier ha<? rpceived the following cabla in reply to otic sen*; by him in reference to the accident to Lord Brassey: — " Thanks for kind inquiry ; am none the worse for accident. — B.rassey. Melbourne, January 28." "

Tiiu eighteenth annnal meeting of thfi Canterbury Industrial Association was beJd in the Art Ga-Jlt-ry with a supper on Friday night. Mr J. A. Frost iclc was elected preaideut. The balance sh<>e'i sho'fed the receipts for tht« year to be £401, nr.d the balance i« bv-nd £?165.

Ac a, public meeting at Wellington on the 28ih ult., presided over by the mayor, a resolution wss carried heartily endorsing the proposals for the construction of a d'ek at "Wellington, and urging the Harbour B ).nd to gi'-'e tha question its early and favouraH*j c •;.■ : 'v*4 p igi % .

A cii ij> it>r in one of the foot races at B-'owa's -\snhn, in the Winton district, agreed with two e&Ler runnera to "cut" up the stake* it he won. He won. was paid a pound note, and immediately t>re off two of the corners of the note and hand* d them to his mates. " Cutting " up tre pr'iZ'-, m-ir.ej', ceitainly !

AS a. raeef.ing of tha council of the Chamber of Commerce of Auckland the Telegraph department; advised tbaS fjhe Government were uot at t,n-««rut prepared to reduce the c».ble rates as thd'e v/a<J atill a considerable loss on the intercolonial business. The matter was referred to th« mc >ming council.

An <pcu-ajr inciting at Auckland, under the auspioeHoHhe Libsr-U Association, oh Saturday B'gb.!; passed a resolution strongly protesting against cLe action of the Legislative Council respecting old age pensions aud other Liberal measures, and requesting the Government to take steps to secure supremacy <■'£ tlie people's will.

The Governor visited Akaroa on Saturday, and "vas r^ceivrd by the mayor and councillors. Hh Excellency waa rnu.-b. pleaded with the beauCiis o? the pHee, and will vipib it again a!i Ha early data. He arrived at Chrk'tchureh on Monday, and makes an official visit to Wairnate on tha 11th and to Tinaaru on the following d<*y. Among the applications for letters patent received at the New Zenland Patent Offi-e is oue dated sfch January of this year from the Right Hon. Douglas Mackinuon Baillia Hamilton Cochrane, Earl of Duudonald, of 31Portinnn square, London. Hh application refers to a yielding seat applicable as a saddle for velocipedes.

The Mount Benger Mail declares that the deputations which the Hon. Mr Hs,ll- Jones was said to have received ou a recent Sunday wore receive 1 oa the Saturday, and thab the inspection of the Moa Fiat estate and nf the Miller's Flat bridga works, r/hich he also was said to have made ou the Sunday, was ako made on the preceding day.

Afc Christchurch on the 26 ;h ulb. David Woods wm charged with doing actual bodily harm to M-.rgaret Shierlaw. From the evidence iD appeared that the parties were employed at a hotel, and afbeiv&n altercation ib is alleged that the accused threw a carying fo'k at the woman, which sruck in her back. The wounds are nob serious. Accused was committed for trial.

The annu-il meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Accident. Insurance Company was held ci Monday stAu-klird. The directors' l- p3rt stated that £4-000 had been transferred to the reserve fund, £2000 to reinsurance fund, and a dividend at the rats of 10 pur cent, for the year declared. Largely i::cieased business was reported throughout the Australian colonies.

In a communication to the Southtaud News MrR. C»mck?ugge&ts that ßteps should betaken to have the building atones of the West Coast Sounds represented at the Otago Jubilee lucluitnal Exhibition, He points out that in Edwardsrn's Sound, in an upper reach oE Clnlky Inlet, there is a coarse, crystalline red gnnitp, apparently in direct contact with aa interesting group of siiicious felstones, greenstones, glossy clay slate, and mica schists. It is of hard, uniform texture and large tabular structure, so that immense blocks could easily be removed. S ; r James Hector, in a report to ths P-ovincial Government of Otago, mentions it as ''splendid building material that might be quarried close to where the largest shipping would lie in perfeofc safety." At the head of the Cadman Lake series in a bighfc fronting Dusky, between Fanny Cove and the upper end of Cooper's Island, there is a marble q larry of seemingly considerable extent. It ia of the variety knowa as ribboa-striped marble, and consists of alternate bands of blue and ■whita limestone. It is referred to in the 188788 " G-tolog'cal Explorations" as being free from joints and flaws, and that if larg9 blocks were placed in the market at a reasonable price they would find ready sale for ornamental purposi>s for which this particular description oE marble is specially adapted.

At a special general meeting of the Dunedin Bowling Club on Friday night it was resolved to adopt the rules now in use by the New Zealand Bowling Association. A set o£ by-laws foe governing the club contests was also adonfced.