GREYMOUTH NEWS NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2507, 9 April 1902, Page 11

GREYMOUTH NEWS NOTES.

(FltOM OCX OWS CORKESPONDENT.) GREYMOUTH, April 1. A railway matter, that has been kept \ery quiet here, is now exercising a gcod deal of public attention On the first clay of the Reeftou races, through some miscalculation, misunderstanding, or neglect, a \rry serious calamity very nearly occurred. A tram from (<rey mouth with sr\cn carlia^s" crowi'pc' 1 1 h pD's^ngers w:ih on tho way to Rrefior. When nearly at Ktillwater one of the : lilway cn^doyeo, m 'he guards' \un l oticctl tl-e Slillwiier station master frai't.;vill> v. n\my a : ect t\£~. He ii'nncdi•itcly put n: tiie b^akc and hung out the dpntjrr sig'-.a!. wl.ic'i was no+iced by th» ciri\or, and th<> train ca 1 krougiif to :i stop. \.lmc->t inmiechatelj aftfi wards a heavy mineral iram j)ut in an ajippaiaiict 1 . When the guard 'rotie^d tl.e flag at the station he had i.o idra of any cau^c for the B.'c.ppacrc. and had no ho -r -n it tho trnr woi'ld l'.a\»' -.'OJii. light <;n aid been ceitair.'iy t"lr -coped hj tli^ ii.innral ham c-.riinc from tlie ojjpo-it; fhrpction. 'I he i 'cap* 1 was a. very nairow one. Mes,r h Cordon, Haye=. T^nrant. Ahion, and Thonpion kave b"cn at Point Eliz.ihjth hinc c \e-terdaj r going o\cr the whol'j ot the (oal between there and town, with the \ lew of d< ciding tin- be->t spot for c)jrning the State coal mine. It is said that poitior of the railway already fomiecl will be iisfles , ard t'nit a de\iation will be necpssary The cc > «vn iT iis .ioners expect to c-ompletc iheir iii\e-tig;-non> by the end of t!ie week Mr Hcott, manager of the Blackball coal mine, has received an appointment in South Africa, Pii'J leases for th^ic at the end of the month.