GREYMOUTH NEWS NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 49

GREYMOUTH NEWS NOTES.

1F3.0U Oca Own CoRiREsroNDENT.} GREYMOUTH, August 24. There has been nwoh advei^e commeufc here regarding the evidence given at Wellington before the ooal inq-uiry. Mr Bishop, who is manager at this &nd, flatly contradicts Mr M'DougaH'& evidence regarding unfilled orders. The action at Welluigton in refusing to sell the State ooal for mixing with other coal for household purposes is ridio"kd, nearly ail tho consumers preferring the Sate coal mixed with Brunner coal. Tlu? former burns too freely by itself, but when mixed with Brunner coal it is an ideal household fuel. The inquiry has already had tho good effect of securing 1 more work at the mine, which has been workin°steadily of late, and sC'iidiufr out a £Oorf article. Tho general election is e-Kciuu"' a- good deal of interest here already, and €\idom:y Mr Guinness is anticipating some hcavv . opposition. Great attention is being paid to local requirement.'. Mr Conbov is already out. but his candidature is noi. taken very seriously. Great effort? a.re being made to. indues* Mr Joseph Pofric to stand, bxit so tav ho stands off. Mr Janics Petrie. % brother, and Mayor of Greymouth, may possib'.v contest the seat. It is senerully held that the only real run would b-e between Mr Guinn^fes and Mr Joseph Petrie, and lhat dop* not soem likely to eventuate. Mr James Petrie would, howovcr, make a good fight. A laroe number of We=i Poa 5r5 r rcp^esontative people leave *ht» 00-a=t to-nisht to interview thp Premier, aioiifi with Canterbury rren. They declare- fiat they will e-et' Iho Premier to agrc^ to Jot ili-e conhact for thp tunnel on the Midland railway af enco. The (rveyirvonth Bproush, which h giowv jus- rßTjktlv, has decided to boirow ar.otLee £15 000 for stieet impiovoments. The to ( .a.t InoVbt<;dne«3 will th°n be £90,000, but f o • that it has an exclJ-enc water supply, £oodi Drainage, a aas plant that gives a dcvir profit of £3000 ocr annum, and in ha« just finished a town hall at a cost of £13.000. An extensive area 'for oil prospecting has been applied for soutli of Hokitika. Boring for oil has been again lcnewcd at KotuLu, in ths Grey "Valley. Three ofljcci's of the Indian Army arc tc be allowed to proiced to Japan annually fo-> two years' study of the Japanese language. An old "Ecsex man who has lived v. ithin a hundred yards of a railway station for 50 years has iust made the first railway jouuiey of his life. —In an almost perfect :-tato of pie&erv.i<lion, and easily rPcoTnisablo, the dead body; of a guide named Na:ri a. native of Ao=»ta r Italy, who foil into "a crevasse in 187? t near the- summit of Monte Rosa, has ]Us^ teen recovered from \ho ;ce. Nagi wr.sr descending the mountain in company witlu two Milanese Alpinists when he >uddenlyj disappeared, an I tho cord which l.ound Uin»' to t ho other& was rut by a sharp piece of ice A search paitv made many at- ; tenants to recover the body.