NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12546, 24 May 1909, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

a. ■ - ™ -.- ■■ y - ; All hockey matches were postponed { - on Saturday on account of the ,~- J vvoather. ' '*.•■- ■ -. ' ■ S " ...""--■'. y The' second term of the Nelson ; ; School of Miisic will commeince on ■;-. .M'hursday next. Q ". * On Wednesday evening, a public meeting; will be held at WakefieM ( . for the piLirpose 'of considering the ' adwisableness ;oi forming a ;progressivd" association. ~ The corps composing .. the First Battalion Nelson .Infantry are notified of tlie monthly inspection pai^ : ade, which takes place on Wednest day. _ The country men will come in by train as usual and twon units will assemble' at the raifway. station- at half past seven, To-day being Empire Day, will be . observed as a holiday by the banks ' and the. solicitors' and the , Government offices, but the retail shops in • Nelson will remain- open. as usual. At noon the children from :the city schools will assemble at the Boys' Central School where the ceremony of "saluting the flag" will be .carried •out and appropriate speeches made. 1 The Hon G. Fowlds, Minister for Ed- ' ucation, will' be present^ and members of the Education Board. It is reported that~ an exceedingly ■ valuable deposit .of hematite qro has besii _ found within a few miles "of Kawhia township. The Government ' : analyst, /reporting on tho .'.- sjampla c-ont to -him, states that .the ore contains' 83 per. cent of oxide of iron, • .which is. equal to 57.80- of metallic ''. iron. The deposit is' said to have ' boeri traced for a distance". of three • miles arid: 'as .there are large deposits ' of excellent liraostone and beds, of coal in the same district, .this disi rcoyeryjnay. be- regarded as .of.'iiatlohal, el, importance. -": "■; ;'""-" '