LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8163, 10 November 1904, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

_' • - —♦ The s.s. Mararoa, with the San Frandsco mail, arrived at Lyttelton from WeiU&gton at 9.30 a.m. to-day. The interview between Sir Joseph Ward and representative* of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, which was to have taken plabe to-day, baa been postponed till tomorrow morning. , To assist in the work of watering Lincoln Road) to-day a fire engine had been pfeoed adjacent to the bath at tie West tJhris+ehurob School and water was pumped from there to the road z -where water i tarts .-were rapidly filled. • A paragraph recently appeared in these oolanuw regarding Ihe pollution of the water in *he Halswell River through, the number.of dead bodies of animals floating down' the stream. -Last week ap. officer of the Health Department visited the Tai Tapa district to investigate tho matter, and it is understood that steps will probably be to abate the noisanoe. An application was reo&Aiy made- by Mr Qeoß»e Tacoa for a ooel leeae orer am area 3d IS7T ecres in the Ngahawao. <fistriot, oa ttw West Coast. Tb& reply of the Department was important (says tiba '"New Zealand Times"), as showing <obe terms upon which tihe Gtavemanent is prepareJ to grant tccfe leases. Tbe oondrtione are tfnat not law than £10,000 k to be expended wMiin Hum years in opening up the mine and connecting tihe works with tie railway. Two Hufomad pounds is to bs expended: wztbin ihe first year, an additdonal £2000 during tbe tecond ye»t, £7000 during the third year, and we same amount aamually, unhl tb^rtjpaiated outout of coal is commenced. The deposit of £500 w to be held wit&mb interest until the Inspector of Mines gives > ©Wtifieate ttba* £10,000 hats been expeotded tAwss jneairs. Mr G. Cfhrie. Clarke, traveller for the de IMe and Luttrell's Patent Painless Branding Composition, will- be pleased to give ail necessary information respecting the application of their now'famous mixture. "The same aan be eeen at the implement stand on Canterbury Agrioultural and Pastoral Show Ground. 8627.