CONDENSED NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17569, 20 June 1925, Page 8

CONDENSED NEWS.

OVERNIGHT SUMMARY. A hare drive was held at Sefton yesterday under the auspices of the Kowai Rabbit Destruction Board. The party of forty guns secured 102 hares for the day. Frank Can tie, aged 40, a labourer residing at Orakei, was walking along a sewer arrows the Orakei basin tonight when lie fell and was drowned. The body lias not been recovered, It is stated that thc lepers on Quail Island arc quite prepared to move to Fiji, owing to thc more temperate climate. though one or two wgifld just as soon be left where they arc now. The State mines at Greymouth resumed work to-day after being iIT some days. Since Christmas the men have averaged hardly more than seven shifts a fortnight, and they are completely at a loss to understand why so little State coal is being marketed whilst fuel continues to be largely imported to thc Dominion from Australia. A dispute at the Rcwanui State Cord Mine is brewing through a difference between thc miners and the management as to the necessity of timbering places where water and other factors induce tails of debris. Thc miners contend that despite thc extra cost, timbering is necessary for safety, where falls of stone occur, or where thc roof is not high and solid. 1 hirty-seven electric capstans are installed on thc wharves, at Lyttelton, and by all the Harbour BoarcTs sheds, and with the exception of those which will later be fitted up on the Gladstone Pier, there remain but three to be installed. The lower decking over 900 feet of the Gladstone Pier, has been completed and thc board is now waiting for the Railway Department to !av down the railway lines to complete the work. “Tell ycur mother tbs wire is 30s a loot, ’ was the remark that a stranger made to a boy at the door of bis home in Limvood Avenue yesterday afternoon. Iho lad, who bad seen thc man inside thc bouse, was somewhat mystified, but thought that the remark had to do with the electric lighting, and dismissed it from his mind. ** His mother returned about an hour later, and he told her of thc visit of the stranger, and she decided to have a. look around thc house. The first thing that she discovered was that the sum of 4s CcJ had been taken, and later found that a case of apples had been broached, tho thief helping himself liberally.