Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1901.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 January 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1901.

Tenders are invited in this issue for ad. ditions and repairs to the Okarito wharf. Attention is drawn to auction announcement in our columns of leasehold section, township of Greyniouth, to be sold by Messrs G W Moss and Oo at their rooms on Monday at 230 p. m. on behalf of the Public Trustee. By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that an examination for stationary engine drivers' will bo held at the following places throughout tho West Coast: —Harbor Board Office, Westport; Stevenson's Hotel, Beefton; Albion Hotel, Greymouth ; Hollar's Hotel, Hokitika. The wharf this morning again somewhat resembled the yard of an extensive iron foundry, large quantities of lying about in all directions and being taken away in railway trucks. The following quantities were unloaded yesterday, .00 tons for the Grey Biver Consolidated, SO tons Greenstone Creek, 15 tons Erickson's Beward and 10 tons Hau Hau. The monthly meeting of the Grey Biver Hospi'al Trustees was held last night. Present': —Messrs Potrie, (chairman) Phillips. M'Carthy, Kerr, Yirrall, Gieseking, and Sheedy. The appointment of Chairman and Treasurer was held over till next meeting. The doctor handed in a cheque for £lB Is 4d collected in small amounts. The amount received since last meeting was £IBO. The month's accounts amounting to £IBB, were passed for payment. The visiting committee reported all doing well at the institution. Miss Galloway tendered her resignation as head-nurse. The Chairman, in moving its acceptance, said that he voiced tho opinion of the Trustees in declaring that they were losing a nurse it would be very difficult to replace. There was but one opinion regarding Miss Galloway, and that was that she ' was a capable nurse and had faithfully : performed her task. This, opinion was '. endorsed by other Trustees. i

Messrs M'Millan wl o is returning to Melbourne next week vill render a Solo "The Gift of Best" at £ t Johns Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening during the offertory. Two tenders were received by the Public Works Department at Christchurch for the Patterson's Creek bridgo contract. The natives of the Wairarapa aro already making preparations for a monster reception to the Duke and Duchess of York.

Members of; the Swimming Club are reminded that the smoke concert to welcome Mr Hamilton, on his return from Christchurch, will take place this evening in the Gilmer Hotel. Weather permitting the Greymoutli Town Band under the baton of their bandmaster Mr Bennington, will render a number of selections on the wharf tomorrow afternoon. A return of the immigration and emigration to and from the colony shows that 2348 persons arrived in the colony in November (43 more than in November of 1899), and 746 went away, as against 789 in the corresponding month last year. During the past 44 years 14,607,2780 z gold, valued at £57,429,451, have been exported from New Zealand. The largest quantity exported in any one year since 1857 was 703,9290 z in 1871, when the greater portion came from the Thames. In 1860 only 45380 z was sent away. Last year's export (371,993) was the second largest for 26 years, that for the year 1899 being about 17,5000 z larger.

The 10th of December witnessed the tenth auniversary of Sir John Forrest's Premiership of Westralia. By retaining office for this lengthy period the Forrest Administration have established a record, which is unique in character. Of the original Cabinet only Sir John himself remains. In the ten intervening years he has had no less than thirteen colleagues, which is in itself another record for Australia. Mr E. Harben Young, a son of Mr E. A. Young, Westport Harbor Board Engineer, leaves shortly for South Africa with the intention of remaining there, Mr Young has had considerable experience at engineering and survey work, and should carve out a big future for himself in Great Britain's new territories.

A Nelson resident, who has just returned from a visit to Golden Bay and the region of Farewell Spit, informs the Evening Mail that the slime, or nidus of fish spawn, which was such a nuisance and cause of loss in and around Nelson harbour and Blind Bay, is as prevalent as ever in Golden Bay. It can bo seen as far as the eye can reach along the shore and at sea. and its phosphorescence at night furnishes a weird spectacle. A volunteer case was heard at Kaiapoi on Monday by an ex-Major, Counsel engaged were both captains. The litigants were a captain and an ex-lieutenant. The witnesses included two lieutenants, two sergeants, and two troopers. The Clerk of the Court and one of the reporters were ex-volunteers, and in the body of the Court was a volunteer among others present who joined the New Zealand forces in 18G0. The milking record for the Taranaki coast, or, in fact, for New Zealand, has (says the Dairyman) been put up by a Plains settler and his wife, who, without any help except what could be given by a twenty-month-old infant, milked 79 cows twice daily. It is a fact, and can be vouched for, that he delivered on an average 2000 pounds of milk a day at the factory, and not a penny was spent in wages last year.