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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 January 1901, Page 2

James Louden, charged with manslaugh tor will appear before the Kumara Couri to-morrow at 11-:-30 a m.

The country scholarships are T. Bundle 831, Thomas Jones 747, H. E. Hargreaves 713, Annie Darcy 694. The first two get two year's tuition and allowance, and the third one year's tuition and allowance. A proposal to grant extra town scholarships was held over for report of committee appointed to consider the whole question,

Work in connection with the- further progress of the Groymouth Harbor Works has at length been started. A few men have been put on to repair tho railway, and tenders let for tho construction of new trucks. The locomotives too are being got ready, and it is hoped that a couple of months will see tho task in full swing.

A meeting consisting of Messrs Watson and Taylor, (Taylorvillo School) ; Irvine and Barnett (Dobson School) ; Dr. Mcllroy and Johnston (Catholic School), was held in the Council Chambers, Bruo ner, last evening for tho purpose of considering re holding the annual picnic. Mr Watson was voted to the chair. Proposals were made, that it be held at Hokitika, or at Ahaura, the former being ultimately selected. It was resolved that tho annual excursion be held on Saturday, February 9th. It was resolved that MiAlison be asked to accept tho position of president, and that the Mayor be asked to proclaim the above date a public holiday, and that the Manager be asked to have a holiday at the mines ; and that Mr Alison bo asked to take up a collection from single men working at tho mines. Bosolved that St'llwater and Kokiri schools be invited to join. Mr Bobert Taylor was appointed secretary to tho committee The Mayor of Hokitika is to bo written to asking him for tho use of Cass Square.

The cricket match, Drapers aud Grocers v. Grey Club, played on tho Park yesterday afternoon, resulted in an eaisy win for the Club. Tho chief scorer for the tradesmen's was Benjamin 27 ; for the Club Adams 34 ; Thompson 49 and Chalk 28.

The following team will represent the Grey Cricket Club in tho senior mutch at No Town on Saturday :—Chalk, Knell, Adams, Thompson, Parfitt. Holder, Fanthorpe, Ollernshaw, Walton, Fricker and McCarthy. The coach leaves tho Gilmer Hotel at 10 o'clock a. m.

Consequent upon the high price ruling for livo stock throughout the colony, the Hokitika butchers have determined to raise tho price of meat.

Our readers will bo pleased to learn that the fire in the Blackball coal mine has boon extinguished, and that Mr. Scott was able yesterday to get into the mine at the further end to the level of the water. The wator will be allowed to remain until Sunday night when it will bo ran off, and it is hoped that beforo the end of the month Blackball coal will be again on the market. The first installment of our soldiers will return to Grej'tnouth about the end of the week. His Worship the Mayor yesterday afternoon received the following telegram anent the matter from Mi: Scddons' Private Secretary. The following returning Contingent men from Groymoutb are coming by the steamer Orient, and will arrive at Wellington enihe 2dth inst: —Farrier Newsomo, Privato Vinson, and Private Powell. We trust a suitable reception will be given to this, tins first section of those who in South Africa worthily upheld the credit of the flag. Vinson, it will be remembered was wounded, while Newsomo and Powell are both invalided, the result of enteric fever.

The Committee of management of the Greymouth Jockey Club, determined to satisfy the public as well as themselves have arranged with Mr Charles O'Connor, of Canterbury, to come over and act as starter at the St Patrick's race meeting. Th's will cost the Club twenty guineas, but it felt that it was imperative to make such an alteration as would meet with public approval. The position of starter is a difficult one and very few men succeed. Mr O'Connor is said to be one who has mads quite a name for himsolf as a successful starter.

The Telegraphic authorities at Molbonme advices that communication with Shanghai is totally- interrupted, and Berne advises the restoration of communication with all places on tho other side of Santa Elena and South America for all messages marked via Galveston,,

A meeting of the stewards of the Kumara Jockey Club was held last evening. Nearly all members present. Besolvcd that W. Berdiner's application to have disqualification removed be recommended to tho Metropolitan Club. The applicant was called before tho stewards and warnod that any irregularities in future would be visited with tho strictest penalties the laws of racing would allow. The secretary reported that tho programme for Easter Monday and Tuesday, also balance sheet had been passed by tno Grey club. Further that he had applied for a permit tor the totalisator for thoso days.

During the present season, Queensland has exported 52,402 tons of sugar. On Goombargana Station, near Albury, 8,000 acres of srlf-grown crop are yielding about 10 bushels of wheat to the acre. Tho yoar's imports for New South Wales show an increase of £1,418,097 on last year's figures, and tho exports a decrease of nearly £1,000,000. Maria Drake, aged 64 years, a resident of Burra, South Australia, was burnt to death the other day. She was preparing dinner whon her clothes caught liro, and she was laterally roasted alivo. i

The Queensland jtudwuy DLvsiriuient is expending £I.OOO on increasing the coal-slupping facilities "f Sctfth Brisbane. The Right Honourable Edmund Banon will be 51 on IKb January— ih da,i n which the German Empire was p.oclaimed in 1871. James Fogg, employed on the West Australian railway as a signalmen, was burnt to death recently i \ his camp at Kambal'ie. A miner namcdJJohn Col'-'ns handed himself at Lake (W. A.) the other day. He had been d.V "ig immoderately since winning a sweep. ysggbig 1 The quantity of Victo 'an gold received at the Melbourne Mint du.'ng the yoar j was 795,721 oz„ a decrease of 77,Q210z, j compared with last yepr. j Mr Tennant, Inspector of Mines, rc« ceived the following telegi-am from Mr MitcbeM, SeddonvHlo yesterday:—"The ~* dam (on Chasm creek side of the ™ mine) continues perfect. The water is steadily rising and hot. The recent rriu has twisted the timber at the main entrance at this end." The twist'ngof the timber does not effect the water in the mine as the dam is 2| chains farther 'i the main drive of the mine} The charge of the pL.sonors who are to bo engaged in tree-planting operations at Rotorua has been entusted to Warder Scanlon, who has been connected w'th the We'hngton Gaol for the past twelve years. Seventy-seven envies (thelargest number yet made in tb's colony) have been received for the annual Scven-b' d ITanr I '- cap of the Wo ,-: ngton Prov.''dal Gi l Club, to be fired at the club's c -ounds Petone, to-morrow. The prizes for the handicap are—l'-st, £100; second, £23 I third, £ls; and fourth, .£lO. A peculiar accident happened to a fouryear old boy named Perrett, son of a farmer at Camperdown (Victoria). The boy strayed unobserved into a crop of oats, and fell asleep there. Nothing was known of his presence until an agonised scream ro<=e from under the horses attached to the reaper and binder, The poor litHe fellow had got caught in the machinery, and when taken from between the knives it i was found that the calf of one the legs was ; completely torn off, and one bone was . smashed and another partly broken. The . flesh on the right arm was also stripped i to the bone.

The Kawatii". (Duller) Club representatives won £34 as prize money at the Championship and Lyttelton Begattas. They also entered for the maiden race at tho Lyttelton Begatta, for which the prize was £l2, but were not allowed to compete as they had already won a junior race and. could no longer be classed as maiden oarsmen,, They are (says the Westport News) entitled to row a second year at the Championship regatta as juniors. The Club hope to be in a position at next regatta to enable their crew to enter for both junior and senior championships.

Bcturns which have come into the Secretary to tho General Post Office show that tho "express" letter and parcel and "special" messenger services instituted with the New Year have been used by the public, though as yet not to any appreciable extent. This was expected, in view of the fact that so many business and other people are still away on their holidays. As regards tho "universal" stamp, tho returns so far to hand show that some £1,117 worth have been sold, of which total Wel'ington has contributed £362. Wellington had rather an advantage over other contres, in that it had the opportunity of placing the stamps which arrived by tho Popanui straight on the market, whereas many of the other Post Offiees can only have just received their allowance of tho consignment. The go-ahead Jap. Tho Labour World is tho title of a month'y journal devoted to the cause of labour :' i Japan, a copy of which has been sent io the Labour Department in Wellington. Tho greater part of the journal is punted in Japaneso characters, but tho first pago of each issue is in English, and rfl'ordi rather interesting reading, although the writer's ideas of literary composition a,- > generally*"""" somewhat mixed. Prom r, w. learn that a Cook's Union has been form d, and will soon start a co-operative bakery; that cooperative storos are growing erirywhore; that a committee appointed for that purpose is investigating the factory laws; and that "aldormay of the City of Tokyo are the most corrupted and degraded (sic) nloodlers in tho whole Empire." As to Marquis Ito, the journal remarks;—"After all, ho is a politician alchemist. He organised a Cabinet of not pure gold, but a cash Cabinet, that is personels of the organisation is noted for taking biibory in cash."

Somo time ago Captain llennab, in charge of the Government Buildings, started a shilling subscription among Government empl )yecs throughout New Zealand, for the purpose of making a presentation to Lieut-General BadenPowell, "the Hero of Mafeking." The project met with hearty support, and it was decided that the presentation should • take the form of a piece of gold plate. Mr Sturtevant, of the Lands and Survey Department, undertook to design a salver, the contract for which has been let to Messrs Littlcjohn and Son, jewellers, of Wellington. The design is cmllematic of XcwZealind, beating representations of the kiwi, the fern tree, and Maon weapons, and the salver bids fair to be a very handsome article, and a fitting tribute to one whoso deeds have mot with the highest appreciation among New Zcalanders. In round figures ;he present will cost £3OO, but owing to the intricate nature of the '" work it will not be completed before the, end of February.

In reference to Lord Salisbury's statement .n to the policy of his Government on overcrowding it maybe mentioned , that the last census returned MOO Londoners as living eight or more in one rootyi', over 9000 as living seven or more in mo room and nearly 26,000 as living six arid more in one room. Since then the papulation of the capital has increased by 300,000 people. There are housesvn London where rooms are let on the Box: \ and Cox principal, tenants occupying in *• rotation for eight hours each. Sometimes a ,youn<* woman will occupy the room by day which is let to a young man at night. People sleep under beds as well as in them and pay rent for doing so. Evicted families live in sheds until they drift into the workhouse. The horrors of this state of things need no exaggeration and n sensational working! Interprise always deserves encouragement, and all persons who have very little money should encourage C. Smith's popular "Bargain Sale," The shop is stacked with bargains from one end to the other. At; first entering from Mawliera Quay your breath is Jakcn away for you see bargains hanging from the ceiling to the floor, all marked in plain figures so that customers onn see the prices for themselves. There are also bargains displayed on the tables and counters that make ladies exclaim, after they have spent all their money, "How long is the sale going to last," for if it is still on next day, 1 shall come again, for the bargains arc real, and there is no humbug about this sale, for look at what 4r* I've got for 20/-. 1 cloth jacket 2/0,1 dress prices 2/11, 1 dozen grey silieia for 2/11, 1 pair washing gloves for Gd pair, i dozen ladies' handkerchiefs for ]/-, 1 ladies' trimmed sailor hat for I/-, 3 sprays pretty flowers for <>d. 1 pair elastic side kid boots for 1/-, 1 pair white twill sheets for 3/11 a pair, and a pair woollen drawers and a strong working shirt thrown in for the old man, and then you wonder why I smile and am satisfied ; I say try Christopher Smith's for bargains.

1% .y 'i!o,OjU, 0 ais e;;g-> tecii bought at the Yinoent County (Ou.go) offices. The shipping t''adfi oi rt has in creased by an nggregaie ui 100,000 tons during the past tour years. Mr Nicholas Pasaek, Consul for Bussia at Melbourne, has been appointed Eiissian Consul for Australia and New Zealand. Under the new railway by-laws passengers may have luggago checked between any two stations on a continuous lino of railway, and it will then bo conveyed at tho risk of the Department. Messrs Campbell, King and Paterson, who went through the Whitcorabe Pass, says the "West Coast Times," saw the moose deer imported by the Government from America. Tho animals seemed quito at home in their now surroundings. Major Fredorick Swindlcy died at the Thames on Tuesday afternoon. He saw service in India, was aide-de-camp to General Whitmorc in the Maori \Var, and was pre33nt at tho Gato Pah and in many other historic engagements. Major Swindley was 60 years of age, and su ccumen to an internal complaint. Tho Scotch aro now in tho ascendant. A little whilo ago it was the Irish raco that was said to bo pre-eminent in arms, art, and letters. Canada or Now Zealand will be the next. According to an article in "Gunton's Magazine" the Scotch element is paramount in all Eng-lish-speaking countries even America. Lists of rulmg men in various departments aro given; they all have Scotch blood. Undbr the operation of the Immigration Restriction Act, four East Indians were not allowed to land at Wellington this week, and will have to- return to Australia. They had been soldiers of tho Queen, and bore discharges and from tho army, but thoy could not comply with the conditions of tho Act, and Nov/ Zealand did not want them. Chinamen who arrived by the same steamer paid the poll tax and stepped ashore smiling. With regard to the reported destruction of fish in the neighbourhood of Golden Bay it is conjectured that the cause may ba sulphurus exhalations from the bottom of the sea, followingon a seismic convulsion. Some years ago, largo quantities of fish were killed on the north-east coast of New Zealand from the same cause, Apropos to tho reception given the other night to Mr Champion by Wellington swimmers, it is worthy to note that in New Zealand has such a youthful swimmer so distinguished himself as did the Wellington representative in the eight days' carnival at Christchurch and Lyttelton. Mr Champion, who is not yet 20

yrars of age, beat the standard tirno ir oach event he contested, and put up : record for 100yds in 66 l-ssecs. Thi champion was born at St. Helen's Bay Auckland, but ha 3 spent the best part o his life at Norfolk Island. He remainec there till he reached his sixteenth year when ho returned to the land of his birth He has been elected to represent New Zealand in the Australian Championship T. W. Tymons and Co. drapers am clothiers are now opening up their second large shipment ex "V/hakatano" fron London, everything up to date and al their usual low prices.—-Advt. What a little foresight does. By antici pating the alarming rise in price which has taken place in the "Home" markets— T. W. Tymons and Co. drapers and clothiers aie enabled to sell to the public at their usual low prices.—Advt.