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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 April 1901, Page 2

The Grey Town and Catholic Bands Ivve decided to amalgamate for the purpose of taking part in the forth coming Band Contest to be bold in Westport during the month of May. The Hon. the Premier and Mrs Soddon returned to Greymouth last night, and leave per Tutanckai for Wellington to-night. Owing to the Easter holidays, Borough Council elections and other matters, the annual meeting of the Grey Agricultural and Pastoral Association has been adjourned till May Ist.

G. W. Moss and Co. will sell at Totara Flat on Wednesday afternoon, 24th April, 250 store cattle. The statutory mooting of the Greymouth Borough Council for final adoption of Borough roll will be held this afternoon at five o’clock. The Hon Secretary of the Martin Memorial Fund requests that all those who hold subscription lists will kindly return same with amounts collected at their earliest convenience. Misses Mordaunt and Gallaghan have this day handed to the secretary of the Martin Memorial Fund, the sum of £4 18s 6d subscribed from the residents of Dillmanstown. Well done Hillmans. The lateVolney Barker who met with the fatal accident on the 2nd inst made a proposal to the Government Life Insurance Department on the Ist for an insurance of £2OO and paid a deposit of £2 to the Agent, as it was the intention of this man to be examined on the 7th wo should hope that the case will receive a favourable consideration from the department.

In our report yesterday of the Christian Endeavour Convention we omitted to mention a paper on “ Faithfulness to tne Pledge ” by the Woodstock Society, which dealt very liberally with the substance of the faith, pointing out the absolute necessity of constant subjection to the will of God in order to stem the tide of evil influence ; as well as Scripture reading by the Greymouth and Westport Presbyterian societies, and an earnest prayer on behalf of missions by the Cobdcn Society. Votes of thanks were passed to all who had endeavoured to bring so sociable a function to a successful issue.

Experiments are at present being made by a French firm with a new electric sugar manufacturing apparatus, which promises io reduce considerably the cost of sugar and practically to revolutionise the sugar trade. Stamp booklets may now be procured at the Chief Post Office Greymouth. The stamps arc enveloped in waxed paper a safeguard against lire damp. The booklets are Is Ad and 2s GAd respectively. The Ross Hack Races will be held today and promise to be very keenly contested, the entries for the various events being good. Among the horses that have been in active training for the meeting arc Frcnchy, Ben More, The Miser, The Fox, Sarsfiold and many others. An unfortunate accident says the West Coast Times, happened yesterday to Miss Hewitt, matron of the Christchurch Hospital, who is on a visit to friends in Hokitika. Whilst coming down Flowery Hill on her bike, she lost control of the machine and in trying to rave herself came to grief, breaking her arm. She was brought to town in a vehicle. Hr Tciehclman set the broken limb, and the sufferer is progressing well. Piet Do Wet, in his letter to Christian Do Wot, his brother, urging him to surrender, asked, “Do you think that any nation is so mad as to have thousands of men killed, and spend millions of money, and then give us the Republics and the capital necessary to govern them.’’ It is now acknowledged by such an authority as the Field that acclimatisation in New Zca’and has, under the very opposite conditions to those prevading at Home, been the most successful known in the World. In the list of Justices of the Peace gazetted last week appears the name of at least one undischarged bankrupt. One or two dead men also appear on theist.. In the whole of New Zealand there is only one woman engaged in the saddlery trade. The Railway Department has received information that 40 waggons, the first of an order for 1000, have been shipped by the Kakaia. A movement is on foot to light Napier with electric light. At present the Gas Company draw about £BOO per annum from (lie Borough. The largest toy factory in the world is in New York, where playthings in tin arc manufactured literally by the million. It stands five stories high and turns out 1007 distinct varieties in tin toy r s. Notwithstanding the heavy expenditure of late, the Dunedin Harbour Board has a credit balance of £7llß Is Id at present in hand. At their next meeting, they will consider the advisability of getting an up-to-date tug. The Midland Railway Commission which is now back in Wellington, will sit at the Parliamentary Buildings at 10 o’clock next Wednesday morning. The Commissioners have now finished their peregrinations about the colony, and will wind up their business here. There still remains a quantity of work before the Commission, which has to make a report before Parliament meets.—Post. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star, writing under date 22nd February, says Mr George Hutchison looked in at the office a couple of days ago. Like most New Zealanders, he is finding the severe cold rather trying, and will likely seek a warmer climate on the Continent for a couple of months, by the end of which time, having finished the business that brought Ivin to England, ho hopes to rejoin his wife and family at

Johannesburg. The Dunedin Star Wellington special wires that there has been no decision yet as to calling Parliament together. Seeing that to meet in Wciling on in May and then to adjourn to the Ist of July would mean serious expense and inconvenience to members, it is proposed to consult them on the matter. By meeting on June 29th and formally opening by Commission Parliament could meet again on Monday, July Ist. This would enable salaries and pressing accounts to be voted and an Imprest Supply bill to be pr.sscd. The debate on the Address-in Reply would bo adjourned. It is stated that there is precedent for such a course. However members arc to bo consulted.

Inspector Pender asked a witness at the Stipendiary Magistrates Court at Wellington whether a policeman concerned in a certain case had in any way knocked a man about. “Oh, no,” said the witness, “he got him in a good, hard,honest policeman’s grip; that’s all,” The Labour Journal warns all persons against going to South Africa at the present time in search of work. A large number of reports just received from Civil Commissioners in all parts of the Colony show that there is practically no

demand anywhere for European labour, and that in the Capetown districts the supply greatly exceeds tbo demand. The inly question about which any difficulty is likc-ly to arise in the formation of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce says the X/. Times is that of 1 lie sale of contributions. The country Chambers claim that they ought not to be required to pay as high a contribution per member to the federation as the more wealthy city organisations; and ills probable (hat the justice of tin's claim will be recognised, and that a differential rate will he adopted. A'o definite conclusion lias been arrived at yet as to the rate of contribution from any of the Chambers.

Tho struggle to keep a fire in the homo when times are hard, gives rise to many dodges for getting firing. The “Wellington Post ” has discovered a new plan. After a ship had been coaling at the wharf the seeker after warmth will sally forth with an improvised drag-net, and heaving it overboard, tow it along the water front, thus bringing to the surface much of the coal that lias fallen into the water during the coaling operations.

We have been informed, says the Western Star, that on the strength of the oil works at Orcpuki manufacturing a good class of oil, the Dunedin City Council has expended £20,000 iman oil plant that will enable it to extract a gas from the oil to mix with the ordinary coal gas for lighting purposes. This will reduce the cost of lighting very consider, ably, and should also give a superior light. To which the Otago Daily Times adds The City Council has the plant nearly ready, and though shale oil from Orepuki will bo used it is scarcely correct to say that the plant has been put in purposely for the use of this product. For the four weeks ended February 24th, the following are the returns from the Kokatahi Dairy Factory ;—Milk received, 208,352 lbs'; butter 11,018 lbs at Old, equal to £435 Ills 8d ; buttermilk, £1 0s 8d , giving a total revenue of £436 17s 4d. The expenditure during the same period amounted to £391 19s 4d, leaving a surplus of £4llßs. Thus the Gisborne Times:—The Harbour Board has decided to dispense with its Legal Committee, the committee having been set up for a special purpose, and now being no longer required. “It might lead us into litigation.” said one member, and the committee was forthwith given the happy despatch.