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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 April 1901, Page 3

Messrs G. W. Moss and Co. will have a "busy day to-morrow. On the wharf at eleven they hold a sale of potatoes, oats and chaff. At two o,clock in the afternoon on the premises, the Terrace, Greymouth, they will sell by order of Mr Wickes, that leasehold property with cottage thereon, and immediately afterwards in the same locality the household furnitura of Mr G. Butts. A Parliamentary paper has been issued containing correspondence between the Secretary for India and the Imperial Treasury with respect to the apportionment of charge between the Governments of the United Kingdom and of India for purposes in which both are interested. As the outcome of the correspondence it has been decided that India shall be relieved of charges to the amount of £257,030 per annum. The three exhibitions of £9 9s each instituted by Trinity College, London, for colonials proficiency in the pianoforte, organ, violin or singing have just been awarded for the first time. The London correspondent of the " Argus " mentions that the successful competitors are:— Percy Brier of Brisbane, aged 15 ; Eileen Ward, of Dunedin aged 14 ; and Josephine F. Donovan, of "Warwick, Queensland, aged 10.

It is now considered a certainty (says Monday's Oamaru Mail) that Colonel Ilobin, who is now on his way home from South Africa, will be appointed Commandant of tho forces in New Zealand in the place of Colonel Penton. There has, adds our contemporary, been a strange failure in all such appointments made by the Government in the past, which may be' £>eeounted for without difficulty. There has always been a strong prejudice against honouring any son of our own soil by elovatitg him to such a position, and aa irresistible preference for something distant and superb. 1 laving had some experience of the result of following these promptings, we are going to reverse them —so, at lea3t, it seems, and the colonial is to come np on top. Tho Auckland "Herald" states that a discovery of thermal action at Kawau is reported by several yachtsmen who visited the island recently. "While walking noar the old smelting works in Bon Accord Harbour, they noticed sulphurou? smoke issuing from tho ground, and a closer inspection revealed evidence of thermal action, the groung being too hot to walk upon with bare feet. The area affected was not very extensive. This is the first appearanoe of thermal action on tho island) so far as can be ascertained, and the fact that it has occurred at the same time as the recent activity in the Rotorua district is rather interesting. Fears are entertained in Australia shipping circles for the safety of the ship Aladdin, bound from Java to Sydney. The vessel, which is laden with sugar for the Colonial Sugar Company, left Java on (sth November, and is now over 150 days out. She took the Torres Strait route, and signalled at Lloyd's station at Gocdo Island on the 7th January. Since then nothing has been heard of the vessel. The Aladdin is a vessel of 1582 tons, commanded by Captain Ratten During next season amongst other mail steamers of tlj,e Barbarossa class the North German Lloyd Line will send out the Grosser Kurfurst (18,200 tons\ Ithein (10,500 tons), and Bremen (11,500 tons), the two last named being new steamers in these waters. From October next the three-weekly service of the company will , be installed to and from Australia. Of the 14 new steamers building for this line , tho Kronprinz Wilhclm, of 15,000 tons and 013,000 horse power, will be launched , shortly, and the completion of the Kaiser ■Wilhclm 11, of 19,500 tons and 38,000 ; horse power, i 3 announeed for the end of the current year. .

The British Bull-Dog rules the wave, Undaunted tar is he, And angry billows oft his grave, Can't turn him from the sea. The hardships of a sailor's life He can so well endure, When coughs and colds are always rife, With Woods'GeeatPeppermint Cuke WADE'S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price 1/Fifteen msn-of-war for the Imperia German navy, including eight battle ships and two first-class cruisers, are at present in course of construction in tho private and Government dockyards of Kiel, Dantzig, and Wdhelmshaven.