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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 April 1901, Page 2

There appears to have been little or no interest taken in the Municipal elections at Hokitika, the old members being returned unopposed.

We understand that the bilance-shcet of the Hospital Carnival shows a profit of £166. Tho details will be supplied at the next meeting of the Hospital Trustees.

The total revenue on Wcstland railways for tho four weeks ended March 2nd, was £5,034, and expenditure £2,867. The Grey-Brunner section was tho chief source of revenue.

The local police received information from Westport this morning that Frank Soutgen [draper, aged.;7o, died in a epileptic fit at 5 a.in. this morning. Howa3 attended by Br M'Kenzie. The deceased had been subject to fits for two years past.

Constable Godfrey wires to head quarters that a man named David Sullivan was found dead at the Nine Mile Beach, Westport. He is supposed to have been dead two days apparently from natural causes,

That well-known thoroughbred racehorse Haria is .announced in our advertising columns for sale. "What a chance this offers for anyone in search of a good stallion, his breading is the best that can be procured in this colony being a descendant of that phenomenal sire, Musket. Haria is as staunch as the day he was foaled, and at the price. .£4O, is a bargain.

At a meeting of the "Wostland Racing Club last night the receipts of the last meeting were reported to be £697 ss, and expenditure .£675 19s. It was resolved to expend JG2OO in cutting down the hill, and making the final permanent improvements to the racing track, Plans and estimates for the work are to be prepared at once, and tenders to be called immediately. The work is proposed to bo so carried out that the present approach to the hill will bo graded off and well turfed, and the rise practically removed.

Attention is called in another column to the Corrick Family who will appear at the Opera House on Friday evening next. This talented Company will no doubt meet with a hearty reception. Their visit is always regarded as one of the most pleasing entertainments wc are favoured with. The Biograph, the latest addition to the Company's programme, is one of the best and the illustrations will be a novel feature in the entertainment. A good house will no doubt greet the Company when they appear here. Two Anglican Bishops are shortly to visit the West Coast. His Lordship Bishop Julius of Christchurch will be in Greymouth on Thursday week, 25th inst., and -will deliver a lecture on Norfolk Island and the Mclanesian Mission, illustrated by powerful limelight views of island scenery and native life. .The proceeds of the lecture to he devoted to the fund lor purchasing a new ship for the Bishop of Melanesia. Particulars regarding the lecture will appear in a future issue. The Bishop of kelson, the Bight Bev. Dr. Mules, is also due in Greymouth about the same time, and

will hold a confirmation service in Trinit Church on Sunday, the 2Sth inst.

After the Fire Brigade practice last night Ihe members assembled in the Hall, and after a few toasts were honored Captain Vinson in a few well chosen words presented Firemen Filzsimmons,

M'Leod, Kennedy, Walton and Plan chard, with the medals won in the recen

competition at Christchnreh. The team, it will be remembered carried off the

principal event. The medals are very handsome. On one side are raised figures of firemen with fire appliances, while on a disk in the centre is engraved the name of the winner. On the reverse side is engraved "Won by Grcymouth Fire Brigade, five men reel." The medal is attached to two gold cross bars. The upper having in embossed figures "Oh Oh—--190 1" the lower bar being in the form of a ladder. It was felt that Lieutenant llyan who accompanied the team and who was appointed judge, should receive some recognition for the valuable services rendered and a note to that effect is to be sent to the Borough Council. The valuable services rendered for nearly:!!) years b} 7 Fireman Goodall was also referred to in marked terms of appreciation. A meeting of the Ivumara Jockey Club was held on Saturday night, when the secretary, Mr G. J.I, Rudkin, read the balance sheet of receipts and expenditure of the late meeting which was considered eminently satisfactory, the receipts being £'7lo 9s 6d, and expenditure £509 5s lOcl, leaving a bahncc of £2Ol 4s 4d. It was resolved that a vote of thanks be voted to the Metropolitan Club Grcymouth, and Kcefton Club and that the secretary write thanking them for the valuable assistance they had given them in bringing the Club's Faster meeting to such a successful issue. It was also resolved that a hearty vole of thanks be accorded fo Mr .James for the able manner he had worked the tolalisator and that the secretary write him to that effect. Besolved that the course committee visit the racecourse and report at; a meeting to be held on Monday night, 22nd inst,, as to improvements to the course. It was also resolved to roof in the grandstand. The State Ball to be tendered to Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York and Cornwall, will be upon a scale of magnificence and splendor never before attempted in the colony. The closest approximations yet attained aro the celebrated Garrick club socials \vhos3 third season will be inaugurated to-morrow evening at the Opera llouss. The Greymouth public will heartly endorse our statement that for right down genuine enjoyment theso socials aro superior to any state balls yet inventeh Every factor of a social is a feature of the club. The orchestra, under Mr D Hannan's directorship is without a rival, and as master of ceremonies Mr John M'Kinty stands alone. The supper arrangements surpass in magnitude anything yet attempted at functions of this nature. The prices of admission gentlemen 2/- ladies 1/- aro purely nominal, and this is rendered possible by the facts that the club is under relatively small expense, the supper, music, attendants all being either generous gifts, or honorary services. The only great expense are the newspapers, upon which the club spends fortunes. This fact alone speaks volumns for the manage, ment. Having brains and ability they rightly know and justly appreciate the value of advertising, hence in the greatest measure there huge success.

Mr Joseph Proud, one of tho Coal Mines Commissioners, and himself for 85 years a practical miner in Durhamshiro, told a Lyttelton Times reporter this week that at Brunncrton many tons of coal were annually tipped into tho Grey river because no market could bo found for it. It was slack coal, to bo sure, but it was of a class that would make briquettes of the very best kind, and it was saddening to sec it, as ho saw it with his own cyos, shot into the Grey rivsr to be irrctricveably lost to tho colony.

Lincoln, the brisk little town of Middlesex County, New Jersey, which has been governed by women during its brief and busv existence, is (says tho New York World), going into the hands of a receiver. Three stockholders in tho company that owns the town have united in an application to appoint a receiver. They declare that insolvency and a wonderful complication of the town's affairs havo resulted from their administration by women.

The French Court of Cassation has now before it a libel suit arising out of-tha Battle of Waterloo, certainly one of tho most curious cases on record. A recently-pub-lished history having 3aid that Count de Bourment deserted to the enemy in the famous battle, tho nobleman's descendants have taken action against the author for this aspersion upon the Count's memory.

Mr L. Cooper, licensee of the Bailway Hotel, was.robbed, says tho West Coast Times, of a considerable sum of money last Saturday night. A portmanteau in a pvivato room containing upwards of £2B in notes and silver in a cashbox, was found missing between the hours of seven and eight o'clock. No cluo to the thief or thieves has yot been obtained.

Another set of retorts is being heated up at the Orcpuki Shale Works preparatory to being put into work (says the correspondent of the " Southland Times.") Those in work are running very well; in fact, exceeding (he most sanguine expectations of the management. As yet the crude oil is being collected in large concrete tanks at the rale of about 100 gallons per hour, but until sufficient oil is on hand to secure a continuous .flow through the various processes none will be put through (lie refining works, but then the oil will be started on its journey of three weeks, through miles of piping, until it finally emerges, pure kerosene, etc., in the receiving tanks. Mrs Hero Tuka Hangahanga, of Katihiku, Otaki, of the celebrated Ngatihuia tribe, is stated to be 10" j years of age. Mr Gow of Dunedin, who has been appointed Government Trade Commissioner, will arrive in Wellington next week for the purpose of conferring with the Minister for Trade and Commerce (Hon J. G. Ward) relative to his future movements.

The General Manager of Railways ha 8 been advised that the passenger traffic on the Hurunui-Bluff section during Easter was heavier than during the corresponding period of last year. At the Dunedin office 2000 more passengers were booked than during Easter of 19C0. The traffia would have been even heavier but for wet weather on Easter Monday.

In its issue of 23rd March the loi Karanga (Rarotonga) complains that some 1000 cases of Huahine oranges are about to the sent to New Zealand, and, as has happened before, will probably bo sohl as first-class Tahitian, though fruit from Huahine has been reported on the authority of the Inspector of Fruit at Auckland to be infected with the Queensland fly The article further states — " What we wish to impress upon the people of New Zealand is that Huahine is not one of the Cook group, or a British possession, and we see no reason why this island should be allowed to compete with British colonies, for to us at any rate it is known that with French colonics there is no reciprocity, and the Cook Islands can supply all the oranges required by New Zealand, whose people are reminded that oranges sold as Al Tabid are from the Cook Islands.

A prominent Invcvcaagill tradesman) according to the Southland Times, recently gave payment for a paper which he thought was a cheque. Closer inspection showed that it was merely an advertising circular printed in cheque form. Fortunately, ihe deception was speedily discovered, and the person attempting the swindle caught, and made to disgorge. Mr David Porter, of the Land and Survey Department, one of the original Canterbury settlers, died at Wellington suddenly last night. MrH. Blyth sent in his resignation yesterday as a member of the Wesiland Counry Council. A fresh election for the vacant seat is fixed for 11th May, nominations being received on 24th inst. Mr W. Robertson, lato master of the Totara dredge and now of the Greenstone Creek dredge, was married at Roes on Friday last to Miss Kate Evans, youngest daughter of Mr Evans, proprietor of the Empire Hoto 1 . Bjth arc highly respected members of the community and received hearty congratulations from all quarters.

Last month out of 140 cattle, six calves 325 sheep, 70 lamb?, and 95 pigs slaughtered at the Municipal abbattoirs a Wanganui, one pig and one sheep woro condemned, the former for tuberculosis and the latter for a tumour.

The Nelson smart boy has arrived. Asked why Nelson was called "Sleepy Hollow," he replied that he did not know, except that Nelson had gone ahead of the other places, and was taking a rest until the other places fetch up to her. When last year's Budget was delivered the Colonial Treasurer estimrted that at the outset the loss of revenue through the introduction of penny postage would be at the rate of £BO,OOO per aanum. That the system, in the first quartor of its operation, was giving much better results than had been anticipated, the lion, gentleman indicated in the North some weeks ago, and now at the end of the period, ho finds that instead of a deficit the quarter's revenue is £20,000 to the good. The regulations relating to the examinations for admission to the Indian Civil Service, which are to be held in August, are published in this week's Gazette for the information of New Zealanderswho wish to quaHfy for the sfrvice. The Governor, iu accepting the resignation by the Hou. A. J. Cadman of his seat on tho Executive Council, has expressed his regret "at losing Mr Cadman's conscientious and valuable assistencc. ',

Lieutenant Bromley, headmaster of tho Cobden School, and Private 0. E. Bowling, cadet in the Magistrate's Court at Hokitika, passed through (says the Westport News) by the Wainui on Saturday on their way to Wellington to join the Federal Contingent. Considerable notico was taken of both men. as they were of a particularly stalwart build, Lieut. Bromley being Oft lwin in height and Pvfc. Bowljng Oft 4in.