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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 April 1901, Page 2

M.Donovan, bailiff, S.M. Court Ahaura will soil at the foot of Moor's Creek, Totara Flat, on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, 2000 sleepers more or less, G. W. Moss and Co. instructed by the Grey County Council will sell by auction at their rooms on Monday morning, at 11 o'clock, the leaso of the Blackball ferry for a term of 12 months. , The annual meeting of the Greymouth Assembly will bo held at -the Gilmer Hotel on Monday next at 8 p.m. Three boxes of bullion valued at £10.400 and consigned by the National Bank of New Zealand, were sent to Wellington by the last week. The hon treasurer acknowledges the receipt cf the sum of £166 19s Id from Mr E.'l. Lord, beiDg the net amount of the Oriental Bazaar got up at the New Year in aid of the Grey Biver Hospital. A full derailed statement accompanies the cheque, and in a letter Mr Lord very justly complains of tde invidious remarks in regard to delay, pointing out that it took a considerable time to get in all account' 'ind subsidies, and furthermore that hr ' woted so much time to the bazaa' le and Mr Warncs had to make Borough work,

Attention is directed to the railway advertisement appearing in this issue, announcing cheap fares to the Chrysanthemum Show at Hokitika. G. W. Moss and Co will sell at Ashton's Stables on Monday morning at 11 30 unstanding hack. His Lordship Bishop Mules arrived per Wainui yesterday, and will remain in the district for a few days. Ho will conduct service in Trinity Church tomorrow morning and evening. Some time ago a list was started in connection with the Martin Memorial, and several amounts have been acknowledged. During the racing carnival and the election excitement, the matter was, to some extent lost sight of. An effort will now be made to further the deserving object, and secure sufficient funds in some substantial manner to keep in remsmbranco one of the Greymouth boys who gave up his life in the interest of his country. In St John's Presbyteriaa Church tomorrow the Rev W. Gillies, of Timaru, will conduct the services both morning and evening. He will preach at Cameron's in the afternoon. As Mr Gillies is one of the leading ministers of the Presbyterian Church the services will doubtless be unusually interesting and impressive. All are cordially invited. On Thursday evening in tbe Opera House, Greymouth, Bishop Julius of Ohristehurch, delivered one of those intellectual and humorous lectures, for which ha is so well known. The subject of his address was Norfolk Island and its people. In an hour and a half's address he gave more information regarding the island, tho customs, and manners of its people than most travellers would give in a four hundred page volume. At the conclusion he was, on tho motion of the Rev Mr Stace seconded by tho Mayor, accorded a hearty vote of thanks.

The New Biver returns will not be known till late to-night. The result owing to the high staie of the river is not expected to be more than 12 ounces.

A grass-seeder explained to a South Island Bench how he had endeavoured to get rid of an attack of dyscntry by taking doses of painkiller and other compounds. "What a stomach you must have!" remarked an envious bench.

"To send a boy on to a station at the age of fourteen is to send him to the devil," was the statement made by the Rev A. C. Hoggins at the meeting of the Christchnrch Children's Aid Society on the authority of a station owner. " I do not attach so much importance to examination results, " Mr Hogben informed the Teachers' Salaries Commission recentlv. "We have overdone the system of judging by examination results, not only here, but in various parts of the world. I think it is inspection by experts that we. want. " Lord Eanfurly arrived at We3tport in the Hinemoa from Bluff via Milford Sound to-day. He had a budget of correspondence to attend to", but at the invitation of the Westport Chrysantemum Club was present for a short time at the annual show. There was a largo attendance of the public. The statement in this weeks' Gazette shows the discount on stamp transactions for the month ending March 31. Stamps amounting to £159 15s were sold, of which £6O were at Wellington and £23 at Thames. Only J7s worth were redeemed unso'd. The stamps on hand amounted to £622 los.

The Kaitangata Relief Fund now shows a balance of £3470 17a Bd. During the .year the sum of £434 lis 4d was disbursed to sixteen beneficiaries. There is a mortgage on security valued at £2500, bringing the value from up to £5976 17s Sd. The tender of Mr D. Lunnon, of Tauranga, at about £IOOO has been accepted for the erection of the new baths at Eotorua.

The souvenir card in connection with the Royal visit, designed by Mr W. 11. Young of Auckland, find awarded the first prize of £ls 15s given by the Government will be well worth preserving as a momento of a great occasion. The card will contain portraits of the Duke and Duchess of York, views of Wellington Harbour, arid the most notable mountains in the colony, and also miniatures of the New Zealand flag and the New Zealand coat of arms. The colours on the specimen submitted by Mr Young blend most harmoniously, and taking it altogether the design is highly artistic. Mr Hogben rnontioned incidentally to the Education Commission at Wellington in speaking of low salaries, the case of a young woman in a small school who received, with board and lodging, £2O a year, out of which she had to pay £l7 for travelling expenses when she went home twice a year for holidays. "If she had been a cook." ho added, "sha would have been paid £4O a year."

The Council of the New Zealand Law Society understands that two objections are made by the Courts of the Austratralian colonies to the admission of New Zealand solicitors. First, that the New Zealand law requires that praetionors qualified, beyond the colony should pass an examination in New Zealand law before admission in New Zealand; and, second, that the Now Zealand law prescribes no period of articles or service in a solicitor's offieo to insuro practical experience, but merely examination in general knowledge and law. The Council thinks that the first objection might be removed, but can see no way of obviat ing the second objection except by so amending the law that Now Zealand, as in all other colonies and in England, experience in practice as well as know- 1 lodge should be an essential qualification, j

Parliament should meet before the end of June, and in a few days the Premier will depart for Melbourne. It is a good thing for Mr Soddon to seize the opportunity of coming into personal tonch with the leaders of the Commonwealth on so groat an occasion, but we would point out that his first duty is to this country, and from/that standpoint would suggest that before he departs he should publicly address the electors on the policy-programme of the Government for the coming session.

It appears clear, says the New Zealand Law Society in a recent resolution, that solicitors are not entitled to appear in a wig in a Court where they have audience, though thoy may properly wear a plain gown. The President was therefore requested to write to the Judges of iho District Court informing them that the matter has been brought before the Council, and respectfully suggesting to them that solicitors should not be allowed to appear in their Courts in a costume they are not entitled to assume. Tho District Court Judges, it is understood, promised their assistance in the matter.

The following is reported by a returned Victorian trooper as having taken place between two subalterns in an Imperial regiment in South Africa, one being a colonial and the other an eye-glassed young Englishman :—" Second Lieutenant P. to Second Lieutenant S. (colonial): " I say, S, is it true that your father was only a shopkeeper ? " S: "Quite true. What of it?" F: " Oh, nothing ; only it was a great pity, I think, that lie did not make you one ! " S : You think so ! Well, opinions differ. But let me ask you, what was your father?" F: "My father! Why, my father, of course, was a gentleman." S : "Ah, and what a pity he did qot make you one,"

In our Kokiri letter last evening a statement was made by our correspondent that Stratford Blair and Co intended abandoning their intention of erecting a mill as another firm had secured the timber area. This statement turns out to be incorrect, and we now take this opportunity of contradicting it, and we regret that it has appeared.

The Eight Reverend the Bishop of Nelson arrived by the Wainui last evening. His Lordship is to preach at both services in Trmity Church to-morrow and at Ruthcrglcn in the afternoon. During the evening the Bishop will administer the sacred rite of Confirmation to a number of young persons. On Tuesday he is to hold service at Maori Creek, and on Wednesday a conversazione will be given in his honour in the schoolroom ; a number of our leading instrumentalists and vocalists having kindly consented to take part. Prom a private letter received from Trooper C. Northcrof t he appears to have had a rather bad time. Af Eer two months in the Licheuburg Hospital with enteric fever, he was neariy convalescent, when he suffored a relaps3 which laid him up for four months in .tho Mafeking Hospital. However, he reports himself on the fast road to recovery. The Commission that is sitting to inquire into the question of staffing and salaries of teachers in the public schools of New Zealand is now in Blenheim taking evidence, They sit at the County Chambers on Saturday May 4th for tho same purpose.

One of the tenderers for debentures in the Government loan was determined to have what he applied for. His tender was for £SOO and he offered a slight premium, with the remark that it was his first speculation of the kind. In a footnote to his tender, however, he said that in order to make sure of getting debentures he would give a premium equal to the highest offered. The reason for his determination was oxplamed by a statement that he wanted good security. The last property in the hands of tho liquidators of the Nelson Savings Bank has been disposed of to Mr J. A. Hanley, and it is presumed that the winding-up will bo completed without any further delay. It is now over 18 months since tho bank was closed.

In view of extensions and improvements to the Balclutha railway station yard,' the engine-shed was shifted bodily the other day from its old site on the south side of the station to its new one on- the north side —a distance of a quarter of a mile. Half a million feet of timber was imported into Gisborne in January and February—a fact which (3ays the Poverty Bay Herald) emphasise the necessity for opening up the district's own stock and bringing it within the reach of local eunsumers.

"It is seldom people have the pluck ro come forward and help a police officer in the discharge of his duty. It is nothing but rank cowardico or sympathy with very often worthless people." An expression used at the Wanganui Police Court this week by Mr H. Eyre Kenny, S. M.

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