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

A special meeting of the Greymoutb Fire Brigade will be held this evening. Gas accounts must be paid by tomorrow, otherwise discount will not be allowed.

The Grey County Council held a special meeting to day at noon; The business will te comiuuod this afternoon.

The Cinderella Company will not visit Brunner to-morrow as intended. They will go there in about three weeks’ time, Members of the Greymouth Fire Brigade are notified in another column that a special practice at No. 2 Station will beheld this evening at 7 30. A special meeting of the Harbour Board will bo held this evening. It is understood the Engineer-iu-Chief does not approve of the extension of the North Training Wall.

Owing to the Wallsond hall being en* gaged on Saturday night, Mr Guinness, could not addn ss his constituents. The address is announced for this evening at the same time and place. Mr Campbell, Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, has the Maori Queen gold exhibited in Mr Lloyd's window where it may be seen. It is a fine sample of West Coast wealth, Mark Sprot and Co wi.l sell by public auction at Ashton’s stables on Thursday next at 11 30 a m 10 horses including heavy and medium draughts, spring cart and light harness horses.

Members of the Greymouth Town Band are requested to muster at practice rcom on Friday evening (not Monday as stated) for general annual meeting to receive balance Sheet and for election of Officers — Adyt.

In answer to numerous enquiries made we may stati that the cadet) from Greymouth and Hokitika are to bo kept by themselves on board ships and after landing at Wellington and Christchurch. In addition to the various officers, SergliMaj r Barrett accompanies the volunteers and it can be relied upon that every attention will bo given to the cadets. , In regard to the complaint that the gas I? bad on the wharf, wo believe, the cause is not the gas but the lamps, which have become a little stuffed. To-day they are being attended to, and to-night should see the lamps as bright as over. It is just as well for consumers to know when “ their lamps are dim ” that it is probably owing to the burner being coated with dirt. The gas is there alright, both pressure and quantity.

Mrßignell chairman of the Grey State School Committee to-day received the following telegram from the secretary for Education Wellington Official larding on signal for hoisting flag final for two o’clock on Tuesday afternoon next. Please have children ready at that hour. Final signal by flag at Post Office or by message as arranged. At four chief centres a royal salute will also be fired. A Wellington sawmillcr predicts a further rise in the price of timber at no distant date. ITawkes Bay timber merchants have increased the price of tofcara and kauri by Is per hundred feet.

Mr W. Tanner, M.H.E., told his constituents last week that the framing of answers to questions by Ministers in the House, which would convey a shallow meaning to a shallow mind, was becoming a fine art.

A telegram through Lallan’s Agency from Paris, dated 20th April, saysMr Lockhart Agnew, who has been in Paris, has now virtually confirmed the statement that Mr Pierpont Morgan has bought the celebrated portrait by Gainsborough of the Duchess of Devonshire which was stolen in 1870, and narrated in our columns—for £30,000.

An'interesting curiosity in the shape of a white woodhen is in the possession of MrF Trask, of Nelson, The bird which is almost entirely white, was caught at Ngatimoti about six weeks ago. Mr Trask is in communication with a well-known New Zealand naturalist for the sale of the bird, which will, in nil probability, be sent to England to the Rothschild family. A yellow paroquet, which was sold by Mr Trask some time ago, was afterwards sold to the Rothschilds for £lO. An election for the Patoa seat appears at least to bo within sight. Last Friday’s Taranaki News has the following Mr Muldrock, attorney for Mr George Hutcheson, was in New Plymouth yestsrday. He stated that Mr George Hutcheson was realising his New Zealand property. Mr Muldrock further stated that ho had held Mr Hutcheson’s resignation over since ho left for South Africa, and indicated that it would be in the Speaker’s hands within a week.

Mahuta’s claim to Royal rank as tho Maori King was thus characterised by tho Hon. Jas. Carroll in tho course of an interview at Gisborne: —“His kingship was simply the result of tho position being refused bv other Chiefs to whom it was offered. Of course, the idea was conceived in Waikato by Wil* liam Thompson, the kingmaker, as he was known, and they formed what was called the Land League at that time, and then they discussed tho matter about giving a symbolic force to the Land L ague by appointing somebody as King. As a matter of fact, the' first man they offered it to was the great Te Kani, at Tologa Bay, but he declined. Ho said, ‘I do not want any more titles. I am rich enough in hereditary titles. Besides I see the outcome of this must be war with the Europeans, I have always been on friendly terms with the Europeans, and I shall not war against them now.’ So he declined. Then the title was offered to Matene te Kaiwhi, of Otaki, and he declined for the same reason, and it went round to Potatau. It is tiibe the question was settled, this pretension to royalty and that sort of thing.”

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The southerly buster at its height. With wind and rain and sleet, Is bound to give us every night, Wet clothes and cold damp feet. Bad coughs and colds must then prevail, We’il try to make them fewer, And take a dose of never fail— Some Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.