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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 June 1901, Page 2

Harley and Co.’s new advertisement will appear in to-morrow’s issue. The Wharf Laborers Annual Meeting tades place on Thursday evening at 7 30—Advt.

Owing to the day being proclaimed a holiday, the time for payment of gas accounts has been extended till to-morrow, at 4 p.m. Members of the Grey mouth Assembly are reminded that the next of the scries of dances will be held in the Opera House to-morrow evening at the usual time.

Till the end of the present month at the Union store wa are booking orders for all kinds of fruit trees, comprising apples, pears, peach, gooseberry, currents, etc., and also any variety of fancy shrubs. Advt,

At a meeting of the Charitable Aid Board yesterday, it was decided to sustain the valuation fixed and to employ Mr Murdock as arbitrator in the event of the Borough Council deciding to proceed with their protest. Mr Guinness addressed his constituents at Wallsend last night. Mr Bussell occupied the chair. After speaking for a considerable time, during which he received a splendid hearing, Mr James Noble proposed, seconded by Mr Newton, “That it is the duty of the Government to provide for the aged and infirm and that the Old Age Pension bo increased to 10s a week. Carried unanimously. Mr Geogheghan proposed a vote of thanks and confidence, which was seconded by Mr David{Armstrongand carried unanimously. As there was some difficulty in procuring a sufficiency of model r.flas for the Cadet corp the Secretary of Education Board telegraphed yesterday to the Education department on the subject and received the following reply:—“Model rifles are being sent to Christchurch for demonstration and your cadets can get tnem there.”

A Dunedin correspondent writes that die New Zealand Hardware Company recently gave all their employees an extra month’s salary as a bonus, and during the stocktaking period of this month provided coffee, sandwiches, etc., for all hands, so that the men could work on till 7 30 and then finish for the night, instead of going away for tea and returning till 9 p. m. Mr E. Roberts, the well known engineer of Dunedin, is responsible for the statement that there are 14 dredges for sale at the present time in Otago. Over 40 horses have been purchased in the Poverty Bay district by the Stock Department for the draft of remounts which the Government intend sending to South Africa. The prices arranged from £ls to £22.

A conference of. delegates of the M.U.1.0.0.P,, will be held in Wellington on 23rd inst to consider the establishment of an annual moveable committee, Bro. J. O’Brien, P.G.M., of Hokitika, will represent this district. Mr Rock Davis,- at Blaekwall, N.S.W. has built a fine schooner to the order of Mr J Sims, of Kaiapoi. The vessel is intended for the coasting trade, and will carry about 150 tons on a draught of 6ftBeing square rigged forward she should be a most suitable vessel for Now Zealand bar harbours.

The Westport Harbor Board have decided to put thoir newiboilor, which has been in stock for soma years, into the dredge. The work will occupy about six weeks.

The Bible-in-Sehqols party in Dunedin are on the warpath, and with the aid of the Council of Churches they are circulating a petition to Parliament asking that a colonial referendum should be taken on the subject. * The Sultan has told the Constantinople police that they must stop the fires in the city. The police have held a meeting, and decided that fires are due to insurance, and a mess-age has been sent round intimating that all who insure their property against fires will be sent to prison. A witness at the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, in instancing the cruelty of certain man towards his wife, said: —“He Has not even paid the clergyman for marrying him two years ago.” The New Plymouth tradesmen are about to form an anti-credit syndicate, to do battle with those customers who want goods hut don’t want to pay for them.

Today the bunting is Hying in all d'rections, the Government offices, business places and shipping being gaily decked out in honor of the arrival in New Zealand of the Duke and Duchess of YorkThe majority of the business places remained opened. The Post Office is preparing for illuminations to night, but to-day it has more the resemblance of an old rag shop than anything else. An inhuman mother in Waitara, for striking her crippled child, knocking him down on tile metal, and dragging hint along the ground for about two hundred yards by one ear, was sent to gaol for a week with labor.

Three candidates will probably declare themselves for the Patea seat, for which Mr George Hutchison’s resignation will be sent in very shortly. They comprise Mr Haselden (Opposition), Mr Remington (Independent Liberal), and Mr Hislop (Government). There arc twenty-eight inspectors in New Zealand under the Slaughtering and Inspection Act of last session.

It is understood that the volunteers from the West Coast are to visit Welling ton and Christchurch, but not Dunedin.! The treasurer of the Grey Elver Hospital acknowledges the sum of £24 16s from the No Town residents per Mr Fallon, the proceeds of a ball in aid of the above institution.

Friction seems to continue between the Audit Office and the Treasury. The published accounts for the year ending 31st March have attached a ‘‘ tag” from Mr Warburtofi, containing numerous remarks questioning the validity and regularity of various items of expenditure. To .which Mi- Seddon affixes his replies pointing out the Auditor-General’s errors.

Captain Tucker has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Gisborne Harbour Board, “ That in the opinion of this Board a harbour such as contemplated in the Gisborne Harbour Act, 1884, caunot be made inside the river. The Board therefore must take into consideration how to procure the construction of a harbour outside the river suitable for vessels of over 12ft draught.” Miss Annie Orr has been appointed telephonist in the Hokitika Exchange. She will proceed toGreymouth for a week or two in order to be initiated in her duties. As the subscribers are making representations with the view of having the office open from 8 a.m, to 10 p.m. it is probable a second appointment will be made.

The improved prices now ruling _ for sawn timber, following on the Premier’s remarks anent future supplies, hare stimulated a good deal of activity into the industry. Already a number of areas have been pegged off between Mahinapua Lake and the Ross road- It is gratifying to think one of our most valuable natural assets will, in the near future, be profitably realized on.

The Railway Department are offering four shillings and threepence in the Auckland district for puriri railway sleepers. Why caunot we get this figure for our silver pine sleepers which are admitted to be the best and most durable 1 J

The children attending the Hokitika school will bo pleased to hear that an instalment of Commemoration Medals has been received by the Committee and will be distributed daring the function to-mor-row to celebrate the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.

Mr Murdock M'Lean, of the firm of John M‘Lean and Sons, contractors, was examined before the Midland Railway Commission at Wellington relative to the cost of bridge girders on the West Coast. The firm were the contractors for the contractors for the Buller bridge, and Mr M'Lean’s evidence was sought with the object of ascertaining how the prices which the firm had paid compared with those of the girders of the Midland Railway bridges. His evidence showed that taking everything into consideration the Kailway Company had not paid excessive prices.

An exchange learns on good authority that the Premier has been warned by his medical advisers to take particular care of himself, otherwise his health will be completely broken.

There was an unrehearsed incident at the sacred concert in Masterton last Sunday evening. A well-known elocutionist was reciting with dramatic pathos, and bad just exclaimed, “I hear e’en now, the infants’ fierce chorus,” when his own child called out, from the back of the dress circle, “Daddy 1” The audience was shattered.

A scheme lias been proposed in Natal for the improvement on a’very large scale of Durban Harbor, the port of the colony. The cost of the undertaking, which wi'l quadruple the shipping capacities of the present harbor, is estimated at £3,000,000.

Having secured the services of a lady who has gained her experience in some of the best houses in Melbourne, Messrs McKay and Son have much pleasure in drawing attention to their millinery department, which is" now one of the most complete in Greymouth, We guarantee all orders entrusted to this department to give satisfaction. A complete stock of Mackintoshes, Jackets, Capes, Underclothing and Corsets, just to hand. — Advt.

The tender of Mr Charles Judd, Thames, has been accepted for a lighthouse at Kauranga, near Nelson. The lighthouse is similar, but somewhat smaller, to one recently erected by Mr Judd at the East Cape.

Municipal economy is what is troubling Feilding. They’ve got it on the brain \ questioner at a mayoral candidate’s meeting seriously wished to know if he (tae candidate) was in favour of the gas water being laid in the same pipe to save expense !

Tho “ Hawke’s Bay Herald ” remarks that the Teacliers’ Sa'aries Commissioners have been most happy in the choice of their arrangements, skipping straight from Timaru to Auckland, where they will be at hand at the reception of the Eoyal party on Juno 11th The trawling experiments conducted off the Hawke’s Bay coast b/ Mr Ayson, Government fish Inspector, nave not been attended with the success anticipated, and no new fishing grounds have been discovered. It was found that tho deeper tho water the fewer tho fish.

Large numbers of imitation coins and notes, issued for advertising purposes, are at present in circulation (says tho Post), Tho danger of those being passed as the real article is very considerable, and those who handle money would do well to bo wary. An imitation of tho throe penny piece, on silvered paper, appears to be especially commo'n. The Irish Field of a recent date states : “We have excellent authority for the statement that the King does intend to establish a royal residence in Ireland. Situations and plans are now under consideration. The-royal residence will be surrounded by an estate, and it is contemplated to use this as an auxiliary stud farm, for which some of the mares will be sent from Sandringham. Should nothing unforeseen occur in the meantime, his Excellency Earl Cadognn will remain Viceroy until the roj r al residence has been established, and it is not impossible that he may be the last Viceroy of Ireland.”

A correspondent writing from Pretoriato a friend in Gisborne, says:—-No one is allowed to go out of town, and even men can't get their wives here.. Lord Kitchener won’t allow it. A very good yarn is told about an Army Nurse (and Lord Kitchener being a women hater, it may be true). The nurses intended having a dance for the soldiers and themselves, so one of them went to ask Kitchener if ho would allow them to dance in a certain ball. Ho replied, “No, run away; this is no time for dancing. We have a war, and that is occupying all our time.”