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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 June 1901, Page 2

A press wire from Auckland states that the Mariposa with the 'Frisco mail lias arrived. Holders of publican's and bottle licenses are reminded that fees in connection therewith must be paid not later than 4 p.m. to-morrow. The pay of the South Australian Commonwealth Contingent while in Melbourne amounted to £1,022.

Tho Druids' social will be held tomorrow evening. Mr Kae's scientific entertainment, which is of a thoroughly interesting and instructive character, will commence at 8 o'clock. The Grey Football Club have received a challenge from Ngahere to play a friendly game with the First Fifteen in Victoria Park next Saturday. The Ngahere team will comprise some of the best players that the Coast have ever seen, who have come over in connection with dredging from different parts of Now Zealand. So we trust that next Saturday our local boys will roll up and uphold their long reputation.

It will bo seen from advices received by the Premier that a large number of the New Zealand volunteers, chiefly belonging to the Fourth and Fifth Contingents, numbering 661 of the rank and file, besides officers, are returning by the s.s. Toyne, which left Capetown on the 13th inst and are expected about the sth July. Among those on board is Lieutenant Haselden. At the meeting of the West Coast Economic Building Society last evening, Mr E. J. Smith in the chair, the drawing and balloting for £IOO was proceeded with, Messrs Gittos and Brady acting as scrutineers. Mrs G. Smith was chosen to draw the marble for the £IOO, which proved to be No 237, the property of Mr J. Shilton. After this the sale for the other £IOO was proceeded with, Mr J. Gillies being the purchaser at £3O 10s. A vote of thanks to the chair closed the proceedings.

The match Grey II v Blackball for junior honors took place at Blackball on Saturday, and resulted in a draw, no score on either side. Blackball played a better pame than Grey, and camo within an ace of scoring on several occasions. A pleasing feature of the match was the friendly spirit shown by the playorp. Mr Reynolds gave every satisfaction as referee. After the match the local team invited their opponents to dinner at the Junction Hotel, and the Grey boys speak in glowing terms of their treatment at Blackball. The Fire Brigide meeting was held last evening, when a good number were present. Through the inclemency of the weather it was impossible to take the steamer out for practice. Mr T. Clarke was appointed temporary in charge of the No 2 engine in Tainui street. The nomination of officers took place, two for lieutenant, four for engine foreman, five for hook and ladder foreman. The Secretary and Treasurer were elected unopposed. The different committeee in connection with the Fancy Dress Ball reported everything going on satisfactorily. A special practice tako3 place next Monday evening.

The visit of Bishop Grimes and partyconsisting of Dean Foley and Rev Fathers Lo Petit and Malone (Greymouth) to South Westland was anything but a pleasant one. They left Hokitika on the 30th May in tbc Jane Douglas and the weather from the time of the departure till its return was something to be remembered. Heavy seas, accompanied with busts of rain and hail, besides thunder and lightning:, was the party's usual attendant. Notwithstanding they persevered, and when the Bishop did succeed in landing, the welcome accorded to him, almost compensated him for the danger and trouble lie underwent, lie was met at Jackson's Pay by tlic Bev. Father Bogue the Priest in charge of the district, and Mass was celebrated in the various townships in the district. Bishop Grimes is at present at Gillespie's Beach " There are now no fewer than five Old Age Pensions Bills before tho House of Commons, the latest one being introduced by Mv W. B. Bonsfield. This seeks to provide pensions for poor persons who have sarved in tho army or navy, whether auxiliary or regular, for the prescribed conditions as to efficiency and good conduct. It also provides for the grant of a limited number of civil pensions. . The J authority is a joint committee of tho Council and tho Poor Law authority. A man who has no income is to get the maximum of 7s 6d per wook, and tho amount is graduated to Is, which is to bo granted to a man already in receipt of 13s per week. Beyond this nothing further is offered,

Wo, the Kumara " Titnos, " learn that Mr Soddon has arranged that the Ist < Wcstland Bides and Grey and Hokitika '• Cadets, which no doubt will include our ' boys, will form a guard of honor at tlie Christchurch Cathedral on Sunday next, when the Duke and Duchess will attend the morning service. The English Antie Gambling league propose to introduce into the House of Lords a Bill of Penalties for various gambling offences by way of opening the road to more drastic reforms. In a statement issued by the Secretary of the League it is declared that £10,000,000 per annum is spent on betting, of which huge sum the working classes contribute £5,000,000. To enable them to dj ibis 20,000 bootmakers have com.', into existonce, and " all are doing well. " It is also averred that 75 per cent, of the po3t office robberies come from the incentive of betting, whilst two-thirds of the suicides and bankruptcies are direct y attributable to the same passion. The Pelorus " Guardian," a piper which should be well informed, says that the negotiatioos of the Government for the purchase of theFlaxbourne Estate, between Blonheim and Kaikoura, the property of Sir George Cliffard, are still in progress. The railway between Blenheim and the Awatero will, when completed a few months hence, place Flaxbourne within two hours' run from Blenheim. The greater part of the estate is admirably adopted for close sestlement, and judging from numerous enquiries which have been made as to when it is likely to be placed on the market, there will bo keen competitions for sections. The case of a French dentist who has just succeeded in repudiating in a French court an English wife whom he married in England, in full accordance with the English law, conveys a Warning to young women who are disposed to fall in love with foreigners. Young ladies to whom foreigners propose should be careful, through their friends or lawyers, to make suro that the knot is duly tied. If this course strikes them as prosaic and unromamtic, they had batter resist the blandishments of foreign suitors altogether. —'Daily Graphic' After the address recently delivered by Mr A. L. D. Fraser, M.H.R., he received the following telegram from the Premier : —" I congratulate you on the great success of your meeting. Your defence of Capt. Russell was well-timed, for, although we differ in politics, knowing as Hutcheson and Atkinson (two Wellington members) must have done about the illness of the Captain and members of his family, it was, to my mind, very mean of them to make snch an attack as they did. However, that is their trouble. We do things better. In the time of sickness and trouble, political -or otherwise, friends should help each other, and not attack. " The salary of the Commander-in-Chief has been increased from the magnificent sum of £4500 to the still more magnificent sum of £SOOO. On what conceivable basis one, if not the most important of the Empire's servants is paid at the rate of a puisne Judge of the Supreme Court —a Judge in the Court of Appeal gets £OOOO, the Lord Chief Justice £Booo—no mere man can understand. "It is," says Vanity Fair, "one of the mysteries of our constitution which flatters allege is the wonder and admiration of a world that is most careful not to imitate it. The Commander-in-Chief is the judge of the whole army; on his shoulders should rest the responsibility for the safety of the Empire ; he is constantly brought into personal contact with foreign potentates and plutocrats from every quarter of the globe. If ever official required a full purse it is he. The five thoroughbred horses which were purchased in England by Mr Gilruth for the New Zealand Government are on the Papanui. One of them is Serapion, by Marcion, out of Lily of Lumley. He is a six-year-old bay, stands 15 hands 2in, and has won a number of steeplechases, one of them with 12st 101 b up. Lord Durham was at one time the owner of another of the quintet—Lupin, by Petor Flower out of Lunette, also a six-year-old. He stands 15 hands 3in. The other horses are—Tyranny, by Beauclere, out of Queen of the Isles, aged, about 15 hands sJin, light bay, a good nuggety animal; Malachi, by Eilmartin, out of Vesta, by Hermit, six-year-old, a strong weight-caraier, having won with about list 101 b; Amari, a four-year-old. One of the pleas of a farmer charged at the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, with failing to destroy rabbits on his property was that he could not lay poisoned grain or pollard lest the sheep should take it. In response to a question by Mr Haseldon, S.M., the Stock Inspector (Mr John Drummond) stated that he had known sheep take the poisoned grain or pollard. Dr Findlay for the Department: "If the poison is properly laid the sheep will not take it." The Magistrate replied that poisoning was useless if the sheep had to be taken off in order to lay it. The subject of federation with NewZealand appears, as far as Suva is eoncorned (writes the Fiji correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph), to have pretty well fizzled out, and the general comment on anything about this matter in the correspondence column is "Oh, give it a rest!" This does not appear, however, to be the case in Levuka, where a meeting of the Levuka Federation Committee was held on the 13ih May, to which several visitors from the outlying districts were admitted by courtesy- Mr Humphrey Berkley, one of the principal promoters of the movement, read some important correspondence from the Premier of New Zealand and the whole position of affairs was fully discussed, and a general plan of campaign arranged. The following day a suscription list, to furnish the sinews of war, was opened in tho town and liberally responded to by all, according to their moans. The question of insuring its employees in view of the coming into operation of tho Workers Compensation for Accidents Act was considered by the City Council on Thursday at Wellington, The Council decido to enquire as to whothor or not it should establish a sinking fund of its own to meet possible claims. Having secured the services of a lady who lias 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. Oh what would Tommy Atkins do If wc had not pulled him through ; The colonies have done their best, And showed great courage in the test, We all require a little aid, And danger makes us oft afraid; A cough won't make yonr.health secure, So buy some Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

T. W. Tymbns add Co., having disposed of tlieir business, respectfully ask that all accounts owing to them be settled during this month. —Advt. Who is to run the show when the Harbor Board is in Wellington shaking hands with the Duke and casting eyes at the Duchess. Why, there is only one man, and he is the Cash draper, who is up-to-date with his bargains for the ladies. Only fancy a full dress piece for 4/11, the dress and every other line, equally as cheep at Christopher Smith's —Advt. The Sydney Sunday Times London correspondent cables that Lord Kitchener, who is fighting far a free hank, is at variauco with the authorities in Eng and on the questian af military administration in South Africa.

You can make a large saving by purchasing your drapery from T. W. Tymons and Co., and judge before buying elsewhere.—Advt. WADE'S WORM FIGS are more effective and not unpleasant; most children thrive after taking them. Price 1/T. W. Tymons and Co. are now offering great bargains' in blankets, carpets, curtains, etc.—Advt'. WADE'S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, ."educe fever and prevent blotches. Price 1/-