Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 July 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901.

A special thanksgiving service for the safe return of the troopers will bo held at Trinity Church to-morrow, commencing at 11 a.m.

A special service will be held in St Saviour’s Church, Wallsond, to-morrow as a thanksgiving for the safe return of our soldiers from South Africa. The Grey River Hospital Trustees are inviting tenders for supplies for the six months ending 31st January, 1902. Full particulars may be obtained from our advertising columns. Messrs Harley and Co. will sell by public auction at Ashton’s stables on Monday, at 11.30 a.m., one chestnut draught mare, one spring trap and harness, and a sulky, Mr Marshall, the popular representative for Nelson Moate and Co.’s well known teas, arrived here yesterday morning, and 1- ft by the afternoon train for Hokitika. He will take the earliest opportunity of waiting on his numerous customers. The members of the Grey Rifle Volunteers, and Greymouth District School Cadets, are notified that there will be a Church Parade in connection with the Thanksgiving Service at Holy Trinity Church to-morrow. The Corps will fail in at the Drill Shed at 10.30 a.m. We are sorry to announce thet Mr Lord, our respected town cldrk, is confined to his house with a severe attack of bronchitis, which prevented him attending the banquet last evening.

An inquest touching the finding of a body near Blair’s sawmill was held at the Court House to-day, Mr Rodgers was elected foreman of the jury. Evidence was being heard when we went to pres?.

The Racing Conference, now sitting at Wellington, discussed and permanently settled the right to race on Easter Monday deciding in favor of the Kumara Jockey Club after an animated discussion, therefore the Hokitika Club will have to select other dates. In congratulating our neighbors upon their success we are only re-echoing the sentiments of every true sport in our midst, for was it not but last Easter when the two Clubs clashed that tire community to a man turned out to show that the sympathy was with the Kumara Club. Among the many visitors to the banquet last evening was old friend and erstwhile townman for so many years, Mr John M‘Gain. now of Sydney, who is on a visit to Greymouth. He desires us to express his thanks to his Worship the Mayor for his courtesy in sending him an invitation to the banquet. He informs us that the whole of his family are well and expressed gratificatipn at the evident signs of prosperity since his departure from Greymouth. Sickness appears to be prevalent just now in New Zealand. Typhoid is raging in some of the towns in the North Island, scarlatina in "Wellington and Lyttelton, measels in Hokitika, and diptheria in Mokihinui. By this dangerous disease, Mr Corby, the well known storekeeper in the latter township, has lost one of his sons, and several members of his family are prostrated with the same complaint. The State Schoolmaster is also in a very dangerous condition, but faint hopes being entertained of his recovery. People probably are not aware that the banquet and functions which were so successfully carried out yesterday, were, the results of the combined efforts of the Borough, County Council and Harbor Board. It is gratifying to know that the two latter bodies on all occasions of a similar nature have always assisted the Borough, and the thanks of the community are due to them for their public and patriotic spirit. General Sir George "White, who has recently received the G.C.M.G. for his services in South Africa, has already received the K.0.V.0. since his return from South Africa. Altogether he is now a Knight of no fewer than five different Orders — namely, The Bath, The Star of India, S'. Michael and St. George, the Indian Empire, and the Royal Victorian Order. After the evidence had been given at the Christchurch hospital in connection with the fatal tram accident, Mr. H. W. Bishop, district coroner, stated to the jury that the present was one of those unfortunate accidents that would always occur so long as young people would continue to jump off and on a train before it had stopped. It was almost impossible for the officials to prevent this, and in the present case the officials were blameless. The same applies to people jumping off trains while in motion. Mr A. J. M. Hickson, the newly appointed Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Court, Hokitika, has arrived, and taken charge of the offices in succession to Mr Mair, who took his departure yesterday. Speaking at a social gathering atPetone on Saturday night, Sir Joseph Ward said that the railways of New Zealand were destined to play a more important part in the history of the colony than a navy, both for commercial and strategic purposes. In the latter particular they would prove of immense advantage to the colony should occasion unhappily arise. The system was yot in its infancy, and had now but 7800 employees, but he might safely predict that in fifteen or twenty years there would be men employed. Ho felt it was his duty to secure for the employees fair treatment and fair wages. Proposals would shortly be submitted for a Superannuation Fund for the whole of the employees of the colony. Proposals wore to be submitted to j Parliament, which would, if agreed to, enable them to enlarge the shops so that the utmost amount of work in the way of building locomotives, carriages, and waggons could be undertaken. In the House of Commons recently the Speaker’s attention was called to the fact that a member was reading his speech There is an unwritten rule of the House that a member shall not read his speech, though it is often disregarded. The Speaker’s ruling on the matter was delightfully vague. He said that though it was a breach of order to read a speech, there was nothing to prevent a member assisting his memory by the aid of notes. And “notes” of course, may moan anything. The practice is a very common one, especially in maiden speeches, when memory generally requires a good deal of assistance, and it is not unknown oven on the first benches. Some of the most brilliant impromptus which have ever been uttered by leading statesmen have preAiously been reduced to writing. Mr Seddon, apropos■ of petitions in connection with one of the clauses of the Referendum Bill: —“ You can get signatures for sixpence each—l mean that the person securing them gets that.” A voice: “ And a glass of beer.” Mr Seddon ; “I have heard it positively asserted that some of the large petitions and requisitions we have heard of cost the promoters sixpence a head.” In referring to the granting of letters of indemnity by shippers of goods against possible damage in return for a clean bill of lading, “ Fairplay,” in a recent number advises captains to have nothing to do with them. Owners, it is said, stand almost invariably to lose in connection with such letters. The shipowner may send -the letters of indemnity to the shipper with a request for payment, and the shipper may ignore the letter, or claim that he received a clean bill of

lading. Or he might repudiate all but a lortion of the damage, and urge that the balance wms done on the voyage. There is also the point to be taken into consideration of Ti full advance from the bank being obtained on presentation of a clean bill of lading whereas the goods might have been more or less damaged, Notice to Ladies. — A small shipment of up-to-date ladies’ fawn jackets, sac back mackintoshes, and black straw sailor hats has just been opened at T. W. Tymons and Co. inspection invited.—Advt.

Having secured the services of a lady who has gained her experience in some of the best houses in Melbourne, Messrs M‘Kay 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 will give satisfaction. A complete stock of Mackintoshes, Jackets, Capes, Undercloths and Corsets just to hand.— Advt.

You can make a large saving by purchasing your drapery from T. V '. Tymons and Co., and judge before buying elsewhere. —Advt.

T. W. Tymons and Co., having disposed of their business, respectfully ask that the accounts owing to them be settled during this month.— Advt. At Balaclava years ago, Six hundred men engaged the foe, Ah I what a gallant charge was made, By that courageous Light Brigade. Though many perished there, whoknows The number killed by Russia’s snows, For none can damp and cold eudure,

Without some Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,