NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 July 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Sagland has 40,000 policemen. Only 900 people in 1,000,000 die of old age! Belgium grows 12,000,000 bushels a year of wheat. Norweigans eat more potatoes that Irish people, the average being 501 b each a year. The Prussian Government have spent £1,250,000 in the purchase of collieries rendering the State railways independent of the coal ring. WADE’S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price 1/WADE’S WORM PIGS are more effective and not unpleasant; most children thrive after taking them. Price 1/Tou can make a large saving by purchasing your drapery from T, W. 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. T. W. Tymons and Co. are now offering great bargains in blankets, carpets, curtains, etc.— Advt. 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 <o 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. By the death of Baron Wedel-Jarls-berg, born in 1815, democratic Norway has, says an English paper, lost its last and only nobleman, the nobility as an hereditary institution having been abolished in 1891. The deceased was a distinguished naval officer, who served the Norwegian navy for sixty-nine years. He took part in the first Schleswig War in 1849, and had a commission on the great battleship, Christian YIIL, when she was blown up by the Prussians in the Eckernforde Fiord, the Norwegian officer being at the moment in a boat close to the ship. Thrown into the sea by the catastrophe, he managed to swim ashore, and was subsequently captured.