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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 July 1901, Page 2

Scarlatina is reported to bo prevalent in town.

At tlie Magistrate’s Court this forenoon an affiliation case was heard. After evidence was heard, an order for 7/- per week was made.

An interestinc debate on the question “ Should New Zealand prohibit the export of Coal and Timber ” took place at the Catholic Club last night. The negative gained the evening on the casting vote of the Chairman. To arrive at the Beehive and Union Stores, within the course of a few days, a choice assortment of Rhubarb roots ; also a fine sample of schallots.- Griffen and Smith Beehive and Union Stores, Greymouth.— Advt. ' Trooper Albert Small arrrived at Brunner yesterday evening at 4 15 p m. train, and was met at the railway station by the Mayor and a number of friends, who gave him a cordial welcome home, after his sojourn for the past sixtsen months in South Africa.

On Friday evening the members of the Wharf Laborers Union will entertain Messrs Dunford and Johnston, members of the Union who have been serving with the contingents in South Africa and who returned last Friday, at a social to be held in the Lyceum Hall. The annual meeting of Parishioners of Trinity Church will be held in the schoolroom to-morrow evening. The meeting will bo of a business and social character combined. The ladies committee have arranged a .short musical programme, and the ladies of the congregation are providing a liberal supply of refreshments. All adult members of the congregation are cordially invited to be present. The majority enjoy a glass of good beer, and M'Gaven’s ales have long enjoyed the reputation of b ing among the best in New Zealand. Mr Fred Wells, the popular traveller for these beers is now on tho Coast solicit.ng orders, and we feel sure he will have no difficulty in obtaining them.

A telegram from Dunedin announces the death of Mr Hew H y, the popular Chinese merchant of that city. Mr Sew Hoy was one of the most enterprising men in Otago, and in consequence of his persistent action was the means of furthering the cause of dredging in Otago, and it might be said on the West Coast. He was never discouraged as to the ultimate success of dredging, and was not satisfied till the Sew Hoy dredge had proved a success, and was quoted from one end of New Zealand to the other. It is to be rushed that there are not a few more men of Sew Hoy’s stamp among us. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, C. Middleditch, a sailor on the s s Kini, was charged with wilfully damaging a cap, and assaulting Mr Revington and Constable Scott. Constable Scott and Mr W. D. Kevington gave evidence in support of the charges. The accused was fnmd 10/- on first charge, and £2 for assaulting the Constable and MrEevinglon. The management of Cinderella have arranged for the conveyance of the troup of monkeys to Brunner on Saturday next. The little fellows are just as frisky as ever and we are sure will evoke as much laughter as they did from their Greymouth audiences. Everything is being done to produce Cinderella in first-class style and only hope the weather will be propitious.

Mr Webley, senr., Pianoforte and Organ tuner, is now in Greymouth, and will take the opportunity of calling on clients. Any persons for whom we have not as yet tuned, desiring our services, should send in their orders to the Gilmer Hotel.— Advt.

Trooper Vucasovich, who left Greymouth about 16 months ago, arrived by the Haupiri yesterday, having been detained in Wellington by a number of West Coost friends. On his arrival he was met at the steamer by a number of friends from Waimea, Kumara, and Greymouth. After the usual welcome was accorded him the party were then asked to Wilson’s Imperial Hotel, where the health of the returned trooper was drunk in bumpers, proving that the genial “Jerry ” was not forgotten while fighting in South Africa. A narrow escape from what might have been a serious if not a fatal accident occurred on Saturday at Marsden to ayouug man named Clancy, driver of Mr. Brown’s coach. It appears he gave the reins to one of the passengers to hold, and on getting up to take them back one of the horses started, with the result that he was knocked down and one of the wheels passed over his left hip. Ho was fiikcn to Greymouth, where he was attended to by the doctor, and is now progressing as favourably as can bo expected. The vehicles of the w II known firm of Messrs Eouse and Hurrell of Wellington seem to have caught on in this district the local agents Messrs J. W. Easson and Go landing a consignment of three yesterday and they have four to arrive next week, all of which are for definite orders. One -of the vehicles, a large waggon for carting coal, attracted a good deal of attention on the wharf to-day, being very substantial and just the thing for carting heavy weights over rough roads. A new design in sulkies was also landed, which looks a very comfortable trap, strong and light, and ought to meet ready safe.

The ball and social given by the Volunteer Fire Brigade last evening at the Opera House to Trooper 11. Brown was a decided Jsuccess. The majority of the comrades of Mr Brown who returned with him on Friday were present, and seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The music was all that could be desired, consisting of Messrs Ashton (piano) Bennington (cornet), and Garth (violin). There were about 90 couples present and everything went as “ merry as a marriage bell.”

Messrs Nancarrow and Co. notify that the N.Z. S. Coy’s 11.M.6. Papanui will delinitely sail from Wellington on Tuesday, 30th inst.

The social dance which took p’aoc in the DriKshed last night tendered by the First Westland Hides (says the West Coast Times) to the returned Troopers, C. Northcroft, 0. Crawford, A. Webster, Goo. Adamson, Jos. Singer, Win. Currie, and Walter Foster, was a great success. Quite sixty couples occupied the floor. The scene was bright and artistic with the display of bunting and the pretty costumes of the fair sex, many of whom came from Kanieri, Boss, Stafford and Kumara. The Mayor of Boss, Mr Grimmond, was present, also Trooper Bird of Westport. Mr J. J. Breeze was master of the ceremonies, and excellent music was provided by Messrs M’Farlane and Heppoll (piano) and Mr A. o. Sargison (violin). Dancing was kept, up with spirit till the small hours.

Messrs Mark Sprot aud Co. have received the following telegram from the Secretary of the Master Butchers’ Association ■ Shop Hours Bill now before Parliament, disastrous to butchers, master butchers here opposing in a body. Get Coast butchers to .co-operate, appoint representative and send credentials. Deputation approaches Parliament at once. All centres uniting. Prompt action imperative. No shops to open from 6 p.m. till 8 a.m. Wire member support Butchers’ deputation.—W. C. Times.

Quite a huge mass of greenstone, estimated at about a ton, is being hauled out of the ground in the bed of the Greenstone Creek, to the order of Messrs Fogarty and Sherlock. It is taking some days to shift this immense block, which, owing to its size and solidity, ought to possess a high market value. Have many blocks like this been found in New Zealand?

Mr Millar is to ask the Premier if he will at an early date this session, submit to the House the Government’s proposal as the representation of the colony at the coronation of His Majesty in England in June next. The action of the Government in fostering the poultry industry, is causing farmers to take a lively, interest in the business of rearing birds, because they see money in it. One Dunedin firm for example, has just had to repeat an order sent from Africa, and though the particulars of the previous shipments are not known, the fact of the order being repeated is sufficiently encouraging. The vexed question of precedence is again engaging the attention of the Premier. It is said that His Excellency the Governor and Mr Seddon do not agree onthe subject. The point is whether the Chief Justice and Lady Stout are to take precedence of Mr and Mrs Seddon in connection with a Club function hold when the Imperial troops were here. Lady Stout claimed precedence over the Premier’s wife. Mrs Seddon, however, is equally determined not to give way to the wife of the Chief Justice. The question has no doubt by this time been referred to the Homo authorities. Count Von Waldersee is said to have expressed the opinion that collectively the Australian “handy men” out in China have the finest physique of any of the troops there. This contingent has a name for being more resourceful than any other, and it has been the practice when a man was wanted to fill some extraordinary position to apply to the Australians. These “handy men,’ have been commandeered for every conceivable purpose, from making a bicycle down to playing the bagpipes at a Scots’ dinner.—Special correspondent of the “Sphere.” A women’s deputation waited upon Solicitor-General Wynne on July 3 with a request that he would reopen the oaeo of Mrs Ceeilo Anderson, a Dane, who is serving at Pentridgo a sentence of twenty years for the murder of a man named Fraser. Mr Wynn -, in reply said his personal opinion was that an application for release should not be made until afterten years of the sentence had been served, but he promised to give careful consideration to any new facts bearing on the case.

Londoners have had an opportunity of inspecting the Discovery, which was built at Dundee at a cost of £35,090, for the British National Antarctic expedition. She arrived in the East India Docks on

June 9, and was to remain there for seven weeks. It has been said that the

King is to inspect her, but there has been no official intimation to that effect, While she was still in the yard of the Dundee Shipbuilders’ Company her propeller broke, and Captain B. S Scott, who is to command the expedition, had a narrow escape. He was standing under the propeller just before the accident, but changed his position on the suggestion of Mr Smith, designer of the vessel, that the place was not very safe. The warning was only given on general grounds, Mr Smith having no expectation of an accident. It was at first thought that the sailing of the ship might be delayed for a considerable time, but the damage was repaired sooner than was expected.

Apropos to the presentation of an address by the Quaker body to King Edward VII. on the occasion of his accession to the throne, an English paper recalls the quaintness of an address of the Friends to James II on a similar occasion. “We come to condole,” it ran “ on the death of our friend, Charles, and we are glad thou art come to be our ruler. We hear thou art a Dissenter from the Church of England, and so are wo. We beg.that thou wouldst grant us the same liberty that thou takest thyself, and we wish thee well,"

Mr Wilford expressed the conviction that Mr G. W. Russell did not know what he was talking about when he was 1 speaking on the Cycle Boards Bill. “And I don’t think he rides a bike,’’ added the member for Wellington Suburbs. “ I’ll race you to the Hutt,” retorted Mr Russell. “Ah !” said Mr Wilford, “he makes that challenge because he knows I can’t hold him responsible for what he says in this House, but if he will repeat it outside and put up £5 for some charity I will accept it quickly and readily.” The idea of a “ scorch ” from Wellington to Hutt between the two hou. members tickled the House.

The time was when Englishmen built railways for themselves and for other people, but that time has evidently passed. Mr Yerkes, the Chicago railway king, is now in England, with the avowed purpose of transforming London’s underground system from a steam to an electric road, and to construct the Charing CrossHampstead railway. Dr Paton, the Hew Guinea missionary, declares that the protests of Australia had the effect of preventing French designs on the New Hebrides, and of preventing the deportation of 100,000 French convicts to the group. The railway traffic for the month ended June 22. id shows, as compared with the corresponding period last'year, and increase of 13,994 passengers and £18,370 of revenue,

The school house at Waihemo, near Dunedin, was burned down yesterday. A new scheme for the development of Transvaal commerce has been submitted', to the Imperial Government. A syndicase with a capital of seven million; pounds proposes to build at once a moredirect trunk railway from the coast toJohannesburg, cutting through the hills, and thus doing the journey in twelve hours, or half the present time taken for the distance. It is also proposed to start dredging operations in the bay, and construct new wharves and -piers. ~ “All that glitters is not gold,” 1 A proverb old and true, Neither is a cough 6r cold, What it appears to you. Do not treat it lightly, for ‘Tis better to be sure. That you suffer never more, Get Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,