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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 August 1901, Page 2

No discount will be allowed on gas accounts left unpaid after 4 p m on Monday 12th inst.

The Secretary acknowledges with thanks a donation of £5 from the Greymouth Druids towards the Grey River Hospital.

Mr C. Napier Bell, C. E., who has been seriously ill with bronchitis in Christchurch, is now making excellent progress towards recovery. The Gisborne Harbor Board have accepted a tender for the erection of towers for new leading lights. The lights will be clear (those at present in use are red), and they will bo visible to ship-masters fourteen miles off the port. Tenders are invited in our advorli ing columns for the purchase and removal of the New Zealand Clothing Factory situated on Quay. This should be good opportunity for persons wanting to build, the timber being mostly kauri. Tenders close on Wednesday evenin.-. Full particulars may be obtained from the manager, G. A. Perens. In the Grey Biver Hospital yesterday there passed away one of the pioneers of the Coast in the person of Edward Parker, formerly of Nelson Creek, It is nine years ago since he first came into the institution suffering from a stroke of paralysis from which ho never recovered. A r ery cold lately! Nearly everyone you meet suffering from the effects of the weather in some way—either chilblains, rheumatism, coughs or colds, and now influenza is showing itself. This reminds us that Parkinson and Co. have an advertisement on the third page, calling attention to ten of their well-known lines specially suitable for winter complaints, and we suggest the perusal thereof to anyone requiting a cure for influenza or a bad cough.

A well-attended meeting of those interested in the proposal to hold an athletic and wood-chopping sports carnival on the 9th November (the King’s birthday) was hold at the Albion Hotel last evening. After considerable discussion it was decided to hold the sports on the date suggested on Victoria Park, and to offer the handsome sum of £75 in prize-money, a sub-committee being appointed to draw up a programme of events. A letter was received from Mr J. M. Hamilton, suggesting the inclusion of some amateur items, and promising the hearty co-operation of the members of the Grey mouth Amateur Swimming Club towards making the sports a succe-s. It was agreed to give the items asked for. The principal features will be the chopping and sawing, running, cycling and other sports. The programme will appear next week.

Of the 2672 patients who passed through lunatic asylums of the colony during 1900,788 came from England, 409. from Scotland, 631 from) Ireland, and 539 from New Zealand. There were 31 Chinese and 21 Maoris, together with representatives from tho Australian colonies 58, Franco 8, Germany 46, Norway 18, Sweden 16, Denmark 12, and Laly 15, Of tho mates, 812 were laborers, 36 were farmers, 18 were miners, and 12 wore mariners. Of the women, 185 are classed under the heading “domestic duties,’’ and 19 were domestic servants,

The Defence had arranged to give each man of the returned contingents £o, but the Defence Minister (Mr Seddon) has issued' instructions that the amount bo increased to £2o.—Wairarapa Star. A Soutli African war correspondent tells the following story:—One day a man was taken into a field hospital and treated for a wound in the thigh. Under an anesthetic the surgeon in charge probed and found a metallic substance — a battered sixpence, which had been driven by the bullet through his pocket. When the man came round the surgeon handed him the sixpence and said, “This is what we have got-out of your thigh.” The man answered, “Oh, I know all about your triclcs. I have read about you in the papers. You give me the other nine and a tanner. I lost half a quid.

Referring to the intention to establish a State coalmine, the Lyttelton Times says: Where the Government intends to open the mine has not yet been made public, but is freely stated that it contemplates a commencement with the Cardiff property. This mine took fire some months ago, aud one of the functions of the Commission was to enquire into the cause of the catastrophe. The Premier stated in the House on Tuesday that Mr Gordon, Mr M’Kay, and Mr Hayes, the Inspecting Engineer, were engaged in selecting a site, and when that was done Parliament would be asked for the necessary authority. Prices were too high, and the effects of the’combination among coil suppliers were working very unsatisfactorily.

Dogs kept by railway linemen recently got loose among a stud flock at Afton (Queensland), and killed a ram valued at 200 guineas, besides 30 valuable ewes. The Railway Department has promised to prohibit linemen on tire sheep runs from keeping dogs. Daring the hours the House is sitting a Hag is flown over Parliament Buildings. This is to be supplemented by a powerful electric light, to be used at night—presumably to serve as a guide to seeker after truth and wisdom. ■ The Chinese Government do all in tbeir power to check the opium habit, the punishments common in the Chinese Army for this habit being extreme. For the first offence a man may have his upper lip cut, for the second he may be decapitated.

General Smith-Dorrien says of Lord Kitchener, “There appears to have been a sort of idea in England that Lord Kitchener, on assuming command, would stop at nothing short of murder; whereas, while prosecuting the war with firmness and vigor, he uses every conciliatory and humane means of bringing it to a close.”

It is reported that soon after Aguinaldo became a leader of the Revolutionary Party, a reward of £5,000 was offered for his head. He coolly wrote to the Go-vernor-General saying that as he wanted the money badly, ho would surrender on receiving the'amount of the reward. Mr Kettle, S.M, at Wanganui, has expressed his intention of issuing prohibition oriers against all persons brought before him charged with drinking to exjess. He is convinced that fining such persons is no deterrent. M. Gaston Steegeler, a representative of the journal Lo Matin, has started from Paris to go round the world in sixty-three days. The lectures given in England by Donald M’Donald were unsuccessful so ho is returning to Australia. According to a Wanganui paper the French Minister of Marine has ordered twen y thousand additional submarine bouts.

An illustration of the groat suction power of a train travelling forty miles an hour was furnished recently in America A little girl stood too near a passing train, and was drawn violently against the last carriage, being instantly killed. When Murphy, the American cyclist, rode behind a train travelling at a rate of one mile a minute some time back, he was, of course, very greatly assisted in his marvellous ride by the air suction. A member of Parliament at Home, during a heated debate recently said : “ Even if you carried these peddling little reforms, it woo'd only bo like a flea-bite in the ocean. ”

An exchange remarks that as soon as Premier Seddon tilked of “ looking up ” Sir George O’Brien, Governor of Fiji, the latter promptly took to flight and the next that is heard of him ho is on his way to England. Mr Haseldon, the elect of Patoa, said in his opening speech that one farmer had been afraid to vote for him, in case of securing the displeasure of the Government, and so have his land compulsorily taken.

News has been received of the safe arrival at Euela (S.A.) of the Transcontinental Hail way Exploring party.

A firm of ilaxmillcrs at Foxton has obtained an order at £l9 10s a ton, which will leave a good margin of profit. Wo have received from the Department of Lands and Survey, a very neatly got up book-pamphlet descriptive of New Zealand from its early settlement to the present period. It is an excellent historical eompendum of the Colony, and supplies much interesting information on its progress in population, political expansion, development in manufactures, trade industries, and wealth; and also illustrating its natural scenery and many physical wonders. It is very much in the style of the guide book and ought to prove useful and instrnoiivo to tourists. Mr E. U. Loughnan, the well known journalist, is the compiler and editor. A dairyman of Cambridge, when served with a summons for selling milk from which 13 per cent of the natural cream was absent, asked the inspector to take a sample from the cow. This was done, and an analyst found that this sample was without 17 per cent of the cream. The summons was dismissed.

The concession of three days leave o* absence to the police force us a reward for the work performed during the Royal visit is to bo extended to all the members of the force, and not merely to those who travelled through the colony doing special doty. The Poverty Bay Herald states that the demand for pastoral land in the Gisborne district still remains good, and new country is continually being taken up. Recently two blocks of the Mangato district, totalling about 7000 acres, have been selected.

■The whole cost of the public abattoirs to be erected at Fitzroy, New Plymouth, will, it is estimated, amount to £7OOO. The first train has passed over the Awatero bridge. It was made up of seven trucks, laden with railway iron and and sleepers and the engine. Everything connected with the bridge appeared to be in splendid working order. The revenue of the port of Camera has made considerable strides during the past two years (says the North Otago Times). For the six months ending the 30th Juno, 1899, the gross revenue was £3182 13s, and for the similar period of 1901 it was £4570 10s, an increase of £I3BB 2s. The net increase of revenue for the same period was £ll3B 5s lOd. As showing the extent to which the people of the Nelson district are embarking in the fruit-growing industry, it is stated on goad authority (says the Evening Mail) that from 500 to COO acres of new plantations will be made this season The local n '.rseries seem wholly unable to supply the demand for varieties required. In fact, the value of orders being delivered by a Melbourne nursery is said to run into thousands of pounds,

The Auckland cabmen have formed a Union.

There has been a steady increase in the imports and exports at the port of Timaru during the past few years. The total tonnage during the past half year was 79,360.

Another whale was captured last week at Messrs Cook Bros’ whaling station in the Far North, making a total of twelve for tht season.

Auckland is discussing the question of getting electric power for lighting and motive purposes, and the Star suggests that it may be possible to ’ harness the enormous force of the Waikato River (estimated at two million feet per hour) and even to utilise the great Huka Falls, 180 miles distant from the city. The proposal of the Federal Govern" ment to exclude aliens from the Common--wealth has had the effect of alarming: the Chinese residents of Victoria 'at present visiting their homes in China into scuttling back -to their cabbage gardens. Although 49- Mongolians, who had just arrived by the Shangsha, from Hongkong, have been admitted by the customs authorities.

It is believed in Norway that wolves are frightened away by telegraph lines. When a vote was pending on a grant to a new line, a member of the legislature remarked that while his constituents had no direct interest in ' it, they would support the grant because the wires would drive away the wolves. It is stated remarkable fact that since the first telegraphic line" was established, 20 years ago, wolves have never appeared in its neighborhood.

A fine specimen of the wallaby was shot the other day at Waimate. It measured from point of tail to tip of nose 6ft 10in, The tail was 2ft Gin long. Another and larger wallaby was also sighted at the same time, but the animal got over a spur and out of sight before a shot could be firep.

Dunedin is the only city in the colony without a public, bath, and an effort« now being made to get the Corporation to erect a suitable bath. Over 600 children are at present being taught swimming in private baths in that city. Arrangements are being made to bold a meeting in Christchurch at an early date, of representatives of stockowners and members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals to discuss the question of dehorning cattle, r y A point of great importance to employers of labour has been decided by the Stipendiary Magistrate at Dannevirke (saya the Welllington Post). . A sawmill hand, who met with a severe accident while plying-his vocation, sued his employer ior injuries which he had received. After making an inspection of the scene of the accident, and hearing the evidence, the Magistrate nonsuited the plaintiff with costs on the ground that the mishap had occurred when plaintiff had a free hand as to bow the work should be done, and as to how the appliances should bo operated. Time was (says the Eangitikei "Advocate ”) when a man who was bearing the heat and burden of the day could look forward to the period when his sons would assist him in his business, and he could instruct them how to carry it on. after he had paid- his last debt to Nature, That has been made impossible by the labour laws of this colony, and it is now a crime for a man to employ his own sons. At Wellington the other day the Plasterers’ Union charged a man with employing two boys who were notindehtured and two others who were his sons, and not apprenticed, hut whom defendant said ho was paying 10s and lls per day. The Judge said defendant’s sons should be paid the full wages of a journeyman, and the award ignored family ties. He could either pay the full wage, get a permit for the young men, or dismiss them from his employment. Dismiss bis own sons at the bidding of a labour union This is not a story of Russia, but the relation of an incident in the Wellington Arbitration Court. Our readers, however, must bear in mind ,that this is a land of liberty, in which also industrial peace reigns. A dredge band on the Sixteen-Mile dredge had rather an unpleasant expert, ence a few days ago. He was going ashore in a boat, when he was thrown into the water, and despite his efforts to get ashore he was taken down the river some four miles before he was ultimately rescued by a Chinaman. A very heavy sea was rolling at Timaru at the end of last week. It has shifted some of the stones at the end of the new works, but does not appear to have damaged the breakwater.Ttero is an exceptional amount of sickness in Invercargill and country districts at present (states the “Southland News”). Influenza is the commonest ailment, and an idea of the number of ct-ses may be gained from the fact that one firm in town has 70 hands off, laid up with it. The disease is in a severe form, and more than one fatal case is reported. Pheumonia has also attacked several, diptheria has made its appearance in the country, and the less serious, though unsightly, chicken-pox is common among children. Some look upon the visitation as a legacy from the returning troopers, but this is far-stretched, though there cannot be the least doubt that indirectly their visit has been the cause of a great deal of the sickness.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the ‘ Daily Mail ’ says The Russian submarine boat designed by the engineer Sakovenko, which will be able to cross the Atlantic from England to America in two and a-half days, is being built with the utmost secrecy In a French port. The secret of the extraordinary speed of this boat lies in its peculiarly constructed screw. The boat itself is in the shope of a double-pointed cigar. A monument is to be erected in Pihama Taranaki, to the poor follows who lost their lives in the wreck of the ill-fated barque Lizzie Bell. The steamer Hounslow (2797 tons) and Oceana 3530 tons) and Gadsby (2948 tons) have been chartered to load oats at New Zealand ports for South Africa. The Attorney-General of Queensland has given notice in the Legislative Assembly of a Bill to reduce the salary of the Chief Justice.

The supply of boy ,and girl labour in Nelson appears to be very less than the demand at present. So serious has become the shortage of suitable labour that Mr Kirkpatrick, the proprietor of the “E" jam, states that be will bo compelled, unless the difficulty is overcome, to remove the manufacture of some class of Ms goods to a district where labour is more plentiful.

Mr S addon hopes to bring in a Payment of Members Bill this session. It is generally understood that the proposal made to members will be to increase their own salaries to £3OO a year. The Hokitika Gas Company some time ago reduced their prices from 12s 6d to 10s per 1000 feet of gas for lighting purposes, and from 10s to 6s 8d for stoves. They now intend to offer further faoilties to consumers by erecting fittings in houses not connected on exceptionally easy terms The company are also providing a stock of pas cooking stoves for the coming summer to meet the requirements of householders.

A Waimate correspondent says that for a wager, Mr J. O’Connell, the Ohaka strong man, performed the remarkable feat of strength, in the presence of a ' number of spectators, of climbing an eight-feet ladder with seven hundred pounds weight of sand tied across his back.

• -As a result of the Judges’ decision in the tollgate appeal, the Clerk of the Taranaki County Council is now busy making up accounts of those settlers who refused to pay toll pending the settlement of the appeal, r Settlement in the Poverty Bay district increased at a satisfactory rate, during the 12 months ended June 30th last. During that period over 40,000 acres of Crown land were selected. . Giant Monarch and Victoria Ehubarb roots, assorted fruit trees, schallots, and a prime sample ol pink eye potatoes, to be had at Gtiffen and Smith’s Beehive and Union stores— Advt. WADE'S TEETHING POWDEES for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. 'Price 1/-

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