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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 15 August 1901, Page 2

The Sonoma which left Auckland on the 27th July, arrived at ’Frisco on 13th August at 9 p.m one day late. A meeting of the Grey Borough Council will be held this evening at which a good deal of important business will be transacted.

Mr Walton, our readers will be pleased to learn, was enabled to get out for a few hours to-day. It will be a couple of days before he is completely restored to health. We are pleased to inform our readers that Mr Vinsen is improving as well as can be expected, and may be able to leave the Hospital in a fortnight. Owing to several serious cases in the Grey River Hospital, the concert to be given by the Ethiopian entertainers to the patients this evening, has been infinitely postponed. Mr Brownlie, the well-known and popular sharebroker, is to be entertained at a dinner at the Post Office Hotel, this evening at 8 o’clock. Mr Brownlie shortly leaves for Christchurch. Those members of the late Khaki Corps who have not returned their carbines, are requested to leave them at Mr Bennington’s by to-morrow, as they have to bo returned to Wellington at once.

Applications are invited from persons willing to undertake the combined duties of Town Clerk and Road overseer for the Borough of Brunner, salary £3 per week. Applications must be lodged with the Mayor before 6 p.m. on Friday.

Tenders are invited for the erection o* machinery and housing in Callaghan’s Greek Gold Dredging Company’s -dredge. Tenders close with Mr Kingswell, Roefton on Friday 30th August at 8 p.m. For further particulars we refer our readers to an advertisement in another column. The Garrick Club hold their seventh social of the 1901 season on Wednesday evening next, at the Opera House. The prices of admission, ladies Is, gentlemen 2s, remain as usual. The orchestra, under the direction of Messrs Perotti and Seabrook supply excellent music, and the supper, floor, and general arrangements are as perfect as unlimited expense, labor, and experience can make them.

The following team has been chosen to represent the Reefton Rivals in their match with the Red Roses on Saturday next: —Full back, D. Cameron : threequarters, Benncft, T. Austin, J. Irving; five-eighth, R. Searight; half, T. Irving ; forwards, W. Harvey, W. Potts (wings), Dawson, Heffernan, Rhodes, WMshe, Fergusson, Hesiop, McGillicuddy. Emergencies—O’Loughlan, Hansby, Ceilings.

The District Court sits to-morrow when the chief case set down for hearing is one in which William Walton, (striker) is suing the Dispatch Foundry Company (Ltd) for the sum of £195 for damages for an alleged injury received by him in December last whilst in the employ of the Company, owing to a piece of heated iron falling on his foot and crushing and burning him. The case will be heard before Judge Ward. Mr Hannan appears for the plaintiff, and Mr Beare has been retained with Mr Kitohingham for the defence.

This evening at the Trinity Schoolroom, the Rev. Mr Stewart will deliver a lecture to the members of the Trinity Church Debating Society on “ Books and how to read them.” Mr Stewart’s capabilities in literary matters are so well known that we have no doubt that those present will be afforded not only a most enjoyable and interesting evening, but an intellectual treat. The Trinity Debating Sociey extend a hearty invitation to the members of the St John’s Debating Society, (of which Mr Stewart is President) and the general public to attend. Great interest is being taken in the Junior football match Roses v Rivals which takes places at Rccfton on Saturday. Both teams are training and given a fine day a capital struggle should ensue. The northern boys seem to be strong favorites, but we feel quite sure our boys will give a good account of themselves. The following will represent the Roses: —Full Back, R. Alexander; ;j- C. Craig, P. McCarthy and H. Rear ; D. Sullivan; £E. Chapman ; forwards: 13. West, (Capt) W. Ogilvie, G. Lochore, L. Bromley, W. Murray, G. Scott, J. Sullivan; wings: W. Lambert and A. Tomkics.

The efforts of the Cycling Club in opening up fresh tracks to places of interest in our vicinity are at last bearing fruit. It may bn remembered that last year, on the Club’s representation, the Government were induced to place on the estimates a vote for opening up a track to Cobden Hill and Coal Creek Falls. We now learn that the Public Works Department have received instructions to put the work in hand, so that during the coming Bummer we may be able to introduce our visitors to fresh places of interest. Tae Falls at any time are worth visiting but owing to their present inaccessibility very few nave seen t'*em. When the track is finished wo feel sure the place will become the favourite re-sort for pic-nickers and others who take an interest in beautiful scenery.

A large quartz reef was cut last week by the men engaged in making a tunnel for the Poeroa-Waihi railway.

A new master has been appointed to the Island Creek dredge and is expected to arrive in W estport this week. It is stated that a brother of the man Robert Douglas, who has confessed to the Masterton murder, recently died and left £IOO to the prisoner.

By the explosion of a barrel of gasoline in Philadelphia five buildings were wrecked and set on fire. Twelve persons were killed and forty injured. A temporary loop-line is being laid at Masterton railway station to enable the necessary filling-in for the new station site to be more expeditiously undertaken.

The buffalo or American bison is practically extinct, and a good skin which, in the seventies, would have fetched only a few shillings is now worth about £6O. Mr Scanlon' has given notice of his intention to move at next meeting' of the Westport Harbor Board “That the Board procure at once an up-to-date and complete boring plant.” The Port Chalmers people are trying to get the Government to guarantee a loan of one hundred thousand pounds for increased dock accomodation. The Premier did not give them much hope. Thirty-five million bushels of wheat

from the Canadian north-west provinces will be available for export in the autumn. The entire Canadian crop is now estimated at forty-three million bushels. A woman, who was summoned by the education authorities at Tunbridge Wells, England, recently said she had to lead her son to school with a dog-collar around his neck, otherwise he would play truant.. “We are all Orangemen and Orangewomen here to-night,” remarked the Rev. C. E. Ward at the Coronation Oath meeting held in Chiistchurch last Tuesday night; then glancing round he added, “ except-the reporters.” A press wire from Dunedin states that the directors of the Westport Coal Company have declared an interim dividend of four per cent for the half year ending 30th June.; also tho Golden Gate Dredging Company sa, the Golden Treasure 2a, and the Success Company 3s. The Jane Douglas is reported to be ashore at the Okura river. This is rather unfortunate for Captain Anderson, who commands her this trip for the first time. She is not, however, in a dangerous position, and tho spring tides will soon float her off.

In reply to the Westport Harbour Board’s request for permission to work the Cardiff mine, on the Board’s endowment, the Under-Secretary of Mines writes that it is proposed to invite applications from persons who are willing to work the mine.

Inspector E. Macdonell, of the Nelson and Westland District, in his annual report says ' —“ lam pleased to say that members of the Force, on the whole conducted themselves well, and appear to have carried out their duties in a satisfactory manner. The verdict of the Masterton Star on thp New Zealand guide book issued by the Lands Department-After going carefully through the book, we cannot help expressing surprise at the largo amount of information it does not contain, and at the folly of publishing it at all. The officer in charge at the Tarooola goldfields has reported to the South Australian Minister of Mines that a new find of good stone has been made at Glenlotb. Good returns are being obtained from the Tarcoola field. A discovery of gold has also been reported from Laroowie, and investigations are being made. The Westport Harbour Board have invited Mr Napier Bell to make personal visits to Westport and report on the Harbour Works. Mr Greenland the Secretary has forwarded data to Mr 8011, who is at present in ill health at Christchurch. It is anticipated that he will come over immediately he recovers.

Bagley Bros., tanners, of Green Island, Dunedin, have had to close down on account of the injurious effects of labour legislation. A boot factory in Wellington has also been dismantled, the proprietor fearing the effect of the labour laws. Business will be resumed in Sydney, whither the plant will be removed.

The Minister of Marine has informed the Westport Harbour Board that it is intended to bring section 12 of the Westport Harbor Act. 1884, into operation as from Ist September next. The section provides for making a special rate of 3d per ton on all coal shipped from the port. The revenue from this source, estimated at about £6OOO yearly, is to be devoted to repayment of loan money as specified in section 12.

During the hearing of a, judgment summons case at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court, it transpired that a lady, who prosessod herself unable to discharge a liability of £lO, had money for the purchase of hotel property, in the first purchase money was £BOO, and in the second case £IOOO. In declining to grant an order, the Magistrate remarked that all the solicitor for the plaintiff had proved was that a person with absolutely nothing could got credit for £IOOO. A reply to a letter has been received by the Westport Harbor Board that the Assistant Surveyor-General is willing to instruct the Chief Surveyor to lay out the Board’s lands near the Mokihinui river if the Board undertake to pay the cost of completion of survey. At a previous meeting of the Board Mr McKenzie moved that the Government be asked to have the land surveyed and cut up into small areas for agricultural and pastoral purposes.

“Reynolds’ Newspaper,” published in London, was responsible recently for tbe following extraordinary statement “There is a large trade done in Jingo New Zealand, and Australia in poisoned rabbits. Hundreds of thousands of poisoned rabbits with the entrails removed, are imported into this country every year and sold to to the poor. No wonder so many deaths occur from the canned specimen.” Mr W. P. Beeves, New Zealand’s AgentGeneral, has written to the editor of the paper denying these statements on behalf of New Zealand, and stating that if there was the slightest suspicion that poisoned rabbits were being exported from that colony, the Government would interfere and immediately put a stop to tha practice. “It cannot be proved,” he adds, “that a single death has occurred through the eating of canned New Zealand rabbits,”

Mr J. G. Gow, the Government Commissioner of Trade and Industries, will find plenty of competitors in the field when ho presently begins his mission in the interests of the colony in the British Isles. Canada, in particular, is making a big bid for the English markets, there being no fewer than five representatives of the Dominion in the field at the present time. For example, the Dundee Advertiser of 21st May published a report of the New Zealand Commissioner and something concerning him and his work, and in the next column was a long interview with Mr R. Adamson, special agent of the Canadian Government in the interests of agriculture. At Manchester again, on the 27th June, the Manchester Chamber of Commerce met specially for the purpdse of hearing an address from the Hon. S. A. Fisher, Minister for Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada, and the meeting was also attended by Professor Robertson, Canadian Commissioner of Agriculture. *• Mr Gow is, however, confident of holding his own,

Oamara’s Borough Council protest against the rating on Unimproved Values Bill.

The shipping at Wanganui is on the increase. Last month 88 vessels crossed the bar.

Early lambs are now making their appearing in various parts of the fialclutba district.

Mrs Elizabeth Hanbury, of Dynevoi House, Richmond Hill, has reached tho groat age of 108. A black snake was found in a consign, ment of fruit trees received at Waipukurau on Saturday week. A large cricket ground has been opened at Sandringham for the benefit of the King’s tenants. On the Waikanae, below Otaki Beach* recently a young fisherman picked up a lump of ambergris, said to be worth £IOOO.

The cement made from English river mud, and sold abroad, brings in over £11,000,000 sterling a year. ‘ Some of the farmers in the Stratford district are recognising the folly of finding grass for low-test cows, and are setting up private milk testers. The twelth annual meeting of the Wellington Meat Export Company was held in Wellington last week. A dividend at the rate of eight per cent was declared.

The new settlers in the Hatuma estate are up iu arms because the Waipukurau Road Board has served them with rate demands almost before they have had time to look round their sections. In some districts near Albury (N.S.W.) mice are causing a good deal of trouble, and from Berrigan cotaes word of a regular mice plague. When chaffbags are opened they present the appearance of a moving mass. In some places animals have been attacked. The Premier of New South Wales (Mr. J. See) is of the opinion that the proposed memorial to the New South Wales’ soldiers who fell in South Africa should take the form of a suitable building for the use oi®he military and volunteer forces, and he erected on the spot. where Governor Phillip lauded, near Circular quay. Colonel Rowell, the officer in charge of the contingents who returned to Australia by the Britannic, brough Imperial -pay with him to the amount of £36,000, to be paid to the various Australian troops, £13,000 being for South Australian troops, £3OOO for Queensland, and £7OOO each for West Australian and Tasmanian. Mr. Scott-Cramston, who represented the Daily Chronicle and Central News Agency as special correspondent with the Royal Party is at present in Queensland making enquiries into the sugar industry and Kanaka labour for his paper. He will afterwards proceed to Canada in connection with the Royal visit to that country. Last month the Westport Co-operative Company (Mokihinui) exported 1794 tons 14 cwt of coal. Since commencing operations this company have obtained (says the Westport Times) some 25,000 tons of coal from an area that was supposed to be worked out. Captain Post, of the Tutanekai, has discovered the uncharted rocks in Gisborne, upon which the steamers Tokomam and Tomoana recently struck, ffhe Tomoana rock is two cables S.S.E. of the Red Buoy, and is covered with 4J fathoms, and the Tokomaru rock is a cable’s length away. Dr Kunst, of Samoa, who purchased the steamer Samoa from the Union Steamship Company for the SamoaHonolulu trade, found the vessel's coal consumption was too high, and has sent the steamer to Japan. It is reported, that he is having two 4000-ton steamers built to meet the Germany inter-island .trade.

The Wanganui Chronicle reports that the steamer iiiripaka had a Very narrow escape from stranding while attempting to cross the Wanganui bar on Saturday morning. By some means she got into the breakers near the South Spit, where she remained for over three hoars. A very heavy sea was running at the time, and the vessel was in great peril. Eventually she was able to steam out to sea. A telegram from Dunedin states that Captain Cameron, marine superintendent of the Union Steamship Company, proceeds to Scotland to superintend the building of two new steamers for the company. One will be a large passenger steamer for the intercolonial trade, larger and faster than the Moana, with the latest and best appointments. The other will be a cargo steamer of 8,600 tons, for the Calcutta trade, capable of steaming from eleven to twelve knots. Although nothing official has been announced, it seems likely (says the Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press) that Lieut-Colonel Davies is to be appointed in command of the Auckland district, an office which has been temporarily filled by Lieut-Colonel White since the departure of Lieut-Colonel Banks for South Africa. It is also rumoured that Lieut-Colonel Robin is to take charge of the Dunedin district.

Acting on a request, Mr Mestayer has supplied a modified report on the question of water supply and drainage for Gisborne. He has prepared a scheme that can be carried out at a cost of

£61,000. This will allow for a supply of water for 10,000 population at the rate of 40 gallons per head per day, and for drainage on the Shone system, discharging through a septic tank into the sea. Mr Mestayer disapproves of the suggestion that the drainage should flow through a septic tank into the river. The case of William Richardson, charged with havingwilfully disturbed a congregation in the Pitt street, Congregational Church, Sydney, on June 13th, while the Rev. E. Tremayne Dunstan was preaching on the temperance question, was heard in Sydney on July 26th, and the jury, after being locked up all night, announced that they were unable to agree. The j ury were discharged, and the defendant was bound over in his own recognisance to appear when called upon. A most extraordinary case of mistaken identity has just been heard at Broken Hill (N.8.W.). William Holmes, who has been known in Broken Hill for the

past four and a half years, was sued in the name of Henry Ward for wife desertion. The evidence of complainant and several witnesses was that Holmes was really Ward, a watchmaker, of Crystalbrook, South Australia, where he had lived up to January, 1898. This evidence was disproved by several witnesses, including Mr Francis M'Crow, of Adelaide, who said that Holmes had been in his employ since 1896, and had been in Broken Hill since 1897, sending him weekly statements. Other witnesses testified that Holmes had not been out of the town since. 1897. The Bench held that it was a case of mistaken identity, and dismissed it, allowing the defendant five guineas costs. Ned Kelly in his suit of mail, Was proof against all lead, And how he laughed when all did fail, To lodge it in his head.

Then let us all be on our guard, While long life we assure, For coughs and colds have some regard, Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

Giant Monarch and Victoria Rhubarb roots, assorted fruit trees, eohallots, and a prime sample ol pink eye potatoes, to be had at Griffon and Smith’s Beehive; and Union stores--Apvx,

Two young Napier ladies are now -regretting their impetuosity. Being very anxious to be first to welcome one of the returning troopers, who was coming home by train, they journeyed to a country station in order to board the train and thus gain their purpose. On the arrival of the train the young damsels, seeing their “gentleman in khaki,” as they thought, threw their arms round his neck, and aissed and hugged him till he was nearly suffocated. When their paroxysm or joy had subsided, however, they 'were disgusted to find that the subject of their embraces was a stolid Maori, on his way to attend a parade. W'M'Kay and Son have some wonderfully cheap lines at their great winter sale. Here is one or two items—lovely pink flannelette 4d yd and another one at 6d yd, worth double the money. 4 ply wool 2/6 •*' per lb. Ladies handkerchiefs 6/ doz are being sold for 2/11 doz, and best of all lovely dress lengths for 1/11 each— Advt

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