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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 August 1901, Page 2

The Druids.quarterly meeting is to be held this evening at 8 o’clock, The social Committee meets at 7 o’clock. A four roomed cottage, and hairdresser

and tobacconist’s shop erected at Blackball, are advertised for sale in another column. Full particulars may be had on application to W. Moore, Blackball. Tenders are invited by the Borough Council for the forming and metalling of Shakespeare street south. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the Borough Engineer, Mackay street. Messrs Griffen and Smith (Union Store) notify in our columns that they have re. moved into those premises lately occupied by Mr Noonan, next door to Mr. Sheedy’s Hotel.

A trooper of the Sixth Contingent writes from South Africa that notice has been gazetted that all oversea volunteers, including New Zealanders, are to return home at the end of October.

In our advertising columns, Mr Dixon notifies that he has removed to those commodious premises lately erected next to the Public Trust office. He has landed a large stock of new goods which will be open for inspection on Saturday next. The Hon. Mr Kerr, who was on his way down from Wellington, was yesterday taken seriously ill at Westport, and late

last night telegraphed for his son to come on at once, Mr Kerr, junior, accordingly left by special conveyance last night, travelling all night. A telegram received this morning states that although Mr Kerr bad a rather bad night, he is a good deal better this morning.

Our readers attention is drawn to the auction sale by J. W. Easson and Co. of Mr Jacob Cohen’s stock of new and second-hand furniture on Friday afternoon. Mr Cohen has a large stock of furniture on hand, and as lie is relinquishing this branch of the business, the whole will ho sold without reserve.

The comedy of ‘‘Belle of the Kitchen ” will bo staged at Blackball on Saturday. Our correspondent was invited to a dress rehearsal. This most entertaining and ever fresh comedy has been thoroughly worked up by our amateurs. The scenery is quite now, and lias been s pecially painted for the occasion. The above iie be preceded by a short concert. Amongst the soloists arc Miss Perkins and Master T. Goodall of Grcymouth, as well as Miss Boyle, Mr o‘Laughlin, Mr heilch and Mrs Millington. The following is a copy of a telegram sent by the Collector of Customs, Greymouth to the Secretary of Marine, Wellington, on 19th inst: —“ From to-night till further notice, North Beach Dredge Co., will burn an eighty candle power electric light on their claim, about a mile north of tip head.” Ship masters will please take notice of this fact in order that they may not mistake it for the port light. It is announced that the Maori Singers, in connection with the Salvation Army, is about to visit the Coast again, and will bo at Qroymouth for Sunday and Monday, September 15th and 16th. The Company is larger than on previous years, and also includes Miss Ada Sterling whoso singing created such great and popular demonstrations on former occasions. A box plan is to be open at Dixon’s, the stationer. The Company will bo much appreciated by fho peoplg of the Coast.

The Hon. Mr Eolleston, who has been in failing health for some time past, has gone to Wellington for change and medical advice. According to our Dunedin correspondent enquiries are being made for the whereabouts of a mining secretary, who has departed, leaving many sorrowful friends behind. The mail steamer Sierra arrived at Auckland from San Francieco at 7 30 p.m. last night. The steamer was delayed for 27 hours at Honolulu and 10 hours at Pago Pago landing cargo. The sitting of the Supreme Court at Hokitika fixed for the 2nd September has been postponed to Thursday the 2Gth September, as Mr Justice Denniston will not be able to visit there till then. A meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labor Council, held last Friday, passed a resolution in favour of the Government taking immediate steps to nationalize the flourmilling industry of the Colony. There were, on the 31st March last, 164,612 dwollinghousos in the colony of New Zealand, of which number 10,830 were unoccupied. There were also occupied as dwellings 5,116 tents, while of the houses 13,268 were of one room only. Mrs Ward, of Wanganui, widow of the late Judge Ward, is petitioning Parliament for a compassionate allowance. She points out that her husband’s death was hastened by overwork, and that if he had retired on compensation the amount due to him would have’been about £1,500. Those who had the privilege of knowing the late Major Francis, who died at Christchurch after being invalided home, will be pleased to hear that the Imperial Government has decided to grant his widow an aunmty of £l2O a year, and also to give an allowance to each child till attaining the age of twenty-one years. The funeral of the late Annie M’Gillicuddy of the South Beach took place yesterday, the cortege being followed by a large number of friends and acquaintances of the bereaved parents. The deceased was a bright amiable girl of 18 years, had only been ailing for a few days, and her somewhat sudden death cast quite a gloom around. The Rev Father Kimboll conducted the burial service, and at the conclusion of the sacred rites the grave was covered with wreaths of flowers by friends of deceased. Last week the East Coast postal authorities showed some special consideration for the West Coast. It appears that the coach from the West Coast did not arrive at Springfield until after the train had left for Christchurch. As the West Coast letters for the San Francisco mail were on board, a special train was sent up to bring down the mails and then took them straight through to Lyttelton to catch the steamer. Asked at Wellington the other day if

the Government had not made ample provision for accidents ,to workers, an ironmoulder before the Conciliation Board said he was away from work for nine weeks with burns. He never got a penny of compensation, and furthermore, when he went back, he found that times were slack, and he had lost his place and was out of work. When a sanatorium for consumptives is being selected, says the Minister for Eailways, the matter will be considered entirely with a view to having it placed in the climate that is considered to be the best for consumptives, and without reference to any locality in any part of the colony. Mr Witheford hopes that the mantle of Sir John M’Kenzie will fall on the Hon. Thomas Duncan; that Mr Duncan will “rise up in his strength," carry on a land for settlement policy with activity and enterprise, and do as much for Auckland set tlement as Sir John M’Kenzie did for the South. After which, added Mr Witheford, Auckland will no doubt erect a monument to Mr Duncan. The other evening shortly before eight o'clock a gradually augmenting crowd of men and women occupied the footpath opposite the residence of a Wellington doctor, where a closed cab was standing. Curiosity (says the “Post”) led a passer-by to enquire the attractive cause, but, as is generally the case, those on the outskirts could give no nformation. Perseverance, however, was at last rewarded. “Has there been an accident he asked, ‘No,’ was the reply; “it’s an infectious ’case,” And yet they crowded in! In honour of the tricentenary of “ Hamlet ” in 1902, a statue of the immortal bard will be erected at Cronberg, near Helsingfors, close to which the scenes of the tragedy are supposed to be laid, writes the Stockholm correspondent of the “ Daily Express. ’’ The statue is entirely subscribed for by Danes, and it is being sculptured by Professor Lorenz, who, it will be remembered, was commissioned by the late Empress of Austria to erect the memorial to Heine at Corfu. The latest great application of natural force to a useful pupose, in which it is announced that Nikola Tesla is especially interested in an electrical process for purifying water. The Baltimore Herald says: —“The system contemplates, it must be understood, not the shaking of a few millions, not the shaking of a few millions of unhealthy misorobes out of a few gallons of water. Mr Tesla deals in no such small schemes as that. The plan when made to work, will be expected to purify the inflow of the open rivers that contribute to the support of large cities. Instead of swallowing with every glassful of the murky beverage which flows from the faucet a large percentage of odorous protoplasmic germs, the electrified water of Mr Tesla may be expected to possess that sparkle and sweetness of the aqueous fluid that flows from the mountain rocks.’’ Much surprise is being expressed in shipping circles (says the Christchurch Truth), at the failure of the Marine Department to issue a warning to mariners regarding the unchartered rooks in Gisborne Harbour, on which two largo steamers have bumped of late. Hpd the proper course been taken, and a warning been issued by the Department, immediately on the first notice being taken by the Tokomaru, it is probable that the

master of the Tonoana would have received information regarding the dangerous place before leaving Auckland, and several thousand pounds sterling have been saved to the vessel’s owners. It is even stated that quite a long time ago

this patch of rooks was reported to the Department, but no notice appears to have been taken of the matter. According to a northern exchange a stock inspector, in hunting round for remounts in the Taranaki back blocks,

and seeing* a Maori mounted on a big, unsptauding hack, approached the guilelessjuative and asked what he would sell the horse for. The native replied that

he did not want to soil, as the horse “not look well.” The horse was in splendid condition and the stack inspector was anxious to make a deal. After a lot of persuasion, however, and after the Maori had tried to instil into the stock inspector that the animal “not look well,” the

horse was sold for £lB and brought into Wanganui, where it was found to be stone blind. When the stock inspector met the gentle savage all the official could got was, “ I tell you he no look well; you makee te' buy; all right.”

With reference to the message re the sudden seizure of Peter Dunn, while driv-

ing a locomotive near Invercargill on Saturday, the doctor is of opinion that it was caused by influenza “ flying to his head, ” and that the cause of the incensioiiity was a blow oa the head by falling on a projection on the engine. Dunn is coming round nicely.

The housemaid, who in the morning turned out the gas at all the burners; so that at night she would have nothing to do but light it, no doubt meant all right, but her action was certainly non-con-ducive to the public health. The family who enployed her will not now be able to join with the Grey Footballers, and the large-hearted, generous, residents of Greymouth, in giving Westport's representatives a real right royal Garrick Club welcome, at the social to be held at th© 1 Opera House on Friday evening. If children wish to see their parents wise* and healthy, and like, footballers full of vim, go and vitality, they should Insist upon them attending each and every one of these highly pleasant socials. Whan parents are kept healthy and strong, joy and happiness in the family circle roign» supreme. The Garrick Club does thu| and does it every time for the low ehargS of parents and grand parents—Gentlemen 2/-, Ladies 1/-. Great-grand parents , free. A Garrick Club social will cum

every ill humanity is heir to, except at gas explosion, and when they cm cure that the management will travel. The annual meeting of members of the Reefton Jockey Club was held last evening at the Club room, Stevenson’s Hotel 1 , when there was a good attendance of members. The balance-sheet showed the position of the Club to be exceedingly satisfactory The ‘following are the officers for the ensuing year President, P. Butler; vice-President, W. Beilby; Judge, B. P. McMahon; Starter, P, Clerk of Course, R, W. M’Neil; Clerk of Scales, E. Conway ; Committee* Archer, Cochrane, King, Lawn, Mirfin, McNeill, Eathbon, Scantlebury, Scarlett ; Stewards: Archer, Cochrane, Conway, King, Lawn, McNeill Eathbon; Auditors: H. Cooper, T. H. Lee. At» meeting of the Committee held subsequently, Mr J. Stevenson was appointed Treasurer and Mr W. Irving Secretary, It was also resolved that steps betaken to have the course connected with the telegraph system. John Nicholas Bose, North Invercargill, who had been despondent for sometime, got hold of a dynamite cap and fuse and went into the bush and put the cap into his mouth and lit the fuse ; but his courage seemed to have failed, as the only injury he sustained was from the fuse, which burned his month. In order to preserve the peace and well-being of the Cook Islands, the chief of the Federal Government with the consent of the British Resident, may order any man who has been an habitual offender against the laws to join a labor party for twelve months. - \ A dredge band on the Sixteen Mile dredge bad rather an unpleasant experience a few days ago, says an Exchange. 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 miner named Brown got injured in the Low Level mine Beeftou on Saturday through some stone from a hanging-wall falling on to his legs writes the Inangahua Herald. He was attended by.Dr Whitton who found that beyond his limbs being badly bruised no other injury being sustained.

Robert Keown, Greymouth, applied to the School Commission yesterday to lease reserve 118 of 7 acres at £8 per annum for a term of years with the right of renewal. The secretary stated the ground could not be let for a term without advertising it, Mr J. Byrue explained that if the land was advertised there would be considerable competition for it. It wai resolved to grant the lease under the con* ditions mentioned for one year after which' tenders would be called.

Prospectors who have been engaged fox nearly two years in the vicinity of Hcton and Mount Pleasant have struck a email seam of coal at Shakespeare Bay, and an* other at the Elevation. A company has acquired prospecting and mining righto over 2000 acres of freehold between Pic* ton and Eoromiko, and over the property of Mr Clemens of- Shakespeare Bay.

The Cook Islanders have made a law that young persons entering unasked into the houses of others after 9 p.m. may be fined 14s, or imprisoned for fourteen days. In the same Islands a day's work is held to be equivalent to one shilling of the fine. Two of the greatest offences are drunken* ness and making bush beer, which can be punished by a £5 fine or three months' “ hard.”

Some of the highest living medical authorities ! attribute the great growth of physical and mental disease which has characterised the last few decades, to

the universality, of adulteration. They affirm that the taking into the system continually by human beings as food, substances which are chemically foreign and not Only incapable of sustaining healthy life, but constitute a perpetual danger to it, is largely responsible for the new and complex; diseases that baffle their curative skill. Therefore be wise in time, eat only K Jam and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guaranteed—Advt. According to the Woverley correspondent of the Wanganui Herald, the Wairoa Mounted Rifles hold the record for South African war and long-service medals, over fifty having been obtained by members of this popular troop. Twenty-five men out of a total of fiftyfour have seen service in South Africa. W M’Kay and Son have some wonder-' fully 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. 4ply 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