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

The Woolshed dredge, machinery and plant near Milton, Otago, were sold by auction yesterday, realising £260. Messrs Nancarrow and Co. are advised that the R.M.S. Whakatano arrived at Wellington from London, at seven o’clock this morning. The Eotokino is expected in Westport this afternoon, and probably the ’Frisco mail will arrive here to-morrow evening, overland via Reefton. If married, or going to be, call at Urquhat’s, Groyraouth. You can get pictures framed, or buy them framed, be supplied with tinware, enumelware, lamps, mirrors, glass, crockery, stationery, etc.— Advt.

We commend the attention of investors and others in *carch of a really up-to-date home to the sale of property advertised by G. W. Moss and Co., on acc unt of Mr. J. Egien. The property consists of four leasehold sections together with a commodious 6 roomed cottage and large stable. The sale is advertised for to-morrow afternoon at 2 30 on the ground Cobden. The Westport football team arrived this afternoon by the Mapourika, and will try conclusions with the Grey team tomorrow. The visitors are a fine healthy looking team, and we are quite certain will give a good account of themselves. The following are names :—Scully, Curtayne, Atcheson, Sheriff. McNaely, Sherlock, Solomon, Curtayne, Smith, Donnelley, Bowden, Hawkins, White, and Henry. The colours of the above are green and black.

The battle of the Town site was fought out in the Borough Council last night, in a keen but orderly and good naturod manner. Mr Joseph M’Loan made a gallant fight for Boundary Street, his arguments being well brought forward. The result was, however, never in doubt, the majority being determined to abide by the vote of the ratepayers. The vote was but 5 to 4, but Mr Sheedy, who was absent through illness, had 'he been present would has increased the majority. There was a good audience, residents of tho West Ward being strong in evidence, and lustily cheering the Boundary Street advocates, and treating the opponents to a little harmless boo- f booing till the Mayor reminded them that I the meeting was a Council meeting and not a public one. Messrs Clark and Cohen handed in requests to the Mayor, which, however, the latter declined to entertain. We learn that both had reference to Mr Thomas’s vote, the two evidently holding that as Mr Thomas was a Church Trustee he could not vote on the subject. Such contention is absurd. Mr Thomas has no personal interest in the transaction, and his vote was quite in order and given with perfect propriety. Two English journalists, Mr Cranston, the “ Daily ews,” and Mr MacDonald, who have been studying the Queensland sugar industry, have given their impressions to an interviewer. Mr MacDonald said that what struck him was tho clocklike regularity, smartness, and intelligent concentration of the Japanese workmen employed in the mills, and if that were the only consideration, the present labour, he would say, could not be bettered. Mr Cranston questioned the possibidy of adapting European labour to tropical conditions ; but he tht« : ht it might be pas sible to breed a race from European t-tock capable of coping with tho environment of field work in North Queensland, which however, at best, would not be in any way equal to the class of labour born in congenial circumstances. Taking the question on these grounds, and assuming the desirableness of developing the sugar industry on economical business like lines, he was in favour of obtaining a more suitable class of alien labour than Kanakas, who were not comparable to Chinese coolies.

A laborer in giving evidence in the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court recently concerning a debt he was being sued for, attributed his inability to pay to the interference of labor organisation in his work. He reckoned he had lost a considerable amount of money through them. He did not explain how, and the Court had not time to discuss the labor question.

Under the influence of the “ Deadwood Dick ” order of literature, a number of Hastings youths recently leagued themselves together under the style and title of the Kelly Gang. Neophytes were obliged to subscribe the roll in their blood, and swear under threat of the most blood-curdling penalties to be true to the society, and guard its secrets. The high Panjandrum and alibis subordinates fell into the grip of the law, and were brought up before the Court on the ignominious charge of stone-thro wing, for which they were severely reprimanded. The story of an interrupted wedding was unfolded in the Court at Oollingwood (Victoria) a few days ago, when Emma Salmon, a widow, charged Harriet Millwith using insulting words. The plaintiff’s version was that as she was on her way to church to be married, the dofen dant made some disparaging remarks to her companions in a tone loud enough for the*intending bridegroom to hoar, with the result that the marriage never took place. The defendant, who said she did not mean any harm, was fined £5, in default a month’s imprisonment. The Treasurer of the New South Wales Parliament, in answer to a question, said the total cost of sending the contingents to South Africa and China to June 30th was £383,443. This amount has been paid from the consolidated revenue fund, but it was impossible to say how much was still due, and the full amount could not be ascertained until the close of the war in South Africa. M. Sven Hedin has discovered a second Dead Sea in the highlands of Thibet—a vast lake so impregnated with salt that indigenous life is out of the question. It was impossible to get the boat close to the shore, so that ho and his companions had to wade out two boats’ lengths before she would float, and this was sufficient to bring a thick coating of salt on their legs and clothes. The entire bed of the lake appeared to consist of salt, and the density of the lifeless water was of course very high. The amount of copra made at Tonga during the present year has not been largo, owing to the drought, but there is every probability of a considerable improvement before, the end of the present year, in the Haabai, and Tonga groups. In Vavau, however, it will probably bo next year before it has recovered from the hurricane of 1900 and the drought of the same year.

Miss Mary Dunmoro Lang, a daughter of the late Dr Lang, so prominently identified with the early life of New South Wales, was a witness in a case before the Water Police Court the other day.-- She asked permission to be sworn under the old Scotch Covenanters’ oath which was granted. The other day the registrar of births at Whittlesey (Cambridgeshire) had three callers. The first came to announce the birth of his twenty-first child, the second the birch of his nineteenth, the third of his seventeenth. And yet the population of Cambridgeshire is stated in the census to bo stationary.

Detective Inspector Christie, of Mel" bourne, “the royal shadow,” was the recipient of valuable presents from the Duke and Duchess. Those include a solid silver photo frame, surmounted with a gold medallion, and the royal arms, and containing autograph photographs of their Royal Highnesses. The Duchess gave Mr Christie an emerald and diamond pin valued at £7O, and the officers of the Ophir gave him a set of sleeve links. A little girl named Lindorff, 3 years of age, met with an unfortunate accident while playing near a chaffcutter at Fenton’s Creek (Vic). The child was entangled in the cogwheels of the machine, and one of her legs was mangled right up to the thigh. Mr Nairacott, butcher, of Essondon (Melbourne), has had photographed, pro bouo publico, the court receipt chat testifies that it is illegal in Victoria a father to have in his own shop two of his sons learning the business when the Factories Act allows only one “improver.” The penalty imposed in bis case was thirteen shillings.

Bight out of every 10,000 British peopl emigrate every year, Several Wairarapa farmers are experimenting this season in the growth of black barley.

The Napier School Committee is arranging to have the elder girls under its jurisdiction instructed in the art of cutting out material for garments. It is feared that squatters in the Deniliquin district (N. S. W.) will have trouble with shearers, who are demanding an advance in the rate of pay. It estimated that £75,000 to £BO,OOO is owing by the Imperial Government in connection with the Queensland contingents to the 30th of June.

The largest estate in America belongs to Prince SchowarZenburg, and covers 510,000 acres'. Sixty-three Bohemian nobles hold estates of over 12,000 acres each.

The value of haddock landed on English coasts is usually £BOO,OOO greater than that of herrings, and constitutes onethird of the value of all the lish annually taken.

Mr Hayes, of the Coal Commission, appointed to select a suitable area for a State coal mine, arrived at Westport by the Haupiri on Tuesday, and proceeds to Mokihinui.

It is stated on the authority of the Premier that the session will not last beyond the middle of September. Other members consider that business will not close up till late in October. It is reported by a Wairarapa paper that a good somple of antimony has been discovered at Eketahuna. A sample of the mineral has been sent to the Government analyst for examination. A Wellington business man, having made a careful computation, estimates that there will be a falling off of £2,250,000 in the returns from wool this year as compared with last.

Two gangs of surveyors arrived on Glenham estate (recently acquired by Government) last week (says the Wyndham Farmer) for the purpose of laying off the property into suitable-sized dairy farms.

The schooner Jessie Niool was towed into Lyttelton by the s.s. Cygnet at 10.30 a.m. on Friday, having been picked up at 2 p.m. on Thursday, twenty-three and a half miles N.N.E. of Kaikoura Peninsula. The vessel has been taken possession of by the Customs authorities, as representing the Admiralty, as is usual in the case of derelicts.

An Otago Volunteer officer suggests that: “The Easter camps should be conducted without any tents at all. Give the men two blankets and an overcoat each, and let them take their chance of the weather. If they are frightened, they have no right to be volunteers.” A woman, said to be in a state of intoxication, was found on the Blur Spur road yesterday. She had been out all night and suffered considerably from exposure. Sergt-Major M’Donald and Constable Bevan brought her to the police station and Dr Teiohelmann was called in. He at;nee ordered her to the hospital.

An experimental eon ignment of prawn was brought from Sydney to Auckland by the Zealandia on her last trip for the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. There were 16 quarts shipped from Sydney, and about 100 prawn died in transit. It is thought the experiment will prove a great success.

The Peel Forest correspondent of the Lyttleton Times writes During the recent frosty weather a .very peculiar accident happened to a ' mare She was galloping with other backs, and tried to turn suddenly to go through an open gate, when she slid sideways into a barbed wire fence and was thrown sideways over it. The strange part of it was that she had not a single mark, but her cover was cut in a perfect straight line at the level of the top wire, and no doubt this cover was the means of saving her. The damage to the census papers through Tuesday’s fire at Wellington, is not so great as was at first feared. Only the papers on which the clerks were working the day before the fire, and which were left on the tables, were affected and those not irreparably.

Mr Ewing, late second engineer of the Janet Nicoll, lias joined the Tarawera as second in charge, vice Mr Darling, who is awaiting orders at Wellington. Mr Robinson, late engineer of the Aorere, has been appointed to succeed Mr Ewing as second of the Janet Nicoll.

In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on the 7th inst, the Premier in reply to a question, said Sir Frederick Darley was drawing £3500 a year as Chief Justice and £7OOO a year as Lieutenant-Governor, a moiety of which was refunded. The matter of reducing the salary to £3OOO was under consideration by the Government.

According to the “ Cape Times,” it has been suggested as a means of putting a stop to the blowing up of trains that a proclamation be issued stating all trains running through the disaffected parts should carry at least ten Boer prisoners. The Germans adopted this plan during the Franco-German war.

With reference to the action brought by Mr Joshua Jones against Flower and Flower for the recovery of the Mokau property, the following cable has been received by Mr Travers, of Wellington “ Jones’s action dismissed with costs ; case completely collapsed.” The Wainni was taken on to the Slip at Wellington on Monday. For some time she has been undergoing an extensive and complete overhaul, and it is expected that she will not be completed within a fortnight. Some of the material which was to have been used in refitting her was burned at the fire in the company’s stores, but that will not materially delay the work.

A numerous deputation of women suffragists has waited on the Premier of vow South Wales and urged that the Government should make an effort to pass the Women’s Suffrage Bill early in the session. The Premier, in the course of a sympathetic reply, said he was hopeful of passing the bill through both Houses of Parliament.

An advertiser in a Thames paper thus gets off his criticism upon the Workers’ Compensation for Accident Act: “I am willing to insure a man under the latest of Mr Soddon’s abominations, the Workmen’s Compensation for Accident Act, but I am not willing to take the riek of providing for his sisters, his cousins, and his aunts. I draw the line at his stepfather and stepdaughter, therefore I want an orphan and a single man." The Fijian Government steamer Clyde, Captain Callahan, left for Rotumah on the 30th of last month with Dr Hall, who proceeds to this, the farthest outlying depependoncy of Fiji, for the purpose of allevating and reporting upon the condition of the health of the people, which at latest advices was reported to be none too good. The inhabitants have been victims to some epidemic or other, affecting the eyes mostly. At a freetrade banquet at Melbourne Mr Keid said the attitude of Premier Barton on the old age pension question was a cruel deception of the Australian people. He demands that there shall be a referendum on the question of Freetrade v. Protection, and evidently is determined that the people shall be heard on the fiscal issue- Ir- is quite plain that the leader of the Opposition relies on the Senate to defeat any prohibitive duties,

Several daylight robberies 1 are reported to have been perpetrated at Hobart re-' cently, the thieves, who so far hay# not* been discovered, have been makifig owa "f with a lot of money and valuable All the thefts have been committed W' tween noon and 2 p. m. Some interesting information as to the causes which resulted in the lunatics in our asylums losing their reason may bo gleaned from a table attached to the annual report of the Inspector-General of those melancholy institutions. Alohohol was responsible for 75 cases, but the significance of those figures are overshadowed by the fact that 62 cases are classed as congenital and 87 as being due to heredity. Domestic troubles and epilepsy each made 22 people insane, and 88 lost their reason through senile decay. Twelve cases are set down to accident and 15 to religious excitement, while political excitement proved too much for the overwrought brain of one poor man. Six suffered from overwork, four were made mad by adverse circumstances and grief claimed one poor victim —a woman, while in ten cases isolation and solitude were the predisposing cause. One man went mad through disappointment in love and another from music mania, while masturbation claimed 37 victims, and venereal diseases are the cause in several oasesIn 140 oases the cause is put down as unknown.

WADE’S WORM EIGS are more effective and hot unpleasant; most children thrive after taking them. 1 Price 1/-

WADE’S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price 1/- 1 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 still. Therefore be wise in time, eat only S. K Jam and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guaranteed—Advt. 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 Lay on Mao Duff t who has’nt read How bold Maoßeth was slain, Bat now he’s been so long since dead, Who rake him up again ? Then let him rest, no’s out of date,

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