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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 August 1901, Page 2

We again remind our readers of the Dobson School Committee's concert and ball to be held in tho Wallsend Hall this evening.

To avoid mistakes, Mr W. E. Reynolds, dentist, and Mr J. Reynolds, chemist, hereby notify that they arc in no way connected.—Advt. The Moa Flat Dredging Co. (Otago) failing to flout £2500, debentures have decided to go into liquidation. The dredge cost £9OOO. At tho Magistrate's Court this forenoon before C. Parfitfc Esq., a first offender, charged with drunkenness, was convicted and lined ss.

New trays at Is, Is 6d, 2,2 s 6d, and 3s each, silver mounted pipes, scissors, camphor at Wnrd's, Taylorville.—Advt. For scents, albums, lamps, lamp glasses, fancy vases, and glassware go to Ward's, stationer, Taylorville.—Advt. A meeting of shareholders in the Waipuna Gold Dredging Company will be held this evening at the Albion Hotel. Shareholders are urgently requested to attond, as the business is most important.

By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that Mark Spvot ar.d Co will sell by publio auction at Ash ton's stables on Monday morning at 11 30, the well known race horce Sarah Jennings The 29th annual mseting of the Grey Dristrict Building Society will be held at the office of the Society, Nimcarrow and Co, this evening at 8 o'clock. Tho for the meeting is to receive the directors' report and balance-sheet, to elect three directors and two auditors.

A meeting of members of tho Grey County Council will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday afternoon, commencing at 2 30. All correspondence and accounts should be sent in before 12 o'clock to-morrow (Saturday).

It is notified elsewhere that Sections 10, 13, and 14, Block 2, and Sections 5,6, 7, and 8, Block 3, Cobden survey district are withdrawn from selection or sale, and any applications for them will not be entertained.

A cross-country horseman well-known on the West Coast, Peter Williams, employed by the Hon. J. Ormond, died in the Wellington Hospital of innamation of the lungs supervening on influenza, contracted at the recent Grand National Meeting at Eiccarton.

The Countess of Raufurly will open the Nelson School of Music and Concert Hall on Tuesday, when a concert will be givon and an ode composed by Mr Joynt, music bv Herr Lernmer, principal of the School of Music, will be sung.

We are pleased to learn that Mr W. M'Kechnie, Chairman of the Grey County Council, is slowly improving, although he will not be ablo to be present at the Council meeting on Monday afternoon.

The Premier, Hon. Walker and party went down to Hokitika this morning and will leave for Kumara by special train this afternoon, and will arrive in Greymouth by this evening's train, and leave by the Hinemoa to-niyht at 11 o'clock.

Tho Premier has received advice that Trooper Ewart of Owatea, Otago, belonging to the Sixth Contingent is convalescent. Budge, of Auckland, of Section 5, sailed by the Brittanic on the 6th of June. Boddington, of Masterton", of the 6th, sailed by the Harlech Castle. Just the very thing that is wanted in our midst is about to be supplied by that large and well known firm, B. Hannah and Co., it is a great stocktaking sale of Boots and Shoes. The bargains offered in the past by this firm arc still fresh in the minds of the heads of families and the genuineness of such will go a long way to make the sale now being held the event of the season. One glance at a few of the prices set out in their advertisement in another column will at once convince the public of Greymouth and country folk that a great slaughter in the boot line is taking place, and as E. Hannah and Co's stock is one of the largest on the Coast people would do well to pay this firm a visit during this long looked for sale as the reductions are phenomenal,

The Executive Council, at a meeting held in Christchurch this week, decided that sentence of death, passed upon Alexander M'Lean for the East Eyreton murders, shall be carried out to-morrow (Saturday) morning. M'Lean now awaiting execution in the Lyttelton Gaol, is reported to be thoroughly reconciled lo undergo tho forfeiture of his life. His health is good, and his appetite if a little fastidious, is perfectly hearty. As is customary with persons under tho death sentonce, ho is allowed a generous diet, which even includes wine. He occupies his time to a large extent with religious books, and listens with respectful and intelligent attention to the instructions and suggestions of the Rev. A. H. Treadwell and Mr Small, who visit him often. He exhibits no anxiety as to the date of his execution, but is content to meet his fate with the utmost stoicism when tho time arrives.

We have had a copy of the Bovardia Valse sent to us. It is a most tuneful piece of music, and has had a large sale both in Wellington and Auckland. It is the composition of an Auckland lady, Mit-s Aida Saqui, and it is being accepted and published by the musical firm of Wickins and Co., London, is a guarantee of its excellence. It can be obtained from any of the music sellers of Greymouth.

The Greymouth Ethiopian Minstrols met with a groat success last evening in Hokitika and notwithstanding the inclement weather tho hall was filled. AH the performers worn warmly applauded and the West Coast Times bears testimony to the excellence of the performance, and promises a warm welcome to the Min*trels should they again pay Hokitika a visit. At the conclusion of the entertainment Mr Evans returned thanks and announced that notwithstanding the drawbacks occasioned by the weather, the performance was a financial s. y The heavy rains of yesterday (says the West Coast Timns) caused the Hokitika river to rise in ilood last night and the lowor parts of tho town were covered with water. Visitors to ihi Ethiopian entertainer's concert were surprised when the performance was over to find that many of them had to wade to get to their homes, and the spectacle, of stalwart youns} men carrying ladies bodily over the flooded parts was not an uncommon sight.

Nelson is going in for improvements A special meeting of the City Council, held last night, resolved to recommend the following works, to be approved by a vote of the citizens : Waterworks extension, £15.000 ; drainage, £35,000 ; gas extension, £-1000; road roller, £1000; a tramway, £IO.OOO ; a Council chamber, £6000; 'and gas lamps, £000; total, £71,600.

With reference to a paragraph in Wednesday's issue (taken from the Watrarapa Daily Times) stating that the foundations of the Makohine viaduct were not laid, a late resident of Mangawoka writes that the foundations have been completed four years. The correspondent suggests that a mistake has been made by confusing the Makohine viaduct with one that has been commenced a mile from Mangaweka, on the north side. All who suffer with draughty doors will appreciate an ingenious little contrivance which has just been patented by Mr W. Nicol, of l'nvorcargill. This consists of an iron plate, with a pad of leather or carpet attached, which is fixed on the bottom of the door. When the door is open, or swinging to and fro, this plate is held in suspension by a spring, but immediately the door is closed the pressure upon a screw placed just bolovv the bottom of the hingo releases the plate, which, working in a couplo of slots, falls right upon the floor, and effectually excludes all draughts. It is claimed for this invention that tbe contrivance is so simple

iliat it cannot possibly get out of order, ;hat it is very inexpensive, and can be 'Hted upon any door. A Binall company is to bo formed in Dunedin to exploit the invention.

The Auckland correspondent of the Otago Daily Times " writes that an influential company has just been formed to develop the tourist traffic at Eotorua. The company, which has been registered under the name of the "Hot Lakes Steamer Navigation Company," has acquired all the passenger steamers now plying on the lakes, and intend to immediately build another steamer. The effect is certain to result in improved passenger facilities for visitors to the hot lakes, and the Government have undertaken to help the movement by the erection of wharves and landing places, and by effecting considerable improvements and forming a large area into attractive picnic grounds. The Hot Lakes Steam Navigation Company has been formed with a capital of' £BOOO, of which £SOOO has been called up. A large number of Auckland citizens and Kotorua residents are interested in the venture.

A young woman, named May Gifford pleaded guilty at Motuek'a to a charge of conooalment of birth, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

Accordhie to the "New York Herald'

Mr Carnegie told a member of thef New York Chamber of Commerce who recently visited Skibo Castle that he still has £56,000,000 sterling to give away in public benefactions. It seems a little unkind to publish such a fact. What a renewed deluge of letters it will produce 1 A buoy, electrically lit, is moored in the North Sea near Bo sum, in Holstein to

give warning of the dangerous sands at that placo. Even a slight m >tion of the waves generates sufficient electricity for illumination, and clockwork in the interior regulates the half-minute lighting and extinguishing apparatus. A Hindoo has met with a terrible death near Gundagai (N.S.W.) He was camped with his brother, at the foot of a tree beside a lighted fire, and during the night the tree collapsed and pinned him to the ground. The brother was unable to remove the tree, and before assistance could be obtained the Hindoo died. His head had been cut open and his bodj was fearfully burned. The . Rotorua paper states that there are immense herds of wild pigs around Tarawera and flotomahana. The Ngatir-

angitihi tribe, who lost so many people at Moura at the time of the eruption, declared the whole district tapu, consequently the pigs have increased so much that food has become scarce and the pigs bold. Last week, when a case of a young man convicted of attempted pocket-picking, was before Mr Justice Conolly at the Auckland criminal sittings, Chief Detective Grace described the prisoner as what is # known in sporting circles as a "guesser," a' man who frequents racecourses and gives tips to credulous persons anxious to got the probable winners of the racos. The modus operandi of the "gueeser" is to "tip" the whole of the horses in a race, giving each person who consults him a different horse. Thus one of the persons advised must necessarily win, aud then the "guesser" collects his commission from the

lucky backer. His Honor said he thought this would surely provide a very precarious livelihood for the persona designated "guessers," but was assured by Detective Grace that quite a number made a goo 3 living out of it by attending race meetings throughout the colony. Charles Cecil Fitzmorria, one of the three American lads sent by Mr Hearst on a record breaking tour of the world, arrived at Chicago ,at the end of July, after completing the circuit of the worid in sixty days and fifteen hours, the fastest time ever made. He was met at the

depot by the fastest automobile in the city, and whirled to the office of Hearst's " Chicago American, " where his race officially ended. The autnorities ordered the streets through which ho had to pass cleared at that hour ; and suspended the speed ordinances, so nothing would interfere with the last whirlwind rush of the greatest raco over run. The previous record round the world was sixty-eight days fifteen hours.

In the 'Empire Keview' for this month Agent-General Eeeves discusses shops and shopping laws in Australia and New Zealand, expounding the difficulties which the politicians who introduced shopping laws had to face, and contrasting the laws of New Zealand, Victoria New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia. Mr Reeves tays that in practice it is quickly found "in the colonial towns where legal closing is enforced that the purchasos of the publio are not affected by the change; that the cases are very rare in which any shop is permanently deprived of much business ; and that there is surprisingly little shifting of business from one to another under any closing legislation drawn with common care. Eetail shops are not wealth-producers. No nation is the richer because an insane competition leads its shopkeepers to make prisoners of themselves and slaves of their servants. A story is current that two New Plymouth residents while on a recent visit to Stratford had been having what is known as " a good time." When they retired to their room in the hotel they got terribly puzzled about blowing the light out, and one became so annoyed at repeated failures to extinguished the illuminant that he broke the glass in desperation. They then discovered they had been trying to blow out the electric the light. Hawera is making a determined effort to induce the Government to establish a dairy school, s'ud farm for horses and cattle, and a fruit and shelter tree nursery at Waipapa, between Hawera and Manaia, tho efttate lately purchased by the Government from Mr J. Lioingstone. The locality is said to be an ideal spot for a stud farm, as evory convenience is at hand.

Those who profess to know aro confident they have discovered a coal field along the Hawke's Bay coast, and as a result boring operations are to bo commenced at once with a view to proving the seam. If this should prove true it will come as a boom and a blessing to the long suffering residents of the district.— Hastings Standard. WADE'S TEETHING POWDERS for babies arc soothing, reduce fever anri prevent blotches, Price 1/t

Harley and Co. will sell at their rooms to-morrow afternoon at 2 30 salmon, soap,, bacon, tea, new and second-hand furniture,, bedding, etc., also 6 canaries (good ers.) When Lord Kitchener and GeneraF Botha met at Middleburg the two generalswith their staffs wore photographed together. At that very moment De Wetwas fleeing for his life, and indignantlyrefused to believe that Botha would treat; with kis harassers. A copy of the Middleburg photograph was shown him as a proof of the fact that there had been a conference between Kitchener and Botha. He took the photograph with with him to a meeting of his burghers. "Look I" said he, displaying the photograph, "and see how the Lord has blessed our arms. Lord Kitchener has been taken prisoner by Louis Botha, and here," waving the, k photograph, "is positive proof of it." *

A correspondent of the London Times sent home the following extract from a. letter written by a private in a line regiment serving in South Africa:—"The. Boer women can use a rifle as well as the men. You have heard many a time of" scouts getting shout whilst patrolling near a farm. For instance, there was a woman at Jagersfonteiu last November who Bhot three men, and when the fourth man came up she said to him, "I wish I had another cartridge, I would blow you* brains out as well.' Those that are in our camps as refugees get more to eat than we do. Their children look as if they had a rough bringing up. They talk all right to, wishing the war was over, but they hate us all the same." The "North Otago Times" states that; a petition is being taken round forsignature in Oamaru asking the Government to appoint a commission to inquire' into the method of conducting dredging; companies.

Some of the highest living medical, authorities I attribute the great growth of physical and mental disease which has' characterised the last few decades, to the universality of adulturation.. 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 re- '■ sponsible 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—-Advi. No doubt were Dickens still alive He'd yet write many a tale, . Though he is dead his works survive, Their reading ne'er grows stale. So many try to imitate, But they remain obscure, For coughs and colds don't hesitate, Take Woods' Gbbat Ewwhuhm Cube.