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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 September 1901, Page 2

The Bev J. R. Dart, of Westport, received word that his mother died at Picton on Friday morning. The Keep-it-Dark Company have declared another dividend (130th) of 6d per share, payable on and after Friday next. The return from the New Scotia quartz mine is as follows:—7Bozs 15dwts bullion from 420 tons of tailings treated, valued at £260.

It is between the Auditor-General (not the Agent-General) and the Premier that the Dunedin Star states the relations are again strained.

A recent letter from De Wet to Alder* shot ran as follows : “Send out some more Yeomanry. My men are running short of clothes.”

By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that Madam La Mont, phenologist and true character reader, may be consulted at the Buck’s Head Hotel, Taylorville, Brunner, for a few days only. The Greymouth and Reefton Druids’ Lodges intend to play a game of football on the Reefton racecourse on Wednesday, 11th inst. A charge will be made for admission, and the proceeds will be handed to the Hospital. G. W. Moss and Co will sell at the residence of Mr M’Dowell, Collector of Customs, to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock sharp, the whole of his household furniture and effects; also piano, in first-class order, and phaeton. The sale will start punctually to advertised time, as the whole of the funiture, etc., has to be disposed of. The programme has been prepared for the annual meeting of the Westport Trotting Club,' to be held on Thursday and Friday, December 26th and 27th. The chief event has been increased to 45 sovs, and the prize money in several other races has been added to. Mr H. Brinkman, of Christchurch, will handicap for the first dav and the Stewards for the second day —Star.

The last football match of the season between between Grey and Hokitika will be played on Victoria Park on Saturday next, when one of the hardest struggles of the season is expected. They have played two draws this season, and Grey have been defeated by Hokitika once, and after Hokitika playing a draw with Westport, everything points for a win for the Hokitika boys although we believe a lot of wagering is already going on in favor of our local team. The receipts are to be allotted to the West Coast Union, the governing body of football, and we trust that the public will roll up and give them a record gate. A special train will leave Hokitika at 1.30 p m returning at 7.30 p m. Mr C. Clements, who recently returned from South Africa, met with a peculiar accident at Benalla, (Victoria) recently, while shooting foxes. He climbed a tree so as to get a clear shot, and, after ascending about 30 feet, he accidentally dropped his gun which struck a limb, and exploded. A portion of the charge entered Mr Clemright leg at the back of the knee, and tore a quantity of flesh away. The unfortunate fell heavily to the ground, and the wound bled freely. After walking with much difficulty for about a mile he met two rabbiters, who drove him into the township, whore his wound was attended to.

Word has been received in Nelson that Lieutenant Jickell, Royal Garrison Artillery, and formerly of the fourth New Zealand contingent, is now in command of an armoured train which runs between Nerval's Point, on the Orange River, and Viljoen’s Drift, on the Vaal, or the whole length of the Orange River Colony. The work of running these trains is hazardous and exciting, and in the first five days of his command Lieutenant Jickell not only had a few shots at the enemy, but the unpleasant experience of being blown up, the engine being turned clean over, and the fireman crushed to death.

The Thames Borough Council has informed the Sinking-Fund Commissioners that it will not pay the interest demanded in connection with the redemption of the debentures until a judgment has been obtained against it in a Court of law

The twin-screw steamer Lady Roberts, which has been built to the order of the New Zealand Government for submarine mining work on the coast, was recently launched by the builders, Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, of Paisley. The new vessel is a sister ship to the Janie Seddon.

Twelve pupils of the Ngahere State School sat this forenoon for the Geometrical and Freehand drawing examination. Tue results will be known in about a month, the drawings having to go to Wellington for marking. The schooner Clyde, which arrived from Auckland on Saturday, brought a consignment of drain pipes for the Borough Council. Very few are broken, which goes to show great care was taken in their packing.

The contractor —Mr Wm. Arnott—-who is removing the old Clothing Factory expects to have his work finished by the commencement of next week. The work of erecting the new brick premises will then be gone on with. The funeral of the late Joseph Natrass took place this afternoon, it being largely attended by all classss of the community showing the respect which the deceased was held in. /The Rev. Gray of the Wesleyan Church, read the burial service at the grave. A Masterton resident who complained to the authorities a few days ago about his rates was rewarded for his trouble by the discovery that he had been charged some 9s too little in his account. He affirms he will never question his rate accounts again as long as he lives, but ' just pay and look pleasant. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company, through our advertising columns, notifies its customers that the s. s, Omapere will leave Auckland direct for Grej mouth on Monday next, 9th September.

Two candidates are out for the vacant seat in the Grey Education Board, namely, Mr Henry Bignell, who for many years has been a member of School committees, and Mr James Kerr, son of the late hon. James Kerr.

A petition is in circulation praying the Mastcrton Borough Council to reduce the size of the borough. _ This is in consequence of rating on unimproved values having been carried..

,A Warden in the Far North broke in sweetly to a witness in this way: “Don’t rub yoUf nose on the Book. Ess it!” A Scottish paper says that M. Zola is the most laborious and ascetic of literary workmen. He writes seven and reads three hours a day for six days a weeks, and bicycles the seventh. He never takes alcoholics in any form whatever unless they are ordered by his medical man. He drinks little and sparingly, even of milk, cocoa, and tea. Thus he retains remarkably good health, though constitutionally he is not a very robust man, and hopes, though upwards of 60 years of age, to work till he is near 80.

As showing the danger incurred from anthrax —of which disease, by the_ way, an instance in the Bay of Plenty district is now engaging the attention of the Stock Department a contemporary states that the outbreak that occurred at Rangiru two years ago, killing three head of cattle, was also responsible for the death of five pigs, two cats, the horse that brought in the hides of the dead bullocks, the man who skmned them, and a dog. Wo must, says M. Castanie, president of the Transvaal volunteers, fight the English by means of an economic social boycott. In order to carry this out, we must no longer buy English goods. We must ask all the “restaurants” and “maitres d’hotel” to put up a notice at their doors bearing the inscription, “No English allowed here.” We must obtain from the Transvaal Government authorisation to distribute letters of marque. A number of captains are ready to arm privateers to destroy British commerce.— Presse, Paris. Very interesting and novel is the mail landing at Niuafou, a little island of the Tongan group. It will perhaps surprise people to know that Niuafou has the fastest dispatched mail in the world. On passing the island the ' steamer stands off about half a mile and passes the mail ashore neatly affixed to a rocket. The inhabitants, of course, are eagerly on the lookout, and on the landing of the rocket mail there is a stampede of the natives in the direction of the falling spot. The reason assigned for the scramble is that the first to pick up the mail is rewarded. The military authorities at Capetown have cabled to the Victorian Department of Agriculture intimating that m future they only want oaten hay shipped for horses. The supply of_ oaten hay is small, but large quantities of wheaten hay are available, and the Minister for Agriculture is endeavouring to induce the South African authorities to take it instead of oaten hay. Some time ago rats from a ship that went down off Sable Island, hear Nova Scotia, succeeded in reaching the shore, and soon multiplied to such an extent as to become dangerous to the settlers. When they had well-nigh destroyed the food supplies on the island, tlu _ settlers imported some energetic cats, which kept the pest in cheek until a passing ship left a pair of foxes on the island. That was fatal alike to 'rats and cats. Soon foxes overran the island in every direction. They killed not only the rats but the cats as well, and at the present time the Government is considering the advisability of an active crusade against them, —Advertiser, London, (Canada.) Some stories about absent-minded men are rather difficult to swallow; hut a correspondent, of whose integrity we are convinced, vouches for the following : “ I have (he says) ajfriend, still at large, who went home the other day to dress for a party, but unhappily wound up his watch before taking off his clothes. This set up a sequence of automatic actions which ended in his going to bed instead of going to his party! Can anyone beat that?” —London Daily News.

Mr Rudyard Kipling has repented writing “ The Absent-minded Beggar.” “ Can it be,” some one asks, *■ that I am addressing the author of ‘ The Absentminded Beggar ?’ ” Mr Kipling ought to have blushed, but lie idid not. He answered, , “ Well, I have heard that thing played on an organ in Capetown, and I would shoot the man who wrote it if it would not be suicide.”

To avoid mistakes, Mr W. E. Reynolds, dentist, and Mr J. Reynolds, chemist, hereby notify that they are in no way connected. — Advt.

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 pf 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. 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.

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