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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 September 1901, Page 2

For silver and electro-plated cruets, E. P. butter knives, jam spoons, table and desert knives and forks, desert table spoons,—Ward, Taylorville,— Advt. The residents of Brunner are appreciating the endeavours of Sir Joseph Ward in putting cushions on the seats in secondclass carriages, and thus popularising and cheapening railway travelling.

The Dobson School committee cleared £l2 from their concert and ball. They tender their thanks to all those who in anyway assisted to make the gathering a succos.

Tenders are invited for the construction of dams for the Victory and Aldinga Gold Dredging Coy’s. Plans and specifications may bo soon at the engineers branch office Tainui Street, where tenders will close on Saturday Sept 14th, at noon. The committee of the Wesleyan Church Taylorville have decided to hold their annual record tea on October IGth. That date will not clash with any other gathering and having taken the matter energetically in hand, the gathering is pretty sure to bo success.

The Maori Singers, under the auspices of the Salvation Army, arrived at Westport tc-day from Nelson. The Company are all in good trim, and looking forward for a good run on the Coast. They visit all the chief towns, arriving at Greymouth for Sunday and Monday', 15th and 16th. Wo understand they are touring in the interest of a most commendable object, and will undoubtedly meet with phenomenal success all round. Wo would again remind our readers of the final football match to-morrow between Grey and Hokitika, which takes place on Victoria Park, and judging by the teams selected a great contest is anticipated although wo believe that the Grey boys aro determined to show our southern friends that they arc not to bo denied on their own ground. In ahothor column that up-to-date dwelling at present occupied by Young lice is advertised for sale. The property is situated in Tainui Street, within a minutes walk of the Post Office. It commands a splendid view and has every convenience. Full, particulars re terms iJcc. may bo had from G. W. Moss and Co. Over fifty persons were present at the West Coast Pioneer Lodge meeting hold in the Druid’s Hall last evening. Mr Bao the genial entertainer was present and gave the audience some splendid instruction spiced with amusement. The pictures and experiments wore excellent, and the wonder is that cno of our townsmen should so intelligently become acquainted with the secrets of various sciences. _Mr Rao is a real encyclopedia of information and*his entertainment last evening was most creditable. Mr Scrivinor gave some fine phonograph selections, “The Absent Minded Joggnr” being capitally rendered. Two now members are to be initiated at the next meeting, when the Brothers are to officer the Lodge and the Sisters entertain. On Saturday the Brunner Temple is to visit Groymouth and bo entertained in the Druids Hall.

The Now Plymouth Harbor Board has decided to instal an electric light service at its harbor works.

The Btawera Chamber of Commerce is urging the Postal Department to illustrate the new post-card with Mount Egmont scenery.

New goods, tumblers with King and Queen’s photo, gilt and , black picture frames, lovely photo frames, rug straps, —Ward, Taylorville,— Advt. There is great indignation at .Karangahakc, Upper Thames, because the post and telegraph office built four months ago has not yet been opened. The Hawera County Council has passed a resolution objecting to compulsory rating on unimproved values as being' likely to prove injurious to the interests of country districts.

Indignation meetings arc being held in the Taranaki district the proposal in the Counties Bill to abolish Town Boards. Under the Defence Amendment Act, 1900, ton rille clubs have been already formed at Fcatherston, Tadmore, Thorpe, Waimangora, Charleston, Waikaka. Riverton, Linton, Bannockburn, Middlemarch, and Parparaumu. The “Ashburton Guardian” hears on good authority that it is the intention of some of the owners of sawmills in the Canterbury district to close down their mills if the demands of the men are conceded by the Arbitration Court. Sheep-worrying is very general in the Herbert district, Otago, just now, four or five different flocks having been worried lately. On a recent morning fourteen sheep were worried at Bedding Hill. Seven candidates have been selected by the Public Works Committee of the Dunedin City Council from the list of applicants fof the position of junior clerk in the City Engineer's ofiico, four of them being young ladies. The Lyttelton Borough School has been closed in consequence of the prevalence of influenza among the pupils. New Plymouth citizens have appointed a committee to help forward the next contest of the North Island Brass Bands Association, which is to be held in the town next year. No less than 2867 acres of land in the Auckland province have been planted with forest trees during the last year, at a cost of ,£8,583, or within a fraction of £3 per acre.

A man named Hanson went without invitation to one of the leading hotels in IVfasterton, and slept in the , bridal chamber with his boots on. He was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for being illegally on the premises. The nteablo value of Hawera County is £1,844,665. There are no further 1 developments in connection with the outbreak of anthrax at Tamahore. The stock have been isolated, and the mortality has ceased. At present there is good competition for oats in the Milton district (says the Bruce Herald), bat very little is offering. Farmers who still have any on hand are holding in anticipation of a further rise.

The Crown Lands Department content

plates the purchase of one or more estates in South Canterbury for closer settlement. The Government Land Purchase Board has just completed an inspection of proporties belonging to Mr E. H. Rhodes and others. The master butchers of Dunedin and suburbs have decided to raise the price of meat, telegraphs our Dunedid correspondent. This step has been necessitated on account of the continued high price of stock, and the increased expenditure forced on the master butchers under the recent award of the Arbitration Court. Two leading Wellington ironfounders notified a firm which wanted a steamer built for the Patea butter trade that owing to the uncertainty of labour conditions they were not disposed to tender. Plans are now being prepared and the woik will be done at home. It is the intention of the Hawkes Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association to take steps to put down the practice of repacking fruit in cases hearing well known brands and selling it under those brands. The new City Engineer of Dunedin lias made an auspicious start by drawing the attention of the Council to the very bad and deplorable condition of the main streets and thoroughfares, and lie suggests the advisability-of a loan. Platelaying on the Gisborne-Karaka railway his been completed up to a point 10 miles beyond Ormond. Amother two miles will bring the line up to the Waipao river, from the bed of which the metal for ballasting operation will be obtained.

It is stated that within the next few weeks there will bo abundance of work for miners in the Ohinemuri district.

A trawler in being built by Messrs Logan Bros., of Auckland, to the order of a Dunedin syndicate. She will be 55ft long, schooner,-rigged, and fitted with an auxiliary oil-engine. Patea is first in the field with a project for a Co-operative Poultry Company. Babbit poisoning is now being carried on extensively in the Clinton district, and the ‘bunnies’ take it very readily owing, it is said, to the scarcity of grass after the late fall of snow.

The railway to connect Paeroa with the Waibi goldfields, will not be completed for the next 18 months or two years.

The hearing of the typographical dispute was concluded before the Wellington Conciliation Board yesterday, and the award is now being considered. The demand of the Union that the whole of newspapers should be handed over to piece hands, who should be allowed to charge on big advertisements set in the jobbing room, was resisted by the employers to the end. The Union asked that all country ofllces should be brought under the award.

Dr Dolisle, Napier Borough Health Officer, resigned that position owmg to his having received an appointment as Government Health Officer.

The Timaru Borough Council contemplates draining one of its large reserves to the south of Timaru, known as the Otipua Lagoon, which covers 150 acres If it can be properly drained, ns the Borough Engineer says it can, what has been a waste lagoon for so many years will bo converted into a valuable asset. ThoWinton Record understands that some 23 years ago a man left the Maltarowa Hotel in a nude state, and was never hoard of. Seeing that no buttons or portion of: the boots were found with the skeleton at Gopor’s Bush, it is thought that the remains might bo tho. ; c of the missing man. The Timaru Post says the Commissiouer of Grown Lands is having the property Imown as Sullivan’s Farm, at Eakahii, surveyed, prior to being thrown open to the public for lease in perpetuity. The land is situated about nine miles west of Pleasant Point.

The proprietors of the dairy factory at Cambridge have met a strongly budding co operative movement by promptly offering to sell at valuation. At a meeting held at Cambridge a few days ago, 724 cows were guaranteed for the '‘co-0p.,” with two or three hundred more in view.

,/ames Shepherd was fined 40s and costs in one of the Otago district this week for cruelty to animals in putting six fowls in a box for transmission Irom Edondaio to Invercargill when the space would only permit of throe at most. The Timaru Borough Council, at its meeting on Monday night, passed a resolution to the effect that, in their opinion Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards should be made elective bodies.

Those who profess to know *are confi- - dent they have discovered a coal field.' along the Hawse's Bay coast, and as a - result boring operations are to he commenced at.once with a view to proving:: the seam.

Under the Defence Amendment Act,. 1900, ten rifle clubs have already been formed at Fcatherston, Tadmore, Thorpe,, Waimangaroa, Charleston, • Waikaka,Riverton, Linton, Bannockburn, Middlemarch, and Paraparaumu. A gift of foreign birds and animals have been inade to the Napier Council by Mr W. E. Blythe and others and will be placed in the Botanical garden, where it is expected they will form the nucleus of a larger collection. Mr A, D. Dobson, engineer to the Christchurch City Council, has reported to the Timaru Borough Council that thegorge of the Parcora river makes an idea!, site for waterworks. The constructionof a storage dam there, in addition toserving its primary purpose, will providea practically unlimited and inexhaustible supply of clean water to the Timaru water-race.

There is (says the Hot Lakes Chronicle) quite a mania among the natives at tike present time for wood-carving. On every warm spot, and on the sunny side of Tama te Kapua, may be seen groups of the younger generation of Maoris with, chisel in hand, under the guidance of a tohunga, or artist, busy at some piece of work iu the shape of taiahas, tewhatewhas, and patus. ‘ ,

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 1 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 «, 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 K Jam and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity S' laranteed— Advt. . < o doubt were Dickens still alive He’d yet write many a tale, Though he is dead his works survive, t; Their reading ne’er grows stale. So many try to imitate, But they remain, obscure, * :. For coughs and colds don’t hesitate, Take Woods’ Great Peppeekutt Cube. WADE’S WORM FIGS are more effective and hot unpleasant; most children, thrive after taking them. Price 1/-