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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 September 1901, Page 2

The only nominations for the vacant seat in the Grey Education Board are Messrs Bignell and Kerr.

To-day the river, consequent upon the heavy rain last night, is in flood to such an extent as to interfere with dredging operations.

Special references were made in the Greymouth Churches yesterday to the assassination of President MTunley, the Dead March being played by the organists. The Blackball School Commctco held a special meeting last Wednesday evening, when ft was unanimously decided to appoint the teachers nominated by the Education Board, namely, Miss McDonald and Mr Wickes, for the position of assistant and head teacher respectively. Mr Wickes reopened the school last Thursday and Miss McDonald took up her duties on Friday. The Reefton Herald says : —“The unfortunate man Peterson, who was insured while working at the Low Level mine in June last, expired at the Hospital on Saturday evening, after suffering the most intense agony. The deceased, who was only 35 years of age and a native of Queensland, leaves a iwidow and three children to mourn his loss.’’

We regret to have to record the death of a very old Coaster (says the West Coast Times), in the person of Mr Patrick Dwan, who died at his residence on Saturday night after a short but severe illness. Mr Dwan arrived on the Coast in the early sixties, and was one of the original settlers of Jackson’s Bay. He leaves a wife and family of soVen, all grown up, to whom our sincere sympathy is extended. The Misses Dawns who were returning home by the s. s. Kennedy from Nelson to see their father, had to return to Westport last evening, and it is their intention to travel overland to enable them to be present at the funeral. The past whaling season at Whangamumu, in the Far North, has been a very successful one, 16 whales having been captured, which is the largest catch of any season on the New Zealand -coast, so far as is known. The average is a very good one, some 70 tons of oil having been secured.

Mr Herman Smith, of the accountants’ branch of our General Post Office, has accepted an appointment in the Transvaal postal service. The Government has declined to grant the application of Mr John Grant, proprietor of the Woodville Examiner, for a remission of the fine inflicted upon him for a breach of the Gaming Act. The Borough Council of Masterton resolved to purchase road-making machinery but also to consult the ratepayers before making the purchase, and accordingly the following notice was advertised payers of the Borough are notified that it is proposed by the Council to purchase traction engine and road roller, stonebreaker, and road-grading machines, at a cost of about J 61500, and, for this purpose, to arrange an overdraft with the Council’s bankers for the full amount. Any ratcpajer objecting to such proposal may attend the Council meeting on Tuesday, 3rd September, and then be heard on behalf of any objection.”

Several seams of coal are known to exist in the Mangonui district, North Auckland. Samples from one have been analysed, and a good report made thereon. In a week or two boring operations will be commenced to find the thickness and length of the seam.

One of the witnesses in a divorce case heard at Auckland last week was a married woman who had to give evidence that she had been wronged by the respondent, and Mr Justice Oonolly, on the application of Mr Mahoney, instructed the reporters not to publish either her maiden name or the name she had taken on marriage.

The Ashburton Guardian hears on good authority that it is the intention of some owners of s »wmills in the Canterbury district to close down their mills if the demands of the men are conceded by the Arbitration Court,

The Wanganui Chronicle has the following ; —“ Whilst the Oreti'was at Westport on Monday night two sailors had a squabble on the wharf, with the result tint a signal lamp (the property of the Railway Department) was knocked into the s ;a, One of the sailors appeared at the Court yesterday morning, charged with damaging the lamp. The accused agrifd to pay the cost of the lamp (£1), and o.r the application of Sergeant Dwyer the information was withdrawn.” The co-operative dairy at Haslo, in Denmark, which is said to be the largest in the world, belonging absolutely to 40 farmers, sends jout some 100,0001 b. of butter da ly. At the last return the cooperative movement in Denmark showed a to'al of 837 societies, with 130,331 members. Their export in pigs, bacon butter, and eggs last year amounted to over £10,000,000, the whole of the profits going into farmers’ hands.

The exports of dairy produce and meat for the last month show an increase of nearly SO.OOOewt in mutton, 37,000ewt in lamb, and 500 cwt in cheese, but a decrease of 747 cwt in butter compared with the returns for August last year. The values of exports since April Ist last are ; Butter £188,226, cheese £79,761, beef £105,025, mutton £421,836 and lamb £406.602.

Mr W. Steven’s of Auckland, who is one of the five among whom the prize of £2OO has been divided for designing a flag the Commonwealth of Australia, is, we are informed, chief officer of the Union Company’s s.s. Taiori. Th Hon. C. Louisson stated on Friday that both the originator of the labour legislation (the Hon. W. P. Eeeves) and the Premier had sounded a warning note as to the future. Before Mr. Reeves left New Zealand he told the workers that they had in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act a very valuable institution, and advised them not to ride it to deatn.

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

Mr H. W. Eichards, Mu«. Bao., the examiner of the Associated Board of the and Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music will probably reach Christchurch about Oct 19, to conduct the practical music examination at tho Canterbury Colhgo, and in other parts of tho Colony subsequently. The inventive genius of the American nation has at last achieved perfection in gentlemen’s head-wear. Their latest production in hats is as strang as steel date, as flexible as rubber sheeting, as iglit as ether, bomb proof against perspiration, and as well ventilated as the summit of Mount Cook. This new American Hard Felt Hat is stocked by T. W. Tvmons and Co.— Advt.

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