Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1901.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 September 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1901.

The Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Wednesday, 9th Oc:ober, 1901, Labour Day. Last Tuesday’s Gazette contains a list of 45 inspectors appointed under the Slaughtering and Inspection Act of 1900. The members of the Druids’ Lodge arc reminded that the usual meeting takes place this evening at 7 o’clock instead of 8 as previously notified. In the last Gazette wo notice that ’His Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation of Henry Harrison as a Trustee of the Blackball public cemetry. The Wellington Post revives the rumor that Mr Seddon is about to sever his connection with New Zealand and hints at a Governorship in another part of the British Empire. By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that B. W. Dee and Sons,

tailors, and gents’ mercers, of Nelson, require coat hands. Constant employment to suitable men. Shareholders in the Shellback Gold Dredging Company are notified through our advertising columns, that a special meeting will te held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Albion Hotel.

A new scale of insurance fees for parcels sent through the Post Office was published in the Gazette. The schedule provides for insurance up to £SO, and covers delivery in New Zealand and Australia (except Queensland and West Australia) and foreign countries. The weather report to-day shows that Russell, with a temperature of 60 degrees, is the warmest place in the Colony; Balclutha with 42 degrees being the coldest. The temperature of Greymouth was 52 degrees. The sea all along the West Coast was rough, that on the East Coast smooth.

A quiet wedding took ' place at St Saviours Church Brunnerton on Monday when Mr Arthur L Turner son of Mr C W Turner of the Blackball Company, Christchurch, was married to Miss Ethel Baff of Greymouth, the Eev Mr Stace officiating. Mr Turner is second engineer of the 8. S. Pctone and the ships in port have been gaily decorated to-day in honour of the occasion.

Mr Pearson, the contractor for the building of pontoons for a number of dredging companies in this and the Hokitika district, is seriously ill. His many friends will wish him a speedy recovery.

The accident to Mr Wm. Cumming’s child in Kanieri, which we chronicled on Monday evening, has, we regret to say, ended fatally. The child ('says the Times) was transferred to the Westland Hospital yesterday morning and died shortly afterwards.

The friends of Mr Charles Davey of Ross, will be pleased to learn that his eldest son, who has been ill for some time past, is now progressing very satisfactorily. It is not anticipated that any permanent disablement will result from his illness,

Captain Harvey, of the s.s. Himatangi, was (according to the Times) in Hokitika yesterday, and in company with Captain Bignell, the harbormaster, inspected the bar and harbor, Mr Ross, (continues our contemporary) the engineer of the vessel, was also here, and it is understood the steamer will bring down two or throe cargoes of coal next week. She carries about 150 tons on a draught of eight feet.

The Public Health Department is gathering information as to the bedding of oysters kept in different parts of the colony for market purposes, and proposes to insist, in view of recent cases of typhoid from oysters being stored in proximity to sewage outlets, that more cleanly beds shall be selected.

It is expected that an addition to the rolling stock for the local railways in tiro shape of 20 now goods waggons will arrive by the Hinemoa next week. Efforts are being made to procure three up-to-date American carriages with folding chairs for use on the local line.

Among the present-day Highland chiefs there are few able to speak Gaelic, one notable exception being the Duke of Atholl, who in addition to being able to converse in the classic language, is doing his best to encourage its more extensive use around Blair-Atholl. Gaelic classes were, under his influence, kept going all last winter, and the examination of the pupils showed good results. At Armidale (N. S.W.) on August 18th, Henry Parker, aged fourteen years, was shot through the heart by another boy of the same age named Henry Hogan. They were examining a revolver belonging to Hogan. Parker took the weapon in his hand and said: “How does it fire?” Hogan reached out to show him how it worked, and the other boy was still holding'the weapon in his hand with ina barrel pointed towards himself Hogan believes that he accidentally pulled the trigger, as the next moment the boy fell, crying: “I. am shot through the heart.” He died in a few moments. Too jury added to their verdict of “ Accidental death” a rider that there ought to ba a law prohibiting the sale of firearms to young children. The insurance fiend mot his match in Hokitika. recently (says the West Coast Times) and it occurred thuswiso. At the local lunatic asy um there is a harmless patient who possesses a comparative degre jof sanity on all points except one. Being harmless he is allowed a certain amount of latitude and in his walks abroad he struck the insurance can-

vasser who, being eager to take a life as usual, at once entered into conversation. The lunatic by his apparently sane re plies led the agent on until he began to congratulate himself on having secured another large policy and to clutch tha business he produced his table of figures Here the lunatic met with his hobby and in a few minutes he had enveloped that insurance agent in a cloud of figures compared to which the Budget itself is but a circumstance. Light then dawned on the cranium of the canvasser and he left hurriedly. He has not yet come to a conclusion as to which the bigger lunatic of the two.

The Minister of Lands (the Hon. Thos. Duncan) states, according to the Wellington Post, that the outbreak of anthrax which is alarming settlers in the Poverty Bay, Opotiki, and Tauranga districts is the second occurrence of the disease in Now Zealand, and both are distinctly traceable to pastures in which bpne manure has been used. lufected bones and flesh, gathered from everywhere, were converted into manure, which was used on turnip lands, and cattle fed on these were very liable to catch anthrax. The disease being contracted from the pasture, and not caught by one beast from another, there is, the Minister considers, no danger of an epidemic. The position will be met by isolating diseased cattle. This will prevent their being converted into manure, and the Department can do little else until it can arrange for a digester that will put manure to a temperature sufficiently high to destroy disease. It is not deemed necessary to prohibit all movement of stock from the Bay of Plenty to Poverty Bay, hut the grazing of stock on infected paddocks is prohibited, and such beasts cannot be removed without the Inspector’s permission. The agitation tor a Greater Wanganui is being revived. A telegram received at Westport from Dunedin records the death of Mr A. J. Burns, the first manager for the Westport Coal Company. The Timaru Borough Council passed a resolution to the effact that, in their opinion Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards should be made elective bodies.

The Nelson Colonist records the death on Thursday in his 80th year, of Captain Levy, an old residenc of Nelson, and one who passed through some stirring times during the Maori wars.

The New Zealand Times states that a good vehicle road has been completed to the great geyser, Te Waimunga, near Lake Rotomohana. Visitors can now go from Rotorua to Te Waimunga and back in one day. This geyser is now playing once every 24 hours. Like Eotomahana is stated to be higher than it has ever been previously. There is a great deal of thermal activity in the district. Had the late Major Brown, of Taranaki lived another day he would have celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his arrival in the settlement, he having come out in the Amelia Thompson, which arrived on 3rd September, 1841. 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 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 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 guarant ed—Advt.

WADE'S WORM FIGS are more effective and not unpleasant; most children thrive after taking them. Price 1/Aurora Australis ! that wonderful sight That dazzles the eyes with its brilliance and light,

Occurs in those regions where ice and the snow, Extend everlasting above and below. Such a climate would kill us so used to the heat, New Zealand’s bright sunshine is so hard to beat. It is here we escape coughs and colds to

be sure, By taking that Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

WADE’S TEETHING POWDERS for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price 1/-

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

The inventive genius of the American nation has at last achieved perfection in gentlemen’s head-wear. Their latest production in* hats is as strong as steel date, as flexible as rubber sheeting, as fight 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- Tymons and Co.—Advt,