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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 September 1901, Page 2

G. W. Moss and Co. will sell on the wharf on Monday at 11 o’clock:—2so sacks chaff and 60 sacks potatoes.

The Greymouth Cemetery will he closed during disinterment of Chinese bodies from daylight till noon commencing from Tuesday next.

The schooner Clyde is at present engaged loading produce at Lyttelton for Greymouth. Merchants desirous of obtaining fright should apply at once to Mr. E. A. Wickes, the Greymouth agent.

The services at the Wesleyan Church to-morrow morning and night will be conduc cd by the Rev T. R. Richards, one of the most eloquent preachers on the Coast.

The grand trotting stallion Allerton will be at the service of breeders this season. The horse is located at “ Cave’s Tattersails, Greymouth,” but will if sufficient inducement offers travel to Ahaura and Totara Fiat.

Mr Hayes, Inspector of Mines will preside at the organ at St John’s Presbyterian Church to-morrow at both services. After the evening service Mr Hayes will render a short recital, and in his capable hands a treat is in store for those attending.

The annual Ball of the Grey Football Club will be held in the Opera House on Wednesday next, and we believe will surpass all previous efforts, although it has always been recognised to be the best ball of the year. The ladies, as in former years, have the management of the supper which is a sufficient guarantee that nothing will be left undone.

“Where there’s life there’s soap.’ This is particularly the case at Parkinson’s to-day, where quite a stir has been caused by the elaborate and artistic display of toilet soaps in their window. Read their advertisement on the third page, and come along to-night to see the soap show.

We direct the attention of sawmillers and others in want of really good draught horses to the sale advertised by G. W. Moss and Co. to take place on Wednesdap next. The horses are all youn" and have been specially selected for \Vcst Coast work.

Miss Jenkin, one of the victims of the shooting affray which recently occurred at the Majesty’s Hotel, Sydney, where she was employed as a barmaid, is not progressing as satisfactorily towards recovery as could bo wished, and she has been readmitted'to the hospital for treatment. It is a bullet wound in the breast which is causing the trouble. The biggest hit of the season was made last Saturday by a golf player at the Palmeratan links, the ball being driven fully 250 yards, but unfortunately in its course it knocked out three teeth belonging to a man who was working near. The latter, who has sent in a claim for £2O to the Club for the loss of his teeth, does not hold a very high opinion of golf as played in Palmerston.

A daring street robbery was committed at 11 p.m. on August 31 at the corner of King and Pitt streets Sydney. A commercial traveller was handing two ladies on to a cable tramcar wheil he Was jostled by two men, one of whom snatched his gold chain, watch, and sovereign holder containing three sovereigns from his waistcoat. Both thieves made off.

A Wairarapa paper is informed that the grub is committing great ravages amongst the wheat crops in that district, and the present outlook is rather a serious one. It is the later crops to which special damage has]been done by the grub, and it is stated that, from present indications, unless there is a heavy downpour of rain the farmers will sustain severe losses. A traveller who visited the small Siberian town of Kansk tells how surprised he was by an incident in the theatre. The first actress who made an appearence on the stage bowed to the audience, whereupon the whole gathering rose as one man and returned the bow in the most polite manner. Encouraging reports are to hand from Harden, New South Wales, where splendid geld has been discovered. The Queensland Government has granted £250 as compensation to the father of Chas. Beatti, who was accidentally killed at the Warwick rifle range in March last.

Mu James Uzzle, a poineer settler, and a member of the 4 li Waikato Militia, died at Hamilton last week, aged 77. He arrived at Hamilton 37 years ago. The scarcity of elephants in India may be inferred from the fact that in 1835 an elephant could bo bought there for £45; now the price has advanced to £BOO, Mr J. H. VV. Urn, of Bangiora, on behalf of the Natives of the Ngajtahu, went to Wellington the other day to present to Parliament a petition to retain the flag of 1835 as the New Zealand flag. There is likely to be very little wheat sown in Waikato this season (says the Waikato Times), as farmers find the present low price anything but payable. A fair acreage is being sown of the Algerian, Danish, and Garton varieties of oats. Dun oats are not as popular with farmers as hitherto on account of their liability to damage from the caterpillar, A prisoner named Thomas Vanghan alias Cant, made a rather clever escape from custody near Biualong (N.S.W.) on August 13. He was serving a sentence of five years’ imprisonment, two of which were completed, and petitioned the authorities to remove him from Sydney Gaol on the force of health. His request was accorded to, and he was taken to Young Gaol by Warder O’Connor, when he regained his liberty. He selected the moment to get away while the train was travelling up a steep incline. t Ho was wearing gaol clothes at the time, and also leg-irons, but ho had the forethought to throw out a portmanteau owned by the warder, and containing a blue serge suit of clothes, a grey felt hat and a pair of tan boots. He also took with him his own bag of clothes. Vaughan was arrested at Forbes a week'later.

Mrs Grieve, the wife of a farmer living

near Broad Meadows (Victoria), was thrown out of a trap on her head and killed on August 10, while driving along a street in Melbourne. She was on her way to a doctor for medical advice at the time.

It is reported from Eotorua tnat the eruption of a new and very large geyser at the foot of Tarawera Mountain was

witnessed from Waiotapu on Thursday evening of last week, about 5 o'clock. It is thought to be at the end of Rotomahana, and that the waters of the lake have percolated into the old rift. The West Australian Commissioner of

Police has received intimation that a

white labourer named Jackson was deliberately shot dead on the 11th inst. by an aboriginal woman named Biddy. The affair was the outcome of a quarrel. Albany (West Australia) reports a domestic tragedy beyond King River. The police and a doctor wont out, and they found a Mrs Rudkin dead, and her husband, John Rudkin, very ill from the effects of poisoning. Mrs Rudkin served dinner as usual, Her husband noticed that the stew had a bitter flavour, but she remarked that her portion was all right. The husband, however, took very little. The case is supposed to be one of suicide.

For some time past a large number of eggs and fowls have disappeared from the hospital shed. One of the culprits was seen clearing out in a hasty manner the other day. The Hospital authorities have full information as to who the thieves are, and in the event of any further robberies will at once place the matter in the hands of the police. This paragraph can .be taken as a final warning, A singular procession passed through the streets of Gisborne a few days ago, when a flock of 150 turkeys, driven by men on horses with dogs, passed along. They had come twenty-seven miles in three days, crossing a river and several streams, and were being taken to auction whore they realised from 4s to 4s 6d each. The Queensland Premier (Mr Philip) has made a statement that the cable messages, in bis opinion, indicated that more Aust < ralian soldiers are needed in South Africa. He does not intend to make any overtures to the Imperial Government about sending more men, but if he receives applications from men to go, he would, as in the case of the Britannic draft, endeavour to arrange on behalf of the applicants for' their conveyance to South Africa. A young man named H. Malone, a resident of Makiao, Fielding, while suffering from influenza, one evening last week became delirious, and left his parents’ residence. The members of his family and the police scoured the country during the night, and discovered him between Taonui and Bunnythorpe at about 7 o’clock next morning. As a result of his exposure in the rough weather he contracted congestion of the lungs, and had to be sent to the "Palmerston Hospital, but ultimately had to be committed to the Wellington Asylum. An extraordinary hailstorm occurred at Pukehou, near To Aute, on Friday of last week. Fences were buried in hail drifts, and in one locality the hail was banked up to a height of 8 feet. The hailstorm was confined to a small area, and other portions of the district enjoyed fine weather at the time.

The Government is being urged by the Gisborne Borough Council to reserve 7000 acres in the Motu district as an endowment for manual and technical instruction in the Cooli County. The butchers of Stratford have decided not to supply hotels and boardinghouses at a lower rate than the general public. The Gisborne Borough Council has decided to erect a building for the treatment of infectious cases which the local hospital will not admit.

Another local body in Taranaki province is going in for the tollgate system-, of raising revenue. The Clifton County Council has resolved that a tollgate he' established on the main North-road, between Waitara and Urenui, for the purpose of raising revenue to meet the heavy expenditure required on that section of the road..

The closing down of the Waitara FreezWorks has, it is stated, caused business to be a bit duil in the river port, but with the reopening of the works a couple of months lienee a revival in trade is anticipated.

A correspondentyvrites to the Hokitika - - Guardian :—Owners of dredges that haveproved s. failure have yet a chance to regain their loss. It is announced that a syndicate is being formed to purchase all the dredges in the large rivers of the CoSst for the purpose of fitting them op as whitebait factories. The idea is novel, but practical. In place of buckets largja nets are used and the fish are to be elevated to the grading soreens from whence they descend by gravitation to the cooking apparatus. It is estimated that by this new method of treatment, whitebait at a penny a yard is more profitable than the heavy gravel met with on the Coast at fourpence a yard. A careful essay of the principal rivers'is being mad© by the syndicate’s consulting engineerIt is probable (says a Thames paper) that the sulphur springs at the Mirandia will receive more attention from Thames residents this summer. The Natives stilt refuse to either lease or sell the land on which the springs ore situated, but raise no objections to persons using them. The hot springs are near the Waitakaruri River and are situated in swampy ground neat the sea.

A vote has been taken amongst the Natives of the Ngatimaniapoto tribe* King Country, as to whether they will! have a separate district of their own under? “The Native Lands Administration Act,, 1900.’’ or become a part of the Waikato/ land district, The result is that there is - , a majority in favour of having a separate district, which will be called tne “Maniapoto" district. 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 Pepper* mint Cure.

The inventive genius of the American nation has at last achieved perfection in gentlemen’s head-wear. Their latest production in hats is as streng as steel plate, as flexible as rubber sheeting, as light 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.

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 & 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.