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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 September 1901, Page 2

A phrenologist and character reader may be consulted at Flaherty’s Club Hotel Nelson Creek, on the 24th, 25th 26th of September. Medical advise given to ladies. —Anvr. Mr Hyslop representative for Messrs Wilson Balk and Go’s celebrated Ouvah Teas is now on the West Coast booking orders.

Messrs Nancarrew' and Co district agents for the New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. report that the following Greymouth passengers booked by the B.M.S. “Paparoa” duo in the Colony at the begining of October from London: —Messrs P Massey T. Howard, and J, Hodgson. At the Wesleyan Chuich last evening the Eov Mr Grey preached an earnest discourse on the death of President M'Kinley. Several useful lessons were applied and ably drawn from the words and circumstances of the great event. There was a large congregation present and at the conclusion of the service Mr Holder played verj impressively the “Dead March” in Saul, while those present remained standing. There was a good attendance at the West Coast Good Templar Pioneer Lodge last Thursday evening. To-night about twenty of the members visit the Brunner Lodge and will be under the care of Mr A Brown, whose drag will be used for the occasion. On Thursday next an open meeting will be held at the Druids Hall to which the public are invited. A good programme has been arranged and visitors will be cordially welcomed. In our advertising columns Mr Hukstep of Auckland, challenges Mr Sherlock, of Westport, or any other West Coaster to run a mile for £SO or £IOO aside. Further particulaes may bo obtained on applying to the “ Stab.” office. If the challenge is accepted arrangements could possibly be made to have the event run in Victoria Park on November 9th in connection with the sports to be held on that date.

Our Ikamatua correspondent says:— A young man working at Mr Bowater’s saw-mill had a cruel shock given him on the arrival of the Reefton train on Friday morning. He was informed by one of the passengers that his father had died in the Reefton hospital two days before, and was to bo buried that afternoon. The young man immediately obtained a horse and rode a distance of 16 miles to-Reefton. where he found his father sitting at the tire in one of the wards. How such a cruel, though unintentional hoax came about to be perpetrated, I do not know. Cape Maria Van Diemen, Castlepoint and Wanganui with 63 degrees each, were the warmest places in the Colony to-day, while Nuggets with 43 degrees is the coldest. The temperature of Greymonth was 55 degrees. The sea along the Coast was moderate with fair tides.

Members of the Grcymouth Library wil. be pleased to learn that the committee have arranged for receiving regular fortnightly supplies of new books. The

firs; instalment of 15 volumes will be placed on the shelves this evening, and include works by such popular authors as Barry, Bret Harfce, Flora Ansleele Hyru, Kipling “ Sen to Sea,” Bigelow “ South Africa." Mac Don aid’s “ How we kept the Flag Flying," ( ’aad others. The committee trust th it as an increase in the membership carries with it a greater spending power on hooks, subscribers will do all possible to co-operate with them in raising the membership roll to a number worthy of Greymouih.

According to the “Echo dc Paris,” the grave defects discovered in the Chateaurenault and Jeanne d’Arc, two of the latest cruiseis added to the French navy, will call for an additional expenditure of £1,080,000. The tide of visitors to the Hanmer Plains has set iu this year very early. Ordinarily it is not till October that the visitors congregate at the Sanatorium, but this year all the accomodation has been fairly well filled from the early part of the present mouth

In order to enable it to erect abattoirs the Napier Borough Council has decided to borrow £SOOO from the Government under the Loans to Local Bodies Act.

The Dannevirko Advocate says that a Weber settler was recently refused a loan by the Advance to Settlers Department because their valuer was unable to visit the section —owing to the bad state of the roads.

Japanese florists are said to have succeeded in cultivating a rose which looks red in the sunlight and white in She shade.

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

The death is announced at Wangaehu, near Wanganui, of a native named Te Ahum mum, who had reached the great age of 108. He is grandfather of j\lr Sam Woon, a well known and highly respected native rangatira, who also is well advanced in years. During the discussion in the House Mr Seddon, ref erringlthe West Coast companies, said some of the promoters had presented Mr Cook with a gold brick, but some of them, before they had done, would throw bricks at him.

Don’t ever play with dynamite' In case it should explode. Beware of robbers late at night And take the safest road. Don’t laugh at any little ill,

But health at once secure, Bad coughs and colds arise from chill, Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cube.

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 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. Tymons and Co.—Advt.

Boring for coal has been commenced in the Paeroa district, Upper Thames. WADE’S WORM FIGS are more effective and not unpleasant; most children thrive after taking them. Price 1/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 tbe 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.