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

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. Tub Payment of Members Bill brought down by the Governor’s message proposes to pay members of the Legislative Council .£2OO a year (an increase of £SO), and members of the House of Representatives £3OO (an increase of £6O). I is to come into force on January Ist, 1902.

CONTINGENTS’ PENSIONS. The Military Pensioners’ Bill is designed to include the Sixth and Seventh Contingents in the previous Military Pensions’ Act. It also proposes that the annual allowance payable under Section 12 of the Act of 1866 shall be payable to the mother of any ollicer, non-commis-sioned officer, or private, who is not a widow in the case of her husband, being incapable through infirmity of earning her own livelihood.

Attention is called to an advertisement concerning the Chamber of Commerce, for this evening p,t 8.39. The meeting is important.

Tenders are invited in our advertising columns for the construction of eight chains of roadway foe the Borough of Greymouth,

A pullet makes more noise over the laying of diminutive and deformed egg, ►than the average hen does over a score of sound and substantial ones. Mr. Yarrall, the well-known saddler of Tainui Street, has now on sale a splendid stock of Gladstone bags and portmanteaus, which for quality and price has never before been offered on the West Coast.

The two rival football teams—the Stars, and Red Roses—will play a match on Victoria Park to-morrow afternoon, and as both teams are confident of success, a keenly contested game should be the result.

The agreeable change in the weather must be very gtatifying to ddr Wesleyan friends, and as a consequence we expect to see the Opera House well filled to-night. The programme is an excellent one, comprising as it does a splendid musical list, besides some excellent oalisthenic performances.

Mr. J. Tennant, manager for J; W: Lloyd and Co, jewellers, lias secured those premises in Mawhera Quay, which are now occupied by the Massey-Harris Company. The firm intend to make the shop the most up-to-date in the town, and alterations will be commenced at once, so as to enable them to get in before ’Xmas.

There are now 263 police stations in the colony. In 1890 there wore 216. The strength of the constabulary is now 504, as against 403 in 1890. In the same time the population of the colony has increased from 664,855 to 816,290.

Despite the bad weather last evening there was a splendid muster at the Dorothy practice, the Black Swan Orchestra turning up in full force. A minuet caprice was danced by 24 performers, which shows that this gen'ration of Grcymouthites are still in the front ranks of the terosichordan art. A full practice of principles takes place tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at 3 o’clock, and of the dancers at 5 at Dorothy Hall.

At a meeting of the L’brary Committee held last night at the Town Hall, Mr Jay presided in the chair, and pivsmt, Messrs Kettle, Young, Jovce, Smith, Petrie, Harper, Cargill, and Stewart, hon. secretary. The question of improvements was eons'dered, and various subcommittees appointed to enquire into the matters and report at next meeting. The financial position is fairly satisfactory and it is hoped ere long to attact a much larger number of subscribers, the committee being determined to add to the book every month, while better accommodation will be provided fjr the general public. A graceful compliment was paid to the Secretary for his efficient work. Mr T. H. Lee, auctioneer, has been instructed to sell at the C j.’s office Ileefton, on Friday Ist November, the Eoefton United Gold Dredging Co.’s claim, situated near Boss, and ndj iuing the Kohinoor Co.’s claim. The claim is protected and rent paid till December, 1901. Full particulars may bo obtained from our advertising columns.

The teachers in the Duller district have decided to form a branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute and appointed the following pfficers :—President, Mr Neve ; Vice-Presidents, Messrs Griffen and McDonald ; Secretary, Mr Maloney ; Treasurer, Miss Jacobson ; Committee of Management, Missess Wright and Marris and Messrs Strachan, Rumbold, and Boswell, and officers of the Branch.

The estimate given by Mr Leslie Reynolds, C.E., for the proposed new harbor works at Opunake is £85,000. As the Bill now before Parliament only authorises the raising of £25,000, it has been decided to withdraw the Bill until the ratepayers have been asked to agree to the larger amount. To eradicate the influenza, make suitable provision for the entertainment of the Duke of York, decide the location of the new Town Hall, and induce whitebait to once more frequent our river is surely 'a record of benefits deserving well of the people of Greymouth. This (so the management assures us) is but a mere fraction of the good resulting from- the last season’s operations of the Garrick Club. The season closes on Wednesday night, with a final soul-stirring, heartret ivmg tri-weekly social, when the whole of Greymouth will attend the Opera House to lay in a stock of genuine pleasure, sufficient to carry them over that dismal season when Garrick Club socials arc not. The prices of admission (ladies 1/-, gentlemen 2/-) pemaiu as heretofore. According to a telegram, a Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen's Association, on similar lines to the southern Associations, has been formed in Auckland, with a membership of 220. One of the objects is the establishment of a Club Relief Fund. The club will be furnished forthwith, Mr J. O. Macky was elected the first president. The work of revising the rules and regulations of the New Zealand railway service has been entrusted to Messrs Burnett (Chief Inspecting Engineer), Jackson (locomotive Engineer for the HurunuiBluff section), and Buxton (Traffij Manager at Auckland). There has been no material rules aud regulations since 1881. The present growth of London’s population is 2500 a month, or over 80 day. Mr Greenway, of Rongotea, who purchased an estate in Queensland some months ago, has been offered £IO,OOO advance on his price. The-offer was declined.

The Wellington Trades Council has received a letter from the Minister of Defence (says the “Post”) informing it that all saddlery for military purposes will be obtained in the colony for the future, that no more saddlery will be imported free of duty, and that all boots, clothing, and small arms ammunition would be procured, as far as possible within the colony. The Minister stated that the circular mentioned in a communication from the Council some we- ks ago, and which had been issued by Major Loveday, requesting mounted eorps to order their saddlery from a certain firm in Birmingham (England), had been issued without his authority. The ground upon which tbe decision in the Patea election petition case was based does not (says the Munawatu “Evening Standard”) seem to lay mind sufficiently strong to upset an election, and it is an open question as to whether Williamson should bo allowed vote as Williams. If such is the case, at next election we will find Smithson voting for Smith, and Browning voting for Brown, and thus all sorts of complications will arise. Our opinion is that the Koturning Officer was quite justified in refusing the vote, and nearly every official in the colony would have done the same.

The Kaikoura whalers had varying fortunes last week (reports the Star.) They got fast to the largest whale seen there for about a quarter of a century. Jackson’s crew got fast to an •* express train ’’ monster—ono of the eight that was seen in the bay. ‘.Jim Norton very dexterously got two irons into the whale, and it was lanced twice without success. Then the monster made off, with the boat in tow, like a streak of lightning. In a trice he had the boat nearly gun’ale, and almost full of water, though leaping out of the sea occasionally, The boat was in imminent danger of being dragged down, when the whale sounded, and tho helmnsman was reluctantly compelled to cut the line. Norton jumped overboard, swimming to the pick up boat. Later in tbe day Jackson’s crew got fast to another whale, which they captured. It is estimated to produ'ce five tuns of oi! and I yield a fair quantity of good bo' C. I

Our Parliamentary correspondent wires us that the anti-Frisco mail people are now more hopeful and they claim a tie in consequence of a couple of waver ers and may possibly will the day. The Premier has to-day received a cable from the Agent-General stating both the submarine mining boats ordered by the New Zealand Government arrived safely at Malta on their outward trip.

It is aim 'st certain that the next rowing championship regatta Will be held in Wellington, says the "Post/' The Wanganui clubs are anxious that the races should take place in their district, but it is believed that the southern clubs will support the proposal to have the regatta in Wellington.

Some time ago the Cape papers reported Trooper Harry Ernest Whitaker,- eon of the late Sir Frederick Whitaker, as having been killed in a railway accident in South Africa, Now news has deen received that ho is safe with his regiment, the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles, in the Transvaal. The mail killed was another E. E. Whitaker.

Henry Spencer, an old man of 70, who died at Tarnagulla (Vic.) on September 27, from paraljsis, drew no less than JJIOOO in sick pay while a member of the local branch of the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows. He had been ill for 38 years. A shocking fatality occurred at Windsor (N.S.W.) on September 27. Mrs Manchee, the wife of the manager of the local branch of the Commercial Bank, 1 was reading in bed, when her clothes caught fire. Before aid came she was fatally injured, and she died soon after. Mr C, E, Nelson, just back from a trip to Europe, says that there are more Maori curios, weapons, carvings, etc., in the Berlin Ethnographical Museum and other museums in Germany than in the whole of the New Zealand museums put together.—Auckland Star. A remarkable discovery has just been made by an expedition despatched to Texas by the American Museum of Natural History. It consists of three skins of the three toed horse, protohippus, and parts of the lege, feet and backbone. The protohippus is believed by members of the expedition to be the immediate ancestor of the modern horse. Many years ago Darwin predicted that the horse of to-day, with one toe, was docended from an ancestor, with three toes, which in turn decended from one with five toes. The great naturalist also felt certain that in due cour.-e of time the geological remains of such animals would be discovered.

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 shill. Therefore be wise in time, eat only

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