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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 October 1901, Page 2

The Grey Consolidated Company report a return of sozs 3dwts for 50 hours. The dredge was blocked all the week with large stones, but is now clear of them.

A large number of Chinese arrved in town to-day to celebrate one ot the festivals of the race. For some days the town will be redolent with the odour of opium and noisy with the din of crackers. The Treasurer of the Harbor Board has received £ll6 from the Brunner mine for 3d royalty imposed, and which the Board at its last meeting had instructed its solicitor to sue for if not paid forthwith.

Special Services are to be held in Holy Trinity Church to-morrow, it being the occasion of the annual free will offering. Last year no loss a sum than one hundred pounds was the result of the appeal, and the Church Wardens arc hopeful ot a like happy result this year. It will be observed that Mr Guinness’s name does not appear in the divrsion list on the ’Friso mail service. This is explained by the fact that he has been acting Speaker for some weeks past, and owing to the long hours Parliament has been sitting had retired for necessary rest and sleep. A fine mob of store cattle, 64 in all, from Totara Flat passed through town to-day on their way to Hokitika They form part ot the lot sold by Messrs Moss and Co’s at their last Totara Flat sales, and were purchased by Mrievrs piedrichs and Cairnback of South Westland. The mine manager of the Big River reports ;—Since last report we have been timbering the intermediate level and expect to complete same about the end of the present week. Discontinued the face in No 6 level and afaricJ to cr >.-s-cut 25 feet back from the face, where the country looks better. When the Payment of Merabors Bill is in committee Me Laurenson intends to propose a clause deferring the bringing into operation ot the measure till a ter next general eleclioh. As the voting on the second reading is known to give only a small majority for Government, the opponents to the Bill will b’oek at every stage with the hope of imperilling its passage. The following telegram was received from the Premier by the Harbor Board this forenoon relative to a Stale Coal Mine in the district:—"Your telegram conveying resolutions of Board respecting Greymouth-Point / Elizabeth Coil Company’s properly for fh» purpose of State Coal Mine received, and I have forwarded same to the bon. Minister of Mines.” There is an utter absence of any opinion thereon, but wo have good for believing that the property will be taken over as suggested. The King’s Birthday Sports promise to be a great success In this issue will be found an advertisement of the events. As an instance of interest taken by townsmen, we may mention that Messrs Arnett and Seabrook are giving in addition to the Committee’s prize for wood-chopping, an axe of the best quality. As there is little of interest in the district on the 9th November, the Sports should be well patronised. Nominations are being received for several events. Communications to the secretary will be promptly attended to. Colonel Estill, head of tho Salvation Army in Now Zealand, is at present touring the West Coast in the interests of tho Self Denial Fund of that organisation. Every one knows what are the objects of this fund, which now has become so popular that it is liberally contributed to by people of all creeds and denominations, who are at all anxious to alleviate the suffering and distress of a certain portion of fallen humanity. The Colonel is accompanied by his son and Adjutant Ward. This evening in Boundary Street, the Colonel will conduct a large open air demonstration, also special services tomorrow (Sunday) at 6.30 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m. 715 p.m., in the Town Hall. At which a large audience is expected. The breastplate submitted to tho German War Office by Herr Jan Sczepanic to the Kaiser is bullet and dagger proof, and of an entirely novel type. It is made of steel wire and silk. The plate has been tested at one of the German arsenals, and was found to be quite proof against a Mannlicher bullet. The St. Petersburg ‘ Official Messenger ’ announces thai pensions available for the families of the beneficiary after his death will henceforth be granted to all workmen in State employ. For tho present the measure is only promulgated as a provisional ukase, but it is to bo embodied ainjmg tho permanet laws of the Russian Empire. The newspapers hail ihe reform as ono which all private capitalists employing labor on a largo scale will be compelled to adopt. A horrible incident happened during a fire in Tihany, in Hungary. The tiro broke out in the house of a farmer, whoso four-year-old boy had played with matches. When the flames spread to a

neighboring farmer’s house this man’s wife - was seized with such fils of anger that she caught up the little child who had caused the fire just after the roof bad fallen in. All the women around rushed up to her, and would have lynched her, but she fled into a house that was not yet on fire, seized a large knife, and when the little victim’s mother came to her she stabbled her through the heart. It took a number of gendarmes to arrest the maddened woman.

A negro named. Joe Washington was burned at the stake on August 10 near Savannah (Georgia) for assulting a white woman. Many negroes were among the lynchers and the victim was positively identified as the assailant. The husbind of the assaulted woman applied the torch. An ex-policeman at Birmingham named Coleman has been robbed of £740 in gold. The money which was the savings of many years of industry and frugality, was kept in a box in tho owner’s bedroom. At the time of tho robbery Coleman was absent from home, Theie is no evidence as to how access was obtained to the hoard, Coleman contemplated investing the money, and had latterly mentioned tho matter to several acquaintances.

1 The Auditor-General should be placed i in an independent position, and any appeal from his interpretation of the law should be primarily submitted to Parliament.—Ashbton Guardian. A man named Alexander Anderson met with a shocking death at Broken Hill on September 25. He was engaged in feeding tho vanners at a concentration mill at the Proprietary Company’s works, when he was by some means caught in tho shafting, and was hurled round at a fast rate. Before assistance arrived his brains were beaten out, and his body was horribly mangled. “If there were no gambling and drinking the judges could have a long holiday,’’ remarked Mr Jusiice Conoliy at New Plymouth a few days ago.—Nows. The man Freke, who has bean arrested in Sydney in connection with tho loss of tho jaoht Ariadne was midshipman on tho vessel. It will bo remembered that while in Oamaru ho was said to have received a cable from London announcing that he had been left a legacy of £70,0C0 by ap aunt,

At a committee meeting of the Borough Council last night nine members being present, it was, after much discussion, unanimously agreed to adhear to the Council’s resolutions relative to Fire Inspectors. It was further agreed that the present condition of having but one person acquainted with the engine in the service was not sufficient, especially as the engineer was working on the Cobden works during the day and could not Da in attendance in good time in case of fire, and it was resolved to offer Mr Latimer £3O per annum and Mr Crams £23 as his deputy. We have again to express regret at the death of another well known citizen in the person of John Eobinson, who yesterday fell a victim to that fell disease cancer. The deceased who was 49 years of age, was for a considerable time emploped on the tug Westland, and was one of the best members of the Wharf Laborers Union. He was one of those joyous kind-hearted men ever ready to assist Lis heighbor in time of need. He leaves a wife and child to mourn the loss of the bread-winner. His funeral takes place this afternoon. The little native village of Mohaka, near Wairou, affords an apt illustration of the good effects of training the Maori mind to belief in the efficiency of clean and healthy homes. The village has an excellent sanitary system, is kept sweet and clean, and in place of old and tum-ble-down whares there are nearly a score of well-built, nicely kept houses, constructed after the European style, and with most of the comforts and conveniences of a modern home.

The following was told me the other day as a true story (writes Mr Labouchere in the London Truth). During one of the hottest of the recent spells of hot weather, a well-known baronet came across three workmen engaged on a job on his estate. One of them remarked, as workmen not unfrequently do, on the dryness of the job. The heat had perhaps extended itself to the baronet’s temper; at any rate he turned away with the reply, “if you are thirsty, you know where the well is. You will find a pail there.” Thinking over his remark a little later, it flashed across the baronet.’s mind that he had given orders for three bottles of champagne to he put into the. pail and lowered into the well to cool for dinner. Ho hastened to the well, and discovered — three empty bottles! What he said this time is not reported.

It is recorded of a recent visitor to the Hot Lakes district, a Lady So-and-so, that, arriving at night, she paid a visit to the Sanatorium after dinner, and after seeing the boiling springs and bubblingcauldrons in full play under electric light, and no doubt getting a whiff of the sulphurous fumes into the bargain, the (.ouris-; hurried away and offered the local stationmastcr £SO to put on a speciaj train to speed her out of those inferna 1 regions. Failing in her mission, the lady spent a night of fasting, watchfulness, and prayer, and took her thankful departure to Auckland by the first train on the following morning. Sir Joseph Ward says that the Tourist Department will inquire as to the possibilities of the Waitomo caves in the King Country, from a sightseer’s point of view. The’New South Wales Ministry proposes to ask the Parliament to fix a salary attached to the position of Governor of New South Wales at £SOOO per annum. A. peculiar fish has made its appearance in Bay of Plenty waters, and is perplexing the authorities on matters fishy. It is of brilliant hue, and unlike any other known denizen of the deep. Whatever may be the case in the House of Commons, the pro-Boer party in the country is quite contemptible.—‘Globe.’ The skeleton of a diprotodon, discovered by Professor Stirling at Adelaide, has bean erected in the geology gallery of the British Museum.

A rtalistic though somewhat gruesome exhibition was given at Waihi last week (says the Auckland Star’s by Mr Felix Tanner, of fasting fame, consisting of a lifelike representation of the last scene in a murderer’s career—the gallows scene.' After all the usual formalities had been gone through the noose was adjusted, and Mr Tanner was dropped 7£t Gin in a manner which could hardly bo recognised as merely a clever demonstration. The knot used was an ordinary hangman’s knot. For every 110 civilians 380 soldiers commit suicide.

Bengal has 49,664 widows who arc under ten years of age. It costs the average vessel £B6O to pass through the Suez Canal. Portland is Britain’s largest gaol. It holds 2000 convicts.

Water to cover one acre lin deep will weigh 101 tons. Britain’s 29,000 civil servants have an average salary of £l3O apiece. One settler who has just finished ploughing 70 acres on the Hatuma estate has declared that ho never put a plough into better land.

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 arc 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 guaranteed—-Advt.