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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 October 1901, Page 2

The postage to Samoa is for the present 2.',d per half oouneo instead of Id a 3 previously .announced. A very heavy sea on the Grey bar blocked all shipping to-day and it is doubtful whether any movements will take place within the next twelve hours. At a meeting of the Grey District Charitable Aid Board, held at the County Council Chambers yesterday, a large quantity of business of an informal charade; - was dealt with.

A large number of local "sports" left Groymouth-by the Otira train this morning for the City of Iho Plains in order to be present at the annual Carnival jveek.

Many friendi and acquaintances of the late Thomas Magill left by the Eeefton train this morning to pay their last respects to deceased who was a general friend and favourite.

Mr Russell Mayor of Brunner has received a wire from Mr A. E. Guinness M.H.R. stating that he had got the sum of £1,870 placed on the estimates for repairs to the Taylorvjlle-Wallsond footbridge,

Entries close to-morrow night at 9 o'clock at the Albion Hotel, for the sports to held on the Kings Birthday. The first statutory general meeting of shareholders in the Jamieson's Reward Gold Dregding Company was held at tho Albion Hotel last evening, There Was a good attendance of members, and Mr E. \V. Kitchingham was voted the chair. The business of the meeting was to elect the directors and audi ;ors of the company. For the directors Messrs Jay, McKay, Ring, Kitchingham and Gicseking; Messrs F. H. Kilgour- and T. W. Ponsonby were elected auditors. Messrs Levin and Co, of "Wellington have bought out the Jinn of Scknucrs and Co, of Nelson and Wanganui, the oldest established firm in the colony. They take possession on the Ist April. Mr Fred Edwards, their representative, is now in Greyraouth. There was a rough sea on the West Coast of the colony to-day, while on tlio East Coast the sea was smooth. • Gisbornc with 07 degrees was the warmest place in the colony; Balclutha w.th 47 the coldest. Greymouth had a temperature of 56 degrees. Messrs H. C. Harley and Co. advertise for sale in this issue, a newly built 5 roomed dwelling at Ahaura, the property of Mr Arthur Brooks. As the property is to be sold at a low fiure, it offers a good opportunity for Ahaura residents or speculators to secure a comfortable home. Full particulars may be obtained from Messrs H. C. Harley and Co. the agents. The following letter was received by His Worship the Mayor rrom the Secretary of the Indian Famine ltelioE Fund:—" Sill,—The labours of the Central Executive Committee of the Indian Famine Charitable Relief Fund hare now practically determined and the Fund has been closed. lam desired to express on their behalf, as I do most cordially on my own, our dee]) sense of gratitude for the invaluable assfstancce which you, and the immediate subscribers to your Fund, have rendered by your most charitable efforts on behalf of the Famine-stricken people of India, who have borne there troubles with the most fortitude, and a quite remarkable patience. lam satisfied they will ever gratefully remember the benevolent generosity which has been so unsparingly displayed toward's them. Your subscribers may rest assured that their charity has mitigated a vast amount of suffering, and alleviated much dire and distress. I have much pleasure in sending you a copy of the Central Committee's Report, and again tendering you our most hearty thanks."

A man, 35 years of age, win had cycled against a head wind from llangiora to Amberley, died tlie same night as the result of over-exertion.

Major-General Babington, the new Commander of the New Zealand Forces, was the first officer to get into the Boer territory at the early stage of the war. Schnapper and red gurnard were the chief varieties of fish caught in the recent trawling experiments of the Doto on the New Zealand coast. The common flounder, fjohndory, the dogfish, and lemon sole were next in order. Twenty sharks and a number of octopi were captured in the nets at various stations.

Captain Fulton, who went to Africa with the Fourth Contingent, is back again in India, where he received promotion soon after he arrived (says our Dunedin correspondent), lie is now adjutant of his regiment, which has been ordered to the frontier.

Miniature Bibles are worn as watch charms in Russia. They aro each one inch long, throe-fourths of an inch thick, and contain the first live books of the Old Testament. Tho text is in Hebrew, and can be read with the aid of a magnifying glass.

A well-known dector advises tho adoption of a hard bed, and that children should bo trained from tho beginning to sleep upon no other kind. It is certainly true that as a rule a hard bed conduces to the most refreshing kind of sleep, tho feather bed, so deafly loved by our grandmothers, being enervating in the extreme.

Two men named Hutchinpon and Graham, who were awaiting trial at Adelaide on a charge of being unlawfully on certain premises, escaped from the Adelaide gaol. They throttled a warder, locked him in a cell, and were sealing the outer wall of the gaol when an alarm was given. Hutchinson, who had assisted Graham up on the wall, was at once captured, but Graham, after threatening to brain a warder with a brick from tho lop of tlio wall, succeeded in getting off. Ha swam the Torr;n3 below the weir, where it h in full flood, and got clear away.

The disuse of alcohol in the German army and navy is being advocated. Statistics show that in 120 army prisons throughout Germany ItJ per cent of all the murders were committed while under the influence of drink ; 73 per cent of the cases of manslaughter, 74 per cent of serious injury to the person, and 77 per cent of other crimps are said to he due to the same cause. In the navy 75 per cent of tho most serious cases are duo io drunkenness. Mr Wm. Espie, the popular representative for Turnbull and Co, of Wellington, is about to sever his connection with that firm, having taken up a better position with the firm of Hardy and Son, wine merchants of Adelaide. .He will take over the Tasmanian and New agencies and takes up his new position next month. We take this opportunity, along with his numerous friends on the Coast, of wishing him every success. A large gathering of tho clan took place

last evening at Miss Dorothy Bantam's reception. The only event which marred the evening happened after tho guests had retired, when the house was entered and robbed. Sad to relate his Gracs, the Duke of Berkshire, being tho loser. The robbers were evidently disturbed in their work and made off without finishing. The Police, howi.ver, are on their track and hope, ere long, to secure their men. William Hawthorn, who stuck up the Barapoort Motel (Victoria) last .September is the author of another mild sensation. A month ago lie stole some guns, and the other clay a posse of police were sent to effect his arrest, but though shots were fired at him, he made his escape into the malice bush, where detection was impossible. A horrible discovery was made when his hut was searchod. Stretched out on the boards, with their paws nailed down, were three live rabbits in a grotesque representation of a crucifix. No clue to the whereabouts of the man has yet been discovered.

In a paper read at Christehurcb, Mr C. Colcridgo Farr (says the Lyttelton times} stated that Gauss ono of the most profound mathomaticans tho world has known placed the South Magnetic Polo far north of the centre of tho Antarctic Circle and east of Victoria Land. Ross followed, and hi 3 observations erfabled him to assign the Polo a position some distance south of that given by the calculations of Gauss. Tho result or Borchgrevink's observations in 1899 shows that since tho

time of Ros 3 the Polo ha 3 been moving in a north-westerly direction, and that explorer has fixed a third spot for the Pole. The result of Mr Parr's observations in New Zealand, draws from an entirely different direction, have Isd him to confirm Borchgrevink's opinion, and he also is of opinion that tho Pole is moving in a northerly direction, towards New Zealand. Geologists tell us that, away down in the Older Pliocene period, a good many millions of years ago, New Zealand had a glacial period of its own. Ic is possible that another one is approaching ?

According to the Government Poultry Expert nearly 2000 head of poultry per monta have been shipped to South Africa for months past to the satisfaction of the consumer. The price of poultry in this colony has, as a consequrnce, gone up.

Some of the highest living medical .authorities attribute tho 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 guaranteed—Advt.