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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 October 1901, Page 2

Owing to the rise in the price of live stock the Blackball butchers have been compelled to raise the price of meat. A list of prices appears in our advertising columns. The remains of the late M'Gill was followed to the Ahaura cemetary by a large number of friends and acquaintances. A largo number going from Greyrnouth to show their respect to the deceased, and their sympatty for the bereaved relatives. We are pleased to be able to state that Miss Kenton is making very satisfactory progress towards recovery from the effects of her accident at Lake Mahinapua.

The funeral of the late Garrett Punch took place at Kumara on Saturday afternoon. The cortego left the residence of Mi Jae. Murtha at 230 p. m. for St Patrick's Church and from thence to the Kumara cemetary. A large number of friends were in attendance and the funeral obsequies were performed by the Eev Father O'Hallahan at the Church and grave.

A special meeting of the Greymouth Harbor Board will be held this evening to elect a secretary and deal with correspondence relativo to the departure of the Wainui the other morning a few hours before high water. Mr Napier Bell C.E. arrived yesterday to report upon the Greymouth water supply plans. He will likely be engaged for a week or ten days, when an estimate of the cost will bo forthcoming and tenders called for the work. Under ordinary circumstances the water supply should bo compacted in about eighteen months.

Mr Hillary, who is connected with the District Engineer's office of the Railway Department, has received word that he has been transferred to Christchurch, which means a well-deserved promotion. His place will be filled by Mr Angus, of Wellington, who is expected to arrive next week. Mr Hillary leaves for Christchurch in about a fortnight, and we take this opportunity of wishing him every success.

A grand soiree in aid of the Wesleyan Church, will be held in Kayo's Hall, Taykrville, to-morrow evening. The admission is 1/-

In the year book for 1901, Mr Yon Dadelszen keeps up his reputation in introducing new matter of interest. He states that there is a growing demand for the work, both in the colony and abroad. The number of copies printed has been considerably increased this year to meet this demand.

Up to the time of his accession to the throne King Edward was wont to sleep late, and his day rarely commenced before 10 o'clock. Since January, however, according to a writer in " Munsey's Magazine," ho has found it necessary to change his mode of life in this respect; and the Prince who, until recently, was looked upon as the greatest sybarite in Europe, is now at his desk by seven o'clock every working day.

Tiritiri with 71 degrees was the warmest place in the colony to-day ( Queenstown witli 51 being the coldest* There was a moderate sea all along the West Coast with good tides.

We remind all those who intend joining the Druids' Cricket Club that a meeting will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. Particulars read advertisement. By advertisement in another column it will be seen that a refreshment booth and tea and coffee stall, in connection with the Blackball Sports, is for sale.

Cadbury's cocoa, which is now almost a household word on the Coast, is meeting through their popular representative, Mr T. B. Thomson, with great success. Their confectionery is without doubt the finest that has ever been sold.

In the list of entries for the sports on the King's Birthday, the name of J. P. M'llroy was inadvertently left out in the following events: —Half-mile, 120 Yards Sheffield, One Mile Amateur, Half-mile Amateur, and 220 Yards' Handicap. A visit to the Poherua which recently touched a rock near Stephen Island and is now being repaired at the P atent Slip shows that the vessel evidently received a severe knock. One of the plates on the port was much damaged, and two others on the starboard side, amidships were also badly dented.

At a sale of 20 horses in Adelaide recently, at which there were about a dozen South African and Indian buyers there was an animated competition for hacks, remounts and gunners, and the prices recorded were the highest obtained in South Australia for many years. One draft of 50 horses from Oodnadatta averaged £l7 7s per head, and 32 from Warrina, which like Oodnadatta, is in the far north, averaged £22 17s 7d. The highest price realised was £45.

Some correspondence has ju3t been published, writes the Press London correspondent, which passed between the Merchant Service Guild and the Board of Trade upon the judgment of the Court of Inquiry at Oamaru, wh-ch investigated the circumstances of the loss of the British yacht Ariadne. It appeared that the certificate of the captain was suspended for three months, ar.d he was required to pay fifteen guineas towards the cost of the proceedings. After consideration of the whole of the circumstances, the Guild appealed to the Board of Trade to cancel the decision, and pointed out that the report was not issued in England until three months after it was given. The Board of Trade, replying to the Guild, state their inability to interfere with the decision of the Court, but have called the attention of the Marine Department, New Zealand, to tho delay which apparently occurred in forwarding the report to England. The Wellington Post states that the Angora goats which the Agricultural Department recently imported from South Australia are doing well on Somas Island, where they are undergoing quarantine Angora goats are already running wild in several parts of the colony, and are found to be particularly well suited to rough country. They are very fond of blackberry foliage, briers, etc., and settlers find them of use in preventing the spread of those pests. There is a considerable demand in New Zealand for the animals, but great difficulty is found in supplying it. The Turks have prohibited their export, an<2the Government of Cape Colony has placed a heavy export duty upon them. In addition to their value in keeping down blaokberry, briars, and other similar pests, the goats give a plentiful supply of rich milk; and from each one between 41b and 61b of mohair, worth from Is 4d to 2s per lb, can be cut every year. At the present time there are about 4,000,000 Angora goats in Cape Colony. Some of the highest living medica-, 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 skill. Therefore be wise in time, eat only K Jam

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