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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 31 October 1901, Page 2

The Kohik jhi dredge in Central Buller near Murchison, obtained lOozs of gold for last week.

The Christchurch coaches with 47 passengers got away from Otira this morning at four o’clock. The passengers and mails should get into Christchurch to-night. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Dr M’Brearty, J. P., a first offender charged with drunkenness was convicted and fined 5/-, or in default 7 hours imprisonment with hard labour. On and after Monday Nov 4t'i the Monday and Thursday irain service to Moana will be altered. Trains now leaving Sreymouth for Moana at 220 p.m., and Moana for Greymouth at 5.10 p.m., will leave Greymouth at 3.20 p.m. and Moana at 6.10 p.m. Tenders are invited for the supply and delivery of timber required for the Kahurangi Point lighthouse towers and dwellings. For full particulars we refer our readers to advertisement in another column.

Mr Wylie, engineer, who is looking after the Caledonia Co’s dredge, inform* us that the tender of Messrs Hill and M'Kinnon has been accepted for the erection of tables. The work will be put in hand at once, and when completed the dredge will commence work, Mr J. E. Williams, the people’s tailor of Greymouth, Eeefton and Kumara has just received, and open for inspection, a large assortment of spring and summer goods. The range of patterns are without doubt the finest that have ever been shown, and in order to save disappointment customers are requested to place their orders early. That enterprising firm of drapers Messrs M’Kay and Sons have bought the premises now occupied by Messrs Easson and Go next to the National Bank Mawhera Quay, and will after having the building fitted up with all the latest improvements open there in the New Year with a large and new stock, which will be to hand for the occassion.

At the Druids meeting last evening there was a good attendance. Five now ; members were initiated, and three candidates proposed. The sum of one guinea was voted to a district member of the Gisborne Lodge. An invitation to the Brunner Lodge’s anniversary was accepted with applause. The Cricket Club announced they would commence practise in a day or two, and after a good deal of routine business had been disposed of the Lodge closed, A prisoner named William Mackford escaped from the Hokitika gaol yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. He was working at the back of the gaol with some other prisoners and managed to get away unseen by the warder. He was a long sen fenced prisoner, having been sentenced (according to the Times) in Dunedin to 16 years’imprisonment. As he would be entitled to a substantial remission of sentence for good behaviour his time was nearly up. The warders and the local police were out last night hunting for him and at midnight he was caught by Warden Brown on the Arahura road. The very prompt capture of the prisoner is highly credible to the gaol officials and the local police who laid their plans with judgement. Their smartness in securing such a character will relieve the minds of housekeepers who might bo anticipating a visit from him with more or less trepidation.

A Nelson fruit grower has found his apple trees stripped of blossoms, and attributes the damage to the swarms of goldfinches, green linnets, sparrows, and other small birds

Birds have been responsible for the stopping of the Christchurch town clock on several occasions, the pieces of string and other material used in building their nests inside the tower, having clogged and stopped the works. The appertures through which the birds effected an entrance have this week been filled up. One of the Nelson papers says the wrong idea seems to be current outside the town itself as to the question of the difficult navigation of the harbour entrance. It is not out only now, our contemporary states, that Nelson's Harbour Board has become anxious, for the fact is that the Board came into existence, and has continued to exist, wholly and solely because of the difficulty of navigation, and that virtually its future existence depends upon the removal of that difficulty. The development of the telephone system continues in a manner which shows that the service is appreciated. At the present time the Post and Telegraph Department has in hand the establishment of exchanges at Patca, Huntervillo, Dannevirke, Greytown and Westport,—N.Z. Times.

It will be rather a surprise to many people to learn that the value of the apple crop in the United States is greater than that of wheat production. That it is so the following calculation will show. I: is stated that the total yield of apples was 2,152,000,000 barrels.

That good coal has been found near Shannon (says the Manawatu Farmer) is beyond dispute, but nothing has yet been done to developo the field. We now hear that two brothers have found coal in four or five places up the Ohau River, and it looks as though the ranges to the east are coal-bearing right through, for good samples have been found at Dalefield and other plates in the Wairarapa.

Mr Atkinson, on the Cook Islands Bill —‘ I am not a Little Englander, but I certainly am a Little Few Zealander.” The Premier--“ You are in every sense of the term. The House believes it, and I believe the country believes r.” Mr Atkinson says that all the charming and sentimental qualities have been attributed by interviewers to the Premier save one—he has not yet been credited with “that dreamy far-off look” that an interviewer attributed to the Hon W. P. Reeves; but, no doubt, the ‘‘far away look” will come next. A member—“ How far?” Mr Atkinson—"As far as the Cook Islands -or Fiji.”

It costs nearly one half-penny apiece to print Bank of England notes. Of the passengers carried by _ British ships last year, only 116 lost their lives through shipwreck. 12 per cent of the British Army are sft lOins or over in height. The Italian has only 4 per cent. British trade reached its highest point in 1896, when it was 37 per cent of the trade of the whole world.

Spain had only one battleship lefc at the end of the recent war. She is now building six new war vessels. Brunswick is the only country whoso laws retain execution by axe. Spain is the only one that uses the garotte. A Masterton farmer recently made a good deal. He purchased a lino of ewes in lamb at 7s a head. He has just sold the lambs at 12s each, and the ewes remain.

A strang3 looking fish, about 10ft long was caught in the Hauraki Gulf a day or two ago by a local fisherman. In appearance it resembled across between a shark and a porpoise. The butter and condensed milk factory at Sentry Hill, Taranaki, has been purchased by Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, of St George Works, Dunedin. This makes the seventh factory which this firm is now running.

At a meeting of the executive of the Marlborough Land and Railway League, held recently, reference was made to the opening of the Awatere Bridge, and it was stated that from subscriptions coming in and in hand some £7O or £BO would probably be available for expenditure on the ceremony. While the extraordinary prosperity and increase of wealth in the New World is causing so much envious comment, there is another side to picture—the great increase of crime, which in New York causes the expenditure of more than £7,125,000 a year for the safeguarding the population. Alarm Clocks, Ansonia Clock Company’s manufacture. Guaranteed thoroughly reliable timepieces. Sale price 5s each. Everything correspondingly cheap at Hoeace W. Lloyd’s Jewellery Establishment on Mawhera Quay.— Advt. 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 skill. Therefore be wise in time, eat only

K Jam and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guaranteed—Adtt.