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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 November 1901, Page 2

The Steen-Smith Ccncert Cimpany will appear in Brunner to-morrow night and Blackball on Tuesday. The monthly meeting of the Qrey Building Society will be held this evening at the Secretary’s office. The Grey River Consolidated dredge washed up this afternoon. The return will be about the same as last week. At their rooms to-morrow afternoon, Messrs J. W. Easson and Co. will sell by public auction groceries, produce, furniture, linoleums etc., to clear up consignments.

Applications are invited by the Old Diggings Gold Dredging for the position of dredgemaster. Particulars of duties salary etc, may be obtained from the secretary, T. Hubert Lee, Reef ton.

For the Buller Junction return, which is Boozs 15dwts for 120 hours, we are indebted to Mr Kingswell of Reefton. The dredge was greatly interfered with by flood in the Buller River, Mr J. Allen M.H.R. is inquiring whether the Government intend to take proceedings as recommended by clause 10 of the report of the Joint Mine Committee on the petition of Herbert E Easton of Dunedin. Those about to be married would do well to visit Messrs H. 0. Harley and Co’s auction mart to-morrow afternoon, when the auctioneers will sell (under instructions) a large quantity of household farnitue and effects, comprising bedsteads, bedding linoleum, gas stove, tables, pic tures, and a variety of goods without reserve,

Last night upon the arrival of the Christchurch mail, which hy the way, had been delayed in transit by flooded rivers, the Postal authorities had the letters and newspapers sorted in an almost incredibly short space of time. This enabled repliey to correspondence to be dispatched this morning.

The overdue coaches from Otira with passengers arrived at Christchurch yesterday afternoon, having left the Gorge at 5 30 a m, thus demonstrating that the trip from Greyraouth to Christchurch can be accomplished in one day. To-night at the Opera House \ full dress rehearsal of the Opera Dorothy will take place at 730 sharp. All mem bers are specially requested to attend, as the orchestra will be in attendance. As this is the last opportunity for a dress rehearsal, every effort should be made to make it a success. Entrance by stage door only.

A most unfortunate accident happened on Mr Mera’s farm Totara Elat yesterday to a young man named Charles Reid. It appears that he was driving a horse and cart, which bolted, and on going to stop the horse he stumbled, the wheel of the cart passing over his right leg, above the knee. He was at once attended to by Mr Campbell who set the leg, and was brought down to the hospital by Mr Mera this morning, where he is progressing as well as cm be expected.

To-morrow (Saturday evening) Messrs H, C. Harley and Co intend making a grand display of rattan and wicker furnit<re, including lounges, chairs, work baskets, settees, music stands of all designs, absolutely the best shipment of furniture of this description ever seen in Greymouth. Their fine spacious upstair showroom will be thrown open to public inspection from 7 to 9 p.m.

The Raratonga correspondent of the New Zealand Herald states that the Chili dollar is fast disappearing from the Cook Islands,and English coin taking its place ; but, strange to say, after struggling hard for English money, and having now got it, many of the produce makers prefer to receive the Chili coin in exchange for copra, etc. They have been so accustomed to the Chili coin that the English florins and shillings look too small for them. Such is the native of these islands.

It is not generally known that Captain Spinks has been at considerable pains to ascertain definitely the strength and direction of currents prevailing in the Tasman Sea. Almost every trip he makes ho casts into the sea a hermetically sealed bottle containing directions for the finder to fill up certain queries and to take the paper in the bottle to Mr Russell, Government Astronomer at Sydney, who invariably gets all available information from the finder. The information so obtained is carefully charted by Captain Spinks, and has proved of great value to him in his searches for disabled vessels.

The prisoner William Mackford, who escaped from the Hokitika gaol on Wednesday will be brought before the court at an early date by Mr Poynton, Governor of the gaol and charged with attempting to make good his escape from custody.

Nominations for the vacancy on the Westland County Council, vice Mr L. Northcroft, resigned, will close at noon on the Bth inst and tho election if contested, will take place on the 21st of this month. Messrs Grimmond and Allen of Boss are announced as candidates. For tho election of chairman in place of Mr Northcroft, a special meeting of the Westland Council will bo held on Friday, the Bth inst. at 1216. Messrs Baucko, Staines, and T. V. Bryne are mentioned as probable candidate s. The successful candidate, will hold office until the annual election about a month hence,

The Patea election will lake place on November 6th.

Mr Herries is objecting to the railway booklet time-table being so interlarded with advertisements.

One in every 30 persons over 30 years of age is blind. Ireland exports yearly 640,000 cattle and 641,000 sheep.

The average sheep weighing 1521 b gives 911 b of mutton.

Careful records kept in an Orkney lighthouse show 14,000 hours of storm in the past 20 years. Cairo is much the biggest town in Africa, with 490,000 people, of whom 25,000 are Europeans. The Mokau River is to be snagged so as to allow the new lino of steamers to work up to the mines. The ratepayers of Haveloekhavo authorised the Town Board to ra’se a loan of £I2OO for a water supply. Government surveyors are now engaged in surveying about 6000 acres of land at Tennyson Inlet, Pelorus Sounds, for landless Maoris.

Mr Wathcn threatens the Otago Daily Times with a libel action for its criticism of his work as a judge at the ’ Labour Day sports.

Greymouth property owners may be interested to learn that the fire escapes which Auckland people have been compelled to erect on the ! r buildings already are estimated to have cost £II,OOO.

Peru holds the record as a mining country. She has 2500 mines, for which 70,000 workmen dig gold, silver, sulphur, coal, phosphate, quicksilver, borax, copper, lead, and petroleum.

Fruit-growers in the Nelson district are much concerned at the depredations of small birds, and are urging the various County Councils and Road Boards to take systematic steps for the suppression of thp nuisance.

Mr Harry Cook, of Queenstown, who died a few days ago, was one of the first pe sons, if not the very first, to give the police a clue to Rennie’s guilt in connection with the great Dunstan gold robbery. The Mayor of Hawera has arranged loans from the Government for drainage connections and abattoirs, subject to conditions that the Health and Slaughtering Acts are compiled with.

As evidence of the extension of settlements in the Tadmor district attendant upon the opening of the Midland railway lands, the Nelson Colonist is Informed that there are over 40 bushfellers engaged upon land recently selected. A little boy named Perry, at Winton, was suffering from a cold, for which he was receiving a cough mixture, but unfortunately his mother gave him some ammonia, a powerful irritant, in mistake. The little fellow suffered severely till the arrival of a doctor.

A fairly large haul of jewellery was made by a burglar at Timaru either on Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, when the shop of Mr Bennet, secondhand dealer, was entered and 16 watches and 14 chains were stolen. The memorial tablet to bo erected to the memory of the late Queen Victoria, has arrived at Coromandel, and arrangements are being made in connection with the unveiling ceremony, which will probably take place on the King’s Birthday. A peculiar feature was noted in recent rainstorm at Tokarhi, North Otago. The rain circled round a portion of the district. Inside the circle hardly a drop of rain fell, while outside of it there was a good downpour. South of the Kakanui very little rain fell, and from Georgetown to Kurow the same unfortunate conditions prevailed. “ It is a difficult position I’m sometimes in,” said the Hon. J. M. Twomey in the Legislative Council recently, speaking on industrial conciliation. “If I vote for the Government lam called a blind supporter ; if if I go against them, then I am a ‘ hide-bound Tory.”

Mr Gdtedder wants to know when the Government will grant the promised bonus for tho first 100,000 gallons of shale oil, and if it will be paid to tho Orepuki Shale Company ? He also wants to know if the Government wil', in pursuance of a promise given last session when the tariff remission proposa’s were before the House, grant a bonus on kerosene and paraffin wax manufactured in the colony, so as to enable the Orepuki Shale Company to establish their extensive aad important industry ? The managing director of a manufacturing company in Melbourne employing a very large number of hands, in a letter says :— *• As for federation, if a vote were taken to-day, the idea would be sent into obscurity for ever; the cost of living here would go up 25 per cent; the cost to New South Wales you can imagine, seeing that they had practically a free list before. Will wages go up? Not a bit of it. I am completely cleansed of any taint of Protection I ever had. Queensland will go to the verge of a civil war over the Kanaka injustice; while Tasmania can squeak, and that is all.” Mr Brebner (stationmastcr at the Bluffy representing the officers, and Mr Nolan (signalman at Dunedin), representing the wages men, have been re-elected members of the South Island Eailvvay Appeal Board for a further term of three years. Judge Ward is to be asked to again take the position of Chairman of the Board.

A Wall street banker in close business relations with Mr Kochfeller, is authority for the statement that tho Standard Oil magnate has recently so increased his wealth as to be worth almost a thousand million dollars (£200,000,000). The approximate total of bis possessions is placed at 945,000,000 dollars, the income from which is more than a million dollars a week (£200,000), which come out at about £2O a minute.

The sale of five Chinese girls by auction in San Francisco reotntly in the presence of a great crowd, without interference! or remonstrance from anybody, shows how very far the Americans are from having ready achieved the civilsation which they boast so much abou*. The girls belonged to a wealthy merchant who had broken up his harem and was returning to China. They were openly sold as concubines and, after a keen competition, fetched an average price of £4OO each, their purchasers taking possession of them as if they had been so many cattle. Of course there is no law in the United States under which such a transaction could take place but law does not go for much in that country, and it may bo taken for granted that those whose duty it was to see the law respected were duly bribed to acquiesce in its violation.

Alarm Clocks, Ansonia Clock Company’s mandtaoture. Guaranteed thoroughly reliable timepieces. Sale price 5s each. Everything correspondingly cheap at Hobacb W. Lloyd’s Jewellery Establishment on Mawhera Quay. - Advt. Some of the highest living medical 1 , 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