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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 November 1901, Page 2

G. W. Moss advertises for sale on Monday next, a line of draught horses from Canterbury. See advertisement. In the list of acceptances for tomorrow's sportp, we inadvertantly omitted the name of Mr Harvey in the Half Mile Handicap. The FirsS Westland, Greymouth, Beefton and Brunner Bangers Biflas, are to be formed into No 2 Battalion of the Nelson Infantry. It is notified in the Gazette that, the Governor has appointed his son—Lord Northland of the Cjldstream Guards—to be his aide-de-camp. Mr John Dinan referred to in the report of the Magistrate's Court at Kuraara is in no way connected with the John Dinan the well known storekeeper of Greymouth. The first dredging returns of the week is a good one. Mr Kingswell, secretary to the Buller Junction Company, reports a return of 48 ouncos 16dwts for 120 hours.

The funeral of the late Mr John Cook took placo yesterday at Hokitika and was attended by a number of friends from Greyinouth and other parts. Owing to the death of Lieut-Colonel J. A. Bonar, the shooting match between the First Westland and Greymouth Rifles which was to have taken place to-morrow has been postponed.' Competitors at to-morrow's sports are reminded that they will not be admitted unless provided with a ticket, which can be obtained, free of cost, from the Secretary, MrH. Wickep, Richmond Quay, up to 10 a.m. to-morrow morning.

To-night a second performance of the Opera Dorothy will take place at the Opera House at 8 p.m. To-morrow eventhe overture will start at 7.45 p.m. sharp to enable the visitors to town to catch the 10.30 p.m. train. Holiday seekers please note. Messrs Cre:gh and Mulvihill, the leading boot importers of Brunnerton, will hold a clearing sale of their boots and shoes for two weeks commencing on Thursday, November 14th. The goods must he sold to make room for their summer stock, which is now arriving. Those in want of boots would do well to patronise this sale.

Our representative was yesterday shown around the premises of Messrs Creagh and Mulvihill the leading merchants of Brunner. In groceries the large stock, and leading brands were noticeable, whilst ironmongery, glassware, and paints were heavily stocked. As for boots in the Premier brand, very few retail firms in Now Zealand havo as large a stock. The bakehouse is replete with every convenience' and the goods turned out are highly spoken of. We were agreeably surprised to find such a large and varied stock of goods in any inland town on the Coast as is kept by the above firm. "A needle to an anchor" as the proverb goes, may be obtained from Creagh and Mulvihill.

A serious accident happened at Hokitika yesterday to Mr Dowell. It appears that he was standing in conversation with Mr Toorney at his store, the horse and cab beiog pulled up there, when the horse started to move off. Mr Dowe'.l at once ran to the horses head and seized the reins, and the horse beginning to go fastor he was unable to keep up with him and tripped and fell. The front wheel passed over him but the back wheel dragged him for some distance. Severe wounds were irfflicted on both sides of his head about the temples, some of his ribs being fractured besides. He bled profusely, and on being taken home Dr Macandrew was called in. The Doctor put some stitches in his face, and did everything possible for tho relief of tho sufferer. On enquiring last night, says the Times, the patient was a little easier, but in a very low state. Westport Harbor Endowment Bill passed all its stages yesterday morning. One clause gives power to the Board to expend £IOOO each year in prospecting for coal on its endowments."

A young man named Bobert Bobinson had his left leg fractured below the knee by a falling tree, while working in the bush at Birchfield near Westport yesterday morning. For the convenience of those attending the Greymouth sports to-morrow, the Railway Department has delayed the evening train to Otira until 7 25. We are pleased to see that all the principal firms in town are showing their loyalty to the King on his birthday by closing the whole day on Saturday and their establishments will be open to-night until nine o'clock. Our " up-to-date" Cash Draper is always in the lead with bargains and novelties for holiday wear. He has just received from London a case of ladies wide brim college straw sailor hats in the latest shapes ; at Christopher Smith's, the Loyal Draper, Clothier, and Boot Manufacturer.

The Parliamentary reporter of the Dunedin Star says that Mr Seddon, who has been an inveterate smoker for years, has entirely abandoned the weed. The Whvngape, which left Lyttelton for Calcutta on Wednesday afternoon, took 105 horses,

At the Westport Magistrate's Court, yesterday, before Mr Hawkins, S.M., George White, charged with wilfully and unlawfully making false statements with intent to obtain a larger pension than he was entitled to, was convicted and fined £5 and costs £l6 19s. William White, similarly charged, was convicted and fined £3 and 15s costs, and had his pension cancelled.

In Westland 17,000 acres have been reserved in the Otira survey district for a national park, and in the Minchin, Bealey, Davie, and Hawdon survey districts of Canterbury 150,000 acres havo been similarly reserved. Mr H. M. Stowell, who lias been on a northern tour collecting data for the Government book on Maori mythology, met, in the far North, Rawiri Taringa, a chief of the Aopouri tribe, who is supposed to be a centenarian. Another aged chief he came across was a connection of his own, old Pokai Tete, of Kaikohe, who was one of Heke's lieutenants in the Northern war of 1845.

According to returns published in the Gazette the imports into the colony for the September quarter were valued at £3,314,936, as against £2,934,979 for the corresponding quarter of last year. The exports were valued at £2,432.820, against £2,315,369. These figures show an increase of £379,957 in the imports and £117,451 in the exports.

At this season there is a great demand for articles required once only during the year such as Christmas cards, handbags, albums, photo frames, fancy goods gonerally, and the hundred and one articles needed to finish off a well appointed room. Urquhart's Novelties -Depos, Greymouth, has always been a favorite place for ladies requiring goads at this timo of the year, and at reasonable prices. The selection is larger than has ever been on view before. —Advt.

For ladies ties, fichus, collarettes, belts, ahd every description of ladies neck and body decoration, no drapery warehouse in Westlaud can approach the infinite variety and chaste styles of T. W. Tymons and Coy's latest importations. In the firms underskirt division, a tireless endeavour is made to obtain the very latest style of garments, hence the department has secured the complete confidence and popularity of the ladies of Westland. T. W. Tymons and Co's "huge purchases" and "colossal sales" are household words. In no other way of business could the firm afford to sell their goods at such low prices. The magnitude of their trade is the cause, secret, and corollary of their success.—Advt.

Mr J. Gofton, the Dresden Piano Company's tuner and representative, is now in Greymouth. Orders left with Messrs Easson and Co., the local agent, will be promptly attended to.—Advt.

To those who are about to furnish—We have just lauded an exceptionally fine lot of fleorclotha, linoleums and carpets from 18 inchos to 4 yards wide The patterns of these have been specially selected, and being imported direct from the manufacturer we can guarantee the prices to be absolutely the lowest.—W. McKay and Son. —Advt.

Alarm Clocks, Ansonia Clock Company's manufacture. Guaranteed thoroughly reliablo timepieces. Sale prico 5s each. Everything correspondingly cheap at Hoeace W. Lloyd's Jewellery Establishment on Mawhera Quay.-AnvT.

Some of the highest living medical authorities attribute the groat 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