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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 November 1901, Page 2

Gas consumers are reminded that no discount will be allowed on accounts left unpaid after Monday next. Tenders are invited in our advertising columns for the purchase of the Dilimanstown hotel, Kumara. Par.;cedars may bo obtained from Guinness and Xi chinghara. Nominations for the B'aokball athletic sports close with the secretary at Thomas’s Hotel on Thursday, November 14th. G. W. Moss and Co will sell at Ashton’s stables on Monday morning at .11 o’clock, draught and spring cart horses. The English cricketers, who arrived in Australia last week, play their first match at Adelaide to day. A large number of excursionists arrived in town this morning from Reefton and Hokitika. Everything points to the sports being most successful. Tire following tt logram was received this morning :—“ Captain Morice, Your Corps must meet s.s. Haupiri. Ready to proceed to Hokitika with body, have band also ready. Dress review. Orders. W. S. Littlejohn, Captain,” Owing to the difficulty of getting railway trucks the coal mines at Collre (VV. A.) have been shut down. According to an official statement the New South Wales Government has erected 1557 miles of rabbit-proof fencing, and private persons 22,159 miles.

In the report of the trustees of the Australian Museum for 1900 it is stated that the total number of visitors recorded during the year was 110,927. The importation of live and dead cattle from India into Queensland will bo prohibited for a period of two years as a precaution against rinderpest. The revenue in Western Australia fid’ the past year was £3,078,033, the highest on record. The deficit amounted to £74,839. The Queensland Legislative Assembly has carried a motion providing that the State allowance to the aged poor shall b s increased to 7s per week from January next if the finances permit. At Bendigo the other night J. R. Turner, butcher, had occasion to remonstrate with two young fellows, who were disfiguring the wall of his shop. The offenders set upon him and kicked him on the forehead, badly fracturing his frontal bone. Turner’s condition is serious. Mrs E. G. Blackmorq, wife of the Clerk of the Federal Senate, died at Prospect (3.A.) on the 7th instant, aged 53 years. She was the daughter of Archdeacon Farr, and one cf her sons, Mr George Blackmore, a member of the Bushmen’s Corps, is now in South Africa. The Ancaros, from New York, reached Hobson’s Bay late on the 9th instant. Her cargo includes 50,000 cases of kero-

sene, on which, owing to the operation of the Federal tariff, £3,000 would have been saved in Customs had tit 3 vessel reached Melbourne 48 hours earlier.

Tho early wheat crops of the Dar'ing Downs liavo rapidly, declined. Later C’ops arc dcvc’oping amid favorable conditions, and a record yield is expected this year, According to a statement prepared by tho Marino Board of Vicloria tho net pilotage receipts for tho year ended Ist December amounted to £31,041. Of this sum tho soa pilots rccived £28,720, and harbour pilots £0272.

It is estimatel that the total area under crops in New South Wales this .year is 2,303,517 acres, compared with 2,445,564 acres last year.

The Premier of Victoria states that the measure designed to assist prospecting parties in that State has boon a failure. Of the three colonies which ship butter to tbo mother country, Now Zealand was Dio only one last year which showed an increase as well as a steady growth in the past five years.

Ninety-one thousand horses have been shipped to Eouth Africa during tbo war. English-bred horses cost .£75 delivered in South Africa, Argentine only £'2s. According to the Wakefield correspondent of the Nelson Colonist, hop-growers arc busy, but with heavy hearts. Last year’s prices have hit hard, and some talk of selling out or grubbing up. The Wellington Hospital authorities, like John Gilpin’s wife, have commcndably frugal minds, says the Times.

Among recent reccpts on behalf of the hospital is a sum of £d 10s received from the sale of empty bottles. Growers of grain in Tasmania (says the Pastoralists’ Review) arc wondering how intercolonial freetrado will affect them, and tlie general opinion seems to bo that prices for cereals must fall, which points to a readjustment in the value of agricultural boilings.

An instance of extraordinary delay in the transmission of mail matter is given by the Auckland “ Herald.’’ A parcel addressed to Mr F. Young, Moeraki, on August 7th, 1896, failed to reach its destination. On October 23rd of this year Mr Yeung, who had since moved to Alexandra, received the parcel, after an interval of five years and two months, bearing the postmark of the 1896 date.

Mr Malcolm Fleming lias kindly consented to sing a sacred solo in Trinity Church to-morrow evening. The Sawmill Employees Union will meet this evening at the Commercial Hotel at half-past seven o’clock. Owing to several members of the Hospital .trustees Hoard being engaged in connection with the Opera, (lie meeting convened for last night had to be adjourned for a week.

The elect rical tramway expert, who has been selected in England for the Wellington City Council, is W. 11. Wright, at present in charge of the electrical works at Bootle, close to Liverpool. The salary has been fixed at £1,500 a year. He will arrive in the colony about’Christmas. My repeated prediction (wires our Parliamentary reporter), lobby reports notwithstanding, that there would not he two sessions next year and that Parliament would meet at the usual time, was eon tinned in (lie plainest terms in the House this morning by the Premier. Captain Pegler notifies in our advertising columns that members of flic Grey School Cadets arc requested to meet on the wharf to-morrow on the arrival of the Haupiri, in order to take part in the funeral of the late Licut-Coloncl Bonar. The Cadets proceed by special train to Hokitika.

The Levs. G. M . York and .11. Stewart returned to town yesterday. The former from attending Lie Synod at Nelson, and the latter from Dunedin, whither he had been to attend the session in connection with the union of the Presbyterian churches.

The remains of the late Hon. J. A. Bonar will arrive at Grcymouth tomorrow per Haupiri. Representatives of the local bodies, and the Volunteers will assemble on the wharf and, if possible, proceed to Hokitika to attend the funeral of one, who, although not a Greymonth citizen, was perhaps more of Greymonth than any other non-residents. Last night was a very fair illustration of how well (he late night would work on Fri lay instead of Saturday. The streets were crowded with the usual Saturday night’s purchasers and visitors, who evidently found Friday as convenient as Saturday so long as trains suited and shops held open. The Opera of Dorothy was produced for the second time to a large and appreciative audience at the Opera House last night. The performance went even better than on the first occasion, while the choruses were much better. To-night the Opera will be repeated for (lie last time, the curtain rising at a quarter to eight o’clock sharp so as to enable country visitors to attend and be able to get homo by the late trains.

A return laid on the table of the New S uth Wales Assembly shows that 21,063 miners ate contributing to the accident relief fund. Up to September 3 last they had contributed £13,990, while the owners had contributed £4255 and the Government £4078. The allowance paid to that date totalled £I3BB, 1808 families having been relieved.

The Customs Department of Fiji notify mariners that a pile lighthouse has been erected at the entrance of Suva Harbor, and will, from Ist November, replace the light-vessel to indicate the turning point f< r vessels proceeding to an anchorage old the town. The house is painted white and the piles black. It is situated on the extreme north end of the eastern reef, in 15ft of water; approximate latitude, 18deg Bmin 12sec S.; longitude, 178 deg 24min 35scc E. From this lighthouse will bo exhibited two white lights at a vertical distance apart of 7ft, the lower light being 23ft above high-water mark.

Cor ladies tics, fichus, collarettes, belts, ahcl every description of ladies neck and body decoration, no drapery warehouse in Westland 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 stylo of garments, hence the department has seemed the complete confidence and popularity of the ladies of Westland. T. W. Tymons and Go’s “huge purchases" and “colossal sales" arc 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 m Grcyinouth. Orders left with Messrs Easson and Co., the local agent, will be promptly attended to. — Advt.

To those who are about to furnish—Wo have just lauded an exceptionally fine lot of floorcloth?, linoleums and carpets from 18 inches to 4 yards "vide. The patterns of those 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.

Alum Clocks, Ansonia Clock Company’s manufacture. Guaranteed thoroughly reliable timepieces. Sale price 5a each. Every thing correspondingly cheap at Horace W. Lloyd’s Jewellery Establishment on Mawhera Quay. —Advt. Some of the highest living medicaauthorities 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 arc 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 bailie their curative skill. Therefore be wise in time, cat only K Jam and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guarantc cd —Advt.