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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 November 1901, Page 2

The members of the Druids’ Lodge are elsewhere notified of a special meeting for this evening at eight o’clock.

The Cricket Club, in connection with the Druids’ Lodge, will meet this evening after Lodge closes, when some particular business will be transacted.

Mr Allison Mine Manager at Brunner will commence the removal of the piles and logs round the company’s bridge opposite the quarry on Thursday.

The bore hole in the Brunner mine is now down 460 feet in likely-looking coal formation. Several thin seams have been gone through. Mr Napier-Bell has completed his inspection and report upon the Qreymouth water works proposal. The detailed report will be before the Council on Thursday, and tenders will bo called before the end of the year. So far as can be ascertained there is likely to be plenty of money forthcoming for the Borough of Greymouth 5% loan. Quite a number of enquiries are being made as to conditions, etc.

The drainage works so far as all street drains are concerned, are completed. Of course the main line let by contract down High street is not yet finished, and a number of connections have yet to bo put in.

The English cricketers suffered a rather crushing defeat at Adelaide yesterday losing by 233 runs, the scores being South Australia 230 and 207 runs, Englishmen 118 and 86 runs. The next match will be played at Melbourne commencing on Friday.

As a result of the recent athletic gathering in Victoria Park, we hear of several matches pending, while a wrestling match between Mr Harper and a Reefcon resident is also being negotiated. Entries for the Qreymouth Jockey Club’s races close on Saturday. As the programme is a very liberal one a large entry is expected. We might remind owners that Roefion entries close same evening.

Yesterday the Blackball coal mine put up a record, sending to town 153 waggons of coal equally ovet 800 tons. This record with an aerial tram line like that between Ngahere and Blackball mine is remarkably good. A resident of Westport declares that there are a thousand seals at Cape Foulwind, that each seal consumes 2/- worth of fish per day, that they are destroying the fisheries in that locality, that they are not a profitable kind of seal, and should therefore be destroyed.

The ball in aid of the Ngahere Cricket. Club, which will be held in the schoolroom on Friday evening next promises to be a great success, judging by the interest the ladies are taking and the number of tickets that have been sold. Given a fine night the schoolroom should be crowded with visitors from all parts of the Valley.

The public are again warned that newspapers for United Kingdom should be fully prepaid at the rate of Id for the first tour ounces and for each additional two ounces or fraction thereof. If more than one newspaper ba enclosed each newspaper must bo prepaid if separate. Insufficiently prepaid newspapers for p'accs beyond the colony are charged double the deficiency of prepaid rates. The work of dismantling and packing up the Kaitangata Cotnpanj's boring plant at Dobson was commenced to-day. The machinery will be forwarded to Dunedin by first steamer. The new boring appliances from New York should arrive hare in about six weeks time, and will immediately thereafter be placed upon the site of the present bore and work resumed with all possible expedition, the Board being thoroughly determined to test Dobson Flat for coal.

To-night the Opera House should as is usually the case be packed to the doors, the annual Conversazione in connection with St John’s Presbyterian Church being the centre of attraction. These gatherings are always the event of the season, being attended by all denominations. The programme is an attractive one and this year equally as good as on former occasmns. In addition to the local talent Mrs Absalom, a favorite soloist of Eeefton, and Mr Fraser, clarionet soloist, will make their bow to a Greymouth audience. The ladies of the congregation are working like Trojans to eclipse all previous efforts. Tickets have been sold in all directions and we should advise those requiring seats to attend early. The orchestra will start punctually at 8 o’clock.

A man was recently before one of the metropolitan police magistrates on a charge of stealing a watch. It took him an hour’s thought to effect the capture, and then, to his intense disgust, the watch proved to he a Waterbury! The sense of his wrongs obscured all other feeling as he stood in the dock. “It s a blooming shame,” he said, '* to make me risk getting twelve months for a thing not worth three and sixpence. Hedidn t ought to have done it.” Twelve months’ hard, however, was duly awarded him.

Mr Peter Cran passed away yesterday at his residence Gibson’s Quay Hokitika. Deceased gentleman was one of Hokitika’s oldest residents and very highly respected for his many sterling qualities. He curried on a largo business in Revell Street for many years, but retired some time ago. Mr Gran was a gentleman of very high educational attainments. He w„s about 76 years of age at the time of his death. He leaves a wife and family of five sons and daughters. Dr Gran, Brunnerton, and Mr Cran, clerk in the Bank of New Zealand, are two of his sons.

The Garden Gully Gold Mining Company Limited, are' calling tenders for driving a low level tunnel on their property Paparoa Range. The Company have been in operation for some years, and have largely developed and proved the rich reef found at the commencement. There are two tunnels already driven, in both of which the reef has been struck and it is now their intention to drive another tunnel at a greater depth which will serve as a working base and enable operations to be continued for many years. As soon as the reef is met with, the erection of crushing machinery will bo commenced, and as the company have ample water power avai'able the future outlook for shareholders is very promising.

This month 57,000 tons of mud were removed by dredging at Lyttelton. In the past tea months 410’400 tons of mud have been dredged from the inner harbor. The return of the Virgin Flat Gold Mining Company (Ltd.) for the four weeks ending 31st October was 107 oz 14dwt of amalgam. The number of sluicing hours was 300.

Had it not been for the high prices which owners of oats in New Zealand have been holding out for, further War Office orders for South Africa might recently have been placed in this colony. The Old Ago Pension scheme has crea'ed a new profession in New South Wales, to wit the|carroborator, who, for a small consideration swears as to the length of residence in the country of any applicant desiring his services. Mr George Fisher has declared his intention of being a candidate for the Mayoralty of Wellington, next year. His chief plan will bo his opposition to the purchass of the Miramar estate, as a city reserve.

It is proposed in Launceston to establish wireless telegraph between Tasmania and Australia, with the object of competing with the cable company and catting down the rates. A lad named Charles Lane is lying in Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, with a revolver bullet in his head. It was fired by a playmate to show what he would do it a burglar entered the house. Wellington’s new cable tramway, from the city to the suburb of Karori, is expected to be in working order by Christmas. The construction of the line has materially increased the value of building sections in the vicinity. According to the New York Herald, Mr Carnegie told a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, who recently visited Skibo Castle, that he still had £56,000,000 sterling to give away in public benefaction. A contemporary says he might buy up New Zealand’s national debt.

A resident of the Poverty Bay district, whose native land is Russia, has received word that his brother who was coming out to join him, has been detained by the authorities in Sydney, as being unable to read or write English, he would not be allowed to land in New Zealand. The European representatives of the Filipino party, on hearing of the attempt on President McKinley, telegraphed expressing their detestation of the deed, and saying that a fatal termination would nowhere be more deplored than in the Philippines.

“ What I cannot understand,” said Mr T. Ngata, M.A., speaking at a meeting at Wellington on Tuesday night, “is this fad for building cathedrals in New Zealand. When I heard the everlasting cry about unfortunate clergymen starving in the country I fail to see the sense of building cathedrals.” Some fast steaming is lately credited to the Tavinui. She did the run up from Suva to Auckland in the record time of 3 days 23 hours, giving an average speed of over 12 knots per hour all the way through. From Auckland to Wellington she steamed the distance in 45£- hours, Itjseems strange that three vessels of the navy which were named after the snake tribe should have all gone down namely the torpedo cruiser Serpent which was lost with her officers and 169 men oft the Spanish coast in 1890, the Viper, which sank on the Alderney coast, and now the Cobra.

Great is the confidence which the French repose in their fleet, is on the army that the thoughts and affections of the people are fixed. Whatever may be their dissension in other spheres they are nearly all at one in their attachment to the army, and their pride in its strength and efficiency.—Standard.

Says the Marlborough Timeslt is not often that the honor of chairmanship is conferred on a man by means of physical force. Such an experience befel a member of some of our local bodies last week. Having declined the honour of election, and the gentle art of persuasion failing to move him, ho was seized by the other members, lifted off the floor, despite of his struggles, and, amidst great laughter, thrust into the chair. After that he acquitted himself creditably.

The Press of the Commonwealth—especially the Protectionist section—have commenced to “ squeak ” over the large contribution they are called on to make to the Federal revenue through the medium of the tariff. A moderate estimate of the amount that will go into the Fede'al Treasury on account of the duties on printing paper, printing ink and other materials used in the production of newspapers is £70,000 a year. The contributions of the Melbourne‘Age, with its weekly, the ‘Leader,’ should average £IC a week or more.

A painful incident occurred towards the close of the O’Reilly trial at Ballarat. When the police arrived at O’Reilly s hut at Invetmay, deceased’s sister, Julia, was wanted as a witness, was found to be missing. Search in the neighborhood was made, and the wretched girl was, after some time found standing waist deep in a creek. She was at once rescued, but was unable to state how she came to be there. The opinion is that the girl became distracted as a result of the terrib.e charge which hung for many weeks over the heads of her parents.

An M.H.R-, on the East coast was addressing an agricultural meeting, and in the course of his remarks expressed the opinion that farmers do not sufficiently vary their crops, and make a mistake in always sowing wheat. One of the audience opposed to him in politics asked him what crops ho would recommend. “Everything in turn,” ho replied, “Well said his interlocutor, ‘ if sweeds don’t come up, what then “Sow mustard,” said the “And if mustard don’t come up, what then ?" And so he went on through a whole list of crops, until, the M.H.R.’s patience being exhausted he put an end to his questioning amidst roars of laughter by saying: ‘ Oh, sow yourself, and I hope you won’t come up.” Deer recently liberated in the Fi zberbort district (Manawatu) are said to be in good condition, and growing very rapidly.

A comparison of Queensland and New Zealand railways shows the following average! —Miles open: New Zealand, 2vl7d; Queensland, 2,801. Train miles run: New Zealand, 4,620,971; Queensland, 5,788,112. Number of passengers carried: New Zealand, 6,243,593; Queensland, 4,760,559. Tonnage of goods carried ! New Zealand. 3,339,687 1 Queensland) 1,530,440.

A couple of Maoris left Manaia fbr Hawcra per coach a few days ago en route to Now Plymouth; having refused to pay the fines, etc., in connection with the recent dog registration cases. One of the wahincs begged her husband to pay the amount but ho refused, saying, with a grin, “No, I go get the holiday New Plymouth. One week, Kapai.”

A frank acknowledgement was made by an accused person in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington on Friday (says the, Post). In answer to the usual query as to whether he admitted the charge, one of theft, he blurted out: “ Well, to tell you the truth, your Worship, I was drunk at the time, and someone gave the things to me, or I stole them, Anyway [with a confident smile), I had ’em.’, “Three months 1” broke in his Worship, andfhe smile died away. Sir Joseph Ward was present for a little while at the last gathering of the Clyde Quay Liberals (W ellington), and in a brief speech urged the necessity of organisation in the forces of the Labour Party. Orities were, he said, of opinion that the present Government would be considerably weakened at the next general election, but granting that there was a feeling that disaffection was breeding inside the House and amongst the general public, he still urged that strong combination would ensure victory.

The Wellington “Evening Post” says; —Mr H. Sto well (Hare Hongi) native interpreter, who has been collecting Maori folk lore for the Government in the Far North for over two months, has lately returned to Wellington, having collected a number of sicred Karakia (incantations) and Waiata (dirges), including a complete ritual for divorce. Mr Stowell goes North again in November to visit the surviving kaumatua (old man) of the Urowe'ra and Whakatane people. Mr Michael Scobie, a well-known Hunter River (New South Wales) farmer, completed his ninety-ninth year a few days ago. He is in fairly good health, able to read without glasses, and to take an interest in local matters. He was born in Airfh, near Stirling, Scotland, in 1802, and came to the colony in 1839. He bad a family of six sons and five daughters, with fifty-nine grandchildren and sixty-five great-grandchildren. Of this number two sons, eleven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren are .dead. A fatal mining accident occurred at one of the Chillern Valley (Victoria) Gold Mining Company’s shafts. The victim was a carpenter, Andrew M’Millan, ‘who was engaged, in the absence of the regular pitman. A heavy crosspiece fell'from above and crushed him on the stage. Death was instantaneous. A clairvoyant ,while giving an exhibition in Chiltorn a few days previously, was asked a question by a member of the audience as to bow a big accident had occurred some time ago by which a man named Peel was killed. She described the affair in detail, and added that the dead man’s mate would be killed by an accident very shortly, M’Millan, as it happened, was Peel’s mate.

It is reported that there is a scarcity of half-sovereigns just at present, says the Westminster Budget. “We do not mean the individually felt scarcity which is always a subject of complaint, but a real scarcity in the number in the general circulation. If that is so, now is the time to test the value of Lord Bandolph Churchill’s theory of a direct relation between half-sovereigns and intemperance. He described it as ‘a wicked little coin,’ and declared when he was at the Exchequer that he was inclined to abolish it altogether, on the ground that it was a coin for which everyone wanted change as soon as they got it, and that workmen who received a half-sovereign amongst their wages turned first thing into a publichouse as the most convenient place for change, and often ended by spending it.”

Mr Webley, sear., pianoforte and organ tuner, etc., will be in Greymouth on or about the 14th inst. Orders may be left at the Gilmer Hotel — 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.

Alarm Clocks, Ansonia Clock Company’s manufacture. Guaranteed thoroughly reliable timepieces. Sale price 5s each. Everything correspondingly cheap at Horace W. Lloyd's Tew llery Establishment on Mawhera Quay. Advt.

To those who are about to furnish—Wo have just landed an exceptionally fine lot of linoleums and carpets from 18 inches to 4 yards wid<\ 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.

For ladies ties, fichus, collarettes, belts ahd 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 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. ,

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 than 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, oat only

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