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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 November 1901, Page 2

There appears to be a misunderstanding in regard to the debentures now called for by the Groymouth Borough Council. Some arc under the impression that they only take, so far as security is concerned, the position of a second mortgage, the £40,000 coming first. This is an error, the debentures are secured by special rate, and stand on the same basis as the Cobden Bridge, or £40,000 loans. It is not anticipated that there will be any necessity for collecting the special rate, the ordinary income being quite sufficient for all purposes. The twelve months’ profit from the gas works was a very substantial one, and as the consumption is steadily increasing it is not improbable that the consumers will ere long receive the benefit in the shape of a reduction.

The usual meeting of the Greymouth Fire Brigade will be held in the Brigade Hall this evening. A special sale of store cattle, by Mark Sprot and Go, will take place at their yards Arahura on Wednesday next, _2oth November. The sale will commence at 12 noon. *

Mr Joseph Jay. who has been in Dunedin and Christchurch during the last month, returned overland on Saturday afternoon. He was accompanied by Mrs and Miss Jay. Mr Faithful has consented to exhibit his collossophone at the concert on Wednesday evening to raise funds for the purchase of an artifical limb for Mr James Earl. The instrument is, without doubt, the best that has ever been shown on the West Coast. Mr Hansen has made final arrangements with the Sheridan Dramatic Company for piloting them through the Coast during the Xmas holidays. They open in Westport on December' 20th, Reefton December 24th, Greymouth December 28th (five nights), Hokitika, January 3rd. Mr Eeminschnider’s many friends will regret to hear of the death of bis mother which took place at Wanganui on Saturday. The deceased lady who was well advanced in years, and had hot been in good health for a considerable time past. General sympathy is expressed with Mr Eeminschnider. William Henery was fined J9lO on Thursday last, with costs £2 14s Id, for alleged sly grog-selling at Waitaki South. It is reported that two French aeronauts have discovered a method of utilising wireless telegraphy for communicating with captive military balloons. During the hearing of the Sydenham case one of the butchers unblushingly stated that no man in the trade would be such a fool as to use prime meat in the making of “mysteries.” The Auckland Observer bears that death is still busy amongst the contingenters who returned by the Tagus and were taken to the Bluff at the coldest season of the year. The life of another well known young Aucklander is now despaired of. A Southland paper tells a yarn of a man who was driving a buggy along the Waipapa beach, when a big wave rolled in and capsized the trap, pinning the driver beneath. The next wave, however turned the vehicle over again, righting it with the man in his place. While a resident was riding at night in the vicinity of Eotorua he was attacked by some strange animal—supposed to have been a wild deer—and was unhorsed. He secured his horse again, and reached Rotorua in the early morning. On examination it was found that one of his ribs was fractured, and he also received some slight injuries, Wanganui’s municipal speculation in

Opera House property is turning out well. The building cost £5249. The first year resulted in a profit of £235 after paying all expenses, including £165 by way of interest on a loan of £4OOO. This year’s receipts, it is said, will quite equal last year’s. Palmerston North is thinking of going in for a municipal theatre on the same terms.

A Napier woman called up the grocer by telephone the other morning and, after she had sufficiently scolded the man, who responded, said: “Andwhat’s more, the next order you get from me will be the last I’ll ever give you.” “It probably will, madam,’ said the voice at the other end of the wire : “you are talking to an undertaker.”

As instancing the vicissitudes of fortune in the mining speculation, the Southland Daily News is informed that one Dunedin investor,who bad made from 610,000 to £12,000 in a few months in a dredging veniure on the Molyneux, has since lost all in other “ good things,” and is now in search of a billet. Others whose cheques for four figures would have been unhesitatingly honoured twelve months ago are now practically penniless. A Thames journalist, Mr Gaibraith, has invented a new system of shorthand writing, which he claims can be written faster and more legibly than Pitman’s. Re styles his method the “ Tonic Shrothand,” and declares that a year’s application by the student will make him a verbatum reporter.

A little girl of seven summers, named K. Quill, a pupil at St Joseph’s Convent, Oteki, passed the preparatory music examination of Trinity College, London. It is thought that this must establish a record for precocity in music. An exceptionally dry spring is being experienced in Auckland, and already the effect of it is being felt at the Western Springs waterworks. There is, however, every reason to hope that the new auxiliary sup} ly from Nihotupu will be available before the end of the summer.

Mr Webley, senr., (of Webley and Sons, Christchurch), pianoforte tuner, etc., is now in Greymouth, and will take the earliest opportunity of calling upon clients. Agents for the sale of Brinsmead and Sons, Lipp and Haaku pianos; also Mason and Hamlin organs. Address— Gilmer Hotel.— Advt. 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. To those who are about to furnish—We have just landed an exceptionally fine lot of floorcloths, linoleums and carpets from 18 inches 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 Bon.— Advt.

A billard marker named Donald MTntyre, residing in the King Country, was convicted at Te Awamutu last week on three charges of sly grog-slling, and was fined £45 and costs £l2 Bs, or in default seven ninths’ hard labour,

The trial of Kerry, Mumford, and Freke charged in connection with the wreck of the yacht Ariadne, was postponed yesterday until December 17. Tne Crown is waiting for further evidence from England, which will arrive about December 12. For ladies ties, fichus, collarettes, belts and 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 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.

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 adulteration. 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— Advt.