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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 November 1901, Page 2

We draw our readers attention to Mark Sprot and Go’s advertisement, which appears in another column. They have freehold and leasehold land for sale, also a first class hotel.

By announcement in another column, it will be seen that two services will be held at the Catholic Church to morrow morning, the first at 8 a.m. and the second at 10 a.m.

Crepe and tissue papers, splashers, fire screens, dyed grasses in handsome bunches, new at Uequhart’s, Novelties Depot, Greymouth.— Advt.

The Brunner Eifles have during the present week been camping out in Ream's paddock, Taylorville, and judging by the experience gained during the late inclement weather they will understand the meaning of roughing it. Mr Charles Newton has purchased the business of Mr Baker, boot importer of Caylorville, and takes possession on the first of the month. As Mr Newton is an old and popular resident of Brunner, we feel sure he will do well in his new venture. The residents of Brunnerton are invited to inspect my new stock of clocks, cruets, albums, photo frames, Xmas and Now Year cards, razors. S.M, pipes, tea seta, vases, lamps, ruby comports, baskets, brooches, glasses, purses, etc, all new goods—Ward, Taylorville.— Advt. Owing to the great success of P. Stephens and Go’s sale of drapery, etc., the management have decided to remain open for one day longer, when they will sell on Monday afternoon at 1.30. 10 cases of new goods which have just arrived. The goods are now on view at Eissenhards’s sample rooms, and will be sold without the slightest reserve. An attractive display of articles suitable for Christmas and wedding presents, in solid silver and plated goeds of every conceivable design, and at prices from two siblings to twelve guineas is being made at Gilbert Bros, jewellery establishment in Tainui street. The firm’s now advertisement will appear over our leader in Monday’s issue. Mr Guinness, who has been at Rotorua Springs recruiting, his health after the severe strain he had to undergo in Parliament, returned to Wellington yesterday, and will leave the Empire City for Greymouth. He will arrive here on Friday. Mrs Hickson’s many Greymouth friends will be placed to learn that she has received the appointment of Matron to the Wellington Home College, which duties she will take up on the 20th of January next. While wishing Mrs Hickson success in her new sphere her friends will regret her departure from Greymouth, where she was ever wont to give her aid —and at times most valuable—in assisting any deserving object. Mrs Hickson will leave Greymouth about the middle of January to take up her new position. The Druids are to be congratulated upon the financial success attained over the concert organised for the benefit of Mr Earl. After paying all expenses there remains a balance of £4,2, which will prove of very material assistance to the victim of the laie accident. We understand that a good action is considered to

lie against the Government in connection with the occurrence, and unless a settlement is arrived at proceedings are likely to be taken.

Mr Reid, a veterinary surgeon attached to the Stock Department arrived on the West Coast yesterday with Inspector Empson, in carrying out the work of the Department. Mr Reid will bo employed principally with regard to the inspection of stock and slaughter houses, and he is likely to mike an extended sojourn on the coast with the object of putting this work on a satisfactory basis.

It is said that in New South Wales there are over 2000 persons desirous of attending the technical education classes but unable to do so far want of accommodation. The Minister has been enquiring into the matter, and finds that men of 50 years of age and over, who must long have accepted their trade or occupation, were receiving instruction, while youths with their career before them were shut out. It it proposed to alter this.

Sydney building byelaws appear to be in a chaotic state. Many houses which the Municipal Council had condemned are still existing and inhabited, because the local governing body has no power to pull them down. At present owners of dilapidated premises can defy the authorities. The signboard nuisance is also becoming serious in the city, but the Council is also powerless to take action here.

A. Sydney M.L.&. has come forth with a novel doctrine in regard to women’s rights. Lecturing before the Sydney Women’s Progressive Association be spoke in defence of man labour and women’s rights and claims that woman must be regarded as a non-toiler, for whom the State must make provision. The Old Age Pension Act made provision for the aged and infirm, why should they not accord her a right toaJState payment from (say) 12 years of age, so long as she remained single ? The usual dullness of the proceedings at the Police Court in Sydney were relieved the other day by an assault case arising out of a brawl at a meeting of Chinese merchants to consider the new tariff. The honorary secretary of the association which held the meeting was walking about restlessly with a heavy stick, and in the middle of the proceedings began to belabour one of the speakers. In his evidence it transpired that one merchant suggested that as the tariff came so high they had better pass the entries for a little less.

Among other improvements to hotel property we notice that Mr Mahoney has erected a handsome balcony to his property in the Upper Mawhere Quay. The whole is lighted up with a magnificent incandescent lamp, and gives the Trafalgar a fine appearance. Mr Mahoney is thoroughly up-to-date in every detail. With 71 degrees each Tiritiri and Gisbourne were the warmest place in the Colony to-day while Invercargill with 50 was the coldest. The sea was moderate on the West Coast while on the .East it was smooth.

We learn, with a good deal of surprise, that the newly-appointed Sergeant-Major Miller has received instructions to make Hokitika his headquarters. Why so is not explained, unless, indeed political considerations rather than convenience and efficiency has been studied. The batallion consists of Eeefton and Brunner on the one side and Hokitika and Kumara on the other, with Kumara more convenient to Grej-mouth. For efficient working of the volunteers, Greymouth is beyond all dispute the central and better position. Hokitika being at the extreme end of the district.

The late returns from the South give Mr Grimmond a total majority of 32 over Mr Allen for the seat in the Westland County Council. The Gillespies and several other returns are yet to come in, but it seems likely that Mr Grimmond will be returned to represent the Southern Biding in the County Council.

Word was received in Hokitika last night that the residence of Mr J. OT)onncl, miner at Back Creek, was burnt down about ten o’clock. The family were absent at the time, no one being in the place, and when they returned the house and contents were burned to the ground. It is claimed by Cardinal Moran that of ’IOOO supposed incurable patients treated at St. Vincent’s Hospice for the dying, Sydney, 440 had been discharged as cured.

The Mayor o£ Sydney, Mr John Graham, himself a medical man, has threatened to prosecute all doctors who fail to report infectious cases to the Board of Health,

A coal mining company in Newcastle, N.S.W., has been granted permission to mine under some of the city streets. And soon the Newcastle Bowling Club’s green will have a coalmine beneath it. In connection with the agitation for the abolition of the Kanaka in Australia, it is stated that of seven homicides recently executed in Queensland, six were coloured men, There is a vigorous protest in South Australia against the proposal to pay the Federal Commandant £3OOO a year. It is generally thought that as Canada can get as good a man for half the money Australia should do the same. A West Australian chemist has been fined for treating the eyes of a customer with a lotion on the ground that this was a surgical act. “If defendant had dropped water into the eyes that would be a surgical act,” declared one doctor in the witness-box. The treatment of consumptives must (according to a leading Sydney paper) bo dealt with as a national problem. The Commonwealth, if true to itself, must undertake the campaign against the most deadly enemy of the Australian race, which yearly sends 5000 victims to the grave, yearly keeps 25,000 citizens as prisoners of disease. It is stated that the late owner of the Forest Gate Estate, purchased by the Government for close settlement, has purchased the Tautano station on the east coast. The price is said to have been £5 10s per acre. Mr May, who saved the mails from the steamer Tasmania, wrecked oft the Mahia, for the New Zealand Government, has, with other divers, gone to the Bed Sea to sea what can be done with the wrecked Anchor liner Numidia. The restricting effect of the Australian tariff again. On Saturday, says the Post, the Talune sailed for Sydney with only 150 tons of cargo. The chief items on the manifest were 91 sacks fungus, 63 sacks potatoes, 23 bales hops, and 20 cases frozen fish. A syndicate has been formed to work the coal deposits lately discovered near Matarawa, Wairarapa. The Governor-in-Oouncil has fixed upon 27th December as the day for the payment of the Land Tax for 1901-1902. At a public meeting at Mangaweka on Wednesday night, it was decided to go in for a water-supply and drainage scheme. Teetotal Balclulha owes its drayman (who receives 7s per day and has sickness in his family) £4O. And yet prohibition means prosperity. It is reported that George Adams, c* “Tattersali’s Consultation” fame, has discovered a flaw in the Postal Act, and will continue business till this is rectified. The “Wanganui Herald” understands that the Hon Jas. Carroll has undertaken to moot the Maoris at the different centres principally with the view of explaining and discussing native land affairs. During the heavy downpours at Melbourne recently the rush of water entered an undertaker’s shop at Hawthorn, and coffins floated about. One was used by boys as a boat until it capsized. 1 Ihe four-year old daughter of a settler at Te Arai, Poverty Bay, nearly lost her life through eating the succulent shoots of te hutu plant. She endured terrible agony befjre the medical attendant pronounced out of danger.

The latest story from the United States is that peach stones, treated by a special process, are being used as fuel, and are said to be superior to any kind of coal. The Californian peach canners are said to bo receiving from 5s to 10s per ton for the stones, which were previously almost u useless commodity. There is said to be a great demand for poach coal. A lady named Mrs Monies, who was summoned at Hythe recently for poor rates, claimed to be a descendant of George 111., and to have been acknowledged by his present Majesty. She states that site is a daughter of the late Admiral Crozicr.

A fall of snow in this part of New Zca'

land oven in winter is a rarity, says a re' cent issue of tiro Poverty Bay Herald, bin to see the gentle flakes coming down in November is an exceptionally unusual occurrence. At the time of the hailstorm iu Gisborne, a fall of snow took place at Nuhaka. where .a severe hailstorm was experienced. A passenger from Australia to Lyt elton by the Taluno last week was eased of the greater part of his cash by a member of the spieler fraternity, who is said to make a regular practice of travelling on the intercolonial steamers in pursuit of his calling. On this occasion the unsuspecting traveller was left to lament the loss of £6O.

It has been left to a French physician to enunciats as a curious medical fact that cancer rarely attacks persons who have led a dissolute life or those who have given way to drink. The majority of women atticked by the ci tease are active and energetic workers, and in a vast number of cases it has been shown without question that not one single person who has succumbed to it has been of dissolute habits.

Three largo fellmongering firms in Melbourne the other day closed up as a protest against the minimum wage. One of the protesting firms has resumed operations, paying the legal wage. The other two would also have resumed it a shortage of skin? had npt stood in the way.

Mr O. Hapier-Bel), C.E., who has been here for some weeks on business connected with our drainage scheme, left last night for Westport by the Wainui. His many friends will regret to hear that his health is still very far from satisfactory. Mrs Bell is expected to reach Hew Zealand next week by the “ Ortoria."

A rather curious case came before the S.M. Court at Lumsdeu last week. A local doctor sued for £4 5s 6d, fees for radical attention, and defendant resisted the claim on the ground that the professional visits were not authorised by him. In giving his verdict for the plaintiff, the Magistrate said that a doctor could use his own discretion when to cease attending his patients, and added, that if a parent, or other authorised person, ordered a medical man to discontinue visiting a patient, and that died, a serious responsibility might on the individual acting in the manner indicated.

A curious story comes from the Russian frontier. At the little Russian town of Wystiten four hundred families became homeless owing to a great fire. The town being next to Eominten, where the Emperor William shoots every year, His Majesty not only sent soldiers to help extinguish the fire, but gave £SOO for the distressed townspeople. The weather being inclement, blankets were bought for those who were compelled to camp out of doors. The Russian Customs officials refused to admit the blankets until the high Customs duty, which in Russia is imposed on such articles, was paid. When Mr John Norton was called upon to attend at Sydney Parliament House to answer the charge of libelling its members by stating that some of them had been drunk and unable to walk one night, a Sydney doctor certified that he* was unable to attend, and was suffering from “ nervous prostration and injuries to the eye and face.”

Professor Baldwin Spencer, speaking of the back country in Australia which his expedition recently passed through, described it as “simply abominable—a waste of mulga scrub and white ant-hills, varied now and again by miles of porcupine grass.” But curiously enough he finds the aborigines living in this desert “physi« oally the finest Australian Natives he hag ever seen.’,

An Australian paper remarks on the fact that while the N. S. W. House is flooding the country with talk of the rights of free citizens they silently condone the form of Government on Norfolk Island, which is under their control. The Magistrate tries all cases without a’ jury, and there can be no appeal from his decision.

It has been decided at Port Adelaide that a foreign seaman has no redress in the Courts against his captain where he has signed me ship’s articles, nnder his own nation’s maritime law. As the articles on foreign vessels are always signed in this way, there is rather a blue look-out for the foreign seaman.

A curious fact about the Australian mint returns (says a writer in United Australia) is the export of five million sovereigns per annum to the United States, which upon arrival there are all melted down. Yet, notwithstanding this useless labour, the mints are now commencing to pay.

The united friendly societies of Sydney have put up a building at a cost of £l6lO to be used chiefly as a dispensary. A large hall is subsequently to be erected as a portion of the building, and this will bring the total cost to over £2OOO. The pneumatic tube for the carriage of letters, ckj., has been introduced into Sydney. The first connection, between the Merchants’ Exchange and the General Post Office, has just been made, and if the system is a success it is to be extended to other centres in the city. The superior qualities of the Ceylon Teas, are rapidly supplanting the inferior Chinese products in all the markets of western civilization. The teas grown in the virgin lands of the Singalese, possesses greater strength, richer aroma, and an infinitely larger percentage of the Alkaloid Theine, (the active principle and stimulating property of the plant) than do the teas grown by artifical cultivation on the exhausted soil of China. Hence bulk for bulk, the Ceylon Teas are cheaper, purer, more stimulating, and possess a rare (fragrance, wanting in those of the Celestial Empire. Of all the brands of Ceylon Teas, the “Kiosk ” stands eminently supreme and without rival' Messrs Harley and Co, the wellknown auctioneers and general agents, are the sole agents for W estland or this incomparable brand, and sell it to- the general public in full chests,vand 51b Sackages. If a trial is made of the -iosk tea, no other will again be ‘used, and knowing that “once a customer, a customer for ever.” Messrs Harley and Co, are off-ring it for the present at prices that no other firm can compete against. All large consumers, and heads or households, would do well to give the “ Kiosk '* tea a trial. There is quality, economy, and money in it. — AdvtA gentleman writes:—“Kindly send me at your earliest convenience another box of your celebrated Beehive A.l. Tea. It is the finest tea I have ever drunk, and I am recommending it to all my friends, who on using it arc equally delighted as myself.” This celebrated brand is to be had from the solo agents, Griffen and Smith.— Advt.

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. - 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 Son.— Advt.

For ladies tics, fichus, collarettes, bolts and every description of ladies neck and body decoratidn, no drapery warehouse in Westland can approach the infinite variety and chaste styles of T. W. Tymons and Coy’s latest importations. la 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 ii the cause, secret, and corollary of their success.— Advt.

Some of the highest living medical authorities attribute the great growth-.of physical aud 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 baffle their curative skill. Therefore be wise in time, eat only K Jam

and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guaranteed— Apvt.