Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1901. NOTES AND COMMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 November 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1901. NOTES AND COMMENTS

At the next meeting of the Greymouth Education Board, Mr Harris, chairman, will move “ that any pupil that has passed the VI. Standard be admitted free to the High School.” This is, undoubtedly, a step in the right direction, and is in conformity with the general trend of modern ideas that higher education should be brought within the reach of all, no matter how poor. There is, we think, very little doubt but that the Grey Board will agree to the resolution, but there is, one point that cannot bo overlooked, and that is that of the present accommodation. If the resolution is carried a separate building with good accommodation becomes necessary, and this will mean the expenditure of at least £I,OOO. The question arises ; Where is the money to be obtained from ?

time, as the settlers are practically State tenants, it is the duty of the Government to come to fhe rescue and make good the damage. In what some folks term “ Tory England,’’ a landlord would do so under similar circumstances, and surely in New Zealand a Government that does so much for the people will not be behind hand in such a matter. If assistance is really wanted—and we presume it is, otherwise the Mayor would not call the meeting—the residents have a strong claim upon the West Coast, for most nobly did Canterbury come to our assistance in the Brunner disaster.

Kirwan’s Reward claim cleaned up with lO.jozs of amalgam from 105 tons of stone. (Top plates only.) A cablegram from London states that Lord Eanfurly’s eldest son has been appointed aidc-cle-camp to the Governor.

The monthly meeting of the Greymouth Jockey Club will bo held this evening, at which all arrangements for the forthcoming meeting will be made. A meeting of the Works Committee of the Greymouth Harbor Board will be held to-morrow afternoon at four o’clock to consider what will be the better way to provide more wharf accommodation, and to report to the Board at next ordinary meeting. Mr Petrie, chairman of the Harbor Board, has received the following telegram from Mr Guinness, anent the Greymouth and Point Elizabeth Coal Creek mines Will interview Premier re Coal Creek as requested and report result. Am staying till the Wainui, which sails on Wednesday next.” Wo regret to hear of the death of Mr Louis Erickson, which took place at Wellington on Saturday. Deceased had not been in the best of health for some time past, and his friends thought a change of climate would do him good, but it proved the reverse. The greatest o f sympathy is expressed for his wife, and brothers George and Henry. Deceased’s body will be brought down from Wellington in the Corinna, and will be buried in the G.ey mouth cemetery on arrival. Judging by the enthusiasm displayed in the cricket match on Saturday between the sing'e and married members of the local club, our cricketers are in for a real “ live ” season, and now that the weather has taken up the Park of an evening will be a scene of activity. The cricket club is worthy of support, and as soon as the cup matches commence we expect to see them very liberally patronised, for Saturday’s match gave ample evidence that some firshclass and interesting cricket will be witnessed, and when we add the attractiveness the Park offers for an outing on a fine afternoon the coming matches will be looked forward to by the public with interest. The single members put up 63 and the benedicts 61.

The Greyraoutli Trotting Club take nominations up to 9 p.m. on Wednesday the 27th for events to be run on the Ist day of the Summer meeting which commence on Monday the 30th day of December. A good nomination i i expected, and the Club richly deserve such a response, for they cater for the sport in a practical manner, and no sooner docs their revenue increase than up goes the stakes with it. The Park this season again bears evidence of improvement and by the time Christmas week comes round will be able to rank amongst the best tracks in the colony. The Metropolitan trotting grounds in Christchurch are considered the finest outside of America and if that is the case Greymouth can boast of having a ground the best outside of Canterbury with appointments equal.

A Waihi doctor, called to attend a Native woman suffering from a dislocated should r and broken arm, had a curious experience the other day, While examining the injuries, the woman crying out “Momoi, moraai,” the doctor was seized upon from behind by several Maori women attendants and thrown violently to the ground. It subsequently transpired that the woman wished to wait till the arrival of some relations of the sufferer before the operation should take place. Eventually the doctor successfully accomplished the necessary attendance to the woman’s injuries.

The heavy shock of earthquake on Saturday November 16 was distinctly felt by those aboard the s.s. Elingamite when that vessell was wittin a couple of hours’ steam of Lyttelton. Speaking of the effect, a passenger said it was as if the vessel bad suddenly run on a mud bank and then rebounded off. The vessel shivered from stem to stern, and an uneasy motion prevailed for at least a dozen seconds. The majority of the passengers and crew experienced the shock, though at the time they were in ignorance as to the cause; and it was only on arrival at Lyttelton that they became aware of the true position of affairs.

Captain William Jackson Barry, still wonderfully active and cheerful under his burden of eighty-four years, has. says the “New Zea'and Times,’’handed the manuscript of his forthcoming book to the Government printer, and the volume will probably be ready for distribution amongst subscribers in a couple of months. The work, which will contain recollections culled from seventy years’ experience in Australia and New Zealand, will bo entitled “The Australian Colonies and New Zealand, and the Life History of William Jackson Barry.’’

The announcement of the approaching retirement on pension of Judge Mackay is taken as an indication of the desire of the Government to do away with the Native Land Court. Maoris will be loth to part with His Honor, especidly those in the Wellington district and South Island, who spoke of him as “our Judge.’’ They often ask to have their cases tried by him. The bodies formed under the Maori Lands Administration Act are intended to take the place of the Native Land Court, but distrust of the natives for one another is likely to affect the usefulness of the elaborate machinery of the new statute.

A Dargaville man—a local chemist—lias invented a highly ingenious process that should make itself felt in the kauri gum and varnish markets. The old method of gum digging—viz., spearing for lumps and then digging them up—has employed a large number of men in supplying the solid article, and there are varnish-workers at Auckland and Thames where the varnish product is manufactured from the gum. Until lately there has been no attempt to win gum, other than the solid, although there are about Dargaville large areas of shore, riverbank and swamp containing gum-satu-rated mud —a sort of slime solution left behind by the kauri forests. The new process takes the mui in its native state, retorts, volatilises, and distils, and extracts the gum or resinous products from the earth. It is claimed that mud goes in at one end and varnish comes out at the other.

The Khedive has just sent a present to Leo XIII. The offering is not exactly an exhilarating one for a man of ninety to receive—a mummy, for it dates back two thousand years before the Christian era. The Pope, who does not look a gift mummy in tho mouth, has taken the Khedive’s present in the best of humour, and has sent him in acknowledgment an autograph letter, with, of course, a moral.

His Worship the Mayor has called a public meeting for this evening to devise means of raising funds for the sufferers by the Cheviot estate. This is a most laudable effort on the part of Mr Mathieson, but, at the same

It is said that a well-known Waitekauri resident has come into a fortune of £IOO,OOO by the death of a brother beyond the seas Mr W. C. Buchanan, says our Wellington correspondent, is expected to be a candidate for the Wairarapa seat at the next general election. The “Masterton Star” reports that the Government intends acquiring Mr W. C. Buchanan’s Tupuruputu estate for close settlement purposes. The completion of the alterations to the Warrimoo has thrown 155 workmen out of employment within the last two days, telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent. A veteran soldier, who was with Sir Charles Napier's fleet in the Crimea, and who also fought in the Chinese and Maori wars, was granted an old-age pension for the full amount at Tapanui on Tuesday. Mr Cruiekshank S M. is reprted to have stated in the Tapanui court the other day that lie recently granted an old-age pension to a man who at one time was earning and spending £IOO a week on the goldfields The traffic of ferry service between Lyttelton and Wellington having fallen off to such an extent as not to warrant two steamers being regularly employed, the Tarawera has been taken off. . ... According to the mail news from the Cape, rinderpest is working havoc m -many districts of the Orange Elver Colony and of the Transvaal. For a sufficient supply of good meat the Johannesburg population has to rely upon cold storage importations. Shipments of Australian meat to South Africa are likely, therefore, to be well maintained. Where is the enterprise of New Zealanders so much talked of ?

According to an Auckland telegram the North Island Trunk Railway League Commissioner wires thnt strange rumours are afloat that large numbers of men are to be discharged from the Works, A conference of secretaries of Education Boards will be held in Wellington early in December to discuss various matters connected with the secretarial branch of the administration of education. There are a number of people who never read an advertisement, but we think that in view of the approaching festive season, it will at least prove interesting and probably profitable for our many readers to peruse an advertisement appearing over our leader in to-days issue regarding the doings of Messrs Gilbert Bros the popular jewellers of Tamm fetrcc Some of the highest living mediflWauthorities attribute the great growth of physical and mental disease which has characterised the last few to the universality of adulturation. They affirm that the taking into the system continually by human beings as | ood > substances which are chemically OTCI g u a £ d ° nl / of sustammS bealth y 11 / e - but constitute a pcrpetuat dangcrtoit, iskrgely responsible for the new and complex diseases that baffle their curative skill. Therefore be wise in time, eat only yjr -wJHL (J Oilll an( j avo these dangers. Absolute purity Kuaran t ee d— Advx, ■ 6

Under the Registration of Births Extension Act, 1901, opportunity is afforded during tho twelve months from November Bth, 1901, to register births which cannot be registered under the Act of 1897. The Registrar-General, on tho payment of a fee of £l, may register the birth of a chil 1 born in tho colony two years prior to the passing of the Act of last session, provided satisfactory evidence on oath is produced of the time and place of birth, and the parentage of the child sought to be registered. The Government departments entrusted with tho carrying out of public works are taking steps to taper off expenditure in accordance with an intimation given by the Premier on the third reading of the Approprirtion Bill. The method adopted is not to let new contracts when those in hand are completed. The action is of course, meeting with opposition, but the Government are standing firm in their determination to reduce outgoings.

Gossip in Wellington regarding the new evening paper which is to be started there is to the effect that it will be illustrated, and that there will be a certain amount of English money behind the undertaking, which will start with a capital of £40,000. Premises have been obtained in Cuba street, the machinery and paper are on hand, and it is expected that the first issue will appear about the Kew Year. It is further reported that the new journalistic venture will be Seddonlan in politics. Some Maoris fishing at Lake Wairarapa the other day caught a monster eel, 7ft long, 25sin in girth at the thickest part, and weighing 671 b 3oz. The native who got the eel on his line was pulled into the water, but three other men and two wahines came to the rescue, and by their combined exertions hauled the catch ashore. The whole bapu subsequently feasted on the fish, and a small portion of the eel, still unconsumed, ihat was shown an inquisitive pakeha, was a section ab.ut a foot long, split open, and spread out flat, resembling very much in size and shape an ordinary hack saddle. The State Coal Mines Act provides that before disposing of any Crown lands the Land Boards have to ascertain whether it contains coal. There is much speculation as to how they can do this. The Premier says with boring rods, but some coal measures lie over 1000 feet below the surface. Whom will the cost of this operation bo charged to ? Mr E. Handcoek, a gentleman well known in Ashburton, was an eye-witness of the late catastrophe at McKenzie. Writing to the “Ashburton Standard,” he says“ The cattle and horses in the paddocks were frantic, many being thrown down. I noticed the sheep dogs hiding their heads and lying down. Everybody breakfasted in the paddocks; it was the most mournful picnic I ever witnessed, ladies crying all the time." The Native Minister (Hon. J. Carroll) has informed the Poverty Bay Herald that he does not expect to be able to go to the Coronation. It has been definitely decided that Parliament will meet atthe usual time, and it would bo inconvenient for two members of the Ministry be away together. He may go Home later—perhaps after the next election—and avail himself of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ invitation to visit them at their home.

The superior qualities of the Ceylon Teas, are rapidly supplanting the inferior Chinese products n nil the markets of western civilization. The teas grown in the virgin lands of the Siugalese, 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 artificial eviration on 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 Westland of this incomparable brand, and sell it to the general public in full chests, and 51b packages. If a trial is made of the Kiosk tea, no other will again be used and knowing that ‘‘once a customer a customer for ever.” Messrs Harley and Co, are offering it for the present at prices that no other firm can compete against. All large consumers, and heads of 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 are equally delighted as myself.” This celebrated brand is to bo had from the sole agents, Griffen and Smith.— Advt.

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 stylo of garments, hence the department has secured the complete confidence and popularity of the ladies of Westland. T. W. Tymons and Go’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 i t the cause, secret, and corollary of (heir success.— Advt.

In the western sky in the early part of the evenings there is just now an interesting sight, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus being in conjunction, and the moon close in their path. On the 28th of this month the planets will be at their' pegrest to one another,