NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 29 November 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Tho Bank of New Zealand has advised all its country branche3 that they must not employ any workman who is not insured, owing to the working of tho Compensation for accidents Act.

The total vote for the defence of the colony which has been put on this year's estimates is £442,000 equal to lis for every man, woman and child in New Zealand.

The Parliamentary vote of .£3OOO for grants to public libraries will be distributed on February Bth. Claims must be lodged with the Secretary for Education by January 31st. Among the English emigrants by tho steamer Delphic, which reached Wellington last week was a woman with four children, the youngest of whom was an infant in arms. The party goes on to Gisborne to seek dairy farm employment in that district. The woman expressed to her fellow passengers her intention of sending Home for her husband if she " does well in the colony." Mr Philip Cross, for many years Postmaster at the Port, Nelson, died on Thursday night from brain fever. Deceased, who was the youngest son of the late Captain Cross, <vas 47 years of age and well known throughout the colony.

For ladies ties, fichus, collarettes, belts and every description of ladies neck and body decoration, no drapery warehouse in Westlaud 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 it the cause, secret, and, corollary of their success.—Advt.