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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 December 1901, Page 2

The actual return from the StaffordWaimea dredge was 23ozs 15 dwt 12 grains

On the wharf tomorrow morning G. W. Moss and Co., Mill submit6osacks prime derwent potatoes to auction. An old miner, resident of the Marsden district for ihis last twelve years, Niccoli Juhl, was found dead in his bed yesterday. There are no further particu'ars to hand, and an inquest will be held at Marsden to-day. Arrangements having fallen through with Mr Hansen and the Sheridan Dramaiic Company, he went to Wellington last week and has now definitely settled to bring the Waldorf Dramatic Company down the Coast during the Xmas holidays to open in Greymouth on December 28th. We draw graziers, farmers, butchers, and the attention of the general public to an important advertisement by Mark Sprot and Co in this issue. They sell at their yards, Arahura, on Monday, 18th December, 300 store cattle, mixed ages and sexes, 900 two tooth wethers, 300 two and four tooth ewes, and 200 prime fat sheep. This is about the largest sale that has ever taken place on the West Coast, and the auctioneers are to be congratulated in catering for the wants of the farmers and others.

Among hotel improvements—so far as the interior of the building is concerned— ; Mr Claughsey's Hotel at the corner of i Mackey and Tainui streets, takes a front stand. Under the able manipulation of of Mr William Arnett, the hostelry has assumed quite an altered appearance. The whole is not yet completed, nor will it be possible to finish before the holidays. Nevertheless, the hotel as it now stands, will be much appreciated. The bar is one of the best on the West Coast, beinj; fitted up artistically. The parlors are roomy and well fitted up, while the dining-room and bedrooms have all been well attended, Mr Claughsey, who was his own architect has certainly made a wonderful improvement, and one that will be appreciated by those frequenting his hostelry. A glance at the handsome well-stocked bar shows that only the best brands are kept. At the inquest held at Camerons upon the body of J. Dick, a miner, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The evidence showed that deceased met his death through a fall of earth, but how long the unfortunate man lingered before death terminated bis sufferings was not clear. All that is known is that the accident

must have taken place between Monday and Friday. Fine weather was experienced through-

out the Colony to-day except at Bluff and Invercargill, where a drizzling rain was falling, Nelson was the warmest place in the Colony with 68 degress, and Christchurch the coldest with 51 degrees. The Westport News says that it is understood that Mr Hayne, C.E., is go ingto Westport to inspect the Island Creek dredge, with a view to purchasing for the Buller United Company. The dredge was too weak for the Island Creek ground.

Parkinson and Co. stationers etc. of up-

per Mawhora Quay will have an impor

tant advertisement in to-morrow's issue of this paper, announcing the arrival of their Xmas goods. Mr Fred Wells, the popular representative for Mr Garin and Go's well known

beers is now on ihu Coast, and will take the earliest opportunity of waiting on his numerous customers. Connisseurs pronounce the firms beer as the best in the market—and is kept at all the leading hotels on the Coast.

Some of the plant for the new Wellington evening .lswspaper has arrived. A London presman will edit and manage the venture. It is said that there is a fair amount of capital at the bock of the concern.

We have received a copy of the West' port Cycling Club's Bports programme, to be held on Saturday, December 28. The principal event is a Point Handicap of £l3, three distances, half mile one mile and three miles.

It does not seem to be sufficiently understood that the United Btates is not one of the countries to which penny postage rates from this colony apply. Some business firms admit that they have only become aware of the fact through learning that their customers at the other end have been surcharged with deficient postage on letters on which the penny has been prepaid. The Department of Public Health ba completed the preparation of a set of model by-laws appertaining to matters of sanitation of their relation to public health. These laws are intended as a type for the guidance of local authorities. They are framed in accordance with modern principles, and will, it is considered, be found most useful in assisting local bodies to comply with the provisions of the Public Health Act.

Ihe excess of Chinese departures from the colony over the arrivals has for many months past been very marked, says the "New Zealand Times." As a rule, according to the gazetted returns, about fifteen Chinese leave the colony each month, while the average number of arrivals is one or two. There now appears to be a renewed influx, for the Mokoia. which arrived from Sydney on Wednesday night, brought sixteen Chinese.

The bulk of machinery for the new Bruce mills, which were burrel down some time ago- will arrive in less than a month, and it is expacted tint the mills will be in full swing again in May. Mr John Erskine, a Belfast merchant, confirms a report that he is chairman of a syndicate of fourteen persons formed to challenge the American Cup. A Belfast firm is to build the new challenger at a cost of £35,000.

Soundings of the Buller River and for 2000 yards beyond the entrance, have been obtained for Mr Napier Bell, who is at present engaged preparing his report, which it is expected will be ready by about the end of the week.

Wanganui is getting a very bad name for petty pilferi r g. Fruit exhibits at its horticultural shows have to bo protected with wire netting. Valuable plants are also taken from private gardens, roots and all, and at the recent arts and crafts exhibition an attempt was made to remove with a knife the centre silver-plate from a large shield belonging to the Aramaho Boat Club.

The bootmaking firms in Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch, are dismissing a large number of hands, the majority of whom are proceeding to Sydney, where there is a bit of a boom in boots, owing to the Federal tariff. The employers say they have ceased to import machinery and extend business, because the more they c xtend tho more labor troubles they get into. They prefer to import boots from America and England;

Eight persons were granted letters of naturalisation last week.

A caterpillar can eat 6<JO tiriies its weight of food in a month;

In the South of China silkworms have been reared and silk manufactured for over 3,000 years.

The Westport Coal Company exported 31,744 tons scwt or coal last month. About 600 acres of new fruit plantations will be made in Nelson this year.

Grass grub is doing great damage in the Waikato. The grub restricts itself to light soils. Mr Malcolm, at present headmaster o* the Motueka school, has been appointed an assistant inspector for the Nelson district.

In a Dunedin debtor's statement last week his book debts were set down at £1434, valued at €ls. The bankrupt waß a sharebroker, Frosts during the last two nights have dono considerable damage to tho potato crops in the Hawera district.

Last week there were three bankruptcies in the colony, a wool merchant, Wellington ; a cabinetmaker, Blenheim; and a blacksmith, Woolston,

It is stated that the Union Steamship Company, during the visit of Koyalty to Dunedin, spent, in illuminations and its share of the marine arch, close on £I2OO.

The expenses inenrred by the Thames Miners' Union in connection with the dispute which it brought before the Conciliation Board, will amount to about £650.

Influenza has been very rife in Dunedin this year. It is stated that there is hardly a person in the town who who has not been laid aside for a few days with this troublesome epidemic.

Mr H. 0. Stuckey, at present acting as temporary master at the Christcburch Boys' High School, has been appointed to fill the position of assistant master at Wellington College during the absence of the Principal (Mr Firth) on a holiday trip next year.

The mine manager of the New Scotia reports: During the week No 1 level has been extended a further distance of 14 feet, total from deviation 118£ feet. The ground has become much softer; still composed of sandstone, but of a more friable nature.

Advice has been received by the Minister for Public Works that good progress is being made with the restoration of roads, bridges, and other works damaged by the earthquakes in and around Cheviot.

The next examination of candidates for certificates as first and second-class mine managers and battery superintendents under the Mining Act, and first and second class mine managers under the Coal Mines Act, will be held on Tuesday, 28th January. There is every likelihood (says the Mo* tueka correspondent of the Nelson Mail) of the raspberry syndicate recently formed being successful in disposing of next season's crop at fair prices. Arrangements have been made for pulping and canning locally, so that there is not likely to be a reptition of last year's slump.', A petition is in course of circulation and is being taken up warmly by all the butchers at Hokitika, addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, protesting against some of the clauses in the new Slaughter Act.

It has been decided by a number of Wellington athletes to take steps to form an Amateur Boxing Association, with a view to instituting a yearly championship contest. The Amateur Athletic Association is to be approached to take in hand the general supervision of the contests when instituted.

Sir Hartley Williams treated a criminal

jury to a piece of bis mind a few days ago. It was at GeeloDg (Australia), in a case of which two employees were charged, with stealing wheat from a warehouse. The verdict of "Not guilty" evidently surprised his Honor, who remarked that "much valuable time would have been

saved had the jury given their decision before hearing the evidence." According to the Hampdon correspondent of the Palmerston Times, the fishing indus-.ry is nearly at a standstill at Hampden. The freezing chambers are empty. The water has for such a length of time been in a disturbed state that the fish have gone into deep water.

The liberal use of scent on the handkerchief (says the Lancet) is calculated to make it antiseptic and so destroy the

germs in if, owing to the action partly of tho spirit of the scent and partly of the essential oils, dissolved in the spirit. Before therefore, we condemn the persons who use scent upon tho handkerchief for practising a foppish or luxurious habit we should remember that they may actually be doing good to their neighbors by checking the distribution of infectious materials.

Last year, remarks the "Post," Parliament passed an Act providing for the institution of a new system of law Court reporting in the" colony.- Regulations were gazetted in April last, but to the disappointment of those who are prepared to qualify under them, and of the Judges and law practitioners who look forward to the erection of the system as a means of simplifying and expediting the work of the Courts, no farther steps have been taken in the matter. The question is frequently asked —When are the examinations to be held ?

The Government are becoming a little more careful in regard to the appointment of extra clerks and casual clerical workers, says the "Press." Hitherto clerks have been taken on irrespective of their physical fitness, and in some cases where they h*ve died the Government have paid their widows compassionate allowances of £SO to £IOO. A circular has now been issued urging caution with a view to seeing that all netv appointees are not suffering from consumption or illness of any kind that might lead to their premature decease.

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 Brinsmoad and Sons, Lipp and Haakc pianos; also Mason and Hamlin organs. Address— Gilmor Hotel.—Advt.

The superior qualities of the Ceylon Teas, are rapidly supplanting the inferior Chinese products 'n ull the markets of western civilization. The teas grown in the virgin lands of the Sinhalese, 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 cvlvation on exhausted soil of Ch*na. 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.—Advi-

Plans.for the railway to Ross, for by tHe vote of list session or Parliament; are being prepared and the survey is to be put in nand at once.

Mr P. J. O'Dwyer, of .Hawkes Bay, formerly a seigeant in the 40th Regiment, and who took his discharge in 1864, has just received from the War Office, a medal that [he applied for over thirty years ago 1 A Dunedin corrsspondent writes to a contemporary exchange that the slump in dredging in the " Dredgeful City " is so deep that half the staffs in the offices of dredge-making engineers has been discharged. A good example of the necessity for dehorning cattle was to be seen at the Aldington saleyards the other day. A cow that had come by rail had one of its|shoulders partly torn off by being gored by another beast in the same truck. The cow was sold for only half the price the owner had given for her. A new branch of technical instruction has been brought into operation in Southland —the Education Board is having the elder girls in the Invercargill schools taught laundry work. The results so far have been exceedingly satisfactory, and it is probable that the system will be extended to the larger schools in other parts of Southland. A Motupiko (Nelson) farmer recently had fifty cattle down with tuto poisoning Seven cows died.

A private letter received from Wellington states that there are several oases of English cholera in the metropolitan city. The Marlborough Land and Railway League is recommending the Government to have the Lake Grassmere property drained and cut up for settlement.

The Council of the Auckland Institute has purchased a very fine Maori-carved "whare-runage," or meeting-house, belonging to the late Major Fox (To Pokiba Taranui.) The house formerly stood at the village of Taheke, on Lake Botoiti, but was taken to pieces after the Tarawera eruption and removed to Maketu. It will be taken to Auckland shortly, and will be ereoted by the Insiitute authorities in some position outside the Museum,

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 that the taking into the system continually by human beings as food, substances wMch 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.