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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 December 1901, Page 2

QUARTERLY COAL OUTPUT.

The following table shows the output of coal from the West Coast coal companies’ mines, and the amounts paid (at the rate of |d per ton) to the

credit of tlie Coal-miners’ Accident Relief Fund at the post office, for the quarter ended 30th September, 1901 ;

Totals 1 (50,785 8 355 Id 4 Compared with the preceding period, the quarter ended 30th September shows an increase of 7,482 tons and on the corresponding period of last year an increase of 9,189 tons. The aggregate output for the three quarterly periods was 488,373 tons, against 435,341 tons for the corresponding periods of last year, showing an increase of 53,032 tons for the nine months, ended 80th September, 1901.

The diamond drill plant left New York per s. s. Germinicus on the 30th of last month and should arrive here about the end of January.

Mr Ingall of the '‘Red House" adertises in another column that he is now opening up a splendid assortment of goods suitable for Christmas and New Year presents.

The Governor-in-Couilcil has approved of the plans for further harbor extension at Greymouth, the northern stone wall to be limited to an extension of 550 feet from present tip. It is intended (according to our Honiara correspondent) to make a trial of the Waimea Hydraulic Sluicing Company’s Blow Up on Monday. The formal opening will take place on Wednesday next. Mr Ron ay ne intimates that, the Railway Department tire quite Willing to pht a steam travelling crane on the wharf, conditional upon the Harbor Board paying the cost of same, which is estimated at £IOOO.

Mr Michel, Mayor of Hokitika, passed through town on his way to Westport yesterday. Mr Michel, is the Installing officer in an important Masonic function, which takes place in the northern city during next week.

It is pretty safe to predict that Mr Lloyd’s fine Jewellery shop in Mawherd, Quay will attract a good deal of attention to-night. Not only is the establishment handsomely fitted up, but the stock is new and artistic, with a superabundance tf style and variety to select from. By advertisement in another column it will be seen that Messrs J, W. Easson and Co. will sell by public auction by order of the Public Tfustee, the right to lease sections 169 and 170, Greymouth Native Reserve, for full particulars see advertisement in another column.

In our advertising columns to-day Messrs Sligo Brothers, of Dunedin, call for offers for a claim, the wash not to exceed 30 feet in depth. The Company require financial assistance to the amount of £1,300, but would amalgamate. Particulars may be obtained on application to Messrs Sligo Brothers. Mr Murdoch, solicitor for the defen pant, Dennis Brassll, in the Kumara case Flannigan v. Brassil, applied in chambers in the Westland Supreme Court, last evening for leave to defend under the Supreme Court rules. Leave to defend was granted by the Registrar, V. G. Day, Esq,, acting in, the absence of His Honor the Judge, and the case was got down for hearing on the 3rd of jMareh next. Tie attention of all intending competitors is drawn to an advertisement appearing in this issue coneerning the holding of a sports meeting at Kumara on Boxing Day, December 26th. A very liberal programme has been drawn up, and may be seen at all the leading hotels and business places on the Coast. Competitors are reminded that nominations close with the secretary W. B. Gilbert, Kumara, on December 10th.

The alterations to Messrs J. W. Easson and Go’s new premises are now almost complete, and they expect to remove into them next week. This firm are adding a new department td their business, as they have just landed a direct shipment of toys and fancy goods which they will be busy opening all next week so as to be in time for the Christmas trade. In another column they are advertising for a young lady to look after this department.

A special meeting of ths Taylorvillo School Committee held last evening for

the purpose of considering a letter from Dr Crann wherein he states that for some time past several cases of scarlet fever has existed at Taylorville, and others are occurring but in a mild form. He considers it would be better to close the school for some time. The committee

therefore seeing that the examination had been concluded decided to close the school until further notice.

A little before three o’clock this morning a fire alarm was given, the cause being a fire in the Sash and Door Factory, Which however escaped without very material damage. The fire appears to have been caused by shavings getting heated near a brick wall close by the engine room. The fire must have been smouldering for some time, but the efforts or Constable Porteous, Mr Brown and one or two others kept the flames a little in check till the fire brigade hose was got on, when the end soon came. The flames were just creeping into the main buildings when stopped. It is evident that the entire structure was saved to a great extent by the brick wall. The damage will possibly be about J 625. At the recent counting of volumes in the Library of the British Museum, the estimate reached the enormous total of over two million volumes. It is calculated there are more than 16.000 volumes of London newspapers, about 47.000 volumes of provincial newspapers, counting WeLh as well as English, 10.000 volumes of Scottish papers, and 9000 from Ireland, as the yearly increase in newspapers alone is 1650 volumes from England, Scotland, and Wales, and the law of copyright brings every book published in Great Britain to the Museum L'brary, the question of accommodation will before long become very urgent. There is an extraordinary provision in the Municipal Corporations Act of last session, which has probably escaped ilia notice of a good many people. It is the clause which enables a council to appoint committees which may consist wholly or in part of persons who are not councillors. Clause 62 provides that any such committee shall be subject in all things to tho control of the council, but it is contradicted by clause Cl, which reads as follows: - “Every committee to whom any powers or duties are delegated as aforesaid may, without confirmation by the council, exercise or perform tho some in like manner and with tho same effect as the coundl could itself have performed tho same.” The Napier Daily Telegraph takes tho Municipal /ssoeiation to task for allowing tho clauses in question to become law without raising its voice in protest.

The original of Mr P. P. Dunne’s “Dooley” is reported to be dying at Chicago. His name is James M’Garry, a saloonkeeper by trade.* “It so happened,” says Mr Dunne, “that one night when I was short of ‘copy’ something M'Garry said to mo inspired me sufficiently to give me half a column of space in the paper the next morning. The stuff was taken seriously—if the “Dooley” stories can be taken seriously—-and so the “Dooley” series was born.

Large colonies of Cubans are being established in the Congo State;

A sample of crude petroleum has been obtained close to eltham.

Sixteen gold dredging companies paid away in dividends last month the sum of £10,945 Is.

An order for pumice for insulation purposes has been received in this colony from NataL

Considerable additions, at a cost of about £I2OO, are to be made to Nelson College; It is intended to complete the southern wing.

Under the new scale of staffing, about 45 to 50 additional assistants will be required iri the Wanganui educational district.

According to the Lyttelton Times, the cocksfoot harvest on the Peninsula this season from all appearances will be a most disappointing one.

Major-General Babington, the new Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, leaves England for the colony in a few days.

“ Stniler ” Hales is writing a religious novel in England! Next tiling, says the Critic, will be John Aortou editing a revised edition of the Bible.

The Education Department is discouraging the use of the Union Jack by the State Schools, as it prefers that the New Zealand Ensign should be flown. Houses for residential purposes ate very scarce in Westport. It is understood the Railway Department intend erecting a residence for one of their officers. The bore which is being made to test the Mahia Peninsula for coal is now down 100 ft. Coal of good quality has been found on the surface, and it is estimated that a seam will be found at a depth of 500 ft or 600tt.

A contemporary says that a Seventh dontingenter, who left his fiancee in the care of a friend, wrote "Are you still looking after her. Ted?” Ted replied briefly, “Yes, we’re married.” Spoils to the victor !

The Railway Department cannot see its way to grant a request which _ has been made that free passes should be issued to competitors at band contests. It has, however, agreed to allow them to travel at reduced rates. Owing to the indiscriminate use of firearms within the borough of Brunner, and several narrow escapes having occurred through careless firing, the Council have determined to prosecute any one eatlght discharging firearms of any description. It is to be hoped the warning appearing in another column Will have the desired effect. We have received from Henry Hughes a handy little pamphlet addressed to inventors. The work contains within a small space much interesting Information for intending patentees. The book may be obtained free from any of Messrs Henry Hughes’ offices. We received this copy from the Canterbury brunch, Christchurch. On being told that the quantity of ammunition in one of the Southern cities ill thd Government magazine uas a million and a-half founds, General Macdonald remarked that it was Jilst fallout enough for one man if New Zealand was engaged in actual warfare. Seven Siberian pups, bred from dogs landed from Borchgrefink’r Southern Cross at Stewart Island, were sold by auction at Invercargill on Saturday last. The prices ranged from £1 to £3, and the seven were disposed of in as many minutdS. The Rev. James Tymons, brother of the Rev. Father Tymons, of Palmerston North was ordained a priest at Wellington on Sunday. After the Mass the nowlyordained priest gave his blessing to the congregation, the first to receive it being Mr and Mrs Tymons, of Greymouth, his paren's.

A little boy named George Whits was lost in a dust storm near Menindie (New South Wales) on October 81. He was found three days afterwards, after 36 hours’ wandering. It is supposed he walked 50 miles. Beyond being hungry, he was done the worse for his privations.

An old-age pensioner and hi* wife have returned their certificates to the deputyregistrar at Christchurch (say the Press), stating that as they had had a small legacy left them they did not intend drawing any further pension money while the sum they had lasted.

There is a gun in the British Navy, a Armstrong, which hurls a solid shot a distance of twelve miles, the highest point in the arc described by the shot being 17.000 feet above the earth’s surface. The discharge of the gun cannot be heard at the place where the ball strikes'. The breakdown to the steamer Pukaki is understood to consist of a fractured tail shaft. The accident it will be remembered, occurred last Wednesday week, between Oamaru and Timaru, and the vessel was picked up next day by the Te Anau, which towed her in to Port Chalmers.

Power from Niagara Falla wi'i soon be delivered in Toronto, Canada. It is reported that the Toronto Street Eailway will take 10,000 h. p. and the Toronto Electric Light Company about 5.000 h.p. The charge for this power delivered at the borders of the city will bo 5 per horsepower per year for twenty four hours per day.

Those who work by electric light will be pleased to learn that a Eussian medical man baa decided that it is least injurious to the eyes. He says that the oftener the lids are closed the greater the fatigue and consequent injury. By experiments he finds that the lids would close with different illumination per minute— candle light 6.8, gas 2.1, sun 2.2, electric light 1 8. Mr Ell, M.H.R., addressed a public meeting at New Plymouth last night on the subject of a State bank and currency. Ho received a vote of thanks, and the following resolution was passed : —“That in the opinion of this meeting the question of establishing a State bank is worthy of the favourable consideration of the Government of this colony.’’ In the course of his closing speech on the censure debate, Minister Kingston said triumphantly ; “ New South \V ales cannot supply herself with the matutinal innocent egg to the extent of her requirements. She has to import eggs from the Celestial Empire.” “ Yes,” readily retorted Mr Eeid, and provoked roars of laughter, “ that shows wo don't sweat our hens.”

Dr Henry Hand ford of Nottingham (Eng.) recently said it was a popular fallacy that typhoid could not be communicated directly from patients to healthy persons. In one hospital twenty nurses had been attacked. In places where people were living crowded together typhoid usually spreads often by direct infection. People should particularly guard against infection during a patient’s convalescence. .

A West Coast visitor remarks that some of the dredges erected are alike discreditable to engineers, manufacturers, and builders of pontoons and machinery. Ho considers the directors arc to blame for allowing such trashy workmanship to be foisted on their companies instead of employing a competent man to supervise the work. One man could thoroughly supervise a dozen or more dredges and save the companies thousands of pounds, and the supervision should be, he says, continued after the dredge is at work. This is exactly what we have always maintained.—Mining Journal,

The destruction of blackberry and briar bushes is to be enforced by the Agricultural Department, which has instructed its Inspectors to prosecute owners who neglect to clear their lands of these pests Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that owing to pressure of work, through so many companies going into liquidation, Mr O. 0. Graham, S.M., has had to eurta’l his sittings on the Bench in order tojact as one of the liquidators under the Mining Act on behalf of the Government.

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 Haake pianos; also Mason and Hamlin organs. Address— Gilmer Hotel.—AdVx 1 .

The superior qualities of the Ceylon 1 Teas, are rapidly supplanting the inferior Chinese products ‘n nil the markets of western Civilisation.- 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 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 B’ ges. If a trial is made of the 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, —Ax>YTSome 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 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—Anvx.

Name of Colliery. "Tons ewfc £. S; d Ddnniston 00,678 19 126 8 3Millertcrl .is 49,750 0 103 12 11 Bruniierton 33,040 4 68 16 8 Blackball .i. 21,855 10 45 10 8 Mokihinui 4,460 9 9 5 10