Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1901.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 December 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1901.

The Waldorf Dramatic Company had a record house in Eeefton last night, numbers having to be turned away.

Thomas and Mcßeath notifies in our advertising columns that their establishment will close at 12 30 p. m on Tuesday, 31st November, and Thursday 2nd January, 1902, and all day Wednesday Ist January, 1902. The Kohikohi claim, the last of the Coast dredges to wash up this year, cleared up on Tuesday night with a return of 50 ounces for 160 hours. This is the best return for this dredge, which is only opening up. Amo the departing passengers per Mapounka (o-day, was Mr Thompson of the Bank of New Zealand, who loft to take charge of the branch at Coromandel. Mi Thom, ion’s many friends assembled on the wharf to bid him good-bye and wish him prosperity in his future home. ■ Miss Janet Waldorf and her company were playing at Manila during the height of the Filipino war, and as the city was crowded with the men of the United States army, the six weeks’ season was an enormous success. So close was the fighting line at one time, that Miss Waldorf, could plainly hoar the boom of cannon and the rattle of musketry while on the stage, but the audience was used to this state of things and sat as stolid as though sitting in the stalls of a West End theatre. While at Manilla, Miss Waldorf gave a performance in aid of the building of the first English church in the Phillipines, and a handsome sum was handed over.

A pleasing little incident took place at the Church of England picnic at the New River yesterday. Just previous to the departure of the train for home the Rev. Q-. W. York said ho had a pleasant duty to perform, having been requested by the teachers and scholars of Trinity School to make a presentation to their superintendent Mr Arthur Viekeman. Ho than read the following address on behalf of the school teachers and scholars. “We the undersigned Vicar, teachers and scholars of the Holy Trinity Sunday School wish to express to you, at this festive season, our affectionate regards and the keen appreciation wo entertain of jour seltdenying efforts for tho welfare of our Sunday School. Wo have tho utmost confidence in your abiiity and management as our Superintendent, and we feel that, under tho Divine b’essing, it is largely owing to you that such amicable relations exist between us all, and that tho Sunday School is able to maintain its efficiency and its sound po'-iticn financiallj. We wish you tho compliments of the season, and ask you to accept tho accompanying gift, as a small token of our good will and affection, and trust that you may long bo spared to continue your labour of love in our midst.

Preparations are being made by the Education Department for the changes entailed by the Public School Teachers Act, 1901. Under the Act the salary of a school teacher will be governed by the previous year’s attendance, and in place of Education Boards being paid £3 15s per child in monthly instalments on the average attendance, they will receive a monthly payment of the twelfth part of their salary sheet for the year. At the beginning of the year the Boards will submit to the Department particulars of the salaries which they propose to pay, and subsequently ttiey will make returns of the actual amounts so paid.

At the Albion Hotel this forenoon, the Mayor met the Hokitika and Greymouth contingents, and in a parting glass, in company with several Councillors, wished them success and a speedy return to the land of their adoption. Mr Joseph M'Lean in a well chosen speech asked the men to remember that they were representatives of New Zealand, that the Colony were looking on them to uphold the integrity of this part o£ the Empire, and looking round ho was satisfied that they would do so creditably to the island of the Southern Seas. The men left per Mapourika amidst the cheers and well-wishes of a large number of citizons.

'There is now on view nt Messrs Easson and Companya warehouse, one of the most perfect inventions ever introduced into Greymouth, viz., “ The Pianola ” an insrtament which is simply adjusted to a piano, a roll inserted and without any knowledge of music at a’l the most difficult compositions written for the piano can be rendered by anyone, with an absolute perfection of touch and expression that is really wonderful. Mr Robcrtshaw, the Dresden Piano Companys representative, will bo in attendance, and will be pleased to meet all who wish to see the instrument.

By a private message received by Mr Oxenham wo learn that a very old resident of Maori Gully, named Thomas Roach dropped dead this morning at 11 o’clock. There are no further particulars to hand yet. At inquest will bo hold.

Messrs Hildebrand and Co inform their customers, through our advertising columns, that they have removed into their now and up-to-date premises in Boundary Street. In Wellington medical circles the increase of small-pox in London is believed to bo not without danger to New Zealand, in view of the relaxation of the law of this colony in regard to vacination. The syllabus of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College for Music for 1902 has been issued. The theory examinations will take place in all the colonies on Saturday, 7th June next, and the practical examinations in New Zealand will be hold in October and November. The exact dates will be fixed after the arrival of the examiners. Entries will close on the Ist of May. Mr W. G. Murray, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Westland has been notified of his transfer to Nelson district. The news was received in Hokitika with much regret on the part of the many friends of Mr Murray and his family at his departure, mingled with a feeling of satisfaction at his promotion. Mr Murray is one of the oldest residents of Hokitika, having been in the district for the past 35 years. There are few, perhaps none in the colony who have such a knowledge of the Westland Survey district as he has. While he has always proved himself a most efficient officer, he was also a great favorite both with his staff and the general public, and the good wishes for his future career will be universal throughout Westland. Mr J. G. Roberts, who is also an and worthy officer, succeeds Mr Murray in the position of Commissioner of Crown Lands, and has our earnest congratulations on his promotion to the important position.

The return from the Brittania Company’s crushing is 58 ounces of gold from 60 tons of stone. At a inciting of directors, a dividend of threepence per share was declared and 41154 carried forward. The Premier has received the following memorandum from His Excellency the Governor “ The Governor has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated 20th December, stating, with reference to tho telegram sent that over 1100 men have volunteered in 24 hours for the Eight New Zealand contingent for South Africa, that His Majesty’s Government warmly congratulates your Ministers on the splendid spirit shown by the colony, and thoroughly appreciates it hero.” The Docklands dredge was hung up last week, owing to the necessity for some slight renewals. Work will be resumed on the 27th inst.

Tho chief officer of a ship at Welling-

ton, was charged with assaulting she ship’s carpenter, who had come on board under the influence of liquor, and refused to work. He was fined £3 and costs, default of payment seven days imprisonment. Accused admitted he had struck the man, and said he would do so again under the circumstances, for which remark he was told he would be sent to prison if, he repeated it. An interesting table which .has been published by the Home Office is summarised by the Coal Merchant, showing the average price of coal put on at the pits mouth and in the London market; also its value at the principal shipping ports of the United Kingdom, for each year from 1873 to 1900. Last year the average price at the pic’s mouth in England was 10s 9d ; in Wales 12s 6d ; and in Scotland 10s 10d. The mean value for the whole country, therefore, was 11s Id, as against 22s 9d in the London market.

From Palermo comes news that a widow named Salvatrice Eterno, aged 35, as the sequel to a quarrel with her family, poisoned all the seven persons composing it by introducing, as is believed, seme corrosive sublimate into their food. Not even the dog escaped. Her mother and one sLtor are dead. Five other brothers and sisters are in a dangerous condition. The murderess had taken to the forests, and all trace of her was lost. The outlook in regard to the Newcastle (N.S.W.) foreign coal trade is not very encouraging. Signs of slump are only too plain. The volume of deep sea tonnage in this port has been gradually diminishing, and trade with Honolulu and the West Coast of South America has seriously fallen off. There are indications that the Americans will in future supply their own coal in California; and in South America it appears that the market has been over-supplied by about 2000,000 tons, enough to last ic for four months.

Captain W. Scott, of the four-masted barque Osborne, who arrived at Capo Town on Nov 11, from Cardiff, reports that on October 22, when in latitude 22 0 W., ho passed a derdlict vessel (the Norfolk Island;, nothing but the hull, and still smouldering, Tho doctors’ bill for attending on tho late President McKinley is said to ba JG25,000, which Congress is asked to vote. Tho American Press comment upon the amount, which, they say, is nearly twice tho amount paid for attendance upon President Garfield during a period ten times as long. According to advices from Middlesborough, Kentucky, a fight arising from a blcod-feud occurred recently at Big Springs Union Baptist Church, which is just over tho jTennesseo border. Tho fight was between tho members of two families—The Morgans and Chadwells between whom there exists a feud dating from tho Civil War, since when 30 Morgans and 40 Chadwells have been killed, On this occasion two Morgans and two Chadwells were [killed, while four other persons of different names were wounded and two mortally. A cable message despatched from New York to tho English newspapers during the recent municipal elections in whicli the Tammany forces were routed says : The election was unusually orderly. There was no shooting at least in tho early part of the day. A couple of hundred persons were arrested for illegal voting, but the majority were promptly discharged by-thc Magistrates,

Tho visitors who arrived from Christchurch to take part in the Swimming Spore, are to be entertained at the Gilmer Hotel this evening at 8 o’clock. Tho Premier dredge has dropped down to the lower end of the claim. She will commence work in earnest after the holidays. Mr T. K. Sidey, the new member for Oavorsham, was born in the Gavorsham electorate, where his father is the holder of considerable property. He received his education at the Boys’ High School and Otago University, where he took the degree of B.A. and L.L.B. A solicitor by profession, ho has taken an active interest in literary and debating societiesj and has been a zealous worker in connection with the Cavorsham Presbyterian Church. After serving as Borough Councillor, ho is now occupying the position of Mayor for n third term. Tho new member has been connected with educational matters, and has worked hard for the Danodin Horticultural Society. His recent election as a member of the Drainage Board showed that he had the confidence of largo numbers outside tho Oavershara district. Mr Sidey contested Caversham as an Independent, with considerable Opposition leanings, in--1890, but was not successful. On this occasion, he stands as a general supporter of tho Government policy, Tho showrooms and ladies’ departments of Messrs Tymons and Co.’s drapery establishment, have been placed under the immediate personal charge of Miss McWilliams, who has come from Australia under special engagement to the firm. Miss McWilliams has a professional status unsurpassed in the Oolonia. world, and at Messrs Buckley and Nunn’s and Roberts and Moffati’s huge establishments in Melbourne, and Horderns, and Palmer’s colossal fashionable Sydney warehouses, tho departments under hsr direction were tho specie and most attractive features, At Messrs Tymons and Co.’s warehouse the latest, best and most fashionable styles can therefore be relied upon, and all information ccr corning the petfoction[of dress and personal decoration will be cheerfully given.— Advt. 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 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 cultivation 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 W estland 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 tho present at prices that no other firm can compete against. All large consumers, and heads ot households, would do well to give the “ Kiosk ’“ tea a trial. There is quality, economy, and money in it. —AdvtSome 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— Advt.