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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1903, Page 2

Mr B. J. Phillip’s announces in another column of this issue that he has a large and new stock of school books on sale at lowest prices. The Bev A. W. C. Stace of St Saviour’s Church Brunnerton, and the Rev G. W. York of Greymouth, exchange pulpits tomorrow evening. The Loyal Hokitika Lodge M. U. I. 0. O. P. have appointed Bro T. L. Bade G.M. as their delegate at the annual meeting to bo held at Greymouth on the 23 inst.

We understand that the change in the timetable on the Grey Hokitika lailway" line, will come into force on the 2nd of February when three trains a day will bo run.

Members of the Star of the West Lodge are requested to meet at (he Lodge room to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock sharp to follow the remains of iheir la f e brother, Wbliam Blanche, to the Greymouth cemetery. At the S. M. Court Brunner yesterday before Messrs Parkinson and Ward J. P’s judgment by default for £4 Cs Od with os costs was entered up in the case Whitesmith v. McLuskie.

In St John’s Presbyteuan Church tomorrow, the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper wid be observed during the forenoon service. In the evening the subject of the Rev R. Stewart’s lecture will be “An Important Declaration.” All are cordially invffed. In view of the debate, which will take place in the Opera House on Monday night upon “ Prohibitiob,” we have been requested to state that the actual retuß of the Greymouth poll, which was as follows :—Courthouse—Continuance 535, Reduction 447, No License 436; State School—l 47, 235, and 210. This gives totals as follows Continuance 682, Reduction 682, No License 646, At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Maori Gully Gold Dredging Company held at the Company’s office last evening, tbe following resolution was carried; —“That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this meeting that the Company cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Thomas William Ponsonby be appointed liquidator, for the purpose of such winding up.” The Harbor Board dredge, which has been detained in the Lagoon for about ten days through floods and bad weather, got to work yesterday oa tbe shoal opposite the cattle wharf. The machine lifting full buckets freely. The dredge will work up stream deepening the shallow places alongside the wharf It is reckoned that this work will be completed in about three months time.

Several members of the Board of Grey River Hospital Trustees waited upon Mr Beddon the other evening with regard to obtaining assistance for the continuation of the erection of the Grey River Hospital. The Premier pointed out (hat the only way (In Government could grant assistance would ba hy direct vote of the House, which might possibly be obtained, Parliament having in previous sessions granted special votes to o her hospitals in the colony. . On Tuesday evening the ladies of the o%tholic Church Brunnerton presen ed Mrs Carroll with a silver tea service as a mark of their esteem and appreciation of her cfhrts in church matters and as a momonto of her six years residence in Brunnerton. A large number of friends met at the railway station on Wednesday evening to bid Mr and Mrs Carroll good bye. "Carriers, farmers, contractors, and others will have a good opportunity of securing horses at Mark Sprot and Co’s gale at Preston road on Tuesda / next. The entry includes a number of young unbroken colts and fillies from Mr Died' riehs’ station at Kokatahi, which are very suitable for delivery carts, eoachers, light harness and hacks, being the get chiefly of the standard bred trot'ing horse “Young American” out of a good class of mares. In addition to the above a number of young draught horses will be offered and sold, subject to a trial to the approval of the purchaser.

lifsstp GL W. Moss and Co will hold their usual cattle at Prestos yards, Greymouth, on Monday, at 12 30 p.m.

It is notified in another column that the GfreymoUth State school re-opens on Monday. A full attendance is requested; oiinday , School teachers ,are hi glVe df entertainment jli their SiiliooJ rodm oochiilon'cing at , 8 o'clock. Mr Manwell Williams is kindly assisting in showing lantern viewsilldstratlVe ,o£ “The Elf a of Queen Victoria.’’ The pictures are,very beautiful, and comprise,scenes connected with the leading features of her late Majesty’s life. The programme will be varied by illustrated songs that will be sung by leading amateurs. “Ye Banks ftnd Braes,” “Ttillarney,” “The Anchor’s Weighed;’’ “The Queens Lettefc’’ and “Dolly Gray” dre the soiigs, , xbp pictures for “Dolly Gray” aye among the most beautiful \va have yet seen ismed by lantern departments. As the song is new and will be sung well, the item will be among the best. It is expected that the school room will be crowded on Wednesday next. The price of admission will be only one shilling. We were glad to sea such a rush on this morning at the great rebuilding sale at Christopher Smith's, crowds of men having their pick out of the 1/- box of Men’s hard felt hats, and as a leading man from Hokitika exclaimed : “ How dotes he btiy them at the price; or does he ever intend to pay for them ?”— Advt.

The united forces of the. Safvatioii Army,of Jhe West Coast, will unite in Greyraotitli on the occasion of the visit of tile Army leader, Commissioner McKic, Wednesday and Thursday, 28th and 29 ih. It is expected large crowds will attend the Opera House to hear this fiery and eloquent Evangelist; characteristic of the Army doings there will be special singing. B'aekball, Brunner, and Greymouth brass bands will unite.

The Premier, Mrs Seddcm and party will leave for Christchurch this afternoon They have enjoyed their holiday to the Coast very much indeed. The Premier has with characteristic energy transacted more business during his holiday sojourn than most public men would do in a similar number of days when visiting the district solely on business bent. It- is pleasitig to learn that both Mr and Mrs Seddon liave greatly benefitted in health, since being on the Coast. It will be seen by announcement in another column that Miss Holder will resume her musical classes on Monday, January 26th. This young lady's abilities and codentials are so good and well known as to require no comment at our hands.

A Wellington correspondent telegraphs to the Lyttelton Times as follows“By to-day’s English mail came the startling and unexpected news that a number of leading representatives of labor in the Old Country the question of enticing Mr Seddon to throw up the reins of Government in this Colony in order to lead the fortunes of laborites in the Motherland,, was privately discussed, but no formal decision was arrived at, pending further investigations in other quarters. This information is conveyed in a private letter from a Lancashire resident of of standing to a friend here. Several representatives of labor, says the correspondent, have an exalted opinion of Mr Seddon, who in their opinion is the man for Galway.’’ Still he does not think that the suggestion will reach concrete form, mainly gon account of the jealousy which undoubtedly exists in the ranks of the labor leaders ; besides it is the prevailing impression that Mr Seddon would not accept the invitation if one were given.

At a meeting of the Reefton Licensed Victuallers* held on Tuesday evening* it was unanimously resolved to Curtail the hours for supplying liquor to boafdeirs on Sundays* and that generally a more rigorous system of conducting the business of licensed houses be adopted. The Inangahua Timesjsays a petition asking that Constable Donovan be appointed to the charge of llie Reefton police station is being numerously signed in town, and when a few more signatures are added it will be forwarded on to the Government. Constable Donovan is a most zealous and .obliging official, and during his visits to Reefton be has made numerous friends by his courteous and obliging manner, and his appointment to Reefton would be very popular. A plant which was brought from the Cape of Good Hope for decorative purposes is spreading at an alarming rate in some parts of North Auckland. [No animal will eat it, and the settlers are urging the Agricultural Department to have it declared a noxious weed.

The Fielding Star gives currency to the highly improbable story that in the opening session of the new Parliament an attempt will be made to biing about the repeal of the act granting the franchise to women with a v.’ew of weakening the prohibitionist vote in the colony. With reference’ to the story which has been circulated regarding the suicide of three consecutive teachers of the Rowan road school, the Taranaki News, says the report is quite incorrect. The two teachers, immediately proceeding Mr Robertson, according to the News,’’ were ladies, and both resigned to get married. A conference of deaf and dumb people took place on November 25th at Chatters. About fifty “delegates from deaf and dumb societies took part in the proceedings, and an animated discussion in deaf and dumb show ensued. At one time according to the Paris correspondent of a London paper, the chairman called tin meeting to order by pretending to ring a bell. After the conference a banquet was held, and speeches in the deaf and dumb alphabet were made by two compositors, who were much applauded. Afterwards several clever deaf and dumb folks mimicked monologues and songs. Major Taylor, the champion cyclist of the world, who made his first Australian appearance on the Sydney Cricket Ground on Satarday, is not (according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph) superstitious. In America, none of the riders would take the number 13 to wear in the competition until Taylor came along, and as the number was lying around unused he said he would try it, as he did not believe in bad luck. The league officials gave him the number, and he won so often with it that he has coma to regard it as a “mascotte.” This story proceeded Major Taj lor to Australia, and as none of the local riders would use number 13 the Sydney League Secretary, Mr O'B ien, thought ho would offer it to the celebrated American. Major Taylor again demonstrated his indifference to the popular superstition by promptly agreeing to sport the unpopular figure, and he will, inconsequence, ride throughout his a utralian tour as number 13. His Winning record still continues.

The “China Times” relates an extraordinary case of Clx'ncse “justice.” AMr Jen was bethro’hed last year to Miss Han, and paid his money to the lady’s parents. A month ago he callt d on. the parents to have the contract fulfilled, and was told that the promised one was the i.rida of another. Having paid his money he considered he was entitled to the girl, and went ti her husband ! s house to carry her off, but she was not at home. He then laid his case before the magistrate. The girl was arrested, and sentenced to be “kuaed,’’ the magistrate arguing, “If you ate so wicked at twenty years of age, at the age of eighty you will be a menace to the Celestial Empire.” The process of kua-ing is very similar to the ling-chih, or slicing to dta’h punishment. ~

In the Sierra Anjha Mountain ol Gila County, in the central part of Arizona, are abundant evidences of the occupation , of races that far aide-dated any of the tribes now known In the South-west. Far Up on the Sieves off ally a score of canyons (says the Me* York Tribune) are thtf rill a of vMitable oitifeS; built in llmestoob cleft? and fib all oaves, where defence cduld readily bfe made , against the marauder, FarAtipvg the cliff dwellings: on the vefy ridges of the pide-covcrld mountains,.have been discovered a number of.caves, yet enlarged and hollowed by the hands of men of a race now extinct. One of these caves, of L-shape, appears to have been a sacrificial temple, for the walls are scorched and in some places the reek is almost fused by the fierce flames kind |d long agp; Benedth the sand-covered floor were found a large number of small urns filled with carbonised bones of human beings, who, possibly, had been offered in sacrifice to some Moloch-like demon deity. The New Fork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has just unearthed a curious case in Jersey City, There was a play goiUg on in a, theatre there called “Thu Iflbn’s Bride,” in which a lion kept in a cage on the stage roarS loudly when the “Bride,” who is sentenced by a Turkish Sultan to death by mastication, donee into view. The regularity With which the four-footed actor produced this roar always at the right time arcusodthe suspicion, of the sochty’a representative who dtscpvbred upon investigation .that electricity was used as the prompting agency. The society has had the electrical wire that was fixed to the bottom of the cage disconnected, and the lion now roars at more or less irregular intervals. A Zurich journal, the Freitagszbitung, in its issue of November 21 last, bears testimony to the interest New Zealand excites in Switzerland, In a paragraph dealing with lectures on this colony delivered at the Zurich Municipal Council Chambers by Professor Heim, who, it will be remembered, visited New Zealand about a year ago to inquire into its social and industrial ‘conditions, the FreicagsrfeitUng announces that, iil consequence of the throngs Who tame to hear, the manager ha:) been compelled to Arrange for a repetition. at 8 lo p.ni. of tlielectmrp given at 6 50 p.m, on that day. Our Swiss contemporary also expresses the opinion that the subject matter of Professor Heim’s address was of such widespread interest that it ought to ha published for circulation in the country. Mr Wahren, a Swiss gentleman residing in Wellington, informs the Po;3t that many of bis countrymen have been turning their eyes towards New Zealand, and that some 90 have arrived here daring the past few months. A few of these have found employment in. tlip pity* but the majority, being practical dairy farmers, have gone to Taranaki.

The Poverty Bay Herald states that the long spell of fine weather has facilitated shearing throughout the district this year, and it was roughly estimated that (including Coast shipments) there have been brought to Gisborne something like 16,000 bides. Exclusive of tranship-

ments from Coast ports, the oversea shipments of wool from the district for the season commencing 23rd October to Ist January, show an increase of some 4000 bales over the corresponding period of last year. The wool is of lighter yoke than previously, and, owing to many of the stations having improved appliances, the bales aie more closely pressed and are easier to handle. The bulb of the wool is being shipped by steamer* growers being anxious to take advantage of the rise in the London market, and the only wool ship sent here so far this sekson is having a difficulty ii completing hbr loading;

Not a Minute should be lost after a child thows symptons of cholera infantum. Tbe first unusual looseness of the bowels should be sufficient warning. If immediate and proper treatment is given serious qonsCqubnces wiU be evbrted; Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar. rhoea Remedy is the sole reliance, or thousands of mothers and by its aid they have often saved their children’s lives. Every household should have a bottle at hand. Get it to-day. It may save a life. Kbttle Bros, sell it. Advt. Summer Complaint is the children’s most dangerous enemy and the mother’s most dreaded foe. Immediate and proper trea‘ment is always necessary. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and_Diarrobea Remedy, given according to directions, is the most effectual remedy known. Every household should have a bottle at band. Get it to day. It may say a life, Kettle Bros sell i«.— Advt,

A Port Elizabeth telegram, dated December 2, in the Natal Mercury, says : A limejuica bottle, covered with barnacles, and containing three meteorological papers —viz., one lor the Nautical Magazine, one for the Sydney Observatory, and another for Dr Wragge, of Queensland, has been taken from tbe sea at Cape Receife. The bottle was thrown overboard from the Aberdeen ship Patriarch on September 29, 1896, at 50.8 S., long. 72.48 E latitude. The papers are signed by the master of the vessel, which was then 77 days out on her passage from Antwerp to Port Peru. The position was B, 60 deg W. from Cape Slew, 3060 miles, and S. 91deg, E. from Cape Receife, 2800 miles. The nature of the Indian Ocean currents would not allow the bottle to return to the westward. It must have been carried east through Bass Straights rrund the Australian Continent by counter currents running northward between Australia and New Zealand into the tropins, aad through the Torres Straights and westward across tbe Indian Ocean, till the current landed it at Cape Receife, having coma abont 14,000 miles in 2252 days, averaging a|steady progress of six miles for the bottle-each day. We are giving exceptional value in boys and mens clothing. We have a large stock aad must reduce before stocktaking. W. McKay and Son.— Advt. Childrens’ Dresses—Special purchases in silk and cashmere dresses at less than half the manufacturer,s cost. Lovely goods they are, trimmed with lace and insertion. We will give you the benefit of the putchase. Come and secure one at W. McKay and Son*— Advt. St. George Jams:— Once used, always used. -Advt.

Sc. George Jams—Ask for, and e that you get th'rn.—Advt Some of the highest bvmg medical authorities attribute the great growth of physical and mental disease which has characterised the last few decades, to the universality of adulteration. 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 punty guaranteed— Advt.