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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1903, Page 2

The railway timetable for to-morrow appears in another column. The annual installation in connection with the Advance Lodge, Brunnerton, takes place to-night. Tin Anniversary of the Nelson province will be observed on Monday next and, as will be seen by advertisement elsewhere, the local Banks will be closed. A dredgemaster is required for the Premier (Waller) dredge, and applications for the position will be received up to February 28:h, For further particulars see advertisement. Fine weather returned to Greyinouth tc-day. The temperature in the shade at 9 o'clock this morning was 53 degrees, while at Wostporfc it stood at 55 degree?, Hokitika 50 and Bealoy 49. In this issue Mark Sprofc and Co advertise thit ihey have for sale a six roomed house with § acre of ground at Blake town, and full par iculars may be obtained on applica'ion at their auction room?, Mackay Street. In view of the demand for houses this should be quickly snipped up as liberal terms can be arranged. The Duaedin Star, which is generally recognised to be a good authority on matters political, in what appears to be an inspired article, states that it is practieaUy settled that Mr M'Nab will be appointed Speaker in ihe House of Representatives; that a reconstruction in the Ministry will take place, Mr Hogg representing Masterton being given a portfolio, and that the old position of AttorneyGeneral will be revived and offered to Mr. A. It. G-ainness tho Grey representative. A movement is on foot to present Mr O'Meara, M.H.R, with some token of esteem. The member for Pahiatua is at present laid up with hay fever, and several of hi 3 family with scarlatina, Letters patent have been applied for by Captain Allmac, of the Manaroa, and Mr H. L. Moffatt, wharfinger at Motueka for an appliance for automatically signalling the state of the tide at any harbor.

The Southland Times states that the annual influx of tourists, principally from Ausira'ia, has sot ia iu earnest. The Moeraki, which reached the Bluff on Monday afternoon, was a full ship. By obtaining 40 new locomotives, tenders for which are to be called shortly, the Victorian Railway Department estimates that it will be enabled to double load the trains on many country lines, and increase the travelling speed from 15 to 20 per cent.

Exports of butter from Victoria for the year which has just closed show a very marked decrease. The actual shortage in exports amounts to nearly 12 000,0001 b representing a money value of £500,000, due to the protracted spell of dry weather which recently ended. The uncertainty of the land ballot is often commented on. A representative of the Stratford Settler heard of one man making no less than 32 applications for and in eight yeare, and he has not succeeded in getting a sec Dion. Some fino large trout have been taken in the vicinity of Winton rtcently. la the Oreti one turning the scale a» llAlbs was captured, and a 13 pounder came out of the water at Lumsden. Good baskets have also been obtained from the Lora and Otapiri. In contesting the Kaiapoi electorate, Mr D. Buddo's expenses amounted to £ 37 le, and Mr A. D. Hassall's to £lB lis.

Private letters have teen received in Christchurck from England confirming the cable report of Miss Maud Beatty's engagement at Drury Lane as principal boy in the Pantomine of "Mother Goose" at a salary of £4O per week. After the ' pantomine season Mies Beatty will do a round of the halls, appearing at thtee each night. A party consisting of Sir John Downer Lady Downer, Hon. E. T. Derham (Acting Postmaster General of Victoria) and Dr. Walsh is at present touring in the Southern Lakes district. They .will visit Wellington shortly, afterwards proceeding to the Wanganui river and Kotorua, and leaving Aucklann on the 16th Eebruary for Sydney. Already no fewer than 1600 applica- j tions from the Mallee and 'aorth eastern districts for seed wheat advances have been received by the Victorian Lands Department.

Lord Hawke's team of .English Cricketers will arrive per Beefton train to morrow at 11 a.m. and will be met by the Grey Cricket Club who will entertain them at an unofficial luneheon at the Gilmer Hotel. Piay will commence on Victoria Park at 2 p.m. and will be continued till 6 p. m. when stumps will be drawn for the day. The match will be continued on Saturday. We understand that a large number of country visitors are likely to put in an appearance at the Park, so the attendance is likely to bo a record one.

The American barque Mary Hasbrouk (at one. lime a regular trader between Auckland and New York) was totally wrecked at Arroyo, Porto Eico, on October 31st. The barque was loaded with timber, and ran on a reef. All hands were saved, and at latest reports it was thought that a portion of the cargo would be saved.

The Bignell's No Town Gold Dredging Company has not yet made much headway in the direction of getting a dredge on the claim, but if the arrears can be collected the shareholders may yet get a run for their money, as a second hand dredge can be purchased for a comparatively small sum. Tha statement of affairs shows that the expenditure last year was £4BO 13a Bd, while the total outlay from the dat3- of registration (April 10, 1900) uotil December 31 last was £3202 10s lOd. At the end of Jasfc year the company's debts were £22 8s 4d, while the cash in the bank was £303 8s 2d. The subscribed capital (£8000) has all been called up, but the majority of shareholders have been very backward in paying their calls, as out of a total of 175 members no le3s than 123 were in arrears on December 31 to a total amount of £4494 18.

A peculiar disease has broken out among the people of Manahiki, Penrhyn and Rakahanga, three of New Zealand's island possessions in the Pacific. The victim is first seizad with a fever, which after a few days turns into paralysis of the body from the waist down; with violent pains. Many persons have died from the disease, sometimes after afew day?, at others after weeks of illness. The natives of Manahiki blame the mission schooner John Williams, and a schooner yacht from America for leaving ihe'diseas". It is regretted that there are no medical officers on these islands.

Society suffered a shock this week (says the Melbourne " Age's" London correspondent, writing on December sth) on finding on the Bankruptcy Court list the name of Colonel G. W. Adolphus FitzGeorge by Mr W. G. Robson, a gentleman of independent means, residing at Maidenhead, who is returned as a judgment creditor for £90,126, and a receiving order was made. Particulars of the debt have not yet been gone into. Colonel Fitz George served with the 20th Hussars during the Egyptian campaign of 1882, was at Te!-el-Kebir, and received the fourth-class Osmanieh. He retired from his regiment in 1895.

The ending of the work on New Zealand, which Mr C. W. M'Murran, of New York, was engaged on by the Government, has been entrusted to Mr 0. 0. Montrose, who is well known in the ranks of New Zealand journalism. The book will be entitled " The Few Century Trip—New York to New Zealand," and it is supposed to describe this colony from the American standpoint, The work embraces descriptions of the hot and cold lakes, and of the scenic beauties of the colony generally, while on the practical side will be summaries of New Zealand legislation, particularly the labour laws and the laws applying to capital. In reply to a protest from the Hon. G. Jones, of Oamaru, against the delay which has occurred in the payment of a certain trooper's arrears, and the Department's omission to promptly enquire ai to the propriety of the trooper's demand, the Premier has forwarded the following memo: —"There have been so many over payments that the paymaster must of necessity be careful. I have had numerous cases in which, I regret to say, troopers have been unscrupu'ous in statement and action. Wo are only the agents for the Imperial Govemtnert, and it is all the more necessary that care should be exercised. I have sent your telegram on to the Paymaster-General for him to look into the matter and report to me. On recsipt of a rep'y from him I will communicate with you again.

The gradual disappear ance-of the purely British seaman steadily proceeds. According to an interesting parliamentary report recently published in London the number of Lascars employed on British ships has lisen from 10,835 in 1891, to 13,100 in ISO 3, and 14.680 in 1901. But there has been a greater increase in the number of Lasoars in vessels which trade to tin United Kingdom. From 10,787 in April, 1891, t'ae number rose to 14,811 in March, 1901. There w?re in March, 1901, 130,083 seamen, of whom 33,500 were Lascars, employed upon steam vessels in the foreign trade, and. the Lascars therefore formed 35.8 per cent of the total number of seamen on board these vessels Upon all the sailing and steam vess?ls there were 180,300 seamen, of whom 33,610 were Lascars -that is, 18 per cent of the total.

Tho I[ swich brewery, Brisbane, a large two storied brick structure, with large cellars, has been destroyed by fire, and nothing has been left staniing but the walls, The brewory was iasured for £BOO, and the stock and plant for about £IOOO. It is probable that the battleship Zing Edward VII. now building at Devonport, wi'l be ready for sea by September, 1904, six tnon'iu earlier t'ma was expec'ed. During a recent court case in London it transpired in evidence that Mr George Bobey had been booked at £l3O per week, Dan Leno at £l5O, and Miss Florence Barnes could command £I3OO for 12 months.

Th<j first annual report of the State Labor Board (New Bouth Wales) shows that 8693 registrations of men in want of employment were made. Work wa* obtained for 8505 men, 1419 of whom aocepted Government employment; over 1000 did not take work when offered to them. Of £297 advanced to men £233 has b3en repaid. It is understood that the bust of the late Sir John M'Renzie will shortly be placed in the General Assembly Library, alcg side that of the late Sir Harry Atkinson. The Colonial Secretary is arranging for th 9 placing of both busts on handsome marble pedestals, which arß beirg specially made.

Speaking at a public reception tendered to him at Adelaide, Mr J. Ord Hume, the English bandmaster, who is coming to Now Z aland to judge at the band contest at Masterton, advised the Commonwealth States to send bands to compete in England. Mr Hume stated that he hoped shortly to become either an Australian or a New Zealander. The Timaru Garrison Band has offered him the position of conductor. There is a strike on a small scale at Petone. Eight labourers employed in excavating a tite for "the reception of a gasholder at a wage of 8 s a day considered themselves entitled to an extra shilling per day, as ihejob was a " wet " one, the men being 'constantly in water. They applied to the engineer for an advance, which was refused. They thereupon threw down their tools, and went on strike.

The problem of the conveyance of electrical power is no barrier to the Californiau electrician. San Jose has just been equipped with a system of electric lighting, the current for which is carried for a distance of 173 miles, from a plant in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Work on the clearing and formation of the Ross railway is steadily being carried out, a good number of men being now employed, South Hokitika district has a more busy appearance than it has ' had for a considerable time, due to the railway works being carried out in the vicinity and the labor employed at Mr Mardon's flaxmill, the output from which continues to be an excellent and uniform quality. St. George Jams:—Once used, always used. -Advt. St. George Jams—Ask for, and e that you get them.—Advt 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 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 aew 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.