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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 January 1903, Page 2

The first dredging return this week is from ihe Welcome dredge which gava SOozs ] 2dwt. for the week's work. An advertiser, in another column, wants to purchase a boat about 16ft in length, suitable for dredge work. The Greymouth portion of the inward 'Frisco mail is clue to arrive here tomorrow afternoon per Otira train at 245 p.m.

Cyclists had better beware during the next few days as the police are on the alert to citch all cyclists riding on footpaths and without lights. A grand concert will be held in the Opera House 2Gth February, in aid of sending a team from Greymouth Fire Brigade to compete at the demonstration in Napier. Collectors have been appointed to canvass the to am, etc.

The new time-table of the Railway Department appears in another column. It will be seen among the alterations that three passenger trains will be run to Hokitika on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The weather report to-day shows the temperature of West Coast stations to have been:—Westporfc 59 degrees, Greymouth and Bealey 58, and Hokitika 54. The warmest place in the Colony was Tiritiri with 70 degrees.

Owing to the cricket match to-morrow afternoon, Messrs J. W. Easson and Co will hold their usual weekly auction sale at eleven o'clock instead of 2 30 as usual, when they will sell by auction a quantity of second-hand furniture in good order that has been removed into their store for convenience of sale. They will also sell fruit, groceries, etc.

We remind our readers of tho conaerfc and entertainment in the Opera House tonight under tho conductorship of Mr Cadzow. The programme, a 9 we pointed out in a previous issue, is one of the best that has been presented to a West Coast audience. We predict a crowded house and advise those going to go early. At tho inspection parade of the Grayinouth Rifles held last evening, Private P. W. Badger was presented with the Colonial Forces long service medal. Major Morice presented the medal and expressed his special pleasure in doing so as he personally knew the award was well merited. Major Smith also expressed bis pleasure at being present on this occasion, as Private Badger had served a great portion of his time under his command. Lieut Perkins in the absence of Captain Bromley endorsed the remarks of the previous speakers, and stated that no volunteer in tho Colony more deserved the decorator than the recipient. A Marsden correspondent writes: —The young men of Marsden entertained Mr Thomas Costigan at a fwewell banquet on Thursday ovening as he is leav.ng the district. Mr Joseph Hodgson on behalf of the company present handed him a walking stick. Mr Costigan responded in a few well chosen words. During the evening songs were rendered by Mr L. Foley '"Comrades", Mr P. Clancy "Tim Hooligban's Mule'', Mr Uiffney "He was a Pal of Mine", Mr Thos Waugh "The Cuckoo'', Mr J. Clancy recitation, Mr F. Jackson speech. Mr A. Glffuey supplied the music. In our business columns to-day an announcement is made by Messrs Mark Sprot and Co of a very important sale of a butchery business in Dillmanatown. The business has a very large connection in that district-, and wi 1 be sold as a going concern, together with the stores, plant, paddocking, slaughter yards, etc coinplpte. Tho sale" offivs a most advantageous opportunity to anyone in search of a first class business of the kind. Under a special heading "Banquet to the Eight Hon. the Premier" wll be found an inset to this issue well worthy of perusal. Wo do not purpose marring the pleasure readers. will derive from perasal of the inset by hinting at what it therein contained, suffice it to say the}will enjoy the reading matter and may derive a good deal of benefit, and profit besides. Therefore look oat for the inset —"Banquet to tho Eight Honorable the Premier." The mine manager of the Big River reports for the week ending yesterday. that 20 feet have been driven on the reef track, making tho total distance 32 feet The stooe reported on Wed: esday cut out on Tuesday. Tho reef track keeps good with broken stone in it, and walls are 5 feet apart and well defined. Messrs M. Phillips (junr.) and Ja«. Stenhouso have been appointed collectors in Greymoutb, on behalf of the widow and live little children of the late John

M'.Kesgan, who was accidentally killed while working in his claim at Ivumara. This is a sad case, and one that honesdy

needs a call on the benevolence of this community, and we have no doab; but "that the two young men who have undertaken tho work of collecting will be repaid for tbeir labors by seeing a good round sum handed over to tho widow a-.d her licilo mites. Ono cubic foot of wa*er equals 62.51 b equals IOOCbz, equals (3.25 gallons. Last, year Britain built 20 war vessels for foreign nations, and 242 mercantile vessels. It h understood tint the licensing elec i >ns all over the colony will be held about March 25th text. Mr Burkett, late chief officer, and Mr Renant, 1 ue second officer, of the wrecked steamer Elingamite, are now in similar positions on the Zealandia. Mi- Gilfeddor, ex-member for Wallace was presented hst week by his late constituents with a purse o: 156 sovereigns. Before being sentence 1 at the Kent Assiz-Sto seven years' peial servitude for six burglaries, Thomas Doarnan, 66, admitted that ho had already spent 34 years in gaol, hut urged that he was not too old to reform. The new bell for tho the Oamaru P.>,t Office weighs tlewt all but a few pounds. Tho Austrian Empire has been bankrupt twice—once in 1811, when she paid j 5s in the £, And. again in ISI4, when she i paid 2s in the £.

No less than 1,600 Victorian farmers (mostly of the Mallee countr.,) have applied to tho Stati Minister of agriculture for free grants of seed wheat.

During the month of December 4188 persons arrived in the colony, and 1415 took their departure. The figures for December, 1901, are 3307 and 1500 respectively. The land which is to bo thrown open in Nelson province early in March com prises in all about 11.000 acres. Six thousand acres is said to be offered on toe optional system, and the remainder in small grazing runs. The land is in the Gordon district, south of kelson. Oar Dunedin correspondent telegraphed last night:—The Star states . on reliable authority that Commissioner Tunbridge has asked to be relieved from office as from March 31st next owing to falling health.

Two hundred sympathisers have dug and stored two acres of potatoes belonging to Mr Reddy, tli3 Irish M.P., now in prison UDder the Crime 3 Act,

It is stated that there will be a shortag-i in the wheat crop in the Temuka district in consequence of 'he rain that has fallen so persistently of late.

The grass seed harvest will almost completely fail in the Clutha district this year.

Within the last few months Australia has exported £300,000 in gold to Japan.

The erection of the new lighthouse at Cape Campbell is to be proceeded with at an early date. The present structure, which has seen its be3t days, will be replaced by one of modern design, (54ft high.

Colonel Gudgeon, British Residant at; "Earatonga, has notified the Governor of New Zsaland that Ngamaru Ariki is anxious to present King Edward witli one of his small islands in the South Seas. If the island is transferred to Great Britain Colonel Gudgeon will hava it planted with cocoanut trees. An energetic endeavour is to be made to establish an agricultural and pastoral association at Dannevirke. It is s'.ated in London that nearly 600 missionaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society are at work in Australia and New Zealand.

There are 292 trained nurses on the New Zealand official register. The number of surveyors holding licenses under the New Zealand Surveyor's Board is 354.

A heavy greenstone mere has been subscribed to by Wairarapa Natives who intend to present the same to the Premier in appreciation of his services in his public position. A eilver shield is attached to the mere by a silver chain. The mere is valued at forty guineas and, we understand, belonged to Mr Tai Te Tau's ancestors, eo that it has a special value m that account as being a prized heirloom of the tribe.—Wairarapa Times.

As showing to what extent the "week | end" excursions are popularising Queenstown as a placa of holiday resort, it may bo msntioned (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent) that at the first of them 113 adults travelled on the steamer, at the second 139, and on Saturday 210—a tot U for three trips of 462. The recent cricket match between Lord Hawke's team and Wellington is said by the Post to have been the most successful match yet played in New Zealand. It is estimated that during the three days no fewer than 15,000 people attended the mitcb. The takings at the gates aggregated £6OO, and other returns are expected to bring the total receipts for the match up to £OSO. This amount constitutes a record "gate" for New Zealand. The amount of deposits in the Post Office Savings Banks during the quarter ended 31st December was £1,198,363, as compared with £1,118,330 for the corresponding period of 1901. The withdrawals totalled £1,128.064, against £1,061,269 for the sam3 period of the previous year.

What was at one time called "Australia's greatest curse" has proved a blessing to the drought stricken population in the interior. The de3p ; sod rabbit has kept many struggling farmers alive, and the skin*, worth lid a pound, have been a source of unexpected income.

Mr Henry Gullett, the retiriog editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, is the wealthiest working journalistin Australia. From his 1500 shares in tho Telegraph Company, paid up to £lO each, he! draws £3OOO a year in dividends. As Telegraph shares sold tho other day at £SO, Mr Gullett'a scrip represents £75,000. He reads live hours a day, and live 3 quietly. There were 20S artisans and 4220 labourers employed on Government cooperative woiks in the Colony during last month. The Public Works Department employed all the artisans and 1667 labourers and 1573 men were employed by the Depariment of Eoads. On Railway works 657 men were engaged on tho North Island Main Trunk line, 163 on the Blenheim-Waipara, 30 on the Stratford Wangonomia, 52 on tho PneroaWaihi, 56 on the Helensville Northwards line, 244 on the 0:ago Central, 163 on the Midland, 85 on the Goal Creek", 55 on the Catlins-Seawarcl Bush, 58 on the OrepukiWaiau, and 40 on the Heriot ■ xtension.

'Musical News' remarks, apropos of the tour of the New Zealand band—" That particularly active island (New Zealand) promises to send over a complete band, which vriil either show our musicians how to play better, or, possibly, that they themselves have something to lea:n." Mr Carnegie List summer purchased a new library for the town of Crawfordshirc, Indiana (0.5.) at a cost of £SOOO. _ By the irony of fate the purchiNins; Committee of the iiorary have declined to buy Mr Carnegie's new book 'The Empire of Business," asserting that the library fund is hmited, and that other books are needed more. Some of the books needed are popular novels and detective stories. The Government Insurance Department has had a very successful year. The new business obtained during 1902 amounted to £8G4,502, of which £(577,018, or about £35,000 more than the previous year, was accepted and closed. The triennial investigation is now being made and policy holders may expect to 1)3 notified at an early date that a substantial addition has been made to their policies by the way of bonus.

Bandsmen in the South Island have bien regretting for several years past thas thoy have had to journey up to the North Island in order to take part in the contents. A proposal now comes from the Timaru Garrison Band that the South Island contests should be revived. The Timaru Band is an enterprising body, whish is now making an effort to secure Mr J. Ord Hume (the Englsh musician who is to judge the Masterton contest) as its bandmaster. This band now proposes that a contest shou'd be held in Timaru during September or October next. In a circular upon the subject a proposal' it made that two test pieces should b 9 provided for a first prize of j!£100, a secend of £SO, and a third of .£25, that a marahing competition be held, prizes £2O, £fu, and £3, and a gold medal to ths buglemajor of the winning band ; and that solo competitions shall be placed on the programme for various instruments.

A warning to grocers is furnished by the narrow escape from poisoning made by a Newton family the other day. A grocer had a cask of vinegar with a leaking tap, and his assistant placed under it a clean galvanised iron bucket to

catcli the drops. The assistant also supplied a customer with a bottle of snegar taken from the bucket, but the appcaraneo of the liquid was such that the customer and members of her household did not do much more than taste it. They became ill, and analyses made by the Colonial Analyst showed that the vinegar in the cisk was all right, but that a sample from the bucket contained zinc in sohmon through the vinegar having dissolved the metaf of the bucket. The poison was fortunately not taken in sufficient quantities to cause serious results.

The Rav Faher O'Hdlahan ha? just communicated to th. 9 West Coast limes the contents of a letter received by him fromDrE H. Scott of Eeefton. There-

in the doctor expresses the deep regret of Mrs Scott and himse'.f on learning of the sad death of Mr Jno. M'Keegan of Kumara, who died from injuries received while working in his claim. The doctor also enclosed a cheque for two guineas towards the Eeii:f Fund, an act of generous thoughtfulnoss, and one that has caused much gratification to the public generally, who takes this opportunity of thanking the doctor for his handsome; donation.

Mr J. Grimmond Mayor of Eoss and Chairman of the We3tlani Education Board, left by the Mapourik* yesterday on a visit to Auckland. While there he will attend a conference of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, who hold their first session in New Zealand at Auckland, next week. The Bight Hon. the Premier and Minister of Mine 3 have been invited to be present.

Our Eoefton correspondent writes:— The members of Lord Hawke's Cricket ' team arrived last night at nine o'clock, having baen driven from Motupiko at which place they left at 4 a.m. by special coach, Mr W. Newman being the driver. A. large number of people assembled to meet them, and I learn they were fairly entranced with the beautiful scenery along the route the day being simply perfect. The team stayed at Stevenson's hotel and left by this morning's train for Greymouth. The cricket match between Westport and Hokitika scra'ch team on Cass Square Hokitika yesterday afternoon i ended in an easy win for the visitors bj 67 runs. Westport batted first making 112 runs, to which the home team replied with 45 runs. For Westport, Fair (38) and Griffiths (23) batted in fine style, and with Syan (12) and Mulligan (10) were the chief scorers, Mason (3 wickets for 11) and Cucrie (3 for 27) were the best of the Hokitika bow'ers. Tha batting of the home eleven was not very strong. Sutherland being top scorer with 9. This player was batting very steady when he was run out Fair was bowling in tip top form for Westport, securing 7 wickets for 10 runs. The fielding of the home team was vary poor, eaten after catch being missed, and as many runs as were rnide off the bat were lost in the field.

A meeting of the Committee of the Hokitika Trotting Club was held last evening. It was resolved to hold the annual trotting meeting on April 15th (Easter week), and the following programme was drawn up: —Maiden Handicap Trot of 5 sov?, one mile. Open Handicap Trot, of 12 sovs, one mile. Pony Plat Handicap of 5 sovs, five furlongs. Westiand Handicap Trot of 25 sovs, 2 miles. Local District Handicap Trot, (for approved horses of tradesmen, settlers and others of tho Westiand County), one mile. Autumn Handicap Trot, oil 20 sovt, 1§ miles. Final Handicap Trot, of 15 sovs, one mile. The stakes amount to £9O, and it was resolved to fix entries for all events for Monday, April sth, and to declare handicaps on Tuesday, April 14th.

Two new sawmills are being erected between the Kapitea and Acre Creeks on the Hokitika-Kumara railway line, Messrs Gillies and Wilson, who already own a mill at the Kumara Junction, and Mr A. Thompson of Awatuna are the respective proprietors of the new mills. Considering that tho bush in the vicinity of these mills has already been drawn upon for a number of yearj, it should not be very difficult to calculate the number of sawmills that will spring up when the railway to Boss is completed. During the past year dredging has cost the Timaru Harbor Board no less than £5270 18s 11 \. At a meeting of the Board this was condemned as too costly, and it was decided to ask the engineer to report on the feasibility of pumping the silt from the Harbor on the same principle at that applied at Dun edin.

St. George Jams: —Once used, always used. -Advt.

St. George Jams—Ask for, and e that you ge« them.—Advt Soma 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 new and complex diseases that baffle their curative skilL Therefore be wise in time, eat only K Jam aud avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guaranteed—Advt.