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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 February 1909, Page 2

The Arbitration Court will sit at Beefton on February 3rd, when several cases will be heard. ' The weather must be a trifle sultry at Blenheim today, as at 9 a.m. the thermometer registered 78 degrees, which was the highest reading in the dominion' Mr 1?. 11. Turton, S.M. and Warden. will hold sittings of his Court* as under: Gr'evmouth Bth. 9th, 22nd and 23rd: Reefton, Uill am] 25th: Altanra. 24th; Brunnerton (Justices) 12th and 26th. In this issue P, W. Calvin begs to notify his customers that he has removed to more centrally situated premises in Gieselfing'a Buildings, lately occupied by the Singer .Machine Company. His new shop is fitted up in the latest and most up-to-date style, and customers can rely on receiving the Ues| attention. The railed Football Club have lost no lime in taking advantage of the permission granted to them by the Greymouth Borough Council to erect a training shed or gymnasium.' Already a start has been made with the structure, the piles of which are now bejn" placed in jiosition. The Club members are imbued with a go-ahead spirit, which augurs well for the future success of their organisation. Mr W. 11. Kitdiingham presided at a mooting of the committee of the Greymoiitli Poultry Club, held on Monday evening. Various matters appertaining to the welfare of the Clunb were discussed, It was decided to hold the annual meeting in the course of the next week or two. The .Secretary (Mr Charles McQueen) submitted an interim balance-sheet, which was considered sat is factor v.

If you are a tennis player you will be interested in the fine showing of all the requirements for your game of every reliable make displayed at F. C. Wade and Co's. The stock is new and comprehensive, and every single article is of indisputable quality. These goods arc well worthy of your inspection, and if you will call and look through them the prices will please you, too. The bargain feast is at its height, and every purchaser is quite enthusiastic for the exceptional bargains procurable at the great solid saving sale at C. Smith's. Every article is so good and so stylish, and the prices are so enormously reduced to effect a clearance that it means money in your pocket to buy now. Be sure to come in eon while the selections are good.—('. Smith, the reliable draper, clothier and boot importers.—Advt.

The Greymouth Battalion Band last week commenced practising the test piece for the Recfton contest, to be held on March 26th and 27th. The piece offers scope for inslruinenlalisiu and abounds in difficult parts. The band, by assiduous practice under Conductor Staffan, hope to be able to son master the most intricate passages in such a manner as will place them at the head of the list at the contest.

Mr A. Diiinie, the chief electrical engineer at Otira, states that the electrical plant, driven by a water inta'ke at Holt's Creek, is now in working order, and is being us.ed with good results. The progress is about 72ft per week. The full length of penetration is now between 28 and 29 chains. The concrete mixing plant should bo working by now, and blocks will be made for the tunnel lining. The "widening out" process should be commenced very shortly.

About 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon the alarm of "Man overboard" ran along the Quay, and there was immediately a rush for the wharf. It appears that a sailor on one of the boats in port was walking along the wharf, when he tripped and fell overboard. As. however, ho was a powerful swimmer, he was never in any great dancer, and wa.s soon on to terra firma again 9 , apparently none the worse for his involuntary'dip, which he said h<s preferred to happen on a Rumnwrg thy rather than b} miil-wjntfir,

-Mr Colvin, M.P., is advised thai. 20 ■additional Imm are to be employed oaitho' 1 '" auie-mile section of .the Westport'Reefton; ■ railway. ■■ ' f -' ■-.-■ ■■i,' ■. v '■- '■; ■■'*' ' . The usual fortnightly meeting of the Druids' Lodge, No 36, will be'held'in the lodge room, Tainui street, this evening at, : 3 o'clock.—Advfc. ■ - .',

At a meeting of the Trades Protection Society this morning, at which several trades Were represented, it was agreed that the business people would close premises on any Wednesday that wpujß be suitable for holding the schools' annttaJ picnic. j The following telegram has been ceived by the Hon. A. R. Guinness from Sir Joseph Ward, who is now in Rotorua, in reference to the appointment of the Timber Commission :—"I am unable to state the exact day. but hope in the course of a few days to be able to announce the constitution of the commission."

Our Brunner readers should not miss the opportunity of seeing Valentine's pictures in the Taylorville Hall this evening. Those who witnessed the performance Last evening speak in the highest praise of the pictures, and consider the show as one of the Lest that has ever appeared on the Coast. Go and see for yourself to-night.

Now that'the weather has taken a decided change for the better," and the arrangements for the. Foundry and Railway picnic completed, the outing on Saturday is being looked forward to by all. The Battalion Band has a programme of music > drawn up for the day, and under Bandmaster Stdftan the public are assured that the train ride will be relieved by the beautiful strains of music. Tea, etc.. will be provided, also soft drinks at a nominal price by the committee. Mr Joseph Jackson met with a serious accident last night, during the rehearsal of the pantomime "Dick Whittington." He was in the gridiron arranging the * ' scenery, when he slipped and fell a distance of thirty feet, striking in his descent a bannister and two children. Jackson, who sustained a nasty scalp wound, was rendered temporarily unconscious. He was attended by T)r McKay,who did all possible to alleviate the sufferer, who to-day is as well as can be expected. Favored with fine weather, good pro} gress is being made with the laying down of the second tennis court on the Itecrealion Ground for the United Tennis Club...

It is confidently expected that it will be completed next week, and will be ready for play a week or so later. Thereafter tho construction of the third court will l>c undertaken. The court, which has been completed for weeks past, has Itoeu extensively patronised by the many enthusiastic devotees of the game. It is the intention of the Club to have a formal opening ceremony fit an early date.

Yesterday afternoon Mr Nash, of Gladstone's sawmill siding, while Jishing at the mouth of the Teremakau river, about nine miles from Grcymonlh, picked up a bottle containing the following note:--"Whoever should find this will know that we, Henry Ford and William Kanabes, are shipwrecked on an island about 40 miles south of the Bluff, and we are man extremely serious position, having not lung to eat and only water to drink. r.S.— Kindly send a steamer. (Signed) H. Ford avid W. Kanabes, November 15th, 1803." The note was written on a blank envelope.

Referring to the import market, the New Zealand Trade Review says that in all branches of trade a ooraewhat restricted sale of business is reported. In groceries, the retailers generally found that the supplies laid in for the Christmas season's trade were more than sufficient, and transactions were since of a hand-to-mouth character. The hardware trade is affected by the slackness in the building work. The soft-goods summer season, which is now over, has, on the whole, proved better than anticipated. Next month marks the opening of the autumnwinter season.

A committee meeting of the Sailing Club was held hi the Criterion Hotel hist evening, Mr G. Sweetman being m the chair. " The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. It was revoked to postpone the cup competition fiom the 6th to the 13th instant on a«count of the Railway and Foundry picnic, and also-to hold the Club's flag race on the 13th immediately after the other eyent The distance will be three miles. It was also resolved to hold a ten-mile r.u« for Mr Pollock's trophy on the iith, when the lower buoy will Ijfi placed a few miles outside, in order to test tho boats on every quarter.

At the School Committee meeting at Hokitika on Monday evening, a letter was n\ul from Mr Walters, of Kumara, ad* dressed to the Rector of the Victoria High School, in which he expressed much gratitude to the Rector and staff for the advancement in education, which they had afforded two of his sous, Both he stated had matriculated from the local school, both had passed the Junior Civil Service and one the Senior Civil Service examination, and for such a fine result he gave the greatest credit to Mr Wake ;uxl his staff. The School Committee received the letter and endorsed the encomiums parsed therein. --Times. *-*»

The payment of bonuses, which has caused some discussion since it was adopted at the Otira tunnel works, found an advocate at a-gathering of Messrs McLean and Sous' employees. Mr U. Hove, whose departure from "the works wa.s the occasion of the gathering, said that he did not consider that the men were working for an •'exertion wage" when they accepted the hojins which Mr McLean .had given them. The men had not worked harder, but it wii; only a matter of getting into better ground. He had been in unions in Western Australia and Waihi for over twenty years, and he thought that the men were quite justified in doing what they did. They need not think they had in any way rim'counter to the principles of unionism. Mr E. A.Wickes, secretary of the West Coast Sawmillers' in the course of an interview at Christchurch, stated that the scope of the Timber Commission was wide enough, but much would deppnd u|>on the personnel of the commission. Ue thought that it would Ik a mistake to restrict the sittings of the commission to the four centres. While granting that important evidence would be given in the cities, which were the largest consumers of timber, he was of opinion that it was of equal, if not of greater importance, that the commission should visit the sawmilling districts of the dominion, and should, if possible, see the methods adopted from the felling of the trees to the cutting and shipment of the timber, and should also visit the bush areas to get some idea of the available milling timber.

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