GREYMOUTH.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9444, 16 June 1896, Page 2

GREYMOUTH.

"Weekly Press and Referee."

June S.

Mr Jay, who left for Capetown some foul '. or five months ago in the interests of this, timber trade, returned to Greyinouth this .-; week after a very pleasant trip. Mr Jay \ speaks very hopefully in regard to opening.]) j a foreign market for our timber, and it a ' \ more than likely that a direct line of sailing - '\ ships to the Cape will be au accomplish!:! / ~\ fact in the course of a Bhort time. Theft" ; are already ■ signs that the iuduntary -Jj- , " reviving in that the mills are once moralir: '■ full work. , &.'•' The annual meeting of the GreyintwjJ-: r Savage Club was held this evening. BK majority of the members are young tmwho find the club a pleasant meea|| ; place, where they can spend their 'vifaii iugs in innocent amusement—in factlS-v has supplied a long felt want, . Aitfv our best thanks are due to Mr- HotfelT and those associated with him in their ,'- ----past efforts to keep the institution alive. J Many predicted that because it was a. - non-liquor club, and had no billiard table-i . ~ that therefore it could not last; but these - predictions have proved false. The whist _/".• tournaments, chess, and occasional social reunions, have been an attraction apart from , anythinu else. ; ' ,"_. TJie people of Nelson Creek are making a } , name for themselves in regard to school = matters. At the annual meeting of house- -■ holders a disagreement arose, with the, > result that no committee was elected. -The 'j? board, however, gave the householders '•". another opportunity, and the meeting was " C ; held last Monday evening,' but just as the ij business was to be proceeded with a free fight took place at one. end of • the vooift, as -:■ several joined in tho, BorimmagV'the cn&nj. " - man was obliged to break up the.meeting. k« It now devolves upon ;the Board to appoint | | one or two commissioners to conduct school j;matters in that particular district. '^ A most:pecnhar accident befelMrL. G._"'J-\ Reeves on Wednesday afternoon. In comV '.-* i pany with several others he proceeded to :___; Marsden on hiß bicycle. On their return they.,,. i came across a number of cows on the jnain»-' > : road near Paroa. % All succeeded in passing " 1 [ them except Mr Reeves who, as ho ran by one of the cows was kicked at, the animal's ~L*| leg passed through the machine; Mr Reeves ■'•-J I was thrown off, and on picking himself up . v what was his dismay but to find his valuable ..% bicycle still clinging to the cow which, needless to say, .was rushing hither and thither, g. in her mad efforts to disentangle herself from 4% the strange encumbrance. She finally k« brought up in the middle of ihe rood, gave * , a final shake and cast it off, a. complete :p wreck. Mr Reeves states thut the httle fj episode was highly amusing from a b*VaS stander's point of view, and one that would £„<■ have caused a hearty laugh, but from h_"£rl own way of looking at it it was far fr»»/~£l being a pleasant one. " -iMJ;>, We are experiencing a long spell of markably .fine weather; there h»B total absence of rain for three or »%:v weeks, and as a consequence, the mines ato-v, idle for want of water. Our Chinese ninn£§|. population has been augumented during t»;:;v. last fortnight by the arrival from of forty or fifty of these undesirable' migrants, It ".would seem that'tMrypu'i. anticipate an increased poll tax this sesswjk&'j Chinese syndicates who import wW£i countrymen are rushing them in while have the chance: - . ■ - i';/ii Mr Joseph Scott, the popular manager « . fc the Blaokball.Coal Mine, has been »I_«W-A. a Justice of the Peace, an appointment «■» \fc will give general satisfaction the district. -, _-,-;",'