Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1902.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 March 1902, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star, AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1902.

A very fair sprinkling of Grcymoutli sports left for Beef ton to-day to at end the races which will be better patronised than yesterday. Business at Brunner is likely to lie very detrimentally affected by the partial stoppage of the Brunner mine, (he knocking off of one shift throwing about 80 men out of work.

The services in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow will bo conducted by the Rev J. R. Clark of Kumara. Mr Clark is well and favourably known on the Coast, and the fact that he has been invited to remain a fourth year at the Southern town speaks well fur his popularity both in and out of the pulpit.

The statement of affairs in the GreyAm.ild No I Gold Dredging Company shows that fince registration on 12th July, WOO, the sum of £339 10s lid has been expended in carrying on operations. The amount called up is Is 3J per share, and the present numberof shareholders 79. The amount of cash at the bankers is £56 4s sd, and the debts owing by the company £ll Oj lid.

There ii to bo an interesting ceremony performed by tdalf Captain AVard ol: the Salvation Army in the Opera House on Easter Monday, when two prominent members of tlie local branch will be publicly united. The Greymonth and Blackball Salvation Army bands will unite for this occasion, also Ensign A lbs Smillic and Lieutenant Miss Holdsworlb of Hokitika will sing. Mr Hassell, Mayor of Brunner and Mr Batts of Ilceftou loft per si earner Buupiri last night for "Wellington, on routs to Auckland where they represent the Brunner and Rsofmn Unions at the annual Lab or Conference.

The p. s. Jano Doug'a J will nuclei go examination at Nelson to-day by the Inspector of Machinery, and is t-xp clad to come to the coast immediately. Hie owners have been urging the repairs with such expedition as might be expected. Mr Malloy representing Air Keech has been in N, Ison superintending openrio.'.s. The vessel shored be in comuiUoion again u j. f-.w days.

The “Wellington Post” states that a; the annual meeting of the ‘Talmc-r-ton A jr.h Gas Company” held in Woiltngion on tiro If h hist. Hr Collins in the chair, the report and balance sheet were adopted. The Chairman paid a high tribu e to the zeal and ability of the Company’s engineer and seer, tary, Air Matthew ivei.iji dv, who had done suck excellent; work for the Company. That officer rich y deserved the substantial increase of sa.ary awarded him. The Mr .Kennedy referred to, whom wo heartily congratulate on bis continued success, is the eldest ton of our local Gas Manager, and has evidently got a good few wrinkles from the old man.

Saturday’s cablegrams from Sydney mentioned a fatal tram accident, in which an old lady named Treweeke, a recent arrival from JN'ew Zealand, was the victim. It is assumed that the message refers to a Airs Treweeke who recently made a round of the colony sightseeing in company with her grandchild, a youngster about eight years of ago. bhe was a uoii-intormeel and apparently wealthy woman, connected with the manager of a ianu somewhere in he back country of Queensland. Hating the irip about this colony she visited the Hot Springs Histrict about .Rotorua, and als.) made the coach journey b.tween Christchurch and Blenheim.

Toi-thuicl, in Wr. stern Victoria, the other day got a new pier capable of accommodating largo ocean going steamers. Tliu residents arc determined to build up as big a trade as possible at the port, and dibits are to be made la divert much of the produce from the Western district, which is i.ovt dripped to Melbourne for export.

The two Liodon Bates dredges which (Queensland purchased rtctii'ly at a cost of JS23O.COJ are said not to be working efficiently, and a U-oVeivautn! enquiry is to be held into the matter.

In consequence oi dm abnormal traffic .a. the Wading on s'-ctio:.’ of the Government iv.llw ys, about; a dozen engine drivers and iircmsn have recently been brought up from tire Bouth. The sheep and timber traffic ha.t of late been exceptionally heavy.

[’,.]■ n-ing threatening ‘’deaf and dumb' language towards bis fa titer and brother, a deaf mule has been bound ov. r to keep the p ace a; Blackburn. The length of a petrrss’.-* train is strictly regulat'd, and varies according to In r rank. A duchess will Lave her tr.-ti •<. three yads long, a marchioness two and a half, countesses arc limited to two yards, viscountess; s to one and a half, and bar one. s's m ,no yard

Tymotis and Co, buy for cash and sell for cash and keep the sliding whirling.— Advt.

It isannounced that tho .King o£ Italy will pay a State visit to Stc.ly in May, and that his progross through the island will be made on an automobile. This will be the first occassion on which a monarch has journeyed through his dominions in this manner. The total of 119 fatalities in tho Swiss Alps during the year 1901 constitutes die record, and is double the number of fatalities in 1900. Chamounix is the principal centre from which the deaths of mountain climbers have been announced.

An unusual incident occurred the other day at the university of Budapest. A confined lunatic from the local asylum appeared in charge of his keeper and asked to be allowed to pass his examination. He found examination work quite congenial, passed vary successfully, and returned to his asylum again with his diploma as a professor. Enquiry lias been made of the Chamber of Commerce by the Perth (West Australia) Cr amber, as to the constitution of New Zealand harbour boards, as tho creation of a similar body in contemplated it! Perth. Tho information is being supplied. Cases frequently occur in the Old *ga Pensions Courts of women suffering for tin vanity and deception of the days w.’icn they wer-t blushing - brides. Mr

li'i-o d .n. 3.M., commented « u baturuay i i Wcihngion on the ‘’inexmsanlo vanity” of a woman who claimed that she was

.•ocngcr thin h bowed. No

er inuriage certificate pension was grant d.

'i’ll ro Is another Nemesis common to both sexes, remarks the “Post”—the deception practised by many in the old immigrant ship days, wii n the younger she immigrant the bciior Ins chance of a h rib. Toe few forgotten years that served to bring the immigrant to the land of promise now constitute him an alien in the hind of pension. Tho English Post Office is now laying

an underground line of telegraph wires to Birmingham, Liverpool. Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Ulasgow, and Edinburgh. Ibis it is considered will afford security against interruption of telegraphic commemca'ion nut only to f hese important cities, but also to many intermediate towns, white it wi.i give practical Sfeuiity to Sheffield and the towns on the oast coast, and increase tiro stability in telegraphic service gene ally.

Some interesting figures have been placed at our disposal showing in detail the rt'. uli of the matriculation, medical, preliminary, and solicitors’ general knowledge examinations of the New Zealand University in the various centres. Of the total -150 who passed 261 were boys and 189 girls, and the numbers worts disposed as follows :—Matriculation, boys 208, girls, 180, total 388; medical preliminary, boys 29, girls 8, total 37 ; solicitors’ general knowledge, boys 21, girls 1, total 25. The solitary young lady who passed the solicitors’ examination hails from Auckland, while the budding women doctors are distributed -Auckland 2, Wellington, Nelson, and Christchurch 1 each, Dunedin 3.

A iato message from Canada states lhafc on 31st December last all the railroad and other elevators in Manitoba and the North-West were filled with grain, and this, together with a shortage of ears, had caused a serious condition of affairs. The farmers were storing wheat at every available point, and y ling it about the stations. Not half the crop had been marketed. It is stated in Vancouver that the Canadian Pacific Rahway intends shortly to put on a new overland train to make the journey from the Pacific Coast to Montreal in three days. The train will run on three days each week, and will ho devoted exclusively to passenger trallic. A four days’ sale of more rare postage stamps held in London recently realised over £2OOO. Among the high prices obtained was .-CBO for a Nevis Is yellowish* green of 1867. The two shocks of earthquake in Mexico at die end of Jaimai y practically ruined fh> city of Chilpaneingo. The Governor of (lie province and his family were living in a stable, and the inhabitants were camping our in the fields. Many people were repaired to have gone insane as a re.-ult of the horrors. It was proposed to icbuild the city on a new site. A gigantic feat of engineering is con-

taiupiaic-d in order to improve the navigation of tiie waterways debouching on the Sea of Azof!’. The prorosai is to build a d.3-;o 3(5 fj-t high and twelve miles long at the cm ranee to the straits giving communication to the Black he a. the dyke, which will be provided with 1 ;cks, will raise the level of the S a of AzoiT no less than 12 fe-t. Trie scheme has the approval of the Tsar, ft will occupy six years before its completion, and w 11 cost £~>, 000,(.00.

A Government survey party at Lake i.otoiti Jiavc discovered a cave of large extent on (ho northern side of that beautiful sheet of water. They rowed a boat two or three chains into tiro cave, but owing to want of artificial light were not able to proceed any further. It is thought that there may lie a connection between (his ca. o and the abyss on ' atawhaura Mountain, used by the natives a, a sepn chre for tiro bones of departed chiefs. Wo beg to state that visitors to Grey mouth wid sp nd a happy and profitable (ime in Tymons and Co.—Ar>VT For sound value and low prices, Tymons and Co excel. —Advt.

No one is pressed to buy at Tymons and Go’s. —Advt.

Civility and attention is paid tio.il who visit Tvmona and C >. — Advt.

Some of the highest living medical authorities attribute Ilia great growth of physical and mental disease which has characterised the last low decades, to the universality of adulteration. They a Ulna Ilia--, the talrng info the system contiirna’ly by human beings as mod, substances which arc chemically foreign and not only incapable of: sus-

taining luvhby life, but constitute a perpetual danger to it, is largely responsible for the new and complex diseases that bailie their curative skill. Therefore be wise in time, eat only 11 Jam

and avoid these dangers. Absolute purity guaranteed—Advt.