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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 September 1902, Page 2

The average English canal carries 6000 tons a year per mile. The Suez Ganal carries 60,000 in the same period.

"The lady who sent the order from Ikamatua to Christopher Smith's will kindly forward her name and the parcel will he sent.—Advt. We remind farmers, butchers, and others, that the sale of store cattle by G. W. Moss and Co, will take place atTotara Elat, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr Powick, driver of 'the Premier dredge, had two of his fingers taken off and a third split in the cog wheels of the dredge, while working, on Saturday.

Our Wellington correspondent states that at the request tho Speaker of the House tho projected Legislative dinner to be tendered to him has been deferred til[ next year. The annual ball at Paroa in connection with the Grey Eiver Hospital will be held to-morrow. As every care has been taken fca ensure success a very pleasurable gathering may he looked for. There is a rough sea along the West Coast with high tides. The temperature of the West Coast stations this morning was as follows :—Westport 52 degrees, Grejmouth 50, Hokitika 44, and Bealey 40.

L. Blood, the well-known walker, intends (says the Lyttelton Times) to make an attempt on the world's record for 54 miles early next month. His course will probably be from Chris tchurch to Leeston and back. Mr Thomas Kiely, the well known bricklayer and stonemason will leave for Ahaura in a few days where he will be prepared to undertake all kinds of work in his trade, including monumental lettering. For further particulars see advertisement in another column of present issue. Mr Lloyd, the well known Greymouth jeweller, has just received a rare consignment of gold and silver ware of the latest design and fashion. His stock always one of the best in town, has consequently been largely added to, by the choice and artistic gems in jewellry of e?ery description and well worthy of inspection. He has also a splendid selection of spectacles with the necessary appliances for tetting the sight of the purcheser. At the next meeting of the Borough Council the following notices of motion will be dealt with: —The Mayor to move that a Committee of the whole Council be formed for the following purposes viz : (1) to consider the best means of raising the £ISOOO loan. (2) to adjust the lamplighter's salary, the dual inspectorship of nuisances and meat, and casual and permanent labor; Mr Bignell to move that the Sawyer's Creek bridge, Cowper Street be widened 6ft and a footpath be formed

on the west side of Cowper Street to the top of the hill; and Mr Joyce to move that the footpath on the north side of Murray Street from Mr Brown's corner to Mr T. McCaul's house be aspbalted. The £ISOOO mentioned in the Mayor's motion is the amount authorised by the last poll, and does not mean any further increased loan.

The Victorian Commissioner of Railways has abolished the system of issuing suburban railway tickets available for a week, and reverts to the old system of making them available for the day of issue only. Personally, he would like to do away with return tickets altogether. "Then," says he, "we could reduco the fares by 30 per cent." A templing but delusive offer. The market in Australia for frozen meat is attracting Argentine competitors in this branch of trade. When the last mail left three cargoes of frozen mutton from the Argentine were daily expected to arrive for the Sydney market, th« consignment consisting of about 150,000 carcases. A Sydney buyer of beef, who is at present in this colony, expresses the opinion that the mutton market in Sydney is unlikely to keep up, and he advises caution in regard to future shipments from this colony, otherwise

exporters will find themselves in straits. At the Magistrate's Court this forenoon before B. P. Hawkins, Esq. S.M., judgment was given for plaintiff by default and costs in the following cases :—J. E. Williams v F. Wolfe, claim for £5 7s 6d; Same v Boss, claim for £4 18s, and same v Mason, claim for £4 15s. The evidence of James Chester for the defence was taken in the action of A. B. Campbell (Invercargill) vJ. Chester. Claim for 25 16s 6d money lent and; interest. Mr Hannan for the defendant, and Wake appeared for plaidtiff. It appears that defendant was a shareholder in a syndi cata formed at Invercargill to propped for coal, at Preservation Inlet. He had one paid up share and had not been called on to pay towards the cost, till early this year. He contended that having a paid up interest, the Company had no claim on him. I; further appears that Campbell paid the money alleged to be due, and now sued Chester for the amount together with interest.

General Pienaar, one of Da Wet's tenants, had an unbounded admiration for Tommy Atkins. "England," he declares "'should be proud of her infantry, for nothing can equal their bravery, persistence, and'unswerving tenacity. They creep, creep, creep on like waves, following each other closely. One man falls, the next moment his plice is filled, and on they go in endless unswerving lines." The Boers, he added, had the greatest admiration for their courage, and he relates an incident after an encounter at Thabanchu. The Boers and the Tommies fought like lions one Saturday, twenty, eight English being taken prisoners. The following morning they were all playing football together. Pienaar said to De Wet: ''Look at those boys—fighting yesterday, and playing together today" ; and De Wet answered; "They are only enemies while they have their bandoliers on."

The Reefton district was visited on Saturday by an unprecedented fall of snow, and yesterday there was a further heavy fall, the town and surrounding hills beiDg covered by the white mantle. It is needless to say the younger portion of the community enjoyed the snow to their heart's content, and much to the discomfiture of their elders. The fall of snow so late in the spring will causa no end of damage to the gardens, and those who have anything above ground will be extremely fortunate if they are able to preserve their vegetables from total extinction.

[ The recent rains.were very timely down south for the Mont d'Or and other claims, which has enabled them to resume sluicing operations. The returns from the Prince of Wales and Kohinoor are encouraging, and it is generally expected that larger weekly yields will be recorded in future. We are all looking forward to ihe completion of the Eoss Day Dawn Company's dredge. It is understood the machinery will arrive next week, and will be at once placed in position. Experienced miners anticipate that this will not only be one of the richest claims, but one of the easiest worked on the West Coast.

Mr W. Rollitt, is definitely a candicate for the Lyttleton seat at the next general election.

For every 100 people who live in tlie country in the United Kingdom 258 live in towns.

Without machinery one man can cultivate 12 acres of cotton. With machinery 30 acres.

The first shell was used in actual warfare by the Sultan of Gujerat in 1848.

Scotland has 717 islands around its coasts, but only 62 exceed three square miles in area.

The Manawatu Parmer reports the discovery of gold bearing quarts in the Tararua Ranges, and urges that an association shnuld be formed to cirry on further prospecting.

The tourist traffic at Itotorua this coming season bids fair to be very briskAlready Fomo difficulty is experienced in securing rooms at the leading houses, and this in "the off season of the year is remarkable.

No less than 1132 different species of seaweeds are found on Australian coasts. A. device for the extermination of rabbits which has been tried on Buckland Park, Virginia (South Australia), lately has proved most successful. Poisonous guses are forced into the burrows, and the result is the destruction of all rabbits. One burrow when opened after the operation was found to contain 20 dead rabbits By thi3 means it is hoped that the pe3t will bo entirely banisheJ, During the year ending the 31st of March, 1193 dogs were captured by the Wellington municipal authorities and 625 stray dogs were destroyed.

A storm of unusual violence, accompanied by torrential rain and a heavy hail shower, broke over Kief tin Southern Russia on July 20. Large trees were uprooted. Nineteen persons who lived in basements were drowned by the inrush of water, which in many of the streets was about three feet deep. . Two prisoners, with a number of " priors' to their discredit, who were found guilty on a charge of robbery in company, evidently expected a longer term of imprisonment than was imposed on them by Judge Molesworth at Melbourne the other day, and at the conclusion of His Honour's remarks sur prised everyone in court by heartily shaking hands with one another in the dock. A resent visitor to Ooromandel (Auckland) says that the town is crowded with prospectors and miners, attracted by the Bunker's Hill and Haurakigold finds. Numbers of claims are being pegged out. A private letter received at Hobart Sydney states that poor people there are in sore straits. Many families have left off purchasing meat and butter, the prices being prohibitive to small wage earners. Poratoes are retailed at 81b for Is, equal to £l6 per ton. This i 3 more than double current wholesale quotations. Mr Ambrose Jackson, of Hunter, has made an extensive and valuable discovery

on his property, says a Waimate exchange. It consists of a large deposit of fire clay, and experts report that the quality is excellent, and that there is no better between Ohristchurch and Dunedin. The clay takes on an excellent polish, and the supply is said to be inexhaustible. "Writes a London correspondent to the Wanganui Herald:—New Zealand mutton has had rather a nasty blow here. A quantity of it—not a large quantity, certainly, but still an appreciable onewas put upon the Southficld market, a; d condemned as being unlit for food by the health authorities, simply on the ground of inferior quality. Surely such meat should not havo passed the inspection in the colony. In the House the other night Major Steward mentioned the case of a straw-

berry grower who had lost £4OO in one seasoa by the depredations of goldfinches. A grazier of Colwell (N.'iW.)' was fined £2O at Ballon (Queensland) for cutting the rabbit-proof divisional fence between ihe State and Queensland in order to repair a drain. The Commonwealth riflo ma'ch was won by the Vicrorian teim with a score of 1553, with South Australia second with 1519 and Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, following in that order. The report af the Contingents' Transport Commission will be forwarded to the Governor to-day. It is wlti regret that we (luangahua Herald) announce the death of Mr John Kilkenny, which occurred at his residence Buller Koad, aboui four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Deceased was wellknown and much respected throughout the district, and was a universal favorite with his fellow miners. Ho had worked in

;he Globe mino for many years and latterly had betn employed as shift boss there, enjoying the goodwill of his employers and the confidence ;of the men who worked under him.

The Budapest correspondent of the. London Express writes tins in May of this year an infantry captain named Julius Koch was accused of embezzling municipal money. He was triad at the Balassa-Gyarmat courts, and, in spita of protestations of innocence, degraded from his rank aud sentenced to two years' hard labor. The case has now had an unexpected sequel. The captain's wife cima forward ihe other day and confessed that it was she who had sto'en •he money from he-r husband's pocket while he was asleep. There was a fresh trial, and the ex-captain was temporarily released and called as a winess against his wife, who, with tears in her eyes begged the judge to sentence her in order to relieve her conscience. She threatened unless she were punished to kill herself and her children, and she wa3 finally given six months in the eel's. How they deal it out to China, She can't have a say at all ; Her position's very minor Among the naions one and all. Like a man whose health is breaking, i Days arc numbo ed and get fewer, Unless for cough or cold he's taking j W. E. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. I

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