OUR BLACKBALL LETTER.

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1906, Page 1

OUR BLACKBALL LETTER.

(Our Own Correspondent.) J 1 ** Church/ which ) offits pi] es during the lS [ gale, has now been replaced by Mr W Mclaga-art and DMne service was held last Sunday by Mr Stills placf 1 Pemanen % Tiio social tendered by Mr Mart "„ ln tllo theatre last Fridav and was a very successful affair. £ hall 1 Several J^i™ 08 ' enjoyable e™g--1,,.,1t J :clltlen, . en contributed songs duimg the evening, the one by Mr J ioved V f ? Jly T' S lhor o«g% enoyed Refreshments were handed nisi and second parts of the uroarim »«, and Mrs Stevens is to bJ coin pi "ontedfor the generous manner 1 ! v.ch she catered for the large gathering. Dancing was kept up till 2 o'clock m the morning the music 1^ coLA TT) and Rl "des (comet). Unfortunate y Mr Stevens could not bo present/owing t bS confined to his bed through llUieS Ben Kn P" T 8 aM T taken S Mr Ben Rhodes, who in a happy s {eech w> coined the guests and bade hen The social and ball to be held hew on Jnday next to celebrate tfeidth ' f IU - U - LO -OF., promises to be a great success. Tickets have been sol* «g very rapidly, both Really* anTin fct g » f Tiss^rsf suppei will be an effort of the confee rltr'S-^ 16 COmmittee spa : KfsSS 11 " expense to make, s le-imion the most successful one' io Lodge has ever hold, and cverv »»S Points; to their endeavors K crowned with success. a Iwenty men have been drafted from i>e railway works here to go to Hoof oil and the Otira, and there s imt a edu:^™" 1 ? / W *& 0* reduction of hands mean the Gocrninent thinks the Blackball-Nga-io hno is being to rapidly compltJt ii\. SOj when (1 ° they think it ould bo ready for traffic? Accord g to he Premier, when ho drove the pile of the bridge, this line should avo been completed and trains run inng over twelve months ago £ «" it is, it will take another eighteen j»onths to two years before tlf £n B acl-b'.'.lf CS -! tS a PP e «ance at the Wackball railway station. Will Mr fK-'ddon keep his promise, made at a fanquet here, to Mr Nees to have the P ny'lt f 0r Tf h ° Coa ' Cot ?f i. „ If so ' Jl ° will to see to it that tho work of formation and bridge.building is p„ shcd ahead S he a S US f tiW I>apar ° a Col W nave a staff of surveyors under Mr billies hard at work laying "ut the route for their railway, which °w?ll bo put m hand as soon as the survey is

■I o local Medical Association have dlclde «j b Y Fallot to build a new and 'P-to-date residence and surgery for he doctor on the site of the present umldniffs, which .'<; f,» i,, l"^"' 1 Tl.k ic „ I ° bo amoved. J-ins, is a correct move on the part of tir'r- b "t they should cal It mil at TV 0 thafc the bnildfnm flI y e rCady for OC( =upation bein S ° VC ' reSt Part ° f the winter

1.-W^ d f f«» m . Blackball Creek to imncb Hotel, is m a pre t t y bad state us now while several plice, on tt , V (il ? tovnship would be the better of a httle metal. The County Council Wlll; T am atfend to «y ed to it SOOU aS Xt attentiou is call-