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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1908, Page 2

Fogarty and Williams’s great clearing sale. Fifteen per cent reduction on every article. For fourteen days only. Commenced to-day.—Advt. llorseowners! Attend to your horses before the season is over. A. IV. Yarrall has a large number of the latest clippers, which he is selling cheap. Inspection invited. . The very latest designs, colourings and shapes in photographic mounts; all sizes and the very host value procurable, may he purchased at Ik Dixon’s, photographic dealer, Tainui strete. —Advt. Photographic material and requisites of every description may he purchased at the lowest market prices at Ik Dixon’s, photographic dealer, Tainui street, next Noonan’s.- —Advt. Don’t forget to inspect Fogarty and Williams’s sale display this evening. Biggest and best bargains in boots and shoes ever offered to the residents of the West Gl ast. —Advt. Messrs Gillandcrs, Lampart and O’Neil have handed to Mr and Mrs U Neil, of Aratika, who had their home destroyed hy (ire recently, the sum of £B3 14s, beimr the amount collected from residents in the vicinity of the Otira line. The Petone, which left Lyttelton last audit and is due to-morrow, is bringing from Christchurch all the heavy mail matter. Letters and other light matter will be sent overland as usual, reaching Grey mouth at 8.10 p.ra. The last issue of the Otago Witness was last night purloined from the table of the Public Library. Such petty sneak thieves as will bo guilty of these contemptible pi actices, will be severely dealt with by the authorities if they are caught, which it is hoped they will bo.

Mr J. T. Favillc, the Greymouth representative of Messrs Skelton, Frostickand Co., has now opened the new boot and shoo wholesale emporium over the Druids’ hall, where he has a display of high-class goods equal to anything in the dominion. The railway authorities have undertaken the work of enlarging the Hokitika goods shed. This is being done by widening the present building some thirty feet, the work being done in two sections, so that half of the shed is still available for use in the transit of goods. Mr Horace Tomkies is severing his connection with the Tyneside Company, and leaves for Westport on Monday, having accepted a responsible position at the Government briquette works. Mr Tomkies wil be much missed from Brunner, where he is deservedly popular.

The “cantata,” to be held at the State Collieries on Tuesday evening next, in aid of the erection of a Methodist Church, promises to be a great success. The programme, which is an excellent one, will be found as an inset in the Greymouth “Star,” delivered at Duiiollio and Eunanga this afternoon.

The general topic of conversation at Blackball at the present time is the plain and fancy dress ball, which will be held or Stevens’s Hall on Friday, July 31st. The event is creating great interest amongst the ladies, and we feel sure that the hall will be crowded, seeing that the proceeds are to be devoted tow aids the Druids’ Lodge. The music will be all that can be desired, while the floor will be like a piece of glass. Amateur photographers! Are you wanting an album to mount those loose prints of yours in They will look better and be much safer in a suitable book. Our stock of photographic albums is large and we are sure that we will be able to satisfy vour needs. The albums are well bound and tastefully gotup, and the value is A.l. Call and see them or send for a list at 13. Dixon’s, Tainui street, next door to Ncouan’s. —Advt.

In the report of the Warden’s Court at Reefton on Thursday last, it was stated that the following were adjourned to 30th July, viz., Keep-it-Dark Company, prospecting license; G. J. Perotti, surrender of sawmill license; tramway at Mawheraiti and application for sawmill; F. Kearns, timber warrant; D. Panckhmst, p-.ospecting license, and W. P. and W. C. Gardner, renewal of water race. It appears that each of the above applications were granted, the mistake occurring in transmission.

A candidate thus commends himself to the electors of Wairau, the seat at present held by the Hon. C. H. Mills- T carried on the business as an architect and building surveyor for -o years, made a moderate fortune, went into building speculations, district became overbuilt, rents fell, my ruin, and here I am bale and hearty at the service of the electors as a thoroughly independent candidate, belonging to no political party, and of some experience as an arbiter in bcotland.”

A peculiar position arose in connection with the closing of entries for the Nelson Poultry Show. An intending exhibitor (says the Mail) was one of the jury in the Westport murder trial, and when he made H-' entries on Saturday night he was accompanied by a constable. Two other jurymen also put in an appearance at Mercer’s Room (where the entries closed), probably -glad of an opportunity to get out for'a few minutes’ change. Perhaps this was the first time in the dominion that entries for a poultry show bad to bo made under police supervision.

At the Poultry Show, now being held in the Opera House, is a bird which is attracting considerable attention, not so much for its beauty or type or feather, but from its peculiar motion in the cage. The bird is one of the ken family—so destructive to siieep—and is oscillating on its perch in a manner which suggests the perpctualily of the swinging of the pendulum of a clock. The bird is exhibited by Mr MaHin, who is described on the card as ‘trainer.” Koa birds are said to he very plentiful in the Amur! Valley, beyond Kopara, and are causing settlors much annoyance.

Mr R. Temrcnt, Inspector of Coal Minos, ami Mr Whitley, recently appointed Acting Inspector of Mines in the place of Captain Richards, now on sick have, visited Hokitika on Thursday on departmental business, liming the afternoon the officers drove to Kanieri Forks to inspect some river encroachment at Slip Hill, and accompanied by Mr 11. M. Smyth, the officers also inspected the power house site, and portions of the water race for the Ross Goldfields Company, Limited. The officers visited Dillmans and Stafford yesterday and to-day proceed to Reefton, where Mr Whitley is to establish his headquarters.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Reefton Ladies’ Benevolent Society was held in the Council Chambers, Reefton. on Wednesday. The Secretary reported having granted aid to two urgent cases during the month, the President being absent in Wellington.-—Action confirmed. The visitors reported on four other cases, and aid was granted. One case was left ft r the President to investigate. The Secretary reported that the auditor had audited the books since last meeting, and bund tho accounts correct. A meeting of the whole committee is called for Monday, 20th July, at the residence of the President —business important. The accounts, which were passed for payment, amounted to £9 13s lid. The visitors for the ensuing month are Mesdames Calder and Lewis. A peculiar interest attaches to the old pulpit at St. Paul’s pro-Cathedral, Wellington, which was removed to make room for the pulpit erected as a memorial to Mr Scddon. The Dominion states that when Bishop Selwyn left England for New Zealand ho was* presented with a churc.. tent, which was consecrated to (ho service of the Church. The tent poles were of cedar, ami when the church was built and the tent no longer required, this wood was built into the pulpit. All the loading bishops and clergy of the Anglican Church of New Zealand during the nast o 0 years have delivered sermons from that pulpit, and those members of the congregation fm whom it holds special memories feel that it shall be carefully preserved. What can be done with it is not known, but it has been suggested that it should be kept until the new cathedral is built, when some place might be found for it there, and it would then connect the cathedral with New Zealand’s first bishop.

Alex. Saraty’s great winter sale of .dfapery and clothing will commence on Monday next at nine o’clock. The whdle of the stock, which is entirely new and up-to-date, will be marked at prices that must effect a clearance. Don’t fail to i isit this sale.—Boundary street, next Whitaker’s.—Advt. As an instance of what can be produced locally in the way of high-class jewellery, made from West Coast, gold, we draw the attention of our readers to a fine assortment of the favourite gold-mounted ribbon Watchguards executed in various choice designs and finish in Messrs Gilbert Bros’, own work-room, and being shown to-day in the firm’s window at 20s. 25s and 30s.

A rather interesting aspect ,of the industrial situation was touched upon by thi secretary of the Waterside Workers’ I federation, Mr D. McLaren, in the report he submitted to the conference at Wellington on Tuesday (says the New Zealand Times). “It appears to me,” said Mr McLaren, “that like children we are playing a game of see-saw. It is up and down al! the time. We have tried the methods of strikes in the past and found ourselves where we were; we have tried arbitration, md found the same. It remains for us to idviso our unions whether there are not ■erne other means yet untried which may >e of more value to them than either arbitration or strikes. The communications we have had with the Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation and the International Transport Workers’ Federation iave impressed me with the conviction hat we cannot, in this country, work out <1 )U>- own economic emancipation as if we had no connection with our comrades over Ihe great waters, and that to shut ourselves up with our arbitration law and beam that all will be well is the greatest folly imaginable.” During their stay in Wellington Kubelik and Madame Kubelik were entertained on two or three occasions by Mr md Mrs Prouse.. one of the most inlerestin gfunctions was a luncheon party, at which Kubelik and his wife, together with Mr .Schwab (Kubelik's accompanist), met three Maori members of Parliament, viz., the Hon. Mr Carroll, and Messrs Jfeke and Ngata. Both Kubelik and Madame Kubelik were greatly interested in Maori lore and language. They had the pleasure of listening to Mr Ngata’s very graphical recital of his own poem, ‘ A Scene from the Past,” in which an old Maori of modern times recalls the brave days of old. They were greatly charmed with the swing and rhythm of the poem, 'they also listened with great delight to Mr Aired Hill’s Poi Song, which was sung by Mr George Prouse. Messrs Carrol i and Ngata are sending the Kubeliks a number of books on Maori legends and. history, and Air Heke has presented them with a piece of greenstone that has been in his family for five generations, as mementoes of their visit to New Zealand. Atadame Kubelik thought she could 'trace a resemblance between her own language and that of the Maoris. Mr James Wall, who lately resided in ,’airarapa, and who now resides in Wellington, has just returned from Queensland, where he has purchased 3,000 acres of land in company with Air Lord, his partner. “I don’t intend to butter up the country,” said Air Wall to a Dominion reporter, ‘but I just wish to make statements of fact. First of all, I was agreeably surprised at the quality of the land which I saw on the Darling Downs. The quality of the soil is really first-class. It is black and red mixed and interspersed with rocky, stony downs, which are nice sweet stieen country. There is no doubt that the quality of this black =o i 1 is unsurpassed in the world : no wonder, when the depth runs from 30ft to 150 ft. Water can be obtained anywhere at a depth of from 30ft to 120 ft by means of bores and windmills. The Darling Downs is undoubtedly a very fine country and no practical farmer need fear to settle there. I would not, however, advise farmers, wdio are doing really well in New Zealand, to throw up their properties, but for those who are out in search of ‘specs,’ and who are young and steady and fairly willing to work, there is a really good future for them if they like to start in Queensland.”