LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Greymouth Orchestral Society will meet for practice this evening at 7.3o.—Advt. For the ten days during the Prince of Wales's visit to Sydney over 9,000,000 passengers were carried by the tramway service. The mails which were despatched on 17th June from Wellington, per R.M.S. Marama via San Francisco arrived in London on 24th instant. Tlie Waliine connected with the Arthur’s Pass train this morning, and in consequence, the North. Island mail will arrive a in Greymouth to-night.

Remember next Saturday afternoon on Victoria Park the keenest and best representative match of the season, West Coast v. Builer, for the Bundle Cup. These inter-union matches were opened in 1905 and have continued since.—Advt.

Telephone rates will be increased by one pound per annum with a further increase of 5s per quarter mile beyond half mile limit. Tolls for long distance communications are also raised.—Press Association message.

“A home brightener!” Golden Rule Soap is a thorough cleaner. It can be used fur any and every purpose because it’s so pure and high-graded. At all grocers.—Advt.

Personal items in the daily papers will soon read so: ‘‘Mr. Brown by kind permission of the seamen and firemen, will leave Wellington tonight for Lyttelton.”—Zamiel in Auckland ‘‘Star.”

A further impetus has been given to tlie movement now on foot for the .beautifying of Greymouth, by the gift to the Greymouth Trotting Club of about 350 young pine trees by Mr. T. E. Y. .Seddon, M.P. These will form the nucleus of a scheme for the beautifying of Victoria Park. The trees arrived in Greymouth on Saturday and will be planted when the necessary work has been completed for their reception.

When the brain gets lazy, try Sharland's Beef, Iron and Wine. It repairs the ravages of mental stress and imparts vitality.—Advt.

Great difficulty is being experienced at the Wanganui telephone exchange through shortage of equipment (says the Herald). In order to meet with the 7 continued public demand, four old switchboards have been fitted up, and these are not operated so quickly as the more modern type. The attendants are working at high pressure and doing the best possible under present conditions.

' '’Smoking in bed and smoked out cf bed,” describes in a nutshell an incident in an Auckland hotel last week, in which Frederick Denehey (28) a porter, was the principal actor. Denehey, after his “last pipe,” found the bed clothes alight, and before he could free himself he was severely burned. He was removed to the hospital for treatment. The flames in the bedroom were prevented from spreading and the damage to property was small.

Wonderful relief for chronic dyspepsia is obtained bj r taking Impey’s May Apple. It will do you good.— Advt.

Notwithstanding the fact that coal '\as been found in abundance along the Long wood ranges from Wairo to Tuatapere, little or no prospecting has been carried out in the Pourakino Yalley. A well-known miner from Orepuki was in that vicinity recently, • id expressed the opinion that coal would no doubt be found there if boring operations were commenced. The country over which he travelled was similar to that where coal has been discovered in Orepuki. —Western Star.

A novel suggestion for solving the problem of housing was proposed by the Mayor of Christchurch, Dr. Thacker M.P., at a meeting of the Christchurch City Council. Dr. Thacker's scheme is to get the Government to sanction a municipal lottery, with tickets 5/-, 10/-, and £l, the proceeds to be spent in buying land and erecting houses for occupation by the winners of the sweep. Dr. Thacker said lie intended to bring the proposal under the notice of the Government in die present session of Parliament.

The finest Fluid Magnesia is Sharland’s. More freshly made than imported kinds. Guaranteed strength and purest quality.—Advt.

I was ascertained in Greymouth today that the Government have issued/ instructions that when a transfer has been executed m favour of a married woman or a spinster fur a monetary consideration, or a mortgage has been executed in her favour for money advanced by her to any - person it will be necessary in future, for the purposes of assessing stamp duties, to produce evidence that she was in the position to’ pay the consideration money shown in the transfer and to advance the money mentioned in the mortgage. This will mean that if a man buys 120 shares in ally concern for his wife he must show that she has enough money to effect the purchase herself.

This week special largains at McGruer and Co.’s great winter sale. Ladies’ grey extra heavy fleecy lined bloomers. usually 12/6, now 9/6. Ladies’ drab corsets, sizes 21 to 30 inch usually 12/6, now 9/11. Bushman’s Lie Roy Butterfly capos, now 19/11. Whitebait netting, now 3/3 and 3/11 vard.—Advt.

“Next to New Zealand and Austral; ia the people of the United States have been the greatest users of sugar since 1914,’’ says the Board of Trade. ‘Tu Australia and New Zealand the low price lias been a direct encouragement of a large consumption of sugar, but the rate of consumption has also increased in. America, whore the price has risen much higher than the Australasian rates. New Zealand lias seen a great increase in the number of soda fountains and sweets since 1914. An extra consumption of sugar (in pastry, cakes, and miscellaneous confectionery) was one of the means by which many thousands of people in New Zealand ‘did their bit’ in the war in the name of various patriotic funds.”

Ladies’ Glory Gowns in navy and grey Tobralco,' usually 22/6 each, now 17/6. Ladies white cotton bodices short or long sleeves usually 4/6 now 3/6. The great fall in prices continues. McGruer and Co., Spot Cash Drapers.--Advt. •