LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

.. ■ ■ i ... In order to allow our staff to witness the football match—England v. West Coast, to-morrow on Victoria Park, the Greymouth Evening Star will be issued at 1 p.m. .Advertisers are requested to note this fact. The Greymouth Orchestral Society will meet for practice this evening at 7.50. —Advt. The Eastern Cable Coy. advise: “Resume full rates to the United Kingdom via Eastern.” The Grey Valley boroughs with a population estimated at 8495 had the largest birth rate per thousand for the month of June, the percentage being 3.53. The death rate was .82 per thousand. British dolls and numerous other exhibits will be brought to the dominion in 1922. The Department of Overseas Trade state that the Dominions want British goods, consequently a tour lasting two years has been designed. New supplies of dance albums, song albums and Australian music, books in all numbers, price 1/9 each, postage 4d from B. Dixon, Box 69, Greymouth.—Advt.

A good story is told of the American Cup race by the Pa tea Press. A local business man was talking over the race with a friend and expressed the hope that the Shamrock would be successful, when the friend casually remarked that the Shamrock would have won each heat easily if the clever Yankees had not put something into the water. “I thought as much,” said the business man, as he bit easily, “the Yankees are up to everything. What was it the beggars put into the water?” “The Repolute,” was the reply as Iris friend bolted out of the door. Special School Exercise, books, 3d, 4d, Pd, 6d and 1 ]- each on sale at A. E. Kilgour’s, the shop for value. Save your coupons. —Advt. The Otago Daily Times says : “We have been shown a Dunedin timber merchant’s invoice of date November/ 1898, in which 225 feet of red pine of various sizes arc charged for. the cost being 225, including a charge of 2s for cartage. As showing how the rates for both timber and cartage have increased since the time mentioned our informant has supplied us with the following comparative figures: —1898, 225 feet, 225; 1918, £2 10s 7d; 1919, £3 2s 9d ; 1920, £3 18s 7d. In these figures the cartage for the respective years is included, and for that item the figures are 2s, ss, Bs, and 9s. Correct corset design is . essential to health, comfort and beauty. That is the reason why B. and C. corsets are so very popular. Resides having the best style and the highest quality, B. and C. corsets save money. They are British made, and their prices is not affected by the foreign exchange rates. You will be really pleased with the result if you buy B. and C, British corsets. All loading Drapers stock them, 6

Mass will be celebrated along ti:e Ofcira line as follows iSunday, fsih August: Aratika, 9 a.m.; Ruruffll a.m. Monday, 16th August: Itotoniagu 9 a.m.; Tuesday,l7th August, luclibouiiie, I’. Ryder’s Homestead at 9 a.m.—Advt.

Owing to the number of Councillors who are absent from town, the usual fortnightly meeting of the Uivyiaouth Rorough Council will not be held this week.

The ferry steamer "Waliine from Wellington arrived at Lyttelton this morning in time to enable North Island passengers and mails to connect with the train leaving Christchurch for the West Coast.

A notable feature of recent mornings has been the immense shoals of kahawai which are seen sweeping up Kawhia Harbour. The sea has preserved a fiat calm, but the thousands of fish composing each shoal, transform the. placid surface until it bears the appearance of being agitated by a submarine disturbance.

No sleep last night? Get Impey’s May Apple to-day. and you’ll sleep “like a top” and wake full of vitality. —Advt.

A Napier firm has received from an Austrian firm doing business : in Vienna, a letter offering for sale “cottons, dyed indigo, of the heaviest manufacture, suitable for professional clothes.” Reference is also made to the low prices and advantages of trading with Austria on account of the low rate of exchange ruling. . The letter states that the firm, on receipt of inquiries, will immediately send samples and prices.

New supplies of Dennis’s books—“Glugs of Gosh” ; “The Sentimental Bloke” ; “Backblocks Ballads and Later Verses” 5/6; “Digger Smith”; “The Moods of Ginger Mick” 4/6, procurable from B. Dixon, Box 69, Greymouth.—Advt.

A good story, which has the added merit of being true, is told by a Dunedin gentleman who has just returned from a trip to the United States. He was conversing one day with a school teacher in a populous district, and mentioned that he came from New Zealand. ■ “New Zealand?” remarked the pedagogue, obviously searching his memory. “Let me see, was New Zealand in the war, or was she neutral?” The visitor from Dunedin had no adequate reply ready but thought of many stinging rejoinders when it was too late.

Singers and public speakers find “Nazol” unequalled for preventing o’ relieving huskincss and soreness in the throat. Can be taken anywhere.— Advt.'

An unusual epidemic is reported to have struck Gisborne (says the “Times”). As a rule lengthy spells of hiccoughing are facetiously associated with excessive drinking. The local victime of the complaint are however, all true sons of Temperance. One is an ex-legal luminary, another a leading light in banking circles, and so on. It is understood that the banking “magnate” was afflicted for four days, but the ex-dispenser of justice has not yet completely recovered, although he has been a victim for almost a week. The complaint is said to have compeltely baffled some members of the medical fracternity.

Young wives ! Guard your beauty! Don't lose it over a steaming tub of clothes. Do your washing with “No Rubbing Laundry Help.” Rubbing and scrubbing abolished.—Advt.

Special bargains at McGruer’s great sale —10 doz. pairs ladies’ grey corsets, usually 12/6, now 9/11 pair. Ladies’ fleecy lined heavy grey bloomers 10/6, now 8/11 pair. Ladies’ boys’ singlets assorted sizes now 5/9 McGruer and Go., Greymouth, Reefton and Hokitika.—Advt.

It is doubtful whether there is another city in the world of Melbourne’s size where the indiscriminate driving of sheep through heavy traffic would be permitted (says the ‘Argus’). It is not fair on the traffic, and it certainly is not fair on the sheep. On a recent afternoon a pitiful incident occurred at the intersection of Bourke and William streets, which served once more to point the folly of allowing the practice to continue. About 4 o'clock a large mob of sheep came down William street from the market. The frightened animals overran roadway and pavement alike, dogs barked, men shouted, and generally the scene was more appropriate to a bush township than to a great city. Motor cars, trams and vehicles were all held up for the moment. But the driver of a big two-horse lorry went through the mob knocking down sheep right and left. Wffien he had passed on one poor brute lay in the roadwav with two legs broken until the drover cut its throat to put it out of its suffering. Another lay killed outright. Books you may want. —“Domestic Hygiene for Nurses” at 4/-•; “Schmabeis Engineman’s Master Key” 9/6, postage 6d “Wannau’s Engine Drivers Guide” 7/6, postage 6d; “First Aid to the Wounded” 2/6, postage 4d; “A Medical Dictionary for Nurses” 6/6, postage 8d; “Easy Guide to New Zealand Gardening” 1/9, postage 6d; “Furniture Making” 10/6, postage 8d; “Drawing and designing for Draughtsmen” 8/6, postage 8d; “Knotting and Splicing” 2/3 postage 4d from B. Dixon, Tainui Street. — Advt. New Zealand, is comparison with

other countries, is m a most fortunate position as regards tuberculosis (states the Minister of Public Health Hon. C. J. Parr, in the House of Representatives). This is shown by the following figures of death rates per thousand of population for 1917 England, Wales 1.62; Scotland, 1.63; Ireland, 2.2oAustralia, 0.69; New Zealand, 0.69. At the same time it is fully realised that in the Dominion there is a vast amount of invalidity and mortality due to this disease, of which a considerable portion is preventable. The Department of Public Health is arranging for a more active campaign against the disease. A special Tuberculosis Officer has already been appointed at Auckland to supervise the treatment of patients in that district. Consideration is being given to the appointment of further specialist medical officers. In addition to increasing the accommodation for patients at the Pukeora and Otaki Sanatoria, the establishment of a sanatorium in uentral Otago is being considered, the climate in that district being regarded bv the specialist medical officers of the Department as particularly beneficial for consumptive patients. Beef, plus iron, plus Wine—these throe great strength-building ingredients comprise Sharland’s Beef and Iron Wine. Take it regularly and en- „ joy tip-top health.—Advt. The tyre with 7000 mile guarantee “the Thermoid de Lux,” particulars, H. H. Smith. P.O. Box 78, Greymouth, Sole Agents.—Advt. If you require a piano consult A. E. Kilgour, agent for Chas. Begg and Co., music dealers. London, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington. —Advt. Large stocks of prayer books, Bibles etc., on sale at A, E. Kilgour’s.Advt.