LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pascall’s Butter Pineapple,—a confection that Will (delight . the most fastidious; —Adyt;

At a meeting of tiie Grey Licensed Victuallers’ Association this morning, Mr J. R. Raw, General Secretary of the Licensed Trade, addressed the members on several points of value to the trade. After an interesting address, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Raw. A vote of condolence was also passed to the relatives of the victims of the Dobson Mips disaster.

Pasca>ll’s Fruit Salad, latest creation in the 'confectionery world is now being featured by the leading confectioners;—Ad vt;

The Railway Department advertise in this issue that the train service between Reefton and luangahua Junction will be resumed from and including to morrow (Saturday), December 4. Intending passengers are reminded that the 10.57 a.m Greymouth-Black-ball aim 1.5 p.nl. BlackoulbGl-eJ'mouth trains will not full itiltil further advised.

A great demand lias set ili< lor Oatmalt Stout brewed by MeGavin and Coy., Dunedin. It is a healthy, nutritious beverage that does you good. It is stocked by all hotels. Griffen and Smith Ltd., iti'b the agents.—Advt.

The Postinaster-General, in reply to a letter from Mr... Seddon, M.P. urging that prompt steps be taken toexpedite the installation of a new telephone switchboard, and the provision of additional accommodation in the Greymouth Post Office, states that he was enquiring into the position.

Proceeding to Paroa last evening on a motor cycle, Mr. M, Ellery had the misfortune to collide with a wandering calf which was’ feeding on the roadside, and jumped in front of the cycle, the rider being thrown from the machine. Mr. A. Cox who was riding just behind Mr. Ellery rode over him, being unable to pull up his machine. Mr. Ellery* sustained a broken shoulder, and was taken to the Grey Hospital for medical attention, after which he was able to proceed to his home.

Kilgour’s Special Reductions in Gramophones and Pianos for Xmas. — Jedson Portable £4 10/; Pixie Portable, £3 15/; Jedson Table Model, £7 15/; Jedson Cabinets, £2O, £22, and £25; Light and Dark Oak Piano, £SS; Witton and Witton Pianos, £65 and £7O; second-hand Piano, £25; Decca Portable £6.105; Mis Master’s Voice Portable £ll 10/; Jedson Table Model £l5.— Easy terms can be arranged.—A. E. Kilgour, Piano, Gramophone and Music Dealer, Mawhera Quay.—Advt.

The Minister of Pensions has advised Mr. Seddon, M.P., that arrangements have been made to renew about twenty-two old-age pensioris in the Greymouth district where recipients hUd omitted to comply with the requisite regulations to ensure continuity of payment. He also intimated that an officer from the Pensions Department was to be stationed at Greymouth, thus preventing any further cause for complaint on account of delay in payment of pensions.

Xmas Gifts 20/ worth for 18/; 10/ worth for 9/ —A special inducement for you to buy now. Our large store is overcrowded with Xmas presents. There you will find mkny suitable and useful gifts for man, woman and child. Xmas Concession Fair now on. We give you a cash refund of 2/ for every 20/ spent. McQruer’s Headquarters for Xmas Gifts, Greymouth, Reefton and Hokitika. —Advt. »

A practical joker, disguised as a ghost, recently sd terrified a youngsentry jit Deal Barracks that the later lunged forward with his bayonet, and fainted when he discovered that he had seriously stabbed a comrade. The injured man, Private Smith, who is the father of newly-born twins, is an old soldier, while the sentry is a recruit. A local legend asserts the spirit of a marine buried in an adjacent cemetery parades the barracks annually. Smith told the recruit the story, and. then dressed himself as the ■gilOSt.

Something new and novel for the boys and r :girls..^ ; , “The Mobaco,” “Building Sets” arc'most interesting and entertaining, calling forth tiie latent ;lngdiiuity and originality that is infqvery youth. Indeed, the adult may be as fascinated with this entrancing game that makes such a strong appeal to everybody. Made in five different sizes at 5/,6, 12/6, 17/6, and 35/- each. Each part is numbered and made of strong durable material. This line is entirely new and worthy of your inspection. It makes the ideal gift for Xmas presentation. B. Dixon, Tainui Street is the sole West Coast agent.—Advt.

A novel way some Poverty Bay residents have of ridding themselves of them parental responsibilities for the holiday season was explained by Dr Hall at the Cook Hospital Board meeting last week, says an exchange. He said that his house surgeons had informed him that there was usually an influx of children into the institution about Christmas time, the majority of whom were suffering from minor complaints only. The reason given for this was that the parents could go away for a holiday while the children were being well cared for at the rate of 2s a day.

Dependable Qualities in Leather Goods. That has always been our aim and to-day we hold the name of giving the very best values in Ladies’ Hand Bags, Manicure Sets, Sewing 'Sets, Writing Folios and Cases, Toilet Cases, Purses, Wrist Bags, Wrist Purses, Gent’s Pocket Wallets, Gent’s Letter Cases, Brush Sets, and the hundred and one lines in Leather Goods. Then you may want books for presentation. Well, once again, we say that we have the largest stocks on the Coast to select from, and the lowest prices in the Dominion. Our window displays show but a small part of the large stocks we carry, so you are invited to come inside and inspect our large stocks of Xmas Gift Goods. You are not asked to buy, you may have anything put aside till later, at B. Dixon’s, Tainui Street, Opposite Public Trust Office. —Advt.

So very seldom is anyone seen taking a pinch of snuff that it would almost seem that one of the most popular habits of the Georgian and early Victorian days is a thing of the past. It was, therefore, a surprise to a Wellington reporter when he was shown by a city tobacconist a dainty little solid silver snuffbox. “But do people take snuff nowadays?” asked the reporter. “Yes,” said the tobacconist. “You’d be surprised. At present I am selling - betwee nsix and seven pounds a month, not all to men .either. A good number of ladies are among my customers, and don’t they growl when I run out of stock. I tel you they don’t like to be without it. It’s curious how the habit of offering a pinch of snuff has died out. See this snuff horn. ■ Less than . a hundred years ago there was scarcely a gentleman in Europe who did 'not carry one of these with a. dainty jewelled for state occasions and parties. Now, you never sec a pinch offered, though, there are slill'plenty of snuff takers."

When in Greymouth istay at the Hotel Dominion, vho sporting and commercial bruise; one minute from Railway Station, G.P.0., and Banks. Superior service, excellent table. Papers delivered to bedroom with morning tea. Speight’s and Monteith’s Ales OH tap. E. J. Kiely, Proprietor.— Advt.

Messrs S. B. G’ur'den', J. Burrowes, J. H. Paul, P. H. B. Smith, J. P.Burrowes, and D. R. Hay have been recommended to the Minister of Lands for appointment as Trustees for the new Ahaura Domain, which will be known as “Garth” Domain.

Fi-Uit Salad—Pascal!’S latest production—real fruit centres A .delightful sweetmeat. —Advt.

Because tile Moiilfn Rouge (Paris) posters showed the names of other artists in the same type as theirs, the. Dolly Sisters, who appeared in Australia some months ago, have be°n awarded SSO.O'O'O 1 francs (approximately £3650) darrfages to? breach of contract. ..

In reply to a request from the Grey District Progress League for assistance for the booklet it is arranging to publish, relating to the scenic resorts of Greymouth, Mr. Seddon M.P. has received advice from the Minister in charge of Tourist Resorts that his department is willing lo take two pages of advertising space at a cost of £5 per page in the booklet. A decision decided “certainly unbeatable Value’’ 1000 pure linen TeaTowels 3 for 2/11; 1000 pure linen Glajs fi’owels 3 for 2/11, procurable only from C. Smith Ltd., Drapers, Greymouth.—Advt.

A motor car driven by Mr Cyril Turk, sawmiller of Nelson Creek, and containing Mrs. Turk, was returning to Nelson Creek yesterday, when as a result of a “backfire,” on the road between Ngahere and Nelson Creek, the car caught fire. The occupants of the car escaped safely, but considerable damage to the car resulted.

So many customers leave their Xmas shopping to the last that railways, and boats become so congested that delay in transit is almost inevitable. Will you therefore please make up your order for Xmas gifts and prizes and let us have it with the least possible . delay, Thanking you in anticipation. A. E. Kilgour, Bookseller arid Stationer. The shop for presents and prizes.—Advt..

“That’s my text,” said the Rev. Wellesley Orr, vicar of St. Paul’s, Kingston Hill, blowing a referee’s whistle iri the pulpit at a novel service recently attended by the district's football teams, whose coloured jerseys decorated" the ends of the pews. The vica£ explained that formerly he had refereed Soccer games, but had abandoned the practice because the players swore. “It is a good job,” Jie declared, “that God is a great referee and overlooks some rules, such, as cautioning a man only once.”

Xmas Concession' Fair now on—2o/ worth of Xmas Presents for 18/; 10/ worth for 9/. A special inducement for you to buy now before the final rush. By choosing now you get' the pick of the stocks, and are able to select in comfort the gifts you know will please your friends. —Headquarters for Xmas Presents,, McGruer’s, Greymouth, Reefton and Hokitika.-r-Advt.

An incident in connection with the winning performance of Mr J. Marshall at the' Bapfl’s solo competition last evening, when he played “When the Ebb Tide Flows,” as a euphonium solo, was that he had . had only one rehearsal with his accompanist, Miss F. Broad, and that was in Trinity Hall a few minutes before he had to appear on the Town Hall stage. The only piano score of the selection was in a key a semitone higher than suited his instrument. This made a transposition of the accompaniment necessary, and Miss Broad had to play in the key required transposing from tiie score before her, as she went along. The result was quite satisfactory, as Mr Marshall won the solo, securing one mark off the "possible, giving a unique performance, which made his win a comparatively easy one, and demonstrated his musicianship in a convincing manner.

“Shows are not the same as they were up to the time of the war,” said a farmer to a Wanganui Chronicle reporter during a conversation on agricultural and pastoral shows. “The same crowds do not attend? and there is a lack of the old holiday abandon which was so noticeable years ago,”he said. Asked how he accounted for the gradual falling-off in general interest in shows, the farmer referred to the motor pavilions at the recent show which housed thousands of pounds worth of cars. “There is the reply,’’ he"said. “Years ago, when ■roads were not so good as they are now, and when the motor age was in its infancy, the outback farming fraternity came into town on very few occasions. One of those occasions was Show Day, and a right royal time it was. Those days are gone now.”

' Kilgour’s for Toys.—Mechanical Motors Is, Is 6d, 2s 6d, 3s 6d, 5s 6d, 7s 6d, to 15s; Mechanical Boats 2s, 2s 6d, 4s 6d, 7s 6d, to 20s; Aeroplanes 7s 6d to 12s 6d; Child’s Tennis Racquet Is and 5s 6d; Red White and Blue Windmills 9d each; Mechanical Engines Is, 2s 6d 3s 6d, 5s 6d, 7s 6d; Hornby Trains 35s and 37s 6d each; Trams and Railways 5s 6d, 7s 6d, 12s 6d to 20/; Play Balls is, 2s, 2s 6d, 3s 6d, 4s 6d, 5s 6d; Skipping Ropes Is, Is 6d and 2s 6d; Tinker Toys 2s 6d, 3s Gd to 7s 6d; Wooden Toys, Barrows, Engines, Horses, Carts, Double and Single Rockers; Choice Tea Sets Is, Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d 5s 6d to 12s 6d; Enamel Tea Sets 3s 6d, 5s 6d, 7s 6d to 10s 6d; Blocks Is, 2s 6d to 4s Gd; Teddy Bears 3s 6d, 5s 6d, 7s 6d, 10s 6d, to 355; Dolls Is, 2s 6d, 3s 6d, 4s 6d, 6s 6d, 7s 6d to 355; Toy Books 3d, 6d, 9d Is, 2s, to 3s 6d; Child’s Tricycles 355, 77s 6d, 85s and 87/6.— Obtainable from A. E. Kilgour, the Headquarters for Toys and : Dolls. — Advt. 1 ■

In view of periodically repeated statements that this .and other coun- ' tries’ timber supplies are doomed to . exhaustion within a certain limited 1 number of years, interest attaches to . a letter received by Mr Seed, secretary of the Sawmillers’ Federation, from Mr L. M. Lane, of Totara North, at present visiting America. Mr Lane writes that the opinion has been generally held that the day would come when America would require the [whole of New Zealand’s available softwoods on account of the depredations of her own forests. Instead of that it is a fact that the lumber men of the States have been operating and planning their business and installations on a basis of having their industry not for twenty or forty years but for all time. Their calculations are based, on the- maintenance cf ’ permanent forest supplies, ■ and while the cities have denounced the millers as ruthless vandals, the latter, in reality, have minded their own business by milling the ripe crops and conserving the young forests. The result is that to-day there is a greater stand of mer< chantable timber in the territory west of the Rockies than ever there was in all the great original forests of NewEngland, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and the three Great Lake states. The authority for the i statement is a report of the forest department known as tlio Capper. Ro- / Port.

When Drum-Major Darwin, thej manager of the Australian Women’s Pipe Band, recently recovered (in England) an. overcoat which he had left in a train, hd discovered that £5O- - notes was missing from his wallet which was still in the~l>pcket. Putting on the coat for the first time since the incident, he felt something in the sleeve. -It was the missing notes, which had been panned insfd\ the sleeve. It is presumed that thia. was done', by the. finder, who had taken this method of assuring the safety of the money. . . . ’ '

Pascall’s Fruit Bon-Bons—the mostdiscriminating—exquisite real fruit centres. —Advt.

Beauty specialists in Chicago have counted the hairs of .the head. Blonde women average 150,000 'hairs per head, brunettes 100,300, while • redhaired women have only 30,000. Trie vogue of bobbed hair lias added 150,000,000d0l annually to the revenue ■of the American barbers, Mr Sherman told- a convention of barbers’ supplydealers of the’ United States. Fivemillion women in the United States visit barbers regularly, and have their hair cut, waved, or curled. The men, however, spend 750,000,000 dollars, of which 100,000,00d01. is spent in facial massage and claypack treatments.

Kilgour’s Xmas Specials.—Ladies’ and Gent’s Dressing Cases -12/6, 17/6, 25, 30/ to 130/; Manicure, Sets 12/6 17/6, 25/, 39/6 to 65/; Perfume Sprays 4/6, 7/6, 9/6 to 12/6; Good Reliable Fountain Pens 7/6, 12/6, 17/, 20, 25/ to 35/; Ladies’ Blouse Cases 25/; Dainty Boxed Stationery 2/11, 4/6, 5/6, 7/6, to 27/6; Sewing Boxes 1/6, 2/11, 4/6, 7/6 to 30/; Writing Cases 4/6, 7/6 12/6 to 37/6; Cigarette Cases I/, 1/6, 4/6, 7/6 to 17/6; Pocket Knives 1/, 1/6, 2/6, 3/6 to 76; Pencil Sets 1/, 1/6, 2/6 to 4/6; Perfume 6d, 9d, 1/, 1/6, 2/, 3/6 to 6/6.—Advt

Because he groaned too loudly in his pain and kept other patients in. his ward from sleeping, Ferdinand Clet, 74, an inmate of la Tranche Hospital, Grenoble, France, M'as '..recently murdered in an extraordinary way. Georges Pierre, in an adjoining bed, ordered the old man to be quiet, but Clet continued to give vent to his feelings. About one o’clock in the morning, maddened by the continuous noise) “ Pierre _ seized, -a heavyleather girdle and flung it with all his strength into Clet’s face. There was silence, and Clet was found to be dead. Pierre fled from the-.hospital, climbing a wall to get away.; r

Christmas Gifts for young and old. Fashionable ladies’ hand bags from 7/6 to 22/6; Decorations for/ Christmas trees etc. at 4id each; Large assortments of crepe de chine bows and ties in all the leading shades; Georgette and crepe de chine jacots in cream and coffee shades. The very latest in champagne kid gloves with fancy gauntlets. New lines of hole, proof suk . hose in shades of grais peach, champagne blush, < French nude at 6/11 pair.—C. Smith, Ltd, Greymouth, The House for; Christmas presents*—Adyf. ;; ?, .

Int,ersting experiments have just been carried out in operations at tile Royal'Prince Alfred Hospital, Syd.ney, with a knife: that cuts into flesh, and: stops bleeding automatically. The instrument is "known as aii electribal scalpel, and is worked off an endotiiermy machine, which produces duces ' a small amperage of current with a very. high frequency. When in use the: blade is electrified. It’makes a clean cut, like an ordinary knife, but in cutting destroys a small 1 part of., the local tissue ~ .quid coagulates the blood immediately. w Large blood • vessels 'have still to be tied, but the knife'dbes awUy with the necessity for a great deal of\the work in that direction‘which has'' hitherto occupied valuable time. The operating surgeon who carried put the experiments reported that the ifew/scalpel was a' very rapid ' and efficient method of jperforming ; operations. \

Special values in Xmas Presentation Goods at B. Dixon’s, Tainui Street. - Direct importations from the Home factories enable us to give the very best .value procurable for your money. Our stocks of Fancy Goods etc., Books, are the largest shown on the Coast and the values offered are equal and better than you will get in the large cities. The latest productions in all lines are here for your inspection. Your inspection of our large stocks is invited. Everything is marked in plain, figues, and our service is at your disposal.-— Advt.

Mr Leslie W. Sutherland, • a flying officer from Duntroon College, in the Australian Federal Territory, is one of the lucky few to break his neck and escape, not only death, but any serious permanent injury. Some weeks ago Sutherland was involved in an aviation accident at Duntroon, and! received an injury to the neck which was regarded with interest by local medical men. He was sent to Sydney by train with, his neck in a plaster jacket to prevent movement. An X-ray examination at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, revealed that his first and second vertebrae were broken. As a rule, a-broken neck means instant death, or? at least, total paralysis, ' but Sutherland escaped with nothing more than a pain in the neck. He is now lying flat on hie back, with his head between sandbags, waiting for the broken bones, to knit. It is probable that, he will make a complete recovery, with the exception, perhaps, of a stiff neck.

A unique feat was accomplished by Canadian woollen manufacturers On connection with the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition, when, between 4 in the morning and . 6.45 ih the evening, wool from Shropshire lambs at Bradford, Ontario, was transformed into a light autumn overcoat •for the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, M. N-. Perodeau, who. was to open , the exhibition of woollen and knitted goods; The shorn wool was scoured, dyed, carded, spun, woven, finished, shrunk, the cloth was cleaned, and pressed, and in l the- tailor’s hands by 2.30J' and was ; completed ready for the buttons by 4 o'clock. The coat was sent'by aei’bplahe to the exhibition grounds, a world’s.record of 11 hours being established for the full operation from the sheep’s back to the complete garment. A similar feat was accomplished over 100 years ago, on a wager in England, but With simple machinery/ . A '