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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5350, 21 November 1885, Page 2

The Brunnerton Presbyterian tea meeting will be held this evening. Tenders for the supply of material, and the erection of a ventilating fan, fan engine, and engine house for the Westport Coal Company close to-day. _ Mr Greenfield will sell leases at Taylorville to-day on the ground. Mr Robsdn, who it will be remembered was here a week or two ago with his Transparent Panorama, has returned, and will re-open on Monday. The programme is entirely new, the old scenes or thore exhibited here on his last visit, having been put on one side. The exhibi ion on view now is a panorama of the life of the late General Gordon, The scenes have been selected with the greatest care, and when it was impossible to obtain suitable pictures of passages in the great hero's career, Mr Robson has painted them specially, so as to suit the peculiarities of the lime light, which, although the most powerful ever seen in the colony,, does not act equally well with all pictures. The lecture has been prepared with care, is exceedingly interesting, and is delivered in an easy pleasant manner. Dr Morice has very ' Kindly consented to instruct five members of the Greymouth Rifles who act as bandsmen, in ambulance duties. This is a very important branch of field duties, and quite as essential as any other part if we should ever be doomed to face the stern realities of war. The necessary appliances for properly carrying out the duties of an ambulance corps have, of course, not vet been provided, but they no doubt will be obtained in due course. A couple of alleged lunatics were brought up yesterday before Major Keddell, and Drs Morice and Smith examined them ; but as they could not quite agree at the time, the patients were remanded till to-morrow for another examination. Both patients are from Nelson Creek. During fche hearing of the case the Magistrate said he would order a warrant to be made out for the incarceration of the male patievit— the other is a female— but Ser- j geant M'Ardle said that the lock-up was ! not in a fit state to put a patient of that kind in, and that he had not as much as a blanket to cover a patient, while the lock-i

up itself was in a most dibipid.it-d c edition. _ Ho said he had written to Wellington several times on the matter, but was unable to obtain any satisfactory reply whatever. Mr Sheedy, at whose house the patients are staying, said he was desirous of having at least one of them removed to a place of safety without any delay. The patients will be brought up again to-day. A meeting for devotional exercise will be held in the Young Men's Christian Association rooms to-morrow (Sunday) morning at 9.30. A subscription is being raised on behalf of Mrs Cole, who lost her husband by drowning a few days ago. The case is really a most distressing one, and worthier objects of charity could not possibly be, found. His Worship the Mayor and Captain Nolan are exerting themselves in the matter. By request of those interested, and in consequence of the extremely unfavorable weather, the atheletic sports fixed for today have been postponed until Wednesday next, on ffhich occasion his Worship the Mayor requests that a half-holiday may be observed. At a luncheon given on board the U.C. s.s Mararoa before leaving home, Mr Macandrew, the Chairman, made a short statement as to the financial position of j the Company. The latter, he stated, had 34 steamers at work, of an estimated value of £736,000 ; there was £100,000 invested in real estate in the Colonies, in wharve3, stores, and buildings. These two sums added together formed a very satisfactory security to the debenture- holders for their £200,000, and it was not surprising that a large proportion of the debentures were held in trust for minors, t r ustees, and guardians. The paid-up capital was £3650,00. It was a small capital to carry on their business with, but it must have been the object of the management to keep it as low as possible in order to pay a good dividend. £365,000 and £200,000 made £565,000. The Mararoa had cost L 77,000, and they had also paid to a private coasting company in New Zealand LBO,OOO for their coal trade. These two sums, making Ll6O 000, had been added to the capital. An augmentation of their capital to the extent of L 160,000 was desirable. The Chairman, aftev entering at further length into the financial position of the concern, said it had been determined to raise L35,000jn LlO shares. He had already received applications for 700 shares, and that reduced the available number to 2800 shares. It was proposed that the price should be about Ll2 per share, and as their dividend had been about 9 per cent, investors might calculate on receiving about 7| per cent on their money. A Cooktown telegram in a Melbourne paper says : — v While at Yap, the commander of the Albatross, f-aptain Pludermann, made a treaty with the Queen of the Caroline Islands, whereby she cedes the whole of the territory to German protection. It is stated that the natives are entirely in favor of Cermany. and are opposed to the Spaniards. When the Albatross returned from taking possession of the Marshall, Group of Islajidsjf-on^y one Spanish transport remained at Yap. A beer case was set up with the "Imperial German protectorate" painted thereon. At Pejup Island thay found an immense number of ducks and fowls, and the whole of the ship's company lived on poultry for one week at a cost of 255. The price were six fowls for a penny, or a dozen for an old shirt." . It has been sueepsted that some competent person should be sent to Easter Island to make a careful examination of the wonderful antiquities which exist there ; to draw up an exhaustive report upon them, to photograph them, and to take facsimiles of the hieroglyphic inscriptions which are said to be on them, and which might, perhaps, be deciphered on comparison with those of Asia, or America, or Africa. Just landed, ex StKilda, from Wanganui direct, a very superior lot of prime quality bulbcks, sheep, lambs, and pnrfers, for Clough and Keating, London Butchery, Boundary r-treet.— [advt.] Half Asleep !— " I never, 'Vwrote a young lady to a friend, " go>tojcjurch or lecture but I am h^aslee^priiS^ never know afterwards wh§& the sermon or lecture was about." It was a plain case of nervous lethargy, produced by want of action of the liver and digestive organs. She was persuaded to try Hop Bitters, and now she writes:- "How intelligent and bright are sermons and lectures now, and how glorious the world we live in is ! Hop Bitters are indeed a blessing to me." — advt. i The brazen serpent. — Like the brazen serpent that the great Jewish leader lifted high in the sight of the perishing followers, whereby they were saved from" death, the discoverers of Hop Bitters have placed before suffering, ailing mankind, a remedy which enables them to fight disease with conquering advantage. — advt. The most valuable prize in life's lottery is health. "How shall we obtain it?" cry the rheumatic, the bilious, the dyspeptic, the nervous, the weak, the dispirited We answer — by using the remedy of all others best calculated to depurate the system through tin kidneys, to stimulate the liver, to restore digestion, tranquilize the nervous system, and cheer the mind. " What is this wondrous restorative." We reply, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. — Advt.