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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6347, 24 January 1889, Page 2

The regular meeting of the trustees of .the Grey -'River Hospital was held at The GUmer ' lintel last evening. ''■ Present— MeaarsJ. Marshall (chair), Dupre, Lahman, Arnrtt, Martin, and Dupre. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed ; and the inward and outward correspondence read and dealt wijth. The hon. secretary reported the election of Mr F. C. Dupre as a tvuatee for the ensuing three years by the contributors at the annual meeting. Messrs Arnott and Lahman were re-appointed hon. secretary and hon. treasurer for the next twelve months. The visiting committee reported 29 males and five females in the institution, and that everything was going on satisfactorily. The hon. treasurer acknowledged the following receipts : — West Ward, per Messrs Lahman and Arnott, L 9 3s; East Ward, per Messrs Blackmore and Petrie (canvass not completed); Ll4 13s 61 ; Middle Ward, per Messrs Dnpre and Matheson, L 42 14s 6d ; Captain Nolan, 10s ; W. Ketchley, per Mr Ryall, LI ; Bank of New South Wales, L 3; Mrs Dargan, LI Is ; sale of dripping, LI Is. Report received. The other business was purely formal. The Fisk Jubilee Singers will appear at the Public Hall this evening. They are without doubt the strongest combination of vocal talent that has ever appeared in this colony. Wherever they have sung they have taken the public by storm. They are at once unique and brilliant ; they draw houses and ■do big business where other companies would find a frost. They have visited all the principal towns in the colony ; indeed few towns of any note at all have been unvislted, and wherever they have gone they have always had hudos and coppers ad lib It is once in a way that the towns on the West Coast wake up and show "what oan be done when a good thing comes along. They turned out to a man to see and hear the Rev. Chas. Clarke, though he had nothing in his carpet bag but the graces of elocution and an abnormal memory. His mental furnishings were of the meagrelst, though in his way he was a great artist; Since his time there has been no enthusiasm until now, when the people by common consent jostle each other every night to see the Jubilee Singers. Their houses and takings at Hokitika were something phenomenal, and the last night was as good as the first. At Kumara the same thing is about to be repeated, the first night being a tremendous success. To do this la quiet humdrum plac-s like these speaks for itself. No doubt the company will be as big a success here as elsewhere on the coast, though we would like to prndently guard ourselves by saying that any success achieved elsewhere on ths coast is by no means a criterion as to how the Greymouth public will respond, for we have the reputation of being an unsympathetic lot, and not easily carried away. But true genius captivates all alike. For the last week or so we have experienced unusually hot weather for this park of the world, but yesterday morning seemed to be the warmest day we have exDerienced. At about 11 o'clock the ' thermometer recorded 90 degrees in the shade, wbile in the sun it was 113 degrees. About 20 coal miners left by the Koranui last night on their way to Newcastle to look for work. Their passages were paid by the Grey Valley Miners Association, as few or none of the men had any money. The proposed radical alterations in the Westport Coal Company's incline have received the approval of the di r ectors, and the plans and drawings for the -new machinery have gone Home. The proposed improvements include a system under which the small tuba will be run continuously from the mine to the foot of the hill. Saya th@liianciahua Times, referring to the Melbourne Exhibition : — Another TVeef tonite met with in the Bister colonies was Mr E. Solomon, formerly a sharebroker here, who is now in business in Adelaide, and apparently in a prosperous way. Mr E. Shaw; solicitor, Is in Melbourne, and is understood to be on the reporting staff of OTio of the daily papers. L. Oavies fa sharebroking in Melbourne, and has good offices m Bourke street, near the Exchange. Tom Rowlindson, another of our early speculators, has joined the ranks of the bookmakers, and made a big hit ever the last Cup race. T. Roulston is In the mounted force in Sydney, and was a visitor to the Exhibition. Mr Hunter, at one time accountant in the National Bank here, has left the service, and is now living in Melbourne. Other old Reeftonites were met with all over the colonies, some apparently better off, others seemingly a " bit off." The Westport Coal Company have added to their plant at Denniaton a large steam

hammer, a steam drilling and bojring machine, and a cutting and punching machine. — Times. , aa A somewhat serious accident (aays the Reefton Guardian) happened to Mr Mirfin, farmer, ofjthe Grey Valley, a few days ago. Whilst mustering some sheep, hejuraprett: xrfHria .--horses AtmteoHyrand-. lauded on a sharp manuka stake, which ha 'had 1 hot observed -sticking up ; thisentejeeat the fleshy j?art of his thlgh^ penetrating about i five inches into^ his'body. Dr Morice was sent for, and though;the accident wjw thoaghUik«ly-to-ba-followed_with.serious results, the sufferer is now considered out of danger. •:.,■'■:_,'■ M Mr Prince; the electrician-; }rho has been paying a visit to Lake Te.' Anau, has dpcided to place an electric -launoh on the , lake. An hotel will also be put up there soon. _„ '„.-., .. i Itis understood (says ; the,. , West. Coast Times) that the Greenstone ■ Sfuiclijg Company has sent to California for tvp large size ; .- hydraulic machines with ttyenecessary nozzles, rollers, &c. This Company haahad-Mr Smyth, ■ surveyor, . eniployed taking levels, &0., for the new sludge channel, and will shortly Invite tenders for the work. ~. - . A commencement has been made with the work of extending the Ngakawau railway line 36 chains to the river. Nancarrow and Co. will sell at their rooms to-day fruit and cheese. . J W. Easson and Op. will sell on the, premises, Alexander street, household property &q. , ; n A ; very curious funeral was recentjlyi seen in New York, that of Li Yu Doov a) Chinese general who led his countrymen in th« rebellion vi 1861. He was one of the richest Chinamen In the country, and owned large amounts of property in New Yirk, ißoaton, and Philadelphia^ Niiie. days were occupied in preparing for the funeral. One thousand Celestials followed the body of the former general to the grave. The deceased was dressed in the robes of a mandarin of the dynasty jof v Ming. His queue was wound round the./ top of his head filled with gold pieces. Gold was put In his hand, and Chinese, paper money in his coffin. The casket containing his body watt also aurrouDded by various articles of food for use on b^ia. way to the other world. The money was for the purpose of paying the expense jof T his journey. The funeral throughout was conduoted with all the ceremeny of pagan pomp, and exactly in the same fashion as if it had taken place in China. , The walls of Paris, whose creation cost the country L7,000,G00 under Louis, Philippe, are doomed to disappear. Two years ago the proposal to pull them down was met by a protest of 11 generals and military engineers, but a financial syndi-, oate having offered the Minister of War the sum of L 4,400,000, 400, 000 for the stones {of, the wall and the grounds on which lip, stands, the Superior and Permanent Conn-, oil at the War Office advises the acceptance of the offer, and a similar clearing away jof walls from all the fortified places of the north. In anticipation of this decision, the syndicate referred to has been buying up, for some time past, the ground adjoining the wall, and will commence a vast enlargement of the town by the ereotipn of buildings all around the city, on obtaining possession of the wall and its site. ; A good deal of this nev Parisian area will probably be devoted to the ereotion of suitable dwellings for the working classes of Paris. According to the Indian papers, it would appear that the greatest sufferers by the German doings on the Zanzibar coast are the British Indian subjects chiefly from; Bombay, who have for many years been the principal traders in the country. Ovjer. 1000 of them are reported to have taken refuge in the lahnd of Zanzibar, aftjar seeing their business completely ruined by the disturbances provoked by the agents: of the German East African Company. The news of this will be almost certain ,to produceja'.bad Impression In India, and its effect will not be lessened when it is seen that. England has made common cause wt'h the Germans, who have been themea.is.of all the, ruin.. The. fttory, will, penetrate, the country by a thousand channels, and ,is already the talk at the bazaars, lending force to the preachers of sedition, who are going throtgh the Mussulman districts jin the north-west provinces, declaiming against English rule; The sophistry about the slave trade which has been indulged in to hoodwink the British nation will produce ho effect on the ruined tradera and their friends ; while ■ the religious and anti-Mussulman character of the crusade proclaimed by the Cardinal Luvigerle will be sure, as it is said to be already doing, to excite the sympathies of the Indian Mohammedans for their African co-religion-ists.: ■■■• '■' - ■-- A country whose foreign trade has in-, creased more than sixfold in 10 years must be rapidly forging ahead. The pro-, gress made by the Argentine Republic during the last decade (says Fairplay)iabrought out by..the_shipping.. statistics recent'y issued. Ten years ago,;the total foreign entries in Argentine ; ports amounted to 2462 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 606,000 tons : last year the entries exceeded 12,000, and the ton-, uage reached 4,500,000 tons. The vessels, trading from foreign ports numbered 5694 sailing ships and 6607 steamers, excluiing Uruguay and Paraguay, as these represent river navigation. Of the above totals 422 were British sailing ships and 2546 British steamers. Mr Henniker-Heaton.will move for a return of the correspondence relating to the quarrel between Sir A. Cordon and Mr Bryce. ; It. is -officially _s.ts.t.edjh.at 70,000,000 gallons of whisky and .25,000,000 barrels of beer were consumed by the people of the United States last year. It was a dry season. • . :,,,.. ■■■.• Wolfe's Schnapps for the bladder and like complaints. .'...'.., , Wolfe's Schnapps is known, and' appreciated throughout the. colonies. Ask for Wolfe's Schhapps, and take no other. " .