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Grey River Argus, Volume LVII, Issue 10260, 17 April 1899, Page 2

The annual meeting of the Grey Football Club was held in the Commercial Hotel on Saturday evening, when a good muster was present. Mr Parry occupied the chair. The report and balance sheet was read and adopted. The election of officers then took place with the following results — Captain, P Power ; secretary J Walton ; treasurer M Phillips ; committee, Messrs Jones, Hannan, Perotti, Brown, Pnillips and officers ex officio. Delegates to W C RU Messrs Hannan and Walton. A vote of thanks to the chair terminated a pleasant meeting. The superintendent of the Grey River Hospital wishes to return thanks for the following donations : — Papers and periodicals — Mrs Helms, Mrs Chalk, Mr Campbell, Mr Kenll, Mrs Potts (Nelson Creek). ; copies of Guardian — proprietor ; fish (each on several occasions)— Messrs Coakley, Jordan, Spyers ; iceMr Steer ; linen— Mrsßae, Mrs Connor, Mrs Seabrook, Mrs Potts ; clothes— Mrs Findlay; vegetable— Chinese gardeners,' fruit— Mr H Williams, QKW and Co ; two pairs of boots — Mrs Young ; also a quantity of fruit and vegetables from Harvest .Festival, Brunnerton, per Rev Mr Heron. ' : Mr Bert Williams, of Aickens, has found a peculiar curio in the shape of an axe beautifully carved out of greenstone. The edge of the axe is sharper than the ordinary knife. Probably the axe is one which in former years belonged to the Maoris, and will command a good round sum as a curio for any museum. A correspondent writes to us complaining of the state of the dairies on the Grey Valley road. We believe that what he says is quite true, but we are afraid of libel. The law makes one careful. G W Moss and Co will sell by auction at Preston yards to-day fat cattle, sheep, pigs and one harness horse. Mark Sprot and Co will sell by auction at Preston Yards to-day fat cattle, sheep and lambs. The usual meeting of the fire brigade takes place this evening at 7 30. , ■ A special meeting of the County Council to take into consideration the alteration of the boundaries will be held at 11 to-day. The tender of Messrs Robinson Bros., \ Nelson, has been accepted by the Public j Works Department for the erection of now offices for the cable station at Wakapuaka. The cost will be something under L2OOO. It is with very deep regret I have to report a very sad fatal accident which occurred at the Christchurch road, Dillmans, on Friday, when a 5| year old old daughter of Mr and Mrs Rothwell lost her life by drowning in the Government water 'race. It appears that Mrs Rothwell missed her child, who was in the habit of playing with other children on che road opposite her residence about 5 o'clock, and at once went' in search of ler, following the water race down to the grating near, the Dillman's School, when she found her uufortunate child drowned. j Very deep sympathy is felt for Mr and Mrs Rothwell in their sad bereavement. The father, Mr Rothwell, is at Milford Sounds, he having charge 1 of the men working on the road to the Sutherland: Ms, -Guardian,

Says' the Guardian (Wellington)— Mr [. J). Bell made an interesting application ef ore the Chief Justice in Chambers be other day for an order that a certain ffidavit filed by Mr Jellicoe in an action rought by a young Swedish servant girl gainst the French Consul for wages due nd for dismissal- without notice. It ppears that Mr Jellicoe, on behalf of the ervant girl, fil ed Jan affidavit, in, support. _ f his application that the case might be iea»d before a judge other than Mr Fustice Edwards on the ground: that, the atter judge must be biased in consequence . >f a successful action brought by two lervant -girls against a : , member of his lousehold for the recovery of wages yrongfully withheld. The Chief Justice istened to Mr Bell's argument, :l>ufe ;ould not see his way to give a decision n Chambers. He preferred that vthe . ipplication should be argued in open Dourt, as there were important public .... interests involved. ; ; V A train, was last week delayed eighty minutes on the Central Queensland rail-' ''•'< '■ way owing to a swarm of grasshoppers on the line. . Three years ago the total area under wheat in New .South Wales was 769*000 ; „ acres, which was increased to 1,605,000 acres last season. The use of revolvers by the Victorian police has been restricted to cases in which a policeman finds ho other means of saving himself from death or serious injury. : The population of Melbourne and suburbs at the end of 1898 is estimated by the Government Statist to - have been 469, 680, which was an increase of 11, 070 * during that year. '••■-. T' ; : ■"' : "- : ->"-£ A writer in Truth says the English House of Lords is composed of three elements :— rThe Mental," the" Ornamental, and the Detrimental. " ' ° Afc the Coofcamundra (N.S.W, Quarter Sessions it was rilled that a publican could supply liquor to the bona fide guest of a bona fide boarder after hours. "Mine is no new message," said General Booth to bis Dunedin audience. "I am ho advocate; of any new religion; We believe in the realities of eternity, the great white throne, the choice of heaven and the pains of hell." A Bavarian Social Democratic paper states (the Standard says) that 2,600 years of imprisonment have been adjudged for crimes of "lese-niajeste" during the past 10 years. The Government has jiisfc concluded the purchase, from the natives, of the Pohokura block, ; near Tarawera. The area is aboufc<4o,ooo acres. The • land will be thrown opeff for settlement at an early date, . ■ Mr Oliver Bainbridge, an apparently eccentric Oxford M. A., who has contracted to walk 60,000 miles within six years, arrived at the Bluff this week, and will "foot it" through New Zealand before going to America. Mr Bainbridge, who is the author of several works, intends to publish four volumes descriptive of his travels. Coloured steel is one of the latest fads in the American jewellery ofterings for the season. By some process known to metal workers, steel can, in the furnace, be dyed almost any color, and marvellous greens, blues, lilacs, reds, yellows, and intermingled fames ' in steel are.displayed by the thrifty jewellers. A red steel watch with inwrought initials in gold is a new and - attractive trifle, or a walrusr-hide card case with wonderful steel-green bindings is the type of attraction for which Ame.ricln women are forgetting even the precious metals. , > The New York Herald correspondent at Manila, telegraphs the tales -of suffering,. hunger, and dishonour have come trom the provinces. The despatch says that young Spanish girls have been forced to live in open shame with low-born Indians. The parents being powerless, appealed to General Aguinaldo, whose answer was a letter from a child, exacted after terrible suffering, saying that she was happy and contented. Ladies have suffered dishonour to save their husbands. In one province five priests died from the effects of hunger and cruel treatment, although 60,000 dollars were sent by the corporation for the relief of , the . distressed. The suffering appeal to America in the name of God to stop T the tragedy which is being enacted. This is the picture held up. by the ' Hon G. Reid, Premier of New South "Wales, of a Federated Australia. :— Then shall Australians stand shoulder to shoulder for ail time, the disunited united, and united ' for ever ! "A nation, neither driven together by , fear, ncr chained by force. A new mother of nations unstained by blood, heire3s of Nature's choicest treasures, enthroned in an atmosphere of liberty, strengthened by all the arts of industry! and enriched by all the tides of commerce. Walking always in the path of peace, plantiug always seeds of" civilization and humanity. Yet strong" enough to resist wrong, and brave enough to fear no foe!" Electric lighting plank for the searchlight at the heads is under orders from Wellington for Dunedin; ' ; A new reef it reported to have been discovered in New Guinea, yielding, as high as IQoz of gold per man per day. There are over 6000 lighthouses erected on the most dangerous points on the world's coastline. . The. temperature for December, taking the average for 10 years v in the Klondike is 40 degrees below zero. . Eight hundred thousand people still speak Welsh. ■ . For over 1200 miles the Nile: does not receive a single tributary stream. It is estimated that 3000 marriages are daily performed throughout the world.