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Grey River Argus, Volume 57, Issue 10262, 19 April 1899, Page 2

On reading a paragraph in our issue* of yesterday anent a supposed cancerous cow Mr Aiiisworth, the local inspector of abbatoirs and dairies, made enquiries on the subject and eventually made a post ■mortem examination of the animal, with the result that he declares the beast was not suffering from cancer but from a kind of catarrh. The owner of the cow had her destroyed so as to be on the safe side and to prevent any trouble arising. It has been reported about town that the disqualified mare Nancy Till is missing. From what we .can gather the mare was sent over to Oobden and three day's later when the owner sent for her she was not to be found. This is the version we have been given. It is possible, ifjpuv information, is. correct, that another attempt will be made; to. " ring in" Nancy Till, otherwise known as Wild Rose 11, but by whom and at what meeting it Will be difficult to find out. .'■■ \- Teams from the Post and Telegraph and Railway Department played another euchre match at the Gilmer Hotel last evening and after a very exciting finish the former won by one game. In another column Mr W D Revington , announces that he will have on the premises of his hotel ou Friday up-to-date low cushioned billiard tables—the only one on/the Cqrtsfc. It is also his intention to light" the billiard room by "means of electricity. v ; „.,•■ ; We are pleased to learn that Mr J Levingstone, of No Town, who was so unfortunate as to break his thigh a few weeks ago, is improving as rapidly as could be expected from a man of his age. The Greymouth state school is' now receiving a much needed coat of. paint. At Reef ton on Monday Sydney Gardner was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Hokitika for using obscene language in Broadway. ■'■'}■_■ Captain Carr and Sorgeant-Major Benning have been appointed military judges for the Bandy Contest at? Wesip^rt* VMr Ketterer has' been appoirioed tune keeper for the march. >.• ...y; . , The confcract-of the"' Westport Harbor Board with Murray, aud Co for aupnlyhi^-IfiijQfliO^otth of irbribark\piles and squared timber lias been signed by Mr A'unblHjoft jbehalf of "fchje; 'myru lit is expected that ten cargoes will complete the order, the wholo to be delivered in twelve months. The new wharf, which is

to extend from the lower end of the present crane wharf to the lagoen, will give a total length of 2,251 feet of wharfags for coaling, and will carry seven specially made cranes. We cull the iollowing from an exchange. The writer evidently has, to say the least, peculiar ideas of this part of. New Zealand. The writer says :—}* The west Coast is the Siberia of New Zealand and anybody condemned to. live there is an exile, to the mines— socially, riorally, arid intellectually. The /district is only fitted for a nesting place for Molly-hawks and' sea-gulls, and a self-respecting' devif- , fish would not crawl ashore oh it/ The chief products are bogus reefs and barmaids. The humor is the broadest . :lorm of indelicate allusion ; the wit isanahsult called "chaff"; the entertainment is,tb put plenty of sugar in your tea and. fierce you up the latest bit of- smutty scandal .•' all hot. ' The West Coaster has- a : diih idea that he is governed by somebody and that whisky is potato juice; he riiilly realises that if he has a pound he must spend it as soon as possible, and that Seddonds the biggest man in aU : Creati<jm,^. An accident happened to a little child belonging to Mr and Mrs C. Hall, (which may have proved fatal : but for 'the presence of mind of an elder brotner about 13 years otage who saw the Child fall into Owen Roberts and party's race, which runs through the sections at the back of Mr Hall's residence. The. lad went at once to the rescue but owing to the strong current he was unable to overtake the child. "He had to' jump three dividing fences,' but eventuaUyxCaught : him at the ■- part which traverses Mr Ryder's paddock, child was at once taken to Mrs Ryder's ; residence, where restoratives - were applied, with success;. The eldest boy deserves great' praise; fbr his quick action. • ■■-■■-- ' - t ' v - : ■ Those engaged in collecting the liceffso , fees from gumdiggers report Cthat the 1 Austriaria t are well satisfied with. -the- Act. Some of them have already served ; their 1 probation- since" the passing of the Act, . and have taken out licenses. Before the > Act was passed they feared that a heavy ; poll tax would be placed, upon themy and ] the restrictions of the -Act are looked upbii as simply a means -of placing thejn: 1 on an equality with Britisher, .and they gladly pay . the tax.-rNqrthepi 1 : WairoaßelU ; - ..:V '^rl^ ■" '^■'.■■^: Tasmanian Parliament is known as .the : Zoo. ': It contains . a ', Ropke, a - Fysk'^ a • Hart, a Bird, and a Griibb. New " Zealand Parliament could add a Peacock aM a Hogg to tho list. But we ;; have $teo | among our legislators a Flatmati;Ca HudCer ; a couple of Millers, a^.Monk, a "Tanner, a Taylor, J three Straths* and a ,W.righk ; -,-,- Rawei the Maori Aratolvia conjr ' manding good houses in Hokitika; His spirited addresses have. been u weli received throughout his West ; Gpast..,v ! last Friday nighfc's rstorin j two men had a narrow escape;; frpm ? * I shocking death in the I Gully district. A huge tree; .<^ae blown across the house, striking it on the corner and carrying the; chimney away. The. two occupants escaped unhurt. . „;> The funeral of the late Phoebe Alicia, youngest daughter cf Mr and Mrs R Roth well, took place yesterday afternoon. The cortege;; which was a very large one, " was headed by fully 100 children, amongst them a great number of thedeceaieda^ schoolmates, which were under the charge of tbp head teacher to the Dillman's School, (Miss Preston), who was ;; assisted By Miss Seebeck. Arriving '.'-at" Holy Trinity Church, the .coffin was carried in and out by four girls dressed in pure white with a black sashi On :the cdr r tege arriving at the cemetery gate the girls carried the coffin to the grave all taking a last farewell of their little schoolmate. Theßev. E. Wnitefibuse conducted the funeral |etyice through: out. '■ ■ ; ■ ■ .'.... : . '-SX'. 7U--J' ..." : v . Dr Bevan says that every man ought to be married.^ "That man," he told a Christchurch audience the other night, "was a dangerous niember of society who could cover all his family when he put on his hat." "'., \'\ ;• i During the past season the Upper Ashburton Road Board paid boys for the collection and- destruction .of 197,500 heads and eggs of small birds. The North Otago Times says that fish & warm along the coast opposite Oamaru. Shoals of sprats have put in an appearance, and these are followed by shoals of cod and groper. The sea about a mile off the coast is sometimes visibly agitated Joy the rushes to . and fro of the larger fish as they chase the sprats up and down or make daehea into shoals of ihem. The sprats *are in millions, and it is astonishing that there should be any at all "when thenumber and verocity of their enemies is considered. Even the mutton birds follow these tiny fish along the coast, and are making constant swoops at them. The sprats usually enter the harbor, but "for the last "two. or three *' years the water in shore has been so thick and muddy owing to the falling ' cliffs of clay that they, have kept to ' sea, and have kept the largepfish there also. The fishermen, however/ catch a large number of cod and groper, but cannot work their sprat nets in the . larger boats at sea. ' --- , i The following' from Temple Bar ap- v jears in the Review of Reviews :—- A bishop once rose to address the House of Lords, and began by .saying ' he wanted to divide his speech into twelve heads. Lord Durham thereupon got up and begged leave to inter-; pose for a few minutes to tell the House an anecdote. "Ha was returning home," he said, "a few nights before; and passed S t Paul's Cathedral just before midnight. As he did so there was a drunken man trying to sea the time. Just then the clock began to strike the hour, and . tolled out twelvei The drunken man listened, looked hard at the clock, and said : 'D— you, why couldn't you have s udall that at once." After this relation the bishop con* densed his remark.

Ib is interesting to note that M.Lachambre, seronaut, /who made the balloon in which his friend Andree started oh his journey to the North Pole on 11th July, .1897, does not despair, of seeing him again* He con. siders it quite possible that Andreereached the North Pole, and landed^ from his balloon on the further side of it, and that he was obliged fto winter where the balloon fell. No reasonable conviction can be formed, before ■ the expiration of three: year.". -Andree himself said that his friend were not to be uneasy -if they received no news of him for a yearw He had two: companions in his balloon-^-Messra Strindbery and Fraenkel^ The balloon, was. well stored with provisions, consisting of tins of preserved (oodUof all ..{rinds, chpclate, compressed bread", condensed milk, champagne, claret, alcohol, fresh water and butler. The stores, indeed, weighed no less than 2204 lb. Sledges were on board the balloon, and bopts also. Experts, who followed the manufacture of the balloon step by step examined minutely all its parts when finished, and declared everything to be fault'ess. West Australian advices inenticnthat a company isibeipg) formed, called the Kalgoorlie Ctoldfielris Electromotive Power, to establish a central power station for. the Kalgoorlie Goldfields. The capital will be L 500.000, of which the mines will subscribe half. It will provide 5,000-horse power, and it is calculated that the cost of working the mines will be reduced 25 percent. Although the company promises to be the largest of the kind in the world, it is suggested th?t the capacity of 5,000-horse power will not be sufficient, and that the plant will have to' be largely increased. The Kennedy Mine Amador County, is ■ cited as an example of successful deep quartz gold-mining • in California. Many years ago it was sunk and ■worked in low grade ore to a depth o£ (500 ft.,; and then shutdown, because sac&?ora in. those days did not pay to ■wort. Subsequently if was- reopened and sunk.to adepth of 2,iOQ ft., paying ' between '.'■.. 2,000,000d01. and 3,000,000dol; in dividends. In 1899 it is to be sunk to a depth of 3,100.£t., with assurance of still; further success as a individual-payer.*—Mining and i Scientific Pres»:Tenders were accepted lately by the Queensland Government for the construction of one of the most powerful dredging plants in -the world, upon which some LiSOJ)QO is about to be expended. 'If is intended to deepen the river to such a depth as will 1 allow the berthage of the largest at the city wharves." General Booth has given up the scribes of the.press as a bad job. He say?, ,•! never try to convert pressmen row, but they frequently try ta con vert me, 1 , , < . ]