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Grey River Argus, 14 April 1904, Page 2

For- every male teacher in the colony there are to-day four females; Twenty-one tons of stone from the Canada reef, near Milton, gave 58 ounces of gold. Farm hands ar scarce in the Riverton district, and farmers are offering as high |&s Is 3d per hour for their services. . A farm of about 132 acres about 2 miles from Timaru, was sold by auction a' few days ago at £25 12s 6d ! per acrej to Mr N. O'Boyle, who owns next property. The funeral of the late Fannie Spindeler will take place to-day. The cortege leaves her late residence, Main Street, for the Kumara Ceme- ; tery, at 2 o'clock. ; The Labour Journal for this month is to hand. As usual, it contains a great deal of matter regarding the state of the labour market in the col-, ony and elsewhere. Hawera Star reports that a wellknown private factory owner in Tar-, anaki has been, offered £30,000 for" factory and five creameries by a company that proposes converting milk into powder. Exceptionally large dairy produce entries are already in hand for Manawatu A. and P. Association's Annual Show in June. In export butter 34 factories are representedi ten in the novice classes, and forty entries have been received in the cheese division. A forty-four year old farm labourer of -Goulburn Valley (Victoria) fired six revolver shots at his head at Melbourne lately. The papers state that he still lives, though all six of the bullets are so deeply embedded in the: brain that the surgeon's knife cannot reach them with)out killing the man. j

Among the exhibits sent by Government to StXouis Exposition was a colleection of wheat, oats, rye grass clover, and coegsfoot, also specimen sheaves of wheat and oats The collection was got together by a Christ) church firm at the request of Tour-i ist Department One of the Telegraph messengers was bitten on the wrist very severely by a dog yesterday. The injured. part swelled very rapfdly, and necessitated the lad being taken to the doctor for medical treatment The Koonya has 300 tons of coal on board from the State Coal Mine, at Seddonville for the south. The road race, which was to- have taken place yesterday afternoon had to be postponed on. account of the inclement weather. The race will be ridden on Wednesday, the 20th inst. A fourth shipment of goods for this season's trade* has arrived for that old established firm of Manson and Co. In quality and beauty they will take surpassing, for they have been specially selected from the Home markets, and the firm informs us that the quality of the shipment exceeds their expectations. The goods are now opened and ready for inspection. It lias been arranged that Mr Al lison, manager of the Brunner mine, will also manage the Tyneside mine and supervise the operations of developing the Wallsend mine, the work of reopening which is to be gone on with. Mr Allison, who at present resides at Brunner, will take ' up his residence at Greymouth. ' On Tuesday there passed away at the Ahaura, a sterling pioneer, in the ', person of Jacob James, aged 81 .years. j Known from one end of the West , Coast to the other was this old iden- | tity, and respected too. His familar i figure will be greatly missed in the , Grey Valley, where he has lived, ■ toiled and reared a large family since ( the early days. He was the father i of Mrs W. H. James, Mrs Stevens, and Mr H. James of Ahaura, for ( whom, along with the widow, general < sympathy will be extended. The i funeral takes place to-day at Ahaura t at 2 o'clock. 1

The following is an extract from the Christchurch Press and Truth, " Mr Skelton, chief engineer of the Antarctic Expedition, says. ' The whole ship's company simply swore by tea, and. cocoa was an important item. It might interest the public 4 to know that Ridley's teas and cocoa found their way to the Antarctic regions on the relief ship Morning. ' " A good opportunity of securing a Refreshment room business for little money is advertised elsewhere by Mark Sprot and Co. A very pretty wedding took place yesterday morning at 11 a.m., when Miss Annie Braniff, eldest daughter of Mr D. Braniff, was wedded to Mr Thomas Stanley Nightingale, of Greymouth. The Rev Father Her-'

Vert officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming, attired in a very handsome dress of cream silk beautifully trim:, mcd with silk maltese lace, the skirt having accordeon pleated frills and sprays of orange blossoms. She was attended by her sisters Katie and May as bridesmaids, who also wore beautiful dresses of white silk with large black velvet picture hats to match A sumptuous wedding breakfast was done justice to at the parents' residence after the ceremony The happy couple" left per train for Westport via Reefton on their honey-

A meeting of the Borough Council will take place this evening. : The Greymouth Brick Company is now a real live business, and the quality of the brick turned out is highly spoken of by contractors and others The first batch of bricks turned out were required for their own use m building kilns, etc, but on inday next another batch will be ready for the market. This industry has we believe, come to stay, and will be a boon to the Coast. The company is now prepered to execute orders for bricks in any quantity, and all orders will V promptly attended to by F. Tunnell, the manager. It is the intention of the Greymouth Trotting Club to make Victoria Park the centre of public at* fcaction. They intend to have laicL ■ out m the oval a tennis court audit | bowhng green, besides a football and! cricket ground. A movement which J will be of a public benefit will be to erect a bridge oves the lagoon to connect with. Elmer Lane station. The members of the Trotting Club are a most energetic body ; and believe in- catering for the public convenience. We acknowledge the sum of £1 14s 6d sent us by Misses E. Stratford and Mary and Annie M'Guire of Moana for the Patz's Pund. The amount was from the proceeds of a concert held at Moana and owing to the very boisterous- night the attendance was small. Last evening a number of gentlemen met at Mr Skoglund's office to consider the formation of a Bowling Club. All present were unanimous that a club should be formed. An offer was received from the Trotting Club to form a suitable ground. After consideration Messrs Jay, Skoglund and T. Jones were elected a committee to enquire as to the ground and report at a meeting to be called as soon as the report is ready. Several people connected with the boats who witnessed the action of Mr Freeman in saving the life of a sailor who fell off the straiths while making his way to thes.s. Rimu, say it is deserving of special notice. The man, in falling, had struck one of the stringers, and was apparently unconscious when, Mr Freeman, without a moments hesitation, jumped into the river, and getting hold of the man, held him up until assistance was given from the Gertie. But for the prompt action of Mr. Freeman, the man must have been drowned. The incident took place about 11 o'clock in the evening: (Westport News). A simple and ingenious contrivance having for its obj«ct the prevention of tramcar accidents has been brought; under our notice by its inventor, Mr J Meek, of Elm row. This, brieflj described, consists of a ! wire platform projecting 4ft or §f t f rom the end ; of* car downwards, to within an inch or two, as desired, of the rails, jts lower and front edge forming, a pneumatic tfcffer. A person on the track and run down by a car would fall backwards upon the network frame, which, by reason of his weight, would then depress inwards till in a horizontal position, there becoming automatically fixed, the unfortunate person con* sidered being caught up clear of tbe rails upon it; The guard could be attached to either end of a car, and Mr Meek claims thab the cost would be small.

Themoria we study birds the mere they seem to baffle our soience. Buzzards hfave been seen to ascend lOOOffc perpendicularly in a minute or so, in a dead calm, without visible motion of their outstretched wines. A Virginian plover starts one evening from Labrador and arrives next morn* ing in Brazil, doing the journey on an empty stomaob without stopping on the way. .Young birds go by themselves thousands of miles on a journey they have never been before. By way of illustrating bow drunken* ness may be diagnosed from innocent symptoms Judge Rentoul told an anecdote ab the Old Bailey recently, iHe knew, he said, of a distinguished barrister, who, 1 having taught himself French, went to Paris, and was there locked up for drankenness, solely on account of his language. According to the labour reports for the monbh in th» Journal, we find, that at Greytnpttth bricklayers, plumbers, and painters are busy, while earpentere are fairly well employed. .Engineering is good, ia all branches. Boon and clothing trades are good and ,the retail trade satisfactory. During the month there were 37 applications > for employment, and' 12 were Bent to the North Island Main Trunk railway works. At Hokitika all the building - trades are still busy. Engineering ..trades are fully Occupied. Boot .and clothing trades are very busy. Blacksmiths, wheel* wrighte, painters, plumbers and tinsmiths are fully employed. Flaxmills and sawmills are very busy. There have been no applicants for work. Trades and business at Westport are fairly busy, but of unskilled labour there is nob enough for local labourers. The report from Nelson is equally satis* factory, and there are very few un« employed. The larger labour centres seem to have little to complain about as regards trade and labour. The Treasury authorities have given a ruling that the Treasury has no power to stop the payment of any portion of the Imperial pension for the assistance given the pensioner. If the pensioner applies for his money the Treasury has no option bub to pay the whole amount) due. ;

Two horses were electrocuted in a street at Brentford recently as the re* suit of an ovethsad wire on the electric tramway system breaking. An empty coal van, drawn by two horses, wg& | passing when the wire snapped. The j horsss got entangled in it, and their frantic strugglas only served to make matters worse. They fell across the rails, and were slowly roasted to death. Albert Wingrove, the driver of the van, was thrown to the ground by the falling wire, but escaped becoming entangled in it by lying flat on his face. Mr Winter, of Sferatford-on-Avon^ has received mabyioffers". to purchaser the farthing wbich he tendered to Miss Marie Corelli in payment of the damages she won in her libel action, bub which she returned with the suggestion tint he should give ifc to charity. He has decided to pat it up for auction at a bazaar in aid of tbe local hospital. He has received 8000 farthings from sympathi B ers towards a Million Farthing Fund for the hoßpital. .

Early callers a* our Albert Street Sample Rooms, which will be open from 9 o clock every morning for the next three days, have a splendid opportunity to secure something sneclal m our Laliee' Winter JacS, Gents new Raincoats, Mens' Youth? and boys clothing, hats, etc. The above lines are to hand earlier than expected and are direct from the manufacturers. We invite you^to znspect this early shipment,; as special mduceme^t 1S offered to customers visiting the rooms, prior to our openS£, premises on Mawhera MKay. Remember our display in the sample rooms is for three days only. The rooms are just off Mawhen* opposite Singer^S^^^M*, chine offices. AM^B^^^^T^

The German rails recently laid down by the Birmingham Corporation are not the only part of the now .tramway system of foreign ori,in. The truck* of the oars are of American manufacture. It is contended that the trucks are not only cheaper than those made in England, . but of better construction. The Birmingham Corporation recently appointed a committoo to v inquire whether the corporation committee should confine their purchases to British -made goeds or not. Tbe new issue of postage stamps for Honkons;, on which King Elward's he*d is to replace that of Queen Victoria, lenves to Russia the proud position of possessing the only unchanged issue of stamps in the world. The first stamps of the design now to be superseded' were issued in Hongkong in 1859. The Russians issue, with the doable eagle and shield of St Georep, which first appeared in 1864 5, will now take its place at the head of the list. Bullocky Bill had a cold so bad That, though his language was very sad, His team stood placidly chewing tbe cud, While the wheels sank deeper into the mud, ' Wood's Peppermint Curb his toiee brought hack, While of classical speech there was no lack, And bis cattle took to their work with a will 'Neath the lurid appeals of Bullocky Bill.