Grey River Argus and Blackball news. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, April 19th, 1903.

Grey River Argus, 19 April 1909, Page 2

Grey River Argus and Blackball news. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, April 19th, 1903.

The alarming aspect that the affairs of "New. Turkey" have assumed may well be a source of anxiety to the Eur-ope-.ii Powers. But grave as have been- the demonstrations that, have followed the deposition of the Grand Vij.ier, Kiamil Pasha, they ought not to be regarded as surprising, and for several reasons. The Committee of Union and Progress which succeeded in forcing- a constitution "on the Sultan Abdul Hamid were enabled to do so solely because they had succeeded in alienating- the loyalty of the Army from the Sultan. Although a Constitution, alleged to be after the British model was set up, neither the Committee nor the Army adhered to its principles. The Committee appointed 1 Ministers^ but still remained as a power behind the throne that overrode its own officers when it suited its pur-" pose to do so. It controlled the Grand Vizier and the Ministers of the various departinentSj which was a quite uni heavd of sort of constitutionalism. [• The Army, that had shown itself such an obedient" and effective tool in the hand.s of the Committee of Union and Progress, in turn "presumed on its power and the service it had rendered, and showed a very decided tendency to become active politicians instead of soldiers obedient to their officers and the military law. They "became lax in their discipline, and swaggered about in a way that was unknown before. Young officers of inferior grades wrote openly to the papers criticising the acts of their superior officers. Generally speaking the Army, was allowed to get out of hand altogether. When the Grand Vizier, Kiamil Pasha, s man of incomparable ability and experience, exercised his constitutional right iv dismissing Ali Riza from the War Office, the Committee of Union and Progress resented the action and succeeded in deposing the Grand Vizier by a Parliamentary vote; thus nullifying the Constitution of their own creation. It is thought on the Continent that Abdul Hamid stands behind the present outbreak; but the anomalous and altogether irregular position taken up by the Committee, along with the Army being quite out of hand, are sufficient to account for the deplorable state of affairs that is disclosed by the cable news of the past few days. The world has been premature in congratulating the Young Turkish Party on their successful bloodless revolution. The revolution is not yet over. It has only been begun, and no one can say what the outcome may" yet be. There is abundant room for all sorts of unexpected changes. The mere forcing of a brand-new Constitution upon the heir of a despotism of ages is no guarantee that government by Constitution will follow so long as the so-caJk-ri Committee of Union and Progress stands behind the Constitution and insists that it shall be worked in the way the Committee desires.. There should be no power behind the Consti-. •tution but the people for whose ser« vice it has been. set up; and no deviation from it should be permitted except by the formally and properly expressed wish of the people. Consequently the position of affairs in Constantinople and qtßer parts of the Empire as well," is thinly veiled anarchy. The Committee seem to have framed the , '-'.New Turkey" Constitution for the approval of Foreign Pow,ers — a sort of tub to the whalebut not to serve any real purpose at home. The Committee had no inten'tixn to part with any of their power. Tt is now well known that they conducted the elections in .an irregular and improper manner, so as to "exclude the Christian and all non-Tur-kish elements from the Legislature as much as possißle. They had 'no hesitation in stooping to corrupt acts, on the ground that they sought a good object in making the Parliament as homogeneously Turkish as possible. Now the Committee are beginning to discover that the Army is something more than a convenient tool in~~their hands, and has reversed the position. They not only control the Committee but terrorise the Legislature. This is evidentlv_a state of affairs that is v not onlj? disgraceful, but that cannot be maintained. While it is probably true enough '. that the mixture of races of the Turkish Empire Have to v be ; educated^ into taking an intelligent share in the constitutijnal government of the country, they will not be slow to discern "the difference between political corruption and fair dealing between all the subjects of the Empire. The Committee have already realised the seriousness of the situation that they have - created for then- selves. They feel that they are in -greatrdanger of losing the counten- ; aiire and valuable support of Great Briiain^.theftradition'aJ friend of Tur- . keyg ; 'for ;' .the Turkish Parliameritary • party -of Union and Progress sent a telegraphic mes : sa.io to The London Times "in these terms :— "Although Kiamil Pasha by his Unconstitutional acts has placed us under the obligation of overthrowing him, we" feel' bound to declare emphatically to the British public "that, whoever the Grand Vizier of to-mor-row may be, it will be his duty to follow out and develop our "frankiy Anglophile policy in conformity with the unanimous desire of the Ottoman nation. We are persuaded meanwhile Chat, the traditional and valuable friendship of England for our country will take cognisance not of inclrvrtMals, but of the entire Ottoman nation. We are convinced that our Government may always? with full, confidence count upon the sympathies of .' Great Britain as a friendly nation." This is aD ingenious appeal; in England's leading journal ; but it cannot escape the acknowledgement that ih; compassing the ' overthrow -of "Kiamil Pashe they oyertlhiiew tihe highest" executive officer under the Turkish Constitution because he sought to exercise the very powers conferred upon him by that Constitution.

<W is sitate.d iV^aie ithie . n>iiiqe - ,th e - Duke of Bedford ihas asked the Grown ,for this Tthoxn«y 'Fen estate is three^quairters of a million; sterling: At a meetiniff of his tenants at was decided -to offer to submit to 'an increased rental rather than the estate aihould bdi sold. . - ■ '

A most interesting- report of the evidence given by Mr W. Butler at tfhe Timber Commission on Friday ■appears in our fourth page. A meeting of the Grey Education Board will be (held this evening at 7.30 o'clock! A movement is said to be on foot to aibolisih -the District Courts on the Ist June next. - . T(he local bakers in this issue notify the publrc that on and after, May Ist (thS price of bread will .be eigiht■pence. Owing to the sad death of Albert Davis the State mine will be closed down till Wednesday. The members of the Greymoutfo Fire Brigade are requested to anuster at the Brigade Hall ithiis /evening- at 7 o'clock sharp. The .presentation of certificates in connection with tihe 'Ambulance Socdaty will take place in Trinity Hall this evening All members of ithe Grey fourth grade football club are requested <to meet at the Catholic School gymnasium every evening: this week. — Advt. Last year over £3261 were due to the Wesbport Borottgih Council in outsitandin'fir accounts. - TUus year it is only .£lslß. AH fche different accounts showed substantial reductions. Mor W.. Airaotit,. architect, invites tenders dn this issue for the erection of a Metlhodiist Church in Greymoiith; Tor further particulars see advearfcisemeat. ' ■'■' : ..'V; The members of the Grey Hockey team wino have been^ visiting Nelson' and Pdoton arrive iback by the Arar ihura to-day. They j)laved< threemaltches and won two I ■ ';'■ A young man named Greven, wjiou became iblind three years ago, liasjust graduated with honours in pihill; osoiphy at Wurzbury (Germany). He';' ttiad never before attended a univers- 5 ity. ;. /. ; Tihe Timber Comimissjon are liked}* to be ocouspied same days yet takirigT evidence. Ten witnesses are. yei/jtiS Igive evidence, and some very rimp&tamil) faces' reflating to. the indnMiry ■.-• will toe forthcoming. . . \"' : There is a man in Kansas ' City whose name is "Burst." It is a m'Jsfartune that would not have attracted maioji attention if he, 'had not called his two children Annie May and Ernest Will. The Greymouth Harbour Board are faced with another ibig expenditure in connection with the' tug Westland as her boilers are in such a state that it is considered unsafe, to use them. iT&e repairs will run into something Qike .£IOOO. At Totara Flat Sale Yards to-mor-row (Tuesday) at 12.30 o'clock Messrs M'.Mahon and Xee will submit to public auction so fat wethers and 400 2/ 4 and 6 tooth ewes on account of Mr Chas: Wolf. Fanmers and others interested should make special note of thns sale. The members of the Timber Commission vismted Hokitrika and Ross on Saturday and received a warm welcome. They returned jto town in the evening" and yesterday were driven out to Point' Elizabeth to see nfce site of the proposed harbour. They were well pleased with the day's outing. The nominations for Mayor and corouffh councillors will be received ur. _ tidl Wednesday. The Mayoral I dhair will be contested by Messrs Coates and A. Russell, and a keen fiisrht -11s anticipated. For the nine seats on the council there will be about fourteen candidates, if not more. v . The Director of the Ross Goldheld s Company expects to start pumping their, shaft in about a week eveiyt-hing being almost ready, the poppet heads being now- in ipositdon ! and nearly completed. ' Nothing ,i n fact appears to be wanting except the connection of the power wires to the machinery. Professor Eugene Bordell. the noted German sculptor, has patented n .invention for building houses which can withstand earthquake shocks, Professor Bormell /maintains thait h is quite possible to build dtjes ivlhere ithe severest -possible earthouake shock would cause- Tio loss of ]'fe at all. or only a -small, loss of, life in comparison with that incurred in Che recent terrble . -disasters at San FiAr.cUco and Messina. . It is understood that Mr Edward Saunders. son of the editor of the Lyttselton Times, will go to England with Lieutenant Shackleton as, his pnvate secretary, and will assist him i» writtngr a. 'book giving -tfhe : (history of the Braitish Antarctic expedition. ■! Mr Saunders is a member of the literary staff of .the Lyttelton. Times, and has. (represented that paper in the Parliamentary press gsM&ry for several sessions. .-.--. Robert Macfari&ne. sen. of Waimangaroa. passed away last week. Deceased was a yery old resident of the West Coast, and resided in Bulier distract for 40 years. In the early days of Wesfoorfc te was the proprietor of an hotel, and prior .lo ■that he was an 'business in. Caledonian 1 eiiwoeM Pior aomb years jjast be has canned on business as 1 otrlkeeper ait Waamangaroa. A Victorian pastoralist is bringing out from London as stockmen twenty, nve omnibus drivers who have found their occupation gone owing to the advent of motor traffic. He saysthousands of^ ■these men. would.- makefine horsemen could be secured. The •Commonwealth Government is offeranig objection to the introduction, of •this class of immigiaint unless it is shown .that the rate of pay at. which they foave been, employed is a fair one. - „. . The ancient fear 'of the ccm c i » s a ■dangerous and ill-omened appearance us ibeing- supported by the men of science. Spectrum" ■' analysis shows tihat in the constitution of the dVsqor&--ihouse comet •is a laiige quantity of cyanogen, a deadly gas. -""A- -few whiffs of ibhis 'gas.", says M. Flamarion, "and ail our discussions on tariffs and income tax -woiuld ihave ceased." Fortuniately this comet waibh a <bad characer is iJassing- away into space." > -Speaking at the Queen's Station at Wellington a. few days ago, Com- 1 rade .Fitzgerald— &e of Blackiball strike rnotoriety, it is presumed— warned the .woarker.s that "a crisis was ait hand, and ij was well that they should be prepared for it." Hg" followed- this up with a .pathetic story of Ihow he had worked at the Stormbird—and he was . not .physically strong— <>n o occasion' until he had baen cairfed, into a shed in a' fit. Gen orally,, he was severe upon Mr Me Laren. M.P. ; During the years of -the irise , and progress of Sea» . Robeiit Stout he has filled many and varied offices. Here a.re a few of tlhem.— He has been a university student, a school committee man, a school teacher, a member of several education boards, a university councillor, a' member of waste •land boaijds, a member of isieveral .road commission's, a Judge of the Native Land Court_ an editor of 'a paiper, a preacher, " a ipolitdaian, a ! ,Fellow of the New Zealand University, and now Chancellor of the -New Zedand University.-rNortheirn En^" S r jgn.\ ■. - ■• '..'■■. -". .■ '„'- ' : .; - ■ ' A country cororesDondent complains of the way the Grey County 'Council carn-es out . it^ work up his ■\ray| and he hopes that at the-next-meet-ing _ Councillor Tindale will draw attention to the matter, which is ttor's :. The County Gounaii has tlhb i<oad made to withi : n half a mile of Kaimata, but instead:- of continuing it on to Stoney CreeE (which is the link that stops anyone getting down the 'line on horseback). They; start at Kotoiku. four miles, away. andV work, down to ithe piece done at Kaimatia'.Owing to the inferior train service,, a person has to wa'ik to -Kokiri and. back- if. he has any business,' or else ride around to No Town. wh ; ch would miake it six times the dis•tancfi. J - ' ' .'■■ A banker, going home for his "dinner saw a ten. doklar bill on.j)he curb-> stone. He picked it up and noted the number and .went home to din-, ner. ■ Wihile ait home his wife remarked ithat the butdher had sent ay ibill amounting !to ten. doilars.. The only money he had with -him was '*hie v !bo,jhe.'|hiaj iooinid', .wh)iqb Ihje gave to (her and sjie paidthe butohef;. The" butoher 'paid it^to the jairmer .for a calf, and 'the-fartm'er paid it to ■tJhe merohanit, who iv turn paid it to" a washerwomaw, ' and she. owing ithe banker : a .note of ten . dollars, wemt 'to the bank and i>add;,'t\he' note. The banker recognised the (bill as /the one he (had • -fbund i and :whiich, up, to that time, had paid ,50 dollars of sfi'dbit. On careful . investigation he discovered that it was coun/ter-feit'....-Npw will some friends tell us what has been Jos/t- on tlhis <tTansachion and by whom — U.T.A. Bullev %.■ ■■_• ■■--; -%x- : - ; -£.'.v ■■■■■■-■

The cost of the Buller licensing eleouoa was £110. Wesitoort ,b<akfers Ihave raised the »rice of the 4'lfo loaf' to Sd. Ifce Weatport Boroug.h we paying only a WC ek less in salaries .than last year. * & The final of the draughts ohaimpionshoip played iat Gore resulted in a win for Gardiner. The population of Australia at the end of last year was 4,275,304— an increase of 70,267. upon iftie- previous year. The population of New South Wales was .1,561.672 and of Victoria 1.271,174. ... In the dispute between the Auckland Builders' and General Labourers' Union and the Auckland builders and contractors, which come before the Conciliation Council o n April 0. ho less than 350 employers Vaave been cited. A huge conger eel, which had left the river made its way up a small stream threading the marshes 0^ I -?v (Ll ° es -)- was stranded on <he falling . tide. Two men sejuf. *c c-ee^agat 1 * ft Cam * up vTrli zs&ji- The conger measured Sft 3in in length, 2 sin round, a^d weighed just 4olbs. " Mr Thomas Hail, for tie last thirteen years District Lands' Registrar wd Registrar cf Deeds for Hawke'-s Bay, Bias, been appointed District Land Registrar, Registrar of Deeds and Examiner of Titles for tihe Auckland district', succeeding Mr Edwin Bamford. . who ha« been appointed Registrar-General of Lands. ,Mr .Hall leaves Nap'er for Auckland in the course of ,1 few days. *fc An i? a 5 s ™ lff mc i d ent occurred on •tfce Feildmgr racecourse- on Mo^dav ing the horses iby a good half mle Nearung pudge's box he raised S P r> .!.• course in true-racing , style. Reaching tire trees near the . :W > vilv Urn€d , dn and d^>i>eared Ki!*** Aleck " Mc °onald is dead S'r^T -f Wn °V er Canada tT $£ ted ? tates as :th e King of tfc F^ dy \' c -;, Ifc s te who .nfade the first- valuable discoveries of gold m .the Yukon, and he made a fortune of millions. Subsequently imprudent investments carried away -he greater part of. his money but with tihe residue the set out bravely and to a large; extent, built' up a secondfortune. He was widely recognised as a lar.ge-hearted giant who was willang to give a helping ,hand to everybody, who appealed to hfati. Ninety per cent of crippiles are lncaoaoitated through tuberculosis said Sir William Trelor at a Claxton Hall Conference, which decided that the disease should be comDulsory notifiabla. Never mind tihe why or ■wherefore, You've a .nasty cold, and therefore That Ws .'time, you health to care for You must surely recognise. Let not olditime drugs enslave you ,9 r 'the pills that grand-ma gave you, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure 'will save you ' From ,a premature demise.