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Grey River Argus, 22 September 1913, Page 4

This being Dominion Day the Grey County Council . offices will be closed.

The Trawlers will have fresh/ fish arriving by the Arahura to-day. Ring up phone 280.

The Success dredge washed upon Thursday for a return of 310Z idwt for 'the week.

Mark Sprot and Co. will submit ito auction to-day at Preston Yards 35 fat cattle and 200 prme ' heavy wethers ":■■■- i y .y '

The job of lighting Cobden with gas is. nearly completed. Mr. Steer's whitebait factorj' is "to be lit with. .gas.

At Preston Yards to-day at 12.30 o'clock G. W. Moss and Co will submit to auction 30 prime fat cattle, aaid 300 fat wethers.

Dominion Day is not. to be a holiday forthe Post ..Office, but the work of the -office' people will be recognised by. giving extra leave. .

The . estimated population of Greymouith Borough at- the end :-of last j-ear was 5560, and vthat of the Grey County 5637, the Run anga Borough' s ' inhabitants -T-eing set down at 1638. ' ■ ..

. -1 he charges against F. J. Watty (false pretenses) : and .J. Lincoln (indecent language) on Saturday were adjourned, the former „' till Tuesday next and tiie latter- to Saturday 27th at 11.15 a.m.

The report of Mr.' Mainsiield of the proportional system of representation of Tasmania, is that it is thought to be somewhat uncertain in its operation bf- details. : In shortj it does not give complete rsatisfaotion- to the^. Tasmanian people. . .• ' .

In spite of several;. freshes -the Hokitika channel has kept practically straight to sea^ with .a very satisfactory depth. Members expressed .their gratification and there Avas a very hope ful f eelingr prevailing- that the .works carried out were mow g-oihg to r>rove their efficiency.

■_ Giving evidence before the Westport Harbour Board Commission Mr. F •F. ; lyiunro. chairman of the Board, said >fchat the necessity to. employ laboin was responsible for the loan. There was then ho urgent denig pd for the floating- basin or eastern breakwater extemsioai. -

_A man called at the office'.' oT the Hamilton Registrar "a 'few days -"ago: to record the arrivaJ of his Jieir. "The registered particulars show that the man s name . was Hamilton, that he was, a native bf Hamilton, in Scotla,nd that he was arrived at Hamilton/ Victor!',., >and that the child was v born at Hamilton, .New -Zealand. '•-

y •.;•'■■ ; . •-'•>.' Tb^e total populajtioh oi -New .ZeaUi^ on December 31st last .was-. l.ns;b_b«

• There are Government „ supporters despondent : enough • to - believe . that *it will .not live through tbe.sbssion-^and all .at^ once the ; late -headlessyOpjxwition has :-. become a, power, -as-. thfey showed by.makingr Mr. Massey cliriib fvTv" ° n the stone Wall. 1 Even Mr Webb is treated with. -the greatest. resi pect. No derision/f or . the Opposition •now. . . ... :.-: .y-.y. ,

■-. y -':■■' ' "'■ • --f .l-. . ' •' ".- ■ The Dunedin \ Suburban. Dfiv^ Union has;/ decided byl a two -to/daie majonty to join ithe; :United:. Federation gt Labour and Social < Dembciatic r-artp It \ras also resolved^ that mfefiibers^ wives shall ; in- future be'fiitt members of the unibii and -have air individual vote on all rouesitiphs. \yA number of local: -spotts-made M trip to Westport per-.motdr-bar to,witness the representative :riiatch : Buller v;^ Coast, played there; b_i Saturdaj Ihe weather .ivd's.aJl tl__.t could bb;desired, and the. outing/a most, enjoyable one,- th^roads bein^in firsNclass^cbni. dition for such a jburnevl ; '

. Housewive Sj bakersvand iill who xisb orange or lemon peelyin their delkate coos-mo: • always -. prefer" good t^iidfef juicy ful! flavoured jieelv y , Hehcb tfi£ popularity -of the exiceediiigly. whoMsomo peel which : bears. : the naihe M ■Jttoeni* and which isa gtiarantee .thai they will secure nohe^ biit the vei-y choicest, thick peel- \ '' -A

The Rev: D C. Bates' wired on Saturday: The indications are- foifreshening northerly: .-winds, strong -.tb ffale. The weathefe Will prdbalife prove squally and changeable. , THerb will be increasing ha^ze and- cloudiness tor an unfavourable, change in thb weather, with "rain probably followW. Th € barometer is falli^. !■ 'SesU mcreasing to considerable^; tides gpod^: H a?- n i s t^of IhtesJ^s^L formed Mr. - Seddon^ M.P.v Ihoi-pe and party Mve struck . golif> at Back Creek, The pleasing ififb^ mation -n .relation to .the striking H fresh goW at Back-: Cerek was- £m? municated ;to the recent County ._rie_tmg by the Inspector bf Miiies, ahd 5 the members of the. Cdjincil.;. « p f&s3 their gratification atthe news. lr-y

W^ ney V cab]e sxam bn SatiirdaJ sta ed that though .^e bulk of the^ Tnr^? S -ST assists at Broken Hill have fesiimed. work; J^ 0 .- ble still exists. ■ J Av'hostile d&i monstrtion, and t6/;sd_he^exteift : M boycott, has ben utilised Gainst those who returned to woilc. .; -THe mfi are picketed, but th^r6 is ho interfere ence with trade. There' is a fjossfi biiity of .the union -calling a wider striice.. h -.y ..-■ ' : y ln 'the course of address :it>tfie -bocial Democratic -Party's . at Wellington a few days a£o, 'M^ £1 1 regear (President), xlealihg. witb «M Bill to amend the Industrial Cohdiliai .von -and Arbitration Act, /asserted that the individual liberty which .had JSeeft formerly allowed. in the Act was 'no# swept away, and that the Billi so:Mitrom being an amendment bf. the Cbiicihatw>n Act. was r^all^ a Bill fulfil dustrial repression. ,—- • News has arrived;from Papua to 'the effect that Lieutenant of/ihl Luftfarzeng Company.- 'Berlin. M Prepared a scheme for. utilising •aHlodi ship to^explore the Nbw Guinea :<:bd_3L lhe . enterprise is in^furtheraric^ bf4 -scheme which is being, uhdertakesn - committees formed in Bntiun and' rfl land .vand, estimajted -fo cost cino lt . y ls clamed that a systematic topographical surv%pf the unknot interior could be madfe more quickly and: thoroughly byothe hew Scheme them with one statioh Erected in 'the mtenor-and others on thb _bast. '

Referring to. <the sfonbwali. the-'livt •relton Times says : It should- b**m embered it started because -Mr. mSs_ ey insisted on the com: mencing a fresh section of the ; Estimates at 4 o'clock bfi Saturday njoiii mg, and it was continued because th^ Government . declinedytb produce'the departmental reports.: The . Priihe Minister has bad- to giye Way j on bbtfi these points. The victory iii.nftt been won without hard work, but itii eminently satiGfactory -to the publib to know that .the Liberals aire willing- to undertake so arduous and, exhaoistihga struggle in defence of impbrtafit principles. . - • . --v. •..

'„•■'■' - '-"•■ -. • ■■" ■-. ■'" ■'■ -:'j . 1 resent indications point to the pbs sibihty. of the Midland. '.railway BeSfe •open for traffic to .a. point about yt&S miles beyond Klondykbi ahd aij&ifc hv e miles from Bealey . Fiat, . on' *or about the first of next 'month- Vit-M. not, expected that thk :&ew portibn>«s tho line will be taken bver ; by fthe Railway Department for some titae afterwards, as the -Public ' Works Bei partment does, not - to !; be v£Mx[L pered in its. arrangements for the cb-iii veyance of ballast over this portion oi the line. Passengers and ItiMi he over the line from ithe tM's tb-tM new temix>rary terminus, will be obiii trolled by the Public Works Detoartment. - *^;

A correspondent writing > to, a coitefii porary about some local grievance _UHi . ogisciously and very, accurately AMi off the general politics of thecbuiitiy. He says that the-present ; Government when in Opposition;., were often ; coir_i pJaining about .thei*., opponents. litiU con tanning in the Jold groove^ witlib'.Ct making reforms #h_iteve_-.';iiitKi_tk the West Coast cannbt fcbmi>'laiii aßoiij. the present party making, aid re!fo*i_i^ s for throughout the Buller district .if nowhere ' else, mearlj. > yiatt -the JjuM*works have been brought^to^itaii^. still., This is the. kind of rref arm that leaves a "black ma_rk,bfeh_md itV ;TJie working , men of the Dbihihion, , f ro_& one end^to ithe other, he^r' had siibH a blue look-out nor such a falsificaticai of Reform promises. But there 'is'JifiiS plaih fact. . „ '.-. ■-. .:-•:• .;.::.