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Grey River Argus, 1 June 1914, Page 4

I' A waterside worker named Oswald Jackson, a middle-aged man, met with a painful accident. He was engaged working the" after hold of the Ngaher'e discharging cement when some' of the bags fell on him breaking this leg". He was taken to the Hospital. Last "month's rainfall amounted to ; 4.95 inches. Rain fell on eleven days. For the corresponding month last year the fall was q-S inches and rain fell on 21 days. t I lan well Williams, chemist, has just landed a further shipment of St. Johns Paraffin Oil, the quality of which is unsurpassed. Answers to all t&sts of the British Pharmacopeia, and -being colorless, odorless, and tasteless. — Advt. At a meeting of the Inangahua IVliners- "Union held yeserday it was decided that the Union be represented at a conference of New Zealand unions to be held at Wellington in July. Compliant is made (says the Westport Times) that the Mercantile Gazette credits Westport with seVerial financial dealings which rightly belongto Greymouth. The Westport Chamber of Commerce has called attention to the error but so far without success. ■ A West Coast section of the Public Service Association has beeu formed, with 85 members, eighteen of whom are stationed in the Westport district, Hokitika- is the -headquarters of the section. . A meeting of ladies will be held at the Town Hall, this afternoon June ist, at 3 o>'clock. The meeting is held witlh the obiect of forfing .a ladies branch of the Liberal League. Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. intimate that they have to let the ground floor ,of, building situate corner" of Chapel and Tainui Streets/ recently occupied by Mr.^F. McGregor, wheelwright. At Preston Yards at 12.30 o'clock to-day G. W. Moss and Co. will sell by public auction 25 fat bullocks and 200 fat sheep. A summoned meeting of the U.A.O.D. Lodg-e of Druids will be held in the lodge room, Tainui Street, this (Monday) evening- at 8 o'clock. The business is the election and installation of officers and general. 'Messrs Mark Sprot and Co- favoured with instructions offer for sale about half an~ acre of land with shop and dwelling and store room erected thereon; also the goodwill of grocery, drapery and butchery business conducted therein. For further particulars sec advertisement. A "notice appears in this issue from •'Major W. S- Austin, Commanding "D" Company, 13th Regiment, announcing the parades of territorials and senior cadets to he held on Wednesday, 3rd June. In this issue Mark Sprot and Co. announce that they have for sale the lease of a valuable hotel propertyThe lease is for 5 years, and the rental £3 per week. The hotel is at present enjoying a god connection, and m the hands of a capable man could be made a much "better proposition. For full particulars apply to Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. 1 In regard to the appointment of a Land Commission, chronicled recently, the Prime Minister informed .a Welligton reporter that when he last visited the eWst Coast of the South Islar/d he received, scores of requests from settlers for the appointment of such a. Commission as has now been set up. Much trouble is experienced from the overlapping of timber interests and the interests of settlement, but the Prime Minister is confident that the matters in'dispue can readily be adjusted with benefit to all concerned, and in such away as to encourage the progress of settlement.

I t The West Coast 'Commission on timber, mining and settlement appointed 'to report upon - the advisability of amending the existing- statutes and *ejgulations affecting^ the administration v of timber and the disposal and occupatio of Crown lands the mining districts of .Westland and Karamea will sit at the_ Greymouth Courthouse on June,sth at 10 o'clock, other places of sittings aTe notified in the advertisement appearing in this issue. The Greymouth Garage (Lord and Ghilde ) announce elsewhere that they now have a taxi on -the -taxi stand. This enterprising firm are prepared to supply -cars to the public at any hour jday or night. - They have three telephones, namely, the Garage. No. 335, taxi stand No. 322 and Mr. Lord's residence No. 39 5, -so patrons are ensured of getting a car at any hour required. ' > > Government surveyors, who are now engaged in dividing into two blocks '1000 acres of bush on the road leading to .Oio Station, will assess the quantity pf^standing timber, and let it outkfor millirig (writes the Taumarunui correspondent'of the? Auckland Herald). -Tir^. is the last t>r_tbe bush on the ° side of the Wihakapapa xivsr. -Though it will take a number of years to cut it out, the end is, nevertheless, in sight. It is probable that before this piece of bush is finished, timtfer land on the other side of the- -river will be available. ;A mild sensation was experienced by the passengers of the 11.15 Paekakariki train from Thorndon, Wellington, .^.Saufday night. Shortly, before the train reached, Ngaio. the driver of the rear engine, in reaching up his foot to close the furnace-door, slipped and fell off the train. Fortunately the accident cicurred bewteen two tunneis / and the •man. received little or no injury ' The 'fireman on the' rear egine drew the attention of the front engine-driver by means of the whistle, and the train stopped just outside of Ngaio. The guard and one or two passengers walk ed back along the line and met the missing driver who boarded his engine again and took it along to Johnsonville, a delay of about three-quarters of an hour having: occurred. * In view of the coming Parliamentary elections, and in consequence of t the enrolment of elecors, a word of warning is given to persons who are called upon to attest the signature of an elector on an enrolment claim. It is poiiTed out that before a witness should sigh the form he should either -actually see the signature . made or obtain, a verbal declaration to that effct. -It sometimes happens- that ' a person might produce the claims of sevejral members of a family for an elector to witness. In that case the witness could not comply with the regulations/-al-though the person might claim* the genuiness of the signatures. America has not the monopoly ' of romantic affairs, although -quitfc^a number of prety love stories originate in that land of easy separation'-,-. This time it our^ neighbouring Continent which provides a pretty story : pf a sweet-looking country girl, who, .came to Sydney and entered a. wealthy, firm as junior typiste. It, was not. long: before the senior member soon discovered in the typiste his twia-^soqly an& as all 'went smoothly, they are now wed and are spending their, honeymoon in a most romantic walking tour round Mount Buffalo district, an Australian writes. They both carry a swag, and the bride's extensive^ outfit consists of two 'pairs of 1 trousers and a bowie knife with one. skirt -to don when near civilisation: They- sleep 'neath^he blue vault of Heaven, with the stars as canopy, and "with.,a loaf of bread beneath the bough arid a flask of wine, the wilderness is Paradise now." ' """ Giant English' hothouse strawberries vere on sale at Covent Garden one day last month at 40s a pound, or 2s 6d an ounce! "This is one of the highet prices ever reached by English hothouse strawberries," said -a. salesman to the Daily Mirror. 1 "Growers have had trouble, owing to frost, in forcing strawberries this year, and supplies are rather scarce-" Lemons always cost more in Lent, for quantities are* -used* to .serve wi^h fish. Small cases, clonttaining about '300 lemons ,realised 23s at Covent Garden recently, while larger-sized lemons were sold for as muc has 32s a case. Owing to the scarcity of lemons^ many retail fruiterers :>n 'London' have increased the cost of lemons from , id to -}d each. varieties* of apples were being sold in; London at 12s a dozen. _ Asparagus — also o£ unusual size— was sold at 10s 6d a f bundle.