LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Holy Mass will be celebrated on Sunday next at Blackball at 9 a.m., and at Ngahere at 11 a.m.—Advt. There was 14ft sin of water in tho Greymouth Reservoir yesterday morning. Buller Hockey Association has nominated J. P. Fisher for the South Island tegm to play the North Island next month at Nelson. A report is current that some rich stone has been struck in the Fiery Cross Mine at Capleston. No doubt more will be known about the find later. Gibbs’s Reliable Motor Service. — Passengers to Westport, Nelson-, and Blenheim can travel with comfort in the world-renowned Packard Touring Cars. A. E. Kilgour, agent, ’phone 259.—Advt. There were 30 severe shakes in an hour on Monday morning in the Taupo region, and many minor, the rate being one a minute. Houses rocked like boots. Sunday night was fairly quiet. Despite the Chinese civil war, reassuring cable advice has been received from the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission in Canton as follows: “The Mission is absolutely unaffected and the situation is brightening.” The residence on Farrell’s farm at Ikamatua was destroyed by fire on Monday evening last. The property was to have been resumed by the Repatriation Department, so that the nre will be their loss. A meeting of all members of the State Miners’ Union will be held at the Miners’ Hall, Runanga, at 10.30 this morning. Every member is requested to be present. —Advt. 6 There has be-en a heavy downpour of rain all along tho East Coast of the South Island during the past few days. The overland journey has been very unpleasant lately. This winter, apart from cold, the West Coast has .not been the worst off for weather. Don't forget the Grand Bazaar which will be held in McDonald’s Hall, Granity,, on Friday and Saturday next. There will be astounding bargains and attractive side-shows. The committee promise an entertainment pleasing to young and old. The doors will be open at 7.30 p.m. and admission is free.— Advt. On Monday, July 3, Messrs McMahon and Lee will sell by public auction, at the liiangahua Junction yards, prime fat bullocks, dairy cows, and 850 prime fat sheep from two-tooth to full-mouth. A motor-car will leave Reefton immediately after the arrival of the morning train from Greymouth. For full particulars see our advertising columns.

Owing to extensive alterations the kitchen department of the Albion Hotel will be closed down for eight or 10 days but you can still get a glass of Monteith’s Foaming Ale for 6d. W. McFarlane.—Advt. Mr P. Ryder, of Inchbonnie, advertises for sale 115 acres of splendid freehold land and 100 acres T.G.L. The freehold will carry about 25 cows and 100 sheep. It is ring-fenced and well watered. Mr Ryder offers terms advantageous to the purchaser, which may bo had on application to this office. Here is a thought from H. N. Brailsford: “When a Socialist party can guide the thought of a nation, when —without censorship or suppression—the press of a nation talks Socialism, when a preponderant mass of ability in science ,technics, and management is ready to support tho new social organisation, then, and not till then, is victory near.” At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday judgment was given by default for plaintiffs in each of the following cases by Mr Meldrum S.M.: —Richard J. Pinn v. George Eyeington, £5/5/8; J. M. M. Bunt and P. C. Heaphy v. Thomas Cressey, £5/5/8; Henry E. Greenway v. Roy Hall, £l2; J. M. Bunt and P. C. Heaphy v. Frederick Escott, £3/17/6; David Wallace v. Stanley Attwell, £3/14/9.

Some recent books. A. E. Kilgour has an exceptionally large stock of books on all subjects. We specialise in up-to-date novels by popular authors at the lowest prices in the Dominion: —“Mau to Man,” by Jackson Gregory; “Man of the Forest,” by Zane Grey, price 3/6; “Taken by Storm,” by E. W. Savis, price 2/6; “That Rod Headed Girl,” by Louise Halgers, price 2/6; “The Wider Way,’’ by Diano Patrick, price 2/6; “A Prince of Intrigue,” by May Wynne, price 2/6; “Diamonds,” by F. E. Penny, price 2/6; “Hooks of Steel, ’ ’ by Helen Brothers Lewis, price 2/6; “The Vision Splendid,” by William MacLeod Raines, price 2/6; “Ivy Beaucarnis, by A. G. Hales, price 2/6; “The Indignant Spinsters,” by Winifred Boggs, price 2/6; “The Night Club,” by Herbert Jenkins, price 3/6. Country client* add 4d postage. Sure to get it at A. E. Kilgour’s, up-to-date Bookseller, Stationer, etc.—Advt.

Recent visitors to Rotorua state that business people there say the season they are passing through is probably the worst in the history of the town. With reference to the resignation of Mr Statham from the United LiberalLabour Party the report is that there is one point upon which he and Mr Wilford could not agree. Holders of ticket butts and unsold tickets iu Labour’s Machine Fund Art Union are requested to return same at once to J. Scott, Box 16, Greymouth, as the Art Union is to be drawn on July L—Advt. Mr W. A. Rumbold, secretary of the Inangahua Surf Disaster Fund, reports having received the sum of £7 4/- from Mr Nissen, of Greymouth, in connec-

tion with the fund. The item appearing on the balance-sheet “Healy and Condon, £B3 17/B’’ was made up as follows:—Bellamy (Greymouth) £45 17/8, Interment fees and plots £5, Car hire, Burley £l7 10/-, Advertising £2, Healy and C'ondou £l3 10/-. Total £B3 17/8. ‘‘ My advice to the workers of Australian is to stick to the Labour Movei ment and help mould its policy along the lines from which it has never de- ! parted. Let tho other worker keep before him an attainable obeetive and select as leaders capable and earnest men,’’ wrote Mr Theodore in an article, with a view to the forthcoming sittings of the New South Wales Labor Conference, penned by him in reply to a request by “Smith's Weekly.” as follow at a sitting of the Gneymouth Warden’s Court before Mr W. Meld- ' rum, Warden: —Stratford Blair and Company., hand-sawing and timbersplitting warrant, adjourned to June 11: Harry Alexander Guston Hahn and William Frederick Charles Hahn, handsawing and timber-splitting warrant.— Granted. —District Public Trustee, duplicate of destroyed document, duplicate to issue. Everyone likes to seo a well-dressed boy —especially mother. And if it is only | once a week that his knoek-nbout exist- | ence permits him to wear a good rig- | out—that is sufficient to show that a nice suit is always worth while. Call and select from our wide and attractive range of Sports and ’Varsity suits from 17/6. The Mayfair, Men’s and Boys’ Wear Specialists, Mawhera Quay. —Advt. I We would remind our readers that the War Memorial Fund definitely closes on Saturday Ist July. As it is practically impossible for the canvassers to call on every individual, emergency lists have been opened to give every one the oppotunity to subscribe to the Fund. No sum will be too large or too small, and no donations will be accepted after the Ist July. Lists are now open at the “Argus” office, “Star” office, Cray and Coy’s, office, and at Armstrong and Douglas’ store. I The weekly meeting of the St Col- ' umba Club’s Debating Society last night was devoted, to a small extent, to consideration of the Competitions Book of Words, and to a far larger extent, to impromptu debate. Mr A. : McSheny, owing to pressure of work, i decided to tender his resignation as • secretary, and members though extremel ly loth to accept it, accompanied it : with a unanimous vote of thanks and appreciation to Mr McSherry. Mr J. McMahon, the present Assistant Secretary, was appointed Secretary-in-Chief. i A selection committee for. competition purposes was also appointed.

Annual Winter Sale commencing Friday, June 29, and following days. Quick quit unbeatable prices. 100 dozen ‘ ladies’ all-wool Black dashmere Hose, usually 4/11, now 2/6 pair. 50 dozen Elastic Top Sports and Low Bust Corsets, C. 8., British make, every pair guaranteed, Price 6/11 pair. McGruer’s (Westland) Ltd., Greymouth, Reefton and Hokitika.—Advt. Tho Kohinoor Football Club will hold ; another of their fortnightly euchre tournaments and dance in the Druids’ • Hall this (Friday evening), when spe- : cial efforts are being made for the reappearanee of the popular jaziz band, which created such favourable comment in the early dances. , A first class orchestra will assist in the music while for the •euchre patrons the committee , have secured a ham for competition, so ' lovers of this delicacy should avail themselves of the opportunity of winining it. The supper will bo firstclass, and will be attended to by a strong ladies committee, and as the prices are. within reach of all, viz: 2/for gents and 1/- for ladies to all parts, a bumper house is assured. Far-sighted mon arc advocating a more comprehensive league of nations than, the one some politicians in England the other day eulogused. The present league keeps 400,000,000 whites outside, and both by tho origin and by its work hitherto, has the character of a League of Victors. The peoples should not trust, this league with so dreadful a weapon as blockade. But a real league of nations, taking 5n all (nation?, is as yet nothing but a beautiful dream of the future, just as disarmament and cteral peace, to-day seem more utopian than ever before. Is then the opinion that, while the while the pacifists honestly and seriously are working for the establishment of a general League of Nations as well as for disarmament, we shall have to stick to such a hideous weapon as blockade, which also implies another hideous weapon; the unlimited submarine war? Should it be more unthinkable to get rules for sea-warfare introduced, whereby the traffic on the seas became free and safe for peaceful commerce, than th get the nreat ideal of rhe pacifists realised?

At Sydney it is clainJpd that one o£ the reasons for exceswve unemploy* ment amongst the seaoen is the employment of black crr.B. which means higher profits for fKY shipping companies. Unionists state that the Federal Government should take steps in the matter as far as vessels trading in Australian waters are concerned. Strong exception was taken by members of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Committee last week to what was ’onsidered to be the ridiculously exorbitant tax imposed upon the Society under the heading “amusement,” in connection with the recent Winter Show. The account showed that the Society was called upon to pay no less than £133 13s 4d. This was made up <f a charge of £43 19s on members’ tickets and £B9 14s 4d on the money receh ed at the doors. An International Conference, arranged by the Movement Towards a Christain International, is to be held this year at Sonntagbcg (Austria), August 7-14. Those who are familiar with the former conferences of the Movement held at Biltloven (Holland) will not need to be assured of the significance of this gathering. It is hoped that men and woiuen from many lands will come together at Sonntagberg in the spirit of humble seekers, to face afresh the problems of this strife-em-bittered world. The continued failure of statesmen an*l economists to bring justice and pCaee and order to the world makes it incumbent on those who believe in the brotherhood of men to ignore race divisions and assist our common unity. Treating recently on journalism, the London “Daily Herald,” edited by Lansbury remarked: —“If the bulk of the press says what is not true, especially about industrial disputes, whose fault is that 1 The capitalists own the newspapers. They buy them and run them, often at enormous loss, for the sake of influencing public opinion in the defence of capitalism. Obviously they are going to fjet their ‘money’s worth’ in this business as in any other. They do not pour hundreds of thousands of pounds into newspapers, which they know may never be anything but a financial loss, just for the fun of the thing. They do it because that is their insurance against a change of society. It is worth their while to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds in influencing public opinion against the working-class, because that gives them the political control which enables them to safeguard their economic ascendancy. ’ ’ They are all doing it! What? Why, buying up-to-date music at A. E. Kilgour’s. “The Kid,” “That Haunting Waltz,” “Cuddle Closer,” “Cold Black Mammy,” “Ohio,” “My Mammy,” “April Showers,” “Kentucky Dream,” “Witching Waves,” “Down Honolulu Wav,” “Don’t You Remember the Time,” “Sonny Honey Boy,” “Hawaiian Dreams,” “Hawaiian Sunshine,” “Old Man Jazz,” “Jickey,” “Amazon,” “My Dreams,” “Swanee,” ‘‘Peggy O’Neil,” “That’s What God Made Mothers For,” and hundreds of other up-to-date songs, waltzes, fox trots, and marches. Price 2/-. Sure to get it at A. E. Kilgour’s, up-to-date Piano, Gramophone and Music Warehouse. —Adyt.