LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 26 July 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sleep in peace and comfort at McFarlane’s Albion Hotel. The oni> up-to-date fire-proof hotel on the West Coast that caters for travellers and the general public. Early breakfasts a speciality. Tariff 10/- per day.—Advt. From Monday next Arnold Siding will cease to be a stopping place for passengers, parcels and small lots of goods. A charity collection at St Patrick’s Church on Sunday in aid of the funds of the St Vincent De Paul Society realised over £54. On Monday night Blaketown Fire Brigade played a euchre tournament with the Central Station, defeating the latter after : n interesting evening. An inter-dub debate is to be held on Monday night between the W.E.A. and Runanga debating Societies. The St. Columba Club last evening decided to grant the Club tho use of the Columba Hall on that evening. That tho Grey County ratepayers are up against the council in regard to the rate proposal to be struck for the current year is quite evident by referring to our advertising columns. Waipuna Riding has set the ball rolling, a protest meeting being called for Thursday evening at Totara Flat. To day a cycle road race from Hokitika to Stafford and back will take place, the handicaps being:—George, scratch: \V. Blackmun, 4min; C. Best, 7: !’. Ross, 8; 11. Blackmun, 10; D. C. Finch, 10; J. Keller, 10; 14. Adamson, 10; W. Gooch, 11; L. Gibbons, 12; W. Cain, 12; Fogwell, 12; W. J. Clark, 12; J. F. Mills, 12; B. Gibbons, 12. At yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court, Mr W. Moldrum, S.M. gave judgment for plaintiffs in the following debt claims:—Guido L. Schaef v. John Wallace, £5O/14/9; J. M. Bunt and P. C. Iloaphy v. Berkley R. Kidd, £7/15/5; Oscar Edgon v. James Barr, £2B/5/- with costs; Grey River Argus Company v. E. R. O’Connor, £lB with costs; Herbert Wearn v. George Eyeington, £2O/6/10; J. M. Bunt and P. C. Heaphy v. Frederick William Woolhouse, £ll/9/-. The Martin Family have neon in the carrying business for over 43 years, and have never yet failed the public. Noth ing too small or too large for us to handle. All trains met and goods consigned to us will be delivered with out customary guaranteed punctuality. 11. Mcrtin, No. 1 Carrier, Greymouth.— Advt. “My experience tells me,” stated the Rev. Dr Gibb, at a welcome to the Rev. F. E. Harry at the Vivian Street Baptist Church at Wellington, “that in a minister’s life the first year after the settlement the curate is regarded as an angel with wings. The second he is an angel who has lost his wings. The third year he is a mere man. The fourth year the congregation are not certain whether he is a duffer. The fifth year they are certain he is.” (Laughter.) An accident happened on the Greymouth wharf at 7 o’clock last evenhtg to a shun’.pr named Len Tomlin, ot Cobden. Mr Tomlin was engaged in the work of shunting a bno of trucks, when he must have slipped and fallen, for he was heard by the engine driver to cry out to stop. When peeked up, he was practically unconsciCu •, and wn.: suffering a severe cut on the back of his >.eti. P’rst aid v/as rendered, atfer wlr th 4 he unfortunate man was conveyed in the ambulance to the Hospital. It is presumed that when he slipped one of the trucks struck him on the head. At a sittings of the Warden’s Court yesterday, before Mr W. Meldrum, Warden, applications were dealt with as follows:—John Latcham, license to prospect for coal, granted, subject to certain conditions; Flora Stephenson, permission to surrender residence site, granted; John Wilson Brownlee, renewal of license, granted; Daniel Stanley Joseph, hand-sawing and timber splitting warrant, adjourned for report; John Burton, ordinary prospecting license, adjourned for report of the Conservator of Forests; James Daniel Lynch, certificate of protection over milling areas at Kaiata, recommended to the Minister. The attention of the travelling public. is drawn to the additional service Newman Bros, purpose running between Reef ton and Westport to Nelson, and vice versa, starting on Saturday next. The cars will leave Reefton and Westport on Saturdays and return from Nelson on Monday, this service will fill a long felt want, and we hope the public will take advantage same. Harley end Co. Ltd., the . nef local agents, will be pleased to supply all particulars.—Advt.

A dairy farmer who put £lOOO into a property in the Carterton district two years ago (says the Wairarapa Age) was about to walk out last week without the proverbial match owing to his inability to meet, the interest, when his case was met by a substantial reduction in charges. This is only one of a large number of cases of men who went on to the land in the boom time and who could not possibly make ends meet at this season’s butter-fat prices. Since the “Find a Job” Committee was formed three weeks ago, 136 jobs have been found for mon whose dependents number 180 (says the Wanganui Chronicle). This result is due to townspeople getting jobs about their gardens or houses done.

“Belgium is the original home of all homing pigeons,” said Air C. A. House at Wellington. There are thieves who steal from clotheslines at New Brighton, so a vigilance committee has been formed. Two hours a night members watch. Thirty-two English girls have come to Australia under the auspices of an English corset-making firm, which intends opening workshops nt North Melbourne. 42 A Palmerston North grower says that by packing unripe tomatoes under grass in the open before the frost comes, growers may have them fresh and luscious right through the winter. Special Bargains—Boys ’ Oilskin Coats now 17/6, Boys’ Mackintosh Coats usually 39/6 now 19/6, Men s Double-lined Oilcoats now 19/6. McGruer and Co., Grey mouth, Reef ton and Hokitika. —A dv t. The phraseology used in the law courts of recent times has not invariably born marked by the care that is to be expected. “ Although my client is a publican,” said counsel in a ease in the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court, “he is, I am instructed, an honourable and straight forward man. ’ ’ Opponents to the Welfare League have occasionally some hard things to say about it (says Hie WairarajisTimes), but quite unintentionally y ie of its journalistic supporters capped the lot when acknowledging one of itsji contributions by stating that it wasL ‘contributed by the New Zealuncß Helfare League.” Mr Poland, M.l’., declared in Parlia-i ment, that the postponement of rent® was taking the heart out of soldieJ settlers. The rent hung all the time® over the soldiers’ heads. He urged® the Government to cut its losses on® soldier settlement land. It mighlß have to lose £5,000,000, but it shoult® be prepared to do so. The Government® had to make some sueh loss. Fifteen hundred cords of slab lira® wood, which were being cut into tw<J feet lengths on a farm on the tu River near Dennevirke. were desW troyed bv fire the other night. Th-B engine and saw bench were saved. wood was insured for £3OO and valuer® at £7OO. J The lowest price at which paper fo« newsprint has been landed for the las® year is £22 10/- per ton, to which local® charges have to be added, while the® latest quotation received here for future® supply is £24 10/-. Added to this, there 1 is every prospect of a higher price fori next year, as the market is hardening.! There was a depth of lift of water® in the Borough Reservoir yesterday! morning. i When a remit proposing the dehorn-1 ing of cattle came up for consideration® at the conference of the Council of Ag-® riculture at Wellington, South Island® members pointed oui. that animals sc® treated became much quieter and mon® docile than before. The remit was dr® feated, and another delegate said mem-| hers had the matter in their own hands.® When the calves were quite young he® rubbed the points with a certain acid,® and that settled the. question of dehorn-1 ing them for all time. It will probably come as a surprise! to many swimmers to learn that, in 1 the opinion of the Chief Physical In- ' struct or for Schools of Otago, as read before the Education Board, the teaching of the “crawl” and “trudge” strokes is inimical to the physical welfare of tho children. Ho suggested ; that swimming instructors should be | advised that the teaching of these < strokes would not be tolerated, as they i encourage the causation of spinal cur-1 vature in its worst forms. It was decided to act as suggested. In the month of July, twenty-eight years ago, a great Labour struggle reached its climax in America. The miners and the railwaymen were then, as now, the chief bodies of workers directly affected. There existed thenr as now, a large army of unemployed® and Air Eugene Debs was then, as no\* one of the chief strike leaders. BA the workers to-day know more thA h bit

It is stated that West Coast millowners are seeking to re-engage haiids at lowered rates of wages. Last week about 60 workers, mostly single men, were sacked from Bell Hill sawmill. Last week there were 32 cases of notifiable diseases in tho CanterburyWest Coast Health district, incluuding two eases of diphtheria, iu Buller and three in Inangahua. The Salvation Army held its 35th Greymouth anniversary services a few days ago. when Major Wells, of Ctiristchruch, gave a number of interesting discourses. Commenting on the fact that the Otago Harbour Board has made a definite start on work in connection with the railway deviation, the Dunedin “Star’’ says: “Flags have been flowu for less important doings.’’ The work of installing the metallic telephonic circuit in Greymouth is now being carried out, a start being made in Tainui Street. The wires are being laid down outside the kerbing on the western side of the street. The Greymouth Club at its annual meeting gave a send-off to Messrs A. W. Calder and P. McKenzie, two departing members, to whom complimentary remarks were made by the President (Mr J. Stenhouse) and other members. At Wellington to-day a man named - I ,:! > Jr appears in Court on mat « \ddington and find two men t cut it up for distribution through icps. He thought that he could buy x or seven hundredweight of beef for £3 10s, and he understood that arrangements could be made for free slaughtering at the abbatoir. ■ A curious fact about a case in the Arbitration Court at Christchurch on I Wednesday was the names of two liti- | pants. Theodore Julius Caesar claimed I compensation from his father, Julius | A. A. Caesar, sheep-farmer, Motu, for ■injuries to his left arm, received ■through being accidentally shot whilst ■engaged in work on his father’s station. It was decided that counsel Khould be given an opportunity to examine Mr Caesar senior, who is at preB,.?nt in Australia. When this has been ■ one they may submit their arguments K writing to the Court, and a decision 8.-ill then be given. I A member of Parliament the other ■ay commented on the Prime Minis■er’s decision to cancel his proposed Irop to Samoa, and suggested that the leal reason was that this is election tear. Ono only had to look at how ■he Prime Minister filled in the time, ile could spare time for Samoa. H& ■ravelled round electioneering. Thrt ■light not be wrong, but it contrasted infavourably with the Government’s ■aim that it never did these things. ■he by-election brought four Ministers, ■eluding Mr Massey, to open the Dun-’ Idin Winter Show .though they had l ■reviously failed to get a Minister for Ihreo years. Evidently the Beformers: fere not so confident as some people -J .... —