LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 7 August 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

For £7 10s yearly you may have a,i Atlas Personal Accident and Sickness Policy, covering £5OO at death, or £5 weekly for 52 weeks for temporary total disablement from accident or specified diseases, including typh >i 1 fever, whooping cough, appendicitis, diphtheria, measles, ptomaine, ete. etc. Mark Sprot and Co. Ltd., Attorneys, Atlas Assurance Coy., or any of the West Coast agents.. The new Colosseum Theatre in Auckland is to be opened at Christinas, The monthly meeting of the Greymouth District High Belrool Committee will be held to-night. Gastric influenza is reported to be lather prevalent in Oamaiu at the present time. The Palmerston North Fire Board is about to erect a new central station nt a cost of £30,000. Entries for the Trinity College examinations in Theory for December, CLOSE on August 12th. —-Ailvt. There are 300 unemployed o.i the Government Labour Bureau books in Wellington. A total of 28,000 people visited the Wellington Winter Show during the first three days up to Tuesday last. The sum of £lO,OOO has already been collected in Wellington for the proposed Karitane Home on Melrose Heights. A great new hotel, to cost £200,000, is to be erected nt the corner of Victoria and Kitchener streets, Auckland. For the past six months of this year building permits to the value 'if £255,000 were issued by the Mount Albert (Auckland) Borough Council. A big English manufacturing firm has purchased 60 acres in the Lower Hutt industrial area, on which to erect huge factories. Half price and quarter price special for the last eight days of McGruer’s great Winter Sale commencing August Bth nt 9 o’clock. McGruer’s, Greymouth, Reeftou and Hokitika.

Where to stay in Reefton.—The ladstoiie Hotel is a home dway from nine. Visitors will be assured of every imlort. Dining Room under the perjnal supervision of Mrs Brooks. —A. Brooks, Proprietor.—Advt. A public meeting is to be called by lie Mayor at an early date to make rraugements for fittingly celebrating lie opening of the Old People’s Home uiluings. Snow fell in the hill country in the lay of Plenty last week (states the! lay of Plenty Times). Mount Tara-; vera was covered with a white mantle,] vhich could be seen from Whakatane. | Tim twenty-fifth anniversary of tlwl Formation of the Star Football Club ivill fall early next year, and already roposals are being considered to ivorthily celebrate the event. -x resident of Sumner has presented to the Canterbury Museum a collection of moa bones which he discovered upon his property. They are in an excellent state of preservation, and it is expected that further bones will be found. “If the bottom falls out of the West Coast there will be a big hole in Canterbury,” said Mr W. Anderson at the public meeting to protest against the proposed increase in railway freights on Wednesday night. Experience does count.—Lawn’s 2" yeari/ experience as a first-class Tailor guarantees you satisfaction in style and fit for your next suit. Order right away. Prices £9 10s, £lO 10s, £ll 10s. The Corner .Shop, Tainui Street., The sales yesterday on the Dunedin stock exchange were:—Dominion rubber -15 s; New Zealand Breweries debentures 235, Molyneux electrics Sale reported, Dontin-on rubber 455. The Ra igiora News says: There is a strong underground flow of water unuler the town, and many cellars are 'Hooded to a depth of two feet. The water is giving a good deal of trouble l at the gasworks, where it has been necessary to pump regularly. Wanganui merchants report a.t advance of £1 per ton in the price of hay Au unusual theft has been reported at Gisborne. The minister of a ehurcl announced on Sunday evening that his Bible had been stolc-u off the reading desk in his church.

The late Duke of Rutland left an estate which has been valued at £9:10.737. In his will he described his wife as “the best and dearest woman that ever was born.” The Duke be queathed a pearl pin to Maxine Elliott and £2OO to Mis Arthur Bourehier. WATCH THE INDIANS GO BY. Advt. ITiemploynient is still acute in Greymouth, and every day the Mayor is receiving applications for emploincnt from miners, timber worke's and general labourers. On one day alo.ie his Worship received no fewer than a dozen applications. A miniature silver cup has beet presented to the West Coast Competitions Society by an anonymous donor. The cup is to be awarded to the competitor (under 16) who secures the highest aggregate marks in the elocutionary and musical sections at the forthcoming festival.

“It is now practically an established fact that you cannot make a port at a river’s mouth, not in New Zenlu id. anyhow,” observed Mr W. T. Wells nt the meeting of the Harbour Board (says the New Plymouth Herald) while speaking of the future of the harbour at New Plymouth as the deep-water port for Taranaki.

Dairy stock are commanding good prices, no doubt owing to the pay-out that dairy farmers will receive for dairy produce the first part of the present season (states the Hawera Star). At Mr 'f C, Arnold's sale dairy eqws brought up to £lB 15s, the lowest pfffce obtained being £l5; small yearling heifers brought £2 10s to £3.

Final sale days hair price and qunr ter price days at McGruer’s. Commencing Saturday, August Sth. The balance of our winter stocks to go out at bedrock prices. Famous for low prices. McGruer’s, Greymouth, E.'v.ftun and Hokitika.

A number of officers of the American Fleet arc to visit the West Coast during the Fleet's stay in Lyttelton, and the Greymouth Branch of the Automobile Association, as its meeting yesterday, decided to drive the visitors to the various scenic attractions in this district, including Franz Josef Glacier and Punakaikui.

Butter and cheese buyers are now scouring Southern Hawke's Bay for the coming season’s output, and agents in addressing dairy suppliers forecast excellent prospects for cheese. One agent yesterday told a factory that there was a possibility of cheese reaching 120 s a cwt. Good prices are being offered, the best being 9 5-Sd up to the end of December. One factory in the district has already disposed of a portion of its output at this figure.

A serious accident happened at the Marsden Sawmill yesterday. Archibald Clark, a married man, 38 years of age (residing at Rutherglen), was engaged in the bush with a blocu and tackle when the rope broke and the block carried away, hitting Mr Clark on the left leg. The man was conveyed to the Grey River Hospital;, where it was found that he bad sustained a compound fracture of the lower portion of the leg. He is progressing satisfactorily. Still selling at the same old price Suits and Costumes from £3 10s upwards. Waterproof Tweeds and Gaberdine Overcoatings from £4 10s to £B. Edwards, Christchurch, for Suits that Satisfy. J- Scott, Threadneedle Street, Greymouth, Coast representative ~

The State Collieries Floral and Hi.r. tic-niturnl Society will bold its inu-t--cal and elocutionary competition -n the Miners’ Hall, Runanga. on Friday September 18th. The schedule includes test pieces for piano, voilin, singing and recitation. Entries crosj with tlie secretary on Friday, September 11 th. At the meeting of the Grcymouth Branch of t’-c Automobile Association yesterday, the secretary stated that Mr Arthur Dudley Dobson, of Christchurch, when in Grcymouth re(fatly, remarked that he had noticed little improvement in the Grey-Reef-ton road since it was constructed in the early seventies. In the stretch of the road between Grcymouth and Kaiatn there were some dangerous bends and zig zags, and he was disappointed with the little progress that had been made mi that long period. The party of Greek gypsies who were some weeks back ordered to leave the Masterton district found Auvkla id most inhospitable, so they embarked for Sydney on the day of their arrival (states the Wairarapa Age). They attempted to pitch their tents in the suburb of La Perouse, but the police moved them on once again, and it is not recorded where they eventually feu id anchorage. The down train from Reefton yesterday failed to <-i-Biieet i'h rhe express at Stillwater owi ig to engine trouble on the journey. The tng-iue of the up train from Greymouth was scut to bring the train to Ikamatua, and arrangements wore made to add a passenger ear to a special which lift Stillwater at 11.30 a.in. The Christchurch passengers were carried by this train. The delayed train reached Greymoutli at 12.16 p.m. Buy your piano from the Bristol Piano Company, Tainui Street (the House for Good Pianos)]. We ha’i the largest stock and the finest rang® . of pianos in the Dominion. The fav- , ourite Collinson piano has a beautiful tone, responsive touch, and keeps in tune for long periods. The prices >f these fine pianos range from 85 to 11J . guiceas. Easy terms can be arranged, ; and we will take your old piano as part I) payment. We are also accredited agents for His Master’s Voice graino r phenes—a full stock of machines, also ’ a fine range of H.M.V. and Zunophone records always on hand. Call and we will demonstrate these bea’- " tiful instruments to you. The Bristol ’ Piano 0%y., Ltd., Tainui Street. H.. G. ■" Denue, Manager. Reefton represe-ita--11 tive: Mr Nicholas Lawn.

“There will be no carry over of New Zealand butter this year,’’ said Mr Braseli (secretary of the Dairy Control Board). “The local market Is bare of supplies, and, the shipment at the end of this season will be small. There will be very little to send out tiil the end of August. Present i.idications are that there will be a rise in the price of butter in New Zealand to Is 9d wholesale and Is lid retail. It looks as if the early shipments next «o- i snn will strike a good market, as New Zealand supplies will be (leaned out in Lo.idun by the time they arrive. ”

A Masterton man remarked to the Age the other day how difficult it was to get reliable information about Maori history in the Wairarapa. It was a pity, he said, that more settlers had not interested themselves in this matter, us those Natives who could tell of the happenings of many years ago arc rapidly dying out. In his endeavours, during many years, to get inforn ai'uli about certain tribal happenings, lie had noticed how easy it was to get a story from the conquerors, but how reticent the vanquished were!

Although manufacturers and inventors have not improved on the silkworm’s delicate thread, they have produced from woou pulp a silky material which they weave into silk stockings. Wood is reduced to a pulp aud treated chemically till it is reduced to a glutinous jelly. It is then pressed through a strainer containing dozens of microscopical holes. The jelly sets like glue after it emerges front the holes, and afterwards each huir-like strand is drawn out yard after yard and wound on spools, just like the real silk draw n from cocoons. Three, four

er even five of these strands, according to the quality of the fabric to be woven, are then spun together like rope, and made into artificial silk.

A young girl named Dorothy Annabel met with a. distressingly painful accident at Nganiatapouri recently, particulars concerning which have just, been disclosed. It appears that tho girl was sitting i.r front of a stove preparing a school lesson, and Tier mother was away milking. The lat’er heard a heavy explosion and screams, and o.i running to the house found the girl writhing in agony with three fingers blown offi her right hand. Tho explosion was heard at the Ngainatapouri store, half a mile away, amt also by others in tho district. First aid was rendered, and as no medical service was available in the district, it was decided to take the girl to Wanganui—a 50mile trip, which occupied about eight hours. All through the long jour.ley the girl retained consciousness and displayed wonderful fortitude. At one part of the Waitotara Valley the ear stuck in the mud an 1 five horses were necessary to haul it out. The girl had a miraculous escape from death. It was fortunate that nt the time of the accident she was sitting side on to the stove, and thus escaped the full force of the explosion. The pencil she was using was shattered in fragments. The coal was from the Waikato district, and had been procure,l in Wanganui. It is surmised that there was a detonator amongst i r . It was the first occasion that the girl's people had used coal at Nganiatapouri. Just before her mother went out to milk she placed a shovelful of coal oa the flic.