LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 12 August 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

For £7 10s yearly you may have bu 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 typhtid fever, whooping cough, appendicitis, diphtheria, measles, ptomaine, etc. etc. Mark Sprot and Co. Ltd., Attorneys, Atlas Assurance Coy., or any of the West Coast agents. There was no police business at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The new oil-easing works at Miramar (Wellington) which are nearing completion, will employ 500 men. A start has been made with ,tlie demolition of the Terrace gaol in Wellington, the site of which is to be occupied by a new school building.

After considerable controversy the Wellington City Council has placed nn order for a traction road roller witn an American firm, as Britain could '.tot supply one at a suitable price.

After having done duty for nearly sixty years, St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, is being demolished to make way for a much larger structure to cost £26,000.

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 represents tive. ———

At the meeting of the Cobden Town Board to-night Mr V. L. Turley intends to move that that portion of the minutes of last meeting relating to Mr W. F. Pullin’s appointment to the Hospital Board be deleted. A twelve-roomed boardinghouse at Dargaville was destroyed by fire on Monday with al] its contents a.id outbuildings at midnight, the inmates escaping Only in their night attire. The insurances were £2500 . It is estimated that 60,000 visitors paid admission to the Wellington Winter Show during the first seven days. Building permits to the value of £57,000 have been issued i.i Palmerston North during the last three weeks. A Reform Party meeting at Motu.iau on Monday convened by Mr 11. ActonAdams, and presided over by Mr T. McEvedy, unanimously decided to support the candidature of Mr N. D. Campbell for the Hurunui electorate. Mr S. M. Deans wns appointed delegate to attend a conference at Amberley on the 18th inst.

Where to stay in Reefton.—The | Gladstone Hotel is a home away from home. Visitors will be assured of every comfort. Dining Room under the personal supervision of Mrs Brooks.—A. '£. Brooks, Proprietor.—Advt. The sum of £lO towards th? funds of the ITiinlvet Society, was vol .‘d by the Greymoutli Ila. hour Board last •.light. Mr. William John Russell, baker, hgakmvau, has been ad judged bankrupt. The Miiidleliam Castle a ( oinmon..sveallh Dominion liner. is due at Westport to-day to load bunker coal. The Kaitoke is to load .3000 tons of coal at Westport for the American Fleet. Most of the vessels are oil burners. Football and basketball teams from Hokitika will visit Westport on the 28th .mid play mutches with teams from Westport Technical High School. WATCH THE jKDIANS GO BY. Advt. i For the week ended August 8, the

Westport Coal Company shipped 4810 tons 9 cwt of coal and 66 tons It cwt of coke. Local sales; 222 tens I cv.t. Marsden Liberals adopted a resolution supporting Mr. A. J. Muidoeli. approving of the change of n.xnv or the party, and assuring All. Murdoch of full and continued ”onfidence in him as their representativeArising out of the visa of the Railway Board of Inquiry, it is under stood that some improvements will ! “ made ’n the Westport railway raids, with a vie.v to minimising thy nd of accidents to shunters. Mr. AV. Sherlock, the popular proprietor of Wakatu Hotel. Nelson, formerly of AA'aimanearoa, has promised to donate 17 representative caps to the members of the Nelson team playing in the match at Blenheim on the 26th. inst. The Harbour Board do M -1 last nignt to communicate with Mr Tenn. nt. who is now' in Palmerston North, t represent that b'.dy 011 the .lepu'-it.on that is to wr.it upon the Railway Bear 1 to marrow, and the Prime ?.hi > ‘ ’ Friday, regarding the increased tadwav freights on coal and timber.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mr W. Meldrum, S.M., j idgmem try default was given in the following undefended cases: —P. M. Eadie ' IL M. Beck, £0 18s and costs; Sidney Whinray v Walter E. Roberts. £4 13s 2d and costs: J. N. Walker v Stanley Dando, £4 ISs s<l and costs; Dispatch Foundry Coy., Ltd., v Ronald Mclnnes £1 14s 7.1 and costs; E. S. Able v A. Hargreaves, £1 and costs; Same v A. vVright, £l3 5s ami costs; L. and R Afandi v Denis Moynihan £5O 10s and costs.

The Prime Minister the other day. when presenting a gift from the Cook Islanders to Sir Maui Romaic, mentioned that on the 31st day of this month, Sir Maui will have completed thirteen years ami 53 days as Minister for lite Cook Islands, a record of service exceeding the combined term of his four predecessors in the same office. Hits term, added Mr Coates, also constitutes a record of continuous service, not only as a member of the New Zealand Executive Council, but also as an lected Minister of the Crown in the British Empire,

Experience doei court. —Lawn’s 2* years' 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. Notice has been given of the following resolutions to be moved by Mr F. L. Turley at the ordinary meeting of the Cobden Town Board to be held this evening in the Town Board’s office Cobden, at 7.30 o’clock: —(1 ) That the resolution, moved by the Chainna.i and seconded by Commissioner Barrett, that Commissioner Pullin lie appointed representative for the Cobden Town District on the Grey Hospital Board, in place of Mr O. H. Brailsford (resigned) bo rescinded.’’ (2) That an appointment as Board’s representative on the Grey Hospital .Board be now made under Section 21 of “The Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act. 1909.”

The biter bit! The Borough inspect or has been “hard at it'' in ascer

taining that all motor vehicles opcrat ing within the Borough are well and duly provided with registration num-

bers. Yesterday the Borough steam roller was “hard at it” in passing a top dressing of sand on Tainui Street, and (it is said) the driver of the vehicle was accosted by the Registrar of motor vehicles with the query as to the registration number of the roller. It is further said that as no number was visible (owing to obvious reasons', the Borough Council is shortly to be served with “a poultice”—one very similar to the kind the Council has been dishing out of late.

Buy your piano from the Bristol Piano Company, Tainui Street (the House for Good Pianos)]. AA'e ha’’ the largest stock amd 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 111 guineas. Easy terms can be arranged, and we will take your old piano as part payment. We are also accredit'd agents for His Master’s A T oice gramo phones—a full stock of machines, also a fine range of H.M.V. and Zenophone records always on hand. Call and we will demonstrate these boar, tlful instruments to you. The Bristol Piano Chy., Ltd., Tainui Street. H.. G. Donne, Manager. Reeftoa representative; Mr Nicholas Jeawri#

I nzes worth about £9 will be p-.-ridi-d for to-night's big euchre drive it Columba Hall, including one £5 worth of goods; 3 beaten coin .or jardiniere, a bandsom,. set of vases and a, valuable crockery prize. Last we -k was cue of the <•-. et< st in the coal history of \Vest[c..t. It will lx: notie d. however, that the outlook for this week is ve.v much better. The mines should i,,- kepi fairly bii-y. Gn Sunday the delegates t.i the conference of th,. Empire l’re-.s (.'non to be held i 1 Mcloburne, will arrive in Auckland by the Aorangi from A'ancourver. 'J hey will make .u> extensive tour of th? North Island. Mr. G. Gilbert, of Sedc’c nvillc, has been invited io attend a conference e.f those interested in mining and mu’ iu» affairs in the Demin on. to b. held nt Dunedin during the currcin y <1 ’!.o Exhibition and Hon. W. H. McIntyre has been appointed a vicepresident of th» conference. Mr. Harry Manov stated at Blenheim, when Buller were tip to play for the Seddoit Rugby Shie. 1. that if Golden Bay did not win the Fl Aid this year. Bay would come on a t< ui of the Coast. It is now h< 1< d the Golden Bay L’nTn may fulfil this intention. Karamea export butter scetncd favourable mention in the Department's list of good grading butter tones, with an average of 92.21, whde Mr. Williamson, Manager of the Karamea Butter Factor-.-. received wore* that he won the gold medal for the 8. uth Island at Haw era Dairy Show 1 r tho fourth year in succession. The Wellington Rifle Asscei-dmn are arranging a rille team s match with a rifle team from T.e sis.’ing American Fleet on Saturday, Aug 11st 22 at Trentham the ranges e.ge-ud being 300, 500 and 660 yards, bu’lse\C* shoofdng. The visitors will bo the guests of the Association 011 -re occasion. Th e Liberal-Labour League of the W.aititki electorate has chosen Mr. Geo. Barclay, a AVaihaorunga farmer, as candidate. Mr. Barclay was born on Banks Peninsula of farming parents and was for Three years a member oi th? V, aitewa County Council. AVellington City Council is takmg 500 sailors of the United States fleet round the city and suD'.irns in observation cars. It hoped to lo '.his every day of tb c visit, but a message was received by wireless from Admiral Coontz on Saturday stating hat satk cars would only be required of Thursday and Friday next, t’:.d then for only 250 men. “The work was done on a Sunday morning.’’ said counsel for deiendnnt In a civil action at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “Perhaps it was because the work was done on a Sunday morning accounts for the claim for cost of labour being so high.” “AA’e know when the work was done,” retorted plaintiff's counsel. “Ycu need.i’t stress that point too much.” A London cable states that some six ’hundred and twenty pictures representative of British artists, and valnod

at £60,000, are being despatched by the Tongarlro for the Dunedin Exhibition. Sir F. Di -ksec and Mr Charles Holmes were on the selection committee. The bulk of the exhibits for the •it’sh section at the exhibition will be despatched by the Raranga. On a timber truck on Lord Savile’s Rufford Abbey Estate, Nottinghamshire, lately was a robin's nest with five evgs. Every day the truck travelled between the timber yard nnd a plantation two miles distant, and the bird, sitting on her eggs, accompanied it, workmen taking care not to disturb the nest. In mining operations the temperature of the earth rises about 1 degree Fahr, for every G'ft of depth front the surface. On this basis the temperature cf the earth i.i the Pendleton Colliery, Manchester, 3474 ft deep, and the deepest mine in Great Britain, is about 58 .degrees Fahr, above the temperature at the surface. One day last week a little girl in Timaru swallowed an inch and r.-hatf nail (says the Herald). She was sent to the Public Hospital, where, with the aid of the X-rays, the nail was recovered yesterday morning. The little girl suffered no pain, and immediately the nail was recovered, was able to run about as though nothing Had happened to her. “Is smoking injurious?” Dr Giotti, tliflie famous Italian nerve specialist, says it entirely depends on the tobacco. He states that many of the well-kncwn American brands are so rich i'l nicotine that they nre beso avoided, because their constant use is bound to cause nerve trouble. He considers smoking may be actually beneficial under the proper conditions. Ilis advice to smokers is: “Select .1 brand that, while satisfying your ‘ tobaccohungcr’ is yet practically fret fr< in nicotine.” But it is not always easy to find such tobaccos. However, we certainly have them right here in New Zealand. They are grown and the leaf is cured and manufactured for the market within the Dominion. In fact, tobacco culture and manufacture now constitute one of our most promisl.ig industries. Moreover, our New Zealand-grown tobaccos are so pure and relatively so free from nicotine that they quite fulfil the Italian specialist’s .-onditioi'S. They may ho obtawied

from any tobacconist. Ask lor “Riverhead Gold,” mild; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium: or “Cut Plug No. 10” (VulUhcnd); full tfcnflll. 4n„