GREYMOUTH.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 27

GREYMOUTH.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) A preliminary meeting of those favourable to the formation of a ladies’ swimming club was held in the Borough Chambers on Friday afternoon. Mr C. F. A. Broad (President of the Greymouth Amateur Swimming Club) occupied the chair, and briefly urged the desirability of forming such a club. A sub-committee, consisting of Mesdames Creasy, Harper, Henry, and Giles, and Misses Blackmore and Matheson, was appointed to go into the rules and report as to a suitable bathing place at a meeting to be held shortly. The tennis season was opened by members of the Greymouth Lawn Tennis Club on Saturday afternoon. There was a large attendance, and some interesting play was witnessed. The Ladies’ Committee supplied afternoon tea. One of the oldest landmarks of the town, Dr Morice’s surgery, on Mawhera quay, has been leased to a business firm, and is now being transformed into a milliner’s shop. For upAvards of 30 years the surgery, as it was termed, Avas a prominent feature of our front street. But the old ’’Doc.” has passed aAvay, and a new order of things follows. Time Avorks many changes, and Ave haA r e had many of them in Greymouth during the last ten year®, which to many of us are sad to look back un>n.

The massive foundations of the new Poet Office tare now completed and being set. The brickwork will be at once proceeded with. The cement used in the concrete work is of New Zealand manufacture, and under repeated tests stands a breaking strain of 9001 b to square inch. This is not surpassed by the best -Portland or cement of any other make, tnre and quality of the raw material ot and speaks well for the skill in manufacthe New Zealand product. With the new building Messrs Drake and Muir are making rapid progress, and if the present rate is maintained the work should be completed well within the contract allowAlice* . i On Monday and Tuesday nights the Greymoutn juveniles staged “Trial by Jury" in Trinity Hall, before a large and appreciative audience. The cast of characters was as follows:—Judge, Mr S. Croft; Defendant, Mr Ted Tindale; Usher, Mr S. Holmes; Counsel, Mr Weenink; Foreman of Jury, Mr Williams; Plaintiff, Miss Chapman; Bridesmaid, Miss Masters. On Wednesday last the Orchestral Society, under Mr Moss, journeyed to Hokitika, to give one of their entertainments. They received a warm reception from the Hokitika people, and after the performance were entertained at supper at the Bed Dion Hotel. Next Wednesday we are to be favoured with a visit from the Hokitika amateurs, when they purpose staging “Da Mascotte," in aid of Trinity Church Choir.