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West Coast Times, 13 April 1912, Page 2

The SnetTOs dredge wa bed un yesterday for tlK> week for a return ol 33ozs 12dwt?., Tho rehiihcs of the late Mr A. C. V. Grant insert a thanks notice in another column. At tho Arnlnira Sale Yards on Monday, the 10th insfc., Messrs G, Vv. -Moss and Co. will sell 20 fat cattle. Mr. R. E, Harley, of Rangiora, has been appointed starter for Iho Reel ton .Jockey Club’s mooting or. AVtdnesday next. A notice to make returns of Land under the Land and Income Assessment Act, 1993, appears in our advertising columns. A London cablegram states that the Trinity College ol Music has rc-appointcd Messrs Mistowski, Schilsky and St. George examiners for Australasia. A Wellington telegram slates that Air John Slrauchon, Undcr-Scert-lavy for' Land ‘, has been appointed a member of Hie Land Purchase Board in place of Mr Kensington, who has retired.

Horscowuers and trail prs are reminded in our advertising columns that acceptances for all events at the forthcoming Roofton meeting close this (Saturday) evening. The telegraph office cloios at 8 p.m. the same night. Tho following team will represent the Rivab in a football match with United at. Greymouth this afternoon : —Scott, Dempsey, Smith, Kerr, Davies, Nancoskcvill, Toomsy, Hogan, Mclntosh, Chcrrio, Levy, Hart, H. AA’ild, A 7. Kearns, and Delin. The team will leave by the one o’clock train.

“The eyes of the world, are nn ns,” .said an Aucklander solemnly on a recent momentous o!’c:V;ion, “Don’t ever let that idea possess you,” retorted a returned travelled townsman cruelly. “I was in England for two years, and the only time I heard New Zealand mentioned was when a man told rne that he had shipped his scapegrace soil out, there todioot a few tigers and come to his senses.”

At the sittings of the Warden’s Court yesterday, Mr Warden Wilson dealt with the folio',ring applications;— S. J. Knowles nrul party, surrender of titles.—Adjourned; Westland Mining Development Company /Mr Crawford), water race, 80 heads, and special site, Toaroha, udjopnied ; G. W. Head (Mr Wells) water race, 2(f heads, Kapieri, adjourned ; W. P; Boyd and party, surrender special claim, Itimu, adjourned. The following passengers arrived by the overland express on 1 hursday viz: .Mo*., dames H, Wood, Mathicson, and A, O'Brien ; Misses Wallace (2), Dallard, A. and E. Wood and O’llrcin; Messrs 0. Rice, P. Parr, Ct .W. E. Turner, E. J. Smith, Pi. Low, W. J. Lawson, G. Canned. W. Fcatherstone, J. Buff, J. Jones, J. Crrp'.hart, C. O'Rourke, E. R. Merrick, .A,, Newton, Honeybone, Sidney Fry,

A. W. and j. 11. Furze. Norman A. Nash, W. M, Dalriei. It. L. Look, I). .McPhee, If. Cleave?, T. R. Cooper, and J. Temple. Tile following passengers left by yer-t'-rdsy’s Oiira express, viz; Mesdamcs P. Thomas. E. McDonald, F. Fuller, A. Brooks, Singleton and two children, t>. Paulnsou. Hawley; Misses M. Holiobou, y.i. Rawloy and Wilson: Messrs J. and L. T. Crurniug. T. Currie, H. Gaskdl, C. Pilkingten, it Scrimtour, W. Mcßride. \ . Oldr,um, T. Waddell, F. Fuller, IT Whitehead, A. Manning, H. C. Bauld, A. P. .Sharkey. TV. T. Gain, T. Goodger, T. Dillon, S. PaUinson, A. Rawloy, V. Klee, W. Stewart, S. Clayton. F. Street, J. Wilson, Licut-CoJ Richardson arid Captain Brown, I

An eight-roomed house and furniture at St. Aubyn, near New- Plymouth, was totally destroyed by lire early yesterday morning. The insurances were; £240 on the furniture in the London ami Lancashire office, and £3OO on the house in the Stat eolficc.

Arrangements have boon completed for M. .15. Champion, of Auckland, the Now Zealand champion swimmer, to represent the Dominion at the Olympic games. He will leave Wellington by ILM.S. ■-Atbenic on Thursday. About £25 ha.) already been collected in Auckland towards the fund of about £l5O required, and the cc inittee ot the Waitomata Swimming Club Ims

personally guaranteed the balance. The chili intends bringing a. team of Australian swimmers to Auckland in December to raise money to repay tko guarantors.

Last evening the Dominion Meteorologist telegraphed the following weather summary and forecast:—“ Fair to cloudy and misty weather has boon experienced with showers in several localities. .Moderate easterly and northerly hreo/.es have predominated with slowly falling barometer. Present indications are for moderate to strong easterly winds northward of New Plymouth ; ml

Napier, and increasing nortberlies elsewhere. The barometer will probably fall everywhere for a westerly low pressure area, due to pass in the south aboutSunday night or Monday morning. Increasing bade and cloudiness will probably precede unsettled weather and rain, especially on the AVest Coast and in the south.” At a meeting of the Committee of St. Mary’s Club, hold last- evening, a letter was received from the secretary ot the Auckland Marist Old Boys’ Cc neort Coy., asking them to make arrangement i for their appearance here on 'Tuesday, 14-th of May. From riio correspondence received it- appears Hat the personnel of this Company comprise the cream of Auckland’s tal-mt. The Committee decided to comply with the request and pleasure was expressed than an opportunity would scon Lo at hand to hear such an excellent combination. The secretary and Mr. \V. AVai-ren offered a prise to the members nominating the highest number ol new members for tbe season. It was decided to close the nominations for the bdbard tournament, the handicaps to be declared in a week.

Mr. Clayton, Government dairy expert, has made a thorough inspection of the Knmnra district in the interests of the settlers contemplating the erection of a. hotter factory there. lie ha--, visited the Taramakau Settlement and the Christchurch Road ami is very favourably impressed with the possibilities of the district. A suitable site has not yet been decided on ; this will depend a good deal on the quality of the water procurable, and to test this .Mr. Clayton has secured samples of the water from the springs on the Zigzag and Sandy’s Mill. Those samples will he forwarded to the Government analyst in Wellington, hr. Phillips kindly sterilised tho samples before they were forwarded. Mr. Clayton’s report will lie awaited with interest by tho settlers and business men of tho district. He .proceeded on route for Waitaha, on Thursday, whore another butter factory is to ho established.