(From Our West Coast Correspondent.)

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 18, 9 September 1898, Page 6

(From Our West Coast Correspondent.)

August 23. The recent concert held in We3tport for the Convent Fund turned out most successful, the receipts totalling £40. A concert will be held in Brunnerton next month in aid of the Church Fund. The Rev. Father Malone and the ladies of the congregation have taken the matter in hand, and a most unique programme will be presented. Dr. W. A. Conlon, Sydney practitioner, has taken up his residence in Reefton. An old and widely-known resident of the Coast died at Greymouth on Thursday last in the person of Mr. Joseph Kilgour, who succumbed, after a lengthy illness, to that most common of colonial diseases, internal cancer. Mr. Kilgour has been identified with Greymouth for the last 30 years, ani occupied, at one time or other, a seat on the various local bodies. He leaves a wife and two children. Two other old residents of the Coa«t pxssed away last week — Tiz., Mrs. Hely, of Hokitika, and Mr. Linehan, of Greenstone. Both were well up in years and highly respected. As proof of the growing requirements of the Blackball district a oommodioua hall waa opened there la?t week by the Mayor of Greymouth, Mr. Skoglund. Measles are still very prevalent in Brunnerton, and a large number of the school teachers have been seriously attacked. Both the Taylorville and Dobson schools are closed, the head of the latter school being at present laid up. The Brunner colliery and coke and brickyards are at present kept going pretty briskly, the company finding it as much as they can do to cope with the demands. The many friends of the Rev. Father M'Manus of the Coa«t, will be glad to learn that he is at present stationed in Christchurth, where he has been attached to the Pro-Cathedral. The returns from the first washing of the Barrytown Dredging Company have been published and the yield is quite up to expectations. The 'clean up' was but a partial one. still it yielded 12oz amalgam, equal to about 4oz. retorted gold. The manager of the company considers the success of the mine assured. A very interesting and important invention for the automatic lighting and extinguishing of gas lamps has been patented by two young men — Messrs. Kennedy and Hoars— of Perth, v\ estern Australia. The fiest-named gentleman is a Greymouth boy, his father being at present manager of the Greymouth Gas Works. It is claimed that the new patent will do away with gas-lighters. A company ha& been formed to work the project.