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Evening Star, Issue 2986, 13 September 1872, Page 2

Political Demonstration at Greymouth. — A Greymouth telegram, dated the 7th, says;—‘’Messrs White and U’Gonor were hanged and burned in effigy last night, followed by a torchlight procession, with music, through the town. Groans were given for Messrs White and O’Conor, and cheers for the Fox Ministry and Mr Harrii sou. Similar proceedings took place at Ahaura. Preparations are made for a like display at Beef ton to-night.” The Bazaar. - Last night the bazaar was well attended, and much amusement was caused by the numerous rallies and by experiments on the weighing machine. There are still on hand some of the very handsomest goods. The devotional chair has not yet found a purchaser; the fossils are still unsold ; the opossum skins, strange to say, considering the price, are yet on hand; and a very pretty ottoman, besides a large assortment of handsome baby’s clothes, and a lot of pretty Polly Yardens, are undisposed of. The lists for the rallle of the pictures—the hawk with his qnaxry, and a globe with gold fish—are rapidly filling up, as well as for a valuable worked apron, ft is intended to keep the bazaar open this evening and to-morrow, and to dispose of the remnant of the goods to-morrow evening by auction, to commence at half past nine o’clock. The principal auctioneers iu the town have volunteered their services. Press Telegrams The arrangements for supplying the press of the Colony with telegraphic intelligence—and more es pecially Parliamentary news —do not appear to be very perfect or satisfactory', notwithstanding the fact that there are two lival agencies in operation for the purpose. The agent of the Press Association gives, in his summaries, undue prominence to all Ministerial supports, while Greville and Co.’s agent rakes up eveiy item that null tell against the Ministry', and telegraphs it all over the Colony. What the newspapers desire is news, and not the opinions of the telegraph agents. A proposal is now on foot to establish one good agency for the entire press of the colony; but if this be done, we hope every precaution will be taken to exclude political bias, and to secure agents who may be relied on. The Press Association in America has been a very great success, and disseminates news at so small a cost, that every paper in the United States can afford to make use of it; but it is free from politics, as papers of all shades of opinion are included iu it. —Thames Advertiser..

Accident at Garrick.-— We (Croutwdi Arf/n*) have to report the occurrence, ou Tuesday last, of the first serious mining accident which has happened in the quartzworkings ou the Garrick Range. The sufferer, whose name is William Jones, was at work in the bottom of a shaft on the claim held by Evan Jones and party—the shaft being down about fifty feet. While the man was working in a stooping posture with a shovel, amass of muliocky rock, estimated to weigh half a ton, suddenly felf in from the side of the shaft, about 30 feet over head, striking him severely on the skull, crushing the third and fourth fingers of the right , hand, and jamming his body into a corner of the shaft in such a way as to leave only his head above the surface of the ikhris. His mate, who was at work at the mouth of the shaft, quickly gave the alarm, but it was half-an-hour before the unfortunate man could be extricated. He was conveyed as soon as possible to an adjacent hut, where he was visited the same evening by Dr Lake. It was found, on examination, that the sufferer had sustained several very severe scalp wounds, which caused concussion of the

brain, snd from the effects of which he still lies in a very precarious condition. An Important Discovery.—Under this heading we two days ago printed an extract from a Nelson paper, referring to an alleged discovery of tin in that Province. Since then we have come across a letter in the Grey River dry us, by a Mr Edmunds, who, referring to the same subject says : “ I am convinced that instead of tip ore he would, perhaps, like myself, find it to be auriferous magnetic titanic iron ore, as my iirm belief is tin ore does not exist in the Province. 1 labored under that mistake once, until last year 1 took to Melbourne a few pounds weight of the iron ore found on a granite formation near the coast, and had it analysed by Mr Sydney Gibbons, one of the first analytical chemists in Victoria, who informed me that it contained iron sand, magnetic oxide, titanic acid, and gold, which was also free from sulphur and phosphorus, deriving therefrom an economical advantage through the small quantity of sand, so that there is very little inert or useless material to increase the expense of freight. The yield of gold he found to bo lOoz, 16dwt. 20gr. I consider it cannot be worked or the gold extracted by smelting or by any chemical process whatever in New Zealand, unless there is a company formed to obtain machinery and all other necessary appliances required for working the said ore. This I found hard to raise as yet. and utterly failed in.”

A general meeting of the Dunedin Amateur Athletic Club will bo held at tho Occidental Hotel to-morrow (Saturday) evening, at 7.30 sharp.

The fourth quarter of the Dunedin School of Art commences on Monday, the 17th inst., at two o’clock. Evening classes will be In Id every evening, except Friday, from seven to nine o’clock.