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Grey River Argus, Issue 54, 17 May 1866, Page 2

It is notified in the Gaz/>t& that the Supreme Court will sit for the Jsspatch of business under the Debtors aiffl( Creditors Act, at the Court-house, Hokitlln, on the 30th July. j\' r Justice Gresson All be the presiding Judge. « ___A JaJ;al^£eKleiitc'ocoiuu'eil _^jL3laprln.ij afternoon about charter of a mile belovU Darkies terracejfm the North Beach. It appears that two of a party of four miners were engaged timbering a drive, while their mates were busy a shori distance off cutting slabs, when they heard a cry as of somebody, in distress, and on proceeding to the spot found that the earth had fallen in and buried the men who were working in the drive. Assistance was at once rendered and the poor fellows were hauled up, when it was discovered that one of them, Alexander Thompson, - was quite dead, having been suffocated, and the other, George Brooke, was almost lifeless, but was afterwards restored to consciousness. An inquest on the body of the unfortunate man was held yesterday by T. A. S. Kynnersley, Esq., (the Warden), at the Flagstaff Hotel, and a verdict in accordance with the circumstances ■was returned. Not long ajo, it was mentioned in one of the Hokitika papers that there were reasons for believing that the Feniau movement had many active adherents on the West Coast. It has been communicated to us by a person of undoubted reliability that so much sympathy with the Fenians exists among the Irish miners as to lead to the opinion that should the movement by any chance gain the ascendancy in Ireland, there would be trouble even in this far distant colony. Our informant states that subscriptions are being raised for the wives and families of the Irish political offenders, and that a good deal of money has been collected. The Waikato correspondent of one of the Auckland papers says : — " The mortality amongst the natives is very large and greatly on the increase, in spite of the indefatigable exertions of our medical man, Dr llarsant> J.P., who spares no pains in attending to the wants of the afflicted. William Niylor has j been struck down by thg^prevailing fever, ' but 5t is hoped fchat he may speedily recover under the careful haiuls&f his medical attendant. His death would be a se/ere loss to this community, and more so ty his tribe. The indiscriminate salo of intoxicating liquors to natives is one great cause of ihis epidemic, as it keeps them in poveritj/ without good food or clothing, destroy ing their self-respect, and. increasing their naturally filthy habits." The West Coast Times say/ : — " Concerning the prevailing epidemic i» town at present) of which nearly every on/coinplains, it may be assuring to some of/ our readers to state th/fe no foundation wh:jfcover exists for alarm J|_to the consequences. Several of the Jfnedical men in towy with whom we have |conver3ed on the sjlbject, say that it is "merely a slight autumnal fever, accompanied by bilious attacks, Jicadaehe, and low condition generally ; Uit that no danger need be appreh.end.cd, u/iess combining with existing disease. Taey say that a few days careful nursing, together with a light diet, will remove all the annoying symptoms dP the fever." /; 'We learn fn/a the kelson Colonist of the 15th, that -Mi, Justice Johnston was taken seriously ill th? previousiday, and was obliged to adjourn th^CourtJ.vliich was sitting in bankruptcy. <^^^^£-~