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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 166, 5 February 1867, Page 2

Moonlight Gully has on several occasions l>roduced some heavy nuggets, but the finest specimen we. have seen is one now in the possession of Messrs .Broadbent, weighing 21oz 3dwt 12gr, and about the size and thickness of the palm- of a mail's hand, The^ finders sold at tt;e sftinc .time 7Qbz 6t coarse nuggetty gold fi'om the same locality. The nugget is on view at Messrs Broadbents' shop. ' On Saturday evening a daring and serious robbery was committed on th,e premises of W. J. Coates, EiQlimond Quay, a cash-box, containing between L 250 and L3OO, having been stolen from, a box kept under a table in the bedroom. The cash-box was last seen at about five o'clock in the evening, and the. robbery is supposed to have been committed about two hours afterwards. The police have got scent of the supposed . theif, who, it is to be hoped, will be soon arrested. On Friday and Saturday a rush took place to a terrace iibout a quarter of a mile behind the Nelson Store, South Beach, and in' a line with the New Paver lead. Yesterday there were about 300 men on the ground, but only one claim, the prospectors 3 , had been bottomed. A good many parties were sinking, and several were expected to bottom last night. We understand the prospects obtained are satisfactory ; but we have no details to hand of them. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday Henry Dearing was charged with having committed a violent assault upon his wife. The prosecutrix presented a deplorable appearance, her face being swollen and discolored, and bearing other symptoms of the ill-treatment she had received. The offence was fully proved but the accused pleaded great provocation. He was fined L 5 and- ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for three mouths. John Cones Brown formerly a storekeeper at the Teremakau, a gold-buyer there for the Union Bank of Australia, was brought up on remand charged with having appropriated to his own use the sum of LSO entrusted to him by the Bank for the ptirpose of buying gold, the prisoner having failed to account for \h^ money in. any other way than by investing it as a debt in his -insolvency schedule. He was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court, bail being taken for his appearance. The West Coast Times of yesterday says: — " Although not able to furnish particulars we have every reason to believe that the diggings at Haast River are extending, and that the probabilities, of another rush southwards are very strong indeed. In fact we may say it has already commenced, as private information brought back by the steamer Bruce, on Saturday, induced nearly one hundred diggers to rush the agent's office for tickets, and insist that the lucky little vessel should be immediately despatched back again, and she accordingly left in tlie evening with tons of provisions and a qxiautity of live stock besides. The crew of the Bruce were able to supply the most meagre ' accounts only of the new rush, and these all on hearsay, the report being that new ground had been opened on the S'mth side of the , Haast River, at a place called the Five-mile ] Beach, where prospects of froni one grain to six griin3 to the shovel had been obtained.' During the hearing of the assault case against Henry Dearing iv the Magistrates's Court yesterday, an " unpleasant altercation arose between the Magistrate and Mr Tyler on a point of lawj and resulted iv an incan-* tious remark by the latter gentleman to the effect that there was little regard. for law in that Court. Mr Revell indignantly ordered Mr Tyler to apologise or leave the Court, the latter alternative being adopted by the learned counsel. The impression of those in court at the time is that however improper Mr Tyler's remark "was, the exceedingly brusque demeanour of the Magistrate had provoked it. Magistrates as well as counsel often forget that it is to secure all' the respect and submission due to their posi- ' tion, and yet at the same time preserve the usual courtesies of social intercourse. The Tuapelxi Recorder states that rthe shareholders in the Quartz Reef at Waippri have commenood sinking a new shaft over a ; hundred feet in depth, They had previously/ been flooded out on two occasions. / We lea.ru from the West Coast Times that the first instalment of Chinese, fourteen/in number, arrived at Hokitika on Friday f/oin Sydney, in the sohooner Atlantic, and /heir presence caused quite- an excitement the wharf being linerl by a large crowd & persons, who shouted and r yelled vociferously, and so "frightened the unfortunate celestials that they .dived under the hatches/and 1 notwitUstaiHling the most affectionate^ivitations ok the part of the Westland A'lraTbariaiis," persistently kept oat of sight, ai^l postponed their landing until an oppbrtufiity of doing so unobserved should present itself. We understaiuLthatthey are pioneers' sent out to inspeot the West Coast, and .should their report i be favorable they will be fallowed by a much larger number of 'theit 1 interesting countrymen. ■■.-''-.■' -7 On Saturday evening the OTamatised version of Lady Dudley's Secrel was performed; at Kilgour's Theatre, beforcra good audience .Mrs Charles Poole takij(g/tUe part of Lady Audley. The drama asfpiayed, followed the main incidents of the itory pretty well, tlje more sensational Qnesjueing of course made a special ■■■feature! TB dialogue had been judiciously preserve/ as. niuch as possible in the original so f arjfe could be done. Mrs Poole's performanoßof Lady Audley is very good, but wethi*: she hardly reaches the fuß level of the M'rible woman depicted by

Miss Braddon; on the whole, however, it would be difficult to find a faiilt-of any con- . sequence. Mr Ryau pleased us with his impersonation of Robert Audley, it was abit of nice finished acting. The parts of Sir . "Michael Audley and George Talboys were respectively filled by Mr South and Mr C. H. Burford. Miss Burfonl played Phrobc, and O'Brien made a first-rate Luke. Last night Mr Poolc made her farewell appearance in Camille, a character in which she has ac, quired some celebrity, In the Sujneme Court at Hokitika on . Saturday, the case of Bouchier v. Maclean, Fisher and Co, came on for hearing. The plaintiff claimed LSOO hs damages for an alleged assault, the particulars of which arc known to most of our readers. It arose oiit of a partnership dispute, and the forcible taking possession by defendants of certain books and papers, The jury awardod LlO damages ; each party paying their own costs, The Went Coast Times of Saturday say 3:— Some idea has prevailed during the last day or two that this particular unhanged murderer Sullivan, would have another chance of getting his deserts, through the information f laid against him for the " doing-to- death" of /Mr George Dobson: We are sorry to say that there is very little chance of the claims of justice being .thus met. We believe the information against Sullivan will not end in any 'practical result. Tho man is already (velvet waistcoat and sky-blue necktye notwithstanding) sentencedto penal servitude for life ; and the warrant by which he Avas sent to Hokitika to give evidence on the receut trials, contains a jn'ovision to the effect that he shall be sent back whenever his services as a witness shall have been, exhausted. So far as the purposes for which he was. sent down are concerned, Mr Sullivan's presence in Hokitika may now be dispeuscd with. He has been very use. ful in furthering the ends of justice, but we shall breathe more freely when the atmosphere is clea ed of him. Mr Justice-Gresson might make au order to detain Sullivan here, to meet the information sworn against him, but we believe it is not likely that he will do so. If the infor nation is further followed 'up arid the case gone on with, it will have to be disposed ; of iv Nelson. Should any examination of witnesses take place in Hokitika, it will, we understand, be within the gaol itself so that under any circumstances the publjc will be deprived of the sensational episode of seeing Sullivan transferred from the witnessbox to the criminal's dock. IE we are correctly informed, however, the Resident Magistrate will decline to hold auy examination of the kind within the gaol. The diffi- , culties of X'rosecuting Sullivan for the murder of Mr Dobson are, under all the circumstances of the case, very great— sufficient, in all probability, to save from the gallows a man who, no one will deny, deservesiit as much as any member of the gang of whose wretched history he has told the story with an unblushing front, and an almost pride in his crime/ ■/■■