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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 255, 31 August 1867, Page 2

Erratum. — A typographical error occurred in our leading article in last issue. We are made to say — "That the petition for a separate province be made _to apply only to the country 'north' of the Teremakau." The word "north" should have been printed "south." A miner, named Barnard Murphy, met with asevcre accident on Wednesday, having fallen from a steep terrace at Sunday Creek, Red Jack's. He slipped over the precipitous face of the terrace and fell a distance of nearly fifty feet. As may be conceived, he was severely shaken and bruised, but we believe that no bones were broken, and that his injuries are not of a serious character. He was brought down to the hospital on- a stretcher, about thirty of- his fellow miners having volunteered to perform the merciful duty of carrying him/ We understand that the new rush at the Teremakau is situated on the south side o* the river, not on the north, as first reported. A/large number of men are on the ground, arid the prospects are well spoken of. ■ Thesale of-the town allotments at Cobden takes place tq-day at the Warden's office, >C»bden,,at 12jo?clock. Mr Commissioner Kynnersley, accompanied by the Provincial Engineer, Mr Blackett, will start on a tour through the up-river diggings on the Nelson siile of the boundary on Monday or Tuesday. .We are indebted to the West Coast Times for the following :— We have received a few scraps of news from that out of the way and seldom visited locality the Greenstone Creek diggings, which, far from being deserted, are yet occupied by nearly one hundred and fifty miners, who appear to be in a very prosperous condition. The old place is not half exhausted, as we are assured there is scarcely a mail there but can make L 5 per week, whilst many obtain L 8 and LlO. The Greenstone community is somewhat scattered about, twenty miners being located at the Three-mile, as many more about the Government Shed, and from fifty to sixty at Maori Point, where there are a couple of storesJnd a butcher's shop, : . The tramway line from the Saltwatf \ Township to Rutherglen will be completud right through in a few days, the line having already been taken to within a few hundred yards of the township. It would have been completed at a much earlier date but for the necessity of corduwying a considerable portion of the way where the line passes over swampy ground. That portion which is finished is an admirable piece of work, and will compare more than favorably -with anything of the kind on the Coast. The bridge over the Saltwater River is not only a thoroughly substantial structure, but shows no small amount of engineering skill. It is carried at a level from bauk to bank, the height from the creek being a little over 40 feet. It is supported on massive spars of red pine, well braced and tied, and is capable of carrying ten times the weight ever likely .to be placed 'upon it. The proprietors of this line are entitled to very great praise for their spirited enterprise, and we only hope their labor may meet with ample reward. Our Hokitika contemporary informs u s that on Wednesday morning the surf was unusually high, sweeping up on the north beach with great violence, although the weather was calm. A cottage at the rear of the premises occupied by Messrs Alcorn and Co., and which was tenanted by two young ladies (sisters), was so much disturbed by the waves that the inmates deemed it advisable to quit and remove to a safer locality. The cottage, in order to save it from being washed away, was removed during the day. By the arrival of the ship Parisian at Dunedin, the Otago Daily Times is in receipt of files of papers from Victoria, in Vancouver's Island ; from New Westminister, in Columbia ; from Port Townsend and Olympia, in Washington Territory ; and Portland, in Oregon. The items of United State news which they contain have already been received, and the local intelligence is chiefly of apolitical character, -and of very slight in terest to readers in New Zealand. From the Cariboo diggings, there was, up to the date of the latest paper, 22nd May, no.particularly good news, but, a considerable quantity of gold was -being' brought down the country, '■•■'■• ■ V ■'-.':■■." - . . - ■:-■.■ ■-*■■■■,■-.■•

f ■■ . . , • .- • and about 300 diggers hadi previous to the Ist of May, proceeded to the mines. . Exciting accounts appear in some of the papers of an affray which-. had taken place at Port Townsend, Washington Territory, between Mr J. W. Tripp, of that place, and three sailors, which resulted' in the death of two of the sailors and probable fatal injury to the third. It . appears that Tripp, who is a lawyer, had done some professional services for the sailors, out of which sprang dissatisfaction, culminating in an assault upon the lawyer. When assaulted he levelled his gun, j shot two of the men dead, and clubbed th third to the ground. His wife and brother-in-law were present during the affray, and the latter, with Tripp, had been arrested and committed for trial. • We understand that a telegj am has been received by the Hospital Committee from the.. Canterbury Government, stating that the Government will be prepared to take over the management of the hospital, on the condition that the Nelson Government contribute an equal share of the cost of maintenance, and that the Nelson Government in addition agree to make its contributions equal to those of Canterbury, from the commencement of the institution. In case these conditions be complied with, the Canterbury Government propose to rest the management in the hands of Messrs Revell, Kynnersley, and Kissling, We are not aware that the Committee have come to any arrangement in the matter, and probably nothing definite can be done until the return of Mr Kynnersley, We may, however, assume with tolerable certainty that the hospital will be carried on by the two Governments. The building is now full of patients, the majority of whom are suffering from accidents of one kind or othep, and a few from rheumatism. There are no cases of feygr, we believe, and none of a very dangerous character, We learn from the West Coast Tivies that a small rush has taken place to a terrace near the Lamplough diggings, and distant therefrom about three miles One party had sunk through a spur of the terrace, and bottoming a shaft at a depth of about 18 feet, washed therefrom nearly an ounce of gold. Five or six shafts have been bottomed since then, but the sinkers were unrewarded for the labor. Several parties are working on the top of the terrace, where it is expected the holes will reach a depth of 50 feet before they are on the reef. The track from the beach to" Lamplough is very nearly completed at last, but not of such a width as was first intended by the Government. The road was to have 'been wide enough for drays to pass backwards and forwards, but can only now be used by horses. A rush set in a few days ago to some ground near the Taipo. One or two parties have been working there some time, and earning small wages. About fourteen or fifteen claims are now^ being worked, and several shafts will be boaomed next, week, should the weather be fajrorable. I V