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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 426, 6 October 1868, Page 2

An awkward ecrqij was made in a letter signed " Hector Sutherland, " and published in our last. Tho little word not was inserted, which completely "destroyed the sense the sentence was intended to convey, it should have read — "When Citizen Waters came and enquired of me if such a person was in the house, I distinctly told him that such was the case," &c. It is rumored that the civil action against the members of the Road Board, the service of the summonses in which we announced in our last, will not be proceeded with. There was no business transacted at the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. J\lessrs Maefarlane, White, nnd Cosgrave havfi been returned to iill the vacant seats in the Hokitika Municipal Council. The Westport Star sajs that Mr Payne's office as Clerk to the Commissioner of tlje South-West Gold Fields has ceased ; but it is expected that that gentleman will, as an old and faitliful servant, be retained by the Provincial Government in some other capacity on <hese gold fields. Mr Kynnersley has been invited by the inhabitants of Charleston, to a banquet to be given on Tuesday next (to-night). The recent action taken by the members of the Church of England, Greymouth, in pro: testing against the removal of their pastor, the Rev. G. P. Beaumont, to Hokitika, fp,r five weeks during the absence of Archdeacon Harper, has had some good effect. It has been decided that during the period named Mr Beaumont should spend three Sundays in Hokitika and two in Greymouth, while Ross, has been hardly dealt with, having been entirely ignored. When the Great Britain arrived in the Mersey on her homeward trip, she was boarded by the detectives in search of Australian Fenians. The Liverpool Albion states : — Some ; t>ersoii Had informed the Home Office that several of the Australian Fenian head centres were on board — the men who plotted the recent attempted assassina^ tion of the Duke of Edinburgh —and that they were coining to this couutry to make further attempts on the life of Royalty. One of her Majesty's gunboats awaited the Great Britain, aud we understand that, after an active " rummage," the would-be centres were non est. A sitting of the District Court will be held at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. The cases set down for hearing are as follows :— Jury Case— Jules Guerin v. Hamilton aud Nichol, an action for damages for false imprisonment ; Cavanagh and party v. Couch and party, an appeal against tLe Warden's decision. In Bankruptcy — J A. Whall aud Jules Guerin, applications for execution of deeds ; Stephen Egan and Thomas Brown, - applications for adjudication. For some months a concert has been on. the tapis by a number of the members of the Trinity Church, in aid of the Building Fund, of the Parsonage. We are glad to learn that the date of the projected concert is now definitely fixed for this day fortnight, or some Jay during that week, due notice of which will shortly be given. We understand that a Committee has been appointed to carry out the necessary arrangements. The following characteristic anecdote of the late Major Von Tempsky is related by the Wellington Independent. At the time he was at San Francisco, and having called one evening to see a sick friend at an hotel, he left him to go on board one of the floating boarding-houses where he lodged. Noticing that he was dodged by some men, who followed him down the wharf, he tried to evade them ; but he was intercepted, and, after a desperate resistance, was overpowered. During the struggle, [he got knocked into the water. Being a man of great muscular power he struck out, but h'"s pursuers followed him in a boat. On coming up with him, not liking to make any unnecessary noise by dispatching him with their revolvers, they struck at him with their oars. ; he diving to escape, and feigning insensibility) when one of their number leaned over the side to grasp him. Having hauled him in, they proceeded to search for tho leathern belt usually carried by the miners to keep their gold in, aud worn next the skin ; they stripped him of his outer clothing, and perceiving that life was not extinct one villain was raising his bowie knife to stab him, when Von Tempsky made a last effortthrew him back, upsetting tho boat, and escaping by swimming to the wharf, where he was found by some persons, half naked, clinging to the piles, in the morning. The West Coad Times of yesterday states that the lesidents of the west side of Revell street are beginning to feel considerable alarm at the continued forcing back of the river, and the encroachments of the sea. Saturday night's tide- had more effect in washing away the beach than any single tide this week, and when ib was at its full — at twelve'ojolock — the surf was breaking in alarming proximity to the backs of the houses in Revell street. In places which appeared to be most threatened breakwaters were improvised to

prevent the water from coming in. No damage was, however, done, although at one time it was thought that some houses would not escape unharmed. Yesterday's tide was not so high a? Saturday night's, and it had no perceptible effect on the beach. As the last of the spring tides took place last night, unless a gale- should set in, the river is not likely to be further forced back, nor is any farther damage to the beach to be apprehended. Wheu the high tides again set in, we hope to see the river flowing through the channel now being cut ; in which case the spit will probably "come home," and form a portion of the beach. A miner named Henry Greig, one of Tapley's party, Giles' Terrace, near Westport, has been so severely injured by a fall of earth in a tunnel that he died after being removed to the Hospital. The latest papers from the Thames announce that the amount of gold shipped to Auckland during the fortnight has been 1900oz ; ond this for a population said to rmtnl>er 15,000. It is reported that the natives in Auckland Province have consented to the opening up for European settlement of the whole country watered by the Thames river. What is known as " tin-kettling" after a wedding has been rather frequent in Greymouth of late, and for the information of those who delight in this pastime, we append the following, from an Australian journal : — " Tiu-kettling the bride and bridegroom on the occasion of a wedding, has become such a nuisance in and around Albury tbat parties contemplating marriage find it necessary to observe profound secresy as to their intentions. The local journal records a case in which the Magistrates, in order to put down the nuisance, made an example of three individuals, who were charged with 'tinpotting a pound-keeper and his bride.' The Magistrates treated the case as a riot, and committed the defendants for trial." The Wellington Independent believes that a Railway Commission will sit during the recess, and several gentlemen are spoken of as commissioners. There is a question, however, whether the members shall be "laymen" — that is, unprofessional engineers or scientific men, or whether it will be what is known as a "nn\ed commission," constituted by placing upon it a certain number of professional men, scientific experts, and laymen. A commission composed of laymen could hardly be expected to get at all the information that is to be obtained on the exceedingly nice questions connected with " guage" for instance, and we know that there is a dislike among professional men to be examined before a lay board. We have three or four eminent engineers in the colony, about whose skill and competency there never was any doubt. We may mention Mr WVigg of Cobden and Nejson Railway, Mr Peterson of Dnnedin, and one or, two others whose names we cannot at this moment call to mind. The report of a lay (jorfirrjission will never be received as satisfactory, and the money employed to enable them to meet will be so much thrown away. The Westport Star, says : — A well-known miner on the West Coast ? John Hayden, or "Dublin Jack,"- has arrived in town with, a very fine parcel of nuggety gold, obtained at the Lyell. The parcel is upwards of three pounds weight, and contains more than a dozen of nuggets, ranging in weight from a quarter of an ounce tq an ounce, and one weighing about three ounces, The Brighton correspondent of the Charleston Herald speaks of the disqoyery of some fresh auriferous ground being opened near that place. He says : — lt i 3 with much, satisfaction I have to record the fulfilment of my prediction with reference to the likeli. hood of further and more important discoveries being made to the south of Brighton. Rich gold was struck on Saturday night, by Harry Cosgrave, a miner lately returned from Queensland, and Peter Kelly, on a terrace situated between Brighton and Roehford's pn the third terrace from Roehford's. They struck two feet of highly auriferous sand, and without waiting to bottom, came into . town to obtain protection of water right and, despatch a messenger to your city to lay friends on.. The terrace is described as likely to afford room to a considerable number, and a local storekeeper who was present at the parming-off of a small quantity of the sand, states it to be the best prospect he has seen.ia the district. Yesterday it was apparent from the numerous groups of interested miners, that something unusual had taken place ; large numbers were in town, and among them many fresh faces wero discernible. Towards afternoon many wendei thtir way in the direction of Roehford's, and during to-day the rush has assumed large proportions. Rumor at first alleged the discovery to have be^n made to the south of Roehford's, which was doubtless a ruse to allow time for the initiated to obtain complete possession of the Simon Pure.