THIS The Drey River Argus. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1870.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 700, 14 July 1870, Page 2

THIS The Drey River Argus. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1870.

Owinf to tho arrival of the English and intercolonial news per Claud Hamilton, we are reluctantly compelled to omit a number of matters of local interest.

The Christy Minstrel, troupe, who have been performing Avith so much success in Dnnedin, Christclmrch, &c, are expected here in, about ten days, when they will perform at the Volunteer. Hall.

We regret very much that Mr F. W. Paul, teller of the Bank of New South Wales, leaves us to-day for the branch at Wef-tport. because, during the time he has been hove, he has earned the universal respect and the hearty good wishes of every member of the community with whom he has come in contact. We wish him every success 'in his new sphere of duty.

Since the date of our up-country reporter's letter, we learn that a rush has taken place at Sullivau's. The prospect is from five to eighteen grains to the dish, and there are about 400 men on the ground: The terrace is pegged off for a mile and a-half ; but, ns yet, the prospectors only have found gold.

We learn that Constable Dorris, of Camptown, has been summoned' to Westport for LSO, for selling two bullocks under* distress warrant while iv the execution of his duty. The rush near the bank of the Grey Biver above the Coal-mine, is beginning to attract the attention of miners from the upper diggings. There are about 150 men on the ground, and claims have been marked pff for a long distance, up and down the river from the prospecting claim. Mr Warden Whitefoord visited the ground on Tuesday, anO gave directions about the construction of the temporary track, wbich is being made to enable the miners to work under the old one.. There are already built a store and butcher's shop, and a shanty or two, and others in course of erection. The' annual meeting of the subscribers to the Grey lliver Hospital, called for last night, at Gilmer's Hall, lapsed foe want of a sufficient attendance of the public. The adjourned meeting will be held at the same j place this evening at eight o'clock, when it is to be hoped that sufficient interest will be taken by the public to secure a numerouslyattended meeting, as the Committee of. Management for the year are to be nominated, and the annual reports received. Information reached the police at Caniptown on Tuesday, 12thinsb., of the robbery of a digger's tent at No Town. The occupants, Messrs Shelley aud Jacobs, found when they returned from work, that their tent bad been entered, and a considerable amount of property, including a doublebarrelled gun, had been abstracted. Information was at once transmitted to the police , at Cobden, aud they are on the track of the thieves. Although the properly stolen is not . of very great value, this affair has created aome excitement, in consot|uence of its being the first robbery of the sort that has taken place in the district. •The rush above the Coal Pits has, from present appearances, every prospect of turning out as ricU as tho Darkies Terrace on the North Beach. There are several claims on good gold now, and the shareholders in the others are busily engaged sinking and driving. The up-country tracks are iv a bad state, owing to the recent rainy weather. The bluff above the Coal-mine is all but impassable, but this will soon be remedied. When the condition of the" track at. this place was broughjb under the notice of the road overseer that gentleman at once telegraphed to Nelson for instructions, and as soon as he received the necessary authority he pegged out a new line of road further up the range, and entirely away from the river. The new track will start at the bridge over tho tramway from the mine to the shoots, and will come- into the present track above the upper rush, thus . avoiding altogether the most dangerous p:irt of the road. There are about 40 men engaged on the work, so that, if this present fine weather continues, the track will be opened in about a week. The petition of the Annexation League will be despatched to Wellington to-day by the overland coach. ' Appended to it are 2071 signatures, and the petition, when the signatures are attached, measures 60ft lon^ The promoters put iio faith in the formidable appearance of the document, ■ but trust that it will be sufficient evidence to the House as to the necessity of an alteration iv the present bouudary-line between Nelson and Westland. One of the Nelson Commissioners and the Secretary arrived from Hokitika by coach yesterday. [Since the above was wiitten au additional list with one hundred signatures has come in, and will be added to the petition. Many more would have been received if the weather had not been so excessively boisterous lately.] The Nile Bridge, Charleston, has been completed. 1 A correspondent of an Auckland paper sends the following from Whangarei, as an insta'nee of the rapid advance in civilisation made by the Maoris in that district :— " A few weeks fcgo one of ovir young rangatiras paid a visit to Auckland, when he made the

acquaintance of a young woman of the same race. Report says the pair managed to get rid of .the_ better half of a hundred pounds during his short visit. It appears that he became : so enamoured of her as to induce her to accompany him home. He seemed disposed to surround her with similar comforts and conveniences of a domestic kind to what it may be supposed she had enjoyed in town. He therefore made another trip to Auckland, from whence he arrived the other day with furniture sufficient for a house of several apartments. A day or two after the arrival of the goods, they came down to the wharf for thejrarpose of taking their furniture home. While it was being packed the lady quite suddenly became rather obstreporous, aud begßn pummelling her partner, striking him repeatedly on the face with her closed fist. To this he submitted with tha most exemplary patience, never once attempting to retaliate or even to remonstrate against such extraor-. diuary treatment Not content with venting hei.fury in, this quarter, she then seized a chair, and dashed it repeatedly on the ground, shivering it into a score of pieces. The friends of the rangatira stood quietly looking on while this episode was taking place, and never attempted to interfere between them, one of them simply remarking 'Too much the waipirau.' It would thus appear that Maoris arc, like Europeans, quite alive to the danger of meddling with domestic quarrels. Captain Cook, and most ■ voyagers Who narrate their experiences of the habits of uncivilised race's, invariably represent the women as. slaves to the men, but the above would indicate that tables are now being turned."