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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 741, 18 October 1870, Page 2

Up to ten o'clock last night there was no appearance of the brunch moil steamer with the San, Francisco mail at Nelson. A foot-race of 100 yards took place on Saturday afternoon, between Mr W. F. Strike and Mr J. Ollivicr, for L 5 a-side, which was won by the former by half-a-yai\l. At the liesidcnt Magistrate's Court yesterday, Margaret Swords, for being drunk, j was fined L 2, or four days' imprisonment. Andrew Paterson, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s, or 48 hours' imprisonment. Peter White, South Beach, was charged with allowing a horse to wander at large in the streets of the town, and was fined LI and costs. A meeting of those who signed the memorandum of Association of the Grey mouth Gas Company was held last evening at Kil^our's Hotel. Tho Mayor occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. It was agreed that the number of directors should be nine. Eighteen gentlomen were nominated, when the ballot was taken, and the following were declared duly elected :— Messrs E. Masters, J. Kilgour, W. S. Smith, M. Kennedy, H. Gilmer, J. Kerr, J. S. M. Thompson, ond — Mirfin. Messrs G. W. Moss and G. Garsides were elected auditors. Afterwards a private mooting of the directors was held. Mr and Mrs George Darrell's entertainment at the Volunteer Hall on Saturday evening was a repetition of Friday's night's programme, and also a repetition of Friday night's house, for the large hall was .'iterally cramine.l. We notice that these talented artistes intend to remain in town a few days longer, and will play with the Amateur Dramatic Company on Wednesday evening. The programme for that evening is a very attractive one, includiug "The Lady of Lynns," with Mrs Darrell as Pauline, and Mr G. Darrell as Claude Melnotte. This will be followed by scenes from "The Merchant of Venice," and Mr G. Darrell's impersonation of the " the Young Girl of the Day." An accident occurred yesterday at Maor 1 Gully, Arnold, at 9.39 a.m., resulting in a digger named Joseph Court having his leg broken. It seems that he was in the act of removing some washdirt from the mouth of an old tunnel when a lai-ge boulder dropped, and caused a compound fracture between the knee and ankle joint. By the energetic efforts of his fellow-diggers, the sufferer was carried to the Coal-pits on a stretcher, a distance of some 12 or 14 miles, and from thence reached the Hospital here about four o'clock. It speaks volumes for the diggers in this district, in shewing their alacrity so speedily to assist in alleviating the distress of a fellow- creature. Too much praise cannot be awarded to Mr Phillips for using every despatch in forwarding Court to Greymouth, and also raising a subscriptionfor his future wants. This is not the first instance in which Mr Phillips has exerted himself in a similar cause. A meeting of the Grey River Hospital Committee was held last evening in Gilmer's Hotel. Present— Messrs Whitefoord (chair), Gilrner, Aruotfc, King, Thompson, Masters, lievell, and Winter. Thu Visiting Committee reported the number of patients in Hospital ab the beginning of September to be 30 ; admitted during the month, .13 ; discharged during the month, 19 ; died, 1 ; Laving 24 at present in Hospital ; and that the accounts for the month amounted to L 220 18s 2d. the Treasurer reported having received the Westland subsidy for June, amounting to Ll2l 12s 3d; t!ie Nelson subsidies for July and August, L 145 6's ; one Hospital box, containing LI 10s, from Mrs Cochrano, and a donation of LI la from Mr Coe. The accounts for the month were passed, to be paid when the Committee is in funds. After an explanation from Mi Whitefoord, the Couiuiittea agreed unanimously to accept the proposal of the lied Jack's .Benefit Society, in accordance with the proposal emanating from the Society, as stated iv our issue of Thursday last. A friendly shooting match took place at the butts -on Saturday between seven English aud seven Irish members of the Greymouth Volunteer Uifles, in which the Englishmen were successful. It was a very close match and was won -by only three points. We append the score :— IRISH. 400 yds 500 yds 600 yds Tl. Hardy ... 42222 30420 30034—30 G. S. Smith... 02034 03403 20302—26 J. Smith ... 43423 02433 33340—41 Johnston ... 43334 33333 04223-43 Revell ... 34333 23334 23423-45 Osborne ... 33333 44232 20320- 37 W. S. Smith... 34334 43433 33032-45 267 ENGLISH. 400 yds 500 yds 600 yds Tl. Thomas ... 30433 43220 32400—33 Shepherd ... 41333 03033 33430—39 Chamberlain 43343 30322 03032—35 Butt ... 43332 43033 32423-42 Simmonds ... 34343 32302 24022—37 Moss ... 43333 31330 40333-42 Moricc ... 34433 03242 32324—42 270 WesHand will soon be in funds again, if what the Provincial Secretary of Canterbury said on a recent occasion should prove to be correct. He said — During the current year we have every reason to believe that we shall receive from the trustees the sum of L 20.000 accrued sinking funds, after paying the amount due to Westland on the basis of the arbitration award. la the Presbykery of Canterbury lastweel', the application of the ministers residing in Westland to be recognised as a distinct Presbytery was taken up. Their application was approved, and an overture was agreed upon, requesting the General Assembly to take the necessary ' steps for doing so. The Hey. John Campbell was formally loosed from the pastoral of the Sehvyn and Lincoln district. The llevs. John Gow and Joshua M'lntosh, with their Presbytery ciders, were unauimously appointed commissioners to the General Assembly, indited to ineeb tit ■ Napier in the mouth of November ensuing ; , aud were further entrusted to support the various overtures forwarded from the Presbytery. It is with feelings of deep regret we have to announce the death of Mr Edward Uartnett Bullen, late clerk to the Resident Magis.? trate's and Warden's Courts at the Ahaura, and Receiver of Revenue for the Grey district in the Nelson South- Wess Gold Fields. Although Mr Bullen has bceu in-weak health for a long time past, the sudden and fatal termination of his illness was in a manner unexpected by M 3 friends. He left the | Ahaura on Tuesday, lltu iusfc., on an official visit to Napoleoii, afc which place. he was seized with one of those violent paroxysms of his illness which have been of frequent recurrence lately. Dt Lee was immediately iv attendance, aud did all he could under the circumstances for ths sufferer, who. was removed to the Ahaura as soon as it was considered safe to do so. The patient gradually sank, and the symptoms becoming alarming, Dr Morice of Greymouth was sent for, and he arrived at the Ahaura on Saturday about one o'clock. Every possible .attention was paid the invalid, but medical aid was of no avail, and he expired

at G p.m. The remains were conveyed to Grey mouth for interment on Sunday, accompanied by several friends of the deceased, including Mr Woolley, Government Surveyor, aiid the Rev. G. T. N. Watkins, who came specially to the Ahaura to visit Mr Bullen at his request. Although Mr Watkins left the Grey as soon as lie received Mr Bullcn's message, and travelled the greater part of the night, he did not reach the Ahaura for some hours after the death of the patient. During the short time Mr Bullon was resident iv the Grey District he made many friends. He was gentle and unobtrusive, and his courteous demeanor co those brought in contact with him, in the discharge of his onerous duties, made him a general favorite. To show the esteem in which Mr Bullen was held, it may bo mentioned that as soon as his death became known, every store and hotel in the Ahaura township was closed, and business was entirely suspended until the body was conveyed away in the boat. The deceased being a member of the Masonic brotherhood, his reaiains will be interred today with full Masonic honors, an unusually large number of the members of the fraternity resident up-country will attend on the Worshipful Master's summons to take parb in the ceremony. Mr Bullen was a native of Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, and about 32 years of age. The Wellington Gas Company's plant arrived per Fiith of Clyde on the Ctb. Geo. Dew, a drayman in the employ of Mr Harris, Taita, sustained a fracture of one of his legs on the Hutt road, by falling off his dray, the wheel passing over it. By a proclamation. Parliament is further prorogued till Thursday, the lOtb November j next. An exchange says that a rumor is in ci. • eulation in Auckland, that Mr C. E. Haughton has been ottered the editorship of the Southern Cross. A Welliugtm contemporary of Ocb. llfch, says that the preliminary survey of the Great Northern Railway has beeu commenced under Mr Bla^kefct, late Provincial Engiueer of Nelson. Col. Brett intends to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of the Selwyn district in the General Assembly at the forthcoming election. Senator Cole, in his speech on the Australian Mail Subsidy Bill, informed Congress that "the proposition is now pending to establish an American steamship line between our Pacific Coast and Australia, by way of the Sandwich and Fiji Islands, and perhaps by New Zealand." The election of members for Southland in the Otago Council is fixed for the 20th of October. The regulations for the election are gazetted. The Otago Eoad Board Ordinance, IS7O, has been disallowed. The regulations for the Colonial Rifle Meeting, to be held at Auckland on March, 1871, are gazetted. A preliminary meeting was held at Wellington the other day of those favorable to the formation of a company for the erection of a graving dock at Kaiwarra. Plans and estimates were submitted, and a committee was appointed to prepare resolutions for a public meeting. Dr Menzies, we learn from our Southland contemporaries, is desirous of having Southland rename!. The name chosen is Murii hiki, which in English means " the last joint [ of the tail" — a very appropriate designa- . tion. From Wellington we learn that in reply to . the offer of the Banks to pay the new gold duty from October 1, the Government niain- . tains that the intention of the Legislature was, that the old rate should remain in force until January 1. As counsel's opinion is, that no duty can be legally enforced, the i Banks will probably make a small shipment . of gold without paying duty to test the question. Correspondents in the country newspapers of Otago are already beginning to speculate regarding the next election for the Superiutendency. The Tuapeka Times and IVaikouaiti Herald each have a letter on the subject, aad both correspondents advocate i the claims of Mr J. B. Bradshaw, as to use tho words of one of them, "the fearless champion of the people's cause." Mr Bradshaw has not yet announced his candidature. 1 Humor, with her thousand tongues, is ever busy, and saith, that had the Trustee Bill been carried, a well-known Otago member of the House of Representatives, and a lawyer, would have had this "immortal" dignity l > conferred upon him. Considering the great services he has rendered to tho Fox Ministry, having acted as "whip" for them List session, this office was not too great an award. Let us hope he has the organ of ' ' philoprogenitiveness" large, else guardian for all the children in the Colony will be rather a trying duty, even for an honorable member who can " speak agaiust time." Let us hope all the Otago fifteen who have worked so hard to save the Province from " greedy selfish men" will be as suitably rewarded. Hakaraia Te Ngohi, one of the Maori prisoners confined in Dunediu Gaol, died at five o'clock last Saturday morning week, iv the Hospital. The deceased was undergoing a term of three years' imprisonment for high treason ; bat during liis imprisonment he Las constautly been among the invalids, suffering from asthma. For this complaint he was twice removed to the Hospital, and it has now caused his death. The deceased was about seventy years of age, and was much respected among his tribe — the Ngatiruanui. He belonged to the Wesleyan denomination. A serious destruction of growing flax by five has taken 2>lace in Southland, now Otago. At tl\a Lower. Mo.ta.ura there what is considered to be the finest flax iieid in the province. Two mills are already at work, tfiose of Messrs Shanks and Messrs M'Leai), and hopes were entertained that several more would be started this summer, and that the district would become a busy centre of the flax industry. On Sunday, the 25th, a lire broke out at the head of the valley, aud raged during the whole of that and the following day. It swept rapidly through the -whole of 500 acres just purchased by Messrs Calder and Watson, and over Messrs Shanks' land, destroying almost all their best flax on the south side of the Mataura. By great exertions the fire was prevented from spreading to the sites belonging to Messrs H. L. Squires aud Brown, Ewing, aud Co., JDunedin. As it i?, over 1000 acres of inagniticient flax have been ruined. A correspondent at Black's, No. 1, Otago, sends us the following :— On the evening of of 23rd September a lecture was delivered in Black's, No. 1, by the Rev. Father Royer, or St. Bathans, on behalf of the funds of the Roman Catholic Chapel. The subject of the lecture was "Self-improvement," DrNiven occupied the chair, and in a few succinct remarks referred to the interest and importance of the subject of lecture, showing briefly its relation to the intellectual and social, as well as to tho moral, and religious well-being of a community. The Rev. | Father's lecture was listened to with marked j attention, and elicited frequent applause. The importance of self-improvement formed the subject of the first division of the lecture. Secondly, the differences between knowledge aud ignorance were treated of in their various workings and relations as powerful agencies in the universe, the one being all powerful for good, the other for evil. The results 1

of knowledge as opposed to ignorance, and of the latter when left to its own blind workings, wore eloquently illustrated by examples drawn from the history of the great past as well as of the present. In language tending alike to create enthusiasm and arouse ambition in the young and in the old, the lecturer referred to the effects of self-imorovement ; pointing to the attainments of various masters iv the sciences and arts, to the intellectual heights scaled by philosophers, and to the achievmenbs of statesmen and of rulers of nations and armies as instances of its effects. After referring to and commending mutual improvement and other cognate societies as agencies in the acquisition of knowledge, and as aids to selfimprovement, the Rev. Father concluded with an eloquent and impressive peroration, amid hearty applause.