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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 747, 1 November 1870, Page 2

The English mail via Suez was expected hourly yesterday by the Eangitoto from Melbourne ; but up to ten o'clock last night then was no sign of her in the Hokitika roadstead. The probabilities are in favor of her arriving during the night, in which case we. will receive our telegraphic despatches of the European news whenever the office opens, and will immediately publish them. A supplementary mail for America aud Europe will be despatched to-day to Nelson, on the arrival of the s s. Eangitoto. We have received a copy of the first number of the Westlcnd Independent, a new daily journal published in Hokitika. Tt is a very creditable addition to tho ranks of Westland journalism, is carefully got up, ab!y written, and is likely to prove a powerful opponent to the Wed Coast Times, if but half the promises, hi which it is so lavish, are kept. Mr W. Lij;htfoot has been appointed as Superintendent of Public Works for the Province of Nelson. It is satisfactory to find that the miners in the Paroa District are going to resume action in reference to the proposed amendments to the Rules and Regulations A public meeting is to be held at the Road Board Office, Paroa, on Thursday evening, at eight o'clock, in order to receive the report of the delegate •who was recently scut to Hokitika, and to transact other business connected therewith. The Committee is to meet one hour previously. In connection with this matter aid also with the remarks We made on Satur-

■ ♦ day lasb, wo may state that we avo confij dently informed that it is nut the intention of Mr Hoi/s to £ivo effect to the alterations I recommended by the Delegates' Conference during his term of office, bub will refer them for the consideration of the next Cuiuiby Cornell. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday, before W. H. Revell, Esq., E.M., Hugh Levender was lined £1 and John Gibson 10s for having been drunk .and disorderly. Patrick Fleming, alias Murphy, was brought up supposed to be of unsound mind. AJr Shcedy, of tho Brian Born Hotel, stated that the defendant came to his place on Saturday, and commenced abusing everyone in the bar, and was so violent; that he had to be tied down. He knew that the defendant had previously been out of his mind. Further evidence having been given, the defendant was remanded for medical examination. A shooting match took place on Saturday between sclectel teams of the nraynaouth. Hangers and the Dnnedin Volunteer Artillery, which resulted in another victory to our local volunteers. The match was a very close one, victory only having been gained by six points - tho total for Greymouth being 409 and for Dunedin 403. The following is the detailed score of the Greymouth teams :-- --400 500 600 Tl. Corporal Moss .. 24433 33344 43-242-48 Dr Movico ... 33548 4.1233 33332—48 Vol. Johnston .... 32333 34234 30444-45 Vol. JRwell ... 43413 33223 43302-43 Vol. Osborne .. 34333 23434 03404—43 Vol. Simmons ... 43434 43343 04020—41 Corp. W. S. Smith 42242 03343 03224— 33 Vol. Chamberlain 43433 33300 00443 -37 Sen}*-. Thonas ... 04233 33034 30223 -3 a Vol. J. Smith ... 03332 22243 33030-33 Total 409 Yesterday a telegram was received from Ctp'aiu M'Fariand of the Dnnedin Artillery, sitting that nine men only fired there, but tlat they made an allowance of 40 points, as an average score for the tenth man, bringing up their total to 403. The Greymouth Rangers may congratulate themselves upon the success of their representatives iv those matches, having now beaten all the crack-firing companies of the colony, It is to Jje hoped they will be equally successful in their coming matches with several crack Victorian corps which they have recently challenged. One of the most crowded and disorderly public meetings held in Hokitika took place o-i Friday evening last on tho occasion of Mr W. H. Harrison, member for Westland Boroughs, complying with a requisition to "give an account of his stewardship during the late session of the Assembly." From the conduct of the auditory, as reported in the local papers, the meeting was evidently summoned for no other purpose than to vent indignation upon Mr Harrison for his attempt to procure the annexation of the Gray district to Nelson. The speaker was continually interrupted by bursts of slang and irrelevant questions and remarks, which, however, the hon. member appears to have treated with the contempt they deserved. Mr Harrison frankly told the meeting that lie did not regret the coursa he had taken, and would pursue it 'again if lie thought it desirable. He denied that he had been guilty of any treachery to Westland, but had on the contrary worked loyally for its interests. He repeated his opinions in favor of a nominated Chairman, aud explained his reasons for jiot having brought forward the Westland Education Bill, which it appears werfi not satisfactory to the prejudiced meeting ho had to address. He waa subjected to a good deal of cross-.firing on all sorts of subjects, and seems to have been the only person present who kept his temper. As a matter of course, a motion of "no confidence" was passed, and the meeting was concluded by some eggs being thrown afc Mr Harrison, but which missed him and hit Mr Can-eras, M.C.C. for Paroa, who happened to be standing by. Mr Harrison sarcastically thanked, the meeting for the ovation they had given him, and then withdrew, no worse for the nattering attentions of his Hokitika constituents. The opening match of the season of t Grey River Cricket Club was played on Saturday last, on the Camp Reserve, between sides chosen by Messrs Strike and Paul. Considering that this match has been the first _ played, the play all round deserves credit. We understand that this year there will be many new accessions to the club, and for their credit wo trust, now that the half-holiday movement has bcon really established, that members will turn out regularly for practice on all available occasions. The match was not finished on Saturday, as time would not pci nut. A meeting of the old members was held on the ground,-and it was decided to hold a meeting at Kilgour's hotel, on Tuesday (this evening), at seven o'closk, for the purpose of electing a Committee fur this season, and also for proposing new members. The fo2ly W ing are the scores made on Saturday: Strike's Eleven. — Ist Innings. 2nd In ings Strike, not out ... 4 c Millnu-n, b Paul ... 7 Guinness, run out ... 2 run out ... 16 Poole, b Paul ... 2 run out ... 4 M'lntosh, c Milburn, b Paul 0 b Cochr.vie ... 0 Chuck, b Paul ... 5 b Coclirane ... 2 Brunn, b Paul ...2 b Paul ... 2 Masters, c Milburn, b Paul 3 not out „ 2 Cresswell, b Paul ... 1 c Twohill, b Paul ... S Kenrick, b Paul ' ... 2 b Paul " .. 0 I Flannagan, b Paul ... 0 c Moss, b Paul 1 , Glcesou, b Barron , ... 0 run out ... 0 Sundries 13 Ditto ... 23 Totals ... 34 G5 Paul's Eleven, Ist I.vvings. Paul, b Chuck ... ... ... 2 Cochrane, b Guinness... „, ... 12 Hogi, run out .., .„ „.7 Twohill, b Chuck ... ... . 3 Goff, c and b Chuck ... ... ... 1 Moss, not out ... ... „, 2 Millburn, b Guinness ... ... ... 6 Honan, b Chuck ... „. ... 1 Bright, b Chuck ... ... ... 0 Barron, b Guinness ... ... ... 0 Sundries ... ... ... ... 10 Total, 44 One man short. An application by Westport men to construct a tramway between Inangab.ua Landing and the Murray Reefs has been forwarded, through the District Warden, Dr Giles, to his Honor tho Superintendent ; and in the event of its being granted, it is intended to proceed with tho work immediately. The line is expected to be about 10 miles in length, aud as tho country presents no en* gineering difficulties, th<* work ef laying the line could bo carried forward very rapidly, after placing an engine on the grouud for sawing the timber. On Thursday last, we mentioned a case which cfliue be p ore the District Court, here, in which, on the application of Messrs Marks and Fuerst, the Court adjudicated Mr Hayman, of Charleston, a bankrupt, and issned a warrant for hi 3 arrest. The Westport paper informs us that "On the arrival of the warrant there Mr f layman was arrested, and a sum of money found upon his person amply sufficient to satisfy all liabilities to Marks aud Fuerst. [v addition to that, two cases of valuable gooib were seized ex Wal-

lain at Greymouth, and on the arrival of tac steamer nfc Westport a third case, containing L-10 worth of cigar 3, which had escaped the notice of the Greymouth officials, was seized by Mr Cooper. The whole circumstance? of thecasenre unintelligible, since Messrs Marl 8 and Fuerst's account is covered by unmatured i acceptance?, and ths fact of Mr Hayman's intention to proceed to Wanganui has bean known for sorae time, and he has already been several days in Westport awaiting a steamer direct to Wanganui. The fact of his having allowed two steamei'3 to leave for Nelson, without proceeding by them, clearly' shows that he had no undue anxiety to leave th.3 district. We are also informed that tbe goo A3 quitted at auction in Charleston realised a fair margin of profit." The survey of the Taranaki railway has beo \ commenced. A rule nki has l-een applied for in Nelson, on behalf of a Wangapeka land purchaser, calling en the Crown Lands Commissioner of Nelson to show causa why he should not be compelled to prepare and deliver a Crown grant. A rule was granted. A boy named Tangly fell off the Wellington wharf on the night of the 20 th, and was drowned. A man named William Portens, a carpenter, has been found drowned in the same harbor. The publicans of Ofcago apparently look with lifit!c favor on the temperance movement, which is said to be gaining ground rayiiilly in that province. A Tokomairiro boniface, mine host of the Great Britain, publishes the following advertisement in the Bruce Herald: — ' 'Tectotalism ' —Notice. — All teetotallers indebted ti> me are resjjoctfully requested to pay their accounts at once, otherwise I shall publish their names, and the amount clue, in the next week's issue." The Superintendent of Auckland' has met a limibcr of unemployed miners, and promised to find work for fifty men. Work lias already been found for fifty married men. The Westport people have resolve 1 upon holding their annual races and sports during the Christmas holidays, and if the enthiisiasm of the meeting, held at the Post Office Hotel on Tuesday evening lasb, is io be accepted as any iudication, a good week's ainii3emenfc may be anticipated. The names of the shareholders to whom a prospecting claim was recently granted at We3tport, for a quartz-mining claim at An-d-3rson's Reef, are Messrs R. Slone, Louis D ivies, J. Ander3on, D. lvoss, J. Potter, aud J. Cole. A late despatch from Taranaki states that the memorial praying that measures may be taken by the General Government to place re'ations with. Tito Kowaru on a satisfactory fo tin ,' passed in the Provincial Council by ni c to hve. The following are the latest items of native mws from tbe North Island :— " Raglan advices to the Southern Cross state that the King natives have warned off Mr Moore, who has been for some time past in charge of the Wesleyan Chapel at Aotea. The same letter says t&at the natives in the \Vaipa district are engaged in making a large number of war canoe 3. The letter wani3 the Government that vigilance is necessary.— lntelligence received from the Obinemuri district states that a party of Te Kooti's followers are within fourteen miles of Ohinemuri. Te Kooti himself is said not to be with the party, but his actual whereabouts is not given.— Mr Clarke, Civil Commissioner, and Mr Puckey, had an interview with tho Upper Thames natives, aud it is said have ituUiceci them io consult to attend the Native Lands Court at Shortland. To Hira himself is expected to attend." In a recent issue of the Westport Times it was stated that the contractor for the conveyance of the Murray Creek Cement Company's in ichincry had beeu unable to get it over the saddle, and that the heavy pieces would require to be brought back to Greymouth, shipped to Westport, and taken up tlse Bullqv. We are authorised to state that no such contretemps has occurred. All the heavy pieces of the crushing machinery have been successfully conveyed over the Saddle, aud it was expected that they would be delivered on the ground on Saturday or Sunday. They were taken on sledges made specially for the purpose. The machinery can be ci ected in three weeks, when crushing operations will be at once commenced. Pending the arrival of the machinery, the workmen have been employed sluicing away the whole of the surface soil down to the bed of rock which over-lies the cement, and it has been found to pay well. Alluvial workings have been found in the creek, just outside the boundary of this claim, and a few days ago a six ounce nugget was here discovered, along with a quantity of heavy gold. The population of the district is rapidlj increasing, with indication of a large rush setting in. Latest accounts state that pravisioug were very scarce, but a large supply was sent over yesterday from the Little Grey by Mr Johnston, The Wedport Times of Tuesday last contains the following .-—The arrival of parties from the reefs at Anderson and Murray Creeks places it beyond doubt that well-deSned reefs of three foet six inches in one instance, and six feet in the other, have been discovered. Tho quality of the stone surpasses balief. Throughout the reef gold is distintly visible, and a largo quantity of stone is easily obtainable.