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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 766, 15 December 1870, Page 2

It was generally reported in town last night that the English Mail via San Francisco had arrived, but upon enquiring at the Telegraph Office at; 10 p.m., it was found to be all a mistake. Some steamer had been sighted coming up Blind Bay towards N"elson early in the evening, bin it did not prove to he the vessel with the mail A* th« mail is now considerably overdue, the newa may be : expected at any minute. Although a telegraph office has beoii opened at Tauranga, a blank still remaiua between there and the Thames, and it is most probable that the at'Nelwn.- nr ~* n ~" ><> ™ A

The visit of Mr Yogel, the Colonial Treasurer, to Dunedin, has proved a miserable failure. He stated in his first address that he had been sent down, by the General Government as a sort of special-pleader, to remove a misunderstanding which appeared to them to exist in the minds of the people of what is now the most powerful Province in the Colony, as to the real meaning and intention of the General Government policy regarding the Immigration and Public Works Bills passed; last session of the Assembly. Oh the occasion of Ms first meeting, we reported his speech pretty fully by telegraph, as it was of ' Colonial impoitance ; and we are now informed by our Dunedin correspondent that a second meeting held by Mr Yogel on Tuesday evening was a -greater failure than the , first, a motion being carried to the effect that the questions jinvolved' were of so important and intricate a character as to require consideration before any definite opinion was passed upon them. This substantially means that the whole General Government policy is to be submitted to the. constituencies during the approaching general election ; and from the action; taken by the Provincial Council lately it is easy >tb foretell that the result will be against the General Governmeut and- their proposals. This failure is the more marked considering the ; sop which has just been offered to the Province by making Port Chalmers the terminus of the new Pacific mail route. The sJe of bocths at the forthcoming Christmas Sports will take place to-day, at noon, at the rooms of D. Maclean and Co. The new transept of Trinity Church is to be opened on Sunday next.- Special ■services • will be given, and the offertory appropriated towards the building funds of | the Church. "VTe notice fhat Mr J. Gaul, photogrjipYo artist from Melbrurne, is at present visiting j town' professionally, and- will remain here during" the holi lays. He may V visied next to Mr Williams' Medical Hall, Mawhera ' Quay. . ' ,- The meeting of electors. convened by Mr W. H. Harrison last evening was adjourned for a week on account of the smallness ,$ the audience, which was to be accounted for by the beneUt performance at the Volunteer Hall. , Mr Harrison addresses the electors at Paroa tiiw eveniug, and at' Cobden on Friday evening. : Mr and Mrs LachlanM'Ghwan.gave their farewell entertainment at the VoUutfeer Hall last evening. The attendance "was?; very limited, Imt those who were present appeared to be highly pleased "with the performance. . A most, annoying printers error occurred in our last, by the substitution of the word "inferior" for " superior" in Mr Wylde's letter regarding 1 the Grey River Coal. The sentence. ought to haveread— "To show the spirit of the article qupted^above, I would .point out, that, it stages that the Buller coal is the finest in' the world, 'as reported by the authorities at Woolwich Dockyard,' whereas tbe report really shows the Grey coal ltd be superior to the Buller coal ;" ana then proceeds to give the. results of th« tests to which: it had been submitted. At the Resident Magistrate's; Court on TuesfVayi the following debt cases were hear.!.:— H. Barnhill.y. J. Bird, Abe^s Gully. Judgment by default for L 22 2s. and costs. — ;H. Barnhill v. J. Morgan. Judgment for. Ll9 9s id, and costs.— James Johnston v. Dr Lee; Judgment confessed for L 29 5s 6d. — Mrs Reilly v. Miss Bu-nes. Judgment confessed 1 for L 5 11s 6d ; amount to be paii'l" within three days, or, in default, one month's .imprisonment.— E. J. Byluad v. A. Fbatcv Claim of L 2 10s ; lEs were p iil ;into Court. Judgment for the amount pfiid in, defendant '• to; iredeiye the" costo of ,pne witness. — -A, Cleve

v. H. H. Lahman Claim of L 57, disputed partnership accon its. Juilgmont for plaintiff—Lso 13s, and costs. —Marie Lemuel v. Miss Stewart. . Glaiin of 1.6 15s. Judgment for plaintiff, with costs.— P. White v. — Fannun. Judgment fur LlO 183, and coats.— P. White v. M 'Elmer. Judgment confesasd for L 25 17s 3d, and costs.— P. White v. P. Moore. Judgment for L 7 15s 10J, and costs. —^Yesterday, before J. Kilgour, Esq., J.P., E. Trahey, residing at the Teremakaii, was charged with the larceny of a quantity of female wearing apparel, &c. A. seafch -warrant had been issued at tbe instance of a female who had been for sometime up-country, and some goods claiEOJed by her were found- in the defendant's hbu£e. It was stated that the, circumstance coiild easily explained, and the case was adjourned for a week for the production jof • witnesses for the defence. ' ; i-.. Some daring thief stole the Bible out of 1 he witness-box 111 the Resident Magistral c's Court at Wellington, the other day. 'I he Post states that it is said that the offic3rs of the Court supplied the deficiency for the nonce by a copy of Johnson's Dictionary.

The Grey River Steam Tug Compan^ is now ma position to pay another of its usual quarterly dividends, and we notice that an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders has been called for Thursday, tho 22nd iußt., at the Union Hotel, for the purpose of doing SO. ." .-.: . -. ■ ■' !

At the monthly meeting of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, held on Monday evening ljist, the revised rules were submitted for j approval. Captain Whall then proposed {the insertion of three new rules for the better working of the brigade, and after two and ahalf hours' discussion,, they were adopted as modified. The Treasurer reported having received LSO, the balance of subsidy due from the County Chairman, which announcement was received with much satisfaction by the members, as they had given up all hope of ever seeing it. It was stated that for the future copper tokens, stamped with: the letters G.V.F.8.; would be issued to! the members at practice and fires! to be used as refreshment tickets, and which will be cashed whenj presented to the Treasurer,' The annual nomination and election of officers was postponed until Monday evening 1 next. -

The Ross correspondent of the Westland Independent^ writes :— A public meeting was ; held hero on Saturday last,: at. the instance, it appears, of a committee formed at Paroa, having for its object the relief of-spfferers through the Franco- Prussian war. MrTiCamile Malfroy. brought under notice the correspondence he had received ,from the hon. secretary at Paroa, requesting co-operation with the object iv view. Tbe meeting was held in the drill-shed, and the matter was, evidently, warmly received, and will, undoubtedly, be liberally responded to. iAit this meeting a general feeling of sympathy pervaded nil classes of nationalities who were present. Canvassers for subscriptions were appointed, and I have no doubt that in this instance the people of Ross will show that their hearts can feel the sorrows and miseries caused by this most unhappy war.

;: With ro^ard to the controversy now going on as to the right of alieus to vote at the' recent elections .for the County Council, the following is the opiniou of the AttorueyGeneval, .is telegraphed on the polling day.':— " By the Westlaud County Act , there is no disqualification of aliens, either as voters or members. Holders of miners' rights are qualified who have lived a certain time (two' months) in the district. Aliens are considered not disqualified in the County, or in Koad Board elections, because they are not expressly disqualified ; but aliens are expressly disqualified by the Constitution Act as voters for members or as members of the House The J -foffi"tec£icn of t^'reigluteY^^i Elections Act, . 1870,' was pot intended to act as disqualifying, but only' to. provide what questions -.should be asked for 'the purpose of ascertaining whether the voter had the propeii qualification. I think, therefore, that -the fourth question is not applicable iv the County of westland Elections, inasmuch as it is not necessary to ascertain whether the voter is naturally born or naturalised, or an 1 , alien?, Mr Hoos is right as to the wrong reference! ' Fortynine* should have been, .•fifty.' -.But it does not matter, as the words were only put in for extraction. The 50th section is in itself, incorporated in the Westiand Act, 1870."

Wednesday's West Coast Times reports that "a rush, which is. likely to be important, took place at the ' Paddock' on Monday, at midnight, and l<»ng ; before daybreak yesterday the whole of the ground was pegged out. About eighteen,- months a|o, s the Fifeshire Lead, situated in the Big Paddock, was lost, and though many attempts at the time were made to discover it, they were unavailing, and the place was abandoned.; Recently, .however, M'Quilkin and party, while driving in an old shaft some distance from where the lead had broken off, came upon payable gold, and, following up the discovery, they have proved without a doubt that the old lead has be«n discovered. The lead was lost ab.uC half-way across the Paddock, and where the present discovery has been made is a considerable distance from that point, but in. a linewith.it. so -there is every probability that the whole of the intervening ground will be found to be auriferous. The ground has been taken up and pegged out to Mr Castle's private property, or within a few hundred yards of the Tramway Station." ,

The Auckland Herald says:— We are, informed by one of the coach builders in town that he has made a test of the New Zealand wood used in the construction of coaches, against Tasinanian and Australian timber, used for the same purpose, and he finds that our native wood is incomparably stronger in every, respect. When tested in the usual way it showed 100 aa against 70. Our informant says that in future the firm to which he belongs mil import no more Australian wood, but will rely wholly upon the native, timber.

A Wanganui paper tells ixa the following story :— A gentleman who arrived .by the Wauganui on Sunday, having in his posssssion a very fine double barrel gun, was told ,by Mr Lett that ,he would require a permit before landing it. The information took the new coiner by surprise; who, asked indignantly if thab was the way &ey nid •things in 1 $Lis country. . Ujpon being, gravely informed that it was the way things were done in this country, he sald-i*-" Well, this is my old' friend that I have> taken with me wherever : ,l have gone ; it has been . all through Victoria, . and here goes. "—Suiting the action to the word, he threw the guv iover the side of the vessel, and coolly commenced looking for the baggage^.