THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1093, 29 January 1872, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1872.

A largo rush has set in to the Teviofc Creek, not far from its junction with Brandy Jack's. The prospectors, Grogan and party, are said to bo on gold scmo time, but the discovery was not generally known. Our mining reporter mentioned in his last letter the probability of this place being rushed at an early date. The sinking is about 16ft, and the ground is said to be very good. Wo will shortly bo in possession of detailed par* ticulars. An extensive rash is going on to Maoii Creek No. 2, No Town. The locality is at Barker's Terrace, and the prospectors, Thos. Rev, itt and party, are on good gold. Several claims are expected to strike it dining this week. It was at fir3t supposed that this was a continuation of the Candlelight Lead, but it is now open to doubt. A meeting of the members of the Grey Valley Agricultural Association was held at Lardi's Hotel, Totara Flat, on the evening of Tuesday, 23rd instant. In consequence of the small attendance, the meeting, after transacting seme routine business, was adjourned to Tuesday, 30fch instant, when the treasurer's and secretary's annual reports will be received and a new coirmittee of management elected. Captain Baldwin, the official agent for the General Government scheme of life assurance will visit Ahaura and the chief mining centres about the middle of February. Those in the country districts who intend putting their houses in order, by making provision for thoso depending on them, will have an opportunity of ioing so which seldom occurs # In future the Resident Magistrate's aud Warden's Courts -will be held weekly at the Ahaura. The next Court wi" sit on Thursday, Ist February, and on every folloM.'ng Thursday, at 11 o'clock, iustead of 10 o'clock as heretofore. Courts will be held at Cobden on the 2nd and 17th February, and at Camptown on the sth February at the usual time. Most of the business appertaining to the Resident Magistrate's Court from Reefton and Murray Creek is now transacted at Ahaura, there not being a Resident Magistrate's Court established at the Inangahua district. At a meeting of the Grey Valley A tural Association held last week, inquiries were made as to what had become of a sample of the soil from Totara Flat, which was forwarded to Australia some time ago for chemical analysis. The object in having the soil analysed, was to discover the cause of, and if possible devise a remedy for a peculiar disease which at the time affected the potatoe and other crops on the Flat. It transpired that the sayan to whom the sample was sent, had left Sydney for his native land, Scotland, and that the specimen of earth to be operated upon was gone after him, so that the qualitative or quantitative chemical components of Totara Flat still remain in obscurity. Inquiries were also made about the money which had been remitted to Sydney for the purchase of books to form the nucleus of an agricultural library for the use of the members. It was announced that this cheque had been returned, together with the the addresses of the booksellers in Sydney where the required works could be procured, but that no selections had been made. The following are a few latest notes received yesterday from Reeiton :— Rumors are flying about of the discovery of some immensely rich stone, distant, as far as I can learn, about ten miles north of Reefton. Report says that the lucky discoverers dug •uto the reef to a depth of two feet, aud hand-crushed stove that returned 4£oz of gold.— Starvation is imminent unless immediate steps are taken relative to the construction of a good road. There will not be a supply of the common necessaries of life to satisfy the demand. At the present moment there is not five tons of flour in the place, with a population of 500 to 600 souls, and that number being augmented daily. — The revenue for miners' rights, business licenses, leases, &c, for the last 20 days is Llooo.— Shiel's prospecting claim is gettiug richer stone than over ; also in Rhody Ryan's claim, next to Kelly's bouudary, they are getting magnificent stone. Mr John Watkins, storekeeper and postmaster, at the Twelve-Mile Landing, recently met with a serious accident near Marshall's stnre, on the road between the Twelve-Mile and No Tnvu. He was riding a spirited horse, and just as he passed Marshall's the animal shied and darted off the track and under a rope which was stretched across poles as a clothes line. The rope caught Mr Watkins across tho eyes, and dragged him out of the saddle. He fell heavily on a heap of loose boulders, and was picked up.iusensible, with blood coming from his raouHi and ears. The sufferer was forwarded to Grej.nouth, where a surgical examination found that besides other injuries two of kit libs were fractured. Mr Watkins is now quite out of danger and progressing fav-o-a'-ly inwards recovery. At tho liedident Magistrate's Court, at Camptown, on Friday, 26th ' :st., before C. Whitefoord, Esq., R;M., a case of extremely summary jurisdiction, \uth immediately threatened execution, came before the Court. A man named Shanahan was charged with assaulting one O'Cor lor by duckiug him in the pellucid waters of Nelson Creek. The complainant was leading the district without bidding a friendly adieu to his creditors, and the defendant, who was one of them, got on ' his tracks and oveicook him. When they met a conversation took place on the general state of the country, and the complainant expressed an opinion the operation of (whitewashing was the newest way of paying old debts, whereupon the defendant seized him, and carrying him to a waterhole in the creek, threw him bodily into it. When the plaintiff was in the water the defendant imparted the consolatory intelligence to him that he would 11 drown him if he didn't settle his account," and as the defendant looked like a man of his word, he (the plaintiff) paid the money, and went his way to the Court for redress. The caso afforded a deal of amusement, and, at its conclusion, the Magistrate said that although the defendnt had received some provocation, he was not justified in taking tho law into h ; s own hands, and fined him 20s and costs.— J. G. Heslop sued James Molloy for L 25 damages for trespass. The l'aint set forth that the defendant's cattle broko through the plaintiffs fences and getting into his grouuds destroyed a portion of his standing crop. The final heariug of tbo cause was adjourned. The Cou;i was adjourned to sth February.