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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1140, 23 March 1872, Page 2

Noon yesterday was the hour appointed for the nomination of a successor to Mr Mackley as a member for the Grey district in the Nelson Provincial Council. The place appointed for the purpose was the Court House at Cobden. The Returning Officer was Mr Wflritefoord, who had ridden down from the Ahaura in the morning, to read the writ, to receive nominations, and to declare the result, all of which, as it happened, was accomplished within the space of five minutes. At twelve o'clock the persons present at the Court House were the Returning Officer, two representatives of the Press from Greymoutb, two visitors from Gre> mouth who had accompanied them, two boatmen who had ferried them over, and either four or five of the innatlcants or cooaen. The Roiurning Offioor, having read tlie writ in the hearing of this assemblage, asked if any gentleman of whom it waß composed intended to propose any other gentleman as a candidate for election as a member for the district in the Provincial Council. Mr James Thomson said — " I have great pleasure in proposing Mr Thomas Affred Sneyd Kynnersley as a fit" and proper person to represeut this district in the Provincial Council. Ido not suppose it is necessary, in doing Soj to make any remarkr, Mr Kynnersley is well-known on the Coast, aud I am convibced there. is bo man better qualified to represent the district, both on account of his intimate acquaintance with its requirements, and of his ability to make them known in the Council," Mr Glennan said— "l beg to second the nomination. Mr Rynnersley's career is well know a in the district. We might speak a little more about him, but he requires no comment whatever." The Returning Officer asked if any other gentleman had any other candidate to propose. There was no answer, and, after a reasonable pause, the Returning Officer declared Mr Kynnersley to have been duly elected as member fat the Grey district in the Nelson Council.; The Returning Officer returned to the Ahaura. The representatives of the Press communid^ed the intelligence [of the election to the lady who presides at the bar at Gilmer's Hotel," and returned to Greymouth. And the four, or five, inhabitants of Cobden who had witnessed or taken part in the proceedings, returned to their ordinary avocations. Two exhibitions of the Diorama of the American War are to be given to-day at the Volunteer Hall — one at three o'clock, for school children and families, and the other at the usual hour in the evening. On both occasions there will, no doubt, be a large attendance, the exhibition being a most; interesting one to the young as well as the old, and in the evening there is to be a distribution of gifts of a valuable description, which everyone present will have ,a chance of winning by virtue of the ticket purchased. The Hou. the Premier delivered a lecture at the Temperance Hall, 1 Stafford, on Wednesday evening. The subject chosen was " The Liquor Traffic," audj says the Hokitika Star, it was most ably dealt with by the lecturer. The hall was crowded with a most appreciative audience. Mr Greenfield, Provincial Secretary of Nelson, accompanied by Mr' Dobson, proceeded up the Grey Valley yesterday, on a visit of inspection to several parts of the district. An extraordinary general meeting of. the shareholders of the Energetic Quartz Mining Company is appointed to be held at eight o'clock this evening, for the purpose of adopting rules and electing directors and auditors. , ' The Borough Council did not meet last evening, the meeting, ib is understood, having been postponed until Friday next. The quantity of grain brought to the various stores in Kaiapoi for shipment during lastweek wns about 8600 sacks, or about 37,000 bushels. The Wanganui papers are eminent for personalities, either between themselves or towards members of the local community, tfere is a mild specimen culled from tie [ Chronicle:— "Mr Sfcrachjiz?, our celebi-afced tonsorial artist and tragedian; leaves Wanganui by the es-Wallabi to-night. A few friends met at the Phoenix HoteJ last nighfc and presented him with an address, descriptive of his services as a. discoverer of gold and coals, as a purveyor, of suppers, with not; too much to eat and rather little champagne to drink, as representative of the sock and buskin, Othello and the Cuban Slave, a nd last not least as a manipulator of beards a nd back hair. He departs at peace with all

mankind ; not only the Bridge Ball Committee and La de da, but^even oldßogo «tnd he have made it up. The latter, we are told; fell upon his neck and wept." ' Mr Hv Kelly, who is reported by our telegram from Hokitika to have been found drowned, was the proprietor of the Old Tramway Hotel in that town. His body was found in the lagoon behind Revell street, opposite Manson's premises. A " Rob Roy canoe" is oie of the-curi-osities brought out to Wanganui by the barque Malay. The boat, which is one of Searle and Sons' build, was ordered by a gen^ tleman of aquatic tastes, who : has since' removed to New South Wales, and the canoe is now for sale. Some dozens of themi one would think, might be profitably introduced into New Zealand. ....... The Dunedin (Star considers that the defeab of Mr Macassey at Queenstownmust notbe regarded merely as an expression of opinion on the part of (the constituency id favor .; of a local representative, and ; that we haye # a right to look upon it as a condemnation of the political conduct of Mr Thomas Luther Shepherd and of the education theories of Dr M0ran. ....... „ . ;■■-.. ; Stray cattle have lately been described by correspondents of the Hokitika papers as a serious local nuisance. The. Star of. Thursday says :-r- A most serious accident happened last evening, which might,:. and no doubt would, have been attended with fatal results but for. the fact that assistance was at hand. Mr Twiss and Mr Love (both of tuis |tnwn) were walking aloug Sale street last evening, between six and seven o'clock, when a cow or bullock came furiously charging down the street, and, making direct for Mr Twiss, lowered its heal and struck him violently on the chest, f dirty lifting him from the ground, and throwing him some distance. Mr Twiss, though much shaken, managed to scramble to his feet, when the enraged beast returned to the charge, and again knocked him down. By this time . Mr Love had armed himself with several large 'stones, and eventually succeeded in driving the animal away. ■ ' The new shop of Messrs M'Dowell and Co, Wellington, on the site lately cleared by Warnioll's old ; shop, will, with the .old .one", part of which will be left standing, form one of the handsomest business premises in that town; The frontage to Willis street will be 42ft. The south "corner of the present building is to be taken down, and the whole formed into a crescent. Of the new part the shop on the ground floor will be 28ft wide, by 80ft deep, and 14ft high in the clear. For a spaca of about 25ft at, the back. the shop will be. lighted by a large skylight with circular lights 15ft by 12ft. The inside of the shop being all open, will enable perhaps the largest show of goods in town to be made. The whole of the shop windows will be plate glass, and it is intended to have wooden revolving shutters the whole width of the building. There is a man at Dnbbo, in New South Wales, even more unlucky than that unfortunate lover of Miss Amelia, the history of whosewoes.Mark Twain describes so graphically. The unfortunate man while working at his trade of stonemason lost his thumb, and, lock-jaw supervening, he very nearly lost his life as well. Just as he was becoming convalescent he was thrown out of a coach and had his leg and collar-bone broken, his shoulder dislocated, besides losing all the fceth in his lower jaw. The shoulder could not be put m, and, as soon as the poor fellow was able to walk about, in trying to stop a runaway horse he had his arm broken. A few days afterwards he fell down a hole and broke another leg. But by this time Fortune had become tired of her persecutions. A pitch from a buck jumper put in the shoulder again, aud a few days afterwards the man received a thumping legacy, being left by an English .relative. This has enabled him to leave New South Wales. ' . " ;