THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1150, 5 April 1872, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1872.

A sad accident occurred in the Grey Eiver yesterday, at the junction of the Arnold .River, by which a young man named Richard Mulvena; and . two , . horses - we're : drowned . Deceased was engaged tracking Olsen's cargo-boat over the junction with two horses, when an . accident happened which is not easily accounted for by those who saw it, Either the cargo-boat got on a boulder or snag in the river and the horses were slewed off the ford in order to ease the boats Joff, when the current caught them and carried them down stream ; or else the ford had shifted' and they unexpectedly dropped into' deep water. The spectators on : the bank saw horses and man drop into deep water and disappear, then when they came to the surface roll over several times. Those in the boat cut the towing rope, but as M4lvena was no swimmer, and stuck torhia horses too long, instead of making W attetupt to reacn the bank, he and the two horses were drowned. The deceased was about 28 years of age, .was a cousin of Mr Harry M'Oill,' and is supposed to have been mates in the boat with; Mr T. Olseij. Ho was much respected, and Is now, deeply regretted. Up to last night the body fiad not been found, but a large search party was out looking for it. ' "" " j '• We are informed by telegram from the County, Chairman that a tender for the' construction of 'the Crreymouth and Omotura'otlu Creek has been accepted. .The message doeV not say who was the successful tenderer. ; In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, Donald Maclean was summoned, on the infofmatidn of the Inspector of. Nuisances, for ycrmittiijg a nuisance to exist; on hid premisoa in 1 Waite street. ' Mr Newton appeared

ifor the defence," vMr^Perkinsi "who appeared 'for the proseoution[ asked £or ah; adjournment, but subsequently wifchdrewithe case, the solicitor for the i defendant feontehdini; ]that, under the by-law, three*: days' graco : . *had to be given for an abatement of thci^ nuisance, and this had not been. done. Professional and other costs -were allowed. Several civil cases were also disposed of ._,.,, -■~*AT the' : *ReßldehT Magistrate's Court ab Ahaura on Thursday, 4th instant, before p.; Whitefoord, Esi|, R.M, Margaret Dewsoh was charged with selling spirituous liquors. *at ' Napoleon, on 'the 24th March, without being duly licensed. Andrew M'Lellan was called for the prosecution, but his evidence 'did not criminate the accused further than that he saw her serve drinks, but he : would not admit that he saw her take payment for them, although. he was' ; aii.hourand a half in the house. Sergeant Goodall applied for a remand for the production of further evidence, to enable/him to produce two 1 other men who were in the house at the time. A remand for seven days was granted. Among the civil cases were Russell and Grogan; an adjourned claim of LlB 18s 7d. Mr Staite, {or the : defendant, admitted that since the books of the defendant had been carefully examined his 1 client was convinced he owed the plaintiff a balance. He accordingly confessed judgment, on condition that execution would be stayed for one month. Judgment was entered up for the plaintiff with 42s costs. t Verdicts with costs wereigiven for the plaintiffs in— M'Lauphlin v. Franklyn, LI 15s: Aikin and. Magill v. M'Lean, L2O 173 6d ; j and Marr and Lock v. A, Cleve, L 45, the 1 amount of an 10 U. ,The Court adjourned] to the 11th inst. It will be seen from our telegrams that none of the Westland representatives has .qualified at Christchurch to ; shoot for the championship of the Colony. '"A! ' miner named Edward Murphy met .with/ a painful accident at His claim' on the Duffer-Sullivan lead at Half-Ounce on Thursday. While he was shaping a wooden ( wedge x to A drive under a lath, the tomahawk ' glanced off the timber, striking him 'on the left hand and taking off the two first joints of the middle finger. The sufferer proceeded to Dr Phillips at Ahaura, who t applied such remedies efa were necessary for the case. The Christchurch Prop understands that Mr Manning, the Auckland gentleman who recently had the wrestling match with Bray, has made a match for LIOO a-side on the West Coast. The . wrestling to be in the Cumberlanl style. The Hokitika Coal Prospecting Association have obtained from the Waste Lands Board an extension of the terms for holding the reserve, and it is intended to make arrangements for pushing operations to an issue. r :A\ 'correspondent who signs himself Felix Henly, Temperance Boarding House, Gresson street, writes to us, : — " I visited the graveyard, or cemetery, to-day. You might be as '• godd as to inform! the citizens that there are cattle grazing in the same. Whether it is permitted or not I cannot say, but, to say the'least of it, it is'an injury to the graves and disrespect to the, dead, and I should ' think " will not be tolerated even by those ' who haye no relations there." ... By the coach yesterday. ■ mail? brought overland from Christchurch, and by the Kennedy :from Nelson,; were received from Hokitika. They include mails , from Westport,'Nelson, Wanganui, Wellington, Auckland, and Canterbury and Otago. The following items of local and district news, appear in the Inangahua Herald of Wednesday :— A public meeting, convened by the .Warden, will be held at Ryan and . Darin's on Saturday evening, for the purpose of organising a Sick and Destitute Relief Fund in this district. — A numerously-, signed memorial from the inhabitants of Reefton will be presented to the Warden, requesting that the unrestricted issue of spirit, licenses to single women should be discontinued.— Mr Bird, Inspector of Telegraphs, arrived in Reefton from Greymouth . on Monday evening. , : The object of his visit is to_ report upon the desirability of establishing telegraphic , . communication with Reefton, and in the event of its being carried out, to decide as to the route for the line.— - A first-class article in the shape of brick .manufacture is now being supplied; by Mr William Taylor, who has succeeded in discovering a suitable clay for the purpose . A sample has been left at this office which appears eminently fitted for the construction of chimneys, or for general building purposes. -- We are informed that it is the intention of the Provincial Government to station a Clerk at Christy's, who will issue rights and licenses. — The name of Mr Temperly is mentioned as the person who will probably have conferred upon him the office of Inspector of leases and licenses for the Nelson SouthWest Gold Fields.— Forms of miners' rights have been received from Wellington. According to the sums deposited by miners since the f orriis ran out, 700 rights will have to be issued.' —A cutting match is at present raging between some of the butchers in 'Reefton, The retail price for joints of meat is now 4d per pound, but we do not believe the price will long stand at this 'figure. 1 ' The last reduction was caused by a new beginner selling, under previous rates. : ' A) fine piece of gold weighing 220z has been discovered at the ' Nevis, Otago, in the same claim as the 17oz nugget was found. ' We learn from a report oii the state of Sdnnyside Asylum, Christchurch; that the edst of maintenance of the lunatics there is 16s 9^d a weekj* which l with' insurance and other expenses, brings the .amount up to 22s each' per week! The present number of inmates is 109,;, and the number during the year had ranged from 96 to 112. " A seaman, named George Storey, belong- • ing ip the cutter Lapwing,' lying at the Thames, was accidentally knocked into the water and was drowned. It was some days before his body was found. On the 24th ultimo, an inquest was held, and a verdict of "accidental death" returned. The question of what constitutes a "public bar" in, the hotel sense of the word as . distinguished from a . private . bar has , been discussed at the Police Court, Shortland, on . two occasions, without being; definitely, settled. „ The new Licensing Act for Auckland says . an hotel keeper must hot have more .than one ." public bar upon ; his premises. Two hotel keepers have been brought up. for contravening this statute. On each occasion, the ' Magistrate has dismissed the case on . the ground that he really has : a doubt as to what a public bar . is .within the meaning of the Act, of which doubt he has very properly given the defendant the benefit, , Mr Alfred: Manning, .acting Attorney- , .General in .Fiji, ( who wan drowned in the Lcvukii harbor, was a .native of Brisbane, being, the son ,of , Mr ; J.. Manning, the esteemed police-magistrate of that city, and the nephew of Sir William Manning, Q.C.,' the eminent barrister of Sydney. Me then left .with ;a crew .of two halfrcaßtes foriNa* nanu, a run of a few hours. It is supposed that the uncertain state of the . weather in the afternoon induced Mr Manning to return, and he 'was doing so about dark, when, off' Le-vuka Point a squall swept across the sea, and at a very short . distance from the shore the tiny craft capsized and sunk. Poor Mr ,Mapning, either from- debility ; or the shook, seems to have made little effort to save his life. He was bravely assisted by one of his dusky crew, but he must have died very, shortly after being precipitated into the sea. I One of the Fiji crew also sunk, whilst helping Mr Manning, and is supposed to have been taken down by a shark. . The latter appear

to have floated all the time •' with his face ] just above the watery and the waves washing ] over it into his mouth, but unconscious." Ho j was conveyed to the cutter La Marie, ot'r" ] vVagadapej' and thencetp.the shore, where Di 1 ] 'Mitchell^ soon 'in attendance, used every.. 1 effort to restore animation— but without < avail. < •■' Murray's circus was opened in Christ- J church, in the paddock opposite the Criterion .' Hotel, on Monday last. • ; ; '. -i Special prayers for the recovery of Mr F. J. Garrick from a^dangerdus'fllnesS'werb offered up in:St, Albans Wesleyan Church, Christchurch, oh Sunday.last. The .value of building sites in Invercargill is reported to be once more rising. Mr Weber is about to make extensive alterations to the Canterbury Music Hall, •with a view to forming it into a theatre. One of the smartest shocks of earthquake felt in "Napier for. some' considerable, time, , occurred about 7.15 on the evening of the 14th ult. The shock, though'heavy, was of brief duration. Its apparent direction way from N. to S." : Mr William Cartwright, of Fendaltown, Canterbury, met with a serious . accident on Friday last. He was out shooting rabbits, when his gun unfortunately burst. The thumb was blown off, and his hand had to be, amputated. , , . =• ■ . The stacks thai were destroyed on Messrs* Strachan Brothers' farm, Eaiapoi Island, Canterbury, were supposed to contain about , 900 bushels of wheat, value about L2OO. Tho total loss,} including Messrs Pashby and Edwards's threshing machine, engine, com-, bine and straw elevator, is estimated at about L6OO. The Wellington. 'Independent states that one of Mr Brogden's staff has proceeded to Auckland' for the purpose of making such surveys as will be requisite > to enable Mr Brogden to treat with the Corporation of Auckland for • the construction of waterworks in that city. , .■ ,., , ,■ • Following close on the heels of diptheria, which , has been fatally : prevalent ! lately' among children at Christchurch, scarlet fever has now made its appearance there. There are sibven persons in Mr S. Fisher's house, oi^ the Ferry r6ad, suffering from the' fever. This number includes five children, che governess^ and a servant girl. . , A cavalcade of Maori horsemen, numbering about .thirty, followed by several .other men arid' women, which latter arrived /in a 'bus, passed through, Kaiapoi on, Thursday, to the ( pa, to be present ,at a meetmg ; fpr the election of a native council for the. Middle Island. They had come from Otago, Akaroa, Timaru,. Ruapaki, and Little River, •. , f , The, Westport Times states' that Messrs "'' Pell and Atkinson's tender for section Nol 3, between. Larry's Creek and Fern Flat; and Messrs Feri is. and Co. 's tender for section No. 1, between the: Gorge arid: Christy's, have been accepted. : ■/■ A telegraph mail each way has been established between a point ' 10,' miles north : of Kati Eati and a point 22 miles Bbuth of Grahamstdwn. ■ The ' mail leaves each place at 6 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays.'Fridays; • and Saturdays. Telegrams ' f6r ,this route must be handed in for transmission on Sundays not kter than 5.30 p.m., and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, aud Fridays before 8 p. m. and 5 p.m., 'at stations closing at those hours,, respectively. ; ! , A gentleman passmg .through , the ; bankruptcy court (SBys the Auckland tierqld) has written to inform his creditors that he is "off to Japan." The vulgar term "whitewash" used to be associated ; with. the passages of the bankruptcy courts. Henceforth all borrowers, after an interesting absence from the affections of the shrievalty: and their creditors, must not be told they were "whitewashed," but '^Japanned." . There has been another serious grass' fire in Marlborough. The Express of ■•; Saturday last says :—" A terrific fire on the Vernon rnn commenced last evening, and was spreading fast over the country when we went to press at midnight. From the appearance it would seem as if it had. been fired on the flat,, and the damage must be considerable. At 11 p^m. Mr T. Redwood came up for assistance to secure his homestead, and a large party of volunteers went down for the purpose. It is said that the fire was caused by persons who were out shooting ducks." Writing of Sir George Grey, a contributor to an Auckland paper sayß :—" Our late Governor dpesn't mix much with Auckland society ; but he appears to have the good of the country at heart. I saw by the papers the other day that he was to take the chair at an agricultural meeting at Mahurangi. It is a pity that so much practical knowledge of the wants of the country,' combined with a good deal of political influence both at home and here, should not be made available at a time like the present. I wonder whether Sir George Grey would consent to represent an; Auckland constituency. : The experiment of asking is .worth trying." > . ,/■. , .. . . : . : Mr T. L. Shepherd has reason to be grateful to the Dunedin Star. As long^ it says, ; as opposition is confined to men of Che Shepherd class, there is nothing to feari <He is one of those politicians who might pass for wi3e if he never opened his mouth, but who never utters a sound that does not betray his emptiness. Placed beside Mr' Macassey, however, he might play the part of > Bos well, and although he cannot convince the House, his " aye" and " nay" count for more thanthey are worth. A paragraph in a Dunedin paper has been brought under our/ West Coast Times) notice in which some. distressing circumstances in; connection with an old 'resident hi Hokitika are disclosed. It appears that Mr Mcc, long well known; here, is now an inmate of the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum, and that three of his children, aged respectively nine,<(SevSn,; and. five years,; were taken recently before a Magistrate as being neglected children; We are quite sure that ; there is charity enough, , in Hokitika to - rescue these poor children, if only Borne beneyolently-disposed .perSori would -'take the riiatter in hand, and that it only needs mentioning' to evoke the sympathy of all the residents. ; , . ; Speaking of the reefs recently discovered in Marlborongb, ;the Press Bays :— " A number of townsmen, .accompanied by visitors from^ other parts, formed a party last week to visit the lately proclaimed Ravenscliff gold field. When they returned, there Vas .' biit one^ opinion as to the value of thVdis. covfery pf the reef j all, were unanimous in praise of the prospects! obtained, and spoke of *h e precious metal as being plainly, seen from the surface to .the full depth the jshafti 'has been sunk, some 80ft. We have no occasion to question the accuracy of our 1 informants, and the statements, they made were fully' confirmed by some quartz specimens, thickly impregnated with gold, .Which We^e obtained from the prospecting claim, and which were shown to us by the fortunate possessors. It is said, that it is the intention of the clajmholders to amalgamate and form a company for the purpose of purchasing machinery and working the reef in a systemaiic manner. " , „ / Mr 'William Barry, of Cromwell; Otago,' has been kindly looked upon by Dame Fortune, so the Cromwellians assembled at : the Lowburn on Monday last to d.o him honor. The proceedings appear to have been unique '■' — beef and champagne were the order of the day, arid Barry was made a perfect god of by those who rallied round him on : thed7th. Wo give Mr Barry's farewell address, 1 as re.

ported in the Dumtan Times^aoA. what fpl^j lowed . its deliverance :— ";This the 1 proudest moment of his life,; t wnen;- after jiving sd many years in Crdm^efl<anahaYingz had- many differences (public' and private) with>the?n, he was now able to say that his star was in the ascendant, and that so many of his friends would assemble there to do honor to the occasion.;- He had'seen^brightidays and cloudy days ; but in whatever position he had been placed, he had always met/ difficulties in a manly spirit, and he trusted, . now.that he-was. beyond^the«'reaoh*of-4he* ghastly hand of want, he should still act jtho man, and,' at the 1 same' 'time, -show himself to be a true friend. He should ever. t .think kindly of Groinwell while'he' had { lile^inlhis quivering frame, and whether, the future of New Zealand was that of r a great .monarchy, with the ' Union Jack.', floating over it, or a great republic, of the ? Star Spangled Banner' order, his sentiments. , woulp! remain lanchanged. (Immense.; cheering. ), :[ ;.;He need hardly say . that; he preferred the' good 'old British order 6^ Government i (which- had beentried andprpyed) to ; all of the unprincipled and loafers who talked about a republic, if they entertained any respect for him, let.jthem show itjby* attending'to these last; words'.", Mr Bai-ry then .resumed ..his' seat 'amidst' vociferjous,cheering, and then might be heard the cry of '•Chair him!" No sooner had'this cry been raised than the - company, (more partidjilarly 'those from' Quartz-reef Point) rose, l and parried, not only Mr Barry, but Mr .and MrsPerriam, round the paddock on their shoul- \ ders, the i'company singing - ' • ' For ) they (are j jolly good fellows." . • , '