THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1161, 18 April 1872, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDA Y, APRIL 18, 1872.

The report of the Flood Relief Committee, describing the number and value of the subscriptions placed st their command, and detailing the manner in which they distributed relief to sufferers by the flood, is published in another column of this day's issue of the Argus. The report is one which is worthy of the attentive perusal of the inhabitants of Greyniouth particularly, as they will discover from it how much the sufferers by the flood were sympathised with by other communities in the Colony, and how extraordinary were the exertions of the municipal authorities and benevolent inhabitants of the towns to which an appoal'for assistance had been made. The answers to that appeal, as most of our citizens are already aware, exceeded the most sanguine expectations as to the sympathy and liberality of their fellow-colonists, and the report now published reveals how that sympathy was exhibited by communities with whom Greyniouth has no particular commercial connection, and upon whom it has no claim beyond that which is represented in the expression that " one touch of nature makes the whole world kin." The Committee, on behalf of the community, have especial reason to acknowledge the liberality of the inhabitants of Hokitika ; comparing it with population, their contribution was an extraordinary one ; but the good example which the inhabitants of Hokitika gave was extensively imitated throughout the length and breadth of the Colony, and, as explained in the report, the names of some communities do not appear there simply because their contributions were not required. The lesson of the report, or of the circumstances which it details, will not, we are sure, be lost upon our lofal population, whether they have been sufferers by tr.e fl>ud, or sympathisers with the sufferers to the extent of= their means. We do not doubt that on any future occasion of a call being made upon the benevolence of our fellow-colonists, Greymouth will not be slow in sympathy, forgetful of the past, or — judging as we may from present promise of prosperity — short of cash. Those for whom the report is especially written, however, are the contributors to the fund, and we may supplement the Committee's statement by saying that they gave to every case which came before them the most careful consideration, and that, only afrer every proper inquky, in which they were actively assisted by the police, was relief in any instance afforded. The relief thus afforded was both opportune and abundant, and, next to the contributors, there is due to the Committee, the acknowledgments of manner ~in- i^Tiit'ir 'hfc *iYmir"'A as™ cisfci*' buted.