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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1213, 19 June 1872, Page 2

At the monthly meet ing of the Greymouth Masonic Lodge, 8.C., last eveuing, BroJ. Kerr was elected Worshipful Master for the ensuing year ; Bro Sewell, Treasurer ; and Bro Andrew Fowler was re-elected Tyler. There was a large muster of the brethren 'present. The adjourned meeting of theshareholders of the Murray Creek Gold Mining Company (Registered) takes place this evening, at Gilmer's Hotel, at eight o'clock. Shareholders are particularly requested to attend, as the business is of importance. The burlesque of "Ixion" is to be produced at the Volunteer Hall on Friday evening, and is to excel, we are told, anything yet attempted by the present company. No pains has been spared in getting up the "effects," and every preparation is being made to give visitors the fullest value for their money. A telegram was received by the local •Board of Health from the Hon. Mr Gisborne, through the County Chairman, requestiug that body to hold a mooting for the consideration of the recent cases of small-pox that have occurred in Wellington and Auckland, and to take such steps as may be necessary under the circumstances. The Resident Magistrate presided, the otber members present being the Collector of Customs, the Health Officer, and Dr Morice. After some discussion it was resolved that the Chairman cf the Board should coinmuuicate with the County Chairman in reference to the establishment of a proper quarantine ground, as recommended in a communication on the same subject addressed to the County authorities as far back as the 16th February, 18G9. On Saturday evening last a spiteful trick was played at the Teremakau ferry, the boat belonging to Mrs Trahey being cut adrift and allowed to drift to sea. A reward of L 5 is offered for the conviction of the 'perpetrator. We hope that the delinquent will be discovered. The Resident Magistrate's Court was held yesterday in the Town Hall, the District Judge holding sittings in the Court House. Ann Smith was charged with stealing Ll3, but the case was adjourned till Thursday. There wer,e several ciyil cases but none of the slightest public interest. Mail arrangements between Westport and Reefton do not seem to be very satisfactory, if we can judge from the following, taken from the local journal of the former place :— " Great and increasing inconvenience is experienced from the deficient arrangements for the mail service between Westport and Reefton. On Saturday last, the mail arrived too late for delivery at Westport until Monday morning, and this will very often be the case during tho continuance of wintry weather. Then again the beggarly service oi one mail per week is miserably insufficient for the requirements of tho two places 1 1 is positively distressing to see the nmvi.il !y load under which the mail hor?c nt tiiii.-s staggers along the track, at the • expre-s ' rate of two and a half knots per hour ; while the mailman plods wearily behind with, an extra swag of letters and papers on his own shoulders. : At the Resident Magisttatc'3 Court, at Ahaura, on Monday, 17th instant, before C. Whitefoord.Esq., the case Mackley v. Groom, for the valua of a horse, lost in February, 1868, came on again. The action was tried at Ahaura in October, 1871, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed. The appeal was tried before Judgp Richmond, at Uokitika. The verdict of the lower court was reve'sed, and the case was sent back to the Resident Magistrate's Court, at Ahaura, to bo reheard, Thg

Court gave judgment for the defendant, with coats.— ln the Warden's Court, two important cases were disposed of. In one, the right of persons residing in another colony and claiming to hold mining interests in New Zealand, without leaving a properly authorised agent to meet the liabilities on the property, as well as to receive the dividends (if any), was questioned. The Warden held that parties who were the ostensible owners of the property should become responsible for legitimate responsibilities accruing on it: —In a case from the Little Grey, about the right to a tunnel through a frontage claim, the Warden decided that parties having prior tunnelling rights coula deepen their drives or deviate, provided they obtained the formal assent of the Court— Several important applications were disposed of, and the Court was adjourned to June 24. The Thames Guardian of the 30th ult. has the following :— " We have heard o! several persons who have been poisoned lately by eating fish, which, after being caught, has been exposed to the influence of the moon. In none of the cases, however, have the results been fatal We yesterday heard of two men, lately employed on the telegraph line near Katikati, who came into town suffering from this cause, and we understand Dr Sam has another patient in Grahamstown under his care at the present time, who. is just recovering from such an attack. Care should always be taken that fish should not be kept in any place where the moon can exercise its baneful effects upon it." Captain Leach, harbor master at Westport, has visited the Ngakawhao (says the Westport Times) pursuant to instructions from Nelson, and beaconed the channel up to the coal wharf. The least water found in the channel, at high water, spring tides, was eight feet. Some half-dozen snags, all in one place, require removing. When this is done, the channel will be clear up to the loading place. The bar ia straight, wfth 10ft at high water, springs. The tunnel in the ccal mine is now some 35ft, and the cosl is getting much harder. The p.s. Result has gone up for another cargo. The coal brought down on the last trip was of an indifferent quality, having been taken indiscriminately from the mouth of the shaft." The proprietors of the coal claim are now utilising all the waste and debris to form a roadway to the pit, and intend to send nothing down to Westport that will not prove reetdily saleable, The Bemligo Independent of the Ist insb. says :- Private letters from London, received by the mail this morning, informs us of a scandal which has shocked May Fair and Belgravia even to a greater degree than Mr Chaffer's revelations of the inner life of the late Vicar-GeneraL Prince Teck, the husband of the Princess Mary of Cambridge, has deserted the family roof^ and taken up his quarters at Venice, with the Countess Zicby, a sister of Prince Metternich, whose society, it appears, he prefers to that of the lady to whom he is legally attached. The result of this sensational flight will be to leave the children of the disunited pair a charge on the nation ; but unfortunate as this is, worse is the blow to the pious holders of May Meetings ; Exeter Hall, alas, will know him no more, and the reverend gentlemen who once expatiated so loudly on the grace with which he presided at their discussions can now only take refuge in deploring the " immorality in higher places." The Record, the special chronicler of the levanting prince's evangelical virtues, has been sorely affected by this unlooked-for fall.