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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1232, 10 July 1872, Page 2

This evening, at Gilmer's Hall, and ateight o'clock, the members of Trinity Church hold their annual meeting for the purposes of electing churchwardens and Vestryman, and of passing accounts. At the Resident Magistrate's Courc, yesterday, there was only one police charge, in which the defendant, whose delinquency was drunkenness, was remanded until to-day. Several civil cases were heard, but they were of no public interest. • The annual general meeting of the subscribers to the Urey River Hospital is appointed to be held to-morrow evening, at Gilmer's Hall. S> On Sunday a man named Edward Wrig'.it was brought to the Greymouth Hospital at the point of death, ana on the followitg

evening another was received, whose fate it was to die a few hours after his admission. The name of the man who was thus admitted, and who died co shortly afterwards, was Frederick Davis. He was a seaman on board the Sarah and Mary,, which arrived from Melbourne on Sunday. It is said that when he shipped he was in indifferent health, and it is believed that the severity of the passage aggravated his illness. He was a native of England, and was about 34 years of age.

As Mr Allen, dentist *}was crossing Cashel street, Ohrischurch, he was knocked down by the Leeston coach. He fell between the leaders, but he immediately folded his arms and lay still, and, although the coach passed over him, he was untouched by the wheels, and rose from the ground apparently uninjured. At a recent meeting of the Hokitika Hospital Committee, the report of the sub-com-mittee appointed to consider the resolutions of the County Council in respect to hospitals was discussed. The clauses of the report were adopted with the exception of limiting the number of members from the County to three from each Road Board District, making an average of twelve country members, thereby securing equality of representation to both town and country. At Timaru, coal has lately been quoted at L 4 a ton, and at times it has been so scarce that, according to the Herald, "a king's ransom would not buy a ton." The petition forwarded to the Resident Minister for the Middle Island, on the 27th ult, by a number of settlers in Otago from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland,'praying that emigration from those places might be placed on a similar footing to that from Scandinavia, has been rejected. From the Boss News of Monday last we learn that at Redman's the contractors for the driving of the tail-race have been stopped by the late floods and run of earth in the tunnel. They expect to get the washdirt in a very few days. Donoghue's : Wilson and party's claim is yielding very well. The tunnels are completed to all the claims drained by the wheeL Pringle ' and party have nearly finished the erection of whim, feeder, &c. At Clearwater\Pamell's claim is paying splendidly. The shareholders intend to put on a night shift, and to work ninehour shifts. The Native's claim is also paying well. This claim is very economically worked. There are six men below on the day shift, and five on the night shift. The week's tally of buckets of dirt raised is 1800, or about 40 loads, which is a large quantity for the number of men. Yankee Brown's claim is doing very well. They intend to put on a night shift as soon as a small dam to hold water to be run into the feeder is finished. Tackey's party have started a fresh shaft, and are down about 40ft. The Young Australian party has struck the washdrift in a jump-up, and find the reef dipping very much, and will consequently have to deepen their drive. On Jones's Flat there are only three claims left to bear the brunt of the drainage. It is probable that a party will be made up to work the Golden Gate claim. At the District Court, yesterday (says the Southern Cross of a recent date), the four jurymen impanelled to try the case of Glenny v Morrison consisted of two bulls and two bullocks. That is to say— two who were called answered by the name of Bull, the other two to Bullock. Two others were called who answered to the name of Bullen. The whole of the names had quite a beefy sound. It was a case in which land, cattle, docks, and thistles were in dispute, and the names did in some degree appear to be suitable to the nature of the case. A petition, numerously signed, is about to bo presented to Bib Excellency the Governor, praying that a free pardon may be granted to iiwing, who, at a recent sitting of the Criminal Court, Otago, was found guilty of shooting a Chinaman, at Stßathans, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. It will be remembered that at the trial the accused's counsel moved the arrest of judgment. The inattei was referred to the Court of Appeal, when the proceedings of the Court below were upheld, hence the petition for a free pardon. At last we have tbe pleasure to acknowledge—from the Registrar-General— receipt of a volume containing the statistics of JNew Zealand for 1870 (! !). There is no mistake,' we beg to assure the public, in this date, but there is a radical mistake somewhere, when the statistics for 1870 ate not issued till the middle of 1872. The Registrar-General is kind enough, to explain, that " a considerable portion of the contents of the volume is net published for the first time, no less than fifty out of the seventy -one tables which make up the series having been presented to the General Assembly during the session of 1871, and issued as a Parliamentary paper." Doubtless, and we hope some member of the Assembly will make a point of inquiring whether the operations of the .Re-gistrar-General cannot be quickened very considerably in future. j

A Wellington contemporary says :— " Dr Hector is preparing for transmission to Germany an exceedingly interesting collection of Maori curiosities, comprising some splendid specimens of the apteryx of both kinds, samples of the minerals of the colony, a number of Maori and Chatham Islands stone implement?, some Maori skulls, casts of the Hi Tiki (Maori God or amulet), casts of moa eggs (including one of the celebrated egg found on Mr Fyfb's property at the Kaikoura), and a number of moa bones and specimens of kauri gum. Considerable pains are. being made to make the collection a very complete one, which will bo valuable not solely for the variety and excellence of the articles included, but for the reason that subjects connected with* the ethnology of New Zealand are at present occupying more attention -amongst scientific men on the Continent than at any previous time. The collection is one that will bo highly prized by Bavaus throughout Germany, and will also form an attractive feature iv any museum in which it may be placed. Mr P. A. Krull, the German Consul, has undertaken to fonvard the case- containing the collection, and we shall no doubt hear in due time of its safe arrival and of the opinions of the scientific gentlemen to whose inspection its contents will be submitted for examination.' 1 '