THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1253, 5 August 1872, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1872.

• The usual monthly meeting of the Greymouth Volunteer Fire Brigade takes place at eight o'clock to-night at the hall. The work of erecting the Court House on the new Court Reserve, at Reefton, is proceeding rapidly. The half-yearly meeting of the Greymputh Jockey Club, as regulated by tho rules of the club, will be held to-night, at the Albion Hotel. The business is of a most important nature, and should ensure a good attendance. Saturday evening was the second of the fresh season of dramatic performances at the Volunteer Hall by Miss Stephenson and her satellites. The drama performed was ''Lady Audley's Secret," and the farce "The Lad who never saw a Lass." The next performance is to be given on Wednesday evening, when the good old-fashioned drama of "The Green-bushes" is to be performed, Misu Stephenson taking the part of Miami. ' We learn .that the miners on the Totara Lagoon rush are doing very well. Perkins and party divided last week 740z amongst three men. the result of fourteen days' work. The party have been getting from L 6 to 1.17 per week, each man, lately. The sinking is about 6ft. We understand that the tender of Mr Duncan M'Lean has been accepted by the County Council for the supply of rations to the Greymouth Gaol, for the six months end; ing the 31st January, 1873. Telegraphic communication was opened between Ahuara and Reef ton on Friday, 2nd inst. The communication was complete* and the first message was transmitted at 7 o'clock p.m. Everything was found to work well, and the operator was busy forwarding congratulations and business messages all day on Saturday. A pony express, in connection with the telegraph department, left Ahaura for Greymouth at 12 noon on Saturday, and arrived with, a parcel of messages in three and a half hours at the Telegraph Office, Greymouth/* On this subject, the Inangahua Herald of Saturday says :— We have to congratulate our readers upon such having been established, the line having been yesterday completed to the temporary office opposite to the new Government Reserve. The line will be in working order to-day, and the first message to be flashed through the wire is a congratnlatory one from/the Warden of tho district to the Premier, thanking him, on behalf of the inhabitants of the Inangahua, for the advantages conferred by the early extension of the telegraph to this district. Mr Solomon, the oculist and Optician, has. since his arrival here, surprised some of the unfortunates of this district by his remarkable cures of eye and ear diseases and defects, and in order to give a further chance to those needing his services, has determined on extending his visit in Greymouth till the 10th inst. . Mr Solomon has devoted many years to his particular branch of the profession, and therefore we can confidently recommend those unfortunately afflicted with diseases and affections of the eyo and ear to consult him. A miner named James Wilsou had a miraculous escape at Half-Ounce, on Friday. He was about descending to work in his claim, on Sawyer's Terrace, when the bight of the rop" in which his foot wa3 fixed cave way by s'v ue means, and he fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of GO ft. He was raised to the surface and coaveyed to his hut

vhere Dr Phillips made an examination, and ; bund that, except a severe shaking the patient had suffered no aerious injuries. j The Superintendent of Nelson has notified iia intention to grant five leases for gold- ' inning purposes at Painkiller Creek and BoatraanY The areas, although in no case jxceediug in length those which can be held under a miner's right, namely, 60ft along the Hue of reef, have been curtailed :'n three instances. All the machinery for the Anderson's Company, at Inangahua, with the exception jf one piece, has been landed at tlie machine site, Black's Point. The batteries, &c, will be erected in a few weeks, and in the claim all wiJVbe prepared to commence crushing in bwo months i The work of baling out the shaft has been commenced, and prig ess has been made with the shoot and paddock The bramway to the machine site will prove a rather heavy work, and little or nothing has as yet been done towards its completion. The regular Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts were held at Ahaura, before C. Whitefoord, Esq, R.M. and Warden, on Friday the 2nd inst. Carter v. Day, for L 4 10s, the price of a pig, was evidently a case of mistaken identity as to which pig of two fa dispute was the cause of action. The defendant produced a rpjeipt for a pig sold to him by one of the pbintin 8 servants. The plaintiff alleged that although he or Ty sold the defendant one pig, the one for which the receipt was produced was not tho animal now in question. The case was adjourned for the production of further evidence for the plaintiff. J. Marshall v James Hayes, a fraud sunrnons for L 8 10s. The defendant was ordered to pay LI per week. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs with costs ? i Marshall v Meehan, L 9 6s 8d ; Hunter t Wilson, Ll.— ln the Wrvden's Court a number of applications for agricultural, leases were postponed for the Government Surveyor's reports. Duncan Fisher and party obtained a certificate for a headrace at Noble's Creek. Fitzgerald and party from the Blackwater, in the Little Grey district, but ultimately an arrangement was come to between the partieß. Both Courts were adjourned to 9th August. A case is now pending in the Warden's Court at Reefton, between No. 2 north on the line and No. 2 double-banker. It appears No. 2 on the line pegged off a portion of No 2 double-bankers' ground, which is applied for as a lease, and got it registered as double frontage. The decision is looked forward to with some interest, as it ought to settle the point whether a lease can be interfered with until it is either granted or refused by the Superintendent. The survey party, have arrived at Reefton, and Mr Woolley is expected as soon, as the river is fordable. There are some eight leases to survey, some of which have been app'ied for over five months. A meeting of members of the Presbj jejian churflh Will be held at Ramsay, Edwards and Company's store, Black's Point, near Reefton, on Wednesday next, to appoint a building Committee for the purpose of erecting a place of worship in connection with that body. Tho site is south of Murray Creek, near to the terrace, and covers four ordinary town sections. A sum exceeding LIOO has been already collected towards defraying the cost of a building. . A Wellington telegram has been receive^ stating that it is generally believed that the Government have undertaken to pay the expenses incurred by Mr E. J. O'Conor in his attempt to upset the verdict passed by the Nelson Provucial. Council with regard to his Westport land purchase. It is sincerely to be hoped that the Government are in a position to say that such a statement is unfounded. Many people will probably agree with the members of the Council that the inquiry, as conducted, is unparalleled, irregular, and unjust to the Select Committee of the Council, and to those who were examined before them as witnesses, charged as they have been with being "liars," '• conspirators," ar.d everything else that is cv ; !, while no real opportunity is afforded them of asserting the propriety of their action. The Government nave many friends on the West Coast, whom they w:ll necessarily alienate by permitting any suspicion to exist as to their aiding one side or the other for a political purpose, at the possible sacrifice of the truth. "It is really wonderful," the Kyneton Observer writes/ "what a magical effect a little gold will produce on the public mind. On Friday night shares in the Tommy Dodd Company could have been bought ' for anything in the shape of coppers,' as the sharebrokers express It. r At midnight on Friday the reef, what is supposed to b© the western reef, was struck. The sharebrokers and the knowing ones scoured the town on foot oh Saturday, rode over the country, and set all the wires at 'work wherever Bhares "were to be brought up. Many who were suffering from that sickness produced by hope deferred, and who were not on the gui vive, parted with their shares for only a trifling consideration. People are often caught napping. Men who are skilled in share-buying dotft wear their hearts upon their sleeves, or show their knowledge in their faces, Tfrey are pensive, chile"ike, and bland. One of our speculators who holds a large interest in the mine was at Sandhurst. A friend telegraphed, 'Tommy Dodd struck the reef. Looks well. Mind yourself.' Ho. had barely read these w< rds when another wire, came, stat-'ng, 'Can get 4d for Dodds. Have an order for 200. Have you any to sell ?' The answer, we believe, was Mired, 'Not for Joe.' On Saturday night the shares that might have been got 24 hours before for 2d each were worth from 12d to 18d each." Another illustration of the luck of mining and of the pluck of miners has just cropped up at Gordon, Victoria, in the case of Greed's Reef. This lode was first disoovered and worked several years ago, by two brothers named Greed, and a company was formed after that to work it on an extensive scale, but by some supposed bad management the mine did not pay, and after a shaft had been sunk some 300 ft, and two or three drives put iv a long way to the north at different levels Without getting the rich stone that was said to be in the lode, the shareholders refused to pay more caTs and the company collapsed, ■and thus terminated their gjefcenaive style of work. For the last two or three years, howaver, the Greeds have stuck to this reef like limpets, and had the satisfaction a few days since of striking what they say is a continuation of the original reef a little to the south of the shaft, and very close to the surface. They are getting good gold bj r washing the loose stone, and samples of the quartz sent into Ballarat lead to tne expectation that the lode will be very rich. Some of J the leading mining men here have taken the thing in hand, and intend to form a company to work it i 100 promoters' shares are to be offered at L 5 each. Of mining matters in the Ross district, the News reports?— " Upon the whole they are much better than some croakers would make out, and only want the infusion of a little new blood, in the shape of capital, to inaugurate a new era of prosperity to the district. The Morning Star Company sent their men down at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, and are, we believe, working full handed. Tue Excelsior Company arc also in full swiug, and looking well. The Old Whim pursues its usual quiet course, and fully bears out in its yield the confidence always felfc by tho shareholders. A party ol' 'x Chiuose have commenced ground sluicing " Jones's Creek, close to the town, an I

appear to be contented with their prospects. ?. Cumraiuga and party have taken up the site of the old fluining, and are industriously bringing up their tail-race, prior to turning the water on to then 1 claim. They will begin putting through stuff early next week. M'Murtie and party are working away with their old- energy, aid with payable results. The parties who have stuck to the Aylmer Lead through good arid evil report,' are reaping a fit reward for their perseverance. Captain Perkins's party is, we are credibly informed, making a very large weekly dividend, and tbe ground now in work is paying handsomely." , . ..•;. Dr. A. Loftier, of Stockenau, states in the Wiener Med. Woche mchrift of February 19, that he has treated more than 40 cases of small-pox by the external copious application, by means of cotton wool, of a solution of one part of carbo?ic acid in twelve of 'tfij. The result in all the cases was that the cutaneous swe"ing soon diminished; and that, when the application was made early, the course of the disease, in .relation to the number of pustules, was milder. He believes also that by this treatment the danger of infection was greatly diminished. Unvaccinated children, inhabiting the same rooms with small-pox patients, either remained free from the disease, or had it in a very mild form. Carbolic acid was also diffused through the atmosphere of the side-rooms : - -