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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1295, 23 September 1872, Page 2

F. Weston and C. F.E. Sibree write to the Inangahua i/craM to state that there is \ evidence to prove that the missing man Costello was seen several days after His alleged disappearance. : A Melbourne paper says that it has long '< been a matter of complaint among' news* paper proprietors that the- Government ex« , pect them to give full publicity to all post, telegraph, and other uotipes gratuitously. This is looked upon .as a very unfair proceeding, and at last the honorable member for * Ballarat. MrW. C. Smith, has set himself up as their champion. He last night gave notice of his intention to ask the Government in futureto. pay for all such notices as if they were Government advertisements;

on fall fours or rolling, and it is evident from a discussion which took place at a meeting of the General Assembly of the Free Church that some such indulgence foin contemplation as a matter of necessity. After the report of the committee on Sabbath observance had been read, Major Ross, elder of Aberdeen, moved its approval by the Assembly, and in the course of hia observations remarked—" In regard to walking on the Sabbath, that was a point which, he thought, they ought to approach with great circumspection and care in the Assembly. He would say that there must be some substitute devised. He did not defend Sabbath walking, but there were many persons with whom it was a fault of tho heart; and they must get something to put in substitution for it before they actually went and said to those persons 1 You must not do that,' otherwise they might drive a number of individuals back Into dirty nnd squalid houses—individuals who, if not walking out, might perhaps be drinking at home." Dr Thomas Smith followed in tho same strain, and was half inclined to permit walking on Sundays for tho present, provided that it was conducted with a solemn deportment;. "To walking on Sunday he confessed that he could not set himself in absolute opposition ; but tho gathering in the meadows, for example, of people who had no family relationship to each other, mode the sceno one —if not of riot exactly—at least of merriment. He knew, * too, that in not a few coses people lay in their bed all Sabbath reading comparatively low publications—publications which ■were utterly unfit for Sunday readififf, which, indeed, were unprofitable reading at any time." It is indeed a most difficult question to decide what is to bo done on Sundays with vast numbers of active people denied tho privilege of using their limbs, and | oven when ibis is settled there remains tho more awkward question of their lungs. Sabbath breaking, it is to be feared, prevails to an awful extent.