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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1321, 23 October 1872, Page 2

The West Coast portion of the San Francisco mail is expected ttfbe despatched from Nelson this day by the steamer Charles Edward.

Miss Holman and Mr Bromley are announced to give another and a different entertainment this evening, at the Volunteer Hall. For particulars, see advertisement. For pleasure, hear Miaa Holman,

A meeting of those who are interested in the formation of a Poultry and Eorticultural Society takes place to-night, at Kilgour's Hotel, at nine o'clock.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before W. H. Revell, Esq., R.M., the following civil cases were disposed of:— Judgments by default— Jones v. Gaul, L 2 18s 4d ; O'Dowd v. Thomas, L 6 9s ; Wilson v. Fraser, L 7 10s ; Guinness v. Crawford, Ll4 3s Gd ; Joyce v. O'Brien. This was a fraud summons for L 9 13s. For the defence, Mr Perkins argued that this Court could make no order, seeing that the defendant was going through the Bankruptcy Court, and as the certificate was suspended for six months, all the money he earned, except so much as was required to keep his family, would be claimed by .the Trustee in Bankruptcy. The Magistrate reserved judgment until Thursday morning. Trahey v. Wolters, an action to show cause why a judgment given in the defendant's favor on September 10, should not be reversed. The judgment was reversed by consent of both parties. Cohen v. Meane, a fraud summons for L 4 7s lOd ; the defendant was ordered to pay the amount of the debt at LI per month or one month's imprisonment.

In a recent article upon the conduct of contemporaries in degrading their columns and the character of the press generally, by admitting vile insinuations as to the motives for the actions of men occupying public positions, we referred to the Nelson "Examiner," and particularly to some Wellington correspondence which recently appeared in its pages. It is due to the " Examiner " to state that it recognises the offence of its correspondent, and apologises for its occurrence^ In itsjssuq_of Wednesday__last,_the_ to^ourreaders for the style of a letter headed ' from our special correspondent, Wellingtou,' which appeared in Saturday's paper. Strongly as wo object to Mr Vogel's ideas, to his extravagant expenditure and false pretensions on behalf of the colony, and utterly as we reprobate the line of action taken during the two late crises by Mr Shephard, we quite as strongly disapprove of the personal impertinence and violent language used of them in the letter in question. It was inserted in its existing form from inadvertency, arising out of a press of unusual business."

We learn that the prospects of the mines at Clearwater, near Ross, are far less promising than they were a short time since. Tom Long and party, who have been at great expense in opening out their claim, were " duffered out " last week, and registered their ground. Their ill-luck is much to be deplored, as they have been a very long time energetically engaged in sinking their shaft and getting the ground in workiug order. Tuckey and party have also failed in striking payable ground, and the party adjoining them are in no better position. It is expected that Wishart and party will start their wheel shortly, and hopes are entertained that their claim will prove a payable one. The J.C.A.W.R. Company's race having been completed to this place, a cheaper way of working their claims than hitherto employed will be at the command of the miners, and there is no doubt that the untried claims will be thoroughly tested before they are given up.

The Zavistowskis and Miss Grainger were playing in the Salt Lake City in June, and are reported to hare experienced much polite attention from the Prophet and his friends. Mr and Mrs J. L. Hall were playing at the Boston Theatre during the Jubilee week.

A co-respondent writing to an Hokitika paper from Gillespies says :— " A few of the people in this locality are employing men to prospect the back country. A. fund has been established and a party of three miners, who are out in the ranges prospecting, receive 30s per week from the fund. The chief promoters of this scheme, are Messrs Mace and Canavan, Friend, Karnback, and Collyer. Do you think it would be possible to obtain any assistance from your part of the world in fitting out of. a properly organised prospecting expedition? If new goldfields were opened up down here, it would largely be? nefit the the whole of the county. Our great want is tracks, and if a comparatively small sum was expended in their construction, Ihave not the slightost doubt but that extensive gold discoveries would shortly be made. As it is we merely have the melancholy satisfaction of looking at the ranges, and while fully aware of the golden treasures they coutaiu, have forced upon v? the painful conviction that the natural features of the country present such obstacles to the explorer, that for all practical purposes, the ranges and the gold might as well be at Borrioboola Gha as in their present position, The beaches alone are being worked, with the exception of a piece of ground held by two men up the Weheka (Cook's river.)"

Horace Greeley presents the following (which we recommend to. the attention of many of our readers) as a sure means of destroying the prosperity of the most promising town :— lf you want to keep a town from thriving, don't put up any more buildings than you can conveniently occupy yourself. If you should accidentally have an empty building, and anyone should want to rent it, ask three times the value of it. Demand a Shylock price for every spot of ground that God has given you stewardship over. Turn a cold shoulder to every mechanic and business man seeking a home. with you. Look at every new comer with a scowl. Run down the work of every new workman. Go abroad for wares rather than deal with those who seek to do business in your

midst. Fail to advertise or in any other way to support your paper, so that people^ abroad may not know whether any business is going on in that town or not. Wrap yourself up within yourselves with a coat of impervious selfishness. There is no more effectual way to retard the growth of a town than actions like those enumerated, and there aye people in every town who 1 are pursuing the same course every day of their lives, and to whom the above remarks are respectfully offered for their consideration.

Writing of tho Nelson Boundaries Bill, previous to its introduction to the House, the Wellington correspondent of the " Colonist" said:— "The Bill for extending the boundaries of the Nelson Province so as to include Greymouth and the country south of the Teremakau; has not yet come from the printer, and therefore I can say nothing to its provisions, except that I believe it proposes to give three members of Council to Greymouth ; to borrow money to make roads in the new distiict, and throughout the Province where these are necessary. Ido not think the Bill will pas 3 this session, as the press of business is too great. I believe it has the support of the Ministry ; but in the face of so much work to complete, so many Bills to forward through their various stages, and the short time when all this has to be done, 1 question if it will reach a second reading, or if so, it will only be read a second time with the view of being not further proceeded with."

The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin " Star" gives the following description of the incidents attending the division on the last no-confidence motion :— "Mr Henderson, one of the Opposition, in the afternoon, being very unwell, it was agreed should have a pair, and the necessary signature on his part was given. It being discovered that no pair was posted, and a demand made on the Government whip to at once post it, being met with an evasive reply that such would be done before the division would take place, proving not satisfactory to the whip on the Opposition side, he, it seems, immediately despatched another member of the House to bring up the invalid, and thus it was two members of the Opposition were supposed to be absent. The ruse, however, did not take, as both made their appearance in time to take pait in the vote. The Government whip evidently thought he was master of the position, when he informed his chief that 'it was all right ;" and the arrogance and self-assurance displayed by the occupants of the Government benches met its due reward."

The "Chicago Post" perpetrates the following : — "Hereafter every reporter in this office shall be personelly decapitated, and shall lose his situation, who shall be guilty of the use of any of the following barbarisms of language : — Postmortemed, for dissected ; suicided, infanticided, &c, accidentated ; indignated, for got niad 5 disremembered, disrecollect, disforgeti, &c. ; abluted, for washed himself, herself, or itself, as the case may be ; sporn, for spared ; spondulix, for ducats; catastrophed ; ssrumptious; recepted; planted or funeraled, for buried. And any editor, reporter, correspondent, scribe, or dead beat, shall as an additional penalty be put on half pay who shall write, '.' on last evening,' 'on this moraine;,' «on yesterday,' or *on ten o'clock in the forenoon.' "

The "Timaru Herald" is glad to note, from letters placed at its disposal by Messrs G. G. Kussell and Co, that wheat shipped by them from Timaru last season, not only commanded good prices in the London market, but was spoken of as being of exceptionally first quality grain.

A rather smart shock of earthquake was experienced iv Nelson at five minutes to ten o'clock p.m. on Monday week. It was accarriage was being driven along the streets.

At about 4 30 on Tuesday morning, a fire was discovered at the back of Mr H. Davis's store in Bridge street, Nelson. A small shed, used for coffee roasting, was luckily the only property destroyed.

Certain sentences in the Bishop of Nelson's address having been misconstrued, Mr Pell, for the purpose of eliciting an explanation of the passage, asked in the Synod, without notice :— " Whether his Lordship the Bishop is aware that lotteries, raffles, or other means for raising money for church purposes mentioned with disapproval in his Lordship's address, have been resorted to in New Zealand with the authority of the Church of England." In answer to the question of Mr Fell, the Bishop stated that it was in consequence of seeing an intimation of an intended raffle in conpectipn with the erection of a Church of England in the diocese that he made the remarks ; as to 'what other bodies did, it was not his business to inquire, and he could only wish that they regarded the matter in the Bane light as he felt it to be his duty to pat it in connection with his own church.

MrE.W. Gotch, of Auckland, has made considerable efforts to grow the tobacco plant in that Province, fit for manufacturing purposes, and of a quality which would cause a demand for it in our colonial market. He had formerly been a successful cultivator of the tobacco plaht in another colony. When communicating! his views to Mr Hays, farmer, of Papakura, that gentleman at once placed five acres of land at the disposal of Mr Gotch, who ( at once set about preparing the ground for the seed. The first experiment, owing to a most inclement season, was a failure. But in no way daunted, Mr Gotch said, "Better luck next time," and better luck came. The seed grew to healthy plants, and these being set out at proper distances, carefully looked to and tended, grew to a healthy maturity, when Mr Gotch next directed his attention to drying and preparing the leaves, which in due course were fit for manufacture. The result has answered Mr Gotch's most expectations. The " Southern Cross " has received a packet of cigars of the grower's own manufacture, and the verdict pronounced is that the tobacco is excellent. They are superior to any cigars made from tobacco of Victorian or New South Wales growth. '