THE PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1365, 13 December 1872, Page 2

THE PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1872.

His Honor Judge Harvey and Mr Frew, District Engineer, arrived in town-yester-day afternoon. A sitting of the District Court will be held at the Resident Magistrate's Court House at ten o'clock this morning. Yesterday, during the heat of the election, Mr Fullarton, carter, who recently had his arm dislocated, fell off a dray on the same arm again putting it out. He was immediately attended to, and is now doing well. We have again to remind our readers that the amateur dramatic entertainment, which was spoiled on Monday evening last by rain and politics, will be repeated this evening at the Volunteer Hall. The amateurs who give their services on thin occasion on behalf of the Grey River Hospital ought certainly to be encouraged by having the opportunity of playing before a full house. Last evening a foot-race of 100 yards for L 5 a-Bide took place in Mackay street, between Messrs Strike and Hafley, which was won by tho latter. We hear that another match has to come off at 3 o'clock to-day, between the victor and P. Twohill, in which the former receives 12 yards start in 300 yards. It is contemplated to be run in the front street. Mr G. S. Sale arrived last night by the s.B. Waipara from Hokitika, and was welcomed on the wharf by a large number of old friends. The recent flood has done an immense deal of damaga to the Greenstone and Christ' church roads. The Arahura river has, above Hungerford's bridge, cut right through the road, making that structure completely useless for the time. Mr Howat's West Coast Hotel in this locality was nearly destroyed, by the flood bringing down large quantities of timber and forcing it to a dangerous closeness to the hotel. With regard to the accident which occurred at Half-Ounce on Wednesday, by which five miners were buried, we are informed that at 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening, Lindstrum was' extricated alive, and at 9 p.m., W. Wheeler's dead body was found jammed in the timbers. The whereabouts of Roland's body is not known, but it is thought that he cannot possibly be alive. Relays of men worked as hard as they conld to recover the bodies, until 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, when they had to knock off owing to bad air. Another j party are driving from an adjoining claim, and hope to be in soon. Since the above was in type, we have learned by telegraph that the body of Wheeler was extricated at 7 a.m. yesterday, and an inquest was held at 5 o'clock the same afternoon, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. Roland's body was found at 4 p.m. yesterday, much smashe I, but from the state of the claim it will take all to-day to recover tha body. The New Haven Palladium says:— "Mr H. Busbnell, of this city, has invented a machine which, it is said, Mr Thuraton, the celebrated patent lawyer of Providence, calls the most remarkable he has ever seen. It is the result of years of thought, and is made to utilise the power which there is in the ebb and flow of the tide. It is so made that, I whether the tide rushes in or out, a wheel will turn the invention, consisting of preserving a constant motion of tho wheel. This power will be used to pump air into cisterns, from which pipes will extend over a city, the compressed air being used as a motive power. Mr Bushnell intends .to Bet up the first tide* wheel in the Quinnipiac River, where, he says, the tide rushes in and ouS with a force equal to about seven thousand horse-power." -From the Cromwell Argus (Otago) we xr "^ ° ld reßident of Cromwell. Mr ♦V. J. Bany, has recently returned hither from New South Wales, after an extensive tour through the mining districts of that Colony. Mr Barry has brought with him a largo and interesting collection of mineral ores obtained in various parts of New South Wales, and^ineloding oxide of copper, copper ore, samples of Btreaui and block tin, speciinenß of tubies, cinnabar (sulphuret of rner-' cury), *c A sample of the last/mentioned ore was also procured by Mr Barry, since his return to Otago, from a locality between Waitahuua and Waipori, where a cinnabar

lode was found some years ago. It is Mr Barry's intention to exhibit the whole of those specimens publicly at an early date, and at the same time to give a descriptive lecture thereon, explaining the. varied appearances presented by the ores when found in different places, their relative marketable value, the most approved methods of working them, and the geological formation of the localities where found. Indications of copper and tin have been met with in various parts of this Province, < and very possibly the knowledge to be gained from an examination o£ Mr Barry's specimens may lead to valuable discoveries both minerals. Hitherto the researches of prospectors have been mostly restricted to gold-finding, whilst other minerals have been neglected. Mr Barry's promised lecture should serve to awaken interest and stimulate exertion in prospecting for minerals other than gold ; and we have no doubt that systematic efforts in this direction would sooner or later prove successful, and would result in bringing to light oue or more new and valuable sources of mineral wealth, and a consequent increase of our material wealth. Mr Barry purposes visiting the other gold fields towns in rotation, with the view of disseminating as widely as possible the information he has acquired during his sojourn in New South Wales. He has also already presented a number of mineralogical specimens to the Tuapeka Athenaeum, and has promised to hand over a Btnall selection to each similar institution in the other gold fields towns he intends visiting.