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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1391, 15 January 1873, Page 2

The following was the average attendance at the Trinity Church Sunday School, for : ttw year 1872;— Girls' Division; March, ;

726 ; June, 623 ; September, 626 ; December, 693 ; total, 2680. Boys' Division : March, 740; June, 686; September, 733; December, 586 ; . total, 2736. Average weekly attendance, 104. Attending the school on January 1, 1873 : 150 boys and girls. There are several important auction sales to-day— two of special importance by. Messrs Nancarrow and Co. One of the properties includes the : Murray Creek Gold-mining Company's lease, with water-rights, plant, and machinery. The other is a quantity of plantandmachineryat Moonlight Creek, originally the property of the Moonlight Quartzmining Company. Messrs D. Maclean and Co. also bell, for Messrs O'Driscoll and Co., a number of horses, and a quantity of roadmaking plant— the sale "having been postponed till to- lay. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday, a number of civil cases were disposed of, none of them of any interest but to the parties concerned. The following was the list :— J. Joyce v. J. O'Brien, Ll2 4s ; dismissed with costs. R. Reay v. H. M'Kinnon, judgment by default for L 6 10s. J. Hughes v. Mrs Ross, Li 3s ; dismissed. J. Hughes v. Travis, L 5 13s 6d ; nonsuited. J. Hughes v. J. Hughes, L 7 9s 4d ; judgment for plaintiff. Hamilton and Co v. Hauty, L 9; judgment by default. J. Hughes v. Soiimers and Steel, LIU 13s ; nonsuited. Holmes v. Giesking, LI 10s; dismissed. Orr and Co. v. P Hardy, Ll2 ; judgment by default. Two fraud summons cases were heard, in which orders were made for payment und<sr penalties. Two additional entries were yesterday received for the Greymouth Jocicey Club Handicap, namely, Mr Walters's Yatterina and Mr M'liee's Dick Turpin. .The lattei horse was also entered: for the Westland Hurdle Handicap. We understand that, among the passen gers by the Charles Kdward, there arrived, from Auckland, a new manager for the Aja> company, Mr Hall, and several men whc have come to take the place of those or strike. The laundry belonging to Gilmer Bn»., situated in Tainui street, had a narrov escape from being burned down on Moudaj evening. Some of the wood work connected with the chimney had become ignited, anc about half-past ten o'clock the flames wer< seen by a gentleman residing in the vicinity He immediately hurried to the spot, and, climbing over the fence, succeeded in extin guishing the fire with a few bucketsful oi water. There was a large quantity of clothe; in the laundry at the time, and, but for the prompt action taken, would have proved i serious loss to the proprietors. The state of the weather last night was ai effective bar to the attendance at the theatri of even the most enthusiastic admirers of tb< drama or of fair amateur debutantes, and, perhaps to the satisfaction of all but the manager, the performance was not proceeded with, Peals of thunder and heavy hai showers, heard through the medium of a cor rugated iron roof, are not favorable circum stances under which to listen to prettyspeechei from pretty lips, such as could be heard anc seen in the intended representation of " Lon don Assurance," nor is a prevalence of slop piness above, beneath, and contiguous to oni in the shape of clothing, highly encouraging to pedestrianism in the open air, even witl the object of visiting a theatre. The omis sion of a performance for one evening wil probably contribute to oue purpose —that o encouraging a larger attendance this evening on the occasion of the performance of "Maski and Faces," aud " Aladdin the Wonderfu Scamp," for the benefit of Miss Folland anc Mr Herman. The steamer Charles Edward broughi 17520z of gold from Westport to the Bank o: New South Wales, Greymouth, no doubt foi transhipment to Melbourne. It is s Sated in the Nelson papers that sped mens of What appßtua iA> W tHjp prml frmr tueroiarKe mver, a tributary oftlie Baiuu, have been left at the Superintendent's office It appears that the Dacotah only broughi part of the English mail, chiefly newspapers This occurred, it is said, through a breakdowi of the Atlantic steamer. The Nelson race meeting is to be held ii March, immediately after the Colonial prize firing. A quantity of salmon ova is expected a Nelson by the next San Francisco Bteamer as well as a number of birds. Robert Lee, master of the Bishop's school Nelson, las been lined L 2 aud costs,} fot cruelly striking a boy named Prank »Stanton, not one of his own scholars, and whom he casually met iv the street, with the handle ol a hunting whip. Mr Hyland, of Nelson, has been seriouslj injured by a vehicle, which he was driving being precipitated into a roadside gully. The Roman Catholic residtnrs of Charleston, it is said, purpose entertaining Bishop Moran at a banquet. Colonel G^rtQn, Inspector of Government stores, was a passenger to Greymouth by the Charles Edward. William Murray, coal-trimmer on the s.s. Tararua, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Nelson, for assaulting Thos. Vaughan, on the vessel's voyage from Melbourne to Hokitika. In tlie course of addressing the jury on the case, the judge, in summing up, referred to the "miserable holes" iv which men live on board ships, and the poor accommodation which frequently is seen in the forecastle of some of the steamships. We learo from the Nelson Colonist that the local committee of inland communication met on Wednesday, and its members had submitted to them drafc report* of the various sub-committees. One of the proposals is for the of a company, mainly on a land basis, for the construction of a light line to connect the Nelson and Foxhill and the Brunner mine. These drafts will be fully considered at a future meeting. , From the accounts given of the late accident to the Bishop of Nelson, it appears that as the Bishop was returning to Bishopdale iv a two- wheeled trap, the horse, came suddenly to his knees when just beyond Bolton's nursery, and the occupants were thrown forcibly out. His Lordship was not greatly hurt, but Mrs Suter, unfortunately, sustained a severe dislocation of the left elbow joint, and was at once taken to a neighboring house, and Drs CotterelL Williams, and Boor were quickly in attendance, and the dislocation being reduced, MLrs Suter was directly afterwards conveyed 1 to Bishopdale, and, according to latest faccoun^, she is progressing aa favorably as can be expected. Ebenezer Fox, Esq., has been appointed Confidential Clerk to the Treasury, the appointment dating from the 11th October 1872. Under the heading " Popular Belief," the JNeison Colonist says :— ln the case o! hre-raisiug before the Court' on Wednesday, on referring to the numerous counts in the indictment, one of which set forth that the breakwater burned was the property of his Honor the Superintendent, Mr Pitt, for the defence, said that this had not been proved, in fact, said he, " There is no evidence that there is a Superintendent."— Philistine, in Court (sotto vocej : " Hear, hear." : The Hurunui bridge, on the borders of Nelson and Canterbury, and which has been washed away frequently, is again completed and open for traffic. It is 260 ft longer than before, and measures altogether UOOft iv length.

Misß Flora Anstead and Mr J. P. Hydes ba?e joined the dramatic company in Christ- . church. ! Strawberries have been hawked in Auckland at threepence per quart, the hawkers j purchasing at twopence per quart. A commission has been appointed by Government to inquire into the charges made against the private life of Mr Eyes by a number of the residents of Marlborough. Mr C. Wilmot, formerly of Dunedin, hus been playing,, at the Charing Cross Theatre/ London. At the Ferry Christmas sports, in the. Waira-u, a man engaged to run a quarter of a mile, ride, pull a boat, walk, and hop, each the same distance, and swim a hundred yards. The match was lost by 15 seconds, owing to a slight delay with the boat. Mr J. A. Smythe, Messrs Brogden's representative in Otago, pays his navvies ninepence an hour instead of sixpence as originally agreed upon. The depression which for some time past | prevailed at the Thames has had the effect of reducing the number of telegraphic messages received at Auckland to the extent of from 350 to 400 a week. The operative bakers in Melbourne have resolved that ten hours shall constitute a day's labor ; that the time for commencing work be left an open question, and that no member sleep or board at the shop he works at. Blondin, of Niagai'a reputation, is about to take a voyage to the Antipodes, and his "private effects," enclosed in some forty packages, have been permitted by the Cus- | toms authorities to be transhipped from the Guernsey steamer to a vessel about to sail for Adelaide. Mr Millikin is about to retire from the Bank of .Australasia, after a service of 34 years as secretary. Ec will be succeeded by Mr Waterston, the account, as chief officer > of the bank in London; Mr Badcock, I late manager of the Melbourne Branch of ' the Bank of New South WaleSj taking the office of secretary. These arrangements take effect on the Ist of January, 1872.