THE PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, FEBRUARYS, 1873.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1413, 10 February 1873, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1873.

Mr Thomson delivered his lecture for the Australian Mutual .Provident Society, at Cobden, on Friday evening last. The schoolroom was well-filled. The Rev J. A, Taylor occupied the chair, and introduced tjj.e lecturer, recommending every person present to follow his example and insure their lives in this Society as he had done. The lecture was listened to with great attention, and the diagram illustration interested the audience very much. After the usual vote of thanks were passed for Chairman and leccurer, many c nverts were made on the spot. Afr .James Duffy, one of the members of the Paroa Road Board, has resigned, and the election of hjs successor is announced. The nomination takss place at the Road Board Office, Par-oa, on Tuesday, the 18th instant, and the poll, if necessary, .on the 25th instant. The polling places will be declared on the day of nomination. It w£U be seen by advertisement that tenders are invited for six months for the conveyance oi goods frog?, town to Black's, tenders are to be sent to "the company's I office in town. W. Seed. Esquire, Commissioner of {Customs, is on a visit to the up-country districts. Mr Seed arrived at Ahaura on Saturday. A woman named Honaria Boyle died at Nelson Creek, on Tuesday, 4th instant, at the advanced age of one hundred and one y«ara (101). The deceased was a native of Arramuoze, County Donegal, Ireland. She has been nearly fcsyenty years in the colonies, and she has for the hsb two years resided with her daughter and two soup at Nelson Creek. The old lady retained her'facul£ies to within a few days of her death. The funeral, which took place in Greymouth on Friday, wag numerously attended. The grand .stand, booths, &c, on the Ahaura race-course were sold by auction on the course on Saturday. The prices realised did not come up to expectation, but the gross result of the sale will place a considerable fsum of money at the disposal of the stewards. Mr F. Guinness was the aucjsjpueerr . Reports have lately been current that the Energetic Company's stone is rapidly improving jn appearance. Saturday's Inangahua Herald says:— "The appearangs of the tables has improved very .considerably whilst the latter portion of the stone has beep crushed, ana from present indications the result, when it comes to light, will finally put a stop to the unfounded apprehensions that have been entertained with regard to the paying qualities of the stone in this claim." His Honor the Superintendent of Nelson is expected at Ahaura on Wednesday. Messrs M'Lean and Clapcott will hold their first sals of live stock at their sale yards, Ahaura, to-day. A large attendance of buyers is expected. Thirty-eight, tons of quartz frot# fche All Nations Company's claim, Carrick Ranges, Otago, crushed at Logan's battery last week, yielded 530z. 14dwt. The claim is situate on the summit of the range. Twelve tons of the stone crushed was known to be of very poor quality. The purchaser of the right to the grandstand on jthe AJiaura racecourse at the forthcoming race meeting is bound to erect a new balcony, and to provide accommodation for the stewards. ■ The work is to be performed to the satisfaction of the stewards, It will be very encouraging to those interested in th<i Painkiller reef, says the Herald of the Bth instant, to learn that a good reet bas been found in the prospecting claim about ten days since, containing gold in the casing and in the solid stone. The situation of the present workings where the reef has been disclosed is 40ft down the face of the «pur from their deep prospecting shaft. The reef is well defined, and walled in on both sides. During the past week the prospectors have started a tynnel to follow it in, and have put in one set of timber. The width of the reef is 3ft, dipping to th,e jye#tward about 20 inches in 6ft. The appear- i w&e of the stone is very similar to that of the Boatman's reefs. ... An application was made for a new trial in the Warden's Cou»b, Ahaura, on Friday, and the circumstances urged in support of the motion were singular and unusual. The original hearing took place last May, the djs- , p«te being about the boundaries of an agriculture.! ieaee at the Hauperi. The plaintiff purchased the land and house, and on taking possession he found that $he bouse was built outside the boundaries of the leasehold, and that he would be compelled to shift the premises at considerable expense. He alleged \ that he bad been wilfully misled, and he claimed L2OO as damages. The sole note or 1

deed was offered as evidence, but the Warden refused to admit it, as it was insufficiently stamped . The applicant now alleged that the deed would be material evidence in hi 3 favor, ani he offered to pay any penalty to which he might be liable for a breach of the Stamp Duties Act, provided he could put the deed in on the new trial. The applicant also requested that the case might be tried by assessors. The Warden refused to graut the motion, remarking that as the applicant had allowed the matter to slumber so^tfl^ it would be unfair to the other side to reopen it now. Mr Bar*on in addressing a jury in the Supreme Court, Dunedin, remarked that were it not for a wise provision against actions once decided bein^ again brought, law suits would be interminable, especially among Scotchmen. " Between whom ?" asked His Honor, whose attention was at once strongly drawn from his notes, which he was perusing, to counsel's speech. " Between Scotchmen, your Honor," said Mr Barton. " Irishmen settle their differences in another way." The Australian Wesleyan Conference has concluded its sittings at Sydney. About a hundred and ten ministers were present, including representatives from Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, and New Zealand. Hitherto this annual assembly has been held respectively in Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmania, and Melbourne ; but in future there will be four Conferences in the year, and a general Conference once in three years. The legislative powers will be vested in the Triennial Geiieral Conference, which will be composed of the officers of the connectional funds, and of representatives in the proportion of one to eight members of each Annual Conference. A telegram, dated Blenheim, says : — " The inquiry into the charge against Eyes, of having brought his offices into disrepute by leading in )572, at Pictcn and Blenheim, an immoral life, is going on. Six witnesses for the accusers were examined on Saturday. They included a man and two maid servants, and two persons with. Iwhom Charlotte Johnston lives. The inquiry is strictly private at present. Js'o new facts have been elicited. Two witnesses are yet to come for the accusers, and twenty-nine for the defence. It is quite impossible to say when it wilianish." In a civil case, Cohen v. Mills, heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court, at Picton, recently, the following queer little bit of evidence was given by the defendant ; — " I was a member of a ball committee- in Havelook. Ladies were invited to the ball ; one lady in particular was invited. It was agreed in committee that certain ladies should not be invited. Some were invited. I was at the ball, hxth -a particular lady was not present. An invitation had been sent to this particular lady, but a recall note was sout her ; that is, after she had been invited, her invitation was called back, which resulted, in the exclusion of the lady. Mr Cohen told me if the recall note was sent to this lady, he would be revenged ; and he also told me that if it had not been for the exclusion of the said lady' these jkrooeedpgs would not have been taken." The geological structure of Preservation Inlet and the surrounding district, as siiown in the sketch map of the Colony (says the special reporter of the Ofar/e TivieffJ is o^ the , lower Palaeozoic, and foliated and contorted I schists, with mica, chlorite, quartz, &c. This formation is supposed to extend from : the western side of Tewaemae in a direct line north, to the banks of the Mani--1 pori Lake j from thence along the base of ' the Alpine range running down the interior i of t&e V7es,fc Coast territory, across by its lower edge in a straight line to Preservation t and Chalky Tnlets.' A* narrow stripe of the J coast line between the north side of Cfialky ? 1 anAil t Vb n 0B f bi Siufilair stratification; ' The mining reporter of the Thames Advertiser publishes a long account of his visit • to the Upper' "Thames. He stayed there - several days, and saw reefs that had been • opened. The unanimous opinion of miners is that Brogan's reported rich reef is a fraud. b On the WJiangstmata jside he foun,d prob speetors working in some places j saw huge outcroppings of reefs, but the stone was of f very inferior quality, with a watery, white, » aud hungry appearance, In some gorges, ( where no work was done, he saw veing oj: I blue quartz five or six inches wide, with a 1 heavy sbuw of mundic. Some traces of gold 1 were found in the casing of one reef. Alto--5 aether the country is tine-looking ; but there 1 has been no rxsal prospecting yet, only a little scratching having 'been done. Nothing has > been found y«t to justify a rush." Abojjtt2oo ' men are in the new country, and steamers ! are" placed on the berth, which run daily, , Large numbers are awaiting the official \ .opening of the district, j The two BJgnhgim papers are again in- . dulging in a" true JSatanawill rapast. The rollowlng cullitigs from the- "leaders ci one , or two numbers of the Express ar.e good ' samples :— "The News contains in its cur- , rent number one of its choicest specimens [ from Billingsgate ; nay, for spleen, untruth- . fulness, and venom it will perhaps outrival t any previous effort." "We deny the truth , of every word in the sentence." "This is another lie." ."Npjb glj the ruobisb. attri- , buted to jlis by this braying (sit}) ass will , cause us to sway from the cause which we , believe to be right." "As for "cowardice,' the mean tool who wrote the word has not pointed to a single sentence to bear but the assertion." "As to patronage, we : have never cringed or sneaked about any one to ' get it." A new code of civil service regulations was issued a day or two ago, and has caused quite a consternation among the officers of the departments in consequenceof its rigidity. Mr Waterhouse, says the Wellington correspondent .of the Canterbury Press, has done his best since the close of the session to bring the Civil Service into a more efficient condition, by keeping a strict' subordination and concentrating the work so as to bring it under the inspection of the Cabinet. *His love red-tapeiam lias, however, led him to go rather too far, and the most ordinary matters, which used formerly to be decided by the permanent heads of departments, are now solemnly deliberated upon in Cabinet CoKncite. By this means, however, he has succeeded to a great extent in extinguishing the individuality of. Ministers, which perhaps is a very desirable consummation.