THE . Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1873.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1464, 14 April 1873, Page 2

THE . Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1873.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court, on* Saturday, .Margaret Gain riwas fined 203 or 48 houra' imprisonment, for having been drunk. , Jeremiah Sullivan,- on remand, supposed to.be.o£ unsound mind, was further remanded: for eight days for medical treatment;. Alexander Forbes was charged with "having committed an indecent exposure in the presence of children on; the beach-, on the 1 lth inst. He was; sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. A tea meeting will be held* at the Wes* leyan Church this evening, in aid of the Wesleyan Sunday School. Tea will be on the table at 6,30 p.m. TheHftkitika Autumn Race Meeting commences " to-day. A large number of our •townspeople. 1 Save left daring the past few days in order -to be present aj; the sport. : A remarkalile instance of good fortune in connection with the recent fii c as Reef ton is illustrated in the person of Mr A . P. Prichard, Tvho but the day previous, had given up possession :of the premises belonging /to Mr Dodsworth, and had removed his stock fii drapery. . , An application has been put. in bj two ■wealthy firms to construct a line of railway from Westport tp the Ngakawhau. A nominal guarantee ' has be'en given that the ■work : will' be commenced forthwith, and they now only ; await the grant for way, offices, and. an area for special settlement. One thousand and ten new applications' ihave been sent in to. be jplaced on the electoral roll of the Nelson Province. The-Z«o»i{/a/tM« Herald says that authority lias been received from the Superintendent to convene a >meeting:of the Wardens of the "Nelson South- West Gold FieWa, to meet at Eeef ton on ; the[2Bth t instant,: far the purpose of considering the quartz mining regulation? proposed by. the mining conference. Mr O'Gotfori M.U.R , purposes visiting Heefton in the course of ; the next fortnight for the purpose of ' meeting his constituents in that district. • :; Mr Williams' arid mate while engaged in forming the road, from the Ferry at ArthurstowD, on Thursday last, unearthed a Maori relic, being a mere or tomahawk. The ■weapon wa3- "found under the roots of an old tree, which had completely grown over it. It was fashioned of .highly polished greenstone and: possessed a sharp 'edge. t /; ,'An? Alexandra ; cprfespqndeuti •writea . on March '3l :~"'Tawhiao has sent, out invitations to all tbe'sotrth'ern and northern tribes to a large, meeting to : be held at theKuiti on the 2Sth -Aprilf are .airpady busy pre-; paringfor it,' as jii*is..said',to be ihe largest meeting yet. held ... ,): , ; . On the 3rd March)! an election riot occurred at : Quebec .' One thousand soldiers were; statibned.at>the .polling places. ,; The roughs demolished: three booths and Were- thereupon charged by the soldiers; who; dispersed them; The city was under' martial law throughout the day. . ..: . „ r. . - „. „: : . There are 400. , lepers' ; at ..Honolulu. ■•; ! Dr TiMusseau, late ; of; the Thames, : ha»' been, appointed to the .-i Board; of Health, ' and: lately made a visit to the leper settlement at f MLolokai. ; ;The lepera.appear contented; ■■■ , ! The Westport School Committee met on TuesdAy-last-to-decide-upon-the-applieatibns for the teache/Bhips;js!h?, scjiodj, shortly to he vacant by the resignatipn of Mr and Mrs 'Pras^nj ; The, testimonials and certificates of sixteen applicants were considered, and the selection was, narrowed <d own tp t^ro applicants, .Mr-JRobert' Kay, of the ,Cobden School, rind Mt '-Lafchlhi of Waimea^West. The merits of the two candidates were so evenly balanced that the Committee had some trouble in cpming.to a decision. "Ultimately the choice fell on Mr Larchip,,j;he Committee being influenced in their decision by tMe faoj,

that, -although the services of ' bothflH-rs : Ijpy fMrs Larchin had been oftered as assiatajit s ilelteacher, it was.conlrdered thajftfe | mpied lady would b^mfibled to^|^M« ihe greater amount of time to scholastic . duties. Mr Hodgson, Inspector of Schools, was present at the meeting, and congratuof such efficient teacheis eiu*ogiiing"both Mr f Say and Mr Larchin, as two oufcof -the thtflb best teachers in the service of the" Education „ fifflfdj, „ -, ..-._.• „.;. iiLii.jiwn k A sad accident happened to Mr William Drysdale, the well'-kno'wn^ packer between Westpbrt and the Terraces, on Friday evening last,} In crossing towards Westport from the Ca"^d6nigjtt.T*®^i<*ej« about six o'clock in the "evening,' while coming down Stony Creek, which, ; as. 'travellers /tOithf terraces are aware, is as rough and dangerous . a track as any horseman ' caVes'to face, the mare he was riding stumbled and threw him with such .force that he sustained, a compound fracture 'of the right leg. Mr Drysdale was alone at the time, and there was little cbance in the dusk pf the evening of any travellers approaching. His only resource therefore was to climb on the mare'Sj back again and endeavor, maimed as, he .was, to reach some habitatwn.. By dint of hard and painful struggle, ' he got on' the, sactjlie again, but could . not . retain his position, fainting and falling heavily. ' In his fall his leg caught in 1 one of the iron hooks of the pa<?k sa4d.l e ,r an d was, severely lacerated. . .Recovering his strength' a little he crawled ; I from the creek to the top of Poverty Terrace, nearly a quarter of a mile distant, and there . cooeyjed for help ; but no, one heard him. "Lying on this' ground helpless ani uritended, with : his injured, limb bleeding freely, the suffering man tbfehis shirt from his back and bound up his wounds, and there lay the livelong night awaiting sue- ■ cour. In.the morning a young man named.' Kieslihg 'was' the first passer-by ; and he, unable to render any assistance of himself > hastened with all despatch to Westport and ' obtained the assistance of Messrs George Clark, Simpson, Labattc, and others, who went out :with all speed- and brought ..the sufferer to the Hospital, where, under the care of the Hospital Surgeon, he is now progressing as favorably as the nature of his injuries will admit. The contract for making the. necessary re" : pairs and alterations in the' Government buildings lately burned down at Auckland, has been taken by Messrs Philcox and Bartley, for the sum of Lio,B2o'; but with extras (states the Cross) the work is estimated to cost a"bout L 12,000. : The Nelson Colonist, of the Bfch inst., says that the deputation from the Inland Communication Committee, which left Nelaon^oq, Wednesday last, met the Minister of Public Works in Wellington on Friday last, ahd ; after some preliminaries of little import with that gentleman, an interview with Mr Yogel was arranged for the following day, when the ■ matter was thoroughly gone into between 5 the Minister and the members of the deputation, who. appeared well pleased with the earnestness and encouragement with which they were met in the important business they had nvhand, and of the manifest desire ! of Mr Yogel that the Gpv.ernment should furthers their views as much as lay in its power, so that not only this line might be formed, but a connection made with Cliristchurch and thence southward, so that from Nelson to the Bluff would be formed one great through line. An introduction to the •! large contractor who built the Port Chalmers line was arranged for, and a final answer was promised to be furnished by. to-day or to-morrow. We he«ar that it; isf proposed to hand over the Provincial lines to their respective Provincial Governments. A remarkable,! though not very novel, ; coincidence -has .been brought under the notice of the Ballqrat Courier^ for the accui" racy of which! it can vouch ':—♦"• A few months ago a gentleman, travelling in the Portland district, drove his buggy ( by; accident into a deep and broad waterhole. - The result was that he and the horse, together with a Tad riding ( . with him ? , .iyete , drowned. . Three months afterwards a 1 letter was received by the widow from the gentleman's mother, in England, describing the whole scene with complete accuracy, in every,detail.: i'The-poor old lady said she had seen the whole occurence in a dream, and therefore sent the widow her condolence, feeling assured the dream would prove correct; Upon comparing dates, the widow found that the fatal accident must have occurred just at the time when the mother saw the vision in her sleep." n:i ;• „ ; Bird, the pedestrian, has got into fresh troubles. He was the defendant in an action for debt, at Mount- Gambier^ on the dOth ult. An unpleasant fact was brought put? in the evidence ; the 66ft tape ' which he borrowed for the purpose of measuring the distances to be run in Adelaide was returned short. . One yard had been cut out between the ]sth and 18th feet, and sewed in again ; and the alteration made a difference of 2in. The plaintiff, Humphries, said :— " Bird, when asked about it, said he cut it, and gave as his reason for doing so, that he measured the ground. in distances of 20 yards at a time, and by 'cutting out one yard where he did, and splicing the remainder, he could gain one" . yard in every 20 in the running. Bird said (and witness could prove it, were he in Adelaide) that his wife spliced the cut tape when she. was in bed. '; The ) Border Watch points out' that the effect in the measuring would be to shorten the great 11 mUe race by three-fifths of a mile, and make the puWic. believe that Bird had; run; 11 miles, when he hkd not cbmpleted 'inpre than Ift miles and two-fifths of a mile. 'Bird's only explanation was as follows :— " The tape, was broken in measuring a course— i€ wasnot cut. The course when it broke was being measured by defendant and his' trainer, ' a man named Miller."