THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1873.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1609, 1 October 1873, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1873.

The sub -committee of the Greymouth Literary Society, which was appointed to coufer with the Committee of the old Society i; as to the. terms upon which the books, magazines, and newspapers would be taken • over, appear to have lost no time in fulfilling I the trust reposed' -in them. We understand ' that they have made the necessary arrangei menfca to takeo ver all the books, &c , for ! LIOQ, money to be paid and possession taken ; to-day. The new Society will then make a i fair st rt^ with the beginnings of a very good i library at its command. Until further arrangements are made, the sub-committee i have determined to continue the use of the ! rooms occupied by the old Society, in the ! Family Hotel, Mackay street, The appointment of permanent Trustees will be made' at ' : the meeting of the general Committee, to be held to-night. ! At the Resident Magistrate's Court,' this imoriiin'g, Mary Morton, on retnapd, who had .been charged' at her own request with vagrancy, was again brought up. She stated that she was unable to support her two children, and that she was not married. The 'BBnch. : sai(L.that.this was an attempt to ; compel the Government to support the defendant and her children, but the defendant would be sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. On the civil side of the Court the following cases were disposed of :— Paroa Road Board v.. O'Conor ; judgment for L 6 and costs.— Same v. Kilgour and Perotti; judgment for LlO and costs, with leave to appeal.— Pullarton v. Cooper ; judgment' for LI 183 and costs.— M. Levy v. , Andrews j judgment by default for L21 17s 3d with costs.— Maclean y. Broadbent ; a fraud; summons for L 3 9s 6d; which amount the defendant was ordered to pay in a fortnight .--James Tongy. George Tim You ; a iclaim of L 8 12s 6d, money lent. After evidence had been taken through an interpreter, judgment was given for plaintiff, L 5 10s and costs. ' Owing to the continuously flooded state, of the Blackball Creek for the last week it was impracticable to make a post vwteni examination or to hold a coroner's inquest on the remains of the man Anderson, whose dead body was found about seven miles up the creek on Thursday last. Mr Whitefoord, the Coroner, with Dr Phillips and Constable Meredith, proceeded to the Blackball on Saturday, but it was found that the police had been misinformed, and that the body was not at Kinsella's at the foot of the creek, as was expected. It waa impossible to travel up the •■' creek then, and instructions were given than the remains should be brought down, this course being necessary ,_ as owing to the sparse and scattered population of the locality where the body was found a jury cpuldjnot be got together.! Mr Kinsella had j a coffin made, ana, on the remains being placed in it, an .attempt w^as made to bring them down to the foot of the creek, but 'beyond a certain distance the attempt proved a failure, in consequence of the swollen Conxion of the stream. Mr Kinsella very nearly lost his own life, through being swept ,off bis horse at one place. As the body wa a

by this time in an advanced stage of decomposition, it was decided to bury it. Mr G. L. Greenwood, J.P.^ and Constable Meredith visited the Blackball on Monday, and on learning the above facts and making further inquiries as to the state of the health of the deceased before he died, it was decided that a post mortem examination would uot be necessary. Wm. Anderson was a well-known resident of the Grey Valley and the Arnold, where he was formerly a partner of Mr David Duncan. He left the Blackball about twelve months ago for Victoria ; he returned within the last six months, and re-occupied some ground he worked before he went away. It was by chance the remains were found as soon as they were, although it was supposed the man was dead three or four days before the body was discovered He lived alone some miles from any other habitation, and on a man in the employ of Mr Kinsella going to his hut on Thursday, he found he was not there. A search was made, and the remains were found about three miles from the hut. Anderson has for a length of time been suffering from heart disease, and has been under medical treatment for the complaint. He was about 37 years of age, and native of Scotland. An establishment for salting down beef for export, is now in full working order at Poverty Bay. Robert Mood, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for stealing from the scene of the late fire at Auckland, proves on inquiry to be wholly innocent. A communication has been sent to Wellington to secure his release from gaol. During the discussion on the military estimates, Lord Elcho asked whether the department could not advantageously introduce Australian tinned meats. Sir Henry , Storks replied that the soldiers refused to eat them. On the 20fch of June six samples of "Victorian wines, half red and half white, were tested in London by experts in European wines, in the presence of a small company. The trials issued most satisfactorily, as compared with French and German wines of a, similar class. Money must be plentiful at Wanganui, as a resident there advertises his willingness to lend it at two per cent, interest. It is believed that Parliament will be prorogued oii Thursday. The Supplementary Estimates passed by the House of Representatives on Monday include a vote of LISOO towards the maintenance of the Westland portion of the Hokitika and Christchurch road. Detective Browne is becoming a prominent person, instead of being incog. , as detectives usually are. The Westland Register, a few days ago, hoped that a robbery iv Hokitika would not be inquired into until he had returned from Greymouth, and the West Coast Times of yesterday says: — "An influentially signed petition is to be presented to-day to the County Chairman, praying for the recall of Detective Browne to Hokitika, in consequence of the, rush to the Haast, and Sergeant Blanc being withdrawn from the . district." A Napier resident has suggested to the if amfce's Bay Herald the desirability of the: wild pigs whicii are ao largely hilled in the Colony for a few peace per tail being utilised commercially. The bristles, he says, might be disposed of for several shillings per pound, and the skins, if property salted, would, when tanned, be each worth in England from LI upwards, according to quality. New Zealand is well supplied with religious journals, and Dunedin can boast of a fair share of the number devoted to the interests of particular sects. Another has just been added to the list, founded on a somewhat broader basis than »*•> — «-ij & i "" o _ v ' v '^ temporaries- ..-i*-- «•«*■ the Otago Cknetiun 7i ? y.ord, and is to be "devoted to the interests of the various Protestant Evangelical churches throughoujb the Province, and will be conducted on strictly non-sec-tarian principles." The death of one of the oldest settlers in Canterbury is thus recorded in the Lyttelton Times of the 13 ih inst. : — " Yesterday, a man named Frank Woodham, who is perhaps one of the oldest settlers in Canterbury, died at Woodend; He completed his 91st year in April last, and has been a resident in Canterbury for about 40 years, having been for a long time engaged in whaling. In his younger days he served in the ttoyal Navy, and was at the battle of Copenhagen in March, 1802." A fatal case of burning occurred on Monday night near the Teremakau. It appears that a son of Mrs Noonan, late Mrs Trahey, aged f f>ur years, was sitting near the fire when his clothes ignited, and he was burned very severely on the side. He lingered in great pain until yesterday morniug, when he expired. An inquest will be held to-day. The contractors on the Lawrence and Tokomairiro line, in Otago, are proceeding as rapidly as the scarcity of labor and the bad weather will permit. Wages, the Tuapeka Times says, rule as follows :— Quarry men, 10s to 11s per day ; pick and shovel men, 9s per day, and very few are obtainable at that figure. The scarcity of labor promises to be a great drawback to the prosecution of public i works, ftp., during the incoming summer. ! Shearers signify their intention of not working in a woolshed for less than LI per hundred. At a recent meeting of stockowners in the Province, it was resolved that : the price should be only 15s, so that it is evident concessions must be made on one or both sides before any work can be done. : Mr A. Leith Adams, the author of a new work entitled " Field and Forest Rambles," concludes, from his experience of climatic influences, that there is more than a probability that Englishmen will not continue to look like Englishmen, nor even Scotchmen like Scotchmen, anywhere out of their own country, excepting perhaps New Zealand. The Taranaki Herald announces that it has attained its majority, the first number having made its appearance in the year 1852. It now stands fifth on the list of the oldest journals in New Zealand — the Nelson Examiner, the Southern Gross, the Wellington Independent, and the Lyttelton Times being the only papers now in existence which were being published when the laranahi Herald was first printed. Congregations in Viciorja are warned to look out for any unusual display of eloquence from stray occupants at their pulpits, and to distrust the same. There has been a robbery of the Melbourne Public Library, and, oddly enough, it is not "Bentley's Miscellany" with "JackSheppard" that has vanished, but the works of certain leading .divines — six volumes of sermons. The trustees intimate, jn their report on this unpleasant occurrence, that they hare kept a strict watch since on certain visitors, and with the best resnlfcs, but one fears that the announcement will not add to the pleasure of frequenters of the theological section.

Overpaid, 150dol on a cheque by a bank, The Georgia negro who received it at once returned the money. The local paper saya this is another evidence that the race can never be civilised. Hot on "Hubby."— A wife asked, her husband for a new dress. He replied. "Times are hard, my dear— so hard I can hardly keep my nose above water." Whereupon she retorted, " You can keep your nose above water easy enough, if you've a mind to ; but the trouble is that you keep it too much abovejbrandy."