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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1695, 9 January 1874, Page 2

We observe that the Register has the following additional telegraphic information concerning the recent judgment against the County: — "The Attorney General moves for arrest of judgment, as it is the opinion of Messrs South and Fell it cannot be maintained." By some omission, this important intelligence was not forwarded to this paper, although we are subscribers to the same agency as the Register. We learn that two of the pupils attending Mr Ahearn's night-school, R. Lundon and Holmes, who were recently examined for the New Zealand Civil Service, have both passed successfully. We believe that these are the first Greymouth lads, who have stood for examination. The General Government Gazette, of the 29fch December, contains a table of the rates of postage chargeable on all letters, &c, posted in New Zealand. The reductions of the charges upon American letters, furm arded by the San Francisco route, is considerable, being from 8d to 6d per for every letter to San Francisco itself, and even greater for most of the South American States. . The Gazette, of the 31st, contains no matter of interest to" Westland. We have reoeiyed the first volume of the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives for the year 1 1873, together with a number of Government papers, which we shall take an early opportunity of noticing. Amongst the passengers by tho s.s. Murray yesterday were Mr W. H. Revell, 11. M., wife, and family, who have been on a trip to Christchurch. Mr Revell's health has been much improved by his holidaj*, and he will shortly reiew his Magisterial duties. Four of the candidates for the representation of Greymouth.in the Provincial Council will address the electors in the Volunteer Hall, this evening, at 8 o'clock. During the present hot weather a great mauy nuisances are making themselves plainly felt by the residents in all j)art3 of the town. We trust the Inspector of Nuisances will show a little more activity. During the last four days the stench arising from the carcases of animals thrown in behind the protective works was most offensive, but there are also many other parts of the town in which equally disagreeable nuisances exist, . . ' 1' ■; Mr Barnett addressed the electors at the Road Board offi.ee, Paroa, on Tuesday evening, Mr Thomas Colton, Chairman, of the Road Board, was elected chairman. There was a very large attendance, and the room was crowded. Aftnr the oandidate had!ad» dressed the meeting and answered all the questions, which took two hours, Mr Arthur: Flarity proposed, and Mr M. Keeting seconded, that Mr Barnett was a fit and proper person to represent the district of Paroa in the Provincial Couucil, which was carried unanimously. Greymouth has not for some time be3n visited by any band of public entertainers. We learn, however, that the Lynch family of bellringers, instrumentalists, &c, are now on their way hither from Nelson. If we' may judge from the notices of their entertainment which, appeared in the Auckland papers, it is of a kind which will be highly appreciated here. , . : . As an evidence of expanding enterprise in Mokihimii quartz-reefing the Westport Times is glad to notice that the North Star Company have decided on at once commencing operations. . A call of 50s per share has been made, and the promoters intend at once commencing work, having for their object the opening up of the mine, preparatory to placing machinery thereon. Tools and provisions are already on the way up, arid a party of men will at once commence work, under the guidance of Mr <L H. Gibson, who, as a miner of twenty years experience, will soon show what can be done by vigorous and well directed enterprise. The telegrams hitherto received by us have left some degree of obscurity about the sentence upon Marshal Bazaine. By the following telegrams in the Australian papers to hand by the Claud Hamilton, that obscurity will be largely removed: — " Paris, Dec. 12. — Marshal M'Mahon has commuted the sentence of death passed upon Marshal Bazaine to 20 years' seclusion. The military degradation is, however to be carried out, but Pazaine will be spared the ceremony.— December 10. — Marshal Bazaine goes to the Isle of St. Marguerite, one of the Lerin Group in the Mediterranean; on the coast of France." ■■■■■■■■. It is notified in a Canterbury^Proyincial Gazette, . that Messrs, Kemuway, Beswick, Cowlishaw, and' Westenra have resigned their seats in the Executive Council and the offices held by them, and that their resignation has been accepted by his Honor the Superintendent! The appointment of Messrs

W.. Montgomery as President of tlie Execui' tive Council ; T. W. Maude, Provincial Secretary and Secretary for Public Works ; Edward Jollie, Provincial Treasurer ; and T. L. Joyut, Provincial Solicitor, is also notified. . .... . - A very frequent petty theft, almost daily perpetrated in hotels, has bepn checked at Charleston. On Wednesday last a man named Henry Braham was charged by'Chas. Weitzel with having, on ; the : 30th ultimo, stolen seven newspapers from the European Hotel. The prosecutor intimated to the Bench that he did not wish to press the charge, and as it was not of a very serious nature, their Worships directed the discharge of the prisoner; It is rumored that protection has beea applied for and granted for a punt across the Buller, at the end of the Nine Mile Road, and it is sincerely hoped that such may prove true. During the hearing of a case at the Thames Police Court, a woman stated that her husband had during their married life " given her 107 black eyes." The brutal fellow was bound over to keep the peace for assaulting her on the previous day. The man Darbeyson, who has received such unenviable notoriety for stabbing Mr Connor at Callagan's, was brought before the Resident Magistrate, at Stafford, on Wednesday, and after the hearing of a large amount of evidence, the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the Supreme Court.. Regarding the banquet and presentation given to Mr Yogel ac Dunedin, the Otago 'Guardian says :— "The time in which the work has to be done is limited. Were it not so, we are confident the testimonial, so far from being confined to Dunedin, would be taken up by the colony; but the time will come when New Zealand, as a whole, will mark its appreciation of the Premier's services, by a presentation worthy of it. Meanwhile, the less pretentious, but not less significant, mark of appreciation and regard by the citizens of Dunedin, will"act"aT a reminder to the other Provinces which have profited by the public works and immigration policy ; and yet more, it will assure Mr Yogel that his old friends in Dunedin have a kindly remembrance of him, and are gratified by his success." The Presbyterian Assembly of Westland met on Wednesday for the first time in the Presbyterian Church, Hokitika, and was commenced with prayer. Present— Rev. J. M'lutosb, J. Kirkland, and Hogg, Ministers —Messrs Orr and Geisow, Elders— Rev, Mr M'lntosh was appointed Moderator, and Mr Geisow clerk for the ensuing year :—Commissions were received from the Kirk sessioiis of Hokitika and Greymouth in favor of' Messrs Orr and Geisow respectively— Rev. Mr Kirkland read abstracts from the General Assembly of. New Zealand authorising the constitution of the Presbytery, and it was thereafter agreed to, that it be called the Presbytery of Wesjland. and that Hokitika be the seat of the Presbytery. Moved by the clerk and seconded by the Jctev. Mr Kirkland that commissions of Elders be handed in every year. It was further agreed to hold the ordinary meeting on the first Tuesday of January, April, July, and October, ;Mesßrs Orr arid Mueller were appointed Assessors to act with Mr Hogg in the formation- of a Kirk session : — Moved by Mr Kirkland, seconded by Mr Hoge;, and agreed to, that a Presbytery fund be instftuted for the purpose of meeting Presbytery expenses, and that the clerk be authorised to allocate to each congregation its proportion and collect the same. It was agreed that it be recorded in the records of Presbytery that while the Church is solely at the disposal of the Minister for all religious purposes, the consent of the Financial Committee as well as the Minister is necessary before any meeting not strictly of a religious or charitable nature can be held in it. It was moved by Mr Kirkland, seconded by Mr Orr, and agreed to, that the Presbytery instruct Mr Hogg to visit Eeefton, Ahaura, and Nelson Creek, to ascertain the condition of tlie Presbyterian Church there, and bo report it next meeting. The Presbytery appointed itself therefoie a committee on Church extension and Church property, to report to tlie next meeting. ; T.he Presbytery then adjourned to meet at Hokitika on the first Tuesday of April at noon. Many Victorians and old policemen will recollect Coastable Summerhayes, the ipiok of the Victorian policej whose exploits -were cnrbnicled- by every paper in tlie Colonies not many years since. The discoveries he made and the arrests he accomplished were some-; thing astonishing, and as lie was; as civil and obliging as lie was intelligent, he received promotion withuaexampled rapidity— indeed, an inspectorship loomed in the distance, when queer stories about the vigilant policeman began to circulate.: It turned . out that his house at the Metropolitan Cemetery wajs the abode of the worst characters in Melbourne, and the result of the inquiry then instituted was iiis transference to Gipps Land. ; There he has been guilty of sugh practices that a second bo^rd. of : inquiry finds it would be detrimental to the public interests to retain him in the service, from which he has: now been dismissed. The Telegraph remarks .upon his case that it; should be a caution to others against allowing themselves to tamper with their position even by small beginnings, for there was not one man ;n the Vigtorian police who had such a chance of rising to the top of the tree a few years since as the one who has now left it in.disgrace.