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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1868, 31 July 1874, Page 2

We have received reliable information that Mr Warden wtutefoord will be offered the Wardenship of the Golden Bay district of Nelson, now in charge of P. Guinness, Esq. Mr Warden Broad will, it is understood, take charge of the Grey Valley, residing at Ahaura, and paying periodical visits to the Inangahua and the Lyell. The only business before the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, was the final examination before Mr Eevell of a man who had been twice remanded on a charge of lunacy. Drs Morice and Smith gave evidence that the accused was sufficiently recovered to be set at liberty, and after a warning from the Bench as to the consequences if he again repeated the course of dissipation which brought on his illness, he was discharged and left the Court witn his friends. Our correspondent at the Lyell advised us yesterday by telegram that very rich stone had been struck in the Break-o'-Dav claim, in No. 4 level, from Sin to 12in thickness. There was some stir in consequence. The "General Government Gazette" of 28 th July contains the official notification that Mr -'ercy Wakefield has been appointed Deputy Registrar of Marriages, and of Bit tbs, Deaths, and Marriages for the district o Ahaura. Owing to Mr James Ryan, who has been Postmaster at Cobden for the last five years, removing to Greymouth, the office has been conferred upon Mr Dickie. We are authoritatively informed that Mr Graham L. Greenwood, Clerk to Courts at Ahaura, has been appointed Clerk to the Magistrate's Court at Wanganui, Wellington. Mr Greenwood has for years most efficiently filled the offices of Clerk to the District Court, Provisional Trustee in Bankruptcy, and Receiver of Revenue for the Grey Valley, besides performing the duties of Clerk to the Magistrate's and Warden's Court at Ahaura, but owing to the reductions now being made in the Civil Service of Nelson, in order to carry out the retrenchment programme of the present Government, the duties hitherto performed by Mr Greenwood are attached to other offices. The new appointment is one directly under the General Government, and the. salary coming to it is larger than that now received by Mr Greenwood. Mr (rreenwood will consequently gain in a monetary sense by the change, but the public service of Nelson loses one who is in many respects among the most competent officers on the staff. The following new regulation has been made by the Governor in Council respecting cypher telegrams ;— " Every person receiving or intending to become a receiver of foreign telegrams may, upon payment of a fee of I one guinea, register his address or signature in cypher at any telegraph station within the Colony, A register of cyphers will be kept by the officer in charge, in which he will enter the ' cypher . fixed upon, and opposite to it the proper name and address in full of the person so registering, which name and address shall be furnished to the officer by such person. By ' foreign telegrams ' are meant telegrams sent from some place without the limits of the Colony of New Zealand to an address within the Colony." The usual monthly meeting of the Grey ; District Building Society will be held this evening, for receiving, subscriptions, at the Union Hotel, from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m. | The " West; Coast Times" says that 1300oz of gold reached Hokitika on Monday last from Ross, forwarded by the Bank of New Zealand, being the purchases of five weeks. Considering the limited number of miners at present in the Totara district this remittance must be taken as highly satisfactory to the few remaining in that neighborhood. The following items are contained in the /'.General Government Gazette" of 23rd July, 1874 :— The lock-up at Arrow Town,

Otago, is proclaimed a public prison ; several new districts in the Provinces of Wellington and Canterbury are declared under the Registration Act, 185S, and the Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858 ; a Money Order and Savings Bank Office is opened at Washdyke, in Canterbury ; Messrs Colman and Richardsou, of Wanganui, are to make the Wanganui Whart-in connection with thn Wanganui and Manawatu Railway for LI 788 16s ; Richter and Co, of Palmerston, are to supply 22,000 sleepers for the same railway at 3s lid each; and W. H. Brightwell and Co. are to supply 5000 at 4s each ; C. M'Kirdy and Co, of Wellington, are the successful tenderers for making the Napier and Waipurau Railway, at L.19,532 ; for making the Winton and Kingston Railway, se-tion No. 11, Mr M. H. L. Bennett, of Invercargill, is the successful tenderer at L 27.535 16s Bd. We are informed that five or six of the most recent of the immigrants to Auckland are of a moat valuable character, they having come provided with sums varying from LSOO to LBOO. These are the class we want in the colony (says the " Herald.") We (" New Zealand Herald ") have news from the North to the effect that a typhoid epidemic is raging amongst the Rarawa tribe at Ahioara, from the effects of which 32 had died in a very short space of time before our informant left the district, several also being ill, and not likely to Vecover. They have no cure for the disease amongst themselves, and having no medical advice are likely to suffer severely. a lick Kiinble is the name of a shepherd, who is missing from the Clarence district, Marlborough. Search has been made for him for a couple of weeks without any tidings of him. We ( " Otago Daily Times ") hear that the Bank of New Zealand have gi^en a bonus of ten per cent to their employes on their salaries. It is scarcely necessary to add that from the late hours the olerks have been working this douceur is well earned. A. very beautiful tea and coffee service and handsome salver was transmitted the other day to Mr C B. Winter, manager of the Bank of Australasia, Napier. It was subscribed for by the members of the Dunedin Athenaeum, as some slight acknowledgment of his long official connection with the Institute. The following Acts, passed by the Provincial Council of Nelson during the last session, and assented to by the Superintendent, have received the Governor's assent : — "The Executive Council Act, 1874 ;" " The Municipal Corporations Acts Act, 1874;" "An Act to repeal an Ordinance to prevent the increase of the American Blight ;" " The Gas and Water Works Transfer Act, 1874;" " The Cruelty to Animals Act, 1874;" " The Gold-fields Local Revenues Amendment Act, 1874, No. 2;" "The Buller Reserves Administration Amendment Act, 1874;" "The Cattle Branding Act, 1874;" "The Dog Nuisance Act Amendment Act, 1874;" "The City Reserves Transfer Act, 1874 ;" and " An jsct to appropriate the Revenue of the Province of Nelson for the year ending the 3 1st day of March, 1875." A free pardon to an accomplice is offered by the Government in the "Gazette" of 28th inst, for such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of any of the supposed incendiaries who set fire to the "Press" Company's Offices, Christchurch, on the sth April last. His Excellency the Governor has disallowed the " Otago Gold Duty Repayment Ordinance" passed at the last session of the Provincial Council of Ocago. Under the Ordinance a portion of the export duty paid on gold extracted from the mines of Otago and shipped from the Colony could be refunded to the shippers. Th'B was nierelj another plan of reducing the export duty on gold. In the Supreme Court at Dunedin on Monday last, before Judge Chapman, the libel case of Dawson v. Mackay was heard. It was a defamatory libel published in the " Bruce Herald" on November 11, as follows: " Birth. — On Ist inst , at Fourth street, Dunedin, Mary, eldest dauahter of G. B. Dawsnn, of a dauehter ; both dome well. l; The libel was admitted and LlO paid intc Court. The defendant pleaded that there had been no malice or gross negligence, and that an ap >logy had been published. A verdict for LSO damages was given. Firewood, it is intended for the nresent will be burnt in the locomotives about to be placed on the southern line at Waihola and Clutha, Otago, in the absence of available coal. A sample of pure sypsum. plaster of Paris which was submitted to the inspection of Mi John Chetham, formerly an earthenware manufacturer in Staffordshire, England, haa been pronounced by him to be excellent. The " New Zealand Herald " of the 3rd inst. says :— " We extract the following from the leader in yesterday's issue of the " Waikato Times":— 'lt is to be hoped that during the approaching session the North Island members will unite to force from the Government a statement of the secret expenditure of the Native Department. It is important that th« country should understand the exact position in which we stand with the native race, and nothing, we predict, would so clearly explain it as a statement of the money expended upon our brown brethren. The statement should define to whom presents (bribes) have been given, and for what services they are to be considered compensation. The amount of money which disappears mysteriously every year is of little importance compared with the bad effects that are likely to arise from our gross truckling with those who already hold us in contempt. We cannot, of course, produce evidence to the fact, but we are convinced that many aggressions are promised with the sole object of extorting money or its equivalent from the Native Department. Experience has taught the chiefs that they have only to hint at disturbance to' receive a present of some kind. The maintenance of peace is of the greatest importance, and we should he the last to complain at even thrice the expenditure that takes place if there was a probability that the money spent was the actual means of maintaining it,' '' Seven Clydesdale mares have been imported into Hawke's Bay by the Hon. Mr )rmond. The "New Zealand Times," in referring to the robbei y of papers and money from the Challenger, says: — "Taking advantage of the absence of some of the officers of H.M S. Challenger, on Thursday evening, some designing person, evidently well acquainted with the construction and contents of the ship's cabin, made an entrance by the stern windows, and carried off a box containing money and a quantity of valuable papers. The robbery was discovered late in the evening, huo at too late an hour to admit of any effective steps being taken to recover the property or track the thief. In the morning, however, a party was told off to reconnoitre th"3 shore, and after a short but diligent search, the box, with the papers still remaining in it, was found on the beach near Pipitea Point. The loss of the money was more than compensated for by the recovery of the papers, which were very valuable documents ; and though every endeavor will of course be made to discover the thief, his crime is deprived of much of its seriousness by the fortunate discovery of the box, which would probably have been washed away by the succeeding tide, had the search: party had not been actively on the alert,"