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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1905, 14 September 1874, Page 2

We are requested to state that in consequence of th- ''oncMrt on huh i]f of the. Church of Kn-jlaii'l Sunday >choi.l, which tan.es placa to-ino r»h evening. Mis-. Aitken's (Mrs Bunten) farewell henefit will not take place to nisjht, as previously m ..ounceil, but wi I probihly be given on Saturday niglib. The Greynruth deputation r,n the General Government on the question of harbor works, returned to town on Saturday »itrht l.y t.he ps Dispatch. Tho tmj w«nt out^m the moi-iiing lay out all day. and intercepted the Ke'«nedy. There was a consi. Insole c-nwi waiting on the wharf to greet their amvtl, an I on their sfeppin« ashore au enthusiastic indivi.lnal proposed hre- cheers for the deputation, which was . esponde I to very fairly cmsid -ti ig tLe 1 teness of th hour ; and then the gathering quietly dispersed. The sale of horses in the Calcutta Sweepstake on theSylney Metropolitan Handicap, subscribed fi»r at thu A lltion H'.ty!, took place on Sa unity evt-uiiiJ. There Vis a large attendance, and alth>nmh the huiMing wah restrict*! to subset ihers to the. sweep there seemed to be t>reat interest; taken in the proceedings Ther* was some slight ■ lelay in making the pre'iiniua-y arrausement.B, in fact, ns an impatient owner o f a scratch-d horse ill-tempeiedly remarked, th.^ aasem Matte was kept in a •• pnyneful " statin of Rusnense for an hmr or an. bu r . ultimately everything passed orf satisfactorily, aid it i-> senfrally admitted that, the jjross result of th« s%l« is aomething; astonishiu • as times are It is questionable if two such sporting pv> j us as the 'irinaing off tw vl r Tonka of t.he lite Derhy S»veeo fer IjlO'lf), on fa* vfefc-opniifcan Stakes, and this Calcutta sul>«ci to>on the aam« event, c <uld he nccn p ished in auch an entirely sucfe^sful and sa isfact.ory n»a»mer We give the prices realised, so that hnHers of horses livins out of Greymo'it.h mnv learn the estimate formed by the coqnocenti of th« merits and chances of their 'cn.cka":— Iberto. 7s 6d ; s*; ''he Arrow, L 25 10* ; Beltran, Ifls ; Cahimnv. T. 4 10=1; Phamna^ne. 1.5; The Oonqueror. 1,1 5s : Orazv Jane, L 4 5s ; Di£fworth. Ll2 ; The Duke, LI ; ' l]a. 1.2 2s 61; Knuenio, LI l^s ; Kxcelsior, 1.1 2s 6d ; Pifzv'tPTirlon, LI3 10a; Gladstone. 1.2 ss; ar.Msho.ongh. I 15 ; Horatio. 1.26 ; Javnlin, F. 2 10-i ; Kinusbnrniitjh, Lls IO S ; Lady Bird, \,l\ l.:>ns.'a.r, LI; Llami. L 3; Lord Joh-i. I 1 '2s 6d ; Lord Lyon. 7. 6d ; 1 m-linn LI 10-i ; Mad of Aven^l, L 2; Mnnfor, 10< ; M!--» Jes-^i- 12s fid; Myrtle. 1.2 I2< 61 • M-OalhiM Mohr. 7-s 61; Vem>, L 2 ; N.wHold, 15s; The Novice. Ll 7s 6 1 ; Poodle. 18; The Profit, Ll3 ; Quern of t;lu>»s! 1.1 15<; Kepru-ve 14; Ko.-y <''Vl o .e. 19; i>sp d'Amonr. 14 10s ; S eculati.m. 1.4 ss; Stirling. L 6 10-i ; Stock hridtre. 7a 6d ; Sun li lit.. L2s< ; -u-'iton. LI los ; S> rnn, 1.5 2s 61; Viva. 1.3 3«; Wr.imle.-, 10,; Ki-. L r of the Wnat. 14 ).5s ; Kurwond. LI 12s 61 ; ombo. 1.2 10s ; M;.scr M'Grath L 2 15^; Zmc", ' 1 12s ; Weatmins'pr. L» 7-s 6 ' ; \\\ li'ours. 12-« 6 ' ; Priam. L 2 ; Zetland. ss. The salo realise I L 232. oii'-half of which is to he distributed s.mou.l the drawers of horses t.he bilanfifi to uo to the stakes The drawer of the fi at horse gets nine-twnlfths of the stake; the second horse, two-twelfths; and ih^ third horse, one-twelfth. This distrihutin will give the winner LI 73, th* sec 'nd piiz--. ben? 136", and the lowst LlB The following horses are scratched, and consequently not. in the rac« : — M'Callum Mohr. Wrfingler, Zetland, Llitna, All Pours, Novice, Stock bridee, Beltran, Newbold, Mentor, I.an^iar. and Andromeda Tie oW "Ryaminer" newspaper office, is to b« converted into a Municijjal Council Chamber. A t Pu'ied n, the prospectus of the RotH Gomnany, limited, capifal L 40.000, in shares of 1.1 each, has l>een issned. It is n>-'M>nSf'd that the l>uil linn to be erected bhall contain two hundred liedrooms. spaciims •<.ining and drawing; rooms, library and private rooms for fiini lies At the last sirtinir of the Nelson Rorou?h Council a letter was read from Messrs Pel and A tkii-son statins that. V| s Ra^neM: would hold tlip i'oti"cil rp.«p'inßiblH for an accident whifih occune 1 to her, whuvby her arm was hroken. owing to the nesjleut. of the Council in not kH pins; a gra ing in Waimea street in proper rppair. The Sub C mmittee apponted from the Kynnersley memorial Ommi >f ee receive I hy. the la«t mail a s°rip.s of designs of i-ranite monup"entß, fnan. \l>erdeen, some of which a*e very wnriropriafe for the purpose intended and at a pneo wthiu the means of the Committee. A mfetini will he short.lv h Id to decide on the choice to be ma'ie. and other inciden'al mattern. Durina the -m"nth of vugust the estates of twelve i ersons who died intestate were placed under t.he char>e of th" PuMic Trustee. The 'arg st estate (1600) was that of Luitri Valli. who d ; ed at Olyd-* ; and tne npxt larsrpfct (L 200). that of Thomas Service, ••f Hokitika. (>ne of the twe'vn deceased y.ersons was found dead at Jacob's Kiver, and one was drowned in ihe Waikato. v painful accident oauurred on i'oa>-d the Waipara. at Hokitika. on -Viday afternoon. It iptiears that while the men were enua.>ed in discharging onp <>'' the heavy w>t<-r pipes ont of the hold of the ves«pl, and when the pipe was raised to a 1 vel wi'h the mouth of the hoi 1, the chain bearing i.be whole weight of the pipe suddenly sn pp^d. and the one en I of the pipe fell to the lo:t >m of the hold with a. tremenl"iis cr>sh, strikins? a man nampd Roheit M Qni kin un>ler the k neecan, and Binashint> his lug very badly indpei. Dr M lunsell wis imir.ediately spnt for, and speedily made an examination of the leg, and found it to fan broken. p'aci-ig the lesj in splints, the poor f How was removed by boat to the Hospital, where he is likely to remain, according to medical opinion, for at least seven or eight weeks Ihe W-l intiton " Tribune." of August 29. says : — " A very narrow escape froit: w at tnijjht have proved a disastrous cimflitfration took place last eveninj; »bout eight o'clock The Rev. Mr "ge, on entering St.. Andrew's < *hu eh, last evVnioij. struck ,a tuaich, and it ap>ea s the tas me er had not l>een properly turned off, and an expl .sion was the consequ*nc>. which, fortunatel> for VI r < »gy. took place nre he had entered far into the church As i was tne r-vrend gentleman had his eyebrows aud vvhixlcHrs most uno'easantly s nged brfo'-e he re-- ch-d the Bt.re t. A plucky min-of- war's man. named Corporal Static 'lm. of H M.S Blanche, on observing the vivid liuht in the church, at once rushed in, and pulling uff his j icket extinguished th • flame at. the meter. Stanoolm d-seivs the thanks if the public at large for his decision a<id heroic conduct in lushing into- what to him was an unknown danirer. and preventing the progress of the demon fi'-e which, in a few minutes longer, might have taken such ahold as to have laid a lurga of the town io oshoa,"