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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2147, 26 June 1875, Page 2

Yesterday Mr Thomas Colton, Returning Officer for the Paroa district, made the declaration of the poll in the election which took place on 10th. December last, for the return of three members to the Board. Messrs T. D. Hunter, D. T. Faulkner, and H. S. Castle were declared dulyjelected. The following is the result of the polling in the election at the different places : — I If II I i 1 T. D. Hunter ...14 31 91 47 31— 214 D. T. Faulkner ...11 42 100 45 10— 208 H. S. Castle ... 8 48 93 36 5—190 J. C. Taylor ... 3 2 0 8 129 - 142 M. Dowling ...40 21 2 13 32— 108 T. Colton ...36 22 1 17 27— 103 M. M'Gillicuddy 35 24 3 13 27- 102 147 190 290 179 261 1067 It will be noticed that the members of the Provincial Council for Greymouth will address the electors in the Volunteer Hall on Monday evening. The foot-ball match, Bankers and Lawyers v. All-comers, will be continued to-day on the Camp Reserve at 2 o'clock. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before W. H. Revell, Esq, R.M, Mary Ann Taylor, alias Lawlor, was fined LI, or 48 hours' imprisonment, for having been, drunk. Civil Cases. — Kennedy Bros, v. Rupg, Greenstone, judgment by default for L22~4s and costs. In the cases M'Milian v. Holmes, Same v. P. Diamond, and Orr and Co. y. VvjAliam Potham, there was no return of the summonses, and they were adjourned till Tuesday next. In its account of the fatal accident to i Joseph Donaldson (reported by telegraph in yest-rday's paper) the Westport Times says : — '• Deceased lately came up from Brunnerton and was a married man, and we hear, also the father of a small family. He was only a recent arrival in the Colony, and had at first gone to Greymouth in the hope &i getting constant employment at the Brunnerton -wn-uuraj — hit— uoiug" « [(rosviuoi-wum — oiuYTd— by trade. He was a quiet steady man and had, with two or three mates, taken a subcontract on the road works under Stephen Lowin. His widow and family are left in very straitened circumstances, the deceased having had difficulty in getting regular work after arrival in the Colony, and one of his mates has informed us that the deceased was only just commencing to get a pound or two to send to bis wife to keep her and her children from absolute starvation. This is a case of distress that commends itself to the favorable consideration of the charitably inclined. The comrades of the deceased have already signified their intention of contributing to the relief of the widowed and fatherless, and doubtless very many others will express their sympathy by substantial donations." His Excellency tho Governor has been pleased to appoint William Stephenson to be Receiver of Gold Revenue at Charleston, Nelson South-west Gold-fields, as ox the llth inst., vice William Mayberry, dismissed. Of the total amount of the Borough rates of Hokitika, Lllll 19a 6d for the year, L9OO was paid before the 20th inst. The Governor stayed ten days in Christchurch, and the little bill has been sent in. It amounts, says a correspondent, to the small sum of L6OO, and includes some LlB per day for meals and house accommodation for his Excellency, Lady Normanby, and two aides-de-camp. The coaching used by the Governor daring these ten days comes to some LBO. The Marquis gave no dinners, nor did he entertain in any other manner. The Marlborough Express, of the 12th inst, says :— " A sad accident which resulted fatally, occurred yesterday at Spring Creek. It appears that two children of Mr Fairhall's were rt turning home from calling their father to dinner, and in crossing a creek by means of a narrow plank they both fell in. The elder of the two managed to lay hold of a flax bush with her teeth, and grasping her brother held him till assistance arrived, but on rescuing them the youngest child was found to be dead, his sister not being strong enough to keep his head out of the water. The Halcyon Company's battery, at Mokihinui, is, says the Westport Times of yesterday, now ready for a trial, crushing of quartz from the mine, and will be started for regular work during the ensuing week. If the fine weather holds it is the intention of some of the Westpoit directors to go up to the reefs and join in celebrating the event of starting the battery. Speaking of the Buller railway, the Westport Times says :— " The points are being fixed on the railway line, and the final work done at the crossings in preparation for traffic. It should not be long now before a locomotive arrives." The Immigration Department is much to blame, if what the Westport Times says is correct. That journal states that the newlyarrived immigrants there have reason to complain of the almost utter neglect shown towaids them by the authorities. .Landing here unknown and friendless, they found no preparation made for their food or lodgment. Except that they had, by permission of the owners, the use of Messrs Bailie and : Humphrey's old store in Lyttelton street, ' and have received from that firm a few J limited rations, but as the men say quite ' insufficient. On Friday several of them had ; to apply to private parties for food to satisfy j their hunger. Mr James Suisted very kindly ' presented them a supply of meat sufficient i for a day or two, aud also gave them an J order to obtain some bread, but without this l the new oomors would have fared badly. It J : does nob fleam either Just or merciful to leave

immigrants to their own resources immediately they land, especially in a season when inclement weather prevails and work is not obtainable at a moment's notice. Many of the immigrants here have been disposing; of their small articles of property to obtain a few shillings to keep themselves from starving. Since publication of the foregoing in Friday's Star, we hear that better arrangements have been made, and the new arrivals are not left as uncared for. Verb sap. The Otago Provincial Council has voted ; LSOO to aMr George Dodson as compensation for the loss sustained by him through his being ejected from the Port Chalmers raili way refreshment rooms. Mr Dodson had : brought an action against the Superintendent of the Province in the Supreme Court anil obtained a verdict for L2OO damages. The Superintendent then took the matter before ' the Court of Appeal at Wellington, when that verdict was set aside. Luckily for Mr 1 Dodson the Provincial Council acted more 1 generously towards him than the law courts did. . ' We learn from the Buller News that tbje 1 Government have dismissed Police-Sergeant ! Mayberry, who was summoned to the Resi--1 dent Magistrate's Court a few years ago, for ■ refusing to maintain his illegitimate child. : The Southern Cross attributes the Pre- ■ mier's stoppage of free immigration to the i exhaustion of the whole L 275.000 voted for ■ the purpose. The same journal, alluding to ■ the Press Agency telegram, that L 728, Auckj- } land's share of the confiscated land sales, . only had been stopped by mistake, and that . the General Government was anxious to assist Auckland by every means in its power, says, " Perhaps the anxiety was a little too much hidden, and the love a little too much > dissembled, for the Government as nearly as possible kicked Auckland down stairs into 1 the Bankruptcy Court." Currency is given ; to a report that four or five months ago a : serious rupture occurred between Sir Julius Yogel and Mr Thomas Russell, and that the 1 latter felt so strongly that but for the illness ' of his daughter, he would have come out, to enter Parliament in opposition to the Premier. We have received a very useful and interesting publicabion lately issued from the Patent Office, consisting of " Specifications , of inventions, in respect of which Letters , Patent or Letters of Registration have been w applied for during the year 1874." It is , illustrated by photo-lithographs, prepared ! from the original drawings. ' The work has I been compiled in accordance with a resolu- , tion brought forward in the House of Repres entatives by Mr C. O'Neill, M. H.R., in the session of 1872, and carried, to the effect that such a volume should be prepared. The 1 price of the work, with photo-lithographs, is • 2s 6d. 1 The Colonist publishes this:— "John Oxnam, a practical miner, writes vs — Sir — 5 We are informed that Mr Hyland has re--1 signed his situation as Superintendent of the Karamea Special Settlement, and would ■ like to know what is to keep the settlers , there when the Government stop their sunL plies. There is only one thing to do, that is f to make a road up the river, whore sold is . to be found. We know that gold is there, ■j as well as land for agricultural purposes. i Unless this road is made, it will be impossible r to keep the Karamea settlement up. The yield of the Thames Gold-field is ■ somewhat improving during the present month. Many claims have had satisfactory > crushings, and on the 15th inst. the Hauraki brought up from Grahamstown five boxes of : gold consigned to the head office of the • Bank of New Zealand containing 53530z of > gold. Mr Charles Padon, a solicitor (who recently resided for a short time in Nelson) died very suddenly- on the night of 14th June, in the lock-up at Auckland. In a state of intoxication neTiaaneencoTweyecrtotne lock-upr in a wheel-barrow. A verdict was returned that he died from excessive drinking. It is stated by a contemporary that Mr Kennaway, who was sent .from Canterbury to act as secretary in the Agent-General's, office, Dr Featherston stating that he did not require his services ; consequently Mr Kennaway is enjoying very easy times at the expense of this Colony. The Government Savings Bank, recently opened at Taupo, appears to be likely to revolutionise the natives of that district. Midnight; meetings are held discussing the best means of getting money to put in that institution, and the growing of corn, wheat, and maize, the sawing of timber and building houses for the pakeha is the order of the day. Pohipi compares the present enthusiasm of the natives on the subject of the old Wakapono days, and prophesies that the Taupo Bank will become a promoter of industry to the whole of the inland tribes, extending across the bay into the King country. The manager of the Bank is kept busy enrolling numerous applications from native customers. We take the following from the We3tport Times :— A man named Jamieson, who has been at the Karamea for some time past, returned on Saturday to Nelson by the p.s Wallao3.|having, as he puts it, "given Karamea best." He tells a deplorable tale of the condition of the special settlers there. They are dissatisfied and despon ling, and their chances of success appear to them to lessen day by day. Beyond the work done for .Government pay, that is in clearing tracks to the settlement and some little attempt at cultivation on the island, they have really done scarcely anything for themselves beyond putting up rough habitations. Of the live stock sent there a portion has been devoured during scarcity of food supplies. The fowls first disappeared, then some of the goats, avd. next the bull was slaughtered and served out, to each man a portion. The pigs, at least those still alive, are running adrift in the bush, the settlers having no food to give them. Of cash the men have none, their indebtedness for stores increases much faster than their earnings, and the uncertainty of their prospects makes the most stout-hearted among them despondent. Pity 'tis that a more cheerful tale could not be told, but such is the plain narrative of facts by one who has attempted to make a home there, and is overjoyed at getting away. A friend paid his passage to Nelson. The last steamer there brought the Provincial Secretary and two bodies of beef. Constituted authority was for the nonce in the minority. We are informed by a Christchurch tele : gram that a curiosity . in the shape of two immense hop plants has been exhibited there. Together they weighed 12001 b. A man named Frank Jones was found dead in the Waitara river, Taranaki, on June 13, " but how he came to his death there was not sufficient evidence to show." He had been missing for some weeks. Some of the gas consumers of Dunedin have come to the conclusion that kerosene is cheaper to burn than gas as supplied in that city. Now that the winter has set in, we would recommend to our readers the advisability of supplying themselves with warm clothing and blankets. In reterence to this subject we are pleased to see that Messrs Smith and Barkley have a large stock which they have imported direct from the home markets, thereby saving the importers' profit, and giving their customers the benefit of same. Messrs Smith and Barkley have also a splendid stock of flannels, wool plaids, and .French merinos.— Advt. Mr David Burn, an Auokland settler of 1

thirty years' standing, formerly editor of the New Zealander, then of the Southern Cross, and subsequently of the New Zealand Herald, died on the 15th inst; A miner was found frozen to death at Muddy Creek, St. Bathan's, Otago, last week. He had while under the influence of liquor laid down to sleop and never awoke again. We notice that Mr Duncan M'Lean, Boundary street, has imported a very superior quality of Rum, called Red Heart Jttuni. As there is a great deal of sickness and oiria about, we quote some remarks from the London Morning Post: — "Red Heart Rum, the oldest, purest, and finest stimulant of the age, especially selected for hospital purposes by the Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in the late Frencp and German War. Rum varies in quality as much as port wine or claret, and it is only the finest and oldest descriptions that haye the beneficial effects so justly ascribed tothje Red Heart Rum by the medical profession, so that when Red Heart Rum is recommended in cases of consumption, cholera, dysentery, low fever, cold, overwoiked brain, &cj, unlike other Rums, the Red Heart Rum is totally free from any bilious properties. "-jA Dvr. ■ i