THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1875.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2279, 27 November 1875, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1875.

A company is in course of formation under the Limited Liability Act, in the Grey Valley, having for its objecb the systematic prospecting for quartz reefs in the Moonlight flanges, and the testing of bodies- of auriferous atone known to exist in certain localities in that district. The company will consist of 1800 shares of LI each. The special features of the enterprise are that the calls are not to exceed 6d per month each, and that the work of prospecting will be done as far as practicble by contract;, that is as regards sinking snatts and driving tunnels. Reefton and Greymouth will be canvassed for subscribers during the next week. At a meeting of the directors of the Grey Valley Gold Mining Company, Orwell Creek, held at Ahaura on Thursday evening, it was resolved to make a final proposition to the Orwell Greek Company to have a main tailrace based upon the estimates of Mr R. A. Young, C. hi , and according to his plans, brought up for the use of and at the cost of both claims, and it was also decided to make offer to open up negotiations with a view to amalgamate the,two companies' leaseholds an an equitable basis. Should this event be brought about there will be one claim of 40 acres of the richest proved alluvial ground ever opened in the Colony. We are glad to learn that satisfactory arrangements have been come to between Mr Mackay, Native Commissioner, and Messrs Kilgnur and Ferrotti, ' with reference to the half-chain lease in Tainui street south, held | by the latter gentlemen for tramway purposes, !by which the lease has been given up. This will enable the Borough Council to at once proceed with the formation of the foot-paths provided for in the loan, and will remove a long standing grievance of the section* holders in the neighborhood. Messrs Nancarrow and Co. disposed of by auction, yesterday, the property of Mr F. Bock, consisting of half-acre of freehold groand, situate in High street, and a fourroomed cottage, for the sum of L 250. The purchaser was Mrs Giesking, The judges appointed for the forthcoming ! exhibition of the Greymouth Horticultural Society are as follow : —Flowers, fruit, and vegetables, Messrs Barker and Broadbent ; umpire, Mr W. H. Harrison. Judges of cottage gardens, Messrs F. Hamilton and BroadI bent, with Mr Harrison as umpire. Judges ! of dairy produce, Messrs b\ Hamilton, Duni can M'Lean, and Orr. The names of the poultry judges will be made public before the day of exhibition. The cottage gardens will be judged on St. Andrew's day, under the following heads— cleanliness, neatness and arrangement, vegetables, fruit, and flowers. Wednesday, Ist, being a public holiday, a good attendance is expected, and we are informed that although the season is a backward one, the exhibits will be very good. The Gazette contains the application to register "The Hochstetter Gold Mining Company, limited. The name of the company is to be " Hochstetter Hydraulic GoldMining Company, limited j" the place of intended operations is at German Gully No. 3, Nelson Creek ; the registered office of the company will be situated at Clifton street, Ahaura ; the nominal capital of the company is LIBOO, in 1800 shares of LI each; the number of shares subscribed for is 1800, being not less than two-thirds of the entire number of shares in the company ; the number of paid-up shares is 500 ; the amount already paid up is Lsoo j the name of the manager is Michael Henry Hayden. At the recent examination for the scholarship exhibition of Tasmania, a lad named Charles Pike gained 3246 marks against 3247 obtained by Doran, the successful competitor. The creditable position obtained by Pike deservedly gained him a large share of public sympathy, especially when it was known that he was disqualified by age from competing again. The matter was brought before Parliament, and the Hobart Town Mercury states that it was resolved to grant Pike L4OO, payable in annual instalments, to enable him to prosecute his studies in England. • It is stated by Mr Murray that "even. the Native Minister, a man above suspicion, has, it is said, acquired from the Natives ' since he became a Minister lands to the yalue of L 100,000,"

The following appears in the Wanganu HeraJd : — " If there is one representative in the Colony supremely entitled to a renewal of confidence, it is Mr Tribe, who has been most indefatigable and earnest in looking after the interests of his constituency. We wish him success." A correspondent of the West Coast Time? at Stoney Creek states : — Nelson and party's claim at Stoney 'Creek has been swamped by the water of the Waimea race, the bywashes being closed on this section here and not allowed to pass this place in consequence of a slip in the said race. Nelson and party estimate their loss, at the very lowest, to be LBO. The whole of their plant is destroyed j some of their boxes are not washed up for nearly three months, and their labor for that time with plant is not, to-day, worth 2b 6d. There was three feet of wat9r in the Waimea race. The Gazette publishes the traffic returns of the New Plymouth and Waitara railway, aad the Napier and Waipukurau railway. The receipts for nine days on the former line amounted to L 57 9s 7d. and for four weeks of the latter to L 797 3s lid. The New Zealand Herald states that there has been a hitch with respect to some of the land oiders for the Vesey Stewart settlers of rather an awkward character. Sir J. Yogel telegraphed to Mr Farnall, when that gentlematt was in Treland, to hasten the departure of the Stewart settlers as much as possible. Mr Faraall did so, and arranged with a number of families to form part of the settlement. On applying to the Agent-Oeneral for the land orders, that gentleman would not furnish them, and Mr Farnall thereupon made out the orders himself. These the Commissioner of Crown Lands refused to recognise, so that the people have great reason for complant. Some of them have, we believe, left for Australia. The ground of the refusal, we presume, was that the agreement with reference to the Stewart settlement provided that the land orders must be signed by the Agent-General, It is rumored and we (Post) give the report currency for what it may be worth— that W, Hutchison, Esq., J.P., late proprietor of the Wellington Tribune, is about to receive the appointment of Resident Magistrate at the Chatham Islands. Our contemporary sincerely hopes thai; this rumor is unfounded. When a man has supported the Ministry of the day so long and so faithfu'ly as Mr Futchinson has done, it would be a shabby thing, now that he is going to retire from active service, to give him no better reward than a sentence of banishment from civilsation and society, and a paltty salary. The thing is unheard of. Surely the Goverment would never deal so miserably with their friends. - The Wellington Post says :— " Our readers will recollect a sensational telegram from Manawatu, to the effect that a box of human bones had been found lodged in the fork of a tree, whence a horrid murder was inferred. The explanation proves to be very simple, the bones being those of an old Maori chief who died many years ago, after expressly directing that his remains should be disposed of in this strange fashion. Commenting upon the financial prospects of the Colony, the Ocago Daily Times says : — "In another year, or a little more, there will be a million going away, and two millions less coming in than there has been for the last few years. Or, contrast our position now with our position in 1869, and we shall have to acknowledge that we must be one million per annum better off— strons^er — to enable us to maintain the same relative condition. Are we a million a year better ofi than we were then ? arewe in possession of public property, of increased population, increased industries of a remunerative kind, to enable us to look cheerfully forward t& the time we have named ? It is no USe blinking _tlio-<juostioo, and-wo roalljr- <3o hot know that we have any reason to be afraid to look things in the face." It is reported in the Wakatipu Mail that Mr T. L. Shepherd will shortly receive a Civil Service appointment. In the Gazette is published the application to register " Perseverance Gold-mining Company, limited. ' The name of the Company is to be " Perseverance Gold-mining Company, limited." The place of intended operations is at Murray Creek, io the Province of Nelson. The registered office of the Company will be situated in Broadway, Reefton, in the Province of Nelson.- The nominal capital of the Company is twelve thousand pounds, in twelve thousand shares of one pound each. The number of shares subscribed for is twelve thousand, being the entire number of shares in the Company. The number of paid-up shares is nil. The amount of paid-up capital is six thousand pounds, representing the estimated value of the mine at the present time. The name of the Manager is Patrick Brennan. At Auckland the Maoris were among the fortunate holders of sweepstakes on the Cup. The holder of ope of the winners h\i given his ticket away in a fit of generosity to a barmaid at a hotel where the sweep was drawn, and now laments the loss of LI (JO. The Buller News states that the following telegram has been received by his Worship the Mayor of Westport j— " Wellington, 6 p.m, Nov. 18, 1875. The Minister for Public Works directs me to state, in reply to your telegram of the 16th. that the intention of the government with reference to the railway and protective works at Westport is to proceed with them as soon as the Government are in a position to call for tenders, which will probably be shortly. The Minister retrains from questioning the terms of the resolution, as it has apparently been passed j under a misapprehension of the facts. '--John Knowlcs, Under-Secretary."