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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1698, 13 January 1874, Page 2

According to the telegrams received from the Bluff, Blink Bonny was first in the Two-year-old Stakes, the Hook and Explosion being second and third. Th 6 holders of the tickets in Mr Tonks's LIOOO sweep for the two first ' reside] in Charleston, and the ticket that; belongs to Explosion is said to be held in Maori Creek, New River district. - We regret to learn that Mr F. TTpham, who kept tbe hotel at the. Oddfellows' Hal), Hokitika, died yesterday morning, after a very short illness.

The anniversary of the Volunteer Fire Brigade will be celebrated to-night by a banquet at Gilmer's' Hotel;.: ' At the Resident Magistrate's Court; yesterday, before W. H. Revell, Esq., R.M., there was only one case, that of John Large, xharged. r >yith. i d_estooying property belonging to j. Card/at f Marlaen.' < 'rroni theevidence it appears that a row had taken place at complainant's store during the Christmas holidays, and a certain amount of glasses, «tc , had been smashed thereby. The Magistrate ordered the defendant to pay the damage sworn to, viz,, L2 los_with 19a icoBts, bat declined to inflict a fine, as the destruction was the result of accident rather than intention. There is ho need of "blowing" as to the golden, resources of the district when plain facts await recital, says the Westport Times, of the 9th. "The Maruia crushing of 300 tons has given 13640z lOdwt retorted gold." The parcel was brought down oh Wednesday afternoon, and lodged at the Bank of New Zealand. It yielded when smelted 13520z. The Lyell Argus Btates that there lives somewhere within a mile or to of the junction of the Mangles with the Buller, one Gibbs, and Gibbs to prevent his cattle from straying has had the effrontery to fell trees across the track in such a way as to completely block it up. A gentlemen, while riding overland overland from Nelson, very^ narrowly escaped falling into the river while endeavoring to cross the barricade, after which adventure, and after travelling a few yards further te encountered another similar obstruction, and it took him no less than two hours before he succeeded in extricating himself from the trap into which he had so unwittingly fallen. It is intolerable that one man for his own selfish ends should thus annoy and inconvenience the public, and we draw the attention of the Government to the matter in order that Gibbs, cattle, barricades and all, may be speedily rooted out. The Reefton Courier learns from a recent record of the Provincial Grand (Masonic) Lodge, of Wellington, that a very flattering resolution has been passed in recognition of the services of . Dr Bnlmer, of this town, in the cause of Masonry; : Dr Buhner has been created First Provincial Grand Sovereign of the Red Gross of Koine and Gonstantiue, and Knight of St. John, fee, &c. It may not be generally known that Dr Bulmer is one of the most exalted Masons in the Southern Hemisphere, and it is in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered to the cause of Masonry that the honors of this exalted degree have been conferred upon him. A meeting is to be called at Ahaura for Friday evening, to make the preliminary arrangements with respect to the forthcoming race meeting in February. There is not any foundation for the rumors afloat that the Grey Valley meeting will not take place this season. The meeting will not only come off, but it is expected the Grey Valley Handicap will be of Ll5O It is also all but ■ finally decided that a steeplechase, with a chief prize of LIOO, will come off at Totara Flat on the Queen's Birthday. From an Australian contemporary we learn that Detective Mackay, of the Victorian police force, bas been ordered to proceed to Fiji, and, if necessary, to extend his trip to San Francisco and to other parts of" the United States. The object of this trip, which may extend over six months, is not disclosed, but it is supposed that Detective Mackay has been sent to make the personal acquaintance of Mount and Morris, the Carl murderers, and O'Farrell, the defaulting officer of the Waste fiands Department of Victoria. O'Farrell is reported to be residing amongst the natives at Taranaki. If (says the London Spectator) the members of the U. K. Alliance would stick a little to truth and common sense they would double their influence in a year. Mr Dawson Burns will have it that the British people spend L 60,000,000 on drink, which, if they saved, would make them comfortable. Quite true; and what is that to the purpose. They like drink. Suppose they saved all they spend on tobacco, tea, and horse-racing, all of them more or less injurious indulgences, how rich they all would be then? WHat the Alliance has to show is, not that drink costs money, which nobody denies, though beer is now 30 per cent cheaper than milk, but why they should not spend their money as they like. The real case is not tbe expense, but the moral evil of drinking too much, and any large body of evidence snowing that; teetotallers were the least criminal class in the conntry would be worth all their trashy averages, which, after all, only show that each household of three drinks 6d a day, the price of a quart of milk. When that is done, they have only to prove that a Rajpoot (teetotaller) can beat a Sikh (furious drinker), and the logical victory will be all thews. Franklin had ten times their sense, for his first "point" was that he could carry heavier weights without drink than a rival equally strong with it. In a leading article on the late Wesleyan Conference, the London Times says : — " The Wesleyans ate a prosperous community. Whatever their numbers, they are spending more year by year. They are economical and judicious in their expenditure. Their chapels appear to cost about fifteen hundred pounds apiece, their miniafcers's houses about seven hundred and fifty pounds each, their schoolrooms about the same, their enlargements and alterations seem to add so much accommodation at so trifling a cost, as to suggest arrangements both unsightly and uncomfortable. They are clearing away debt, insuring against fire, providing superannuations, and' satisfying their occasional needs with an elasticity and facility beyond the power of an "Establishment. They have money at command. The Methodists are not now a poor Church," and they can make their ministers comfortable. There is a movement, coming very properly from the laity and left in their hands, to secure for every minister a minimum of Ll5O a year. Besides local and circuit preachers they can provide for special wants, such aa the promotion of the Worn-Out Preachers Fund." _ . " A very ingenious way of getting out of it !" said an envious brother practitioner. This was what he alluded to. A medical gentleman in Geelong was attending a young lady bad with qmnsey. The doctor said she'd die if an abscess in her throat didn't burst, and that it depended on herself whether it burst or not. She wouldn't make an effort, however, and the doctor on his last visit locked the door of her. bedroom when he went in, so as to cause the young lady to sit erect in her bed in astonishment. The doctor then quietly took off his coat, while the eves of his patient dilated with horror. Next came off his boots, and with them an agonised shriek from the sufferer, that had the effect the doctor intended. . The abscess had burst-, and the lady was up and well two days afterwards. The New York Herald says : —We wonder where the Claimant will turn up next besides the Australias and South America ? By the Qrey River Argus, published in Greymouth, N.Z.. we observe that Mr Arthur Orton, the sol distant aspirant to the Tichborne Estates, has, during his wanderings, visited the establishment of Henry Young, of that town, and procured from him a suit of clothes, which he considered irreproachable as regards their fit, &c. This caused tbe prosecuting counsel to inquire if he (the Claimant) considered they tended to make him at all resemble the real Baronet (Sir Roger). This is another instance of tbe ready wit of Mr Hawkins, which we have before noticed daring the progress of this protracted trial.— Advt.