THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1874.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1705, 21 January 1874, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1874.

We are informed that his Honor the Snperintendent of Westland left Hokitika yesterday morning for Christchurch, in order to meet the Hon. Mr Yogel, to confer with him upon matters affecting the interests of Westland. It is certainly much to be re-! gretted that Mr Yogel does not visit Westland as anticipated, but it is to be hoped he will fined leisure to do so before the next session of the Assembly. '■ At a, committee meeting of the Greymouth Horticultural Society, held on Monday night, Messrs W. H. Harrison, M.H.R., and F. J. Barker were appointed judges, with Mr W. Bae as umpire. The committee have reason to believe that the Exhibition will be more ; successful than any yet held in Greymouth. The returns of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the Grey district show that during the year 1873 there were ; registered 151 births, of which only 4 were, illegitimate. This was a falling off compared ; with the previous year, when 170 births were: i registered, 5 being illegitimate. This year' there was a large decrease in the number both of natural and accidental deaths, the ; figures being— lß73, 49, of which 5, or 10 per cent., were from accidents ; 1872, 73, of which 17, or 22i per cent., were from accidents. There was a large increase in the! number of marriages, there being in 1873, .62; and in 1872, 45. ' The JReflister says :— " A petition numei rously -signed was presented to his Honor the Superintendent against the removal of Constable Cashion to Greymouth. His transfer to that town was resolved on by the head of police, immediately after the failure of the bogus charges of indecent assault brought against him. The public generally appear to be of opinion that an injustice has been perpetrated against Constable Cashion." A serious accident occurred to Mr Robert Alcorn, of Totara Flat, on Monday evening. The precise cause is not known at present, but it is supposed that when ridinu homewards Mr Alcorn's horse stumbled and threw him, kicking him: on the mouth and otherwise injuring him. l>r Phillips was sent for, and :on examination it was discovered than the injury sustained by the patient was much more serious that was at first anticipated. Mr John FJynn, of Red Jack's, met with an accident by falling into a deep and dangerouu mining excavation last week. From the nature of the place where the accident occurred, the escape of Mr Flyun without receiving serious damage is said to have been almost miraculous. The, Albion Hotel, on the Brunner Parade, No Town, was sold by auction by Messrs D. Maclean and Co. on Tuesday. The property realised about LIOO, Mr John Kerrigan, of No Town, being declared the purchaser after sharp competition. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yes- ' terday, the following civil - cases were disposed of :— W. J. Ooates ,v. Ann Gardiner : This was an adjourned claim of LlO ; judgment, was given for L 6 and costs, amount to be. paid at: 10s per week, or in default one month's imprisonment. Corporation of the Borough of Greymouth v. D. Maclean and Co. : . This was a claim of L 22 lls 2d, wharfage daea for landing cattle from the s.S; St. Kilda ou the shingle spit. The claim was resisted pn several grounds, and a nonsuit was moved for on the ground that the w^ong, party had been sued — the agent had l een sued. .instead of the principals, th. cowers of the battle being known to b A

Messrs Seaton and Davidson. The Magistrate held that the point was good, and the plaintiffs must be nonsuited with 29^ costs and professional costs. . J. Manson anil Co. v. — Quinlan :L3 3s '■ ' y judgment "confessed; D. Buggy v. Julia East : A fraud summons for LI 8s ; defendant was ordered to pay 3s per week, or in default 14 days' imprisonment. P. Hanney ...y.^J. .King.... A claiuvof L 3 los ; judgment was given for the amount", costs of Court, and professional costs; P. Hanney v. P. Brice : A fraud summons for L 5 3s .(Jd ; defendant was ordered to pay 10s per week, or one month's imprisonment. D. Magoffin v. D. M'Kenna : Judgment by default for L 3 lls 7d and costs. A very clever capture of a supposed murderer named Chun Hun Young, was effected at Ross on Saturday. The Times says :— "It appeared that Chun Hun Young and another Chinaman, whose name has not reached us, were working on the gold diggings in Tasmania about two years ago, and were engaged in driving in a claim situated in a gully at some distance from the other workings, and were getting a little gold. The prisoner was in very poor circumstances, and tried repeatedly, but without avail, to borrow money to pay his expenses to Westland. One day his icate was missing, and the prisoner stated that he had gone to Victoria. Shortly afterwards the prisoner left the district, and then had money. Nothing more was heard of the matter until a few weeks i since, when some diggers who were working the old ground which had been abandoned by the prisoner, found in auold shaft ihe remains of a Chinaman, and it was found that a pick had been driven clean through the skull. Some of the clothes were ideutified as having been worn by Chun Hun Young's mat?. Enquiries were set on foot, and it was discovered that the suspected man had left for the West Coast The Commissioner of the Westland Police force was communicated with, and at length information was received to the effect that Chun I Hun Young was digging at Ross. Detective \ Browne was at once dispatched with a warrant for the suspected man's arrest, and within a short time time succeeded in arresting him." The Wairarapa Standard records the following miraculous escape of Mr Terry at the Mora Saw-mills. Mr Terry, while reaching over the shaft of the engine, got his trousers entangled in the machinery, and was thus whirled round on the revolving shaft several times, and on each revolution his forehead, body, and legs came in violent contact with some portion of the framework ; but by a remarkable presence of mind, which never for a moment deserted him, he managed to keep himself from roming in contact with the flywheel,: and his trousers being torn tv pieces he was ultimately liberated. It was found he had sustained several severe external injuries about the forehead, arms, ribs, and legs, bub fortunately none of thera proved of a fatal character. It is believed that he owes his life to an exhibition of an extraordinary presence of mind on the occasion, and to the possession of a physically strong constitution, as otherwise his escape would have been deemed all but miraculous.