THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1874.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1712, 29 January 1874, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1874.

Yesterday the following telegram, addressed to his Worship the Mayor and W. H. Harrison, Esq., was received from the Hon. the Premier in reply to one forwarded to him on the 21st, conveying the resolutions carried at the recent public meeting : — "I received your telegram January 2lßt in Christchurch, but delayed answering it until I had returned to Wellington. I thank the people of Greymouth very much for their kind invitation, and will endeavor to. visit Greymouth before the session. But I have so many engagements that I cannot possibly fix the time for my visit. . With respect to the other resolutions, 1 have to place the following information at your disposal — Be Grey harbor works: — The vote of £20,000 included about .£4OOO for liabilities on account of protective workß and the cost of the bridge at the mine, leaving sufficient in the opinion of the Engineer-in-Chief to erect the necessary wharf accommodation and to provide steam apparatus for loading from 500 to to 600 tons of coal ptr day. The observation's since taken as to the movement of the shingle in the river bed have led to pertain alterations which will do away with the. necessity fos thp timber staging in front of the town ,• and &hp present plans will allow of locomotives going \o the extreme pnd of the wharf. The w.prk will be pushed on as fast as possible, and it is thought will be completed in September next. The Hochstetter Baca will be re-advertised in a few days, arid the survey will be made as promised of the Randall's Creek Pace.'.' ;: This information must be considered very satisfactory, and affords a proof that Ij^e jQovernment. are in earnest in proseedting .p#blfp works in the Grey District.