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Grey River Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 2621, 5 January 1877, Page 2

The monthly meeting of the Grey District Permanent Building and Investment Society, for receiving subscriptions and applications for loans, will be held this evening, at halfpast seven o'clock, at the offices of Messrs Nancarrow and Co.

The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Greymouth. and Kumara' Tramway Company, advertised to bo held last night, for want ot a quorum was adjourned until this evening at eight o'clock, at Kilgour'a Union Hotel. Should a sufficient number of shareholders not attend, the meeting will stand adjourned sine die.

There was a very funny seene — an interesting sotto voce conversation — on the stage of the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, on the first night during the performance of " Fritz." In the last scene Mr Hooper, as Cadge, has to be hurled down into the mill stream through a trap by Fritz (Mr Emmet) When the time arrived, Hooper got upon the trap, but the carpenter in charge was away lamenting over the abolition of Provincialism on the Provincial bar. Emmet thrust vigorously, but Hooper cried under his breath, "The trap is fast!" "Well," said Fritz in the same tone, " you must go through the 'Stage;" — " Oh " cried the unhappy .victim to the laches of a political stage carpenter, "You'll break my. back;" —"Never mind," whispered Jos. X; pleasantly, "You remember the stage directions are : " Thrown down tbe trap by Fritz, i. c. 3, groove, ghost ; biz is biz," and he bent with all his weight upon poor Cadge. The .combined weight made the trap yield, and down went "Chips" to sensational chords and tremuloso music, amidst shouts of laughter. On Wednesday His Honor Judge Wesfcon sat in .the District Court, to deliver judgment in the matter of an application made' at the last sitting of the Court at Reef ton by Mr puinness, on behalf John Whelan, for aa order to rectify the share register of the Fiery Cross Quartz Mining Company, by the substitution of the name of John Whelan for thai; of John Ching in respect of 25 shares in the' Company. M>* Purkias appeared for applicant to receive judgment. His Honor delivered a very elaborate judgment to the effect that the manager was warranted in registering Mr Ching's transfer, and that the application must be refused with LlO 10a costs. At the conclusion of his remarks his Honor said that he was at much pains to arrive at the exact legal aspects of the point involved, and had consulted a great number of authorities with that view ; first, because a number of other similar cases were pend-. ing ; and secondly, because it had been the practice of bailiffs to sell seized shares in mining companies, without question, and their right to do so had never been raised, or questioned in, or determined by, the Supreme Court. Hi 3 Honor regretted that there vas no appeal against his decision, but said that£ if it were bad in law, the applicant had. ja remedy, by an action. Tne following very necessary notice has been* issaed by the < Commissioner of Telegraphs, Mr Ortnond : — lt ia considered necessary; to call attention to the inexpediency of the practice which has. grown up of nuking fteejuse of the telegraph for ordinary official correspondence, which could be as well conducted by po8t ; a practice which, while it adds very greatly, and very unnecessarily to the labors of the Telegrarh Deparment, is, as compared" with transmission by post, ex-, treniely costly. Officers" of the Government are therefore strictly, enjoined to confine the use of free telegrams to matters only of pressing! importance, which do not admit of the delay of the mail, and to make such telegrams as brief as may be consistent with their being intelligible. It is further enjoined that the use of the telegraph on Sundays' may be avoided as far as possible, in ordet that the officers of the Telegraph De--partinent may not bo deprived of the privileges of the day more than can be helped. Any infringement of these direction^ will he followed by officers in fault being surcharged with the expense of the unnecessary work thus exchanged. At the Bitting of the Waste Land Ihard, at Hokitika, on Wednesday, the following applications were dealt with: — Thomas Glozier, to purchase Bection 3577, Hokitika. Granted: LlO paid.— F. Kinnaird, by F. Learmonth, mineral lease, 100 acres, Paringa river!. Postponed. — Frank Rocbiord, by F. Learmonth, applied to have land on the Grey river thrown open for sale. Mr Learmonth produced a letter from John Bradley withdrawing opposition to the sale. The application was adjourned for a month for the report' of the Chief Surveyor. — Ten applications for mineral leases made by applicants, per F. Learmonth, were adjourned for a mbnth for report. — Hector M 'Donald, by F. Learmonth, applied to purchase 50 acres, Earangawa Granted.— D. Falroy, by FLearmonth, to purchase 4C acre?, Block Y. Granted; L3O paid.— W. Hiskins, per F. Learmonth, for 10 aores, Block IV, to be sold by auction. Granted; deposit paid L 5. The same for 5 acres, block IV, to be sold by auction. Granted ; deposit paid, L 2 15s. — S. M. "South, 100 acres, mineral lease, Mount Eanaitoto Granted'; subject to survey by 4th April. — The Board then adjourned. It is stated by the West Coast Times that | Mr Henry Young has purchased Learmonth j and party's 600 -acre lease at Mount Rangitoto for LSOO cash, and LSOOO ia paid-up shares on the formation of the company. The lease adjoins the prospectors' mine to the south ana west, and is. situated between that claim and Hudson's lease. The latter is named the New Zealand Silver Mining Company, and is to be registered under " The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1869 ;" capital, L 40,000, injSQOO shares of L 5 each, the promoters (fifteen in number) reserving to themselves 2000 paid-up shares, and LIOOO cash on formation of company. Acktophy — The best] arid safest cure for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Chest and Throat Diseases, Soarlet Fever, &c. — Dunoan 41 ' Lean Boundary street. At Auckland, a boy named John Neal, eleven years of age, son of a fireman employed on the steamer Go-Ahead, was killed instantaneously by the tall a shearlegs used by a contractor for emptying a sill baisn.