THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1877.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 2723, 5 May 1877, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY , MAY 6, 1877.

A case of alleged gold-stealing from the person occupied the attention of the Resident Magistrate for some hours yesterday. The accused was a woman named Jane Ross, residing near Brunnerton, and. from the evidence it appeared that on the evening of the 25th vlb, John Cleghorn, a miner, came into Walisend, and, in the presence of. Ross, offered to sell Mr Henry Morrow, some eight ounces of gold he bad with him. Mr Morrow, not having scales, could not buy at the time, but lent Oleghorn some money, and he and the woman returned to the house of the latter wbero they had some drink. Cleghorn, who slept on a sofa in the front room, states that he woke about six o'clock, and missed the gold. He asked Ross about it, and Bhe said it was "all right." He thea went to sleep again, and did not wake till noon, when Koss was out. He subsequently ascertained that she had 'gone to Grnyraouth and sold the gold to the Bank of New Zaaland; and although he lepeatedly asked for the proceeds or % portion of them he never received any, and on the 3rd instant gave information to the police. The principal evidence for the defence was that of two daughters of the accused, who depoaed that Cleghorn was drunk before he went to sleep and had given the gold to their mother, telling her to sell it, and pay herself what he owed her. Ross also sold the gold openly, and told several persons that Cleghorn had given it to her in laymeufc of mouey she had advanced him to buy a share in a claim. Mr Eevell, taking into consideration the contradictory nature of the evidence, and the fact that Cleghorn had offered to compound the alleged offence, and hud delayed so loag in taking out a summons, dismissed the case. Mr Guinness appeared for Mrs Ross.

We have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the "Toilet 4lm«iac, >> issaed by Mr H, Williams, chemist and druggist, Greymouth. It is an exceedingly neatly got up publication, and contains a list of every article for the toilet. and patent- medicines to be obtained from the publisher.

The returns from Jackson's Bay for the Totara election are to hand by the Waipara, and show the fo'lowing votes recorded :— Mr Gis 1 orne, 32 ; Mr M'Gaffin, 5 ; Mr Grimmond, 1. We understand the Hunt's Beach returns to hand bave reduced the majority by one, making the total majority 83, after all the returns are to hand.

The West Coast Times yesterday "entered on its thirteenth year of publication. It is announced that Dr Scliwartzbach (who hals from- the University and Kye Hospital of Berlin), will visit Greymou h, and can be c nsulted at the Melbourne Hotel next Monday and Tuesday forenoon.

The sale of Mr James King's jewelry will be continued to-day by Messrs G. W. MO3S and Co, at their rooms , commencing at 11 a.m.

We clip the following from the Akaroa Mail : — Dr Bulmer, whilst essaying to brave the perils of the deep on horseback, through some contretemps or other during the journey, came to grief. Gaily the brave rider was cantering through the flood, when suddenly, without warning, thp horse and its rider vanished from mortal ken, The onlookers were horrified, but their suspense was out short by seeing that a dissolution of partnership had taken place, as whan they appeared the steed calmly walked ashore, whilst the medicus was floundering and trying to swim to terra firma. We are happy to state that nothing worse than damp was the result. The Rev. R. L. Stanford, of Dunedin in the course of hi 3 sermon, Baid a few things about late hours in biaks, which will probably be read with interest by the overworked officials here:— "l want to speak more especially about a wrongdoing in our midst which does, I fancy, escape attention, but which is producing evils of which we shall sooner or later have to bear the consequences. I refer to the wretched habit of keeping banks especially, but also some commercial houses, open half the night. Open, that is so far as the clerks are concerned. In the first place, the forcing oung men to stay till nine or ten o'clrck at least at work night after night, is a defrauding of a neighbor, for jbhere is an unwritten law here declaring that a certain wage is given for a certain time of labor. 1 4.o n>t think I exaggerate when I Bay that it ia becoming the settled habit of the banks to keep the men in their employment at work till ten or eleven night after night, by a sort of irresistible moral preeßure, which it is utterly impossible foi them to resist. This miserable policy arises from two oauses. One great cause of it is eimply bad management. The other, mere greediness. I understand that these young men are ofteu by no means too busily employed all day. In some of .those institutions which are the worst offenders, and where th's is the case, the evil is one Bolely of bad management. In those esses where wok goes on all day and half j;he night, it i 3 simply a question of greedjaeas The place is Bhort?handed, in the desire to give larger dividends, and every shareholder is concerned in the sin. lam well aware of the difficulty of dealing with a subject like this. It seems when we inquire into it to be just nobody's fault. It is one of those .matters that eught to be banned by public opinionj and ifc pan, I thick, be cured in no other way." A London piper 'says:— "A provincial ohemist has recently been applying to Mfs Biavo for the payment cf the LSOO reward which she offered to any one who would prove tha sa'e of the antimony by which her h,usband was poisoned. The chemist in ..questioa positively states that he had supplied Mr .Bravo with the exact poison, and <n that ground claims the n,o'ney/ Mrs Bravo's solicitor has recommended her not to pay ifc, as thn chemist cannot show any patty in his book of any such sale,"^