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Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3044, 18 May 1878, Page 2

.' The body of the man found on the North Beach has been buried'! it having been considered unnecessary, in consequence of the impossibility of identifying it; to hold an: inquest. ,: We have (received the following telegram from Mr R. Reeves :—" Please contradict the statement of the Press Agency. lam strongly in favor of the .Grey Ministry, and not opposed as therein stated." It will be remembered that upon the occa- I sion of the Rev. A. F. Douglas leaving Greymouth he was presented with a purse of sovereigns and an address. The latter has since been .very beautifully engrossed by Mr Hindmareh, aod will be forwarded to the revert nd gentleman by the first opportunity. ' In the Presbyterian Church thb Rev. Geo. Morice will conduct divine service, morning and evening, to-morrow. > ' : . The coach from Reefton arrived last night About 9 o'clock, being the first; that has sue- : ceeeded in getting through for six days. At a meeting of the committee of the school district of Arnold, held within the school, No Town, on Saturday, the 11th, Messrs Clement Parfitt and Duncan Corbett were nominated for the chairmanship, and on a vote being taken Mr Parfict waß daly elected. The district committee consists of . the following gentlemen, viz. s— Messrs Cle- ■ ment Parfitt (chairman) Duncan Corbett, John Livingstone, Thomas Ruddle (treasurer), Jeremiah McCarthy, Samuel Frankpitt, and Peter Lausten. Mr John D. r Robb, teaoher of No Town School,, was appointed clerk to the district committee. ' A rumor current in Wellington some two years ago has (says the Bruce Herald) been revived. It is to the effect that Mr W. A, Murray, member, for Bruce, is at present occupying bis intellect in drafting a bill imposing a duty upon skimmed milk. The nature of the honorable gentleman's own eloquence has. suggested the subject to him. A Delaware literary seciety, in turning over its papers preparatory to repairing its hall, found many valuable autograph letters from distinguished men — nearly all being responses to notifications of election to hono- : rary memberships' of the society. One of; these, dated 1849, was written by Horace: Greeley, the founder of the New York Tri-: bune, It runs thus : — '• My attainments ■ anywhere near the boundary of scholarship are so very meagre that 1 dislike to receive such a compliment as your society has ptid me. I never spent a day in any sort of a seminary above a common school (which was exceedingly common in ray time). Since I was eight years old I have only seen the inside of a school house in winter ; since 14, not at all; and our terms did not average five months per annutc in those days. 1 know a little newspaper Latin and French; and might have mastered a little Greek the same way if the barbarians had knowa enough to use an intelligible alphabet. Of mathematics T learned what is contained in Adams's arithmetic ; of grammar, just; enough to see that Lindley Murray knew very little, and blundered shockingly. As to ehirography, mine speaks for itself —not clearly as to matter, but quite distinctly enough as to manner, However, I know a little of what may be fished up on a faler-

ably busy and ragged journey through the world, having always loved books better than play, and devoured newspapers with insane avidity. Thanking your society for the honor intended me, and meaning to justify it by a faithful obedience to .the maxim, ' T jve and learn ' — I remain, yours truly, Horaos Greeley." : The Lancet gives publioity to what it calls an offensive and insulting appeal to. the medical .profession. It 'seems that the Lancet has received copies of a circular which it justly styles a very remarkable one, sent by an undertaker to the doctors in the neighborhood. The undertaker addresses his medical neighbors in a most friendly and grateful style, thanking them for past favors in the form of recommendations, promising them quarterly instead of half-yearly cheques, and warning them against any mistake in the name, on the score that there is " another establishment", within.a few doors, with, which the writer has no connection whatever. This (says the Pall Mall Gazette) is certainly carrying friendly cooperation a little too far. With reference to a Dunedin breach of promise case recently mentioned in our telegraphic columns, the Morning Herald says that tne question and its various collateral issues have been entrusted to the hands of one of our most energetic lawyers, and steps are proceeding to. have the case tried in Dunedin iri preference to loverdargill, for the convenience of the fair complainant, at present resident in this city. Should the case come to Court we understand that the epistolary communications will satisfy the most fastidious that there must be nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. ■; After Mr Button,, M.H.R., had addressed a meeting of ; his constituents at Hokitika on Thursday eyeniog the following resolution was adopted :— " That after Mr Button's political views as expressed here to-night, and whilst having the highest respect for IMr Button's able and conscientious services ■intbe past, and the greatest respect for his reasons for not supporting the present Ministry, yet this meeting is of opinion that the sympathies of this constituency would be represented more iri accordance With public opinion here were it represented by a supporter of Sir George Grey's Ministry."'