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Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3099, 22 July 1878, Page 2

Mr W. B. Mobs will hold a sale of produce alongside the T. B. Taylor, on the wharf, at 11 o'clock to-day. Messrs Gird wood, Lahmaa, and Co. will sell at their yards, Preston Road, at 11 o'clock to-day, cattle, f&c, and immediately afterwards the slaughter-house premises of Mr Wallace Woolfe. Mr W. B. Moss will sell at his rooms today, at 2 o'clock p.m. (instead of 11 a.m. as previously announced), the household furniture of Mr R. L. Simpßon, particulars of which will be found in the advertisement in another column. Mark S pro t and Co. will sell at noon today, at their yards, Gmotumotu, cattle and sheep. A supplementary Gazette, issued on the 12th inßtant, contains notifications of the appointments of .>ir George Grey as Commissioner of Customs and Stamps, and of the Hon Mr ballance as Colonial Treasurer. It is proposed that the Corporation of Wellington Bhall borrow half a million for public improvements, We regret to Lave to record the death of Mr John Dixon, of the firm of Mace and Dixon, at Wellington, on the evening of the 18th instant, Mr Dixon was seized with a fit of apoplexy on the 12th instant, and from the effects never rallied, sinking gradually until death terminated his sufferings. As a very early and much respected resident of the West Coast there are many who will regret his untimely demise. An early and clever capture was effacted on Friday by Inspector O'Donnell and Sergeant Emmerson, of the police force (says the Kumara Times), of one of the persons concerned in the late robbery of gold from a tail-raco at Greek's. At four o'clock in the morning the two officers, from information received, left in pursuit, and after a walk of seven naileß along a bush track and the examination of various huts, they arrested their man, Thomas Elham, by moonlight, and safely brought him to the camp. We understand that another man implicated in the robbery has been arrested at Hokitika. The following special telegrams appear in the Wellington Post of the 12bh instant :— The cause of the native rising in New Caledonia was that several chiefs were seized as hostages for th 6 delivery of the murderers of a settler named Chene and his family. The natives rose in the night, muroered the guard, and rescued the chiefs, and devastated the settlement. Affairs are in a Very critical Btate, as the military force in the island is insuffiuient. Unless absistance is immediately rendered by France, it is probable that Englend will be petitioned to annex the island. — The Sappho brings four destitute men from New Guinea. They deny that payable gola has been discovered, and the weather impedes the operations of the prospectors. Game is plentiful, and the natives friendly. A Russian traveller, who has returned from New Guinea, refuses any information about the country. It is believed that his party is settled at the place where heavy gold v" rooapiiiv obtained. A melancholy case of sudden death occurred on the 13th, at Wellington, Mrs Messenger, a resident in Wlngfield street, having been found dead in her bed. Her husband states that she had suffered for some time from heart disease, but was apparently quite well last evening, when she was playing draughts with him, and appeared in excellent spirits. They retired to rest as usual, and this morning he got up early, as was his custom, to light the fire, leaving his wife seemingly fast as'eep. Having lit the fire and made some other preparations' for breakfast, he returned to call her, but, to his horror and grief, found her quite dead, she evidently having passed away in her Bleep. Mr and Mrs Messenger have been residents in Wellington for nearly fourteen years past. At Auckland, on the 13th, the Orangemen paraded the streets in procession. Four lodges were represented, numbering 550 persons who mirched through Queen street, with banners flying, to the Protestant Hall, Newtown, and thence to Newmarket headed by two bands. 400 more then joined the procession, marched through Parnell, and then through other thoroughfares to Beresford street Church, where Divine Service was i held. Representatives were present from the principal country districts. An accident occurred on the railway at the Upper Hutton the 13 th, which resulted in the death of three horses, several persons having a vory narrow escape. A waggoner named Mabey, was driving a team, consisting of three horses, towards the railway station at the Upper Hutt, when they broke away from him and bolted on the railway line, gallopping along the line just in front of the engine employed in ballasting the railway extension beyond Kaitoke. The driver endeavored to pull up in time to avoid a collision, but unsuccessfully, and tha engine ran over the horses, killing two instantaneously, and injuring the third so badly that it was necessary to shoot the poor animal at once to put it out of misery. The rapidity with which the Luua discharged cargo yesterday (saya the Wanganui Chronicle of the 10th instant) seemed quite to astonish some of our easy-going natives. The increase of speed was accomplished by means of what (in Wanganui at least) is a novelty — namely, the employment of two buckets, one on each arm of the swingletree. These being filled with coal, and elevated, were simultaneously tilted into the drays immediately beneath them, and this process being repeated time after time, in a prompt business-like manner, drays were at a premium. In the endeavor to supply the constant demand for them, the drivers put on extra steam, and the rapidly passing vehicles, combined with the unusually energetic air of all engaged on the wharf, resulted in animation and bustle as pleasing as unusual.