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Grey River Argus, Volume XXI, Issue 3188, 2 November 1878, Page 2

It will be noticed in our advertising columns that Mr Kirn Williams has announced himself as a candidatef or the representation of the Marsden Riding in the Grey County Council. An announcement appears in another column from the County Road Overseer, stating that the bridge over Watson's Creek, Paroa road, is unsafe for traffic. It is expected to be repaired to-night. The drawing of Jones's sweep on the Melbourne Cup took place at the Volunteer Hall last night. The winning numbers will be found in another column. The Lyell Argus, of the 19th October, states that a man named tVilliam Corbett, a ; stranger, when crossing the Matakitiki, slipped |from his seat on horseback behind a load, fell into the river and was drowned. Search was made, but as yet there has been no tidings of the body. "No one has greater faith in newspaper men than I have," said Mr Barton, speaking in the House last night, upon an amendment made by the Legislative Council in the Uisqualificetion Bill, specially affecting the "fourth estate." "I am quite positive that no journalist in the Colony would sell his vote in the House for Government ad • vertißemßn,ts ; I am equally sure that none would afford a slavish support to the Government in power in the hope of favors to come. I wish it to be distinctly understood that I am perfectly certain no editor or proprietor of any New Zealand newspaper would ever do such a thing. But some others who are perhaps on the shipboard, coming out, might do so— therefore I shall vote for the amendment."

A terrible scene occurred in a slaughteryard at Auckland la3t week. Richards, butcher, of Newmarket, Cook (Riohard'a man), and Clayton's slaughtermen, were on the top rail of the pens at Panmure slaughter house, endeavoring to drive several bullocks into a killing pen. The animals were rather wild, being Wanganui run bullocks. One of them, more furious thin the rest, charged Richards on the rail, which is some teven feet high, in a ft antic manner, and smashed the rail. The scene then became awful. Richards and Cook, with broken timbers, fell pell-mell among the maddened bullocks. Or c of the bullocks dashed Richards into a corner, and then madly jumped on him ; Cook, half-stunned, half -frightened, creeping among the bullocks' legs and timbers, the other men meanwhile calling for help got out. Richards was still lying trampled upon, and bleeding, among the bullocks, when one of the men broke open the gate, and the animals went bellowing up the paddock. The men now went to Richards's assistance. He was at first supposed to be dead, but by means; of restoratives in about two minutes consciousness was restored. He was a long while before he could realise his position, or stand up without help. The poor fellow has a severe cut above the eye, which let down the flesh almost hiding the eye ; his neck was swollen out some inches from being trampled upon ; his right hand was split in two places, and he had subtamed other injnries. He was taken to the hospital.

The Gazette announces the appointment of John Clone, as registrar of dogs for th»fc portion of the County of Grey situated in the Provincial district of Westland.

The appointment of Mr H. J. H. Wolters, as a certificated accountant in Bankruptcy In the city of Wellington, is gazetted.

Notice is given in the Gazette that the gold-mining lease applied for by G. Moore, W. G. Colliugs, and others, for "The Phcenix Company"— namely, 10 acre 3, Darkies Terrace, Charleston — has been refused ; and the ground is now open to persons holding miners' rights or business licenses, as if a lease of the said ground had not been applied for,

Wellington papers say that Messrs Holt and Macarthy have intimated formally to Mr John Carruthers, C.E , late Engineer-in-Chief for New Zealand, that unless he immediately retracts and apologises for certain statements which he has made respecting the Press Agency, and contributes a donation to the Benevolent Institution, they will commence an action against him forthwith for libel.

At the present time the following list of directors and officers of the City of Glasgow Bank, extracted from Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac for this year, will be of interest :— "Directors : John Stewart, Robt. Salmond, Lewis Potter, John James Wright, William Taylor, Henry Inglis, and R. S. Stronach — the last-named being manager also. The chief cashier was John Turnbull ; secretary, Charles S. Leresche ; and accountant, William M orison."

The Tablet publishes as a sort of Black list the names of the 38 members who voted against Mr Curtis' Education Bill, and recommends Catholics to place a copy o it in the most frequented part of their houses, lest they should forget or mistake their enemies.

The Government organ, the New Zealander, contains the following paragraph : — We are authorised to state that there is no truth in the report) respecting Mr Luckie's appointment aa Land Tax Commissioner. The Government hav^ taken no steps whatever, and have given no promises respecting the inauguration or administration of the Land Tax Bill. Mr James Morton, of Glasgow, whose failure for two and a half million, sterling is announced, was the prime mover in the establishment and direction of the Australian and New Zealand Land Company. Mr Strangways. who writes upon emigration, says there are 913,000 superfluous women in the United Kingdom who ought to be sent to the Colonies. Inspector Acheson, of the Wellington police force, has been transferred to Nelson by order of the Government, in consequence of the report of the Committes on the Wellington police. In the Supplementary Estimates, the sum of L 3500 is set down for additional Snider ammunition, and L2OOO for the Volunteer Rifle Association ; also LSOO for railway fares for Volunteers and fire brigades. In the Hous of Representatives on Tuesday last, Mr Montgomery continued the debate in support, of the amendment that the financial year should terminate on the 31st March. He referred to the system in the House of Commons in respect to supply votes. The Hon Treasurer said the Government would make the financial year terminate on the 31sfc March, 1880, and Parliament could meet about the middle of April. The session need not last: longer than three months. Mr Montgomery then withdrew his resolution. The receipts of the Brunner Railway for the four weeks ending 21st September, 1878, amounted to L 741 11s Id, of which sum L 197 16s consisted of wharfage dues. A most distressing case was reported to the polic? of Timaru lately. A man named John Mananga, a Frenchman, engaged in fishing near the Washdyke, was thrown from his horse and had his leg broken. The accident occurred eight miles from his tent, and as no assistance was offered, the poor fellow started to crawl to his tent. It toot him two days and nights to get along the beach to the tent, and the exertion wore the flesh off the knee of the unbroken leg. He had no food in his tent, but kept himself alive by eating Maori hens, which his dog brought to him. He was discovered by two boys, whom he informed of his sad position. The boys reported the matter to Mr Charteris, who at once informed the police. Sergeant Haldaroe got Dr M'lntyre to go out at once, and the man was found in a frightfully emaciated state. He was brought into the hospital, where the leg was set with some difficulty.. Mananga is expected to recover with a few weeks careful nursing. The following notice appears in that unique journal, the Lyell Argus :— " For sale, a donkey, own brother to the editot Charleston Herald. Apply to Dirty Mary." It would appear from the evidence given in the case of Blundell (Evening Post), v Gardiner (Evening Chronicle) that the socalled "special" cablegrams "from our special London correspondent " published by the Post, are only "special" in the sense that they come from the Sydney Evening News In his examination, Mr John Blundell, the proprietor of the Post, declared " that the telegram in question was received from Mr Haynes, of the Evening News in Sydney, and that it was not received from London." He further admitted that as proprietor of the Evening Post his firm had never appointed a correspondent in London." Then, under the "screw" judiciously applied by Mr Stout, John Blundell was furthermore constrained to admit that he had never dreamt of sending home "a special correspondent " to London, but that the whole of the so-called " Special Cable News to the Evening Post " emanated from the office of the Sydney Evening News, and was telegraphed to the Auckland Star, the Napier Telegraph, the Bunedin Star, the Christchurch Globe, and the Evening Post, who each paid a small sum to the Sydney paper for the intelligence The Sydney News is assumed to receive the telegrams from some agent in London, but there is no evidence furnished on that point, and so far as the public are concerned they are still left entirely in the dark as to whether or not the, telegrams ever came from London or riot.