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Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3610, 20 March 1880, Page 2

The share list for the Greymouth V\ allsend Colliery Company, limited, closes today, and there is every probability of the Company being floated. To residents of this district it is needless to expatiate on the value of this property, as they have alretdy given practical illustration of their belief in it. The cost to the original shareholders was L 45,000, and work was only stopped because the capital was insufficient to carry it on. It was afterwards sold by auction to a Dunedin company, but they did nothing with it, and ultimately it has been offered to the present compauy for LIO.OOO. The capital of th<s company is fixed at L 15.000, LIO.OOO of which is for the purchase, and the remainder of the capital to be spent in putting the mine in good working order, so that the company would be able to pay dividends shortly after starting, as the property -would be perfectly clear of debt. In the prospectus issued are certificates from the masters and engineers of various steamers, testifying to the value of the coal for steaming purposes, one engineer statiDg that after 12 years practical experience, "it is better than the celebrated Scotch coal." As to its valne for gas-making purposes it is unequalled, therefore if the company is floated there cannot be much donbt of its success, as all the preliminary work is com plete, and nothing remains but to start taking out coal. At the meeting of the New Zealand "Rifle Association at Nelson, Volunteer Badger was a prize winner at the 200, 400, 500, and 600 y irds range, having made the hue sconof 95 out of a possible 112 W beg to acknowledge the receipt of the Postal Time Table for 1880. Mails for the Australian Colonies, per Arawata, close at the Bluff at nooa today. Telegrams for transmission to Rluff will be reoeived at the telegraph office, Greymouth, till 11 a.m. Graham flowers, the alleged cattle stealer, who it will be remembered escaped some months ago from custody when being escorted to Hokuika, will be discharged (the Lyttelton Times says) from gaol on March 21 and will then be re-arrested on the charge of stealing cattle from Messrs Walker Bros, Maruia Station, which he s >ld in the Rangiora sale yards. The residents of Wanganui have decided to go in for a loan of LIO.OOO for local re* quirements. The unfortunate Chinaman Ah Kum, who came to the Rumara Hospital some few d*ys ago mr adv cc, and who w is pronounced a leier and was thence driven across the river Tereinakau to his proper locale, baa quietly aaved his friends all trouble, by departing this life. On his arrival on this side of the boundary line between the two Counties, he was met by a policeman, wbo had received instructions through the County Chairman to provide a tent and provisions for the unfortunate man. This was done, and the constable left his charge apparent'y oornfortable in his hunk. On the constable's return •, est<i ay morning he found his patient lying firad ->n the floor having rolled out of hi- unk when a. one and unattended, and died there. We relate the facts as they have occurred, and ask— Where is our Chris, tianity ? or, if not tbat, wbero is our humanity ? to allow a fellow creature to di« like ft dog.

Kumara has been proclaimed a district under "The Marringe Act Amendment .Act, 1858," and the boundaries defined in the Government Gazette. A Wairarapa journal says :— We aro informed that owing to the reductions in the expenditure in the Native Department, all the native assessors and other officials in the Wairarapa have been dismissed, and a reduction of about L4OO a year hai been effected in this district As might be expecied, somn of the dismissed officers are not well satisfied with this new arrangement. The Aahburfcon E.M. Court was occupied all Saturday with the case of libel against Mr I vess, proprietor of the Ashburton Mail. A number of witnesses were called for the defeuce, including several Boroufch Councillors and some of the local solicitors. At the conclusion of the defence Mr Guinness, the R.M., g aid he considered there was a prima facie case to go to a jury, and committed Mr Ivess to take his trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Bail was grante I to Mr lvess on his entering in his own recognisance for LIOO to appear.