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Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3907, 7 March 1881, Page 2

Among the visitors by the St Hilda on Saturday was an old and much respected acquaintance, Mr Revel], R.M, of Westport, and who was for many years stationed in Grey mouth. To be bandied abont from pillow to post seems to be the common lot of Government officials now-a-days. To be sure, Government officials ought at all times to be ready— " Ready, aye, fcver ready," should be their motto, and if they are ordered to the Arctic regions or the Toned Zone, they should j always be prepared, but it does seem rather hard that the "removals" should genera 1 ly fall to the lot of a few and not be distributed equally. Our remarks are occasioned by a current rumor that " only a policeman is to be removed." Seeing that the same policeman has been removed to "severeal and other stations " in rapid succession, and has had to make new homes and sacrifice hiu larea and penates at a discount, we think the favors might be distributed over a wider area,

This evening the '•:'. well-know a Court Ministrelß will oommen.ce a short season at the Public Hail. The' members comprising tihe company have been selected from the Lydia Howard Opera Bouffe Company, and the Georgia and Chicago Minstrels, and consists of Madame Andree, contralto, and pianiste ; Messrs Marshall, basso ; Smythe, tenor ; Bowman, tenor robusto ; Hoaoa Easton,. 'ban joist ; Billy Wilson, tambo ;" and F. Bowers, benes. Messrs Easton and. Wilson are well known ; id Greychoutft, haying visited the Coast some time since. The company have met with great success at Reef tun and elsewhere. : : The Collector of Customs has received the following notification : — " From and after the Ist of this month, instead of the 21st as before announced, 1 dozen brandy, whisky, old torn and rum are to be charged as, 2 gallons j 18 bottles as 3 gallons j and 24 bottles as 4 gallons. When there i 3 any excess over the reputed quantity duty is [to be charged on the actual contents as found on examination. In dealing with Geneva, the case containing 12 small bottles is to ba charged at 2 gallons, and the case containing 15 large bottles at 4 gallons. The strength is tpbe calculated as: heretofore." -and Od •will feefi by auction this day, at the Rooms, various lines of merchandise, The return of amalgam from the top plates of the Golden Fleece Extended Quartz Mining Company Limited for the past week was Girdwood, Lahman and Co, will sell by auction this day, at the yards, Preston road, pigs. It will be seen from advertisement that Mr Ring, the photographer, has imported one of. the,, latest improvements , in photography ii .ihefchip.e ora DaUeynier'f- patent lens and camera, and also the latest improvements in studio accessories, It is currently reported in tovn (says the Kumara Times of Saturday) that some person or persons yesterday secured a large number of fish in the Greenstone Creek by exploding a charge of dynamite therein. Such a dastardly an I wanton destruction of the finny tribe should meet with the reward it but too justly deserves, as the Teremakau riyer now abounds with greyling and other fishY L thoioughlyi tufficienttf to naeet the requirements of the most enthusiastic angler. We had occasion last year to call attention to a similar occurrence, but in this instance we trust to see the matter taken up by the proper authorities, as not alone by the use of explosives are a number of fish destroyed, but there I s every probability that many of the salmon placed in the Teremakau are amongst the number. Some of the perils of the bush are thus described by the Port Augusta Dispatch, 28th Januarj j— "A Mr Spender, accompanied Dy his wife and son, and another man were proceeding to one of the out stations, but ran short of water. The horse either died or was unablo to proceed, and the travellers then started on foot. Mr Spender was discovered by a station hand in a fearfully exhausted state, while Mrs Spender was in ano less pitiable condition. The boy had proceeded ahead of the others of the company, and when found, two miles from' the station, was almost worn out. He had only succeeded so far on his journey by cutting his arm and sucking the blood, and thus allaying his thirst." ; It is very probable, says the Auckland Star, that a sculling match for the championship of New Zealand will take place shortly It will be remembered that shortly after the last Auckland Regatta, Albert White, of Mercury Bay, issued a challenge to row against any; man" in "Nt9W; Zealand. He shortly afterwards received a telegram from P, H. Duncan, Tattersall's, Christchurch, expressing his willingness to aocepfc the challenge. White then telegraphed offering to row him in Tauranga for LIOO, and allow him L2sif he loßt the match. No reply was received to this, and White yesterday sent another telegram to Duncan. Tn it he expresses surprise at not reoeiving any answer to the previous communication, and then offers to row him for the championship and LIOO, White to get L 25 In the event of his losing It is expected that a reply will be received to-day, and should it contain an acceptance, the arrangements for the race will be made at once. The West Coast Times :— ln con« nectibn with the extraordinary shooting case at Christchuroh, it may be mentioned that the would-be assassin Beaufield was some years ago woi king in the neighborhood of Rossi He bore a character for violence and was brought, we understand, into unpleasant relations with the police herp. He committed a murderons assault at Ross on a woman named Mrs Dobsen, and threatened one of two other persons with violence. He was at the time we refer to married, and deserted his wife. He was we believe a French sailor and must have known Spring, the man he endeavored to shoot at Christ* churchy at Ross; as the two men were working at the latter place at the same time, : A circular has been issued by Mir E. H. Beere, Wellington, and addressed to sur veyors in, the Colony, with the object of forming an association to be termed the " New Zaaland.lnstitute of Surveyors." Thß advantages of membership are set forth as follows :— Pubiic patronage and confidence j legislative protection ; fair and remunerative P'icea for professional work, and especially for Government contract _ and' Native land Land aufveyig •"protection: from competition, injurious to the public, with incompetent perBDns ; organised combination, in order to promote the general interests of the profession and extend its usefulness for the public advantage. A meeting of delegates will be : held ifi Wellmjgtoh on April Bth, for the election of officers and the adoption, of' the ' Bill now being prepared to lay before Parliament. ■ ' The, following paragraph appsara in.t'io Morning Herald of Thursday :— Yesterday's proceedings of the Resident; Magistrate's Court, were interrupted by an incident; which is doubtless unparalleled -at least in the annals of the Dunedin Courts. A solicitor in one of the; cases eleoted to give evidence, , but. whilst on hia journey from, the bar to the box, either from bodily infirmity or more questionable causes, he exhibited a desire to quarrel with the chairs. His Worship, evidently desiring .to maintain etiquette in ' Court, indignantly exclaimed, "Mr , your are not in a fit state to plead, and you sire even in a less fit state to go into that box and give evidence. I will not take you or you oath — you are intoxicated. I warn you aga ; nst ever again making your appearance in this Court in the state your are now in. I shall bring the matter before the Jud^e of the Supreme Court in some way." The case was then adjourned for a week; A ludicrous mistake is reported to have occurred at the opening of a bazaar in Glasgow, at which the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome were present. A dlatingused clergyman was called upon by the chairman to conduct devotional exercises , and the reverend genieman had commencad to read, when four pipers of a Highland regiment, owing to some misunderstanding, struck up with a wild shriek on the bagpipes, by way of a preliminary to the " Campbells are coining." The music wa3 promptly stopped ; but the solemnity of the pro ceedinga had of oourae been shaken.