THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, MARCH 14,1881.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3913, 14 March 1881, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1881.

The Grey County Council will meet this eveniug for the transaction of business. The sale of booths and other privileges in connection with the forthcoming race meeting took place on Saturday, at the Albion Hotel, Mr Girdwood officiating as auctioneer. There was a largo attendance, and the ' prices realised were as follows :— No I booth, Ll7, Mr P. B. Cameron ; No 2 booth, Ll3, Mr D. Sheedy;No,3 booth, Ll4, Mr Hennah ; two frnifc stalls, L 6 each, Mr R. Kettle; games, L 6 10s, Mr G Simpson j card of the races, L 8 15a, Mr G. Simpson. ''-'.' Mark, Sprot, and Co will sell by public auction at the yards, Preston road, this day, fat* cattle* and sheep. ' Girdwood, Lahmau, and Co, will sell by auotion, this day, at the yard?, Preston road, fat cattla, sheep, lam': s, and pigs. The ninth ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Energetic Quartz Mining Company, will be held at the offices of the company, Tainui street, this ovening, Nancarrow and Co will sell by auction this: day, at the rooms, produce, salmon, and beef, Wo nnderstand that the Kapitea bridge, the LoopHae road, and the Big Dam bare been washed away, There were no mails from Christchurch on Saturday. The heaviest rainfall (says the Kumara Timea) tbab has ever occurred in thia town took place last night, as at 8 o'clock the fall was registered at 4.05 inches, and at noon to-day it had increased to 7.60. The down coach for Hokitika, which left here this morning, had not arrived at its destination at 2 p.m, or the upward mail coach from that town here, at 430 o'clock. It is supposed that a heavy landslip on the road between the towns is the cause of the delay. The Colonist, speaking ■ f the new journal which is shortly to see (?) daylight in thi3 town, says :— " A company has been started at Grreymouth, with a capital of L2OOO in shares of LI each, to establish an ' independent' dally morning paper. The3e socalled 'independent 9 papers are generally the most servile journals in existence, being principally employed in bolstering up a clique of the principal shareholder?, and advocating their pet and thoroughly selfish schemes." The result of the scraping of the the plates of the Golden Fleece Extended QuartzMining Company for. the . past week was 280 oz3 of amalgam from 138 tons. It is openly stated in political circles (says, the Home News) that the. secession of Lord, Gran ville, the Marquis of Hartington, and Mr Forstor may be expected at any time, while the chanco of retaining Lord Selborne or the Duke of Argyll is regarded as a very doubtful one Th%re can be no doubt that the position of such men as these in a Government which includes a Chamberlain and a Diikc is exceedingly embarrass ing j and it is a marvel to many persons that they have managed to go on together so long, A disruption is sure to take place shortly, and, according to present appearances, the breakup will most lively take place over the -proposed legislation for Ireland, [rhis may explain the meaning of the cablegram published in our issue of Saturday ] At the Presbyterian Chuic'a at \Ve3t Harbor, near Dunedin, on, Smday evening the 6th instant, the liev. Mr Nivcn made thefollowing remarks concerning racing : — " I can scarcely restrain myself from referring t<> the foul blot on uur civilisation that the past week presents. That such an institution a3 racing should bo patronised to the extent it i 3, with all its villainous and attendant blackguardism, is greatly to be deprecated, and it is above all a disgrace to Christianity." : We are glad to learn that; at least one prospecting association on the Coast has borne fruit in the shape of striking gold in a previously unprospected Joaality, as the gratifying news was, on Thursday, reported to the Greenstone Proapectf og Association by the party of men they had struck good pay able wash. The locality in qaestieri is the left-hand branch of the Three-mi'e Creok at the back of Mr Biggs's store, ths prospects obtained biiog above 2gra to the dish, and the sinking 12ft: As several other shafts are going down, a few days will thoroughly test the grotnd. Persons cannot be too careful (says the Fumara Times) in the use of dynamite when using it for blasting stumpa, esp^claly when in close proximity to the streets of the town. Thia morning a number of people in Main street were suddenly alarmed by hearing a dull explosion', followed by a crashing of wood and glass, and, a second after teeiog a heavy knot of wood about 201 b weight, descend in the sir et opposite Rugg's right-of-way. On examination of the cause of the alarm it was found that a person in close proximity to the rear of Mr Kugg's premises had blasted a stump in his garden, a portion of which had caken off a piece of board from the front of the bowling saloon, while another portion had smashed one of the Kumara Hotel windows.