THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1881.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3917, 18 March 1881, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1881.

In reference to the statement made in oar leadiDg article yesterday thit Mr Trennery abated at; the meeting that he purchase 1 250 shares from Mr Gorrie after the sale for 9ii, although Mr Gome asked Is 6i for them, and only let Mr Tremiery have them at 9d as a favor, Mr Trennery has called upon us and states that the above are not exactly i the real facts of the case. Mr Gorrie never ■ a3ked Mr Tremiery la Gd ; for* them, bub on Mr Trennery expressing a wish to purchase some, Mr Gorrie at once offered to let Mr Trennery have whafc he required even at a less price than' 9d, although the 'selling pries ruling at the time was from Is to Is 6d. The newly appointed medical officer for the' Kumara Hospital, Dr Porker, took charge of the institution on Wedniesds? molm'u*. Owing to the inclemency" of the weather | and consequent postponement of the, sports, Mr Warden Stratford had extended ..protection to mining privileges to the 2Sth' instant, inclusive. ;J M >--~ The-attepdpncejab the Christy's M[instrels entertainment at' the Volunteer Hall was, dpnsidering~the state of the" weather, as well as could be expected, but hot so welt as the nature! of the, entertaionwnt deserved , The instrumental; music was, as usual at these entertainments, first class r indeed each performance. Jin this, respect-is an improvement; on its predecessor.' The singing was all tbat could be desired, each- song being warmly applauded, and -some of them encored. Altogether the entertainment was a good one, but the wretched'weither spoiled, the attendance. «- .. ;■■'" Mr^j 1 . W. Mttfrtin. District Engineer* arrived;it Reef ton 6,n Sunday, and will proceed to Cannibal Gorge; Tha object of his visit is to"meet Messfs Browne and O'Connor, who will leave Ghriscchurch shortly ; and we believe, prepare jointly, a report upon the proposed Canterbury and Westland iailw*y route. „ . - .■'■-.-■ On Wednesday morning v\ acc/deat happened to Cameron's "coach ' from Kumava, near Stafford. The reioe broke and^the driver consequently lostrcqmffljandof theT team!- The passengers maoaged to' jump Joutrxbefoce the horses stopped. The driver and two passengers were Eomewhat bruised, but none of the injuries are' "serious. No damage' was; dooe to the coaob, and no fault; is attribute ' able to: the driver, --: ■-.-• > A gift auction in aid of the funds of Trinity Church will be held in tWVolunteer Hall,'this : eveoingj when a large'and valuable collection of use'iil and ornamental artfols will be offered for. s*le. ■•-, „; The Comedy anu Burlesque Company are outside in the. Murray, and will open at the Publio Hail on arrival; • In Consequence of the .inclement weather, the races have agaia been postponed, the course^being under water. They will in all . probability ba hold on Monday and Tuesday. Owing the heavy fresh * and the num erous obstructions on the Reefton road, the up coach did not start yesterday. Should travelHog be practicable a coach will start simultaneously from Gieymouth and Reefton' today, so that the proper running may be re- ■ sumetHio-morrow. :/ ".■ As various • stories were in circulation 'as to compensation being paid by the Government on account of theP Rimutaka accident, especially to persbns not in pocuniary need of aid, a return has been prepared of the actual disbursements oh account of the. accident, and this shows 1 - that not one 'farthing of "compensation" has been paid to anybody. ; The only payments which have been made at all on account of tbe' accident have been some o? the dootors' ; ~bilh£° others deemed excessive being still held over. The expenses of medicin9,. nursing for the wounded,; the cost of the - funeral of the;:, two' Nicholas' children who were killed, and lastly a "compassionate" allowance of LlO to a man named Croucb, who was severely wounded, and who pleaded that he had been consequently reduced to destitution. We take the following from the Wanganui Chronicle, of the 2nd instant :— " Mr James B rcball, probably the older printer in New Z°aland, died suddenly at his residence in Guyston street, yesterday forenoon The deceased wa3 one of the first printers who came to New Zealand, and resisted to print the first newspaper which was published in the colony. He came from Tasmania, where he bad been for a number of years employed on the Courier and Colonial Register. His decease will be regretted by a large circle of friends," He was 62 years of age at the time of his death. At the meeting of the Westland Waste Lands Board on W ednesday, the application of the Roman Catholic Church, Greyonuth, to have value for improvements added to section 466, town of Grey mouth, was considered, and it was resolved to recommend the Governor to sanction the addition of tbe sum of LSO to the upset price of the section, the sale of which was approved by the Board on the 19 th January, 1881, "The Loafer in the Street " in the Christchurch Press has the following:— "Lodging, even when you have a good landlady, have their disadvantages. I have a~,c irfcained this fact from personal experience : not that I am saying a word against mine, . I trqsfc I have been better introduced to myself tban to commit such a blunder as that. But lam reminded of the fact by a little circumstance which happened to a ftiend of mine within the last few days. He was staying with a widow— is still, in fact-- i and during a three montJts 1 stay had the dissipated youn? dog actually, with tte occasional assistance of self and other friends, got through three bottles of whiskey. The empty bottles were left in some corner of the bouse. It happened that his landlady had occasion to change her quarters, and the bottles were left behind. Her reverend pastor calling the day after they left spotted the bottles, and seeing they were empty formed his own conclusions. The landlady's daughter oalling on him the following day, he told the girl that it was no wonder her mother never got on, as she drank. Tlio girl denied that her mother ever touched anything of tbe spiri'uoua kind, but the I reverend pastor rose np the three whiskey

bofc;?es aaja^st the orphan, and fcbe girl was ! naturally much <} stressed at tbs inf oraation. « coming from a source' sbe natara'Jy deemed r s reliable. This wa3 fcbe unfortanale reauls of our drink'ng three bottles of whiskey, but I cannot refrain from saying that the pari taken by the pasior seems a very unusual manner of yis\Uug the fatherless aud widows In their affliction^ 1 can only hops be doei not in his daily visits to his; parishioners ' rush to such speedy conclusions a3 to the habits of his flock, and descrioe the s" :■% of the parents to ,their,dutjful. progeny." Tbe following ate '.ihe'laccVpirnceß for Ibe. Grand Handicap pede3trian race, to be - ja: at tbe sports ground, Eeefton: — H Lines, RKing D Twobill, P O'Rorke, S M'/'eer, WCochraoe, R Crchraue, T Cocbra»?e, T Lecher, J Steobouse, J Sargeanl, G Bj Handy, and C Groanland. The non-acceptors are W Gear, T Coy, W Kilgour, and J Lodge. It is our (fnaogahua Herald) grat ; fyiog duty to record another grand c 1 easing up forj tha Welcome Gold-m'uiog Company. After orushiog four weeks aud four days, pa.sing: about 460 tons of stone through^ .batierie'i,:: tbe c6mpauy ,, cleaned up jr^totted yesterday, obtaining i4670z9 of gold, or an average of nearly 3^oz3 per ton. Tbe mine is looking splendid — abundance of stone and' richly gold bearing being exposed ?n all the frees. According to the Qamaru.Mail i of /t the 4th instant the" manager of tnelOamaru Gasworkß reported as follows : — I beg to in'orm. you that I received one ton of coals from the Westport Coal Company (per James Craig and Co,) for a trial. The aample was very small, with a dull dirty appearance. I burnt the^.coals. a.ad found^them to yield at. the ; rat(Hf 9000 cit .|flsr top a^per station n^eter, the' illuminating power being 15 candles." T- c coke was of an excellent character, being hard and firm, and well suited for foundry or malting purposes. The coal, in my opinion,, is inferior to Greymouth as a gas coal, but might be used aftnjig the Greymouth coal to advantage. Tbe price, I am informed,; is 24s per ton at tba breakwater, or 27s at, the gasworks siding. Should the Committee' order any more coals before the winter S6a on sets in, I would prefer the Coal Pit Heath Company's ;eoal fnm Greymouth, and I may say that I'fiave'Be^n informed by one' or two gentlemen that they oould supply us with best Greymouth coals 5s or 6a per ton cheaper than those supplied by Messrs Meek.