THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1884.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 4784, 22 January 1884, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1884 .

Yesterday 118 loaded trucks were brought from Brunnerton to Greymouth. This is the greatest number that lias ever passed over the line in one day. It Avas nearly all coal. The Oreti has brought some ironbark piles for the harbor works. They are of unusual length for piles, some of them being over 50ft. Mails for the Australian colonies and United Kingdom via Sydney close at Auckland to-morrow, 22nd, and for France, &c, per French packet. Owing to the unaA r oidable absence of several teachers from the Greymouth school, who are attending the annual I examination at Kumara, the Committee have decided to postpone recommencing avo k till Monday next. The school Avill therefore be closed for the remainder of this Aveek. At the R.M. Court, yesterday, before H. A. Stratford, Esq., Nils Tallockson was charged Avith drunkenness, and fined 55., or in default 8 hours' imprisonment. The District Court Avas opened by the Clerk yesterday, and adjourned till the 23rd inst., at 10 a.m. Mr Linn, the Avell-known musician, purposes forming a string and brass band at Hokitika. Mr C. S. Emmerson, the courteous teller of the Union ißank (Hokitika), avlio is about to be transferred to Nelson, Avas last Friday night entertained by a number of friends at the Occidental Hotel, and presented Avith a handsome centre-second stop watch, as a mark of esteem. MrW. L. Fowler (Mayor of Hokitika) has presented the First Westland Rides Avito twh silver cups.

Greenwood and Son, Dentists, Wanganui, next visit to Greymouth in April. — Advt. The feeblest system may be fortified against the effects of unwholesome air and rapid changes of temperature, by the occasional use of that celebrated tonic invigorating cordial, Wolfe's Schnapps, —[Advt.]