THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1884.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5049, 1 December 1884, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1884.

His Honor Judge Broad will hold a sitting of the District Court this morning at 10 o'clock. The petition against the election of Mr A. R. Guinness for Paroa will como on on Monday next. The following unclaimed letters from .places beyond the colony during September last are now lying at the post office :— Thomas Ahearn, John Eddy, W. Sommerville. The Low Level Tunnel Company have resolved to get estimates prepared as to the cost of providing rock-boring machinery to expedite the driving of the tunnel. The exports for the week closed on Saturday last were as follow :— IBB9 tons 11 cwt. of coal, 53 tons IS cwt. coke, and 4 tons 1 cwt. bricks. By inadvertancc our notice of the con versazione on Saturday contained no reference to three excellent landscape paintings, by Miss Minnie Shields, a local artiste, als > three oil and two water color paintings of considerable merit by Mr James Gulliver of this town. ._ The Kumara tail-raco is to receive immediate attention from Mr Ballance. M. DeHarven, the promoter of the special Belgian settlement, has had an interview with Sir Julius Yogel as well as with the Premier, and appears hopeful as to the success of his mission. The Fire Brigade meet this evening at their hall at the usual hour. Mark Sprot. and Co., will sell prime heifers at 12.30 to-day at Preston road. Nancarrow and Co., will sell at 11 a.m. to-day at their rooms, a quantity of new furniture. r Girdwood, Lahman and Co., will sell at Preston yards at noon to-day a large number of bullocks, sheep, and lambs. The Good Templars of Greymouth meet at the Railway station this evening prior to proceeding to Brunnerton as arranged. A novelty in the way of acrobatism will be witnessed here on Tuesday, when the Japanese troupe, with very queer sounding names, will make a first appearance. Mi- Service lias invited the Tasinani n Government to appoint a delegate to confer on reciprocity of trnde between the colonies. One Wellington journal says there are dissensions in- the Cabinet, while another says there are not. It is seldom that there is smoke without fire, however much it may be concealed. The Post tries to { make its readers believe that Government i have noc yet discussed the question of roj constructing our system of local governf ment ; but the details of the Government I scheme have already been circulated, and i their correctness is adhered to ?n the quarter which gave them publicity. Colonel Higginson, of Boston, writing on the late Presidential election, says : — "It is desirable that our President should ; never have sinned, never tasted whisky, j never had an unchaste thought, never ! swore an oath. But, after all, when it j ! comes to being the ruler of a great nation, i those virtues, however important, are i secondary, not primary. To be absolutely honest in public office ; to have the courage to act as one thinks right ; these are the primary virtues. These are the virtues on whick nations rest ; it is upon these that our republic is founded." Who would be an emperor?: — "A message arrived at Skiernievice from Vienna, addressed to the secret police, advising them to make a close inspection of tno locomotives in the station, as it was believed dynamite was concealed in one of them. The fires of live locomotives were accordingly extinguished, and, on the coal being unloaded, a general search was made, but nothing was found. All the officials in the Imperial trains were made to swear allegiance to the Czar before being allowed to enter upon vheir duties. | At all the viaducts along the route to i Skiernievice sappers cleared away the soil I to a depth of three feet around the supports, presumably as a precaution against dynamite." More goldfields are reported to have been discovered on the Kussiau-Chinese frontier of the Amoor, twelve miles from the frontier on the Chinese- side ; and the Russians, who have complained so much of the invasion of their own side by the Chinese, are now swarming over to the j hew Chinese El S'-Swdo. ■

Concerning private morals in the ' Western States of North America, the San Francisco correspondent of the Uhujo ' Do.Ujt Times writes :— The habit of ve-ulat- f hit; the rights of property by shot %un and ] halter naturally loads to'tlic cnvivction of private and public morals in the same '.vay. A shoit while ago a widow was lightly spoken of in a western town, and a band of masked men broke into her house and scourged her almost to death, ordering her out of the neighborhood. They were all of course "members of the best families," and entitled to cast stones at her, being sinless themselves. Tarring and feathering is another favorite amusement by moral regulators in masks ; and per contra, bauds of masked men are equally prone to break into unprotected houses, and infamously treat the female occupants. Punishment rarely overtakes these wretches. They are voters. They elect the policeman, sheriff, justice of the peace, and the entire judiciary. They can influence- judge and' jury, and the affair is dropped quietly out of sight. A recent case of .regulation morals took place in Tennessee. The Mormons had made converts in the county in questiou, and were spreading their light successfully. A band of. forty masked men broke into a private house where the Mormons were holding service and shot four of them, fatally wounding a woman behind whom one of the elders took refuge. A Mormon elder who escaped to the woods was shot, and one was"- captured elsewhere in the neighborhood and killed. One of the assailants was shot. He was one of the most prominent men in the-county. Altogether sevei\ lives were loft by this antiMormon projEfest iv the interest of private morals. Bu^fchis act, .-ilthough it is condemned, is in strict harmony with the bloodthirsty appeals of Talmage and other sensational preachers for troops to be turned loose in Utah to extirpate the Mormons. Stanley, the African explorer, after hav-' ing been seven years in Africa, is about to retire. He is described as very unsocial. His successor will be Sir Francis Winton, formerly aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Lome. A number of passengers who arrived in Melbourne by .the ship Birmingham, one of the first of the Black Ball line, on the 9th of October, 1852, being anxious to know how many of their number were still left, invited by advertisement in The Argus all those who came in the vessel on that occasion to meet and celebrate their 32nd anniversary, at Clements' Cafe on the 10th October. Out of the 500 passengers by the vessel only 10 came to the reunion, but there were apologies from four others who were unable to attend. The little company were so delighted with the night's entertainment that at its close it was proposed to have a similar reunion annually. A remarkable breach of promise case is at present before the Melbourne Supreme Court. In August last Mrs Catherine Egd n, described as a widow, sued Alfred James Homer for breach of promise of marriage and obtained a verdict for £300. A rule was subsequently granted at tlv- instance of defandant for a now trisil, and on the rule coming up for hearing on the 3rd instant his counsel stated that since the trial a miner named Charles liiekcttshad bom found who would be prepared to swear that the plaintiff was his wife. He married her iv iSOO. They afterwards left Victoria and went to New Zealaml. . Early in 1807 she left him and -' returned to Victoria with a person named Louis Egden. In answer to this' story the plaintiff repudiates all knowledge of Ricketts, and says that she was married to Louis Alfred Esjden in 1871 at St Malachi's Chapel, "Belfast. They afterwards went to Victoria and then to New Zealand, Her husband died in Auckland in 1871. The Minister of War has permitted the New Zealand Government to purchase a battery of six pieces of field artillery 9-pounders, from the War Department, at a considerable reduction in the original cont. Though the guns are not of an obsolete type, they are not up to the standard of latest modern improvements. — Anglo JVeii' Zcalander, September 26. The Maori chief Wahanui has been offered a seat in the Legislative Council, but intends to consult his people before giving a definite answer. Out of Japan's total population of 30,000,000, there are only 10,050 paupers, and of these more than 1000 are at Tokio in the work -house. Mr Ring Ini3 gone on a visit to ' Beofton for a few days. — Advt. Fifty Kegs Prime Butter for sale cheap, Potatoes, Bacon, Eggs low prices. Courtenay Smith and Co., Brokers. Agents tor " Mignon " pianos, specially suitable for a damp climate, inexpensive, brilliant tone. Try dugong oil for chest complaints, colds, rheumatism, cetc. — Advt. Mr Greenwood, Dentist, will re-visit Greymouth again in October, ISBS. — Advt. _ The suicidal policy of the patent medicine manufacturer lies in his end and aim to convince the people that his nostrum is a cure-all and panacea for every evil. No preparation can be so catholic as to universally efficacious. Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps does not j pretend to relieve all ailments, but pos- i sesses in its line undeniable virtues. — [Advt.] Good Resolutions. — At the commencei ment of every new year hundreds and thousands of our young men — and old as well — form resolutions for their guidance for the coming year. Many keep them, while others break them. To such we wish to give a word of advice. In order to sustain your determination of leading a better life in the future you should use Hop Bitters. The judicious use of Hop Bitters strengthens, cleanses, and purifies the stomach, bowels, blood, liver, nerves,kidneys, and is just what you want to and build up and invigorate yourself. — G-vccnbush Dem. Head The Tidy Housewife. — The careful, tidy housewife, when giving her house its spring cleaning, should bear in mind that the clear inmates are more previous than houses, their systems need cleansing, by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels, and she should know that there is nothing that will do it so surely as Hop Bitters, the purest and best of all medicines-. Look for. — Advt. Hush Mass. — Bonnington's, the best roiiiedy for cough, colds, croup, &c. — GiuiOKEKand SuiTJi. agents. Fine assortment Flower Seeds, extra quality Mignonnette. Griffey and Smith. - [Advt].