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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5095, 26 January 1885, Page 2

Throughout the Grey education district the election of new school committees will take place this evening. This is one of those matters in which the public never fail to take a keen interest. There is never any luck of candidates, and householders as a body roll up and voto for the men they would most prefer to see members of committee. The election for the town committee will be held at the school house this evening, commencing at eight o'clock. The Fiery Cross Company will commence crushing to-day. Bad fortune in the shape of delays through wretched weather and rough bars has persecuted Mr Fred W. Millis, the ventriloquist, ever since he touched this coast. His vexations delay in consequence of the unfortunate accident to the s.s Wallace was followed by another delay in the Charles Edward, which had to put in here on Saturday through stress of weather. The little company was billed to open at Hokitika on Saturday evening, and were confidently expected. Instead of that they were doomed to wait here until the weather become sufficiently favorable. After a short season at Hokitika the company will pay Greymouth a visit. Ventriloquial enteitainments never fail to be amusing when carried out by competent persons. Amongst the company is Barry O'Neil, well known on this coast. Mails for the Australian Colonies and United Kingdom, via Sydney close at Auckland per Waihora at 2 p.m on Tuesday, 27th. Due in London on March, 17th. All the local bodies in the Buller County — the borough, county, and harbor board — will unite to give a banquet and ball to Ministers when they arrive at Westpori. Several parties have been out prospecting lately in Mackley's (Buller), and other creeks in the vicinity, but no finds of any importance are reported. Wesport Harbor Board business is progressing. Arrangements in connection with floating the loan are almost completed, and tenders are called for the erection of a small wharf in the lagoon, upon which to land the railway iron.

To-day being the anniversary of New South Wales, the cable will be open from 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. and from 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. by permission. The New Zealand offices will observe the same hours, except that we will open half an » hour earlier in the morning and evening. f MrPentelow, a fellow townsman, has executed a faithful and meritorious water--3 color sketch of Greymouth, including the river, the lagoon, and harbor works. 3 The view presented is taken from the quany hill seaward, and is faithfully a given. All the principal buildings hi the town, such as the churches, the cou;», , the post office, the police station, county chambers, town hall, and the more con spicuous hotels and business places, are accurately placed md readily discerjible. s The shipping, wharf, river and lagoon are well brought out. The harbor works, as they aoand at present, are well delineated. s The wall to be constructed on the north side of the river, as laid down in the plans ' of Sir John Coode, is presented exactly in the form and position in which it is intended to take. There are other details in the picture which cannot fail to convey at a glance the whole plan and theory of the harbor works. It hai been suggested that Mr Pentelow should .get his sketch lithographed. There is very little doubt that if he did this a very large number of copies might be got rid of in . Greymouth alone ; while a great many more might be disposed of in other parts of the colony interested in Greymouth and , 3 its trade and resources. The exports for the past week consisted 3 of 3131 tons 10 cwt coal, and 59 tons 4 cwt i of coke. The rise in the Wealth of Nations low level having been carried up a sufficient distance, a stope has been opened, and stone is now being broken down. i Mr A. R. Guinness has been retained . for the defence in the matter of the county petition against the election of Mr P. Brennan. Mr Notch and Mr Menteath appear for the petitioners. Some of the mining companies at Reefy ton are inconvenienced for the want of water. The Golden Treasure Company have about eighty tons of stone in the machine paddock, but the battery : cannot be started owing to the shortness of water. i The overland mail did not arrive on j. Saturday evening with its customary punctuality. The delay was naturally 1 enough put down to the late change in the 1 weather ; and this surmise was confirmed t last evening by the following telegram I from Hokitika : — ' ' The coach only arrived at four p.m. owing to fioods in the 1 rivers." Lord Wolseley has offered a reward of 3 £100 to the regiment which makes the i quickest despatch in getting from Sarras j to Debbah, and the sum is to be divided r between the non-commissioned officers and 3 privates. , 3 The proverbial uncertainty of the 3 weather wa3 once more exemplified on I Saturday. The cricket match that had f been arranged to take place between teams x representing Hokitika and Greymouth had x been looked forward to with interest by a 3 great many, who expected an enjoyable , half-day's amusement in watching the j game ; and at the request of a number of j business people the Mayor asked that the , afternoon might be observed as a holiday, which no doubt it would have been had I the weather turned out favorable. Unfortunately the gentleman at Wellington [ who prognosticates the approach of bad } weather sent a warning word on Satur- } day afternoon that bad weather might be looked for within ten hours. He is [ seldom very far out in his predictions, and he was not in that instance. The first . glance of day-light gave very little hope j of cricket that day, a steady drizzle being ( kept up the whole time. The Hokitika f men arrived at 4.30 in the morning in the , s.s. Waipara. An attempt at play was v made in the afternoon, and although persisted in for about an hour it was but a dismal effort, and at the end of that time '. all were very wet and glad to knock , off a game carried on under such damp and depressing circumstances. In ; the evening the two teams dined together at the County Council Chambers, and passed a couple of pleasant hours, en- , livened in the way usual and appro - L priate to such an occasion. The greater number of the team and other Hokitika visitors who accompanied them, left for home by the tram on Sunday morning, the Waipara being unable to cross the bar, 1 which was dangerous looking all day. Our Hokitika friends have our heartiest 1 sympathy in the disappointment they have experienced in being deprived of a day's 1 sport that was looked forward to here with an interest only exceeding that of ihose who were to take part in the game. Colonel Booth, ot the balvation Army, will not be able to visit New Zealand on account of illness. Major Howard, who is now in New Zealand, intended filling the Colonel's place in Dunedin, but has been suddenly recalled to Australia. The House of Lords has, in the last fifty years, been reinforced by 181 Liberals and 68 Conservatives. In the same period the Liberals have made 225 baronets ; the Conservatives total i 3 77The Rev. Patrick Phelan, of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Glasgow, has been fined for kicking a young woman who was trying to force her way into the choir. Mark Twain is the richest humourist in America. Besides his own large earnings and savings, he married a lady worth over a hundred thousand pounds. He has the most unique residence in America, at Hartford, Connecticut. During the past four or five months Sir George Grey has distributed eighty boxes of plants in different pai is of the colony. The indictments in the Waring Taylor case contain 16,000 words and 300 paragraphs. Theßimutaka, a new steel screw-steamer built for the New Zealand Shipping Company, has been launched from Messrs J. Elder and Co.'s yard at Fairfield, Govan. Her dimensions are: Length overall, 451 f t; depth, 33ft 4in ; gross tonnage, 4500 tons. Her engines will indicate about 4000 h.p. She will carry about 87 first-class, 82 second class, and 250 third class passengers. Captain Hallett will command her. It is stated as a fact that there are no cats in Leadville. Hundreds of these animals have been brought there, of all kinds and species, but it is said none ever lived more than two weeks. But then there are neither rats nor mice in the place, so that the absence of cats works no injury* The thin atmosphere at the

altitude of 10,000 feet ia believed to be as fatal to these vermin as to their natural foe, the cat. In a letter from Mr {Charles Pharazyn, dat:i November 17, we find the following: — " I saw lait week in Smithfield Market some prime muiton from New Zealand which had just been sold at Is 4d per lb— above the price of some splendid-looking English sheep hanging side by side." Choice Wines and Spirits.— Griffey & Smith. — [ Ad vt. ] Prime Salt and Fresh Butter, Bacon Hams, Cheese, Eggs, Fruit, Fancy Goods and Earthenware, very cheap Courtenay Smith and Co., Richmond Quay. Summer drinks to suit all tastes.— Advt. Mr Greenwood, Dentist, will re-visit Greymouth again in October, 1885.— Advt. - Irish Moss.— Bonnington's, the best remedy for cough, colds, croup, &c— Griefen and SmTH, agents. Skill in the Workship. — To do good work the mechanic must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled his hand or dimmed his sight, let him at once, and before aome organic trouble appears take plenty of Hop Bitters. His system will be rejuvenated, his nerves strengthened, his tight become clear, and the whole constisution be built up to a higher working condition. Read. Strange Insubordination. — Who has not experienced a sort of malady when all the faculties seem in rebellion, and labor is absolutely impossible 1 It is a condition of nerves and stomach and brain that can only be cured by the use of that irresistible remedy, Hop Bitters. Read.— Advt. A Wise MilitaryProvision.— lt would be an admirable idea for the Commissariat of our Army to furnish the troops with Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps for two reasons, firstly, because it would satisfy the thirst of the soldier for alcoholic spirits without working him harm; secondly, because it would brace the system for the exposure and fatigue to which he is necessarily subjected in the line of his legitimate duty. — Advt.