THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1885.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5251, 24 July 1885, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1885.

In the report of the annual meeting of the Grey District Benevolent Society, published in yesterday's issue, we inadvertently omitted among the gentlemen elected as a committee of management the names of Messrs J. A. Whall and P. B. Cameron. The book of the period is the revised edition of the Holy Bible, and naturally a good deal of interest has been taken in the publication, especially at home, where there has been quite a rage, the publishers not being able to keep up with the demand. The public of Greymouth will therefore be interested to learn that a consignment of the last issue of thia much sought after book has been received by Mr R. W. Parkinson, and if they are as eagerly

sought after as they were on the first days of publication in England very few copies will remain unsold by the end of the week. The Bible is npatly and strongly bound, and the price is_reasonable.

Mr Charles Frazer, a well-known Reefton resident, who was very largely interested in mines in the district, died yesterday. He had been ailing for some tims back, and went into the Reefton Hospital for treatment. Only a few days ago Dr Morice went from here to Reefton to see if anything could be done for Mr Frazer, who had fallen into a very low | condition ; but apparently his skill was too late to be of any use. Mr Frazer was a comparatively young man, but as he had been very successful in his dealings in scrip, he was well provided for, and leaves some property behind. The Faust Family will appear here again this evening. The highest praise that can be accorded them is to state the naked fact that they have had crowded houses wherever they have appeared on the coast, which is more that can be said by the majority of those who appear behind the footlights. No doubt this remarkably clever family will have a good house this evening, and also to-morrow evening, as there are a great many who did not witness their remarkable performance when the company were here last Besides, many who saw them before will be glad to see them again. The European Mail of May Bth says : — There was a violent scene in the Opera House, Londonderry, on the first production of a pantomime in which were tableaux representing the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Those in the gallery hissed and groaned the representation, and sang "God save Ireland." The disturbance was kept up till half the pit and balcony audience had left. Every scene of the pantomime was groaned at by the gallery. A number of young men in the balcony stalls rose and sang )' God save the Queen." They were joined in by some in the pit, but the audience, which had become thin everywhere, rose to leave. The rowdies broke the gallery windows, tore up the seats, and hurled two of them into the pit. The curtain was drawn down, but the theatre was almost empty, and. the gallery audience on leaving threw bricks at the people outside, and were dispersed by the police. On the London Stock Exchange there are companies to the number of 276, classified as commercial and industrial, iron, coal, and fuel, investment and Financial, and shipping, such represent an aggregate capital of between 80 and 9() j millions sterling. An English clergyman has hit upon an excellant plan of reducing the number of public houses in his pariah. He has bought a beer-shop and closed the premises, and his chief work in the future will be to prevent another house being opened in its place. A French statist gives the following as the proportionate number of persons killed annually on the railways of the respective countries :— France, one in every 2,000 000 ; England, one in every 5,250,000 ;Belgium, one in every 9,000,000; Prussia one in every 21,500,000. Interesting Statistics — Of 612 young ladies who fainted last year more than one half of them fell into the arms of gentlemen. Only three had the misfortune to fall on the floor. Wicked for Clergymen. — "I believe $ to be all wrong and even wicked for clergymen or other public men to be led into giving testimonials to quack doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but when a really meritorious article is made up of common valuabie remedies known to all, and that all physicians use and trnst in daily, we should freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily commend Hop Bitters frr the good they have done me and my friends, firmly believing'they have no equal for family use. I will not be without them." — Rev. , Washington, D.C. Read A Genuine Source of Health. — Thousands of invalids seek in vain, year after year, for some real source of health. They try one remedy after another until they begin to despair of finding the much wished for object. Oh, that some beacon could light those unfortunate groping in the dark to that genuine sources of health, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, an unequalled specific for diseases of the stomach, bowels, and kidneys and a matchless tonic and nervine. — Advt