THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1885.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5298, 19 September 1885, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus PUBLISHED DAI LY. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1885.

Brass bands we have in plenty, and very fine accessories they are to enjoyment at parades and out-door sportß ; but tile quieter and ■ more agreeable string band,' for concert and ball music, or the private re-union" is really very rare in tins'' tdwn. It is not every day that an opportunity is afforded of organising a good string band. It will therefore be interesting to those who, without the lung power, necessary fora trombone or a cornet, are still enthusiasts of music,- to learn that an effort is being made- by Mr A. Miller and others to form a good string band- There ought to be no difficulty whatevor in carrying out this object. String music is essentially home, music, and if on no other, 'account it should be cultivated. Sergeant' Russell, who resigns his charge at K-umara at the end of thia month, will be succeeded by Sergeant John Keating, of Boatman's who, in July last, was promoted to the rank of third-class sergeant. News from Okarita and the southern parts of the district (says the Hokitika morning paper) is more encouraging of late. We learn from Mr Hawkins, per favor of Mr M'Goldrick, that the miners sluicing at the head of Cook river are satisfied with their prospects, and the result of ther operations is likely to be favorable. The workings at the Forks and Lake Mapourika are also fairly successful, the miners being apparently quite satisfied. One of the long tunnels at Mapourika has turned out payable. Altogether mining in :the south seems to be taking a change for the better. , In the case of-Seddon v. Seddon and Hallstead,. heard in - Adelaide last week, the following latter from the wife to the husband, which the presiding Judge characterised asextremely cool, was read : — "Adelaide. April 22. Dear Bob, —l am ■ sorry to tell you I am going up north on- a Btation to live with Tom. I promised to go the time you went to town and kicked up such a spree. They sent for Job then, but he was taken, and. the man did not suite. They have sent for Tom as a boundary rider. Cannot braik my promise to him. I will take off two children. *Kope you will take care of yourself, and not go drinking, as you always have done. Pay.your clubs, and if anything happens ' ijy'ou will have something to fall back on. ' 'If you never want it it will do some day to your son. You have your own self to blame.fnr this. .. You have treated me bad for the last three or four years, and I have been waiting my chance since then Hoping you will take tfv-se few words athey are given you, and do well for yoursel&v -Iton't tel I am gone* only" father' arid 'raq'ther. No one knows anything about-it. If you dox't tell no ,on 6 will Get a tent and get the things d'>wn in it, and then you will b (i riirht. WfH bo ■ t respects; I remain, An vie." His ! Conor . said th *t he should report the alley it ions * of impropriety proved. J. W. Easson and 00. will sell by auc tion this day at their rooms, furniture, fancy goods, produce. <ftc A bazaar and night auction will be held from six to ten p.m. Nancarrow and Co. will sell by auction this day at their rooms, portion of the old post office, also grates, stoves, &c. Mr Parata., the Southern Maori member distinguished himself early this morning (says Wednesday's Evening Post) by making the first speech in English ever made in the House by a Maori member. It was short and to the point. The question under consideration was the striking out of the vote of £100 for the chairman of the Waste Lands Committee, . and Parata had voted for the omission of the item. He had previously voted for the retontion of a similar sum for the chairman of the Goldfi«lds Committee. A good deal had been said about the way members had chopped about in the various divisions, and Parata felt called upon to explain his vote. There was not no interpreter present, so he rose solus, amid loud cheers, to address Mr Hamlin. "I voted for Pyke " (chairman of the froldfields' Committee), said Pratt, "for him to get the money. You knock it off him, you knock it off the lot. " With great vigor, and slapping his fist on the table, "You wait a bit," continued he, when there was some interruption, and the way he said it produced roars of laughter. "I vote for all the money or else none." Mr W. F. Buckland very tersely summed Mr Montgomery up in the House the other day. When that gentleman began, to speak, he said, the Opposition would congratulate themselves that he was going to vote with them ; when he was half way through they would think he was going to vote with the Government ; and when he had finished nobody could tell how he was going to vote. Mr Justice Richmond, recently, after the delivery of a lengthy judgment on questions of Native land, infancy and joint tenancy, teeming with references to Coke and other early compilers of the English common law, concluded as follows :— "I am sorry to have been compelled to- discuss at such length topics which would have better suited a law court in the reign of one of the first Edwords. The ill-advised issue of Crown grants creating joint tenancy in large bodies of Natives, including women and children, the lax practices of Native agents, and the rapacity of speculators in Native land, have combined in this and similar cases, to take us back to the law of the Year books, and to the times of the Plantagetiets.;"-; The Otagq Education Board (says the Tuwpeka Timesjmay congratulate itself on having a chairman who understands the I first principles of economy, and who, by personally hawking about plans and specificaUons for new hniWings — in. this district, lit any rate— aniinii^ the different earpenlerd and biiildera, is thus able tt> -

save considerable expense in advertising. Owing to this economisal forethought of the chairman, it is only necessary to insert advertisements once in the local paper, and if the individual members of the board would act in a similar manner in their respective districts, advertising expenses might be still further reduced. During the last two years the German Ohancellorhas- incessantly labored to compass the overthrow of Mr Gladstone. Almost 1 all out difficulties with the German Government, and many of our difficulties in other quarters, have originated in Prince Bismarck's . personal antiphity to the Liberal "leaders and their works. — World. The total amount now spent annually on education in Great Britain is in round numbers (says the Mancliester Courier) £6,500,000, of which £734,000 are furnished -by voluntary contributions, and £1,734/000 by the school pence. The rates amount to close upon £1,000,000, while the Government grant has now risen to £2,846,000. The increase goes on gradually, the grant this year being £121,000 more than in the previous year. This increase occurs chiefly in the grant for annual attendance, which has risen by •4.67 per cent., and in the grart to the day scholars, which is Id per head higher than last year. The board schools' still maintain their pre-eminence in the matter of cost, the maintenance in them being £2 Is Bfd, or 6s 6-§d per head higher than in the voluntary schools. -. Jn London the disproportion is no less than 12s 4d, and Mr L. Stanley, who undertook the congenial task of defending the London School Board, characteristically. boasted that the metropolitans would have to spend a good -deal more before they got a system of education worthy of their city. j The Auckland Telephone Exchange ws opened on 24th October, 1881, with 2.6 subscribers ; there are now 352. Nineteen carpenters left Dunedin for Melbourne recently, owing to the slackness of the building trade at the former place. _ - British Borneo seems lively to prosper (remarks the Home News)! The glowing account given before the Colonial Institute by Sir Walter Medhurst of the progress of the British Borneo Company reads like 'a page of romance. The country ih'ght be a fairyland, richly endowed with all good gifts by some elfin godmother. With wonrously fertile soil, in which coffee, cocoa, tobacco, the sugar cane, and pepper "vine flourish uncultivated ; with natural products in profusion, such as mother-of-pearl, sharks' fins, camphor, rattans, and gutta-percha ; with a plentiful supply of birds' nests, sufficient to °atisfy numberless Chinese epicures ; with- deposits of guano so deep that 20-feet testing poles would not fathom them, it. wiil be readily admitted that British Borneo is no ordinary place. All the island needs is labor, and this is being drawn .from the neighboring over-populated Empire of China. The first Chinese immigrants were not a sue ■ cess. They came mostly from Hong Kong, and :were strange to "the native • language and ways. Now they are- replaced by others from th« Straits Settlement, who are more familiar with Borneo, while the country is very suitable for the importation of coolies f ; gom India. It is not strange then that thesettlement flourishes; it owns already many prosperous, stations ; its governor has jurisdiction_also over the adjoining islaud of Labuan ; it has a revenue, a civil list, and a copper coinage, wh'ch i« becoming thn recognised' monetary medium of those parts. Some day perhaps the. British Rirnert Company may rival t.he Ea a t ' r ivdki Company, the great prototype on rt'hich it has been banned. Terribly damaging to the system are those ftary comp Hinds of cheap, unrect.ifie'l spirits, surcharged with high wines and fusel oil, which their nefarious vendors and importers wither insinuate or openly declare to be equal to Udolpho Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps. As to the counterfeit of that supreme invigorant they are even worse. Ask for the true article, and if any other is recommended reject it. — Advt Wise Folly. — "For t°n years my wife was confined to her bed with such a complication of ailments had no doctor eou'd tell what was the mntter or euro her, and I need ur> a small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw an American flag with Hop Hitters on it, and I thought I wonlrl be a fool once more. I tried it, but my folly proved to be wisdom. Two i bottles cured her ; she is now as well and strong as any man's wife, and it cost me only two dollars." — H. W., Detroit, Mich. Read. j Oan't Preach Good. —No man can do a j good job of work, preach a good sermon, cry a lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or write a good article, when he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unstrung nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a condition whan it can be so easily and cheaply removed by a little Hop Bitters. Look for.— Advt.