THE PUBLISHED D AILY. THURSDAY/OCTOBER 15, 1885.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5320, 15 October 1885, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1885.

AlL. the casks, available in the town are wanted by the Harbor Board to ■ be delivered at the weigh- bridge, this morning at ten o'clock. It would appear that the Board intend to float the vessel off. from where she is, or at anyrate riot to allow her to roll over into the channel so as to interfere with the navigation of the river.

As the Commission of Inquiry into the management T of \ the Greym \uth Native Reserves purpose closing the commission to-day, all who are interested ' in lease questions should avail .themselves of, this opportunity of. enlightening the Commission on the subject. . . .;- \ :

The regular meeting of the Fopital Committee was held at* Gilmer's Hotel last evening, Ihere being present— Messrs Thomas (chair,) Lahman, Yarrall, Arnott, Tonks, Petrie, Kent, Hogg, Cameron, Dupre, Matheson, Rev Maclean, Father. Carew, and Lalor (delegate). The' minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the outward correspondence approved of, two letters were read, from Mrs Walsh, matron, one denying alleged charges against her and .itherother requesting a certificate, which was agreed to,; two letters on the same subject were received from A. Ellis and John Owen. The telegrams between Mr Guinness, the .hpn. treasurer and hon. secretary, and the Under-Secretary re the overdue subsidies, were read and approved of, and, .the treasurer and secretary instructed towrite to. the Colonial Secretary insisting on the overdue subsidy being fpaid.j The Visiting- Committee reported everything: satisfactory at the" Hospital ; and that there were 28 patients in the Hospital —22 males and 6 < females.

Accounts for the month, amounting to £181 15s 4d were passed for payment. The hpn treasurer reported the following receipts : — Maintenance H. T. Symons, deceased, £11 7s ; Marsden Local Committee Ball, .£37 2s 6d ; per superintendarit—J. Matthews, donation, £1 ; sale of dripping, £1. Petty cash had been distributed to the amount of £2 ss. Report adopted. The .printing of the annual report was decided by a lot in favor of jJ.Petrie. It was resolved that applications for the office of Matron be called, at a salary of £1 per week with board and quarters, application to close on the 28tn instant. Messrs .Dupre, Hogg, and Kent were appointed Visiting " Committee for the month. jCourtenay Smith and Co. will sell at their rooms to-day a large quantity of boots, shoes, fancy goods, and a host of miscellaneous articles. . Letters to the following addresses were ! roceived from places beyond New Zealand arid remain unclaimed for this month at the Post Office here, addressed as follows : -^R. E. Holmes, Henry Connor, Mrs M. A. Jacobs, John Johnston, Michael Moloney, Henry Tuckey, Albert Honey, W. Canning, Maxwell and Gibson, Phillip McCarthy, Thomas Williamson, J. Schil- , lerman. Two little Kumara boys, Richard Light arid James M'Keegan, aged. 5 and 3 years respectively, while amusing themselves on Tuesday by throwing 1 stones into a claim from a steep bank, the younger fell headlong into the claim, some 40 to 50 feet down. The little sufferer when brought out was quite unconscious, the skull being completely fractured ; and, notwithstanding • the speedy arrival .and attention of Dr Davy, the little fellow lingered, with only an occasional moan, till nine o'clock, when the last spark of vitality fled. In the case lately heard at Auckland; against Kennedy Bros., proprietors of- the Brunner coal mine and colliers, for w.ork done, to the Pel ham, the juries gave ver-. diets to the total amount of £2500 for plaintiffs in both case 3. Mr Martin Kennedy is trying to get new trials, urging 1 that the verdicts were against the weight of evidence, and that some of the jurors were pecuniarily interested in iheir verdict. The actions arose out o? Segar, the contractor for altering the Pelham into a steamer, breaking down. The work was then carried on by one Gouk, who, defendant stated, took over Segar's contract. Gouk, on the other hand, claimed to be paid on the time occupied by himself and men. He did- >oi put forth this part of his claim until he had drawn all the money under. ithe original contract and found himself a loser. He then claimed that he had never taken up Segar'-s contract, and the jury believed him, although many of the items he chargeC >vere described as "extras" in the bill! If he was not working under .a^ooritract ho.w^cquld any of the work dpne/^y^him and.his Mien be " extras?"^. Th 4 e|P,elham has-been a dear .steamer... tpjjJ^esSrs "Kennedy," arid*- ' will make shipowners think twice -before -they try to get large of the*kind done in Auckland. ;-:■:'■ •... ' : '. * The ground on tW south side of the river, below Riihii ((eays the W. G. Times) is not turning** outy so well as' was anticipated. ArifiSCrpng' and party have sunk two or three'stiaftsand driven from these. Gold can be found in a great many places, but it is not payable for driving. It would pay for sluicing, however, if facilities existed. " The New Zealand Tablet says that hardly a trace of the Messiah is to be found in the revised version of the Old Testament, and the prophecies hitherto taken as referring to him have now a totally different meaning. , We (Haivera Star) understand that the Bishop of the Diocese, to show his appreciation of Rev. W H. Root's work in this district, has given to Master Oswald Root the first presentation to the Wanganui Collegiate School. The direct steamers are such large con sumers of West Coast coals as to seriously interfere with the household supplies at Christchurch and other southern towns. About 1500 tons is taken by each direct English steamer. The U.S.S. Company's boats also take a great deal, but they draw some of their supply from Newcastle.*. To prove that Auckland has a *" Mother Jefferies" a local labor agent writes to the Star that the keeper of -a well-known house has asked him to'supply. two handsome parlormaids, and promised to reward him liberally "if they turned out well."

For hundreds of (says the Hon. Captain Fraser) the 'poor were supported from the lands— from the Church lands. They were so supported, and well supported — well clad, arid fed, and housed— at the expense of the Church ; but wh4n the wretched Henry VIII., under the | influence of his lust became a Protestant, he- turned all Church lands to gold, and the poor were thrown off the lands and the powerful to steal or rob'i'and the weak to perish. They were in that State until they became an intolerable., nuisance, and then the poor, law had to be made. If there was a /proper land-tax throughout .the whole colony, we should not have\this bill, and I think the time will come when we • shall have aland : tax all over the colony^!,, for one, would like to spe a land-tax with an upward sliding scale upon unimproved lands: We shall see it— it is coming; I you cannot prevent it. An Auckland solicitor has applied to the Attorney-General for permission to commence suits againsjuthe members of the Auckland Educat4efn*Board to compel them to pay into the^oaxcl's funds the £200 recently paid away in Peacock's case. For once (says the European Mail) in his life Mr George Augustus Sala has' really hoaxedgthe British' public. In the Daily Telegraph, of August 5, there appeared the first of a series of letters — which have been looked forward to .with j much pleasurable a>iticip^tion— on his tour round the world. Thero were in all over three columns of large type leaded. With the headirip, "Land of the Golden Fleece— Four Hours in New Zealand " the reader naturally thought he was about to pursue a brilliant account of colonial life, from the pen of the renowned " special," instead? of which he was treated to perhaps the greatest amount of twaddle that was ever published in a London newspaper. Mr Archibald Forbes is engaged in preparing for immediate publication a bio-] graphy of the German Emperor, with .!. special reference to the important part he played in the military campaigns wherein he has been a conspicuous personage*

The Napier Daily Telegraph says : — The innocent-looking egg possesses within itself the germs of a power which, when fully developed, unites the attributes of the Chinese stinkpot and the Russiandynamite bomb. At a breakfast table the other day in Napier, a boiled egg was fondly handled and then gently tapped with a spoon. The egg instantly exploded with . a report as loud as that of a pistol shot, and throwing the contents all over the room, and driving everybody out with the smell.

Good for Babies.— " We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop^^itters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength."— The Parents. See. — Advt.

Goood Words— From Good Authority— ' We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Bentonj has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter's, Vinegar, and all other bitters and patent raedi -ines, but never did any of them, in their days, begin to havo the run that Hop Bit- , <ters have. We can't get enough of. tha'm. .' We are out of them half the tims.'-,- Extract from letter to Hop Biite^§VC,6.> August 22, 78, from Benton Meyers* ! a'nd, Co., wholesale druggists, Cleveland/ 0/. Be sure and see. ' „' -,'., ?,.''.' When the -sifters of the ijQtfy; the kidneys, imperfectly perform their office of removing from the blood the waste matter or asliesot the system, which should be disolved, arid pass off through the bladder, the aggregated impurities infect the vital fluid, producing rheumatism, dropsy and skin diseases. But these un pleasant consequences may always be .avoided by gently stimulating the torp 1 kidhVys into activity with Udolpho; Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. — Advx. , , . ..,,.,.