THE Grey River Argus, PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1885.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5365, 9 December 1885, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus, PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1885.

At the Resident Magistrate's Cou?t yesterday, before-Major Keddell, James ' J^oonan was charged with selling liquor on his licensed premises, Commercial Hotel, Wallsend, during prohibited hours, on the 22nd November last. Defendant pleaded guiltyWd was fined £1, and ordered tio pay the costs .of court and witnesstjs, £1 4Ji. Alexander Singer wascharged with hawking in the County of Grey without being ■dulyrlicensed. so. to do. Mr Kitchingham appeared; for informant: (Mr M. Phillips), and asked that the lowest, penalty be inflicted. Defendant was .fined ss, and prder^d' to^-pay] costs, ;-. -£i ..i Bs. ; Edwin Ashton v. E. Martin of Westpprt.^-Claira, £5 10s ; for horse hire.: . .Judgment lor trie .amount claimed, with costs 11?. , Same v. John Hooker.-— Claim, £2 12. .Defendant was ordered to pay the amount within one month; in default, 14. days', ;\yith.lis costs. James White v. James McMillan. — Claim, J37 . 10s 9d, for work arid .'labiir done, board, and. cash. -lent.--, Mr.,. Jones appeared for plainciff, and Mr, Hannan f or defendant. Adjourned till the ;l&fch ins£. There were other cases i of aft unimportant nature, several of them being settled out of court. . . . . ; The usual weekly sitting of the War- < den's Court was held at >the Resident Magistrate's Court: before Major Keddell on Monday last, when the following cases were dealt with : — Munchin Keenan applied for a head race and dam at Camerons. The application was objected to by John Thomas Kiel, Charles Burge, James Willoughby, George Ackaster, Charles F. Morgan, James Cass, William Cass, and Frederick Willoughby. Mr Guinness appeared for the applicant and Mr Jones for; the objectors. A great deal of eyiaence on both sides was taken, and ultimately the application was adjourned until the 14th inst. to enable the Warden to visit the ground.— James Cass applied for an extended claim and tunnel at Camerons. Objected to by John Wilson. Adiourned till the 14th irist.i ;to enable the Warden, to- visit the ground.— John Wilson and party applied for an extended claim at Cameronß. Granted. — John Thos. Kiel and James Willoughby were granted an extended claim at Camerons. -John M. Langdon applied for a branch water-race at Jones's Flat, Grey River, and also a tunnel in the same locality. Both applications were granted. - The Christmas season with its festivities is once, more close upon us, and doubtless the Christmas of 1885, should the weather prove favorable (ancLthis is always a powerful factor in making or marring the people's pleasures, especially' in this part of the , world where the rain comes down in sheets) will be more than usually joyous. There has been plenty of rain for sluicing purposes during ; the •past three months, and the coal-miners at Brunnerton >»nd Wallaend have had a ''good time" too ;.. so that with a large .output of coal, and a good washing-up for the ; gold-miners, there ought to :be no scarcity of hard cash to spend on Christmas luxuries and amusements, as well as the necessaries of life. Of amusements there will, no doubt, be plenty and varied. -But of all the entertainment < yet spoken of, the festival on Christmas Day at Trinity Church promises to be something quite out of the ordinary, and of a highlyintellectual and pleasing kind. For many weeks past the choir of Trinity Church, under the painstaking and attentive training of the choirmaster, Mr Woon, have ben practising for the festival, which will be. held in the church on the evening of Christmas Day, and which promises to be as great a treat as that held on Christmas Day last year. Besides a number of hymns, anthems, and carols appropriate to Christmas there will be selections from the "Messiah ;" also, for. the. first time here, selections from Mendelssohn's greatest oratorio, "Elijah." The choir will be strengthened by members of other choirs who are kindly assisting as on the former occasion. Mr Woon w.ill conduct ; Mrs Warner and Mr Clements will preside at the American organ and harmonium respectively ; and Miss F. Harrison at the pianoforte. There will be no charge for admission, but during the interval, and while the voluntary is being played, a collection will be made on behalf of the church building fund. The concert will commence at half-past eight o'clock sharp, and, as there will be no service af either of Qic other churches at -that hour, a large number will, no doubt, avail themselves of the opportunity to attend the festival, than which there could scarcely be a better way of spending Christmas evening. [A.n instrument has been secured for the occasion, kindly lent. by Mr William Woods, who has recently returned from Melbourne.] .On Monday Mr Menteath addressed the electors at Moonlight, and was very cordially received. On the evening of the same day he held a meeting at Ahaura, i Mr John Reid in the chair, and after a' general review of the business done during the last session of Parliament, occupying over two hours, a unanimous vote of confidence in him was passed. The general tenor of Mr Menteath's. address has already appeared in the Argus, and that part delivered at Ahaura in reference to the Riverview-Nelson Creek water-race deviation, left no very hopeful impression. The Inspector of Nuisances has made his mandate respected regarding that abode of nastiness in Tarapuhi street to which attention was called some tim** ago. It is no longer a receptacle for tilth, and now wears quite a creditable appearance. While he had his hand in he removed a somewhat similar eyesore in Hospital street. A little wholesnne supervision of this kind and there will be no occasion to dread the heat of summer in town. Courtenay Smith and Co. will sell at their rooms this afternoon, Sweetman's : Post Office Store, at Dobson Town. It j is described as an investment that will yield.from 20 to 30 per ceftt profit.

' To prevent any misapprehension from an erroneous announcement regarding the installation of the Mayor elect, we may state that the installation is fixed for the third Wednesday in the month (16th.) Some gentlemen arrived from Dunedin on Saturday afternoon (says the West Coast Times) for the purpose of arranging lan expedition to some locality south. The ' Waipara has been chartered for the trip, and will leave next Thursday. Great reticence is observed both as to the exact locality and also the nature of the mineral they are in search of, though it is conjectured that a discovery of gold in som'e new form has been made. Captain Malcolm, formerly known for many : years on the Coast as captain of the Maori arid other vssels, is a member of the party. They; have made arrangements for a six months' stay. As Mr Burns, of Stafford, was on his way in a buggy to Kuraara on Sunday last 1 (says the Times) the vehicle went down an embankment and was capsized, and Mr Burns sustained severe -bruises. The Wallsehd shaft was sunk 16ft. last week, arid the total depth how is 305 ft. Martha Kerr, a young girl at Denniston, deliberately poisoned herself because, as she said, she was "tired of her existence." She 'cut off the heads of a lot of matches, made a cup of tea, poured them into it, and drank the mixture. The potion was alow in its fatal work, and it was not "ntil noon of the next day.tliat.the girl's illness caused anxiety. She is said to have awaited with the most perfect composure,disturbed only by pain, the death she had invited, and said good-bye to her friends with the greatest sangfroid. The unfortunate creature was an orphan, and was the housekeeper of an uncle and two cousins, and a boarder had latterly been added to the family circle. Economy in the consumption of gas is an important matter to all who consume that article' either in their private residences or places of business, and any scheme calculated to reduce expenditure in that direction by regulating' pfessure and preventing was.te is well worthy of attention. Mr Sparling, agent for Harford and Co's Patent Automatic Gas Regulator and Escape of Gas Detector, and who is at present in Greymouth, undertakes to guarantee a saving of at least 20 per cent of gas by the use of this instrument. The great merit of the patent is said to be that it will allow only enough, gas to pass through the supply pipe to serve the purpose of whatever number of lights are burning, thus obviating any liecessity for lessening the pressure at the meter. It is also claimed that by causing the gas to be perfectly consumed it presents it giving off those deleterious products so destructive to books, pictures, and gilt frames, and hurtful to the eyes and general health. , A seven years' guarantee is given with J each regulator. The circular of the company contains a long list of establishments in Dunedin which have been furnished with the Automatic Regulator, and include all the principal business places and manufactories in that city. Attached are a number of testimonials as to the saving in gas effected by the Regulator. In some cases the amount of gas saved is put down at 40 per cent ; but the average appears to be between 20 and 25 per cent, if there is any truth in testimonials — and all of them bear well known names — I ho " Automatic Gas Regulator" ia well worthy of a trial. The lost cylinders of the Cobden bridge are.stilla source of trouble and anxiety to all concerned. It appears now from what we can learn, if we may rely upon it, that the cylinders were not thrown down as was supposed at the time of the disaster, but broken off some distance below the surface of the water midway between hvro jointings. It appears that the western cylinder, or what is left of it, is still standing erect, and that the cylinder Mr Watson is now engaged in sinking is exactly on top of the broken one. The upper or eastern cylinder has also been broken off, but the portion remaining standing has a cant down stream. The question arises as to what is to be done in the circumstances, whether to join on with the portions of the cylinders left standing or extend the span and sink the new cylinders so as to avoid the old ones. The discovery has been a great surprise to every one, and the fact calls for a new theory as to the cause and manner of the disaster that bef el the bridge in January last. The concert given last evening by the Harmonic Society in aid of the Hospital was very successful except in point of attendance. It was almost a repetition of the concert recently given by that society. A sale of personal necessaries in the way of clothing and stores, besides miscellaneous articles, will be held at the stores of Courtenay Smith and Co. this afternoon. Tenders for- painting the Grey River Hospital close to-day at 6 p.m. There is no Virtue of a remedial kind in the so-called medicinal importations which are announced to contain the same eurabive ingredients as Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, or to possess its peculiar Properties. The public would do well to avoid such humbugs, as well as beware of counterfeits of the real article. Both are adulterate"! ad hurtful. Inquire for the genuine. — Advt. Feels Young Again. — " My mother was afflicted a long time with neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive condition of the whole system, headache, nervous prostra tion, and was almost helplesß. No physi cians or medicines did her any good. Three months ago she began to use Hop Bitters, with such good effect that she seems and feels young again, although over seventy years old. — A Lady w R.l.— Look up. Doctors Gave Him Up.— ls it possible that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy V " I assure you it is true that lie is entirely cured, and I with nothing but Hop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die." " Well-a-day ! If that is so I will go this minute and get some for my poor George. I know hops are good." Read. — Advt. Nature is not Uniformly Generous. — To many she denies that vigor of constitution with which she blesses others. While it may not be possible to convert a weakly person into a Hercules, judicious tonic medication may, and assuredly does, infuse no small amount of vigor into systems/ naturally destitute of it, and protects them ' against diseases to which they would otherwise fall a prey. The most suitable invigorant and protective is Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. — Advt. •