THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1878.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 45, 19 June 1878, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1878.

1?ho Just-innTimo Company oloanod up on Saturday laut, nnd tho gold roaohod town yontorday. Tito <iuantity of etono pufc through wnfi IM.O fconn, whioh gavo tho oj?co1« lonfc return of C&iozas noarly 2oz por ton, Tho rotnvn npenks ' hopefully' for tho fu,tu,ro^ Hid Honor »Tudgo Wonton will loayo by conch for Wootpovt, on Tliursday morning. Owing to tho longth of our Court roporfc wo nro corupollpd to bold ovor muoU local mnttor. Tho Bittinga of tho District Court woro oonoludod yoetordc^y wit]*, (lio cnfio of Rofjiim v Girard. Q'ko prisoner was aeq,utttoil. Hotelkoopors aro romindod tliat tho adjoura nod meoting of tbo I ioonaing BonoJi, will bo lickl on !Fridny noxt. Some intoroating dotallt, which, it it ntatod, n>uy bo roljiod upon nfl oorroot, nro givou by tho Cologrw Grtaottoof tho amounto oolloofced for tlio aiok n,nd wounded during tho Into war. Tho lurgeat collootion waa mft,doi», Hufluin, Jwbero 7,600,000 roubloc,. or moro than £000,000, wan voluntosily uubfloribod to tho funds of tho Bod Oroaa Sooiofcy, Poi* tho Rod Croaoont tboro wna ooltootcd, ftHoßofcbor, in. Europe, in Indin, nnd in tho United Staton, I.IBPjOOOf. Of tbia sum, twoNlhirda wern eubseribed in Indin, tbo total amount contribulcd by Enropo boyig barely 400,000 f. In Franco, 112,000 f, woro collcctod j in Hungary, 100,000 f. 5 in aormauy, 800,000. k whilo Aus'.ria oontributid only ourgioal npplianoofl nnd' comforts for tko sink. Thp Stafford Houro Commiltoo lmd aontfltlko dftjo when tho lottor woo w.ntton, d 820,000 i tho Red Cross Sooiofcy, £1,2,000 { whilo flmallor sums had boon oppnt by tho Turkish Cojnpnuflionato Fund, by Lftdy Strangford,'* Comwittoo, and, by tlw Sooioty of frionils, AUogothor tho nmount eubnoribocl for tho, cunnouv o( tho sick and wounded of tha two liolligoronts Ml' fax short of that eolloctnd diujing tbo Franco Q>orman war of 187O«71» wliou the subscriptions nmountod in ITrnneo 1030,000,000r. K and in Gormny, to, B^,ooo^ooo ihalors~or about £5,400,000)1 Although tbo Inrgcat nmount of monoy was collectod in Rtifltin, tho mtinnffcmont of tho RvMsaiun boßpitalo and ain,bu]nncoa loft muflh (a bo desired, tlio diet auppllod to, tho pationta espeoinlly. being. insu/IVoiont. A tolophone oojnpnny in Franwuoo bnvo dovi<od a plan whereby ovory ono of thoir nabaci'iboM can bo plonod instnntnnooiisly in, communication with ovory othor oabfloribor in llMJcity.. ! At Melbourne, tboy froquitulj Imw pionauro trips, to coa on SatMrdnys (or a din* tnnco of twonty miloa or «o, and tbo voiUuro, pays tho ovrncv of tho steamer very woll. A tall youth feom !Riverinn, who was bent upon n nprcfi, inys tho Ficaaant Crook Now, we it out nnd foil nmongat the PhiliHtiiien. who robbod- blni of 20 flovoroigns and hia wntob, nnd turned him into tho ntceot. Tho youth (ftayn a corroopondoiit) returned homo, and noncootod' n nchomo of vongeancOf, Ho did not cure fco appoar in a polico court, oo ho ebofio anolhor way of gotting at tbo. il»linr|nont». A fow days, nftcrwnrila, when tho nffuir bad blown over, bo toggnd himnolf out and put a lot of imitation Hank noton in his pockcls. Ifo duly foil in with tho hnrpieo, who irontoi] bin) nn before, llufc vorily ho had bin rnvrngo, for tlio wholo gang were taked for trying to pana tho notoo, und nro now vonoflinf» in Rftol. Thcro is a queer tale going tho rounds ■ which i» tnid to have taken place in nomn out of ilio way nfltloment in N<?w Zealand mmmg como of tho new eomni'a (iin.nigrnnts), to ilinoff'ot that, Iwo of tho iULloi'B were in bad bi'coil with oneb other for sonio timo ovor tbo midnight prowliuusof n trunspnront dog wbjoh belonged to one of tho party, This dog wno notod for bis incontinent nttnahmont to. fowl, wbiob eroatod a perfect foud botwoon tbo partion, What fowls woro loft of tbo ownor of tbo dog an woll a* tho neighbors,, übitid clear of.ltoynnrd, when tbo owner is said to givoti liavo Jjim a pill that brought on tt'UinuH fron) t which tho uanino clid ; J)ptrcooTor t liuwtivor having a gcudgu against his uoiglm b(/r v huppy idea ulrnuk lijm of bow to bo rt\> ug< (I Qt him ivul uu (,bp ucighbor bud

ropontodly nasovorntod that tho pot should din by powdor nnd not by poison tho ownor ono d>»y took out tho dond body of hi* pot Innd propped hjm up with ntnl(oa na if ftlivo* with ono of his noighbou'a hifl Spanish roosters right across hia mouth. This was too rvmoh for t.ho owner o( tho rooafcor ho wont doliboratoly in and brought auk his two bim'ollod long rango Duok gun and' blazed away at tho dog with tho cook in Ufa mouth. Of courao tho ownop of tho dog rnflhod out aftpr ho hoard tho nojso of tho gun a fow miimtos only to. boo tho mutilated romainn of his bpautiful pot, A law anit grow out; of the matter and tlxo dag boing about fO m,ilo» from any Court wob not produced in Court noraponUmortom. hold thoroforotho dofptyi 4ftutw.wwul<»t in fiaO,