THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY,AUGUST 2,1878.

Inangahua Times, Volume 64, 2 August 1878, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY,AUGUST 2,1878.

Parliament ro«asaomblcdl yeatorday, bufc the business got through yraa neither very great nor very impbrtant. Government promised to make known when the Financial Stfttomonfc was delivered what they intend reßa?(!inß Charitab'e Institutions. In reply to a question it was stated that Ministers had no intention of introducing this sosßion, dither a Land Drainage or Regulation of Coal Minea Bills. Tho Electoral «\nd Licensing Bills wore rf ad a first time. Borne clebaje occurred over Mr Hurathouse'a motion for the production of aU correspondence rota* ting to the attempt to tear down the Taranafci triumphal arch, bnfc the motion waa agreed to. On the motion of Mr Bowen a Select Committee wna appointed to inquire into the state of gaols throughout the Colony, and tho improvements neceasary to enforce a proper claftftiftcaiion. The Premier suggested that the matter would be better dealt with by a Royal ComtmV nion. The first division of tho session occurred on a motion for a Committee to report upon Joshua Good fellow's elaimfl against the Government—Ayes, 28 ; Noes, 21. The motion wan agreed to. The Mercantile Law Further Amendment Act was read n Ihird time and passed. The Trade Union Bill went through Committee. A resolu* tion anthoriaing tho granting of Supply was pasee-l, and its oonsiderntfon nostponcd till to-morrow. Tbo House adjourned at 6*30. In aw la«» ioftuo wo gavo publicity to a flying rumor that tho Viotory Company had olonnod up, ntnting thafc for flomo roanon or ortifiif tho yield had not boon rnado public Tbo Herald has since contradicted tho Btato* monf, and tlio fact of that paper contradiots ing it fully entabliahos tho truth of the roportl Tho Sociotion' Concert in aid of tho Hospital funds, will tako plnco in DaWßOn'« Hall this ovoning. It is notifiod that tho mombora of tho Ilonthor 801 l Lodgo will mcot at tho lodge room this oyomng to mnroh in proooooion. On Tuesday Inut a man was brought boforo fcho Resident Magi»trato*s Court on a charge of boing drunk and wno mulcted in tho usual pomUly. Tho man complained in forcible torms of tho bad accommodation provided at tho lock-up and spooking of tho regulation blanket supplied to him during his inoarooration said there was no more warmth in it than in n Indies voil or a mo?quito ourtain. Wo learn that tho local polioo havo reooivod instructions to enforce agntnst holders of putlioan'a lioonsos, tho provisions of tho law relating to tho suppression of tho praotioo of permitting bar-maids to carry on thoir duties after 11 p.m. At Groymouth recently, sovoni profloewtionß of tins nature wore instituted by the polino, tho delinquents being fined in tho nominal sum of Is. Somo doubt, howovor, appears to exist as to tbo power of tho polioo to onforco tl'O provision. 'Iho Hopoful Company oloanod up on Tuosday lost, after eomcthing loss than a fortninht'a orushing, tlio rosult boing a parcel of 3330z9 17dwts rotortod gold. Tho directors mot on Wednesday ovoning lust, and doolurod a dividond of 2s por ohnro, equal to £82S' Tho company intond to shortly com" monco tha driving of a lower level than an y

at present worked in tho tnino, whieh,lwhon completed,' will giffl tho oommand of an immonso amount of •tone, from which tho share* holders will no doubt reooivo ft long aflrios of substantial rofroshor*, In tho County Oounoil yesterday, tho Kn« ginoor suggested tho advisability of orootiug a wood Of Iron bridge round tho Blaok's Point slip. Ho said it would bo impossible to ovof froo tho traok from Blips, as tho more that war roraovod only inorea«ed the mngnltudo of tho slips. It was stated that £39' 19» 8(1 had boon oxpondod in wagon upon tho slip (and not on tho road) during tho last month, and that that oxpondituro would be noyer ending. Ho suggested that a woodon bridge should bo orootod oloar of tho Blip, tho foundation up» rights to bo let into tho solid rook and braood thoroto, bo as to oiToctually rosist flood action, Tho coal, ho OBtimatod would bo about £1000. Tho oxpondituro will nppoar largo, but it is perhaps worth whilo considering whether tho Counoil would not bo wawantod in wmotiouH ing it, in proforonoo to tho continual dribblo necessitated by tho running of tho bank. Tho County Chairman, H/iv Bronnnn, yos« torday roooivod a tologram from tho Gonoral Govornmodt stating that tho sum of £700 had that day boon rotnittod to tho orodit of the County fund, on acoount of vote for tho main Groy Boad. There will bo no sitting of tho Resident. Magistrate's and Warden's Court at Reofton, to-day. Tho noxt sitting will bo bold on Tuesday noxt. Wo aro informed that tbo flood in tho Bullor Kivor on Sunday last, rono to a groat height and oonaidorablo damage, especially to roads was done Ryan's Punt oa the JRullor itoad was carried away. It is olsewhoro nnnounood that Mr Thomas Leo has suoccodod to tho slmrobroking and ogonoy busincßß of Mr A> I>, Bnyfoild. A Cantorbury papers spoaks thus of tho anti sparrow campaign t— Iho determination of tho farmors of tho northorn district to rid themsolvos of tho sparrows is at present jbslng oarriod into effoot by tho wholesale poisjmfag that in going on. In tho sovoral instanoct in which poisoned wheat ha» been ! pro* povly ttontod and spread out, the death rate among tho foathorcd posts mutt 'have boon very gratifying to tho faymora. Tho suooo8» has been eonsldovablft, And on many farm* tho doacl sparrows aro ntunbbrdd by Bcorou. In tho Kuiapoi, FUxton, and Byve* tiou districts the < plan followed bos boon to distribute tbo poison to be mixed by onoh fattnov. At Woodond tho whole of tho wheat was stooped on Monday in tho strychnine* and aftor drying,, is to bo distributed. Ai tho Mandovillo Plains a similar plau will b& followed. At Kangiora a publio mooting, in roferonco to tho quostion, is ootivo&od by somd of tho loading fanners* Ie i» stated that tho birds proyo very destvaotivo to. tho growing grain as it oommonces to sprout* and a second raid will \» made on tko sparrows whioh survive tho pjrosent crisis, \ It. is not only .Jior* tfeulr •oldi ! W6ot6flr ! ha«. prevailed of tatoV Tho Christoh'uroh Press of a rcoend d«to says t— \fyik <w> ,stt«*to;r mid Wednesday mornings an area of ftljow six or eight aores in Lyltolton harbor; otldnd inpj from tho Gladstone Plor to the newly reclaimed land, waa frozen over, tho See being from an eight T to ft quarto* of an inch thiok. Snob n thing has 1 hevet 1 boftrt known to ocoui* in Lyttelton boforo • einco tho first sottlomcnt; This shows how aovoro tho fronts must have boon. Tltw water at tho lload of the Bay has also boon frozon over," We regret to noto says tho London Spockfttor, tho c)oath, undor toriblo ewreiami' stances, of Sir Franoia Qoldsmid, mombor for Roading, and a good ft'iond to tho London Vnivorsity and every Ziiboral projoot exempt tho emancipation of tho Eastern Christians. Ho avrivod at Waterloo Station at 9.53 p.m. on Thursday, and oa the guard oponod tho door, thought tho train had etoppod, and stopped out. Tho train had not, howovor, stoppod; Sir Francis's foot slipped, nnd ho dropped botweon the train and tho platform. Ho was dragged flomo yard*, his foot was orushod* and his ribs were driven in, and though onrricd at once to St. Thomao's Hospital ho oxpived in a fow minutes. Wo prfißumo that now a person of such wealth and standing has boon killed by tho present system of otejin, tho liailway Boards will substitute ion thorn flangos running tho whole length of tho doorways) and filling tho spnen botweon them and tho platform*. Tie, defeot ia always killing old and feeble persons, and is quite indefensible, except upon 1 10 argument that it always has boon so. According to tho Ago, tho returns of railway rovonuo for tho financial yoar» comnioncn'ig on July 1, 1877, and onding on Juno SO, 1878, aro of a most satisfactory character. Tho departmental ostimato for tho years justolosod was £1,108,000. Afto* aoaroful oaloulation, this amount was increased by tho Oommiflflionor of Railways fey £20,000, bring, ing tho ostimnto np to £1,158,000. Even this sura will bo oxocodod by £4&,524, making tho total takings of tho yonr amount to £1,203,274. Tho rovonue of the previous yoar was £1,078,080 6s Bd, showing' an oxoeiis on the last yoar of £124,103, In Jiinunry last tho ntnff was roduood to tho oxtonfc of betwoon £19,000 and £20,000 por annum in snlarios nlono, and tho business of tho department, inoluding the transport of CO.OOO poraons to tho Juvenile Exhibition at Bnllarnt, hns boon satisfactorily performod by what hns boon referred to as the pof« formed by what has boon referred to as the orippled staff. This foot, coupled with tho Tory handsomo inoroaso of ovor 6124,000 on tho yonr'fl work,, cannot fuil to bo gratifying to tho public.

engondor discaso through oxposuro to sioknoan and chills, tho hoalthioat may bo stricken down by ItiinnMATiSM, RitntJMATio Gour, Ltmiuao, Intrrmittrnt Fkvkhs. Bimoi/hsKK«B, An., and it is woll that all should know the most rolmtoo cures for those are tho famous Indian Mkmoinkb knowu as <ahollak'fl Groat Indian Ouros,"— thoy oan bo had of M. R. Giastnge, Ohomirt appointed oole wholosalo ivgont for Boofton and district, Sco toßtimoniala In advertising column,— Advfc The Hinges 1 of tho Body.— T»o joi»t» Mo tbo hinges Of tlio body. , Bohoumatism renders them stiff arid untaaungeablo. A cold i> woro apt to flottle in tho joints than afcywhoro olso oxoopfc tho head: Tho uso of tho adnltoratod liqaors of commoroe io vory apt to dovolopo tho oiuthy, ohalky, ooorfttion whioh, in gout, is dopositd upon thorn. Tho beat substitute for suoh flory potions, an woll as romody for all rhoumatio and gouty nlTootlon, is Unowno Woi-yKs SOIHEDAM AJIOMAtIO SOIINArPfI.