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Inangahua Times, Issue 78, 4 September 1878, Page 2

It is olsowhoro nnnounood that all allotted nharosoftho now iflsuo in tho Intfopondont Company, not tnkon up boforo Saturday next, 7th insfant, will bo sold by publio auction, without further nolioo. Owing to tho doath of Mr Kelly tho mooting of tho County Counoil convened for to« dny, has been adjourned until Monday noxf. Owing to pressure of Into advortisomonts and telograma wo aro compollod to hold ovor tho balanco of our Court roport and othor local mattor. Tho next English and European mail via Sun Ifranoifloo will closo at thin oflloo on Monday, tho Oth day of Soptombor, at 7 a.m. Another pasnago of arms took plaoo tho othor day botweon Mr Barton and Mr Jus Moo Biohmond. Mr Barton, during tho courso of hiu arguments in. tho enso of M'Kirdy and .othorn v. Gallon, stated that tho flrstsraontion* odpnrtios woro endeavoring to swindle Mr GHllon, and trying to put him iv tho Dank" ruptoy Court, to ruin his roputalion, and quash tho notion in which ho was plaintiff and tho othors defendants', His Honor said ho would not allow suoh languago to be usod' and if Mr Barton continued ho should request tho reporters to rdtiio. Suoh language would nob aid him (Mr Barton) at all. Mv Barton ropliod that it would. His Honor said nrgu* montß, nnd nothing but arguments, would nffoofc him j anything oleo wont simply for nothing. Ho would ondcavor to do justice to Ins (Mr Barton's) oliont iv »pito of oounsol's improper conduot, Mr Barton i • Your Honor has no right to say that.' His Honor said ho would roport Mr Barton's oonduct to tho Court and bavo notice takon of it, Mr Barton: 'I am perfectly willing,' His Honor: ' Very well, I shall do It.' Mr Barton! ' I reopootfully submit I havo a vlglit to oharnotoriso this mattor in tho way it ought to bo oharaotorisod.' His Honor said Mr Barton hnd no right to bonpattor Uis , speech with imputations of whioh ho had givon no cvidonoo. If ho (Mr Burton) had no respect for his Honor, ho ought to havo Homo for himself, but ho appeared to bo devoid of solf-rospoot. Suoh altercations with tho «Tadgo woro grossly indooont, Aftor somo fuUnor orgumonts of a similar oharaotor tho oa'oo was proooodod with. Tho following spooial tologram to tho Pout is dated London, August 16 :~ In view of the Aubtrink I'occupation1 'occupation of Hwzogovino, nn agitation has boon commoncod in Italy but rofußotl, a tJp'mand boing mado for Trioalo and tho Istrian Pcnfnflula.—Tho Turkish offloiali aro unablo to nidintain ordor in' Cartoa, » fortified soaport'iii tho Island' of CanduV/and tho oftfety of tho Christian population is throfttonod—Two TurWoh mon-of-war,' with ■•'■■ ■ „■!•■•••

sorao Engliah mid EVonch gunboatd, hay ontorcd tho harbor of Canon, to proton t an outbroak.— Prinoo" Bismarok h«a sont an ultimatum to r J v tirkoy to tho cffoofc that Iho Porto rriust comply wilji tho Berlin Treaty,' nnd withdraw its eupport* from tho insurgents in Bosnia— Turkoy shown nignn of yiolding.— Thoro' oontiniibs fo bo hard fighting in uosnift botwoon Who" 'Bosnian insurgents and tho Austrian arimy of'oocmpalion.— Tho English. Govornmont favors' thu establishment "Of (i largo arsonal in aoino inland town in tho colony of Now South Wales aa tho only ofTootivo moans of Australian dofoiioo, ' Wo ' t (Now Zealand Horald) loam that ono ]iconaod victualler hw forwardod an ordor for 40 caalta of 'Australian light wince, whioh will ' bo offered lot eojio at fld nor tuniblor, nnd thus oompoto with tho colonial aloa, so long as tho browora maintain tlioir dolormhntiou (o koop tho looal article at tho now ilguro. ' Tho ra timing of tho Großßor Kurfurat by tho Koonig WilUolin has lr>d many porsons to ask vyhothor, aftor all, ironclads aro worth Iho monoy spoilt on thorn. Tho Koonig Wilhohn, aftor sinking its oonsort, was takon' into dock and examined. 'Tho pondorous ram who turned on ono «ido liko so muoh papor, and tho bows woro all split and gaping. Sho has bcott visited and in9poetod by groat numbers of naval mon and shipbuilding, as well as by tho lfiwt Lord and tho ohiof constructor of tho navy, for it is not ofton tho dosignors of ironclads in thooo dayo havo a oluvnco to look ( at tho clToots of thoir handiwork, as thoy i would show aftor a battle, So serious is tho ldjury that flix months' work will hardly ropiiivit. As might bo expected, says a oontomporivry, this disaster, coupled with tho momorablo collision of tho Vanguard and Iron Duko, a couplo of yoars ago, luis sot all men a thinking whother gvoat ironolads aro jfoully worth anything in aotual warfare } far it is evident that if, Tvbilb tho ram is an irvosistiblo doatruotivo powor, tho ramming ship suffer* oqual damago, it is a onso of six of ono and hnlf a dozon of tho othor, and tho next groat naval buttlo may result in half tho ships boing rammed, and tho othor half sinking from fcho offcots of tho operation. If this bo bo, it is manifestly inadvieablo to go on building floating oastlon, 1 costing considerably oVor hnlf a million a pioco. "• '' ' .