THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1878. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1878.

Inangahua Times, Issue 19, 2 October 1878, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1878. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1878.

Tho next English r»nd Muroponn Mail via San Frimoifloo will oloso at tho Itooflou Oflloo, on Monday, 7th Ootobor, at 7 a.m. If litigation is nny sign of pormancnt or prospeoiivo prosperity, Ruofton, at tho pro* sent tirtio, surely should bo an envious place, for on Monday morning tho mail ooaoh car- I riod away, law bound, for Hokitika a round dozen of our prominont citizen?, tho ooaoh starting nt 8 o'oiook sharp, nnd some two hour's lator Mr M'Willinim started with anothor batoh with tho samo h ippy intent and had to return buolt, in oonscqu»noo of tho rapid rising of tho rivovs, but mado anothor otnrt ■ yesterday morning at 5 o'clock with a full loud. Tho vonthor tuking a fnvourablo change, ho may liavo probably got to Grey* mouth last, night. The quartz mining loase, known as Langdon's loaso, Gi'oy Rivor, has been sold by public auction on tho 23rd instant for £155, tho purchasers boing Messrs Loarmonth and Co., Hokitika. It has oiuoo boon said that a quarter of a twelfth j-haro has boon cold (or £100. A good many frosh loaaos nro juan now boing applied for in tho vicinity by Groymouth speculators. Mr Dan CHllespio, minor, of Boatman's was brought into town on Monday ovoning,, suffering from hoayy bruisos about thu body, and sovoro soalp wounds about tio hoad> occasioned by a fall over a prooipioo at Boatman's Orook. Wo are glad to learn that ho ,is programing favourably uudoi 1 tho oaroful attention of Dr Martin. Tho mail ooaoh aarivod in town ycntorday nbout 1 o'clock p.m., having boon stuck up at tho Ahaura on Monday through tho Hooded stato of tho rivors, and started thin morning at tho usual hour with a full compliment of pasnen^ors to join thoir happy brcthorn who nro gone boforo thorn. Tho Otago Daily Times, in a rnoont artiolo upon railway matters, mukos the following remarks regarding tho proposed trans insular lino via Amberloy and tho Uopo Pass thonco into the Groy Valley i--' ln looking ovor Mr Bliiir'o roport on tho construction of now lines wo regret to sec (hat there is but littlo indication of an in tout ion to raiso tho gonotttl ntandard of our futuro linos by suoh improve* monts as we havo alluded to. As an instance wo may montion that on tho trial linos from Amborloo to Oroyinouth, yin Brunuortou, tho tho most probable louto is spokon ofqnilo calmly an involving ft gradient of 1 in 25, nnd as wo uudorstimd this to bo on tho aecont from Brunnorton to tho Ilaaat, all tho ooul i-rafllo, which Mr Macandrow estimated at a thousand tons wookly, would ht»vo to oncountor it. That it o<»n \,o JJoorionsly oontomplated to muko suoh a lino as thii for mineral traffic, wo can soaroely believe Evon 1 iv CO proves in working to bo a very disadvantageous grade, but wo vonturo to nay that to carry nny largo amount of coal on a lino whoso ruling grudo wns 1 in 25, or nny* thing liko it, would bo simply iinpi'Aatioabln, and ohottld not bo thought of for a momont. It would tako ■ lot nt say, at a rough gnoss— ton times tho traotion powor used on English linos, whoro 1 in 100 ia tho stcopost grade, and tromendous wear and tear j and for nil timo such a railway would bo a souroo of vcxition and cxpoiwo.' This is wkiifc tho Lon lon Examiuor has to say with regard to tho reform which is taking place in tho ruattor of Sunday obaoi'vanoos iv Er.g'and / What posjiblo daugor tho Ohrirtinn faith or tho public would run from tho opening of tho British Mttsoum and tho National Gallery ovory altornato Sunday we candidly confess ouroolvos unablo to boo. We ourselvoa hf.vo soon on various Sundays a Bishop nt tho Zoological Qardono a Lord Ohaucollor at thirßotnnionl GardjifMk rural Doitn on lh(Uljfi|^K J3riuhji£uH^Hnry of Stato in i V^H^9«|^B9^H^^Sr"'' n » ])ittb^«fl^H^^H^^HHMllß^n cigar H|MJ^H^H^^H^H^i» sho run boforo HE^^^^HH|r>^""> | t : > nn Archbishop n pi'ivuto view on 'Show it not in Gatb, a bundle iv 1 cxtmotiiig winklos from tln.-ir I^^HHr a P'"» under tho shudow of tho lluithoy Puik. In id ono iusUnoo HHp wo porauudo ourselves that tho was endangorod. tho inttu-uatit of nt etako, or tha Oontinontal threatening us. And, if nn Arch" HIBp on tho tJubbuth niny look at Mr HFaia' piotirca nnd n boadlo oat winklca, and *<^)oorctary of Slato catch gudgeons, nnd n. Lord Chiof Justico smoko, it is hard on nn unhappy olerk thnt ho may not viHit tho British Museum and tho National tiallury, A gcntlomnn gnvo n letter of introduoiion "o n studont of musio , about to visit Leipsie, who wished to put himself under the instruction of n famous tcnohor in that oity. Upon tho student's return homo, the ponllon.nn naked, , Tiiow do you liko tho profea.wr P' 1 Oh, wonderfully I Ho gnvo me fl.»o lossoiis j but ho is a ypyy singular mnn, Ho kept on prnyinfl nil tho timo ho was trailing mo.' 'Pmyinul Why what do yo mmm ?' ' Well, whilo I was playing, ho clasped his hnrida; lifted his eves to th» coiling, and kopt saying, ' Grout Uoaron' whnt oin, hnvo I committed to doßo-vo Ihifl puntshmont P l Homo foW yenM ago n noblodofe/ii\an(i, who was oompollad to listen in court, to a fooling pnnogyric on his wifo's virtuon, out tho cloquont coun'i'l short by springing up and Buying: 'I admit nil that. My wifo is nn angel | and I trust it may bo your fato to find nnolher such an angfl, and to livo with hor for Avo yours.' Tho thoologiano havo d isoovorcd a pro* phooy of whnt has h.ipponod nt Berlin in tho eighth ohnptor of Z charial^ nnd tho last verso: — Jin tliono days it slinll come to pass that ten men shall tuko \w\o out of all lnngungos of tho nations, ovon shall thoy hold til the skirt of him that ia a Jow Buying. Wo ,

tfill go wifcli you. for wo hiwc hoard that Goa 9 with you.' Tho ontontio'i is that (hero iro ton lungiiiigoß 'of tho nutions roprosor.twl al; Borlin— boing, wo suppose, Gorman English Uuißian, Fronoh, Italian. Turkish) Grcok, Roumanian, Sorb, nnp Magyar, though though wo fancy it would bo oiioy looking to tho oxoossivoly ootnpoaito naturo of Austria, to mako up moro. Another alight difficulty as to tho prophooy id thnt in nil) probability tho load nt llu Oongrnsa lms not by nny monns boon Lord Bonoonifluld's and still less tho motivo for following his load, so far as it wns followod that boliof in tho divino guidanoo of Lord Boneonsfiold whioU in horo flujjgoatod. But considering tho diffioulty of finding prophcoios which liavo any sort of floonvng l'ofcronco to tho modurn oonditons of thing*, tho pnssago may bo admittod to bo ourious, and tho application found for it ingonious, A singular omo of fruit-poisoning is reported from tho Thames, whoro a family woro enjoying a pio mndo of rhubarb, whioti had boon proscrvod in tins, whon they oom moncod to fool Tory eiok, and afterward* I vomiting ensuod. An inquiry into tho onuno of tho Bieknoss resulted in ono of tho mom" bora of tho family taking up tho tin, nnd finding that aomo of it was coated over with rust, tho acid haying oaton ' away tho tin, whioh was in solution, cunning tho sicknm. Tho attnok was a very povoro ono, and dontinuod for thn spaoo of an hour, not oenaing, until, by tho aid of omotics, ths poiaonod fruit had boon romovod. Among a nnmbor of Bills initiated in tho Legislative Oounnil i« ono intituled " An Atf to nir.ond tho Municipal Corporations Act, 1875," tho effootivo clauso of whioh is r.s follows! — 'A oopy o( any byo-lnw nonlod with tho oom won bohl of tho Corporation shall bo roooivod as ovidnnoo of thd naino having boon in foroo within any borough mid or tho Baid Aot, and of tho samo having boon.duly mndo as by law providod in that bolialf unless in oithor oaso tho contrary is proved | and a oopy of any byo-law, soalod with tho soal of sho Corporation shall bo roooivod as ovldoneo of any bye .law mado ninno tho fin id Aot como into foroo, and thad tho saino was duly mndo as by tli.o said Aot providod, unles* tho contrary in provod. 1 •Whoro tlnro's a Will thoro's a Way;'-— Liborai Sootoh farmo", giving his work-pooplo a dram : • Awm sorry, Mrs M'Dougal, yo citnnn tako a tflnsu on nooount of your tomporanco prinoiplos,' Mrs M'Dougnl : ' Hoot, man 1 Yo jmt poor't on J.nu bap (a roll) an' I'U oat it.'