The Inagahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1878.

Inangahua Times, Volume 10, 25 October 1878, Page 2

The Inagahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1878.

Thoro was a sitting of tho Besident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday last, whon tho Magistrate jrave judgmiill W 'Uie, otifffi' Robinson v. Tbo Ifopofut Company. The plaintiff olaimed £27, being tho amount nil Aged to be due to him upon stono broken down in tho mine. Tho monsitrommit of ono of the company's truoks was at tbo qqtsot of his contract taken to boas represented by tho manager, but upon admeasurement it was found llmt the measurement Was an Inoh or two over that stated, and for the aggregate surplus of stone truokod he olalmnd as above. The Court, after bearing' ovidence at considerable length, gave judgmont for tbe amount olaimed with coats. There- was ouo other oase wbiob occupied the remainder of tho day. deorgo Brown sued John Dawson, hotelkeopor, for the value of a gold chain nnd locket alleged to bo illegally detained. Tho original defence to tho action was thut the ehuin wns given as security for a loan of £20. Upon this defence being set up, how* ever, Brown stated in Court that bo bad a claim again«t Dawson for a much larger amount than £26, and defondant, on the other hand, allrgod that Brown wos indebted to him to tho sum of ovsr £60. In tho faoe ot theso complications the caso was adjourjiod, in order to allow tbo parties to mako out and sot off thoir respective claims, Oa Wodnosduy last, Mr Dawson carno into Court with a bill against Brown amounting to £dS 8s Od, for board and lodging, tickets for ooncovt, refreshments, billiards, cash lont, Sto., while Brown's contra amountod to £88, made up as follows t— £3s casb advanced for pigs and pig- stye } £18 commission on purobase of hotel from Gilmer Bros, j £12 for circulating and obtaining signatures to petition in favour of granting hotol license to Dawson for promises in Upper Broadway j £2 for two days atteadanoe as witness iv tho oaso of Crockor v. Dawson ; £10 cash put iuto Dawson's till, and £8 oash lout to Dawson's manager. Of Brown's sot off, Mr Dawson admitted £20 on Recount of purchase of pigs, Vi for circulating petition, nnd Ll for witness attendance making in all, LB2. Thoro wai somo frightfully hard swearing in the oaso, tho Htatonionts of ono sido boing directly donied by tho othor. Brown swore that ho on one occasion lont tho , barmaid LIO for ohango, and this tho barmaid stoutly denied. Ho furtber more stated that he on nuothei occasion put LIO iti silver and half sovereigns in the bar till for change, aud the truth of this was ulso doniod, At the oloso of tbo hearing, judgment wus reserved until Tuesday next. A rather peculiar diflloulty has, wo learn, ( arison with regard to the fixing of o place at whioh to rocoivo nominations for tho forth* coining elootion for tho Antonio Hiding. Ali iho business plnco* in the district (uud thoir name is tho roVorse of logiou) are lioonsed promises, and cannot thoroforo bo fixed upon under tha Aot. Thoro is no schoolroom, plaoe of worship, or othor public building whereat nominations cau be received, und under these circumstances the ' Returning Oflloor will either have to appoint somo dig* ger's hut as a nomination and polling plaoe. or a temporary building will havo to bo erected for that purposo, In reference to tho. libel notion ponding against tho ' Ohrqtiiolo,' by tho proprietors of tiio < Post,' tho former paper th.s ovening has one of tho most vigorous denunciatory artioles oyer published in tbo Colony, a profound sensation was created, nud tbe oilioe was besieged by people anxious to purohnao the paper, Tho article concludes thus t— ' On our side, il will bo fought out, though morally wo are in uo sonso responsible for anything of whioh tho plaintiffs complain. Wo do not fonr tiio result one wh it. The jury box is a vory snnotunry of rofugo to thoso who h ivo dono no wrong, and who aro being n.uclo o ijoots ot mnh'oious and vindiolivo pot-so* eution, To tho tribunal of a Wellington jury wo simll therefore confide our appeal, o.mfldont thnt right and jij*t'o9 will ho done, nnd to thnt far higher and groater tribunal— tho pooplo as a whole— wo make oarnost appeal to show thoir adequate sense of tho wrong and injustioo to which it is attempted to subjoes two innocent persons, by rofusing to support the present despicable, cowardly, and spiteful course of procooding,' Quite a little trado is going on botween Canada and tho Unitod Statos in tho novel exportation of frogs for food, says tho ' OampboJlford Herald.' One of a number of places engaged in tbis trafllo is down at Cbrisbolm Rapids, and extends along tho Trent to Porey Kootn, live milos from horo. Tho frog* nt these pinoes are vory numorou*, os evinced 'by their uovcr-oeasiKg nightly concerts, overy throat giving forth a part in tho orchestral strain as loud as tho low hollowing ofn hull | and to tho midnight traveller it is almost hideous, Theso croaturos inhabit tho low, marshy localities about tho river, and grow to an extraordinary size, some of thf m, knowu as tbo gosling frog, so nam*

pom thoir attributed powor to kill a gosling, eing as largo as ton or a dozon of tbo rdinnry »iaot> ones. Only th. bind quarters if this amphibious raoo aro oaton, and thoy to said t"> be possossod of tbo flavor of a hioken. Thoy are caught by moans of small .ots whioh the oatoborß manipulate with onsiderablo dexterity, and somotimes capture i large number at'orio ' haul/ Thoy aro hipped nnd sold at the rato of ono cont .piece, nnd though tho prioo looms small, .ot ft very profltablo business it dono. Ono nan at Chisholm Rapid* latoly onpturod, wo ire told, eleven hundred In ono day. Others .gain, tbey toll us, oatoh from two to four tundrod por day. Tbo Wolllnglon tramway opptari to bo a flouriflhing oonoorn, At an ordinary mooting of tho company, hold on Tuesday, tho mnnnjfQr submitted returns showing that tho enterprise was malting satisfactory progross. Tho avcrago woekly 'reoeipts aro £200, and tho working oxpenscn JClldr, leaving a profit of £85 por wook, It is cxpnotod whon tho lino is in thorough working order tbo roooipts will bo materially auftmontod, whilo tho incroaso in exponsos' will bo but nominal. Tbo tralllo ii reported to bo steadily inorossiiig. The returns for tho freok ending Saturday show 15,078 passengow against 15,178 duvbtg tho prdvlnuf! w«dt«--**T''' ••"..■' \ TM Wii^yifo^H o* Uw Totara district ' was published In TUesday's il'sUo, but nifty, bo summarised in n fon words. .Population, 1,390, including 63 Cl»in«so. Tbe gold reveniw won £007. This is hut a temporary increase, owing to tbo number of businoss lioeniei (about £230 worth) whioh bnd to be taken out by persona desiring to lenao Boss town Motion*, but these do not require to bo renowod, With respect to tbo Kanieri, mining operation* bad, until lately, considerably declined. Tho gold reyonuo was £878~ i « decreases od tbo previous year of £209. Tho population is estimated at 1,062. and of tbese 825 aro employed in mining. Thii it a decrease of 150 to that of tho previous 'ymr. A db.uigo has latoly taken place, howovor, owing io the disoovory of tho quart* reefs at Butcher's GnUy.'* Sotroral lsntos bavo boon applied for, ond a oomoany formed to work the ground. It is distant tpn «iile» (rom Hokitika, sovon miles of whioh is ovor a mada road, In ono oi the leasos tbo surveyor reports tho reef to bo ten feet in tblokiiosi. Wimea distri. t has in noway fallen off during the past year. The population is 1,678, whioh shows en incroaso of 73 over tho provious year. Tbo gold rovenuo was £710, There are about fl:ty oluieing claims, and tho avorago number of miners usitig water from tho Government wator-raoo during tbo past year bas boon eighty daily. With rogard to tho quartz roofs at the Toipo, Wins don I'rice aayi ho oannot report that the holders of tbo mining loa«o granted about two year* ago havo dono anything towards dove loping thorn. With tbo viow of having tho piaco thoroughly prospostod, 20 gentlemen iv Hokitika subscribed £50 eaoh ; and si'i.t out a manager and two men for that purposo in Fobruary lust, but thoy woro obliged to rj« (urn in April i.i oonscqucrtaa of snow, Tho nmhagCft#piO*t» tho disoovory of root* at a high level. Tbo founder of* Cobb and Co/ unlimited and everywhere is no moro (writos ' iGglos ' iv tho Australasian.) Ifrooman Cobb oaiuo to Molbourno at the ond of 1852 or beginning of 1858, with Q-oorgo Mowton, to form a branoh of Adams uud Co,, famed iv the United Statos as express oaniers, Molbourno was not ripo for that business, aud Mr Cobb, who had expross-wagaoiiß with him, bought horses and oommonood that ooaohing sys:om wbiob hai nude Cobb and Co. famous ovor (he Australian Colonies. Aftor living in America for somo time tho old spirit of cnturprfro was aroused in bim, and he went 'to Urn South Airioaa gold-Holds, Mid started Cobb nnd 00. thoro~-aud thero ho diod, Adams and 00. brought with thorn tho two first buggisi landed in Australia, Tho bost Iritind I over had bought one of them, and Mowton kopt the other. Tho good poople of Molbourno wero highly amused ut tho notion of those light spidomliko vehiclos travelling ovor bush roads. But tho buggies survived ridicule. Olio evening lutoly, says tho Dunodin Age, „ throo workmen wero marching nbreast along (1 tho Willis atroot footpath, Wellington, tho outsido man carrying ovor his shoulder a largo pioknxo, hold horizontally, ono poiut f project ing oyor tho footpath, and tho other j bohind tho noxt man's bond. A pedestrian s mooting tho trio, growled savagely « Tako caro j With that piokaxo,' on whioh tbo ownor in ( his anxioty to oblige, suddenly turned it . aside, so as to cloar tbe path, quito forgetting , that tho otber ond was pointing nt tho bnok , of his /riond's boad. Tho result was that the , latter roceivod a torriflo prod from tho point , of tha piokaxo, almost bard enough to let out , all tho bralm inside that hoad. lt did lot out , a copious flow of language, chiefly polomio. A terrible und fatal aooident, 0.-ourrod on Sept. 88 at the shaft of the Britainia Company, Ballnrat Kast, by whioh two minors lost, their lives on tho spot, nnd a third w s terribly •bruised a-.d mangled. It appears thnt about sovon o'olo ik that morning, tnroo mon named rospootivoly William Marlin, Miohnol Dovlno. and Samuel Olomonoe proceeded to dosoond tho shaft, and in doing so tho ongo stuck on its way down, not vory f»r from tho top, nnd a quantity of slaok ropo began to atoumulnto. Suddonly tho ongo bocamo rolonsod, and it foil down, tho jerk caused through tho disongugod slaok having tho c/Foct of throwing tho chock block of tho oog'wholl o f tho spider out of goar, nnd permitting it to rovolvo unrestrained, nnd proolpitnting tho ongo nnd tho throe unfortunate mon to tho bottom of tho shaft, a a distanco of about 120 ft. Martin nud Dovino wore kided instantly, and Clomenoo bad ono of his arms torn out of its socket, and his skull, it is fcarod, Is fr.oturod. Ho was convoyed to tbo hospital, whoro hopes wero cxprossod that he might survivo tho torrible injurios h'* had sustainod. Devino leaves a wi o and six ohildren, Martin wa* a i widower, aud Clcmonco is a singlo young '

The good limo ooming for Reofton will assuredly lead to a oonsidorablo inoroase in population, tho weather that Ims afllioted the distriot so long having brokon up and disappeared, and the roads again in good working order, will throw life aud cheerfulness, around and upon this portion of New Zoaland ■ so favored ond so Mossed, with' all that renders lifo agrooablo, but whioh may and frequently do load to thoso habits whioh ongondor diseaso through oxpoouro to Bioluioss and ohills, tho hoalthiest may bo striokon down hy ItitßUMA.'riHM:, RnicuAUTio Gour, TjWWIUGO, IXT«nHITTKNT FbVKBS. BIMOUSiJ' kbrr, &o„ and tt is wilt that all 'should know tho most roliablo euros for tbeso aro tha famous Inoun MnniOltflts known m (ihollah's Groat Indian Ouros,"— • thoy can bo had of M.. K. Giflsin«e, Chomist appointod solo wholesalo agont for Keofton and distriot. Sco testimonials in advertising oolumn».~-Advt*.