The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JAN 5, 1880.

Inangahua Times, 5 January 1880, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JAN 5, 1880.

■ The monthly meeting of the members of the Hospital Committee will be held at Mr M'Gaffin's office, this evening, at 8 o'clock sharp. All accounts against the stewards, of the late races are required to be sent in to the Secretary before 8 o'clock this evening. Cairns not rendered by that time will not be r cognised. The monthly meeting of the County Council will be held on Wednesday next. The County Chairman and Engineer,.accompanied by Messrs Tannery, Brennan, and Gallagher, left for Hampden this morning for the purpose of inspecting and reporting upon the state of public works in that Bid' ing. Tbo party will return on Friday evening next. A "milling" match between two wellknown "knights of the forks " was arranged to take place between Peefton and Black's Point on the morning of New Year's Pay, but the contest was.nipped in the bud. by the' police. The combatants left Reefton for the appointed rendezvous at about 8 am. accompanied by & large number of .persons, bat a few minutes after the ring had been formed the myrmidons of the law got scent of the affair, and quickly appearing upon the scene dispersed the crowd, the principals taking to the woods. We, congratulate the police- upon their vigilance in baulking .the disgraceful intention. The gitting of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts will be held at Beefton on the Bth instant. The Ahaura people had it seems a very successful race meeting, the weather being gloriously fine and the attendance very large, numbering many residents from Keefton, G-revraoutb, and other outside places. Tbe racing upon, the whole was remarkably good, notwithstanding that the stakes were rather small. No charge was it seems made for entrance upon the course". This was no doubt a greai^miitake, as had the stewards sold the gates, tbe proceeds would have been sufficient for another event. However, we trust that next year our Gsy Valley friends wll act in conjunction with "ourselves, and by starting the preliminaries of their meeting earlier, we shall together be'able to offer stakes sufficient to attract some of the best racing blood in the colony. There is no reason why Aheura should not have a two. days meet, and if this is done and the dWes of the' Hampdon, Reefton, Ahaura, and Greymouth gatT'erings are fixed in harmony, we may depend that next year we shall have on cir« euit something like twenty or thirty of the finest howes in the co'ony. I The race-horde Hal/Wnste, winner of the I Trial Stakes and Guldfields Handicap at j Reefton, fa to be raffled at one hundred members of £1 each. The mare left on Saturday for Nelson, but will be de'ivered to -the winner at Keeffon in guaranteed condition, iuv* mediately upon the close of the drawing, or arrangements may be made with the owner for her to remain at Mr Bolton's estate, Nelooa, up to & month or co before the date of next year's raoes. The whole of the operators at /the different; telegraph offices throughout the colony have struck against, the threatened reduction of Jbenr salaries by the G-pvernmejit, the rlidft being that the business of the Department is suffers ing considerably and great public 4 Ihfdtfvenjence has arisen. The ¥ officers-in -charge have decided to continue on- rather than tbat there should be s total cessation of business, but their efforts are quite inadequate, tbe jJsuU being that. no jGtovejnament messages can be transmitted, anjs only those" <)f the general public as are specially urgent. For lOureelvei, though considerable enfferera by the strike, we cannot but fully sympathise with Hhe opj||ato?». The Department bai always been proverbial fo? being the worst paid branch of the public service, and to attempt to still further cut it down is a posia tive wjaiim, Ih* remedj is, however, en*

they do not work to^^^^^^^^^^H fault will rest withj^^^^^^^^^l demands been afrmK^^^^^^^^^^^^M have been qui^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H but failing to c^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^f in the reductio^^^^^^^HbnV^^^^^l unwise and subven^^^MPefficiencyonW Department. No excuse is,. therefore, needed for the absence of our usual telegraphic intelligence. [Since writing the above, several messages have reached us] The* >CJrrey edabh left; this morning on the first trip under the new postal contract. The coach will itTfuture leave iiere on Mon« ! days, Wednesdays and Fridays, returning on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. These \ days have been wisely fixed with a due regard to the Christchurch. and Hokitfta postal service. The Hampden race meeting was an unqualified success, the weather being fine, ! attendance good, and racing very well contested. A full report of the meeting has ; reached us, and will be publisued in our next issua. . , ■'. The many friends on the West Coast of Mr E, S. Lapham, who was for many years manager of the Bank of New Zealand at (3-reymouth, will learn with regret of that gentleman's death, Mr Lapham died at Dunedin at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning last, the cause of death being inflammation of the bowles. Tenders are elsewhere invited for the purchase of the mining lease, tramways, and other surface works of the Boatman's Creek Company, Boatman's. Tenders close on the 10th instant. The dismal forebodings of the dismal foreboders of Reefton have this year not been fulfilled in reference to the Christmas holidays. It was predicted that tbis year's holiday would be of the poorest kind, I and a great disappointment to business people generally. A few facts which we will adduce tend to show that matters were quite the re* verse. Reefton has enjoyed a saturnalia extending over eight days, and though the atten dance was somewhat lees than, that of former years, the amount of money expended will contrast favour Ably with almo«t former times. In the first place considerably 1 ovei £100 was netted at the HogpitaUFire ! Brigade sports. The Catholic Bazaar realised somewhere about £170, the Methodi t Bazanr about £50. Close upon £100 was,. invested in the two crt -unions, hospital ball about £$0, and ddse upon £200 for the stakes and expenses of the races/ malting in all £650. Thfa will appear a large mm for a compare* tively smalt population like that of Inangahua, but it only represents •» moiety !o F f th*<M actual expenditure. The race mepting no doubt proved a great magnet, as it attracted numerous visitors from ail the outlying places, and tbis brought a large amount of grist to the local mills. The amount paid into the ; race fund by the different horse owners atone was close upon £70, to say nothing of individual expenses. Upon the whole then Eteefton badness* people have good reason to be satisfied with the result,- pf $$ holidays, j and if the figures above are to be taken as an index of the solvency of the district, it may safely be said that " there it life in the old boy yet." f A placard, with the title, Tho only Cure for the Existing Depression of Trade,' has ff^ays a Glasgow pangrfj bejsn.KJbtrgelyj posted in the Counties of Meath and Wectnjiefttb, and has attracted considerable at tention. Land (it say?) must come down to a proper value, about 2s 6-? to 5s per acre. The farmers of Great Britain and Ireland must have land that will enable them to compete with the freeholder of America. The land belongs to the people, the Crown, as itbe representative of the people and guardian oi theit rights and privileges, being head landlord. Disendow and disestablish landlords, as the Church, was J (?ise i ndb#ed :a^d disestablished. Away with land monopoly. If you want to put a stop to agrarian disputes, agrarian outrages, extra police, and vexatious taxation, send no landlords to Parliament, and let you watchword be ' God save the Crown and people.' The authorship of the document is unknown. The Journal Official states thai a farmer of Hesse has accidentally discovered a very simple means of getting rijd, oT ,slngs,and snails, which, in damp Reasons, ;tnake guclj extensive ravages in field and garden. This farmer, in ploughing a field w^ere there retrained many carrots left there from the previous season, threw the roofs into a comer of his garden, and was surprised to find about them a few weeks later a multitude of slugs whioh could be easily collected. He de* posited therefore, here and there in bi* garden little heaps of oarrots, and found that be could then collect on a single tquars yard as many as 480 snails and slugs, which he then threw into a vessel filled with water containing a little hydrochloric acid, choosing a damp evening for bis operation. A writer in the Dunedin Star advocates the imposition of a. tax on all Justices of the Peace within the Colony, that every man who is appointed a Justice should contribute a stamp duty of five pounds to the revenue. He points out that in the West Indies a tax of tbis kind has been in force for the last forty years, In !ffw Zealand the tax would, yield a, very substantial sum, as some eighteen months ago there were more than on*e thousand Justioeg in the Colony, apd the number has been considerably increased since that tine. ' Attious ' in the Leader says -.—Captaiu Woonlite. whose career was so suddenly out ihort at Wantabadgeryj *$ 'f, qriburgl fdjlnij t >rdinary type. He was^erer tfnftoili to^dis-* ringu'sh himself in whatever sphere he moved, tnd the church had a very narrow escape of ;laiming him at one time as a burning and .bfaing' light* He was for many years a lay ■eader, and as an expounder of evangelistic wincipleV few of th« regular clergy could tpproach him. He delivered one of the most i Profound and eloquent discourses on the lubject^ Do unto others a* y OU wou ld they ihould do unto you.' on the nj<i rn j n g a ft er ue »4 robbed the bank at Gordo^, Wji»p.

he who is his own lawyer has ai^WJ^^B client; Sootfc precipitated the catastrophe^^! calling evidence which his barrister would not hare admitted and which led to his conviction,, Ito wever, he had the h igh satisfaction of being complimented upon the ingenuity and ability be manifested in conducting bis defence. He was, as every one knows, sentenced to seven years imprisonment, but before . leaving the court for gaol he was regaled sumpfuosly on roast beef and beer ad lib,, and which the thief, arid no doubt liar afterwarde declared was paid for by the judge himself as a slight recognition of his misapplied talents, In the case of Macfarlane v, Rees.— -His Honor the Judge, upon the affidavit of Mr W, L. Rees, has granted a change of vrtme = for the hearing of the above case.* The NapierTelegraph is surprised that Mr Rees should have thought he could nofe have obtained justice in Napier, and concludes by stating that it is not so long ago it was stated that if Mr Rees had stood for tho representation of Napier his popularity would have carried him j through, If this were the case, surely twelve men out of the £t'al body Of electors (kittld, be found who would hare given Mr Sees at least a fair show. The last; issue of the Saturday, Advertiser (Dunedin) contains the first instalment of one of the successful Christmas prize tales, 'A, - TMe of Olden Time. 1 The judges reported* that after careful examination of the twenty* two tales sent in, tkp.decision was made to He between ' Hearts bruised for the Censer,' and lA, Tale of the Olden Times.' In reference to these, two of- the judges were divided in their opinions } the, third was un»ble to discover any distinctly marked difference intnerit between the tales in question : it was ! therefore agieed that, with the consent of the interested parties, the fairest course to adopt would be to bracket the two. tales together and divide the prizes, and they therefore recom* mended accordingly. ' A Tale of the Olden Time ' was written by Miss Clara Chepsemnn, of Auckland, and ' Hearts Bruised for the Censer' by Mr R. C. Ferguson, of Dunedin. jWitlf twi» otherßt.th,e- judges'* |»en¥oned id? 'deserving of high* praise^the-'tale^ entitled* • The Trevors.' This literary effort, we are pleased to state is the work of • Laura, 1 of Wpsfport, whose and poema hnve ,b§enj_sae,bj ft <featur^ in ; Ufe^sAd.y ertisej, * Thf, 4 writer never ©xpeeted the tsW i*. take^the prize, as it was not Written for the competition j but simply as a sketch, and being too lon|p for publication in that form the fair authoress j yielded to thß^shoss^ttfe^dtter^^hjej Advertiser, Mr Bracken, and allowed *it to | go in as a competitive tale. That the tale should be mentioned with praise before twenty others should be Te v y encou r aging to the authoress. We would advise our readers tfr jmb?cr)bfl to the I&dverfiserrsnd thus snpportj <those who encourage cbloniaUiterrtturej, • The present session (says the Post) will be j remembered by the ladiea of Wellington as j one of the most quiet — from any entertain- ! ment giving and society point of view — ever experienced in the colony. There has not j BeenVWen.'the -usiiaF'niiei&#B*iM^c(rt»w*n j two honoraria thjs year, can only be looked upon as somewhat shabby on their part. | Mr Lundon said in the House lately, if he \ had a eon or a dozen o!\sons, he would sooner see them potatOrtf %hak in the Go« vernment Buildinars down be'oar. The Civil Service was a wa9te of the best energy ard ablities of the young men of New Zealand, who entering that serv'ce bpcaraa uafit for f n 7 nsfful emplovmjpt,, go,t inJiQ^xtiiavaganjlj. habils,*ran Jnto debt committed suicjde, of in .4 « A .& Vj» „ -.-. ,W -'. -is." 1 -. some other way made fools of themselves. -