THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 6 February 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1880.

• We rewind th» public of the meeting to be held in Daweon'e Hall this evening, re the Black's Point Low Level Tunnel. Our old friend, Piccolo Charley, is still in the land of the living and still tootling away and drinking as hard as ever. He was recently brought before the BiM. at Afhburton, and (in the words he was so fond of qnotine) left to "Mourn the bitterness of exile with recollections that Jwell in the Com media" Poor Cherley 8 That diminutive whittle of thine has been most stupendously wetted ! The luminous appearance to which we referred in our last issue' has having been noticed above the western horizon was again visible on Wednesday evening, and attracted considerable notice. The night was perfectly cloudless, and offered a good opportunity for observation. The phenomenon was in the form of a white band or streak, its direction being almost vertical with the horizon, and presented the appearance of the letter V inverted end very much elongated, the line extending from the horizon to about midway up in the heavens. Its luminosity was greatest at about 8.30 p.m., after which it gradually faded, and at midnight was scarcely descernible. It moved in a southerly direction and between sunset and midnight had described an arc of about 60 degrees. As the singular appearance will no douM; have been observed in other places, we shall look with interest to an explanation of the phenomenon. Thßre was a tolerably long sitting of Ibe Magistrate's Court yesterday, the two police cases elsewhere reported occupying a great part of the day. In the civil case of Aiken v. Parry, a claim for £23, judgment was given for the amount claimed and costs. In accordance with a resolution o! the County Council, a publio meeting of the Inhabitants will be held in Dawson's Hall, this evening, for the purpose of appointing a com* mi t tee to collect subscriptions in aid of the Irish Relief Fund. The Wellingtou Post of Monday says :— 'The Rev ; W. B. Harvey is to be complimented on tho attitude he has assumed in regard to the approaohin* visit of ' Pastor ' Chiniquy, and we fell sure that the other clergy of this cij|y will not be behindhand in followng so good Tan example. At St. Paul's Church on Sunday Mr Harvey said he had been requested to give notice that a person calling himself Pastor Chir.iquy would arrive in Wellington shortly to deliver lectures. It was notorious thi»t these lectures had reference to the practices and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, Mr Harvey added that altho n <»h he yielded to none in his objection to the tenets of that church, he could not recognise that any good had arisen or likely to arise from this particular movement. Disturbance and strife in a community could not but have an ill effect, and these were the inevitable accompaniments of Mr ChiniquyN lectures. He could not, therefore, identify himself with the Chiniquy mission, and he hoped that all his congregation would hold aloof and not accord it the slightest countenance. He believed that more people were converted to Roman Catholicism by reckless abuse than by the efforts of its emissaries. We heartily endorse the reverend gentleman's rnjoarksi, and repeat the hope we expressed when we first drew attention to the offensive and objectionable style of Cbiuiquy's Uoturei

—that the tolerant and charitable relations which hitherto have subsisted in this city among members of all creeds will still con» tinue wholly unaffected by ths efforts of suoh men as Cbiniquy to stir up strife and ill feali ing.' Thfl gentleman who has made the appeal on behalf of the suffering poor of Ireland is one who, on the score ot relationship at any rate, has every claim to the confidence of the people of this Colony. Lord Mayor Dwyer Grey ia nephew to the late Judge Wilson Gray, of New Zealand, and son of the late Sir John Gray. Another olaim he has to being well known is the Tact that he is proprietor of the Freeman newspaper. At the tnee'ing of the N.Z. Insurance Com* pany, Mr^GK P. Pierce, in returning thanks on behalf of the officers, said : I agree that it is at times like thia that a vote of thanks is peculiarly acceptable. It is at times like this that our responsibilities increase, and our anxieties increase m proportion. We should do business so as not to have to run after ether companies, or take oxcessive risks, rats have a tendency to eat lucifer matches, so that fires are the inevitable result. Bats, it has been found, are not so fond of matches when times are good. A case of some interest to Road Boards came before hi 3 Honor Mr Justice Johnston on appeal in banco lately. The Cust Road Board had cut a ditch over the formed and unformed part of a road in the district. Over the formed part they placed a culvert;, and neglected to fill up that portion of the ditch crossing Ihe unformed part. A. man driving cattle along the road went off the formed part, and sustained injuries through his horse falling into the ditch. Ue brought an action in the Court below for damages, and drained a verdict. The Board appealed, and yesterday his Honor held that as the public had a right to the use of the whole 66ft. of the road, the Board were guilty of negligence in not filling up the ditch on the unformed part, and dismissed the appeal with costs. The Dunedin Herald says :— • We have been shown what purported to be a £10 note of the Union Bank, which on closer inspection proved to be a £l-note cleverly aUered so as to appear of the higher value. It is not easy to detect the forgery, although, of course, an examination of the note with a magnifyingglass would at once show that the words ' on c pound ' are scattered over the surface of the paper in hundreds. The forgery can only be successfully accomplished with dirty half worn notes. The story of a lost son restored is thns told by a Home paper: — ' Among tho«e who perished in the foundering of H.M.B. Eurydice was a lad named Mai chant, and a lad of the same name having left his home in Brighton a long time previously in order to join that ship, his parents, who had not heard from him since he left home, mourned for him as dead, believing, as the name and initial were the same, and as the description corresponded, that it was their son who was lost. Nearly twenty months have elapsed since the disaster, when the other day the lad who wa« regarded as dead long since, walked into his home alive and well. It appeared that, instead of joining the Eurydice, he had joined another ship, and finally had reached England in the Shah, after having travelled 68,000 miles' The following is the platform of the Victorian Farmers* Union :—' 1. The removal of duties upon agricultural machinery and implements, cornsaoks, woolpacks, and salt. 2." The extension of railway communication into the country districts. 3. A more equitable distribution of publio moneys in the country districts. 4. The proper conserve tion of water in the dry districts. 6. The reduction of freights of Victorian«grown produce carried on the Victorian railways, 6. The obtaining of a measure for the redivmon of the electoral districts, with a view of secur* ing direct repiesentaHon of the agricultural community. 7 Betrenohment of publio Ez« penditure and reduction of taxation.'