THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, FEB. 23, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 23 February 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, FEB. 23, 1880.

The past week furnishes nothing of moment in mining to report upon. Tbe Golden Treasure Company are pursuing their crushing with the limited supply of water available f and will probably bave a clearing up daring the current week. The ground adjoining tbe Golden Treasure Company has been tafeen up under mining lease, and formed ic to a company. Mr J. M'Gaffin on Saturday last held an auction sale of household furniture and effets belonging to Mr D. Stewart, the whole being cleared at very fair prises. iilthough. numerous sums of money™mostly re-votes from the previous session —this year appear upon the Estimates far public works in the Inangahua County, it is' very certain that tbe appropriations will lapse unless the proper steps are taken by the local body to get the works in progress before tbe close of the financial year. The money has been voted, and it now only remains for the authorities here to see tbat the amount is expended. The Catholic School annual pic-nic will beheld in tbe second week of March. On Saturday morning last, a number of children were watching the progress of a burning tree, in tbe bush in tho vicinity of the Catholic school, when a limb of the tree snapped off suddenly, and fell amongst the children. One little boy, a 9on of Mrs Williamson, was caught by the falling timber and very seriously injured, one of hi* legs being dreadfully shattered. The little fellow's cries were heartrending, and quickly attracted the Rev. Father Carew and others to the spot, when tbe sufferer was conveyed to tbe hospital. One of his legs was found to be very badly fractured, but be is now progressing as favourably as could be expected. The Minister of Public Works was expected to reach Hokitika on Saturday last. Tonics' sweep on the Dunedin Cup is advertised to be drawn on Tuesday (tomorrow,) Mr Colin Campbell, who for the pa t four years has filled the position of agent of the Bank of New Zealand at Reefton, is about to be transferred to the charge of the Milton (Otago) branch of the same bank. It is notified tbat no objections being lodged against tho County Valuation for the Hampden Riding, the advertised sitting of the Assessment Court there will not be held, ■We take the following; Lyell items from the local paper -. — '• We have to re* port that the Alpine is again in full work, (wages, £3 ICs). and the battery crushing, there seems now every probability of matters working more smoothly in this claim, and as a result we hr>pe to see regular and substantial dividends.-— ln New Creek a reef 150 feet long carryinK , splendid gold has been laid bare.— Messrs Conrarlson and Fantella are in hourly expectation of striking the reef in their claiza in ocw lies of reef/

At the great banquet at New York in honour of Mr Potter, M.P., Mr Evarts, who presided, proposed a toast to Mr John Bright— < ths first public man in England.' Mr Evarts dwelt with emphasis upon the title of ' Mr,' which wag common to both England and America, and was applied to the mo9t emmet men in both countries. ' 1 iniaht.' said Mr Evarfca,' have carried my illustration back 100 years, and called (he Englishman's attention to Mr Pitt, Mi- Fox, and STr Sheridan as groat men who had borne the simple title. I now give you toast—' John Bright, the great Commoner of England ; our friend and the world's friend— -a lover of justice, a loyer of liberty, and a lover of all mankind'— (Loud cheering.) We send by our guest a message to his great countryman to assure -him of the love and gratitude of forty millions of people, and to prefer this simple request, that he would not die until he has seen America,' — (Loud cheers.) The Ash burton Guardian has an article upon that portion of Mr Hodgson's annual report which relates to larrikinism. In the course of its remarks our contemporary says.— ' We have no wish to sermonise, but we cannot but agree with Mr. Hodgson when he says that if larrikiuism is to be stamped I out must be stamped out in the homes of the larrikinism, and not in the schools. ' Evil communications comipt good manner?,' is an old, old proverb ; but it is as true to-day as it was whci first the sentence was composed. Let a boy out to mingle unrfeatrjined with the common herd who congregrate at our street corners, to study the choice and ample vocabulary of blackguardism, and he will not take long, no matter what his early training may be, to get abreast of his companions in proficiency. "Vice is a department of street education very easy of mastery. Very little brains are wanted to be able to hurl vile language at a pasfer-by, Once the example of the 3treet corner has done its poisoning work, the example and precept of the schoolmaster will be left far. far in the lee, We can assure parents who allow their children to roam these streets at night, and to be away from the good example of their own homes, that they are exposing them to far greater danger than any infection from disease. Let the home be pure— and make the boy stay in it. The street sit night when the scum is flowing is no place for him. lie . is not safe, and he only swells the crowd of worthless idlers— from .whom the colony's ' criminal classes ' are invariably drawn.' It appears that the quantity of grain which the Australian colonies will export as the result of the harvest which is just over, has been greatly under estimated. Allowing for a good harvest, it was expected that about 10,000,000 bushels would be shipped to Europe. Advertiser shows, however, that South Australia alone will have a surplus of fully 15,675,000 bushels, or, in round numbers, 420,000 tons, only a small proportion of which is likely to be shipped to the (Jape Colony. The money value at the low estimate of 4s 6d per bushel will be £3,318,000, ■ or over £13 for every man woman or child of the population. It will give a better idea of what the quantity means when we say that tho colony repuires to ship about 1200 tons per day for a whole year to get rid of the surplus. No wonder we learn that bottoms are required. Vessels a*e loadin > &t every port in the colony, and one firm has vessels on the berth at no less than five of them at the same time The Temuka tells this highly improbable story concerning the once notorious Madeline Smith:—' It is asserted with very strong asseveration by a certain party, who has good reason for knowing it to be a fact, that Miss Smith is at present in New Zealand, and has been in it for the last seven or eight years, at least to hi? certain knowledge. He says that for four or five years she travelled about with a gentleman who resided not a hundred miles from South Canterbury. She lived in in the same hotel and dined at the same table yet was not allowed to look at, far less speak to her' 1 guardian angel." After a time, tho one getting tired of the other, the lady nest appeared on the West Coast as the associate of asueeesful miner, to whom she was evens tually married uy a certain clergyman, who docs not conceal tho facts of the case, but adds that sho turned out to be a good house-wife, and is very ofectionato and seemingly as devoted to her new lover, as she was to all who came before him."