THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 5 March 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1880.

V\ c learn that the damage done to the Golden Treasure engine and battery house by the late fire put the company to an outlay of close upon £300 for repairs, besides the loss occasioned through the stoppage of erushiug j operations for so long a time. This, together with the fact that the company has had heavy monthly payments to meet in connection with the purchase of the crushing plant, will fully explain the necessity which has arisen for making a call ot sixpence per share. The battery is, however, once more in full operation, and there is little to fear that the company will soon pull up the lee way. As far as we can learn there is no reason to doubt the ultimate profitableness of the undertaking. The Just-in-Time Company cleaned up on Wednesday last, after running through 391 tons of stone, the yield being 3860z of retorted gold, or approaching to an ounce to the ton. There is, we learn, a quantity of sand an hand, which has yet to be treated. Al» though the return is not quite up to expectations, it is nevertheless highly satisfactory and leaves a handsome margin for division. There was no meeting of the County Council on Wednesday last, there being no quorum of members present. The meeting was therefore adjourned for seven days. There was a sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday, but (he business was unimportant. Several of the applicants failed to put in an appearance at the proper time, and the Chairman said that the parties had thereby incurred the risk of having their applications struck out. The neglect would be overlooked on the present occasion, but in future unless applicants were in attendance at the proper time, their claims would ba struck out. A very numerous meeting was held afc Boatman's on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of arranging a day's horee racing onjßt. Patrick's Day. Great interest was taken in the proceedings, and it was unanimously decided to issue a one day's programme. Mr D. M'GHnley was present and placed his paddock at the disposal of the committee. A subscription list was then opened and £40 or £50 was subscribed. It is expected to make up the amount to £100. The races will be limited to district 'horses. The programme will appear in a future issue. In a letter to the Scotsman Mr Gladstone says : — " Will you allow me, through yoar columns, f o dispose of several matters in connection with my visit to Scotland, which cannot so conveniently be dealt with in any other manner. 1 I have to ask pardon for a strange blunder which has exercised the minds of many kindly correspondents. At Dalkeith, I applied Lady JSTairne's phrase for heaven, ' The land o' the leal,' to Scotland. I can only account for, and cannot excuse, the error by the multitude of matters pressing almost from moment to moment on my mind and time.* The South Australian Government appear to be making preparations for a large increase in the agricultural settlement of their colony. Their land system provide for the resumption by the Crown of the pastoral runs upon due notice being given whenever they are required for the purposes of settlement, and instead of tin owing the whole colony open for selection, portiona are reeutned from time to time, and disposed of upon wnat may be regarded at a modified form of the auction system. At the beginning of the present year a large number of squatters received notice that their runs would be vo» sumed, and this land will be disposed of to agricultural settlers % from time to time. Never before in the history of South Australia has so large an area been resumed at one time. The Commissioner of Crown Lands is evidently looking forward to-a lar^e demand for land in consequence of the bountiful harvest. The total area resumed, which is chiefly in the north an north east, v about 4700 square miles, or about 3,000,000 acres, included in filly-six leases, on forty -one of which the notice of resumption is at twelve months, and on the remaining fi'tceu leases six months only. Complaint is made in Cali'ornia that the spot in Colombo, El Dorado Cuunty, where gold was first discovered, has not been marked by some suitable monument. As it is, however, there' is considerable doubt where the discovery which has been so full of vast importance the world was tmcta. Marshal!, the recogniaed discoverer of the precious inetui, is still living on the edge of the township, and is miserably poor, being dependent on his daily labour lor the barest necessaiijs of life. A few day3 ago. Mr James Muckay Resident Magistrate at Greymoulb, dew atter.tion to the great delay occasioned in other districts by the noa service of warrants, summon c?, &c, which often come buck endorsad " oannoc be found " &c., Noticing Mr Maekay's remarks on this subject, the Wanganui Herald has the following :— 'This is a strange appeal to the subordinate officials of justice to do their duty more zealuu-ly, though Mr Jtfackny is himself a minister of the law mixed with vinegar. In the South Inland they manage these afiYus mmh better Ws ki ovp of c-rt«e,*, and among them that oi a Resident Miigistrite, who is such an enemy to obslruc'ion io the service oflegnl sum*

mouse* that tie readily attaches his official eignature to documents when the sole reason of their existence is to extract money from his own pocket, Ihe. spectacle of Brutas condemning his son pales by the side of the upright Magistrate who sgins a warrant against himself, A northern contemporary says that, • A Mrs Fisher, who drew Foul Play in North and Ames's £2000 sweep on the Wellington Cup, Bold half her chance for £100 to His Excellency the G-overnor, and, consequently, she only receives £350 instead of £900. The lady, however, has not come out of the matter so badly.' The Dean of Peterborough was placed in a very embarrassing position the other duy. He was invited by the agents of the United Kingdom Alliance to take part in a temperance meeting. He attended, but, not wishing fo appear under false colors, he ppofce out plainly fine 1 to the point, He agreed with precodiug speakers as to the awful consequence of drunkenness, and he believed total abstinence was a cure fop the habitual drunkard. But thsre he said he must stop ; he could not go one atom further. He was not a toial abstainer himself. He had tried it three times, and believed if he had not taken stimulants, as his medioal attendant told him, he should not been t ten speaking to j them. He did not admit the necessity for { everyone to be a total abstainer, and could never admit what ho believed to be an ab~ polute false principle, that the abuse of any* thing was an argument against its u«e. The Colonial Treasurer has, according to the Post, produced a statement which is not likely to cause many people to feel hqppy over the financial state of the Colony. From a leading articla in that journal, it may be gathered that the deficit to be looked for about the opening of Parliament will be close on a million sterling. A pretty state of things truly. The falling ofF in the Land Revenue will reach nearly £600,000, and the deficit in railway receipts is expected to be about £80,000, and a sum of £19,000, with about £10,000 costs, has to be refunded to the estate of the late Hon. W. B. Rhodes—the result of a law suit, re probate duty. We will probably have a new tax next session — perhaps a poll tax.