THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 8 March 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1880.

Mr John M'GMBn will submit to auction to-day, at 2 p.m., on tbe premises, the pro* perty known as Monahan's Hotel, together with household furniture, ko. The adjourned meeting of the County Council will be held at tbe Chambers, Smith' street, on Wednesday next. On Friday morning last Mr George Walker and Mr Wilson, surveyor, left Lake Gnyon, Canterbury, and arrived in Beefton in the evening of the same day. They travelled via Cannibal Gorge to Maruia, and thence down the Valley of ihe Inangahua. They made the trip on horseback, and although the distance is something like forty miles, they journeyed very leisurely, thus showing the facility of the route. The up mail did not arrive from Greymouth on Saturday evening, and as there was no flood in the Inangahua or upper Little Grey, the detention may have been due to floods in the Grey VaUey. Yesterday evening the Inangahua rose considerably, bnt was not nearly so high as might have been expected from the quantity of rain which fell in the morning. „ We may look to see traffic resumed to-day. , We elsewhere publish a precis of the new Electoral Acts, and need hardly renamed our readers of the importance of seeing tbat their names are duly enrolled. We are not aware whether a Registrar has as yet beeu appointed for the Inangahua. - In many ot the West Coast towns the Warden's Clerks have been appointed Registrars. It was reported in Reefton on Satnrday thafc the Minister of Public Works would arrive in Westport to-day. V"c are not able to say how far the rumor is correct, but the County Chairman expects definite intimation thia morning. Should Mr Oliver arrive there as stated, it is probable that the County Chairman with other members of the Counoil will proceed to Westport with the view of inducing the Minister to make tbe overland trip to Greymouth. Carpenters, saw-millers and others, whopossibly derived some crumb of comfort from the conclusion that tbe late fire in Broadway would afc all events open up a new channel for their industry, have, so far, been sadly disappointed, for no move has yet been made by any of the Phmnix-es to rise from their respective ashes, lt does not appear likely j that the site wili be re*built upon for some time to come, as the whole of the late ; sufferers have re-started in business in other premises. In the meantime the gap in the street presents a very unsightly appearance, and would remind one of the fact that in the matter of street frontages '• Times ai'nt what they used to was." The position of mining reporter iv Beefton just now is about one of the deadest occupations thafc could be invented to torture the ingenuity of man, for the nimble newsman can ; no more manufacture his intellectual bricks , without tbe required straw, than can the ■ industrious artificer in soft mud. The fact is i for the time being the occupation of the mining reporter is gone, and though we occasionly see a frantic effort made to present old facts with new faces, tweedledum is still tweedledum, and tweedledee is tweedledee. Of course the intelligent reader asks for " more," for like everything else, mining news grows in demand in precioely the same ratio thit it shrinks in supply, and should then the accommodating reporter endeavor to minister to this depraved appetite of the publio, gentle reader exclaim not " A half-penny wovth of bread fco this intolerable deal of sac."