THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 24 March 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1880.

, One of the most gratifying itemg of mining mews we have bad to record for many a long ! day comes from the Golden Plesce mine. The company have just cleaned up. after a 'six day's crushing, the result being the excellent return of 640 ounces of amalgam from the top plates only. This. is the grandest yield yet obtained from the mine, and the ■value of the returned ia immensely in^anced by the fact Ibat the stone was taken from a deeper level than any previously worked in the mine, thus establishing the important fact thnt the stone lives down, and improves as it deepens. No more convincing proof of the "permanency of the reefing industry could be desired than this, and it ought to act as a strong incentive to the .floating of tbe Low Level Tunnel. There will be a sitting of tbe Magistrate's Court at tbe usual hour to-morrow. The death is annouced of Mr George Falla, of Westport. An inquest was held yesterday, before Dr Monckton, Acting-Coroner, into the cirrumetances attending the death of Henri Mnreon, who died at the Reefton Hospital on Sun* day last. Tbe -evidence showed that the de» censed, who was a sobers steady man, had{ been for some time in the employ of Fred. s Brandt, as a ferryman, at the Landing. On tbe morning of the 14th instant Brandt beard an unusual noise in tbe direction of the punt and on going out found deceased lying at the foot of tbe road cutting. He was quite con- > seitfus, but bleeding from a wound in tbe head, and bis lower extremities were paralysed. He was at once brought in to the "Ueefton Hospital, where he wp .^omptly , upended to by Dr Monckton, wl. v stained that serious injury had resulted -■ »'-'; spine, and that the case was therefore , a hopeless one. The unfortunate man lingered until the 21*t instant whea he died as stated. He was conscious to the last, and explained that at the time of the accident he was in the act of crossing the cutting on a Bpar, but 6n getting midway the Bpar gave w>iy, and Tie! fell a distance of 20ft. Deceased was a native of St. Etienne, in tbe department of Loire, Fiance, and 36 years of age. He jvas the sob of Regius Marson, timber merchant, of the same place. Deceased left no property of any kind. A meeting will be held at M'Graffin's Hotel this evening for tbe purpose of forming a Provisional Committee for the Low Lesel Tunnel. We again remind collectors that all subscription lists in aid of the Irish Relief Fund must be returned to Mr Brennan not later tbah tomorrow. There is & terrible commotion among the bakers of Dnnedin. It seems that some time £go Mr R Hudson, a well-known miller b-iker, and conferstioner, invented a sort of self' raising flour which bag the advantage, without yeast or any other ingredient, of enabling any housewife to manufacture wholesale bread or buns with ease and certainty. Tbe Belt-raising flour has obtaiaed a wide circulation inDunedin, is beginning to be regarded as a household neeespity. and the result i» a sari falling off in the consumption! of yeast-making bread. A lew days ago, the master baker*, intent on revenge convened a meeting for the purpose of considering the prospectus of a pint stock confectionary company, and of course Hudson was not invited. He eocured one of their circulars, however, and on the following day quite a sens&tion wa3 created by the appearance in the [window of Abraham's oigar divan, of a sketch of three donkeyß in solemn conclave brayjjng at each other, the centre head !:hedring a wonderful resemblance to the bonvjener of the bakers' meeting, while above j-all; was the legend 'Hudson's eelf-raising ' flour." There i 3 a great indignation among ,||je manufacturers of dough, but the con«fepii(>nary plot is not likely to be a success. 'frSSfhen a hen lays an egg she cackles. It ias'ben nature. When a man ge f s in a new stock of goods, it is human for him to crow overit. When tbe hen cackles, people kno/f ,tha,t the has laid in some fresh stock, and \ feels rather proud of it. When the merchant . : ope.nß his npw styles, an blows his trumpet j^^bfl newspaper*, people know that be bng on hand that ia worth advertising /Bi".W your own trumpet once in a while. It won't hurt you or the trumpet either. The British Indian Steam Navigation ComPan,!, sleamsbp Fiu 2 orla. trading bHwem tbe various port, on the Indian coast, foun,dere4 dunn 2 a ten-Be gale, which wa* ercountered after leaving Bombay. The cuptain, chief officer, all the engineers, and 100 natrves, comprising nearly all on board, were drowned. , f The South Canterbury Ti mPg Bay 9 ,__ « A recent traveller in California de-cribes the I social condition of the country fsg elightly j .anarchical. Kot only ddes everyone do what 'is fright in bis own eyes, but expi esses him- ■ B^eJTTr. jery strongly— and generally, in bulle»« agfsnsfc whatever displeases him that is '<3bne fey Otber3. In a church — for there are churches — which our traveller chanced to Tisit, he noticed this touching appeal printed

in large type upon the organ loft — " It is requested that you will not shoot at the organist. He doea his best." The difficulties of editors are notoriously grpat, but it cannot be said no attempt are made no lighten them, T bold in rr-y band a circular addressed to that sorely-tried class by a gentleman who wishes to hep them all without distinction of party. F>r the very moderate sum of 35s per annum be proposed to send thpm a weekly sheet, containing "highly condensed mater that may be expanded in*o landing articles," "epitomes ol speeches," "summaries of parliamentary debates." ar.d short notices of recent publications." He is also prepared to pro-vidp jeading articles at the rate of 7$ 6d per polumn of 22in, on receiving the facts to which it is Jesired to draw attention and an indication of the line wished -to be taken in the discussion ot them.' This is- writing by the yard with a vengeance ; and what a perfect Swiss in polities the man mu«t be who only requires an ' inclination ' to set him going either as a Whig or a Tory, *