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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 April 1880, Page 2

There was a very long meeting of the County Council on Wejnegjaj: evening, . the Bitting lasting long s?te?midnlglit. A. rather ! animated passage at arms occurred during the evening between the County Chairman I and Mr Gallagher, but the storm was of short duration, TeMdert rwere ap&otf6r the construction of about 103 chains of road from the main Grey road to Otututu, and that of Mr W. 0. Mirfinwa*, accepted. . , The adjourned meeting* of the ' Provisional Directors of the Tunnel Company will be held at M'Gaffia'a Hotel, this evening, at 8 o'clock. It is intended to give an amateur concert and entertainment in about a fortnight's time, in aid of the Irish Relief Fund. Several ladies and gentlemen bare already promised their services for the occasion, -and there is every probability of a very attractive pro gramme being arranged. The time and place of the first meeting will be announced on Monday next. We have received twe letters'referring to the subject of the Low Level Tunnel, and the correspondence which has taken place in connection therewith. Both letters will appear in our next issue. The name of Philip Arnold, says the Times, will be remembered by many. He was the person who many years ago bought in England and on the Confluent diamonds of inferior quality, and some other precious stones, and buried them on a mountain slope on the borders of New Mexico and Arizona^ It will be recollected tHaiAriifia ' foTup *" a company for thai purpose %f exploring those pretended diamond fields, that experts were despatched to examine the looality, that their reports were contradictory, and the swindle was exposed. Arnold was generally believed to have netted a considerable sum by the transaction t "bat -all ; efforts to make,|i4 lurrender any pWtof the plunder were fruitless. He died quite lately in Kentucky, and one Barlow has commenced a suit against his widow, demanding restitution of 148,000d01. The statement made by Barlow is to the effect that, about eight years ago, movedi by 'A¥nold-s-repreientaiidns, he des~ patched an expert to the scene of the alleged i diamond fields, who, on his return, assured him of the trustworthiness of Arnold's reports, and declared tbat,j£here. were immense, treasures of diamonds and? other- stones all along the range, almost waiting to be picked up. Barlow at once advanced iOO.OGOdoI to Arnold for working the field, soon afterwards a thorough examination of the locality was made by .«orae, honeat; experts who exposed the swindle.- Barlow now seeks; to recover his lOO.OOOdoI. ani 43,000J01. besides which ho sets down as interest on the advances. At the Christchurch Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday, in the Daily Times libel case, F.; % fimi|b, * legistraiJ of JointStoefc Companies, was called. The witness, after being sworn, said that he desired to make application for his expenses. He was put to a very great expense, and he did not know to whom he was to look to recoup him :— The Magistrate. But you have been sworn. Besideß, this is a criminal case, and you are bound th appear :— Witness : I was advised not to appear unless my expenses were tendered:— The Magistrate : If you had not done so, I .should have had to have gent a warrant for^you. 'Top jwoald tMen * have travelled tree' of cost, but in custody, which would not have been very agreeable.—Witness : It is very hard lines for me your Worship.—The Magistrate : There are a good many hard cases in the Colony. There are such things as witnesses who refuse to be bound over being kept in prisotftill the trial of the case. — The following is the paragraph upon which the action is founded :— •' Mr G. Fraser's chestnut gelding Longlands, by Totara— Marchioness, 5 fra, Ist 1,21 b, was bred in Auckland by Mr James Watt, and is a very good horse, though scarcely able to hold his own with the best at weight for age. He has acheived a great reputation for gameness and speed, but is principally notorious for his two consecutive wins in the Great Aiitiimttj-Htfttdiclp,? He hap not done a great amount of work, the course pursued with Mata— score a remunerative win and then either lay him up for a time or run him totally unfit, the result being that some handicapper lets biui in cheaply for another big race, and e again he ' lands a morai." An interesting archaeological discovery is reported from Palestine. An Arab, who was quarrying stone the other day at a place ' about four miles and a half from Gaza, unearthed a marble figure, supposed to be a colossal god of the Philistines. The dimensions of the figure are— 3ft. from the top of its head to the end of its beard ; 54in. from shoulder to shoulder ; total height, 15ft. There is no inscription. The pedestal is a huge block carved in one piece with the figure. The statue was/ound in a recumbent position, buried in the sahct upon the top of a hill, near the sea, It had apparently been removed from its original site, which » unknown, ' \ ' f ; i ' ' ' : ' The Cbristchurcn <P6lice ; Magfotrate'dbes not appear to have any overweening sympathy with the local unemployed. At the Police Court on Tuesday, one or two ' first offenders' in the " drunk and disorderly " section were brought before him } and as usual there was the plea of having only just come down from the country, Jfc&r- In dealing with one such case, the Magistrate 'remarked--" Just bo j the game old story. You come into Chrißtchurch, knock down all your money, and then probably do you*

growl'ai one of the unemployed. Only this morning in coming to the Court, I saw three drunken tnen in the streets, absolutely reding drunk before 10 o'clook in the morning,