THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 April 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1880.

The annual meeting of Hospital subscribers held on Monday evening' last ap« beared to furnish great amusement to those pres3nt. The discussion was, upon the whole, very acrimonious and very personal^ and the horse»play indulged in seemed to be | ?ery much enjoyed. The proceedings were } very lengthy, and for this reason we have been compelled to curtail our report some 1 " 1 what. An adjourned meeting of the Provisional Directors of the Inangahua Tunnel Company was held on Monday evening last, the members present being Messrs Brennan (in the chaif) Trennery, GuAline, Oxley. Gardner, Oaples, Connollj, and the secretary. Mr Trennery laid on the table a plan of the Murray Greet district, showing the course of the whole of the known lines of reef to be intersected, and also furnished arjdrawing showing the size of tunnel, dimensions of kimbers, trucks, &o. JA long discussion en» sued, and it was eventually decided* that the size of the tunnel should be sft in width by 6ft 6in in height ejear measurement with Bin props, and lOin ea^s*. This would permit of a doable-line ojff trucks to be' 'drawn by horses. The secretary read a .dratt of the prospectus of ,th# company, which* after some slight amendment was adopted,, and ordered to.be printed and published. The? amount of j the allotment call upon shares was fixed at at twopence. The Bank of New Zealand was appointed the company's banker, and Mr James Lynch was appointed solicitor. The time for closing the applications for shares was fixed at the Ist May ne*t. The meeting after transacting some other formal business a^t^rfjued. The OSSiify Chairman yesterday received a telegram from Mr Beeves, M.H.R., from Wellington, stating that ho had interviewed the Government upon the subject of the votes for the Maruia track and the Matakitaki road, and that all diffisultips in the way of paying over these votes had been removed. The County Chairman also communicated with the Colonial Secretary, re the appointment of a local Registrar under the new Mt ctoral Act, but no reply has as yet been jeeeived. We have been compelled to hold over the concluding portion of our hospital report till Friday next. The concert and entertainment in aid of the Irish Belief 3?and has been fixed to be held on Saturday next, in Dawson's Hall. An excellent programme has been arranged, but unfortunately reached us too late for insers tion to-day. It will j^p 8 * 1 * n our aext issue. At the Hokitika races recently, an innovation, in the shape of an ' aggregator,' was introduced by Messrs Terry and Davis. The machine, which is said to have done a fair trade is worked with rollers and bands on which are printed figures from one to fifty, and in this respect differs from the now well known totalisatov, and is thus no infringe' ment of the patent. The Wellington ■ Chronicle says :— We understand that Mr James McArdle, the courteous host of the Te Aro Hotel, has parted with his interest in; that favorite house to Mr Campion, Mr MoArdle iatends taking a trip to the old country," John Wilson, of Paris, Ky., tied together the feet of a freshly-dressed hog that he proposed to steal and putting his head between the legs, carried» the hog on his shoulders, In climbing a fence the nog fell on one side and he on tha other, and he was found in the morning dead. The legs of the animal had pressed his throat tight against the fence and his <eet could not touch the ground. He choked to death. At the entrance of a restaurant in Pesth, where young ladies are employed to stand ad wait, is posted a notice to this effect • 'Gentlemen are requested to abstain from kissing the waitress on the stairs, as this is a fruitful source of breakage, and impedes the service.' Human nature being the same the world over, the placard calls a, great many customers who are, anxious to see the girls whom they are enjoined not to kiss on the stairs. The gentle aea is gradually asserting itself in the Uaited States. Law, physics, and divinity are now well supplied with representatives in that country. The lady doctors number 530, dentists 420, while sixty eight are preachers, and twenty pratice as lawyers. Some ladies adopt two callings at once. A kdy living in St. Louis notifies on her door plate that she is an " elocutionist, poetesp, washer and ironer." Referring to the recent extraordinary mortality of fish off the Northern Coast of the North Islnnd, Captain Kennedy, of the s.s Hawea, reports that the whole of the Bay of Plenty, from Whakatane to the Island of Karena, off the mouth of Tauranga harbor, i 3 covered with myriads of dead fl4i floating on the surface of the water. Having to wait at Tauranga Heads for the tide, the passengers threw over lines, but were unsuccessful in Catchjngiive fish whiofi usually abound at the place. The dead fish were of all kinds. The Wlifikatane correspondent of the Bay of Fenty Times remarks about the dead fi«h as

follows :~They seem to be oppressed, and, with head out of the water, gasp for breath. Some are washing ashore dead. Several barracoota, a fish not commonly found in a tidal river, have been "caught" so in tbe Whakatane harbor. When opened these tUti have nothing in their stomachs. The most Hfcely way for accounting for this most unoaual, indeed unprecedented phenomenon w to attribute it to the extreme heat of the sea water this rammer, which would Beem thoroughly to enervate the fish. An eminent physician at New York, one Dr Lambert, is as great an enthusiast in connection with what may be called "the intellectual theory' as Dr Richardson is in matters hygienic. He recently gave what he called «a brainial supper" to a party ofHends. The feast was made up of seven courses, and among the delicacies mentioned in tha long menu were toasted cheese, cold cabbage, cold fish, and cream, lobster salad, stewed tripe, calyes' brains on toast, and "wheaten grits in cream." We are rot told what effect was produced on the intellects of the 1 guests by partaking of these dainties, perhaps their wits may have been amazingly sharpened, and genius brought out where only, dulness had previously shown itself. Be that as it may, it whuld seem very certain | that, unless tbe digestive apparatus of the J Yankee servant, is vastly different from that of the human-race, the company must have suffered severely from nightmare. It will be remembered lhaj: Mr Tyrrell, a member t of the Star Dramatic Company, shortly before coming to Invercargill, met with an unpleasant experience of " what may happen to a man in New Zealand" by being arrested on a criminal charge. It afterwards turned out that it was a case of ' mistaken identify," and Mr Tyrrell, who had been put to great annoyance through the occurrence, resolved, it possible, to obtain compensation. We now learn that he has succeeded in doing so, having lately received the sum of £30 from the authorities in fu'l satisfaction of all claims. The mistake which led to this transaction will appear all the more in •excusable to those who know Mr Tyrrell from the fact that the man who was ' wanted' weighed about seventeen stone, spoke English with a strong G-erman accent and bore a different name. It was certainly a " smart" capture. Sir Henry Bulwer, the G-oyernor of Natal, is mentioned in connection with Tasmania, and it is suggested that Sir Harry Ord may be senate Jamaica. Pone" as Governor of Bong Kong is nearly completed. It is believed he succeeds Sir Arthur Kennedy as Governor of Queensland.