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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 April 1880, Page 2

It is rathpr significant that notwithstanding the ' strict investigation ' whicb the hospital commiltue claim to have made into the , accounts of the institution for the past year, that one of the first aots of the members upon r -assembling should be to appoint a com- ■ mirtoe to make nnotlw itiTeshga'ion. It ■ will nlflo be seen <hut while mrlignantlv r— , tidiAtiiig thi. nccti-ction i.f extrnvneauc-?, anr oiler ant of tho r-ODirnitisp has Wn to ye- , au-o the salary of the B<wWy from £50 to £10 per annum. Tbese pl-iyl'ii! iDPon«i'iter!.:ies on ilu- part of tho committee, bowe^r, j can surprise nobody. Tl.-y are Chirac ten^ie of the proceedings throughout. Tha.l the * committee should. ho\v«vec have hit upon ! the only really andnpnid officer in tbeir cor^trol upon whom to practico economy ig aa absurdity we were hardly prepared for. but ■_» it hns been appropriately resented by tbe gentleman most iramdiately concerned, we need refer io it it no further length, It. js

gratifying at oil evfents to lsarn that tho Medical Officer is henceforth to oeeupv his proper poa : »ion ip the jasptution as " Sur« geon Superintendent.' We are gad to learn that there is after nil n prospect of some pivctioul pood rmiiting to Keefton ft-oin (he recent iViinisf-'ml yifut. T;!m Government have heckled to prowl with the rouoh neecUl alterations and additions to the Keefton Court buii ling;. The amount originally intended to expend upor ■".hewoTk was £800, bat the pla is ha»e beeo since rf'duc- d to an to bring the sum within £500, and tenders for the -Wort wid be invited in the course of the m*t few day?. '"A grearfeinvaFhas taken place within the past wpek or two in regad to the United Alpi c Company. Lyeil. The stock which n &\\pri ti^frft^o .could han% be-quo*e'l, .Iras sudden lyjiitriped iuto a tsfti/jibie value, and provided something 'or the >d!e hands of share-brokers to do. Tie yields from the mine of late have inspired great confidence, and as the reef is of large dimensions, and possesses every appeal ance of permanence, 1 the fullest confidence is felt in the soundness ff 'he undertaking. The return* (or the five days' crushing up to. Saturday last, aa kindly furnished to us oy Mr T Lee, are us under : 153 ounces of amalgam from 102 I tons of stone: Mr John M'Ghffin will sell to-day, at the , residence of Dr Monekton, household furniture and effect.3. Also a number of valuable game fowls, and one of Adams' prize revolvers. Mr R. Scoltoek has been appointed legal manager of the Tietcry Company. Our Boatman's reporter writes .— The determination of the "Welcome Company to erect a crushing battery on their own ac» count, is looked upon with great favor by the inhabitants here, as it means cheap crushing power, and cheap crushing power undoubtedly means the lesumption of mining ia many mines which have long been idle, and hung up on protection. Though it woujd be mani» festly against the interests of the field to close the door to the granting of protection to eompanips really deserving of such consider— ftlip»--Bueh fog iostaaee as those which have pubg&d thems^Ues pretty well dry in opening up works — I think that the line should be drawn somewhere, so that the privilege should not be »hu?ed. At the present time a large pavt of tin* field is secured by protection, not a pick is being drjy<>n into it, and }|f?Tjl*?3k"*fe r wajsN£,'io Jsee/wbMi'.'way the cat will jump. If a revival takes place, a« it mu.*t inevitably do, of course all those who »re slumbering mider those protection orders will be so much the richer, and in the meantime mining and exploration is'stopped, and the ui<trie? aa a whole is making no headway I do not wish that these remarks should h«v> more thau a general application but think it but right, that onr worthy nrden, wo, when he comes here, i 3 n sirangt-r iii a foreign 'Tlufd, "should, toow cjactl? jiow far the.pron Action system fa oftpible of' abu'SK ' A printer's error crept into the statement published in our list Utno regarding the con» t>'ibu(io)is to she L'irh Di^tre.' 1 ? Fund. The total subscriptions wus set down at £206 2?., '^hjrftf I'M, iU-jiire*. kbonld; hare ' been— lottil subscript ions. £190 12s 6 i j proceals of concert, £15 9s 6d. Tho newly elfctel Hospital Cammittee met on Mond'tv night last, the erne f business bcinj the consideration of the teuoers sent in lor supplies to the institution Tlvr foltbflf*-' ing, tenders were accepted :— Broad, J. Oortett; input, E. Pnynt's firewood. o}. Brou ; coal. J. Connolly 5 milk, D M'Kcnna. The consideration of all other te» clts was posts poned uoiil lu^tever.iug. . The lo.west tenders were as follows :-^-Mi!L% G 1 per amtrt ; fite« wood. 12s 9d per cord. Tn the la Her line, the competition wns very keen. For the supply of coal /our tender* were in : — Breen, 27s 6d per ton ; Gulline, 30s per ton ; Connolly, 32s 6d per ton. and Irving and Harvey, 35s per ton. j The British gunboat left Constantinople on March 17th to take the brigand JRawsoa the money of Colonel Lyngi and wife Earl Beaconfield, Gladstone, Bi*mark, Emperor William, Q-ortschakoff, and the Emperor Alexander su % e in fa'liog health, and all, except Btsmarlf and Alexander, are over 70 years of age. Kelly, the Australian pedestrian, has been beaten^n. a race, by, Davis, ,pf 'Frisco.,, , OTfieireost of the Zula war was £5,138,000. nearly all defrayed by England. Henry Retten, the famous pianist, is a passengpr on board the City of Sydney for the the colonies. An explosion has taken place at Dixon's Colliery, Glasgow, One life lost and 10 000 men were thrown out of employmentThe General Post Office, Cape Town, has been robbed of all the 'diamonds awai.tiud shipment, valued at £75,080. There is nothing so effective in bringing a man up to the scratch as a healthy and high spiritfd flea. 11 Augur," in th* Australasian, '• tippet] '» Petria and Martin-la'e for the Sydney Cup. It will be seen that they finished first and second. This iS not bad in a field of twenty - seveff'runners. Emile Melville, a prima donna, wellknpwr. in Australia, -498fe, j50©0 .-dollars' .worth of personal jlrdpeHy * by the : burning. of the Grand Centra! Hotel, Oakland, on March Bth. M. L»s«pp' 1 , Engineer, reports in giving the ievt-1 of ili' Canal they can pn*-- the cost down at £813.03?, OOOpsuinJ that the work wi|l occupy eight y^.rs iii cons! met ion. There is w?.r hetwren the 1N t pw York Herald vn r l Piirne'l, .fe-^Siy^-j Jfefter' ' sub'gcijbing" 10.000 dollars tr the Irish Fund assumed the rijht to dictate how the faud shculd be applied, but Parnell refused to be subordinate in the matter. In a lender the Herald says that Kearney is superior to Parnell. The Kansas City Ti:uca & tvte tho following account of the doings of Lord Loftus and forty other young' Ensluh. raKhellis?, who

came to this country to turn over a new leaf : They recently onr ersd Kmsa? with a floarieb of {trumpets and /juuded the Ticto;in Colony, where an e'eg&v.t saloon w new maintained by drifts upon titled fathers o». (be other a ; de or thr- Afl-.-itic Tlio s;.iri of Loon cornpuuioishi:) gnei 90 f o-f th-it the nmls-ppera. h^ve, -tan.!!^ orilcrs 4^ /uj-ni-l; • (U-ipku frre to till visit ns* The f ollq •>? tbe npigh^o'rbaocl appj-eoiuto thp l;inclne«s of tl.e younw nnbl'int-n, v\v) spend abou|. 10,000^ dollars a year eac-V, pnTTi^oria i? saiA to be on 5i nevev-pndmL', pever-fagjin^ i^ly. Lbtd Loftus is tlv posset ,of large' estates in TJppewry, and his proved object in loftving London wsw io-^eif'^W "froin^ldnewcittlioiid. How well he ti»» succeeded ishown by tho foot that liia lordship sp.Tif 1000 dollars for liquors nt tbo^bars^in thi? city during'a weA's; vMt Taslf mQifth| Tha colonists- htini ft gveaf HeaK Hut most of their days are spent in card-plnying, and their nights in biU'lidoi' cgies.