THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1880.

Inangahua Times, 30 April 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1880.

lis notified elsewhere that tenders for the erection of crashing battery for the Weleome j Companj have been extended until Tuesday next. Tenders for tbe other works for the .company will close to.mon ow (Saturday) as previously advertised. A telegram from Mr P. Beeves was read in the Council on Wednesday evening last intimating the decision of the Government to appoint a Eesident Magistrate and Warden. j for Inangahua, and the probability of Mr Keddell receiving the appointment. The Auokland Herald states that the &er- • man man-of-war Bismark comes to Auckland by direction of the Imperial Government to convey -to Tonga the body of the Crown Prince of that group, who died in Auckland * some months ago. The body has been care* ' fully preserved. This is a bigh honour to be paid, to Tonga by the German Empire. No ' doubt -the order was given by Bismarck with ■ the view of strengthening German influence inthe South Pacific, and bo as to facilitate the ' operations of the new Trading Companj, whose agency like the several English trading companies in the old times, may open avenues of political influence for the nation it is connected with. An extraordinary jump was made by ' Eversley while on board the Arawata en route to Anckland. The Wanganui Chronicle says s— -On the starboard side of the fore i hatch two raoe horses had been placed in boxes on deck. These were respectively r Hilarious, _ weHi-known two-year-old, and Eversley, an equally well-knwtt steeplechaser. Buring the afternoon the hatch j covering was taken off tor the purpose of ' allowing goods to be stowed. "While this was going on something appears to have startled the steeplechaser, who suddenly . made a desperate spring right ont of his box, and to the consternation of the spectators and persons in charge of Mm went headlong down the hatchway. Fortunately the covering was closed over the lower hold, aad the horse only fell a distance of about 10ft. He landed on his legs, and then fell oa his side. After scrambling about, the animal succeeded in . regaining his feet. His box was then lowered ' and he was got into it and raised to his former position, care being taken this time to prevent any similar escapade on the part of the old " timber-topper.' Curiously enough, so far as could be ascertained, the horse sustained no injury whatever from thia extrabrdiary accident. We bave heard of Chandler's famous leap, a horse jumping out of a close box, and taking a header down a ship's hold. The Auokland jumps, stiff as they are, will surely preve mere child's play to such a horse. "That night some of .the bodies were brought in, but mutilated in such a manner that we could ndt indentify them except by (iarts of their dress. I can't tell you all the , indignities they had suffered ; tbeir faces j Smashed in with the butts of rifles, their I bodies out in slashes from feet to head — I crimped like a fish, in fact j-thelr throats cut J from ear to ear • the hands and feet, of many \ cut off} their toe** cut down between eacb j one jin fact every cruelty perpetrated that could be devised." So we ('•Pall Mall Gazette') read in a private letter from a young English officer who fought with conspicuous coolness and gallantry at Cabul in the desperate action of Dec. lltb. Lost tbe Duke of Argyll, Sir George Campbell, and others should assume (as otherwise they may do) that the bodies so brought in were those of Afghans, brought into camp to gratify the eyes of our officers and soldiery when the fight was over, we hasten to say tbat it was not so. The mutilated were Englishmen j. the mutilators Afghans. If what we read in a medical journal be correct, then there is likely to be a great demand for the Australian eucalyptus before long. B. Rudolfl reports, in the Gazetta Mediea Italians the following observation made on himself. Being seized with a severe coryza, he happened to chew one or two twigs of the eucalyptus, at tbe same time swallowing the saliva secreted, which had a bitter and aromatic flavour. To his surprise he found that in the course of half ap hour the nasal catarrh had disappeared. Some days later he was seized with another attack from a fresh exposure to cold, when the same treatment was followed with an equally same result, He then prescribed the remedy to several of his patients, all of whon*. were benefited in the same way. He Relieves this treatment is only suitable in acute cases. srSir William Fox addressing the electors at I Bulls last week, ♦avowed himself a warm supporter 'of the* fig'sent Ministry. He attacked the Liberal** party, and said they followed the democracy of France, while the Constitutionalist party, with which he was connected, followed the Amerion democracy. Speaking of Native affairs, he said there was no probability of another disturbance. On being asked if be would accept office, if elected, he said that he did not desire office, and only in extreme circumstances would he accept it. A vote of thanks for bis address and for coming forward as a candidate was moved. Thirty voted in its favor, and none against. About 150 persons were present.