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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 12 May 1880, Page 2

Mr J. M'Gaffln will submit to public aution to-day, the City Hotel, Broadway, Boston. The hooas being centrally situated, and doing a good business will, no doubt, excite sharp .competition, : In many gardens m Beeftotw two crops of apples bare this year been taken from the . same trees. We were yesterday sbown some second*growth apples ■ blown from the. trees during tbe gale of Monday last, and they appeared to hare attained great perfection. It goes to show the great mildness of the season. . . It was intended to publish tbe programme of the Boatman's entertainment tbil morning, but owing to the stoppage of communication by tbe floods its publication bid 10 be postponed. It is probable that tbe ooneert will be put off till Friday evening, due notice, of wbioh will be given. / The work of running out stone for the Jnit-in«Time Company is still proceeding, and all being well, the battery will resume for tho company m the course of three weeks or a month. Tbe atone sow being taken out is quite equal to tbe parcel just crushed, and thereby gives every indication of per* manency, The machinery will m the mean* time rewire a thorough. awrtMtuJ. The down Grey coach was unable to leave yesterday, bat proceeded on tbe journey this morning. The Welcome Company elsewhere invite tenders for the construction, of forty chains of tramway on the mine. Boatmen's, Tenders will close on Saturday next, 15th instant, at .8 o'clock. The Ju»t«in-Time Company announce the 7th dividend of sixpence per share, payable on and afte* to-morrow. The contractor for the construction of paddock, and shoot for the Welcome Company has-lort.no time m getting to work, having a staff of men on tbe ground procuring and taking ready the required Umber. The battery contractor, is a,t present m Grey. month purchasing tbe necessary working plant, and m the meantime men are engaged preparing the bed logs, and dealing the site for the foundation,. An eitMojrdinarj meeting of the shareholders of the Caledonian Company, Larry's Creek, ha, been convened, for the purpose of arranging for the future working of the oompanyS mm*. It is tq be hoped that saoh a coarse of aetiou will be taken as to allow of the mine heing thoroughly opened up.

uthemt with io it has given tbe highest yield per too ere* yet obtained m the Inangahua, the undertaking it wejl worth the powder md shot; fwrtiealerfy » *» *«• of the Act that tb«j» is « nott efioimt tottery on the spot • By July or Atfgast it U «* pected that the new betrerr for the Welcome Company will be oat of tbe eonsraetorV hands 7 and ready to start <* iti mm* «f usefulness. Before that lime eonsiderabty the lower and middle tunnele will haro reached tha required die* £noe, and been connected by the winze now Hprotfress. In short, tbe mine will be' lined upon a scale affording tbe ?ery fullest Klitiet for taking out tfone. over «an \m% Erase area of ground, and ai the* work of ■toping will bate a long start of tbe battery, there will be a large supply of etone m ad* , vane* of the atampersV In connection wttb Ltbe recent tendering for tbe company's batRery.we learn that there wa« only a few pounds difference between tbe tenders of tbe Despatch Foundry, Greymouth, and Langkndi .Foundry, Melbourne, the former being the lowest. . The tender of Donald Roes has been accepted by the Jost'in-Time Company, for the carriage from fteefton to Boatman's of all mining goods required for the mine, during tbe current year. ...... Iv tbe Bernese Oberland (Switterland) tbe ground is frown so bard that before a grate can be dug great fires hate to be made m tbe churchyards, and' m some instances when this expedient has proved unavailing, the gratediggen hate been compelled to use dynamite. ■- Thi NeUon 'Mafl ' says:— "No We than se^ventysix bales ot Kelson hops were exported to-day by the steamers Wanaka,aud Waitafci, for fife Northland South respectively. Averaging eaoh bale at £82^his would give the torn little sum oTCMftt at the value of the shipment. Nelson hopa are nd* quoted at 2s Id; per lb., and bold*r»are Brm, We learnfrom a gentlemajl at some experience m, these matters that the number of bales of hops used by the brewers m New Zealand Js per annum and taking 600 bales asthep^rdduct of Nelson and jllO bites grown m other'plaees. tbertF would remairi 2000 bales to be imported thisyear/* • A- .... : In the fojtber 'corraapondenee respecting South Africa, just published, is the following message from Cetewayo to the QoeeV dated October 28tb :—" Cetewayo begs permission to be allowed! to tend nil humble respects to the Qiteen, He is staying heW awaiting the Queen* pl*Mure, r and willingly and cheerfully li*el £ w.^ereTer the Queen decides. AI the san»e*tune he h living m hopes that at some f«tnw Hme he may be pardoned. He feels greatly honoured that hit portrait is going to the Queen, whom be has always looked upon aa a mother, and still regards m that light." " At W writes m the World *-« I ob•erred a* • ball beauties wore socks. Anklets, alias bangles tor the ankles, are now openly displayed for sale m the shop windows as well as m some eases on the feminine extremities. What next • I , should %rt tie surjjmised to see nose rings introduced i* andT if this would permit of married ladies being led b/ the nose by their husbands more than at present, the fashion would have some praetioel advantage. Not ft few men wear bangles on their arms- nowaday j and e> member of the Orleans Club at Twickenham gets well laughed at for his vanity m showing ' bangles by baring bis arm when playing lawtHennis." ' ' It is. said there are 009 Mormons m Wales. England, at the last oensus. At a meeting of these v questionable*" held recently at Merthyr, it was resolved to try and persuade the English Government to allow Ifonaonism to be the established religion of Great Britain. Tas costs of the prosecution of Bosenberg for tbe libels on Mrs. West and Mrs^ngtry, i as sent into court m the first instance, were no fess than £1300, ThU sum was reduced' by taxation to $800, of wbich'Meisrs. Heatf and Mark, the printers of tbe libels ate pledged ! lopay^epO. „*.< „,,,„,,. ' A New ohum named Lyell, looked up at Sandhurst on a charge of theft; deliberately ehokf J.bimseU by means of a piece of blanket. A dolument found m his pocket, proved that the deceased was worth £2000 m Queensland debentures. ' , . - The correspondent of a Christchutch contemporary wants, to know how it happens that with flour at the ourrent rate here at precent, bread m London would be sold at 2}d, where* as here it is 6d. It bas been resolved to establish a company m Melbourne to export every description of food suitable for human consumption which require* to be frozen previous to transit. D». Hancock, the eminent Irish statistician, estimates the average total value of the potato crop at £4.6*6,000. The Chinese do not ese'm to forget their antipathy to toe steam engine. Our readers will remember that the tret'linfrof rails laid down m China was rusthlessly destroyed* and now we are told that there is no prospect whatever of a railway bring made m any pert of the Empire, and the Imperial Maritime Customs, along with the Imperial Board of war, is ones more engaged m. organising a winter mail service between tbe capital and Shanghai by tbe bumble medium of donkeys. It is expected that the donkeys will run the mails through m twelve days, and with, an adequate' supply of carrots, there would seem to be no difficulty m Main, taininf ft regula* service* if the donkeys are not arrested as they were last year by, iraje. authorities of Shantung/ Ridiculous and even shameful as is thJ6.exp,edSent to maintain communication .between the capital of a great empire and its leading cities, .whole rulers haye not the excuse of ignorance, it is better than nothing, and tbe Chinese Govern, meat will probably receive the devout thanks of toe Foreign Ministers at Tekin for their unwonted, energy m the matter.