THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRY-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 14 May 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRY-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1880.

Mr' Gallway, surveyor, made a sta?t ye*ter« day at the Black's Point end, taking the levels of the Low Level Tunnel, and immediately that th« survey is completed!, steps will be taken to formally incorporate the company. Owing^to the interruption- of mail communication by! the recent floods, the time for closing the share list has been extended 1 for a few days. A meeting will be held in the bourse of a day or two to allot the shareg. A singular accident, befel a mob of cattle belonging to Mr Gh Walker on a recent trip down from the Maruia. The cattle were one evening grazing some distance from the track, . near jthe edge of a preoipice, fully seventy feet high. One of the animals approached too near the edge, and slipped over— the rest of the cattle, which were rather wild, im« mediately followed the unlucky" lead, and the mob went over the cliff. For- ' tunately the river ran directly underneath, the water being twenty op thirty feet deep, and igto this the animals plunged one after the ojther. Singular to relate only the first three or four which fell sustained any injury, and they were eventually got out. The residents of Boatman's were fortunate in having fine weather for their concert last evening. Several Beefeon amateurs were present, |nd the entertainment passed off most successfully, the attendance being large. A full report will appear on Monday. Tenders for additions to Court-house, \ ■Reefton, and alterations to Argyle Water* ; ■Race,^Charleston, close* at noon, on Monday, " 17th pstant. Mr!W. H. Perkins, photographer, notifies L in another column that he will leave Ueefton 1 -in a Jew days. s Tha next English and European Mail via San Eranoisco will close at the Reefton office . on Monday, the 17th instant, at 7 a.m. The G-rejmouth and Westport mails ar« rived {here yesterday evening. A imblio meeting of the inhabitants of Totara Flat will ba held on Saturday eveninsr, fo> the purpose of ooesidering the probi< tion of the' importation of cattle from the infected districts ol the IfoHh Island.— j Grey Argus. A mile race took place at Greymouth on Tuesday last, between " Jimmy, the Darkey," and a! well-known Beefton ped, Bob King King won easily. The result of the Eangitikei election was as follows s— Sir W. Fox, 232 jD. Fraser, 123 ; Lyon, 69. Tho Grey Argus of the 11th instant saya : — In our issue of yesterday we stated that Sir Charles Gavan Duffy Had been appointed TJnder Secretary for the Colonies, and we did so on tha authority of the New Zealand Times. We thing, however, this must be ami3take, and it will be found thit the Under Secretary b the Son M. B. G. Duff, M. P. for Elgin, and , who held the appoint - ment of Under Secretary of State for India in Mr Gladstone's previous administration. Revelations made in the B<M. Court Christchurch during the hearing of the civil case, Charlesworth r. Raphael, show how miserably mean some people are. From the eridende, it appeared that some time back the defendant borrowed a diamond ring, value £22 10s., from the plaintiff, and lost the same when in company with a female friend. Sub« sequently he promised to make good the value, but on being sued for the amount declined to pay,. a 9 he found he had no ' legal responsibility,' in porteequence t>7* a f eebnieal point, the plaintiff being a minor. However, this j difficulty was overcome by a gentleman consenting to become his guardian, and defendant has to pay amount pf,plftim, and costs. We (contemporary) have received the following local from a gentleman " once " connected with the Civil Service Department :— During the late shifting of the Government buildings, over 2000 empty beer bottles were found under the floor of a fingle room. He states that all the occupants of the adjacent rooms 'were teetotaller". Two thousand beer bottles'! and empty ! O, Bacchus ! f/Wer'o rather disposed to back the other man.] , During the year 1879 there were 635 failures in the printing and stationery trades in the ! TJnit e a Kingdom. B'm newspapers in North Calolina are L edited ( by negroes, three in Louisiana, two I each iji Tennessee and Texas, and one each in Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi, | The; late Duke of Portland was a regular P subscriber to .a very large numbpr of new c- . papas' and weekly journals. The estsn f to which he supported the periodical press may l be judged frq m the fuet that hi, newspaper 1 bill was over £1300 a year. Mr. ; James Gordon Bennett, of the $ew Yor'.s Herald, was to shoot a pigeon patch, , 50 birds, 28 yards rise, against Mr. Skelbrock, a wtll-kaowa Hurlingham and Guv

shot, for £1000 aside, at Paris, early this month. * Prince Henry, son of the Crown Prince of the German Empire, has just -been apprenticed to a bookbinder in Berlip. Xhe Leipzig Tageblttt states that the CwnPrince'is a compositor, and gives a song which was 'sang - by the men of the office to which he belonged on the ocoassion of his marriage to the Princess Victoria of England. Charles Dickens the second promises to do honour to the family name. He manages inne of the largest printing-offices in London, or in Europe. He has very successfully published the "London Dictionary" and. the "Guide to London," and iB now preparing a " Dictionary of the Thames.' He inherits his father's lofefdrpffnting-'offlces md flews*" papers, Young man, don't swear. Swearing never was good for a sore finger ; it never cured jthe* riieumatiata nor, helped to draw a prize-! in a lottery ; it isn't sure against lightning, 'sewing machine agents,, nor any of the ills which beset people through life. There is no occasion for slreanngputsid^ol a newspaper office, whe*e if is useYul in proof-reading, and indispensably necessary in getting formes to press. It has been known also to materially assist the editor in looking over the paper after it is printed j but otherwise it is very a foolish habit. A Hongkong journal furnishes some particulars concening the Peking Gazette, the oldest periodical in the world. Its eircul- ! ation is estimated at over 100,000. There are ten publishers in Canton, each of whom em* ptoyes about ten distributors in the city and suburbs alone. The G-azette is printed from movable type, and eaob publisher takes a certain number of copies. It is deliverd every two days to subscribers, who are of two clases. The first; retain the pamphlet, and pay about half that sura, and retom the Gazette to the distributor next times hWcomes around. Together wifchJJtis delivered the local " official sheet," thwnatter of which is collected irom the yamens daily. This is printing from wbje blooks, which are then remelted and availala for another day's issue.