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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 24 May 1880, Page 2

Faithfully to the promise conveyed by the Minister of Public Works to the County Chairman on Thursday last, the Government this morning invite tenders for the construe tion of the tnanethua bridge* The Public Works Department is to be congra+ttlated upon the promptness shown in this matter. As licensing day approaches, the activity in the camp of hotelkeepers increases. Long disused rooms are being cleared of the lumber and marine stores, which have filled them since last quarter day, and the regulation bedsteads, with the regulation blankets and counterpanes, all hired specially lor the occasion, are being rigged up to an aspect of luturious comfort. Of course, immediately that the police have completed their inspection, and t ie day, which is big with so much fate for applicants, is over, all this regulation furniture will melt Bnd thaw, and resolve itself into v adieu," and the habitations of the Whfckey-millers will resume their pastime condition of emptiness. We shall not attempt to say that this feature is by any means confined to the Licensing District of Inangahua, for it is well knp*u that the same process goes on in every part of the colony. The law prescribes that each licensed house shall possess certain accommodation as a condition precedent to the granting of a license, and the applicant conforms to the law j so he does. And what more does the law want? It if contended that there are sufficient empty hotel beds in this licencing district at the present moment to stow away half the adult population of the West Coast, and that without double-banking. Of course seventy -five per cent of thfso beds could never in an ordinary way be filled by slumbering humanity, but that matters not The law says the beds mu<t be provided, an^ there the beds are— and where are you ? There is assuredly something of philanthropy in the legislation which aims at providing a bed for every man, but it is perhaps well that the philanthropic element should end here. Acts of parliament may supply be Is for men, but cannot supply men for beds, and the onm of doing this is, thereforogcast upon fie publican, agd this is, perhaps, a wise distribution of the responsibility, though it may, poss bl?i no*, appear so to many of our Lotelkeeppw. The regular monthly meeting of the Cmntjr Council will be held on Wednesday next, h^t there is no business of srieeial importance for discussion. Mr John Gallagher, Sheep Inspector for the Inangahua aad Grey Districts, has been appointed Inspector of Cattle under the recently promulgated regulations in regard to p!euro^pnewr»onia» The town Grey coach Seft Reed on on Saturday morning with BOSer&l passengers. The Inangafcjm liver ws9 raj^r lgglj at the

time, and the townspeople turned out in grea* numbers to witness the coaoh crossing. The driver took *ti« «PP c*e * f<> rd wliere he $,UDd a capital cro'stng, and esjjerieDced not iiie least trouble in crossing. £/Theie was « long (fitting «f *b^ Magis* kite's and Warden's Court an Saturday last, .arid a large number of cases were deposed of. The business *of the Warden's Court <Jow sist«d of a number of unimportant applications for alluvial rights principally at Lankey's Ghilly. *pj£<|iey r co»«l| arrj*|Sd4n f l|Befton y ester- - later in the evening, much to the convenience of business people. His Honor Judge Westport, for arfl&eh place he left by Lines' coach this mowing. The rapidity of town growth in New m tnTease ofKliburton. of which the local Mail writes !-" Three years ago a railway station, a post-office, two or three hoteteandjust a -few .stippkeeker* doingbusiness M Mthy^rected shedsi m»de ; up .; what there then was of a town. No* the ! place is an inoorpottrted borough, with a Town Council and a policy of municipal public works-* wltfc a County Council also lootited here as its centre \ with commodious primary and superior schools j with churches of eyery distinct religious denomination of British origin j with a HospitaUc^h^wek and a home for indigent old*mett} with a Volunteer Corps and a Fire Brigade j with a large Town Hall, a well-planned Court House now in the contractor's hand, a hall for good Templars, and a handsome MaßOnio Hall almost finished. This is all owing to Asbbnrton baen the commercial centre of a vast busy district of grain and wool. A San 'Francisco paper is responsible for the following «ttle tale -"It seems strange that «o mention is made in the K nflun papers Of a matter which is reported to be playing a very important part in Russia just now as between -the Czar, his wife and his gon, and which may soon produoe the most important results. We do not vouch fo? the accuracy of the tale, jrhfita indeed seem| too*: wildy improbable to 3 %e^rtte 5 but we'know that, it is generally repeated and believ-d in Eussia, and it has reached us from three independent souroes *trb»ta«itially in the same terms. The tale told then is as follows !- \t thia moment the Emperor is separated from the Emp>|s3K|i#wifepfiro|gWafHai|)n hasjj been gerfefally^knoVn^for Ihe-pist siven or I eight years, but daring the last summer the I matter became one of public notoriety, as the lady was living in Tzarskee olose to the Palftce. At last the Empress met the Emperor driving^ with, 4 twp< .children .an d - deaiftn.de. <? explanation, "'which "resulted* in" her going abroad, and in her expressing her determination not to return to Bus»ia. The Emperor's detention in the Ciiraea was caused by the unexpected confinement of> ,j;he. .Princess of. her third child, and it is generally believed in Kussia that the objeot of upsetting the train was to reach her. The report runs that the Emperor promised to marry her if the Emprestf dies, and that be will in that case abdicate -ju>ordei*the mere «a»ily tor do so. 's tr fl iJ "t :J :