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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 31 May 1880, Page 2

The announcement of Mr Reeves' meeting foi? Saturday evpning brought an unusually largo number of visitors into Reefton from the Murray Greek distriots. and gome disappointment was felt in consequence of My Bpeves' non-arrival The meeting jn consequence of this bad to be adjourned until this evening. We learn that steps are being taken to organise a series of weekly quadrille assemblies for tbe winter months. It is a step in the rigbt direction, and we trust the movement will receive sufficient support and attendance to make the gathering successful. Tb? public decorum of 'Reefton was rather unexpectedly ppset ppe dt? last week by two peculiarly Bheep«sheary looking swagsmen who reaobed here on the previous evening. Tbey are supposed to have come from Ohr-stcbjjreh via Maruia. » At all events their favourite beverage was beer, and it is to be presumed, that by way of compliment to the looal brewer, they drauk deeply at tbe be9rian spring* The beer, however, soon made them bounceable, and one of them having been speedily cuffed into tbe street soon gathered a crowd. The man did not appear to have formed a very elevated notion of either the pecuniary resources of the tpwn or the muscular capabilities Qf the mr l}-_bihp)tp, for taking up a position in tbe middle of the street, and casting a running glance up and dowu Broadway, he ventured the opinion that if he sheared a couple of thousand sheep, the, place couldn't raise money enough to pay bim for tbe work. As a fnrther testimony to his own prowess be offered to give any man in tbe district a stone and fight him, or he would run or dance anybody for a fi'pn note. Itis needless to «ay thatnobqdy accepted the aecqmmodatiug challenge, sq after a while this stormy petrel departed fn quest of more beer. The end of ix, was that the woolgatherer was himself pretty well shorn, for being brought before the Court on the following day he was fined 40s with the alternative oi 48 hours in the local wool shed. The Fiery Cross Company will start crushs ing to-day, with a parcel of 400 tons of stone, from which an ounce or an ounce and a half per ton is expected. Tie Juet-in-Time are getting out stone, and will re-commence crushing in ten (jays or a fortnight. The half-yearly meeting of the company takes plaoe to-day. Parliament opened on Friday and was adjourned tpitil Tuesday next. The proceedings were purely formal. The Governor's Speech wss unpsnally weas>re. In a recent lecture in England, Mr Preece mentioned the fact th at Professor Bell and himself bad carried on a conversation by means of the telehone through a coil represented a distance of 10,000 miles of telegraphic line, but without the defects incidental to an actual wire carried op posts across country. Experiments have been made recently in America with the ordinary telegraph line, in order to test the actual capabilities of the telephone. The distance was 41Qmilee, and although there were a few interruptions owing to the swinging of the wires in the wind, conversation was carried on with ease, the qnunqiatiqn of the words being perfectly distinct, Wales \a gill the stronghold qf the Mormons in Great Britain, although their army, which numbers ci* hundpe.., cannot bp called a formidable one. Qf course they must have their Conference like eyery one else ; so 150 oat of the (JQO assembled at Merthyr to settle whet>qr Morwonism w_js to be the religion Of England yfyxt the Established Church was disestablished. As it was somewhat difficult to determine when this event wouH take place the discussion was deferred to a future occasion, ajid the C-Qs%enoe brokp to the

turp of "Annie Lisle and .the " Men of Harlech." The pipy .vas «$ * { * Wi.- ff th* 3 card " r room of a .well-known club, ap<jl &<s» a distant comer w*i heard, "^e p**e two to two." " By Joye, we are iwo to two, too," responded - a player a* adjourning table. No wonder that a German there present likened our language Jo a Fi epoh horn. Misy. Mayian Ivanf. the ditsjtogujUhod novelist, popularly known as Gteorg Eliot, btp been married. Sbe is now Mrs Cross. A powerful syndicate has offered iso conStruct a railway connecting the Queensland lines with Port Parker [a newly disoovered port near thefread ofthe #ulf of Carpentaria^ I on copditfon that they receive a land grant of SOOO acres per mileMr Ballance, ex Colonial Treasurer, in addressing his constituents, said .-" The Jand fund should be banded over to local bodies in compensation for the withdrawal of subsidies, also that all Cj-own property should be rated for local purposes, and that Waste Land Boards should be elective, aud tbe scope of their ftractfrnf greatly enlarged. He praised theLflud fa* »# equitable and non oppressive, condemning the Property Tax as unfair and inquisitorial, instancing the manifest injus' tiee of taxing property irrespective ofits being profitable pr #nprofltaMe. He main, tamed that taxes on land and beer would have been infinitely preferable. He urged that land should be sold to clear off the deJeit. He condemned the Native policy of tbg pyesen* Ministry, and protested against keepiDg up a constabulary force at a coffc of £600 per diem if all the land for whicb they were contending was to be given back to tbe natives on the of the Koytd Commission. Beferring to the licensing laws, he expressed himself in favor of taking a vote of the ratepayers with respect to new houses, compensation to be given to all existing boupe were licenses were taken away by the popular vote. A family residing at G-ernsbaob, O-ermany, sustained injury to health from the use of canned corned beef imported from Amerioa and botb tbo cans and their contents were analysed. The meat in both cans was found excellently preferred. The tic used was pure, but the soldering contained §6 per cent of lead. Owing to the want of precaution in handling the plumbiferous soldering, a slight but disHnetfj 4 traceable admixture was lead bad penetrated into the outer layers of the canned meat, and this admixture of " almost sufi?oient, in the opinion of experts, to produce very palpable injui ies to health, even in adults, such as inflammation ofthe stomach aqd intestines, vomiting, distensions, constipation, diarrhqja.''