THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 June 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1880.

; — -■ -— — morning, and the hall will be open to visitors jgain this afternoon and evening, and we can do no better than to recommend one and all to see and judge for themselves. It will be observed that it is seriously the intention of the Govprnment to stand by their resolve to cUscontinue the subsidies to Counties at the end of the current month. Messrs Wickes and Billett, two well known Beeftonites, left last week for Maruia, upon a voyage of discovery. They took with them ho7ses and supplies for fonr months. They will carefully explore the country lying to the southwest of Mount Haast. T^e art exhibition in aid of the Church of England Fund opened ip IJiwboii's Hall on Saturday evening last, and was thronged with sigbtrseers up to the hour of closing. Tt is not too much to pay that the display quite took the public by surprise, as well indeed it might, for a more heterogeneous aggregation of rare and artistic odds and ends is hardly to be imagined. Almost every i known department of soienee and art was re^ presented ia one form or another, and not % few of the exhibits were of surpassing excellence. It was truly a marvel how the articles were got together, or where they came from. The exhibits of pictures were hotii numerous and handsome, including oil paintings, water colors, oleographs, engravings, as well as a variety of very choice prints. Amongst the largest exhibitors in this class were Messrs SchuUiof, Preahaw, Gieslngp. Dalton, Dunn, Bowsv Rev. Mr Parkins, and other?. The Bishop's collection of photo* graphs embraces views of historical old weld scenes, and objects of memorable interest. Mr Oaples contributed a rich and varied col- ! lection of geological and mineral ogical specimens, which attracted much attention. Mr Lewis was also a large exhibitor in the same class, contributing some valuable samples of ores. Messrs Saunders, Fama, and others also added to this dppartment Rev. Mr Parkins, and Mr Webb exhibited two jrery handsome Japenese cabinets. Mr Ching exhibited a varied collection of rarieties, ino'udin? etaffed birds, fossil remains, ancient Maori implements, amongst numerous other artioles being the dagger with which tb.9 Burgess and Kelly gang are supposed to have slain young Dobson. Mr Robertson contributed an instructive series of American tourists' guides. It would be quite beyond our power to enumerate the various exhibits, for their name is legion, and they must be seen to be appreciated. The hall was brilliantly lighted and the excellent music discoursed by Messrs Schmidt Richards, and Fama, heightened the enjoy* i ment of the occasion. A number of choice exhibits will be added to the collection this At the sitting of the Licensing Bench on last, renewals of licenses wero granted to the following applicants . — George Willis, Quartz Reef Hotel $ John Quigley, Globe Hotel, Broadway ; Arthur Breen, Grey road ; Hans Jacobsen, 01 ub Hotel, j -Angus Canapbs 1 1, Southern Cross Hotel f Annie Kelly, Kelly's Hotel; John M'Quillan, Welcome Hotel j Patrick M'Guire, Albion Hotel, Bridge-street ; James Danks, Dank's Hotel j John Dawson, Dawson's Hot9l ; Walter Wilh >ms" Hotel ; Michael Dalton, Dalton's Hcte] ; Patrick Monahan, Monahun's Hotel ; Michael Hartigan, City Hotel ; Charles M' Gaffin, M'GaffiVs Hotel ; William Coohruue, Cochrane's Hotel ; John B. Walsh, Melbourne Hotel; Patrick Twohill, Commercial Hotels James S. Wilson, Boatman's; Dominick Gallagher, Cronadun : James Berlin, Westport road ; Francis Courtney, Inan»a« hua Junction? The following Black's Point applications were granted :— Thomas Shanks, Nichol Ramsay, and John C. Craig j Boatman's: Bernard Rogers, Francis Walker, W. B. Archer, and James M'Neill ; Fobert Wolfe, Leftuhand Branch } John Prentice, CrusMngton ; Reuben Waite, Westport; road ; John M. Murray, Cement Town ; Frederick Brandf, Inangalma. The Bench refused to renew the license of the All Nations Hotel, Black's Point, on the ground that the hotel was not required. A meeting of the Low Level Tunnel Com* pany vras add on Friday niaht last at Ramsay's Hotel, at the iuvitation of the inhabitants of Black's Point. Mr Haakin the sscretary to the company, attended to r.flbrd all information regarding the undertaking? Mr James Connolly, one of the provincial directors, was voteJ to the chair, and explained to those assomb'ed that it was a du'y incumbent upon the people of the district to assisj the movement in every possible manner, and pointed out that aprt from the indirect advantngee obtainable, the direct circulation of £100 a month w>is a gift not to be lpst sight of, and he trusted that the miners would recognise the necessity of taking up sharps in accordance with their means. Messrs Wallace, Connolly, and Shanks, were appointed canvassers. Mr Wallace had 1200 sharps taken up in the room, and the promise of an equal number being subscribed for during the week. By an unfortunate coincidence the life assurance companies of the United Kingdom have within a ye^r had claims made upon them for roless a sum than one and a quarter millions sterling by the " falling in«' s of three lives on wbiqh the largest insurances in the country had been effected— namely, those of the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Anglesey, and the Earl of Fite. The decease o' two other noblemen within the same period brings up the total on five lives to the good round sum of one and a half millions. The New York Heruld remarks that " the spring opening in the murder line is decidedly lively," and nobody would (says Truth) be disposed to cavil at the statement after readipg a single day's tragedies. In a southern town several rowdies entered a bar and assaulted a policeman, who shot one dead and w minded onother. At St. Nicholas a yrgiter shot dead, a commercial tr&vellejt wfcq

bund fault with the quality of the eggs supiod for his breakfast. At Slaughterville, Kentucky, the marshal having been ihreatanfd with death by a citizen, who conlidered himself wronged by that official, went ;o the house of his enemy and shot him dead ; md the same fate befel a man engaged in a .trike; while a colored bay of fourteen cut the throat of a colored girl because tsbe refused to get up to find him a pen. Pretty well this for one day TheN.Z Times shows how comptotly Mr Macflndrew and Sir George Grey, both of whom are looked upon w teaders of the Liberal party, are at loggerheads on some of the leading questions of the day. "Sir George Grey," says our contemporary, "has especially devoted himself to inciting the people against any attempt to r elieTejte financial pressure out of the Education vote. He has declared Jn the fervid terms that he will not hear of such a proposal, and he has called upon all those who have any confidence in him to aid him in raising it to the uftnost. Mr Macandrew, oh the contrary, strongly advoeites the reimposition of school fees, and the limitation of the school course to the simplest subjects, in order to reduce the expenditure and avert the necessity for further taxation. Here we have the ! two most prominent members of the Opposii tion fighting furiously over what both regard as an important question of policy. i Their speeches in many respects are not so much in collision with eaoh other. They are evidently travelling on quite different roads, and towards quite different objects, Sir G-eorge Grey is absorbed in euch questions as that of elective Governors, elective Legislative Councils", the distribution of Imperial distinctions, and others of an equal unpractical kind. Mr Macandrew never mentions any of these, but applies himself only to everyday matters of dome-tic politic. Whenever the two speakers do meet on the same topic, however, they immediately come to loggerheads. Sir George Grey is an ardent advocate of the sale of land on deferred payments. Mr Macandrew condemns the deferred payment system altogether. ' Sir George Grey is all for borrowing more money and spending it freely among the people, while taxing property to piy the 1 interest. Mr Marandrew says he wishes the Five Million Loan had miscarried, declares that a reduction of the expenditure is abso'utely necessary, and instigates the people to refuse payment of the property tax. Sir George Grey designates the dis"ontinuance of the subsidies^ • the mo*t inhuman pro - ceeding that ha ever heard of.' Mr Macandrew ridicules the subsidies, says thut the system involves ~ a * waste .of fifty percent., and recommends local taxation a» a substitute for it. So they go on, each doing his utmost to thwart and weaken the other, yet both opposing the Ministry on general grounds. What sort of party can they expect to organise by such means ? What good can they possibly expect, as public men to do for the country, so long as they display such an utter want of harmony or even mutual respect P'