THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 16 June 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1880.

Tbe Eesidenfc Magistrate's and Warden's Courts will sit to-morrow. The United Alpine Company, Lyell, is fully maintaining its good name and fame. Tbe returns for the week ended Saturday last, gave 236 op. of amalgam from the top plates alone. I The committee appointed at the last half* 1 yearly meeting of the Just*in«Time Company, to examine and report upon several matters in connection with past and future crushings have met," and dealt with the various matters brought before them. Their report goes to show that the management of the battery and mine has been quite satisfactory. The Goternment are certainly holding true to the intention expressed at tbe opening ot the session, relative to shortening the dura tion of Parliament as far as possible. The bulk of tbeir promised measures have been brought down and urged through the preliminary stages with all the celerity derivable from a strong majority. The discussion evoked by the new Licensing Bill, the debate upon which engrossed the chief part of yesterday's bitting, has to some extent clogged the way, but the difference of op» inion eiisting in the House upon the Bill appears to be one of detail only. The real battle of the session will commence to day, upon the new financial proposals, but as the Ministry has elected to stake its existence upon the issue, there is little room to doubt what the outcome will be. Tenders are elsewhere called by the County Council for the construction of a pock tra.k from Devil's Creek to the Big Eiver. It his beiu reported in town during the past day or two that Green and party have obtained a very fine sample of gold in a new locality, a short distance off the line of the proposed track. The gold was shown in Eeefton yesterday, and is said to have been an exceptionally fine sample. " Alfred Corfield, a lad, whose parents reside at Black's Point, has been taken on probation 33 assistant clerk in the Warden's Office, Beefton. j We learn that the nett receipts of the late Church of England Art Exhibition will not amount to more tban about £10. Mr Gfilberfc, dentist, of Greymouth announces that he will pay a professional visit to Beefton on the 23rd instant. Mr T. Gallagher is makirg favorable progress with his contract for the supply of to** tara telegraph poles ior the line between Eeefton and Lyell. Tho poles hive been delivered at the road side between Reefton and Cronadun, and were yesterday passed by Mr J. Williams, Government inspector. Mr Gallagher expects to have the line comple'e 1 as far as Christy's by the end of the present week. A letter recently received here from * Mr James Fergusso. (lute Ferguson ond M'Hardv), does not give a very glowing a C . count of the Cape gold and diamond fields. MrFergußson has returned to South Australia. Mr Angus Sutherland, carpenter, formerly of Reefton, has reached Natal < n route for tbe Transvaal, and upon his arrivul there we shall receive a letter from him des- I eribing Che prospects of the field generally. Mr Warden Eevell arrived from Westport yesterday evening, and Mr H. C. Bowman, J.P., wa* a passenger by last night's Greymouth coach. 4 c_ ncert and art exhibition in aid of the funds of St. Luke's Church, wdl be held at Boatman's on Friday evening next, weather permitting, The whole of the exhibits recently displayed in Bee 'ton will be taken out, and a large number of Eeefton lady and gentlemen vocalists have given their services for the occa .on, as also the members of the Reefton Brass Band. The oc o__ion cannot fail to prove a great fr.at to the inhabitants of Boatman's. The Wellington correspondent of the Greymouth Star telegraphs : In answer to a deputation of West Coast member?, the Minister for Public Works stated that the Griymouth harbor worts would be proceed, dwi h Ibe Public Works Office would be removed from Hokitika to Greymouth, and an able and energetio man paced in charge. The Low L-ve! Turn.el at Bee-ton will be sub .idised. The JTok.ti»a and Giiymouih railway will be s;oi. . rl There is likely to be something of the nature of a "field day " in the " Resident Mngistrat 's Court to-morrow. Th-.-re are a lar^e number of civil euses, but the " piece de re-istanee ! ' pro-338e_ to be un action

■■WBWPjpi'*— *■***— **^^~^^** -_-» — — — - — — — ■— ■■^— ■— against one of ihe local bants, fot alleged wrongful retention of moneys, Cour.solhave been engaged on each side, and the case is likely to absorb public attention. A reception of the most original description was given at the Paris Embassy by the Marquis Tsong, Chinese Ambassador to Paris. The proceeding were conducted throughout ala Chinese. First came the dinner, with a bill of fare euch as may seldom be met with even in the Frencn capital, comprising among other dainties, swallows' nest, chicken with bamboo sprouts, the ears of T'Sien, and the flower of Houang ; eggs cooked in lime, sea slugs, shark fins, the whole seagoned with sauces after the genuine style of the Flowery Land. For dessert, an avalanche of .dried fruit 1 4ely arrived from Pekin. Eghteen guests were alone admitted to partake of this miraculous repast. But the most peculiar part of the fete was the reception. In accordance with the custom observed in the extreme East, the proceedings werd divided into two portions— one for the ladies and one for the gentleman : , these met to play music or listen to it in rooms set apart for the ambassador, who wore a necklace which is only assumed on exceptional occasions, and where the ripple on the conversation was kept up with unbounded animation. This separation of the S-xes, j which gives a high opinion of Chinese morality, but which is somewhat antagonistic 'o French habits, threw a damp over the latter part of the pi*occ.eding. , and overcoats were in requisition at an enrly hour. The Daily Times of Saturday says that if tbe Government intend reimposing the tea and sugar duties they should act promptly, \ or they will find the revenue of the next few months forestalled. During the last few days there has been quite a rush to the Custom House to pay duties, as we understand, cbi-fly on these articles. On Tuesday the duties collected .amounted to £3057, on Wednesday to £34/78, on Thursday to £4131, and on Friday to £5004, making a total of £15 970 in four days. This will mean a considerable "rise" to somebody if the duties are reimposed, but if not, the persons who are so eager to contribute to the revenue will bo sold. A tornado struck Marshfield, Missouri, and levelled most of the town. The debris immediately took fire in sever il placps, and flames could be seen at half-asdozen pomt I*,1 *, by passengers on trains, Forty dead bodies had been taken out, and mariy more are supposed to be buried in the ruins or burned. Th<?re are also many living still imprisoned in the fallen building. . All the physicians in the Town were killed except two, and there was a great need of doctors to attend the wounded, of whom it was said there were 200. A relief train with twenty physicians and nurses, and full supplies, left Springfield. The BuUer News says _— Alexander and party, have evidently " struck oil." A party of town residents who went out to the Waimangaroa yesterday and visited the claim, say that nothing so rich has been seen in this district before. The day's work was reckoned to yield £100 worth of gold. It is hoped that the lead equa'ly rich will be traced some distance and that a nice little digging? will arise at Waimangaroa before long. When tbe leading states of Europe one a r ter another manifested their unwillingness to authorise the substitution of cremation for interment within their realms, it was thought (observes the London Dai'y Telegraph) that, upon the territori _ of a free and enlightened republic, it would enjoy absolute immunity from those prohibitions and restrictions which inter'ered with its practice on our old fashioned and incurably prejudiced continent. Ibis assumption, however, does not appear to bave been justified by subsequent facts. The burning of Baron de Palin 's body at Washington, some months ago, created so unpleasant a sensation throusrh the United States, and was denounced by the American press in such violent terms, that Mr Funch, a wealthy New Fork merchant who recently paid the great debt of nature, has left behind him a will strictly enjoining tbat his mortal remains be conveyed to Europe, there to be reduoed to ashes by *■ the crematory process, ih order to avoil the scandal to which their consumption by fire in his native land might give rise. An ardent supporter of the " cremation movement " Mr Funch had crogyed the Atlantic two years before his death upon a special mission of investigation i'-to the various methods of corpsoburning practised at Dresden, Gotba, and Milan. The Mi! ,n process seems to have completely met his views, for his testamentary dispositions ordain the transport of bis body to tbe capi a of Lombardy, where itis to be calcined secundum a-tem, Mr Punch's heirs complied with his injunctions