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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 June 1880, Page 2

' The Fiery Crops Company has coTie forj ward with a very cheering r*tam as the re* suit of the crushing just concluded. The f cake of gold was lodged in the National Bank yesterday, and weighed 4950z Bdwt, from 484 tons. The prospects of the mine are said to be of the higbtest order. The District Court opeued on Monday morning, but the proceedings were of very - short dura-ion. There were only two civil eases, in which judgment went by default. There was one bankrupt oy ease, that of James Edge, in which application was made p, for an order to complete a deed of compromise under which the creditors agreed to acjl oept 12a 6d in fhe £. It transpired, however that owing to the faulanesa of thut bungling Is piece of legislation, the Bankruptcy Act, it wuS impossible to make the orde? prayed. e> THlrLynoh, who appeared in the case, ad* mitted tho difficulty of the poeiVon and the itrpossiaility of complying with the require--7 ments of t'<ie Act. His Honor commented upon the unsatisfactory condition of the law affecting debtors and prjiditers, and earnestly

oped that it would bo sp.-edily reformed be te had been invited by the Goverßmeafc to (t uggest some amendments in the Act, and tl' ad done so, but to point oat all the defects t] ,mM be to flil a Tolome, He trot tod , ho w . f ter, that* mftttM which bo vitally con^ A :erned the trading intoresfcof- the Cplony at t, arge'would no longer eeeape the attention 91 v;he Legislature. His Honor referred to the b paucity of business before the Court, and ex- 0 pressed regret that the Colony should have ,1 boeir put to the cost of his journey for .such p a meagre caase list, ' « • The following portion of Mr A. B. Gum- r nsss' speech at the public meeting on Satur- 1 day evening last was unavoidably omitted t from our Luft issue :-Mr Guinness said: c Those who had resided for any length of time on the West Coast hri fully realised < the unjusfc treatment it had received*. . He t had lived twelve years on the Coast, and lie , knew what the position of Canterbury wns 1 at the time he'arrived hero, and wliat groafc 1 assistance the goldflelds were to the fettled districts en the other Bide of the range, and thare waa no doubt thafc had it not been for the discovery of gold on the West Coast New Zealand would be in a poor position today, and but for tae enterprise and pluols of the miners many eoloaists who had grown eoormouply wealthy by the production of wool, would to-day haye Been follow-in 2 their sheep tracks. (Cheers.) Bat of tnose men endeavoring to foster and encourage the mining industry, thoy wore doing all they could to "rippli it, and thia was the injustice against whieh^the people should protest. (Cheers.) The Counties on the oiher side had got their raain roada constructed, but there was no traffic upon them be* ! cause they had also got their railways, and were therefore relieved of the heavy bur 'en -. of maintenance, which so seriously weighted down the West Coapt Counties. The subsidy rrcoived' by the Grey County for the past year hud not exceeded £3,500, which wns about as much as the adjoining Coast Counties had received for tha eatno period, 8«d although we had aeithei? roads, railways. 0? other large public worts out of the bor« rowed millions, even the paltry sums men' Uonodwereto be withdrawn. He trusted, however that the people would raise their voices as one man in protest agakot such an act of injustice. (Cheers.) It will be observed that »n "alteration lias been made in the dates of the sittings of the District Court at Reeftoiu In future His Honor, Judge Weatoifwili sit here bi-monthly instead of monthly, as hitherto. The dates have been fixed for both civil and criminal business. Hia Honor was a passenger by ooaeh to Westport this morning. The attention of publicans is directed to an advertisement appearing elsewhere, which notifies that all applications for licenses will become void unless certificates are obtained before the 30th June. The nreessary certificates must be forwarded to the Collector of Customs, Westport, and upon the receipt of the licenses here the? must be hung up in the bar. Mr 0-ilberfc, dentist, has arrived from Grey* -taotttV^**"*-" oxvty bar cons"ultod at Dawson's " Hotel. It >9 necessary that all persona re» quiring artificial teeth should call upon Mr Gilbert at once. The bettiag Bill, inf?&duced to the Few South Wales Legislalnre by Me Terry, contains th& following clause :—" If any superintendent or inspector of police shall report in writing to the inspector-general of police that there are good grounds to believe, that any hoixse, office, room, of place is kept or used. 03 a betting houie or o^ee, contrary to thiß or the principal etct, it shall be lawful for the said inspector-general, by order in writing, to authorise such superintendent or inspector to enter any such house, office, room, or place which eueh constables as shall be directed by the inapeei;or«general of police to accompany him^Bdj, if necessary, to use force for the purpose of effecting such entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise, and to take into custody all persons who shall be found therein and to seize all lists, cards, ov other documents relating to racing or betting found in such house or premises." I believe, however (wrifcps " Augur," in the Australasian), that there is not any intention to interfere with properly conducted clubs, such as Tattersall's.

The Times, noticing a paper by a Q-ermat physician, Dr Treishler, with regard to thi injuries which he alleges to be inflicted upoi school children by ill directed or excessivi brain work says it is necessary, of course, t( guard carefully against anything which can be described ss the inouleafcion of idlencs3 . but it ig no le3B necessity to secure, i possible, that what is called work shall b< realty fruitful for the purpose for which it it dougned. Our notions of education have, until within the l:\st half-dozen years, been nlmost pntirely empirical. Of late ypa^S howeve!',phyß\ologia(-Bha?e begun to approach something like an exact nnalysig of (he menial faculties and to undm»and the physica or brain basic of the mental operations. Di Treicbler is right in his assertion that ovei- . work is destructive of thjj power of healths functional octivitv, whether the functiot concerned be movement, or thought, 0 memory or the simple growth or repair 0 •tissue? The physical health of childrei Bhould be the first consideration of th schoolmasters ; and it is only when this ba been secured that bo has any right to !oo: for profitable i-psults from his teaching. I may reasonably be hoped as the tru principles of education became better under stood alike by parents and by schoolmasters that our existing system of cramming will b gradually abandoned and that ifsocallei intellectual competitions nre stilHo gorerr the chances afforded to boys at tbsir entrane( upon a career, these competitions will becom leas exhausting and more veal than an; recent experience has seen tliem. Among other papers which have been Lii on the the table of the House is a- copy of i letter of instruction from the Hon. th Premier to the Agant-Cronoful, referring i reduction in that officer's staff, and directing that further rcductioaD should bo ma'do will

js little delay as possible. EVoui suc'n letter (tbo Hew Z-m'and Timea says) it appears that" the emigration agents employed -Jui-ing tha past were :~ Mr O, lToi!ow-iy, at £150 a year ; Mr G.M. TRoeA et £600 a yoar ; Mr A.. Olay'don, at £250 a year ; and Mr Di»triot Judge Bakhgate, at £350 a year, involving au expenditure of £1350 in salaries besides (ravelling expense?. The Premier expressed the wish of < ho Government that this expenditure should be reduced as soon as possible consistent with absolute engagements, and that a sensible reduction should bo also made in tb.9 large staff employed in the London office, looting to- the largo diminution the suspension 0! emigration operations must effect in office work. Talking about "ruuning a*newspaper," one of the." raoft inttro?ting objects in the Auckland Museum .is a copy of the first newspaper published in New Zealand, ti was printed in a mangle, and 19 not move than a' quarter of the '«fo4 of theWaikato Timpp. • m . • The following fr6m the London Times is of interest to yachtsmen :-" Compass deviation we Imow is caused by local attraction, and the following curious axample of it, according to the judgement of a yacht captain, is said to have occurred last autumn. Said the captain fq the owner. • I wish yon, sir, would' ask. that My to move away fw»m the binnacle 5 the iron-work in her he** purs out compass wrong.' The astonished owtiet eseSaimed: «Whafc on earth da you wean ? and the captain soon .explained lumself. 'You see, sir, the lady's head is crammed full of iron hairpins, and every time she sits down near the binnacle, she pn»e the compass outs good point snd a half.' Ifc is needless to say tbst the lady was instantly removed to a berth rexoote from the binnacle."