THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 25 June 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1880.

There. waa a long sifting ef *he .County Oonneii on Wednesday lasti the proceedings' lastbg wtil after midnight., A, report of the proceedings appeaM eUewbere, Tbe concert mk entertaimnent m Aid " of the funds of the Reefton Brass Band, which is to be held to-morrow evening, pronuies to be a great soeoesM Most of the lady and genttemen vocalists who are to take part in .the performance- are new to Reefton aadi- , eneetj fvury; oafaf has been taken to perfect the general aintieal anrsngements. " Voting tfai' yet 'b&h leant as to the' f&teV'tto tfeeimt tegd4»iag for the Joapg*. hua bridge, .and t^te Court bouse, and *§ome of theietfdererti, in view of the prwenfede* p^esied condition •{ CotoniaJ flnsnoe^ are bepnningJto.^anTpiouSJiboqt^eir tlepoiits. We do not, however, t'hlatc there is any rea#>f to enoonrage the belief that the money bas been •* ecnaoiidated, 1 * It is anyway get* ting en for time tytf something definite was 'koeW* akptth*: budam v ,The. lowest tender lor, the Court nooseis, we ' believe, pO over the departmental eitivate. ' It Wat rta^d in the Wardens Cdurt| the other Tlsy tfdifeg'Uie hearing' ot a mining dispute that, some of the slvJeiog, parties: at: I^nkerft^j sw.ean^ ca *^ufh at^ perinair^lr*eak^ '*" - <i*,V ,? » 4 ' -The debatrm'the Boose 'on QU noVqon*i fidene» mot^ftn ,continaeftto'.dslg! its slow leDgtoslonf, to the almost total «iol«wohof aU other bosW.^ It Is WpeoW, that ithe difisbt'on # tfofiSn'wfll to-3ay, but the fate of the ICinistcrf U net UttugW Awi^markaWe lottery and Mdeiy ndra» ber • itfior? comes from' Kajjlep; , >jm» brogio; a poor monk, waa visito4'by two rqffls,oi,' wh« sslwd him to give* them t«y tacky number in the fort&comfrig^Governmen^lottery. Hetaid it wat impose sible, at he had not the gifl^ of prophecy. They fasfsttfd* that he waa acquainted^ frith the mysteries of occult things, and that be eoutd tell them, if he ehose f which number wonfd win' the principal, prise, Conscientiously, he refused to de«elTe v thjenr By pretence. -It would have, been better -for bii» Had he given the rnfflains a* 'number 'and got rid 'of 4 1 for; enjraged/, at' his repeated ' refossls, jtfyrso brntalLy ill treated him, that be: had tote eon'reyecTto a hospital, where bodied in delinnm of his injuries. Bi^tin'tbe wanderings' of bit mind, Whipb wat affected by the treatment he had re« eefved, be mattered tn? v numbers thirteen )ind 1 iiity-five. This becoming known, numbers.' of> persons staked their money on* those flgures, which as> happened, drew the principal prlies in the lottery.,^