THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 30 June 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1880.

Welearn from Wellington that political parties are all sixes and sevens, and nobody seems to know " whose who, and wbats what." The report of the Civil Service Commission has knocked everything out of joint, §nd what wi h De& partmental insurrection within, and civil service wire-pulling without, the Cabinet is, in the words of Mrs Bardell, in a continual " worrit." Heads of departs ment are in active revolt, and snch a storm has been raised against the Gov* ernmenfc in order to defeat the carrying into effect of the recommendations of the Commissidn, that it is hard to say what the result will be. At the half-yearly meeting of share- . holders of the Golden Treasure Company, held last night, the following directors were elected : —Messrs Kilgour, Bruce, Todd, Craig, (J.C.) tad Mulvay. Mr Galloway, the officer in charge of the survey of the low level tunnel, met with a rather serious accident yesterday. ;He was in the act of felling a saplin on the line, wben the axe slipped and all but severed the toes of his left foot. He was at o§ee carried into town by the works men, and placed under the care of Dr. Thorpe, who dressed the wound. Mr William Evans, an old West*.' coaster, writes to the local paper complaining of the backward condition of morality % Timaru. Mr Arkle, ono of the pioneer brewers ef Heefton, is reported to haye died very suddenly afc Masterton. At the halfsyearly meeting of the shareholders of the Welcome Company held on "Monday last, the retiring direo tory. Messrs J. Williams, T. M'Laughlin, P. Murphy, M. FitzGerald, and P. But. ler, wene yelected. Tbe eventful career of the Kelly outlaws has at length been brought to a close, in so far that one of the gang has been captured, wbile the other members of the band are surrounded by the police, and placed past the possibility of escape. It appears that early in the present week the outlaws made their appearance in Sebastopol, and learning that their press ence was suspected, they determined to take tbe only alternative open to them, and took possession of an hotel, in which to shelter themseheg. The police at» tacked the hotel, and in the conflict which ensued Byrne, one of the band, was sho* dead, and Ned Kelly was mortally wounded in tbree places and captured. The other two members of the gangHart and Dan Kelly are still in the hotel and will no doubt die har I in pros ferenee to surrendering. It wa9 ascertained that the outlaws wore plough* shares on their breasts for protrction ; against bullets. Any kind of deafh %ould no doubt be preferable to"the kind of life the desperadoes have been living during tho past eighteen months. As they have lived, so the remaining two members of the gang will no doubt die: Mercy they ' have none to expee-t,, and will hardly aue for.