THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 July 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1880.

The Government* we understand, de» cline to make known the name of the successful tenderer for the Inangahua bridge. There is a certain red-tape pro* cess to be gone through by the tender, in the Public Works department! and until this is completed the information will be witheld. At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Fiery Cross Extended Company held on Wednesday evening last, the following directors were elected ; Messrs H. Thomas, T. Collins, P. Murpby, J. Butler, and P. M'Laugblin. In the Warden's Court yesterday Gannon and Hawley applied for a headrace and claim at Alfred River, Maruia ; Munro and Wicks also applied for a water-race in the same locality, all of which were granted. James Taylor applied for a water-race half a mile above the Just«in>>Tin;e Company's dam, which was also granted. Mr Brennan Bp;>lied (or twelve months' protection of the Plica lix Company's mining lease, Murray Creek, which was recommended. A similar application on behalf of the Oriental Company was withdrawn. The Golden Treasure Company applied fora machine site near Cement Town, Murray Creek, which was granted. The Court then adjourned. Mr Warden Revell left for Westport yesterday at noon. Everything will be in readiness to start the Jußt-in*Time crushing on Monday morning next. Two notorious thieves were captured in Reefton on Saturday last. They had long eluded the authorities, and had grown a terror to the community. They were two goats and were lodged in the Pound. On Wednesday last they were submitted to auction by the poundkeeper, and as showing the bad esteem in which they were held by the public, they only realised two-and-sixpence each. Our correspondent at Wellington telegraphs that a Middle Party is being I formed in the House, under the leadera ship of Mr Ormond. The English mail arrived in Nelson yesterday, and as the West Coast portion will probably reach Westport tonight, the up coach wi 1 be detained until it is landed there, when the Reefton bag will be brought on. With the firing by the police of. the hotel in which Hart and Dan Kelly had taken refuse, and the roasting of the outlaws, closes one of the darkest and most deplorable records of crime in Victoria, Whether the men died by their own hands, or whether they were burnt alive, can never be known, In cither case there is a grim heroism in the ; r end, however mistaken, for which it ironld he hard to find a parellel. The history of crime feaebes that many of the foulest criminals that ever walked the earth have quailed when confronted with the dread reality of death, bat the death of these men ear ries their defiance beyond the gr»reAt a recent meeting of the Duchess of Marlborongli'B Relief Committee, two little boye, balf-naked nncl barefooted, sought admission to Dublin Castle, stating that tbey had walked all the way from Slribbereen, County Cork, to plead for thn help to pay their father's rent. They said they were the sons of Pat M'Carthy, of Oloncugger, in the pariili of Oaharag, near Sk'bbereen. lie had a bit of land, but the times were so bad be could not pay the " rint," and he owed £8. Having gone round among the friendß and neighbours, he could only scrape togotber £6. The two children, who were respectively 12 and 14, years old, thought they would «• assk the good Duchess Of Marlborough " to give " daddy " £2. Away they started for Dublin, bergingthir food and lodging, and inquiring their way from town to town. The journey upwards of two hundred miles, occupied three weeks. Touched with tho narrative, the Dv ■hesa promised to send their father the £2. They were then by command ofHrj Grace taken to the clothes room, and their tattered garments changed for a new suit of tweed each. Having been regaled with a substantial dinner, they were brought before the ladies of the Co-nraittee, wha rewarded their b-ave adventures with a pocketful of silver. On the same day Mr Fitzgerald, assistant BeerctHry to the Relief Fund, wrote to the Rev. 0. Wai!, parish pviest, enclosing a Post Office order for £2, payable tp M'C^rthy thp father of tits boys,