THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, JULY 5, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 July 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, JULY 5, 1880.

The acceptance by the Government of a tender for the erection of a dray bridge over the Tnangabua river at Reefton, is a farther fulfilment of the promises made by the Goyernment to the people here. The accepted tenderers are D. L. Coehrane and Co., at £3770 17s 6d. It is said that the nest lowest tender was that of O'Connor and Grey, who were £28 higher. Quite a little diggers' encampment is form* ing at the Alfred river, Maruia. Several large parties of miners have set in perman« manently, and started to bring in bead-roes. Some of these works will take about fire months to complete, and will command, an immense area of sluioing country. T c >gb the worst of the winter is now passing, only one fall of snow has occurred, and thit bo slight (hat it disappeared a* quickly as it fell. Mr E. Paine got through to Reetton last week with a mob of cattle from Lake Gnyon. The fi»t load of machinery for the Weicome Co. arrived in Reefton ov Saturday, from the Despatch Foundry, Greymouth, and has since been delivered at the battery site at Boatmanß. The contractor for the erection of the plant started to put in the foundation timbers, which are. of very substantial dimensions, Eddy and party Pipeot to complete their contract in the low tunnel in about a month. Yesterday was the memorable 4th of July, but there was no spread-eagle about, in fact, nothing, except perhaps the quantity of rain which fell, to distinguish it from any other ordinary day of the year. It is in contemplation by the Govern* ment to remove the bead .quarters of the Public Works department from Hokitika to Greymouth, whereat the inhabitants of the former town are boiling over with indignation. Seeing that Greymouth is the centre of all the principal public works at present being carried on on the West Coast, it is not easy to understand why the Mountain should go to Mahomet at Hokitika. If there is anymore noise about this business we shall see il we can't get the head quarters fixed up at Beefton. A publican in Repfton has, after mature consideration, arrived at the conclusion that a half-pint measure with a false bottom is the only solid argument against the beer tax. The County Chairman on Saturday last re* ceived a telegram from Mr Masters, M.H.R., requesting to be informed of the amount, approximately, which this County had to pay yearly for the maintenance of main roads. Mr Brennan was able to state the amount exactly. The ourrent year's maintenance amounts to £4,000. The total rate revenue of the County for the last la levied was not more than £1,300, and this subsidised to the extent of £ for £ would realise £2,600, so that the~mnintenance has ever bsen a terri« ble in^fbus upon the County. We understand that it is intended to utilise the idle time of the Dauntless Company's water wheel fo» driving a circular saw. At a meeting of the directors of the Wel« come Company, held qn Saturday evening the tender of John Mitchell was accepted for the icon veyance of their battery from Grey mouth to Boatman's. The quantity will be about sixteen tons, and the price £11 19s 9d per ton. The United Alpine Company waß to have cleaned up ou Saturday last, when a divi? dend would be declared. No intelligence, however, reached town last night. The Just-in-Time Company started crush ing last night. There is about 200 tons of stone in |;he paddqek, which will be added to daily as the crushing proceeds. A meeting of the provisional committee of i^e Low Level Tunnel Qompanvwill cje hp!4

thi* evening, forth.c purpose of appointing* permanent legal manager and incorporating the Company, The survey of the tunnel will be completed within the next day or two. The Wellington correspondent of the Southland TinK 8 telegraphs :— That parties engaged by the Government to teach the unemployed; the improved anode of utilning rabbitskine, at work for some time past in Wellington, proceed under Government fluspices to Inveroargill for a similar purpoßr, A number of bales of skins have been prepared for despatch to the Home market, with n view of testing the value of the improved method," About 400 summonses will shortly he issued against Land Tax defaulters in Soutlr land. It is reported that Major Kemp, the chief who was dismissed for turbulent and lawl-sit conduct in the Murimotu affaire, has been appointed by 400 Wanganui Natives as trustee for their lands. A resolution was passed in the Legislative Council to the effect that it was the duty of the Government to purge the Commission of the Peace of all insolvents and other unsuitable persons. Mr... Rudolph Caspers, of Goulburn, ha" discovered a new process for the enlargement of photographs, which promises to be of considerable importance to the art. The por« traits are first taken in the ordinary cabinet size, and can be enlarged to life size with any ordinary camera in any sort of weather in about two hours. There is no necessity for a solar light ; exhibits of photos Bhown by Mr. Casper in the Garden Palace indicate that the likenesses are faithfully done. By a recent invention paper boxes ore made in Boston directly from paper pulp. The boxes are turned out of any size or shape perfectly seamless and of uniform thickness. After drying, the boxes are run through a second machine at the rate of 60 per minute, receiving, under a pressure o< 4,000 pounds, such embossing as may be necessary. From the time the paper stock is taken from the bales until the machine, manual labor is entirely avoided. By the use of one set of these machines 30.000 boxes can be produced per day, at less than onethird of the lowest market price of hand made goods, and doing the work of 800 hands ns the prooess is ordinarily conducted. The Egyptian or rice-rom is being oultivated in western Kansas to advantage, and is considered a valuable cereal acquisition, as it will yield in any kind of weath r. The product the past year averaged about fortfive bushels to the acre. The seed was obtained from the display made by the Egyptian Government at the Centennial Exhibition. The Eleotion Petition Bill has passed Parliament. Election Petitions must now be heard before two Judges. Replying to questions, the Government stated :— That a Bill would be brought in to mitigate the hardship under which hawkers labor respecting licenses in connection with the County Council fees. The papers relating to the floating of the five Million Loan and the inset iption of New Zealand Stock, serves to impress most forcibly the terribly narrow esoape this colony has had from most serious disaster, it being but too plain that had any bitch arisen in floating the last loan, or had not the whole amount been taken up, a suspension of payment would haye been inevitable. This of course, rendered it necessary to offer exceptionally favorable terms to lenders, but for which it is now clearly shown the loan could not have been floated at all. — Post. King John of Abyssinia is about 47 years old, never smiles, never looks you in the face, and has a most ungovernable temper. He cuts off the lips of all those who smoke tobaoco in any form. By means of torture he has converted 100,000 Moslems to the Christian religion. Pious and playful monarch ! Lord Rosebery, in addition to paying Mr Gladstone's eipense?, whatever they may be, for Midlothian, contributed £5,000 towards the election for Sonthwark of Mr Cohen, a a very able Hehrew barrister, who is a relative of Lady Rosebery. The annual exportation of cheese from America to England reached the enormous quantity of 134,000,000 lbs in 1878, and during the same year Canada also supplied t>e English market with 42,000,000 lbs. This gives a total of about 800,000 tons. Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan divided £1000 per week as their profits during the run of " the Pirates of Penzance "in new York.