THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 26, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 26 July 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 26, 1880.

Tbe United Alpine Company, Lyell, is doing grand work. One hundred and sixty*** five tons of stone crushed last week, yielded 343 jounces of amalgam from tbe top plates, which is estimated to-be fully equal to loz per ton. The mine presents a splendid ap* pearance, the faces of stone showing tbe enormous tbiokness of J'rom twenty to twentyfive feet. 1/ I That terrible scourge whooping-cough is, J9»gretto learn,Avery rife amongst chil EjbJ^in, the distnot, and we are sorry to have ra§^n«tee*tbat a fine little girl, daughter of has fallen a victim to its -MH|jfe^Tbe, funeral is announoed to take Hrojlffttiatibns arp, we believe, pending for M? purchase by tbe Just-in-Time Company Wthe mining lease and workings of the Boatloan's Qreek Company. It was, however, rumored iv town last night that the ground ■|**^pen jumped by a tbird party. "■*lji*is notified i-a tbe Oovernment Gazette tbat F. A. Monckton, Esq., bas been appointed Heahb Officer for the Port of Nelion, vice J, K. Farrelle, E?q., resigned. Persons wbo have made default in the payment of the separate rate are notified that all outstanding amounts will be sued for after tbe gist instant. An action for criminal libel has bean commenced by the editor of the West Copst Times against the proprietor of tbe Hokitika Btar. Mr J. Mitchell's waggon arrived from Greymopth on Friday last, bringing seven •nd a half tons of loading. Six tons con. •wted of machinery f or the Welcome Com Pa i y ' the balance B enOTal freight. Wjdayortwoia tbe early part of tbe week the driving in tbe Caledonian mine « RS off the track of the reef, but intelligence has •mre been received that tbe line has again ben picked up and is being followed witb ve<-y encouraging indications. It eeemß a great pity tbat something cannot be done to utilise t!te Union battery, nt Devil's Creek. The battery is undoubtedly one of the finest in the Inangahua, and cannot but suffer deterioration by disuse. There are many in tbe district who are of the opinion that tho company's mine has been •o hastily condemned. The Oriental Com-r pany ijj thp game neighborhood bave a m&j-

nificent reef, of colossal proportions, and showing every indication of payabieness. On ond after Sunday next, Ist August, all telegrams despatched or forwarded from the Ahaura, Charleston, Kumar*., Longford, 1 Lyell and Boss telegraph offices will be oharged 6d in addition to the ordinary fee. , Tbere are 87 stations at which the addional fee will bo charged, thus showing the number of unprofitable stations in existence in New Zealand. j Velvet was-originally an Asiatic production introduced into Kome at the time of the Emperors. It seems that the ancient Greets were not acquainted with it. In the middle ages some manufactories of velvet were estab* lished at Constantinople and in some othei 7 towns of tbe Eastern Empire. At a 'atei time the fabrication of velvets prospered ai P* Venice, at Genoa, and at other towns ol Italy before they were known in France * Two Genoese imported this branch of industry into Lyons, where they established i manufactory under the auspices of Francis I in 1536. Velvet, by the richness of iti texture, at once took the priority on the Continent of all tissues. It became (he ebiei material of tbe costumes of the middle olasses, the ornament of ceremonials, and was employed to set off sumptuous apartments. Mr John London, Member for Hokianga P made a most characteristic pppech in tbe nc eonfidenoe debate, and spoke some bom< truths tbat are worth reproducing. He said When I came to New Zealand as a child, mj father told me tbat he bad done a greal . thing for us by bringing us to a country r where we should not be taxed. The preneni state of things with regard to taxation remind* me of what took placo years ago in tht Provincial Council of Auckland ; a railway i 1 was proposed to cost £100,000- I voted for the work, so that 1 tnig? t see a railway before 1 , died ; and posterity was to pay for it— thf vote was spent in other directions— and, instead of posterity paying for it, it seems now » that I have got to pay a portion of the cosl > myself. The district I represent in this - House has no railways, and not one chain o , macadamized road. The men working al , excavations or reclamations in Wellington or l Christchurch, or any of tbe otber centres ol r population, cannot work, on an average, mow tban five days in the week. We will say s man gets 6s a day, or 30s a week for a week. Out of this be has to pay 10s a week foi , house rent, ond support his family on the " remainder. If the Government would put him on a piece of land in the district I bave referred to, and give him work at 3s 6.1 a day, be would earn 21s a week. He would have no houee rent to pay. He could get an ) abundance of fisb, and his children could get 8 kauri gum. They would be better employed in this way than staiving in the towns. I oame out to New Zealand in one of three immigrant vessels which arrived about the 5 same time. Men were employed in Auckland at Is fid a day, and some of tbem obtained 2-t ■ 6d a day. That was tho commencement of • the aristocraoy of New Zealand. I tell the working men of Wellington and elsewhere tbat bad they been put on the land in the I North of Auckland, and if tbe £35,000 had i been spent on the construction of roads and other works there, they would have had [ employment, Bnd they would not be in their I present distressed position. Let them even I now ask to be put upon this land. I see by I' the Customs returns that we send £40,000 a year out of tHe oolony to Hobart Town fc* jam. Now, in tbe Hokianga District there are peach groves extending for a distance of six mileß. Settlers can grow any kind of fruit tbere. An abundance of fruit, fish, oysters, and pipis oan be obtained without any costwhatever. If under these circumstances, men starve, I have no compassion for them. A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, this describes bis visit to the bacon curing establishment of Messrs Armour, of Chicago : —"When in full operation they hate four distinot sets of machinery for killing and cutting up hogs, in which case they convert pigs into pork at the rate of between thirty or forty per minute. Only one set of machin ery was in operation when I was there, but that was enough for my purpose. The bogs were together in a yard, where two mm were doing nothing but put a chain round their hind legs. Tbe next moment tbe hog ie hung in the air. In this state of suspense tbey glided through a compartment where a man stood; dripping with blood from head to foot, doing nothing all day but plunge his knife into the pigs throat as they glided past. A little further on the chain was loosened, and the pig dropped into a cistern of boiling water. After be had remained there a minute another machine lifted him out and laid him on a table. Here was an apparatus of revolving knives, through which he passed, coming out in a few seconds scraped. He is tben beheaded and befooted, and hung up by tbe bind legs again. Next he is opened, cleaned, and generally finished off, after which, still hanging from the ceiling, he travels down a long passage through the establishment, and takes his place with hundreds more quietly banging in the same predicament. Tbe whole process whioh I have just described takes about seven minutes ; and during those seven minutes about SCO pigs are similarly treated when tbe place is in full working order. Of course my readers won't believe me, but I cannot help that.'