THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, AUGUSTS, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 9 August 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, AUGUSTS, 1880.

We publish to day fee PnW'° W°A« Statement. The chief item of interest in it, so far as this district i« concerned i» the announcement of the intention of the Govern, ment to take over the maintenance of the main road. A dividend of one shilling per share has been declared by the United Alpi&a Company. Mr Jones who came np from Okarito informs us that there are more claims on gold, which is obtained in • terraoe a mile in length to Sf'Donald Creek. There is a continuation «f the Terraoe for another four miles on the other side, towards the Waiho. There are five claims on gold, and the distance driven in the Terrace to get on gold is from 30 to 150 feet, and there is any amount of likely-looking country tbat never had a pick at it, and there is not the slightest; doubt that it only requires time for a large gold field to be opened up down South. Drays can go within half a mile of the tunnel. Apropos of the " Great Pro Consol," Mr W. L. Eees, lawyer, preacher, author and statesman, is here just now. It seems strange that who shines in so maoj professions should be so short of the "^Mauritius " as a Viotorion legislator called it. I suppose- it is the old story, "Jack of all trades, but master of none." In spite of receiving such fees as three hundredfguineas from a grateful (? great fool) premier, fit Bees it in a chronic state of impeouniosity, dunned and sued by confiding tradesmen,