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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 18 August 1880, Page 2

Owing to the approaching visit of the Carandini company, it has, we believe, been considered advisable to postpone the hospital entertainment for another week. The date originally fixed upon was the 28th instant. The regular monthly meeting of the County Council will be held at the Chambers, this afternoon, at the usual hour. Among the trenohment, ' "'•'■■'"* "-""■- -■• ■■* It will be seen that the Carandini company will open in Reefton on Tuesday e>en» ing next. Their presence here will we are sure be hailed with delight by the public. A committee of the County Council sat till a late hour last night, devising a scheme for future retrenchment. We are not aware of the nature of the recommendations arrived a f , but they will be laid before the Council for consideration to-day. Owing to a break down the Westport coach did not get through last night, but the mail was cent on in a trap. Mr Bowman will sell by auotion tot day, by Mr J. M'Gaffin, the residence area on the opposite side of the river, formerly occupied by Mr Colin Campbell ; also the whole of the choice garden stock. The District Gou|t will eit at Beefton on Wednesday next, and there will be an unusually heavy list of criminal cases, beside? much civil business. There is we believe rucktions amongst the chainrrmen engaged on the • Government survey staff, Reefton. It seems that notice has been received by the hands that not only their pay, but equipment and field allowances would henceforth be docked 10 per cent. The men hitherto have been receiving £3 per week, but according to the new order of things the pay will for the future be only £2 14s per week. Thi# rate the men have refused to accept, and have thrown tip their employment, and as they are all experienced hands, having been some time in the sf rvice, their loss cannot but occas'on some interrup • tion to the working of the department. We are glad to be able to chronicle a \e y healthy improvement in the tone of the share market, the pulse of which had almost cea°erl to beat for many months past. The splendid prospects and achievements of the United Alpine, Lyell, have*, no doubt done much to hasten this improvement, us well indeed they might, for it is not too much to say that no finer mining property las ever been seen in New Zealand. The shares ore now quoted at 143, but it is doubtful whether they can be bought at that figure. Where it net for the prevailing depression, the same shares would no doubt be marketable at double that sumComing nearer home, Welcome shares, which three months ago stood, almost nominally, at about 34*. have advanced to 455, nnd are now hard to procure even at that price, as the certainty is that they will continue to rise steadily during the next three months. Again, Golden Fleeces, which only a short time ago were bought in thousands by those who had their weather eye open, at fld, have now risen to 7*. and peed seeking for at thnt The bpst feature about these improvements is, that th* increase is not at all due to delirious specus lation, superabundance of capital, or to any of the onuses which in times past ran interests up so wildly, and so extravagantly, but h the result of sober calculation. The ad« dition of this extra wealth to the community cannot but p<-ove benefioial in many ways, and as the share market is the b rometer by which we t«>Bt tho general condition of the mining industry, its present readings afford both comfort and consolation.

Mr Forbes is about to visit the Colonies and the United States. He will lecture on a new subject, one which will, no doubt, gain for him the largest and most appreciative audience, and which is to be entitled, '• Royalties I hnve Known." Probably (says the Home News) no man living could do more justice to the task. Mr Forbes, in the course of a Ion? and highly adventurous career, has been privileged to make the acquaintance of crowned heids under all mannor of circumstances. As a leading represeutalive of an enterprising journal, he ha 9 had numerous opportunities of knowing our "Royal Princes, with all of whom, from the Prince, of Wales downwards, he is on more or less intimate terirs. As a war correspondent he has been thrown more than once into the society of the soldier Sovereigns and warrior Prinoes of the Continent. He wai especially well received by the Ciar* to whom, it will be remembered he conreyed fie earliest news of the capture of the Schipka by General Gourko, one of tlio most brilliant episodes of the late EussoTu>kish war. He has known the Czarewitch, the Bed Prince, the late Prince Imperial, and others too numerous to repeat Beside these, the more legitimate royalties of civilised life. Mr Forbes has interviewed barbaric potentates of distant lands. Ho is one of the few Englishmen who has seen I nn^ spoken to Thebaw y the gloomy tryant of | Burraah, wliilo he has'tnet Yakoob Kuan and Ceiewayo and many more. A lecture based upon such rich materials cannot but prove highly attractive, and Mr Forbes cm count with certaintjf: almost upon a great successHe i 3 to 6tart for America within a weak or two, whence be will proceed to .Canada, and he may be expected in Australia about the end of the year. A sprious mistake, whioh had a fatal termination, was perpetrated by a chemist'B boy at Colac, Victom on July 19- I" dis pensing a prescription which had been sent to liis employer, the boy missed one line, and instead of giving solution of ammonia, substituted morphia. He took the mixture to a family named ClarEe, who gave it to their infant son. About on hour after the medicine had been given, the lad Moir went to the house of Mrs Mooro, grand-mother of the child, and said a mistake had been mado in the mixture. He left the proper medicine, and -requested the bottle given in mistake to be returned to him. Mrs O'arke refused to give up the bottle, as she had suspicion of the poisoning. Medical assistance was called in, but the child died almost immediately. Mr Justice Johnston has after careful consideration, determined that Chamber busines is publici juris^and can therefore properly be reported in the public press. Of course the Judge always had power to order that certain cases— where scandal might arise or the course of justice .might be interfered with by the proceedings being reported—should not be noticed in ih c press. The Ljttelton Times adds that His Honor expressed the opinion that he was quite sure that the gentlemen of the press would not Sr wtil^^ public anything to which ojljeotion on that score could be taken. The last European Mail to hand says : — The captain of the Scotia Queen, which has arrived at Queenstown from Demerara. reports having passed several dead bodies on April 30, about latitude 30 N. and longitude, 60 W, a raft (bolted) , apparently made on board a first-class steamer. Two days afterwards he passed several dead bo lies clothed in white jampers. Apart from the fact that the Rcotia Queen has travelled over tha track the Atalanta would be supposed to.tal-e in her return home from the West Indies, the " white jumpers " will probably be regarded as conclusive proof that the bodies were those of men belonging to one of her Mdjpsty's ships. This dress, we believe is the peculiar characteristic of the Royal navy. The Claud Hamilton and other steamers are now ruunin^^t«toeen Melbourne and Sydney. ThjriHH^KbP miles, is done at the ftllomn£;|fl|HHHH^£l, steerage 10s. This is Boni|iH^^HHp!e New Zealand The n|i]i "flfilliHlfy of '110I 10 vessels of all nationalities, witn Tnoir cargoes, lost d uring the year 1879 was no less than £25,500,000, including British property £19 230,000. The grand total number of wrecks reported was 1688, which, compared with the total at the end of 1878, shows an increase of 94. British owned ships numbered 833, and those of all flags wrecked on the coasts of the British Isles were 425. The registered tonnage aggregated upwards of 859,C00 tons, inclusive of 170 stpam vessels, mostly owned in the United Kingdom. About 5000 lives were lost, about 150 vessels were lost through collision, and about 40 through fire. A sad-looking man went, into a Burlington drug store, " Can you give me," he asked, •' something that willdriye from my mind the thoughts of sorrow and bitter recollections ?" And the druggist nodded and put him up a little dose of quinine, and wormwood, aiMJL rhubarb, and epsom salts, and a dash of! castor oil, and gave it to him, and for six months the man couldn't think of anything" in the world except new schemes for getting the taste out of his mouth. %£k&.