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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 25 August 1880, Page 2

His Honor Judge Wesfon was a passenger from Greymouth by coach Jast evening, and the sitting of the District Court will open at 10 o'clock this morning. Our Lyell correspondent writes as follows ; — The flood has done comparatively very little damage to the main road between Ueefton and the boundary, except during out the approaches to Boatman's Crpek. The Inangahua and Bullor Rivers rose about 30ft ot Inangahua Junction, submerging portions of the main road to a depth of sft. The up mail coach, which loft Wfstport last Fridny, has been detained by the flood at the Junction. The Greymouth coach last night brought a full complement of passengers, amongst the number being his Honor Judga Weston, Mr 8. M. South, Crown Prosecutor; Mr A. R. Guinness, solicitor v 1 the members of the O'arandini Operat . npinr. Patrick Dougherty" a well known Rsefton resident, died yesterday morning, at the ripe a<»e of 90 years. The funeral will talie place to-day, at 3 o'clock. In the Housf of Representatives on Mon - dny last the Local Government Rating Bills were proposed to be withd-awn. The Govornment intend to pay one-half the subsidies for the remaining nine months of the year. Mr Brennan will hold a sale of fat cattle at Brazil's farm to-morrow at 1 o'clock. There will be no . town delivery of letters from the local post office for about ten days, owing to Mr Cochrane having been ordered to Greymouth to temporarily perform the duty there. Some consternation was occasioned at the Lyell on Saturday la?t, by the carrying away during the flood of Sullivan's punt, on the Buller Ttiver. Tho standards of the cro-s wire gave way when the punt was in the middle of tbe stream, and the whole concern, with a crew of ihree men went sai'iiig down tbe Obn. The accident wis watched by n large number of persons who. however, were powerless to rcudei' any tißswfance. Tho v'lvcv was rui'<ni':g 20'fc nbove i'>e or iiu.-i-y lcvt'l at the time, so that the position urny be

imagined. The castaways made frantic ges« tureu for nsßsia^anco, but were borne down two mileß before they could bo rescued. It is notified that jurors in the cjvil coses will not be required at the District Court until Thursday, 26 li inst-ant. at 10 o'clock. Abscsjoi'3 in the case of Crowley v. Golden Treasure Company will not be required until Friday, 27th insr., et 10 o'clock a.m. . The Carandini company made their appearanre last night, and were greeted with a crowded house. The concert proved a rors treat, and was rapturously applaudrd. It was announced that the compuny wi>l reappear this evening, with au entirely new pargramme. The following will show our readers how the poor tax payer has to pay the piper every time a new loan is floated in the English market, and of which so little corae3 to Westland, viz :— Commission nt half per cent, to the B-ink of England on £5,000,000 should be £25,000 instead of £2500. Commission at quarter per cent on £4.748,000 allowed to Broker by the bank of England should be 11,870 instead of £1 871. Commission at one(•ig'ifh per cnt to Crown Aden's Department on the 5 000.000 is the only item correct, £0250. Commission at one-ei^th por c?nt to Sir J. P. Julyan, £6250, inßtend of £650. And for services rendered by Messrs J. and A. Scrimgour, £2500* which, we suppose, is correct, or a grand total of £50,870, instead of £12,771. as per Loan Agents account. In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr Wright; one of the Roy;il foinmis?ioners on railways, in the course of his remarks in reply to Mr Pyke's amendment said : — " Mr Seddon had civ rged the Commission with not having taken any erdenaa in Hokitiko, but that was not the case — tbe question of the divergence of the railway line from Hokitika to the Orey was thoroughly gone'into. He had heard of rotten borough a but in Westland he had spen such boroughs for the first time; and these were ths place 3 they were complained asninst for not having recommended railway communication, and so, when they arrived at Greymouth, the mnfynates of the place were not prepared to give evidence. The next day, however they could get up to 11 a.m He denied' that they ever attempted to delegate their outhotily in that place to otherß to take evidence " After commenting on various other works Mr Wright continued — "He thought that ihe Minister of Public Works had not sufficiently explained many of his proposals. He mentioned the very large sum of money proposed to bs spent on the Eawa— kawa line. It whs tho more necessary that they should have had explicit information as to the data of this work, seeing that a distinguished member of the Executive was personally interested in the work. The es'imated cost by Mr Blai>\ of the Greymouth Harbor Works was £600,000, and Judging from the estimates msde by that gentleman in connesiion with other works, the prob* ability was that the cost would be very much, more. Ho took it 'that that expenditure was whpljy unjustifiable," The following quotations from a letter re* ceiyi d from New Zenlnnd appears in a recent issue of the London Times .—We are passing through a terrible commercial panic. Never have mercantile affairs been at so low an ebb as at the present moment. " The country is over head and ears in djbt- Fancy, the present debt of Colony is over thirty-five millions sterling. . . . The distress fimonz the working classes is something fear* ful, while the bare necessaries of l'fo are nt a price which is most exorbitant. I would like you, for humanity's sake to make some quotations from my letter on this subject, and make public through your English newspapers the true state of the caso, warning the small capitalists at Home of tha danger they run by disposing of their small homesteads in England and coining out to New Zealand. The labor market is glutted to excfss, distress and misery ara staring one in the face at nil quorter9 There aro continual meetings of new arriva's held ; and the authorities are urged to give them work Digress, poverty, and crime are caused by ths country being flooded by these arrivals. This debt on the Colonies (ovi>r thirty five millions) renders the taxes on the head of every adult very heavy. Taxation is beinc; fult acutely, and I trust no nppeal will have to be made to you at Home far pecuniary help, as has been tho ease with our sister island. In writing "on the way the federation of the Colonies could bo oompis'ed," the Duke of Manchester, in the Victorian Eeview, points out that Canada has just taken an im» portant and decisive step. She has appointed a Cabinet Minister to reside in London ; ho will be in constant communication with the Ministers of Great Britiin, especially in reference to the npjrotiation of treaties of commerce. If all the Colonies were similarly represented in London, it would' only require that their Ministers should bo empowered tn vote supplies for the Army anH Navy, and^ Tmperi il federation would be nceompii-lied. The Minister' in London (Hone and Coloniiil) would decide w'>ere E-iglnnds 1 * tit-fence commences." The Army and Navy would then be Imperial being p^iid for by tho while Empire. When the Colonies contribu'e to the expense of the Army anl Navy, they will have a voice in deciding when and how th"y are to ba employ cd. From the Ciipe Times of the Ist July we extract the following :— That AuMra'ia should contribute towards the populating of South Africa ia a singular episode in the history of our colony. The Northumberland, which arrived in Table Bay yester Jay, 'brings over 100 passengers who have come from Australia to try their fortunes at the Cape. They are mostly golddiggers, who, finding golddigging in Austrnlunot so remunerative to the poor man as in tho d.iys of old, hi re been led fo como«to como to the Cape hy the news that goldfields have been d'sfwared her-. We do not. k<i'>w on \vh it repres^rar.ions they were induced t-> comic to South A'ric-;, but a i-ft'scnger by the No' thiunberlinid fisiuim? v* that. Ihiv aive of a r.l iss who mike 0.-pitivl coluiiais, for t'icy are pwpar.ul lo Ao other work besjdes -oliKli^ing. Wo Must

that this is so, for if these people were golddiggers, and nolhirg elre. thpy <\re likely to be disappointed on Ih«?ir iirrivul. We may tell them that up to the present time the goldfields of South Africa have not been a success. A ffw people have managed to live at Pilgrim's Rest in the Transvaal, and there is a confident belief of paying goldfleUls existing in this lund. But they have yet to be discovered. There is however, the satisfaction of knowing that any man of industrious find steady habits can at all time* make morf than his living at the Cape of good Hope. By the«way. when Sir Arthu" Gordou took possession of Fiji, he found the land sharks had endeavoured to reap a nice little harvest at the expense- of the innocent Islanders. One smart individual had a deed drawn up conveying certain lands *o him for an old fowling piece. The Fijian chief hadn't studied mathematics to nny extent, and there - fore he signed an agreement to the following effect : — Two points. A aid B, were to be taken for the sea shore, five miles apart, and purchaser was to have all the land from and between the two smarting points, A and B, to the spit at which the two parallel points might meet. Not a bad move, but Sir Arthur did not see it. — Christcnurch Star. !