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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 8 September 1880, Page 2

The news concerning tbe Temora rush has it appears agitated the minds of several persons in Reefton, who only await the first atom of confirmatory news to strike camp and be off. It is of course useless to attempt to say anything to dissuade miners from set (ing out upon such an errand. Miners ore well able to calculate their own chances in matter* of this kind, and do not as a rule allow newspaper admonitions to influence them to any extent in framing their programme. As a matter of opinion, however, we do not hesitate to say that there are many square miles of alluvial country in the Inangahuu County offering higher inducements to miners than can be hoped for by those who go from here to Temora. Take one instanca of this. There are now twenty parties of miners permanently set in at the Alfred riven and a miner who has just returned from there informs us that the whole of the men are on gold, and ha>e sluicing claims that will give them profitable work for years to come. It is all sluicing ground, and the area we are informed is unlimited. We elsewhere advertise the tenders for tbe various mail services affecting the Inarigahua district. It will be seen that tenders are invited for a two or four horse coach service between Greymouth and Keefton, twice weekly and thrice weekly. A telpgram to the Westport Times states that tenders will be called for the Reeffon-Westporfc servioe by coach or horse, weekly and twice weekly. Reefton and Boatmann's, twice weekly and thrice weekly; Inangahua Junction and Lyell, twice weekly. Some repairs being needed to the waterwheel, the Fiery Cross Company will not start crushing before- Monday next. Our Lyell correspondent writes :— The United Alpine sent down to Westport on Monday, 6ih instant, 84.20z of gold, being the result of about three weeks' crushing. The company are fitting on new shoes on the stampers, which will necessitate a stoppage of crushing for a few days. The Committee of tbe Church of England have decided to hold a bazaar in aid of the Church funds, in Dawson's Hall, during the forthcoming Christmas holidays, The sitting of the Licensing Court fixed for yesterday was adjourned. It is stated that Mr J. Petrie, of^he Greymouth Star, contemplates starting an evening paper at Res?. In the course of the debate on public works Mr Seddon said:—! am not satisfied with our local government on its present basis. I feel satisfied that this country is labouring under a difficulty ; and we must do our best to get it out of that difficulfy. When we take into consideration the large amount of money leaving the country every year, the heavy cost of administration, and the fast that one-third of the male popu'ation his to support the other two»thii-ds and their belongings, we mu*t see that the colony cannot go on as it is at present. We find thut a million and a half is going out of the colony every year for interest on our debt 5 'that another million and a half is going out of the country for interest on the loins of local bodies and mortgages ; that half a million a year is spent for administrative changes of the various local bodies; that one million is spent in governing the colony, and half a million 'v providing for education } that nothing is manufactured in the colony, and all our raw materials are exported and brought back again in a manufactured state. So long as that condition of things lasts we cannot expect to be prosperous. Ido trust that when we have the Local Industries Commission's report before us they will endeavor to point out something in the direction I am now indicating. Our sold fields and local industries are our last resource, and, if they do not receive that encouragement to which they are entitled, then the sooner a man leaves this co'ony the bettor it will be for him. I claim the indulgence of tho House for the length of my remarks, but I fr!t that I was bound to speak my mind, and that it was ns well I should do it now I s'lall assist the Government in every way I possibly osra to do what I consider to be just and fair to all parts of the colony under the present adverse circumstances. I, for one, will say that, while there Ims not been a finality about the proposals of the Minister for Public Works', still I believe that with all its defcts, liia Statement is an honest Statement. Mr Charles Bradliugh. the Radical member for Northampton, who recently created puch a sensation in the House of Commons by preferring a request to make an affirmation in lieu of the usual oath of allegiance to the Queen, does not appear to be without his friends nnd sympathisers even in this distant corner of the globe. The outgoing mail of tins month conveys to Mrßradlau^h a letter signed by several residents of Ne'son, expressive of their esteem and goodwill, applauding tbe unflinching manner in which he upholds the cause of religious and political freedom, and congratulating him upon the victory he has achieved in the matter of the oaths question. The letter is accompanied with a bank draft for the substantial sum of £24, to assist Mr Bradlaugh iv prosecuting malicious persons, who. since they cannot controvert his arguments, scruple not to have recourse to libel. A further sum, , amounting to several pound?, was forwarded at the same time in aid of tlie National Secular Society, of which Mr Baadlaugh is President — Colonist. The system of conveyance in the Colony is of tbe pimplest descriutioi. Titles are put under the Lund Transfer Act with ease and

little expense. They are then guaranteed against all dispute by the Government, which has an assurance fund for the purpose. However, the basis of title has always been registration, and mnny people are satisfied without the guarantee. During the year 1879 the transfers under tho Aafc comprised 6124. acres town and suburban land, and 924,225 acres country land, for which the purchase money had been £2.644,<t55. Mortgages to the amount of £3.948,546, were also brought under the Act. It appears that the Germans are really pursuing their anti-Jewish crusade with oil their accustomed thoroughness. It is difficult to pronounce whether the spectacle is most lumentabk or ridiculous. We have just seen a pamphlet which, though at first Bight looking like a j>ke, is by no mtans intended us 6uch by its authors, This is the Statutes of tbe AnLi-Semitic Leagues." Its purport is to save Germany from entire judiflcafcion (Vt'ijudung). This result is to be obtained by means of clubs consisting of non-Semitic Germans, who are to wage an energet ; o struggle to free the land from this foreign plague. All private interest aro to be put in the background by the members. wliO3e one aim and obj ct is to be to render Germany habitable to their descendants. They mean to do thia by hindering Jewish immigration ; by preventing Jews irom multiplying (how tbis is to be effected the statutes do cot state) ; by agitating against their occupying any public posts, thus grasping from the true Teuton that which alone belongs to him and his children; by preaching their doctrines over (he length and bieadth of the land ; by assisting, pecuniarily or otherwise, all who desire to compete with Jews in all positions of life ; by combating the Jewish Press ; by founding non-Jewish journal?, by forming Clubs from which Jews are excluded. All decisions made in the Cluhs are to be strictly secret ; and it is thus hoped to introduce a modern from of the Vehmgericbt. A similar league has also been found in Hungary. At the conc'udon of judgment summons case in the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. Mr Shaw gave a ruling with reference to a question raised in Court last week, viz,, is tbe defei dant to a judgment summons entitled to his travelling .expenses before ho can be compelled (o attend Court for the purpose of being examined ns to his ability to discharge a debt ? His Worship referred to a decision of Mr Justice Williams on the subject, the learned Judge ruling that such a defendant is in the position of a witness, and is consequently entitled to his expenses j and he (Mr Shaw) 'ound that it was almost universal in the colony that when a defendant's evidence was requisit to prove the plaintiffs case he becomes a witness in the Court, and before an order could be made for contempt for non-appearance it was necessary to be shown that such a defendant had been paid his expenses.