The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, SEPT. 13, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 13 September 1880, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, SEPT. 13, 1880.

His Honor Judge Williams sat in banco at the Supreme Court, Hokitika, on Thursday last, when the case of Martin t. Brennan was called on. Thiß was an appeal from a decision of the Resident Magistrate at Reeiton. The appeal arose under the following circumstances : Shortly after the foi'« inatipn of the New Independent Company Dr. Martin, a shareholder, lodged at the office of the company, through his agent, Mr John M'Graffin, a form transferring bis shares to the company. The directors, however, being considerably in debt, had previously passed a resolution prohibiting the manager of the company, Mr Brennan. from registering any transfers until such lime as the debts of the company were paid off. The transfer was, however, left at the office, but the directors ignored it, and Dr. Martin was sued for calls subsequently made, and the Magistrate upheld the right of the, directors to recover by giving judgment for the amount, claimed. Agaiust this decision Dr. Martin appealed on the grounds that the resolution of the company so passed was ultra vires, and tLat no objection having been taken to the transfer at the time of lodgement, it did not lie with the directors to repudiate it. After bearing argument his Honor allowed the appeal with costs. The New Zealand Times understands that further reductions in the Judicial Department will follow the retirement of Mr Bathgate from the District Judgeship of Dunedin. There is alco to be a concentration where practicable of the work of Resident Magistrates, in order to lessen the number of employed. The schooner Alma is now safely moored at the Greymoulh wharf, having unexpectedly floated from her position on the be~oh w.Hh the action of the tide alone. The memorandum of association of the Inangiihua Low Level Company was returned from Greymouth on Saturday last, and in the evening a meeting of the provisional com. mittee was held at Mr Wise's office, when a sub-committee was appointed to act with the manager and empowered to proceed at onco wiih the registration of the company. Thi' memorial will be publish in oar columns in the course of a day or two. On Saturday lust Mr Q-. C. Bowman fold by publio auction, ihrmijh Mr Join M'G-.-iffin the pren i?e3 in the oceupution of Mi- J. YjA), and adjoining slioo. The fttlnnl-nn.-e whs =mall and the lot wis knocked down at £118, ?•!> J. Cliing being tha purchaser The United Alpine (Jompany shows nnother good return for the past week's milling, the returns being 3700z of amalgam from 145 to'is, from th,9 top plates only. The b.rdiin was not worked ln-fc week, a* it h undergoing repairs, anil this makes a difference of quite. 20(>z in the returns. The berdan will be set going to-day. In ad litii'ii to the relatively enormous sum which Reifton annually contributes to the multitudinous colonial and intercolonial racing 3wecp9, a genileman leaving here in » few days for Melbourne hns commissions from private friends amounting to several hundreds sterling, for investment in the various evenjs, on the Cup. A company with a large subscription list has also been formed to speculate in Miller's mammoth Melbourne sweep on the V.TI C. Summer Meeting. Who dare say that Reefton does not contribute towards the improvement of the breed of horses ? We elsewhere publish t!:e programmo of th-j fy.rrhciming concert in aid of the hospital funds. We have been requested to sta'e that practices will be held in Dowson's Hill on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening?, at 8 o'clock sharp. In view of the great interest which at the present time centers in the operations of the "Golden Fleece mine, our reporter visited the company's works, and in our next issue will givs a full repovt upon the mho.

Tho contractors for tho sinking of the main shaft for the Keep-k-DarJc Company expect to finish their distance, 150 ft. in the course of a fortnight. Holders of United Alpine fhares are now demanding 30s for scrip. There h-is been a very active demand for shares during the past week, and the interest thus evoked has had a tendency to draw off attention from local mines for the time being. Patrick Costigan, late of Reefton, is re : ported by Sydney papers to hand to be one of the parties on gold at Temora. Tenders ore invited by the Just-in-Time . Company for the supply of £4.000 ft of sawn timber. Tenders close on the 18th instant. There will be a sitting of 'the Licensing Court on -Thusday nexf, at noon. There is one application for a new license for premises at Black's Point, and tlwe applications fo? confirmation of permanent transfers. We ore glad to be able to report that as the driving in the Cnledoniun mine approaches the line of reef the indien f ionß improve, During the past week wut-rbos been flowing freely from the face, which is a good indication of the proximity of stone. The directors will probably visit the mine during the week. Marr, who was injured some time ago in the Welcome work?, is still an inmate of the T?eefton hospital, but is rapidly. approaching towards recovery. He is, we believe, the only patient in the institution. Nearly sixteen thousand pounds worth of alluvial gold is shown by the Warden's Report to have been produced in tho Inangahua last year, and this, taking tho number of men engaged in the occupation, must be regarded as a highly satisfactory result. We venture to say that the average' earnings of alluvial miners here will compare very favorably with that of any other alluvial field in the Colony. There "is, however good reason to believe that the Warden's report very greatly understates the actual alluvial pros duct ion of our district. There is no question whatever that much of the gold obtained in this County finds itf way to the credit of tho adjoining Coun'ies. This is a serious misfortune to the local body, and it is one which behoves the Council to find out a speedy remedy for. However, the figures, even as they stand serve to show the importance of fostering the industry, for there is no doubt it is capable of great expansion. The Dean of Carlisle, preaching in the Carlisle Cathedral recently, said that if the " fools " who " said in their hearts there is no God " said it only to their hearts, he did not wish to meddle with them. Let them seek their own way to perdition ; but if they epoke the same, if they wrote it, printed it, nnd circulated it, religious liberty ceased to be liberty and the Christian religion could not tolerate it. He hoped the event which had recently occurred might arouse the people to their danger. Infidelity was creeping in a thousand ways, and G-od had permitted them to be startled with this hideous form of it in order to rouse them to a sense of their danger. Could a man who denied the Bible become a senator or make laws for a Christian people ? He did trust there would arise the,re and elsewhere petitions to the House of Commons that it would not remove any of the barriers that now exist calculated to keep out an infidel — that it would not abolish another path, As the Queen reigned by virtue of an oatb, and tho Constitution was built on it, and loyalty to the £|ueen grew out of it, so their loyalty would be undermined and the throne shaken if they admitted into the councils of the nation a blaspheming infidel. At Wellington an inquiry is going on into the way things are managed in the hospital, at which Ko=e Hamilton, a nurse stated she had seen the matron druni; at least once every three weeks since (witness) had been in the hospital, which was about 18 montl s She had frequently eeen the matron and steward (Mr Mngill) drinking brandy together in the sugary. The Matron also used to drink a portion of the porter intended for the patients, and make up the complement by putting the bottles under the water tap. The witness stated that on another occasion she saw the matron take a man-of-war sailor round the neck and take him into her room. Another witness, a warder, said sometimes the n.aron h-id visitors from tho country and then she would ask MngiU for oomo drink. Nfagill would reply, " Oh, I can't do it, you krow," upon which she would gently put him on the shoulder, and then he had to ;:ive way. Thei-o used to be an old soldier in Ihn hospital. He was a pensioner, and got his money once a quarter. On quarter days he used to be n'lowcd to lr-nvo (he hospital ■■iid go s.nd h.-ive a " burst." which lin hoimm— silly Kept, up for about a week, to tho annoyance of the patients. The schooner Alma hoi become a total wreck nt Grrymonlh. She is owned by n company of West-port merchants, and, wo understand, U insured for £"2000. The West Coast i-> shortly to he honored by the visit of a Cabinet Minister, the. lion. Mr Eolleston has stated his intention of visiting this portion of the colony at an early date. News has been received that h^avy gold has been struck at Fagan's Crc-k. Seventeen Mils Beach Prospects »re hull dvt to the dish. A ru9h has sot \a, and much excitement is prevailingUnder the JJew regulations the judgment and hearing fees of any causes in Court haw to be paid when the cause is heard, not tit. the time of taking out the summons as hmtofore. Therefore, suitors will hive to be prppared with all the necessity fees. O'Conor. the Timani pedesfr : an, walk d, fair toe and heel stride, 7 miles 154 yards on Saturday, in 58 miuutCß 30 seconds— doing the seventh mile in seven minutes twenty one seconds. A gentleman who has ju*t arrived in Auckland after a visit to the new rush at Temoni. Ts,S.W., do-ires to warn persons nsr-ii'ist- coins there. ITo says there are nlready 10,000 people on the ground, and that the place is completely ovoHon. 1 . On liu> roll oi' J.P.'a for the co'ony tlurc

are 10 Souths, 10 Wilsons, 9 Browns. 9 Campbells, 9 Johnsons, 7 Mauknys, while a number of other names are represented by 5 eich. A. resident in Grey mouth, who is well informeJ, and ir.siy be regarded as a reliable authority, writing to a friend in Nelson Bays: — "An authentic report was received yestei'uny of very goo 1 cold being got far up the ranges between the head of the Black Ball and Ten Mile Creeks, running from the range seaward. This is the terra incognita of past, year?, and the discovery is solely the result of the findings nt the Seventeen Mile Beach. Ail the country from Moonlight across to Razor Buck, and all the bsck country clown to Charleston will now be thoroughly prospected. The last find is near 11 Roaring Meg," to approach which demands acrobatic qualifications of the highest order." The country referred to is of v«?ry contklprable extent, and, should the report mentioned prove correct, it is likely thut the auriferous deposits will not ba confined to the locality where they are said to have been found, but will be ppread over the whole nrea between the Seventeen Mile Beech and Charleston, which is some thirty or forty miles in length and from four to five in width. The Antiquary says thut before the crowns of England and Scotland were united under James 1,, the fljg carried by English ships wns white, with the red cross of St. George emblazoned on it ; and that hoi3ted on board the ships of Scotland was blue, with the cross cf St. Andrei? on it; the red lines of the first being perpendicular ami horizontal, those of the liitter diagonal. Sone differences having arisen r .bet ween the ships of tho two countries, Ilia Majesty, to prevent this in luture, and to teach his people that they formed ono nation, ordained that a new flag should bo adopted, having the cross of St. George interlaced with that^of St. Andrew on the blue gvound of the fla^ of Scotland. All ships were to carry it at the main-masNhead, but the English ships ware to display the St. George's red cross at their sterns, and the Scottish that of St. Andrew. On April 12ih, IGO6, the Union Jack was first hoisted at sea but it is not. till the Parliamentary union of the two countries in 1707 that it w.iß adopted as Hie military flag of Great Britain. Both services "there ore, now use it as the national banner.