The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 October 1880, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1880.

An adjourned meeting of the Eace Committee will be held this evening, at at 8 30* o'clock. We remind the public that the post* poned entertainment in aid cf the hospital funds will be held to-morrow evening, in Dawaon's Hall. Should the weather prove fine the Societies will no doubt hold their torch-light procession, which cannot fail to lend additional attraction to the occasion. We elsewhere publish the promised letter from Mr P. Stewart, from Arizona. The receipt of the letter has caused great excitement throughout tbe Inangatraa, and several residents htve already made up their minds to depart, Mr Stewart being so well known her*}, and his long experience in this district as mine and battery manager fully qualifies him to express an opinion upon tbe resources of tbe great region io which hp has cast his fortune, and hence it is that the information he furnishes finds snob general credence. We leave the letter to speak for itself. Arigon, lies in 33 North latitude, and is distant about 1100 mile* from San Francisco. The journey is made by rail to Utah, and thence 400 miles into the interior, partly by rail, and thence by mule train. The territory, about which little or nothing is as yet known, covers tbe enormous area of 400 by 300 miles. In 1876 the. population was 32,000 In* dians and 9000 whites, or a little more than a fourth of a European for each Red-skin. The consumption of whites by the Indians, howeyer, has not been quite so great of late years as it used to be in the good old days, although corpulent, well-fed Europeans are still in active demand. ; The business in the Magistrate's Court yesterday was very meagre, and of, Bmall public interest The Warden's Court occupied some time, but beyond a few formal applications, the proceedings were devoid of interest* Tbe Golden Treasure Company cleaned*, up on Wednesday last, with a result of close upon 6004 of gold for the fortnights crusbing. In consequence of tbe flooded state of the rivers yesterday there were no mail arrivals from either tbe north or south. Tbe present season bids to be the most prolific yet known in the Inangahua for tbe fruit crop. Gooseberries in particular promise to attain unprecedented abundance, but by a most ill provision of nature the birds are quite as numerous as the gooseberre?, in fact, it is doubted if there will be enough of the fruit to go round, and to prevent the possibility of anything so disastrous as a famine amongst the feathered tribe, a number of benevolent crap»owne?s throughout the i district are scattering poisoned grain. At a meeting of the direotors of tbe We'come Company, held last night, the tender of A, Sangster was accepted for j completion of tbe erection of the WeN come bittery, the price being £460, The only other tender in was that of Edward Long. The following is the letter- faun Mr Dai Id Stewart, to which we referred in our last igxue, and which has been kindly placed at our disposal by Mr J. B. Walsh :— " Tombstone, Pima County, Arizona, July 18tb, 1880. My dear old Friend,- 1 am sure you will be wondering at my long silence ; but I suppose " better lt.te than n<»ve»," and I did not wan to write you until I had a good look at this great counlrv. You will see by the heading of ibis that I am in the great territory of Arisona, and no doubt but i* is a great place, and i you have received all the papers I sent you from her*, you must be pretty well posted up about the place. However, more of it further on. We all of us arrived in San Francisco on the 22nd of April, and remained there for seven days to reoruit, during which time I was busy trying to find out tbe beet place to eteer for, Mexico would not do 5 all the news we beard from tbtt* was bunkum. Colorado was quiet, and Arizona was the bpst thing on the board* So, on the 29 h we all of as shaped our course by the South Pacific rail for Tombstone, Arizona, and arrived here on the 2nd of May. Mrt) Stewart and the little one bore out tbe whole journay in first-dies style, This place is about 40 n.iles from the N.E. border of Old Mexico and about 30 miles from the S.W. borders of New Mexico, and ia the greatest place for mineral I have ever gepn. und principally silver, gold, and copper, As soon as I arrived hero I had to get up a hou'e, and it was no eupy matter to secure a section to build upon, but at lust 1 was fortunnte to secure one on the earner of Alan and Ninth^stroets. Allan-street at present ia ou principal street, and our house will very Boon be in tbe middle of it, the town is growing so fast. I dare say this place ig now afcoftt a

large as Greymouth, aud twelve months ago there was only one houw in the place, and Sunday and Saturday you hear nothing but the hammer And *aw. Carpenters here get six dollars per day, but timber cannot be got— you have almost to fight for it, A good blacksmith like poor old Tweedy could get «nr money ho liked to ask. Horse and mule shoeing if a great trade here, and a good blacksmith i« not in the place. There is any amount of teams here with 16 and 20 mules j in eaoh team— J Ußt th!nk of 20 muleß ia one team going through your Broadway with their 2 tons of ore, and mind you they are going day and night, as the mills are 10 miles from the mines, and ore is worth four dollars per ton to haul to the mill. So far, we have only two batteries up, but they are each turning out there lOO.OOOdoIf. per month of silver and gold— these mills belong to two mines, and they only crash for themselves, but there is another 20-head going up, which is to be a custom mill, and aleo a 10-head mill on the samo lay— so things are going to be lively soon. The greatest drawback to this place is the want of water, and you hate to buy every drop at two cents per gallon. Do you know there fs only one river in Arizona that finds its way to the eeaj I think this is the driest country in the world •■still the mineral to here and rich, and pays to cart a ioog distance. I have seen ore here almost j>ure silver, and I have seen ore going 12,061M015. per ton, and 7000, and the mine I am working in has ore going lOOOdols. per ton. Since I have been here I have no reason to complain I have had any amount of work at 130dols. per month, and I am one of three that owns a mine about 19 miles from here, its located in the Degroon Mountains, a camp that promises to outdo this place in richness. One of my partners is a practical sssayer and is at work on it just now, but will be hew in 20 days when I will know more about it— we have the ledge, and so far, , all looks well, and I think I will make a ! start out of it before long. Now for oor climate, if any one tells you that its hot you can believe him, don't contradict him if he should call it a fryiug-pan, but if he should say its unhealthy be lies, for there to little or no slekness in the Territory. Still, my dear Jack, yon would not believe how hot it is. The ol J ordinary barometer is no use here, and if a person really wants to know the beat he must dig out a telegraph pole, and place his mercury therein, but still I have not heard of one single ease of sunstroke. The mines are delightful to work in, and the mornings and evenings are really delightful. I have never been in a place that I like so well, and I think I oould very nearly say the same for Mrs Btewart, only she misses her old friends Mrs Walsh and Mrs Lee, and poor Mrs Edwards, and I fancy if she bad them here she would have all she wants. Young Donald has not been very well for some time past but is growing fast, and is speaking nicely, but Mrs Stewart is going to write by this mail to Mrs Waleb, and will most likely give her all particulars. As for myself, I only miss one thin?, and that is a good trustworthy mate, one I oould depend upon, for- this to the place to make money. I could not stay out prospecting for any length of time owing to the family, and every one strangers around, and this to a pretty lawless place, the pistol and knife to often hauled out here, but prospecting is the great game here. It is a splendid country to prospect, there being no bush— all you want to a donkey to pack your food and water, and yon don't want any olotbing. The ledges are all found cropping out on the surface, you get good prospects, and then sell the lot. The Eastern capitalist buys as fast as you can find them and everything seller according to the assay, and whole mines goe front" 600dol«. up to 160 OOOdols., but it is hard for a new chum to extinguish the ores, in fact he must take lessons upon it before ha goes out. If Reef* ton is still as dull as when I left it, I think you ought to leave it too, if you only went to Auckland, it is a much better place than Beefton was, or if you think of coming here let me know at once, this will be the place in a short time and for years to come. It is only in its infancy yet. I hope you get the papers I send you, for they will post you up much, better than my poor pen can do. f would like well to get a letter from you, and be sure to send me some Boefton papers. You won't hear from me again till I re* ceive your letter. I will write to John M'Gaffin netf mail—remember me kindly to him, and I am sure if he was here he would seen make his fa-tune at storeiraping or hotel business. The Beefton men need not be the least bit afifraid of the smart Yankee business man, for the half of them would be nowhere alongside of some men I know in Beefton. Rememtwir me to undaunted M #t## , and if there U a pWe in the world that would suit him this is the place, and he would suit it ; I just fancy I see him herd. Make it your business to call on old 3. Dankf, and give him and Mrs Banks our kindest love, and that we are all as happy as happy can be, and I only wish he had bis Empire Hotel here, and it would do something for thorn. Let me know when you write how they are getting on. Now my dear old boy, I think I better stop, and you write at once and let us know your intentions, for I can assure you there is no one in the world we would sooner see here than you and Mrs Walsh, but if you are comfortable and doing well, I would not advise, as there is many hard* ships to go through before you come here. Will always drop you a line if you only write to us. Give D. Mitchell the news, and with kindest love to Mrs Walsh, believe me, clear boy. yours truly— D. StkWART " From a case of polished kauri now on view in the shop of Mr Jewell, cabinetmaker, Hereford atreet (says the LyHelton Times), lookn forth the head of the gallant old raceboree, Templeton. The case also contains two of the hoofs which have so often brought Fob Bay to the front. The work of the tasider-: mist has been well done, and no doubt numbers of people will avail themselves of the opportunity to look o»ce more at their old favorite,

Sir Arthur Gordon (snys the Melbourne Argus) will be able to quit Fiji with the consciousness that b» was stamped M be, desired to do. «• deeper impression on at ..laMP a small corner of the world than if,tn^%^ many a man who is better known *ioM)m wider in a field." We trust that bis <*reei« in New Zealand will be equally wrtcessful. He will there have to deal with quittions involving larger interests, Bavißg more consequences j but under a constitutional form of government his wsponsibility will in many j respects be less difficult to endure than when ■.Iministering the affairs of a Crown colony of another type. j The Thames Star says t— Climatic influence on family beauty is singularly marked in New Zealand. In Auckland the pale, Blender, dehcate type predominates, and the ■tamp of beauty gets more robust as we journey Southward, until in Otago tho sonsie rabby, two-hundred poand lassie has it all her own way. There are various changes rumored in the various Resident Magistrates of the colony. The Lake Wakatip Mall says :— •' Government have commenced the proposed changes in the Judicial Department of the Otago Goldfields. Mr Warden Stratford leaves the Wakatipu for Ashburton in about a week, and It it rumored that Mr Nugent Wood, ona of the oldest goMfieWs wardens, will leave Riverton to preside over the Courts in this •nd the Dunstan district Major Keddell of Clyde, being removed to Weetland. A publio meeting has been called at Arrowtown for Saturday, to consider Mr Stratford's removal." It has also been reported that Messrs Wood and Stratford will retire from the servioe with compensation, and that tbeir district* will be annexed to others." We are not aware to what portion of Westland Major Keddell will be removed, but we suppose Eeefton. Another chpnge is notified according to the Lyttelton Times as follows .— " The petition askin* the Minister of Justice to allow Mr Guinness, the present Resident Magistrate, to remain in Ashburton has been yery largely signed by the principal business people and residents throughout theOounty, and will be forwarded to tbe bead of tbe department in few days. The Legal gentleman resident in Timaru and Temuka have also taken in hand a similar petition, which, wo hear, will also be largely signed. Mr Guinness has received instructions to retire from his position as Resident Magistrate at Ashburton or accept a similar position at Collingwood, at a salary of £225 per annum. We have received the following note from our Wellington political correspondent :— " As I am laivin' to*day for Kawau, I inclose ye a cart-to-visit ay Sir George, another ay Mac. another ay Jay See Brown, an' one o* me own . I want ye to get them litby-graffed on the cover o f me book. Yell notis that Fam Baited at tbe head o' the table, dhressed in me ooort shuit, wid me former collaiges, houlding a cow-oass at me offls on the Kay. Tell the artist to have the sketch printed in four colours, red, white, brown, an' green, wid me crests in the comers, an* faiths of shamrocks round tbe edges.— Yours, F. Murphy." We have complied with our talented contributor's request, and the' cover of the Budget will be a very artistic one.— Public Opinion. In tbe House of Commons re tbe Indian expenditure, , Lord Hartington severely denounced tbe late Government for their neg'i« gence in preparing the War Estimates, and underestimating not only the expenses but the difficulties of tbe enterprises. Of the deficit, he said that 8,500,000 remains to be covered this year. A loan had already been authorised for productive works, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to this pur« pose. It was also intended to reduce the drawings in India on Home account by about £1,000,000. If these measures were insufficient a loan might be raised in India, but no addition to the Indian debt would be made if it were possible to avoid it. A statement regarding tbe Imperial contribution to the war expenses in India must bo deferred until the complete cost of the war was fully ascertained ; but the war being clearly the result of the Imperial policy, assistance to India from the Imperial resources was necessary.