THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 8 October 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1880.

FrEiKiNG upon the question of the proposed removal of Judge Wesson, the Duller News *ays ,— " Prom what we onderstand is »t present the decision of tlie Government, it is not their iijten'ion to remove Mr District Judge W"ston to nnother district or inr-reaso his duties in this, but to dispense with his services altogether, and at a very short notice compel him to seek the necessary means of ejis»en/ce the test way he can. mic!i » method of procedure is quite uncx ampled in New Zealand io regard to judicial officers, and as far as we know no District Judue has erer been dismissed or compelled to resign wiihout b strong case of misbehaviour being mode against him.. The only analogous | ro. ceeding to which the Government can point to justify their proceeding wa* in Otago pud Westland. when some "Wardens were dispensed with, but these were chiefly young men whose promotion from clerfc ships waa afl hasty as their lemoval from their new honors, bnt even these were nearly all employed again. The peculiar hardship of depriving a man like Judge Wcslon of his appointment is very great. He is not a young man, r*ady and willing to 'win a new practice, and he has probably contracted a habitude as Judge which will not serve him w. 11 in practice at the bar. He relinqu;«lifld a practice in order to become a Judge, and though we do not know ■hat uch practice was ex'ensive, it must at least have been ns lucrative as hi* appointment as Judsie is— the assumed permanence and dignity of the offipe turning the scale with him. But now he has little chance of resuming that practice ns I c l j ft it. He mint look round, a* our American cousins pay, for a fresh location, and practically b^gin life anew at a tini* when he might fairly believe that acive struggle bad censed, and that only calm dignified labour lay before him. It ra<y be that by bis prudence the ohange *i'l not Ml so heavily upon him as it woulr* upon those who have been more incautious, bnt we hare nn right to give weight to this as an argument— it is an entirely private motter. Hard and nn. fair as the treatment may be personally, it is nothing to the very serious wronc that is done to tb* whole system of the administration of justice. At. the present moment, we regret to s«y »!>at «l.c reput,.tinn of those who administer justice stands none too high. For a long lime past there have been doubts expressed whether the people could go before Ju '- ges confidently as against the Government, in any cause, but it only wanted this demonstration of the power of the Government over the judicial Bench to cnn6rm those doubts »"»<> rarest fears. Fortunately, the Supreme G-nrt Ju^es cannot \a remored by any Government of the day, but we have nmr ceen that the Judge* next in rank »n H«ero. nre nt the mercy of tbe'Jabinpt, and dependent upon their good wilt. Tt is in this a#pee» the qnes'ion sliou'd be taken uo. and putting aside bs comrarntiyely of small importance the ir.div'wlmi interests, thf nrincipV of indepeodi-nce of our Jink" s -liotfUl he main' ain.nl. T» U iwsjbi" that the Government may not liw «nns : dored the question in tlvH li:l>'. but «rf c«n hnrdly think it probate thm the Goverm. niPn». among the eons' nnt cbr.ngos o 1 offices. Miruld be »c«a«11y cmpellpd to ertire'y di*m>"« » District Court Judye and not bo nl-'e to rmp>oy him n^v»nfasrous'y. either in other districts or by amalgamating with his Jud-eship other offices."

Ti*e "Fiery Tress Company cienur.d up ' ye^terd.-y,wM*a vieM of 84F<* of \ gold fp-'m 393 ions of stone. Tine I frees the company fiow liability. 1 • ii i

Mr. MtwUi-. the Resident Mnfffatnto in > Off j mouth, has ftled a declaration of his 3 bonkrai^tov. The lin'iili'ipi oC Curl nnd Anderson, pro- '• p. ief ore of the Wellington, Chronicle, Bre '•• s,t»te.-l- I>* be £1.7f'0 ; the rsfp»b are plant, "i ' a.ii'l book debte, ea'iinntpd at £2400. Wp n belieYß th it the pnMf^iitio^ of th<> paper will [ be continued as ueatl, ba f , it is thought, c ■ with a,n eutira change of programme. The >f WeiJin^tan atmosphere appears to be ratlur warm for. West Coaet jourpaHnts. Thaß!enuv»r Albion having beon tempor- \ «rily disabled, the WakaMpu will take her p plare, and is. anuo\m< i ed to leave Qt'eym > r mi uth on or nbput the 21st instant, for Sydi ney a' d HTelhour'-e. At I nt list uifeting of. the Grcymnutli 1 CoutitT C •■u-.'m! :i le't-^r whs rew\ fir>in Mi I 31i'.c!;p ( t. Govprnnic t p>iciui>er, a,tutin^ th»t , a si. ff f cumj.ii;> d; shortly l»a.To Xel .

son to l«y off the coach road to Heefton and Greymouth, and asking for suggestions. It. was decided, to suggest the erection of a bridge ou the Grey road at Dev,ery'« Terrace. We understand that the construction of the Inangahvia bridge has been jjusnVnideci, pmding fresh instructions from .the Resident Kn.;ineer. The line of the bridge has now been explored throughovt, and it i* proved beyond doubt that the rock underlies the whole distance, at a depth varying from 14 io 10 feet. It is not yet known what the next, step in Hie programme will be. The alluvial clam on the banks of the J»ul - ler fiver, referred to in our last issue as having turned out so well, is held by Smith and O'Brien, two old Keefton residents. They hold an extended .claim, which .gives them three-quarters' of a mile frontage to the river. Their Uilrr,ace empties into (he river, and has a perpendieulai fall of several hundred feet, so that they are never likely to Rjuffejr any inconvenience at the latter end of their cluim. The stripping is 80ft, and is gold-hearing from the roots of the gras« down to the bedj-rock, so that the cjaim will la-t for generations The only water available is what can be picked up io tbe form of drainage from the Wind gullioa in the vicinity. The country is very rugged, and watei' from ■any of the permanent streams higher up the valley would have to be conveyed in fluming nearly the whole distance, as the route is intercepted by ft succession of bluffs wlroh rise perpendicularly from the river to 8 height o< several hundred feet. Liberal in* f'ueements are off red by the Warden to pprties of miners setting in, in the shape of extended areas, many of the existing claims emhsace frr.m ten to sixteen acres. It is but right to sny that although vacant ground is plentiful enough, quite twelve months' dead york ha^ to be per ormert before a claim ciin be made productive, so that it is not all cake* and ale f or new comers, But a good, lasting claim like that of Smith and O'Brien— we were going to say Flood and O'Brien — should be worth much more than twelve months' pnrphase. The ensy victory of LnTCock over Truckman will raise th 9 hopes of I lies* who pin their faith to Trickett in tha coming contest for the scquatio championship of the world Barney Thompson's tip on the race has been vorified. The newspaper published at Tombstone, Arizona, njoices, or rather moans jn the title of the '' Tombstone Epitaph," but it contains much more news than is to be found on the generality of grave ystrd furniture, »ni unless it lies as all other epitaphs do, Arizona is a great country. But then, » believe a woman or an epitaub," with the pnet, and those poets Inew a thing or two, Mr J.B. Walsh of Rt-efton is the first pub-? liran we evpr knew to cover bis bar with Tombstone Epiiaphs, but they are not fenced in, and anybody who runs that way may rpad. The largest increase that has taken place in my Reefton family for a long time past is that of Mr John Diwann, who was on arerent morning presented with no less than fifteen diminutive boarders. They were young rabbits, and bring the strength of his warren up to about a hundred. Thn establishment i* rio-.v one of the sights of Beefton, nnd evpry time the farmers of the InanBHhua oome to town they call rmv>A to see the proprietor and swear everlastin? friend" ship for him. Perhaps the render do»«*n't see where the l>»ugh comes in, but it comei in just at the point where the rabbits are let I out. | Wo learn that the hands ore now followinp; iilong the *mck of stone in the Golden Point mine, and the indications are favorable. A general meeting of the shareholders o! the Innngahua Low Level Tunnel Company will be convened in the early pmt of next week, as the deed of registration is ex* prctod from Nelson by the next mail. The follow : ns! is an extriet from a private le^er recently received in Tirrnru ( rom a business man it Wellington—" Wellington is very poor. We have a l;ir?e working and usMes* population, but, really no moneyed people Tn fact 'you would be surprised what a, miserable pl«ce it is considering that it if the seat of Government Tht only people who do e'joy themselves a littlt ; are the middle cliss. and just now they nre n!f at their wits' end* to make both end.a meet In nil im tmvnls I never b 'W Mich bad time! a* exist h Wellington at rjrrsent, and it wi'l be vcar« before the place recovers. Th< population has <?en'ea?ed at la-t 4000 There are over 400 houses empty. Rents nre re liised from 30a to 15s per week. Land has Mien fro-n £15 to £t per foot, and I see ne sgn of a rise taki»g place. No bui'ding n< ,wo V, and the people clearing o,ut dni : y suoh is the present sta>e of tho Empire City. Tliero is, however, plenty of money in th« i hands of solicitors to advance on mortgage but no security is forthcoming. As a marked t"ken of tb"ir desire to make things pluasunt (writes the Victorian corresprndent of the •• Sydney Morning ITeraU ") ' th« Government, it i? said, prcviioso to tberatf Power, the Imshra-ig; r ; and as he is now crippled wilh rheumntism, perhaps it would do no harm to relieve the country of tlu eipen^e of mtiintaming him, especially as hi' lib- ration will give several ludips an o|->p'--r---taiity cf exhibiting thci.- phikuthropy. Fo th.y— that i^ the ladies— have aßeert..in.ed, t' their own satiffaotijn, that, when P»w-r w.x in the active practice of the profc?«!oT hi wa< not uncivil to women. Therefore, in hii dHelining years he is considered to be entitled to enjoy as much cora'ort as cm b. provided for him. In all probability th ; will publish his biography, only the d'fli $uUy with the biography of thieves is thai when the facts fall short they supplement th< narrative so largely wi';h fiction that you cir never tell how muph severally there is o each . Mr Richard Weaver,, a teamster of coneidera'ile me;me, who !e't this district Ins \prii for the C;ipe of O»o I Hope (says ?h , ' North Ot^go Titr.e-* "), his ruiumed ti • iDunir. oa a wiser and, a poorer man. Hi

xperiences sines he set out for fresh Held* nd pastures new have not been happy. The mly good thing about the Cape is its cl : .mate. Hie soil throughout his travels there, ertend-njjfOOmiles-northward, ia poor and hungry.; ;he native grass is thn and wretched-; neither wood nor w-ter for a sratch of sometimes LOO miles; draught horse* there are none worthy of the name, mules being used in their place; the bullocks on the roads are of no ?ize or weight, and long spans of fourteen or sixteen may be seen creeping along with little more than a ton behind them. All these evils were trying in the extreme to Mr Weaver, but the most exisperating of a'l was the Dutch element so apparent in *he back country. Rtr Weaver denounces Dutchmen as the meanesr, stingiest, and most, intensely s«lfi<h of all the races of mankind. They would refuse a drink of water although one's torque were hanging a foot from one'i mouth and ia the strongest, tersest language, Mr Weaver declared to oar informant the pleasure he would f -el if be could shnot the lot. The Cape Bailwny Bill is thrown out; work tlusre is none for white men, the d.rkie. manopolisinf? the labour market, or nearlr so; and Mr Weaver declares the purohnge of land the!© to be a delusion and a .mare. Still, dissatisfied with the idea of returning to his beloved Waitaki without another attempt to retrieve fais fortune, Mr Waver took ship to Sydney to venture » trial of the furred Temora mines. Having sunk two MiMfts of 50 feet each, and one of 140 f et, witl'out g-tting even the color of gold, he sickened at tin thought of prolonging his adventures , and put himself on board tbe first steamer for Pu-.edn, resolving to lay his b^nes in dear old New Zealand, the be-t of nil the places he over saw. The following simple and cheap plan f«r raising a few tomato and other plants for an early 'crop has been found to answer admir ably, tomato seeds having germinated und-r the pvocess h five days from the time of fixing the frame, etc .-Plan— (M two empty kerosene tin?, and the enses they were in ; .sinking tbe latter in some sheltered spot— the warmer the better— till the top of »be case is about 2in above the surface. Phoe a close fitting frame about, 3ft by 2ft 6in. or a box with a lid to it and the lo'tom kuockel out or a hole rut in the bottom large enough to let the top of the kerosene case through, over it and b:'.nk it round with dry e«»r»h. Now prepare your seed pans or shallow boxes, «nd when all is ready, fill your tins with water and put them on the fire till they boil. Lower them boiling into the case, an 1 cover their tops with a piece of old carpet, and on tbe carpet, place your seed pans, and shut the lid of yovr frame, cohering up all round with some bugs. The frame, case, &i. ; will get, well warmed throughout in a few hour?, and by taking your tins out one at a time and replacing them boiling hot once every twelve hours, an almost uniform heat, gentle, but quite strong enough, will be maintained day and night, as the plants, 08 soon as they show themeelves, may easily be hardened off by admitting the light, and changing the tin leas frequently, till the seedling? can bear to bo removed to a cold frame or the open air. Should the apparatus be wanted for raising successive batches of plants quickW, the young plants CRn easly bp hardened off by placing them in a close-fitting frame, into which a hot brick is plar-ed night and morning, taking pare . hewev-er, to cover up the frame well at nigh*, {f frosty. The Dunmow Fitch was given away ns usual on the 26th of t'>is month, "to any married cnuple who are willing to swear before a jury tbnt they h <ye live:! together in u< broken nwity for a year and a day." The n ist ike of h'* ftdmi-able irgHtution fcems to me to be is hnving ih> jury composed of "maidens and bachelors." How should they know anything about the disputes of wedd d life? On the contrary, it should consist of the longest (and oftenest) married couples procurable, in whto 1 i ca*e tha cross* examination (utider the head of " by a juror ") won'd be really wrth hearing. On what admirably good helißvinar, by the by, intending citnd dates must be as they near th» period of proha'ion. One can imagine, on the oliv'htest cloud appearing on the brow of the husb aid, tho lady saying, " My dean the Flitnh !" on which it imtantly vari§hes. On the 2Tih, howev-r, human irnture probably , nssert!. itself, and he be»ts her about the head wifh a pnlfpi'. The number ofwoking- men who left for Australia by the H>>o and tho Wsilfa'vu last week ("Siva the New Z'itl>»nd Tin?*) took with them, in the aggregate, a largo amount of capital. During tho early part of the week there w,as quite a run a\-on the Postoffice Snving* Bank, and the > umbiT of £30 £10 and £50 deposit.? withrir wn in so short a period was wholly unprecedented. It, is estimnred that a sum between £1.0,0C0 and £15 000> has been taken from Wellington in (his nwaer and h ci rs vav to Australia.