THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 11 October 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1880.

I Perhaps tbe only parallel to be found to tbe present wholesale dismissals in tbe civil service of this Colony i« to be found in the Black Wednesday proceed* ings of the Berry Government in Vie | toria. Beyond this tbe action is pro* bably unprecedented. No Liberal Got/ eminent, however mncb disposed, ooold have gone in New Zealand the. length which the present Ministry bin done. Long ere this such an ont«ery , vontd bare been raised throughout tbf country as would hare shaken the soandegt Liberalism off its legs; The present Government, however, are baying mat* ten altogether their own way. and it is to be feared that this absence of wholesome restraint in some form is leading them into excesses that may prove injurious to the Colony in many ways. At tbe outset it was recognised on all sides that there was sot only urgent need for tbe reduction of administrative expenditure, but also great room for it in the Departments, and upon the strength of this tbe Government received their patent to set out upon their destructive course. We do not, however, think it was ever contemplated that the pruning knife would be pushed as far as we now see being done. Terror reigns, in every department of the State, and the thinning out is going on with a vigor which promises: to improve the civil service off the face of f the country. Mr Rerell has been Appointed Resident Magistrate at Grreymoutb, pending the appointment of a successor to Mr Maokay. The following paragraph, having reference to the Result Company, was copied by the Grey Argus of the sth instant from tbe Inangahua Herald:— -"There is a difference of opinion as to the dip of the reef in this claim ; should it dip south the configuration of the company's ground will enable the Hoe of reef to be out after driving but a short distance • but, on the other hand, the block now being breken down in tbe adjoining lease within, it is said, but a very short distance from the boundary of the Result, has a northern strike." With rospeet to the latter portion of the foregoing, we bave been re* quested by Mr John Trennery, manager of tbe Golden Fleece Company, to state that the block of stone referred to has not yet been worked in the Golden Fleece mine within over three hundred, feet of the BcbuU boundary/ Mr Gilbert, dentist, announces that he will re-visit Reeften about tbe 20tb instant. Elsewhere we publish the programme of the forthcoming Christmas race meeting. It will be seen that the dates fixed upon are Monday and Tuesday, 27th and 28th Pecem> ber. These dates will clash with tbe meetings at both Grey mouth and Hampden, but the committee probably view it that as Beef - now offers more stake money than any other town on the West Coast, they will not play second fiddle to any place. The usual weekly e'eaning up at the United Alpine battery took place on Friday last, the yield being 440o? of amalgam from 165 tons of stone, from the top plates only. Tbnre was active demand for shares in this company on Friday and Saturday last, for large parcels ; in one ease 36s was offered for one thousand, but was not accepted. i Messrs Sangster and Nichols, the new eon« tractors for the erection of the Welcome battery, have got fairly to work, and bpii.g favored with fine weather, are making good progress. The heavy frost of Friday night la*t has, we regret to say, seal toed blue ruin amongst the farmers and gardnere throughout the Inangahua, and the loss sustained must in the aggregate amount to hundreds of pounds. The early drop of potatoes has everywhere been completely destroyed, and almost every other variety of growth hat suffered more or less injury i it is feared that the entire fruit crop has beep completely- destroyed, as the trees were in full bloom, and most su9Cep« tible to injury. The Golden Fleece Company bad a sorap* ing up of the top plate* on Saturday last, after elevfcn days' crushing, the result being 29-loz of amalgam* and (his added to 2760z of amalgam, "taken from the top plate 3on the prfvio.ua Saturday, gave 2840z 12dwt of retorted gold for the eleven days This is excJusiva of the boxer, which usually retain about 25 per cent- It v intended to run the crushing for tix w?eliß from the time of starting} the extension of No. 1 intermediate level south.lß being continued, and is now in 08ft, from the monkey winze, and carries glono all the wsj. Tho No Town corrtspondent; of the Gi-py .Argus sayst— " RegreHs generally expressed at ilie removal of Judge Weston, who has at all limes been looked up to with infinite rcj. pect, the puWie-. having tb.it confidence in liiii) with regard to hi 3 judicial capacity amounting almost to veneration. It is thought that there are many fteinberg in the Public Works Department: of the Grey Val*

ley wbo could far mow easily .»<> disptivisoci wit.li, and whose ? aervicea. wo»uld never be ar'sud ; that.'* where retrenchment can be effectually carried out without loss or publio inconvenience. .. •. ■, ... < - The success of the Australia"*, cricketers at Home does not appear to have yet fired up much local interest in the game j the season is now welJ a* vanced for play, but there hai been as yet no call to arms. The poet informs us (no doubt truly, though my own experience of the fact iii liitoited), u 'Tia always morning somewhere »n the rw.orM," which he addresses by way oi comfort to those in 'darkness; and similar?) it ought perhaps to be a great consolation tc Tery poor people that there are some personi immensely rich. The proof of tWs lattei fact could hardly- be deduced more forcibly than front the sale of Mr Cartwrigfc'* wines tbe other day, which probably fetched the highest prices ever known, even in the gold' diggings amongst those very nouoeaux riches— the miners. " Bristol milk," as the very deep gold sherry supplied by Karvey and Son, ol Bristol, used to be called, was sold for 13 guineas a dozen j Perrier JouetVCarted'Or champagne (1870) realised £15; and the choicest cuvee (1865) no less than fiiß a dosen ! A little Bual Madeira incomes, i.e., under, £10,000 a year, at £• a doien pinis , Such prioes do not prore perfection in the liquor so mueb. as tbe wealth of the buyers, They were resolved to have the most expensive wines in their «ellar prociirable, and they hare got them. Bat if liquor at a third, or even a fourth, of the prioe wu set before .them, with the information that it was " Cartwright's,'* the gratification of their palatei would be tbe same. It is a fact well known to wine merchants, but which if rerealed to gourmets would curtail a .good deal of conversation about "the vintages," that, tboßgh many people know good wine from had, not one in a thousand can distinguish good from very good. The Goulburn Heraid «ayi the New South Wales Bailway Department hare imported from America, and are now bringing into use for the traffio inspectors a new tricycle to run ori the railway lines. One was tried recently at the Goulburn station, and it ran very smoothly, and was going about eight miles an hour, but evidently with practice a much higher speed may be attained— probably up to 20 miles. The wheels are low, so as to admit of the rider easily dismounting j and the weight is about as much as one person can conveniently remove feom the rails or reverse at required. The motive power ja from tbe user's arms, and the action is like that of rowing, and it was remarked that the sliding seat as now applied to boats would be an improvement. Twa wheels run on the right-hand rail, and the third outrigger fashion on the left rail. Says Truth, concerning tbe Queens recent drawing-room :— " Ladies were not less decolletee than at first. One, in pressing forward, positively lost the whole of the upper part of her dress and had to be shrouded in shawls. As I was walking along St. Jamea street on the morning of the drawing -room I observed a crowd surrounding a brougham, in which was seated • lady alone. Never have I in civilised soeiety and in daylight seen a lady with so small an amount ol clothing. Surely she might hare covered lier nakedness with a shawl. The common people who did not penetrate within the chained portal of St. Jame's stared at her in astonish* ment, and one somewhat dingy individual suggested that she ought to be suppressed as a vice." This is how the Fiji Argus pushes concerning the recent big divorce ease at Levuka, in which the co-respondent, the Fijian Attorney»Ueneral was mulcted in £1000 damages :— This national sanctuary has been invaded, that venerable divinity has been violated, and its tenderest pledges torn from their shrine by tbe polluted rapine of a kind* less, heartless, prsyerless, remorseless adulterer. With all the grossness of vice, a mean muffled, dastard incendiary, iv the silence of sleep and in the shades of midnight steals bis Ephesian torch into the fane, which it was virture to adore, and worse than sacri* lepe to have violated. With the serpent's wile and the serpent's wickedness, the adulterer stole into the Eden of domestic life and turned her virtue into pitch and out of her goodness made the net that should enmesh her, poisoning all that was pnre, polluting all that was lovely, defying God, destroying man ; a demon in the ditpuise of virtue, a herald of bell in the paradise of innocence ; with just bead enough to contrive crime, but not enough heart to feel for the consequences.