THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, DEC, 13, 1880.

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

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, DEC, 13, 1880.

* *23fl[^Qy!J|nr 'yiSeTO^^SwraawFraßtWflT; ofiF t^p plates 262 o*^. oi >mal««ni alter a crushing of 130 Ti»e |attffry was ' tl« H breakfng of one of die .sfan^TltatTsT Ko. i lertsl h beirijjf^^nderfon i three /feet lode showing Rf^ffi^Jd. The present ,cr<ißhinfr will be coi«tin«(?d ; n.ntil the end j fihthe year, sirhein necessary repaira ' to Iwngfne and battery, oecnpyioff ten or ; twelve days w/ll be made. Crushing will then aga/4 be resumed, and will, fro a the present appearance of the mine, ' bd continued for tame, considerable ;im» willront stoppage. - • Th» United Alpine Compnny cleaned up frotn lite top plate* on Friday, with , the following result :— Ftova 150 tons of "rjß4r»2— 336 oe*. of amateam. The ma..bine was cruslwttu; only fire days. ■ * Elsewhere will be noticed, the business card of Mr W. 3Ff. Jones, nrk 1^ k** Vi* l "returned from Wellington, where he has undergone the final process to enable him to practice at h»s pro'esnion, to which he 'hati now teen duly called. We heartily , ,wjish him every success. i - iWe have inspected the various lots offered Mjy Mr Mi^fcael Dunn as prises in " hjs art' Union- and proooance them of v tfifst-class workmariship/ We" particularly > Vish to draw the attenttoo of our '' '^bftehelor friends to lot No. 15, which we , 'hppe set them thinking seriously of 1 establishing thfiusejres in lite. Some considerable lime has elapsed since the Council voted ■ sum of m«ney ■ for the purchase and .freight of some ( ' salmon trout for ritir rivers. A commit* , ,tee was appointed to carry mt the ol^eri ■ >of the resolution, but since then nothing 1 more lias transpired with reference to the matter. A prospective piscator asks for informatiod, .which we cannot Supply. All we know is that the Big Smelt Committee ji btill-in existence, whatever might hare become of the little fishes. ' 1 ' A telegram receired from the County Hnuineer, jeho is making a tour of in* , 'Spection of the Hampden roads, states that ltyan*B punt at the Lyell has been washed away by recent floods, and that tbe place is completely isolated. Among > travellers, river bound, he mentions Mr Hicliaid Iteercs, M.H.U., on a journey to -tfpeftnn. , A fire oceuri'od on Thursday night fit lfie foot of parry's Creek, whereby (he house (a two storey building) of Dusid Al'Gahey, a settler to the district, wus burned to t! c ground. It appears that ojritiK to some domestic disarrangeraents, M Gtlipy bad determined to leave lUe distiic', an 4 came to Ueefton iv the the beginning of thi* week for the pur* ]>o<>e of Hrrancipn some business with Mr ' Jsobti M'Gaflju, who unforiunately lud a lipn upon ib,e property ior jts fu!l valye, and who went out />n .- . Tqesvl'iy with M Obey to t4ke possession,. and to leave a person in rlmr/e of tlte place. On returning; to licetian M'Gafiey left the follnwinu day for Canterbury, but Mrs Vl'Grtliey, who had left her home a few Weeks previously aa it was thouj;h', tor tfboil, returned to Larry's Creek on I hnrsdny nfeht, I'.avint; arrived in Ite f» 'on by i hut evening)) Grey cnsieli, She .slates that whilst burning some papers rljtring the night the house caught fire, which she wns unable to pubdue, «nd re* suited in the tolnl Hpgtruction of the ;. property. ■ Mr Vl-O»flSn, the n)ort{jaj»pe. is; ilia only suff.-rer, bb tlie boiis^ and ffects were rltoDy Hn'inaufoA, an/1 great , Htmpjitliy is><elt for him on (ha* urcnunf.'Rhe «ff;iir of the five p^-ems mystenVjuf!. Hit as an enquiry vi^l tiltp p'>»<v», «onf)p f,ni"re inform it ion will probai iy be elicit id i>> I'lp^ir flp tbe rn»ttj>r. Messrs Tflorrnt<>n «nl Brown, wlio lioy.' Hpcn ninkir.c a'prelifiiinnry inqujrv into the. : <Hi'tablPnPß« of »Ur> Cannibil Gorge roufp or tlie <i>iitrtppii>ted -tmns-iitsulnr milw+y, Imfe fVn(« I wjish Kgrpris ns.' facilities fVery«li«i'(B H)»part»'nt, nlmir Mtnt line, for I'otuMrurting th« work that they, a* nen "if ton idfi-^riie ii!>i)it? anJ exppr'renpp, lM'"n<>«!ix!e it ■■b'fy.on'ii 'wniirtmcM, ; 'the ! f'ii'if'st enq't'ey in . traeerse jii nu <»nai« ».eprine -point of f'wv (t>n,r» otli«?r, wliicli from tioie to time hi)s t>eiw i.tro«irht nn er 'lip n/?tii'p. : of the atid the isMb'.if. During a cupful exaiqinafion of the rfiijjp tUpse gentli j niHn found that the yiirv^vs nmde nnd renoru issued by. Mr j Vy<witey, Mr Mnnt<znn)er'w, and othetF, \tljo Im»v<* bfcti sent for tlie pnrpo<e from ■ ;!(r : s,vilafp. wpre sabsiantiaj!y correc, and that t'p 1o?aU offers no engineering* liffi •U ! i<»3 whntfver — -not »'veivajj espi-nsre Iri !a: v throu«h'>nt the enlire distance ; a d llit-y oonVbW that the line 1, «-ou!if Ite one o> «isc const r'^clidn nt a I c. -*<ninHra ive small «ost. >'-o imnressed j riv Mi-stsrji 'lljofiiion find Bi'i'wn w. tli tinHailieilii'ity cf the ,w.'i-cl« st-heuu;, tie \, \\n-Qm\\\\s\\mi'i\\ of vi|iw.|| tlity <'nn<ifler ti'r'nin,, p>-' vulrtl t'^ itij tired .ciifi'ssiiori j ut'j U.u& ykm± I'M 4%- tf tf i«fl ! «?4 hy ihe Q A ,\ ■■-.. ' "■. '■■':' - ; 'it* ' y

vernnK-ui. t^l^^#V« >tig more Ifn*^ "|eKoureW, *»J:ij|i»fl;3«W* ? T oousuW ilnour di«tV||t|fejl;]iy|il«e' 4 great p .rtir-n of .he Iqt^fSftflte The^iaj^thWore^ , these Intel fpwdayfl Tisited^f^iitybiih^' land intend .to proceed to'jßfyilja&n'* fgs rtay. find afterward* the jpjjfwf;, Cr«fc* with iis gold an 'l coaf-&ffe?, 0^ marble, lime, jfc-j.. wHl^^alq*ifte<f, J& that tLeir »tay\ In Reefton will be px» tended beyond the time first intended. So far a*, they have seen of ouryet dormant W(^M^^#w§tfM.RornWfeaat itsm|eni«| tUiJfi|ib<Rn| fftj jfoy^jtfle dr^sjp'; the njcst aangn'ne of oar well«wisliera on "Vhe"neW pin too wheef ordered* Tore* place the broken one at the Welcojn* Cempmy's btlterv was brought to to* n~ J on Saturday per Mitchell's fraction. Be;3^lttßnf^i*e*y t!r*~alfeetor* *r : nmined tlus casting and 4iHCQver<*d some suspicious looking places.wherevpon some expert* fy&itffi*. ■ 'f £ llol s*$ r *ij f° eV*oiin^ r?.^ d TT»<«f- rlnWinij ih£ pni^n^ wl.ieh had been smeared on, for some purpose best known to the foundry peo» pie, several serious §*w« were discorded on th<* arms of the wheel to sn-h extent that the point of a knife could be introduced ene-eiglith of an inch in the ewek*. After (akin? the opinion ot tlmg r isci* tor, the directors forwar4ed'llfe I .Wrl'ii to' Boatman's", whore it ia to , be placed iff" position and' tried at^ the' risk of J ? »c Foundry Company, who are genejnl!;, blamed for aeain turning out *bolt«^ieee of work after (he first one had be&> found unbound. Tl\r*mk tlte breaking of the pinion, the . Welcome Comp*j|r b»ve already been put (o serious Spconren ience^nd low just at the Very wart when some 600 to 700 ton* of qanr'^n all the drives and passes? the mine \iMz thu< blocked up necessitate the Miforwd idleness of some 30 men, whqypherwisa would have b°eu in steady iffrk to the gre -it benefit of ill eaneeruftL^ %§£> £«.Preaident Hsy^i' ItaaimalSfe^j commendation to the Cabinet (hit General Grant should be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the United .'States arnfv— a post ai present nominally filled by tbe ' President. A n/9jept| i% f>n*y foot •$ o% tho, flon,str«£j tion jfnVlabfs t/lbel Mil flam San Francisco to Australia -m Bandwich Islands.. The project is to be started at New York! A San Franctscn cablegram dated 7th December says :--Five Russian war vesj■eb^A^D^*- Hfr ttt's3iiamft *S.&e# from different pnrt* to Japan. Tbe object cf their mission lias not yet tran-' spired. The origin of the KHnwraJye ia fMwj discovered, The To Arohn prospectors are making a tri.il crushing at the Alburnia buttery. A Wellington telpgrum dated Dee. 10, siys; — The Post and Telegraph aoeounts will .in futu^ l»e anytlgantpterl, a«d spntdireptito Hit? Poßtn^sferSG|ncr^ <^n| < accffan'i^tV ?$-£ tioned hero will also control the railway account- for both North and South Inlands. Over t^9 principal arch of Ihe Melboune Eslitbition in written " Victoria Welcomes all Nations." Che unemployed suggest the additioh at ihe i'wdrifs 'MEarcfcpt 'tita (MteW' ■ Others suggest that the words " 25 per cent •»ad valorem " should be added, A third edition of Curnow's Index t^ the Laws of New Zealand., — General, local, and prflvincial.T-has been issued. Messrs Dramgool, Wilson, O'Brien, Jdnd;" Fitisnell, who have been sinking at Chronin? yilla for the p»tt two weeks or so. ju; ahead of Lowe's otaim, struck good gold yesterday, (says the Charjeston HeraM of Wodirtsduy ) Pegging off is now the order of the day. If a dPjgol| itf ajfjuiC VegiA is epntran'^d' b^ earbbn^ite £f sd^a* and solu- 3 tion of oxalic acid is added, the gold is precipitated iti a briliant pOffJor. On ex umining this p>ecipate Sy th> microcopo the flakes are found to hive a triangular or hexagonal fj.-nt aqd to ha translucent, the eojor of Ihe transmitted liglit depending oi| the thickness of tlio crystals.-^ JJes Jlondos. An application for a iiuenio at tlie Seventeen Mile Ceac-U for Mr< Creed was refust-d, the Bench being of opinion that the nuiqbar of iicpnhed houses there wis Mj^cient. Iti tl>e IS years 1801-71 fj»ere wpie 835 niarriuges of (Hvotced persona in England. In 4 f li the man w.is a divoroof] inan.j h 405 Che woman was a divorced woman ; in the remaining 16 nmifiuges divorced men m.irricd divofcett, Sfwij»n .g- i% : -. . r, t> } . l^d«inii &'>& ; %(jnliauif :bas x ,ju? fc^tnSdia present to the J^inlin des Plames of a lion and Hones.* which have served h< j r for a pie ure«!io has been p.iiutin^ for the Vioeruy ofKgyptv M. G«|<tave Dore is angqg'id upon a picV lure peinied jjpon j> close scale, like the iniijority of his Scriptural suhjjets, and illi|4iraM'iig the text, " Como unto me, oHye tlint Miour uiv.l are heayy laden " j Tiyo stail t ßtuainers have been bijilt to run between Holy head and Dublin. In a recant. | trial trip one attained the speed of 18.73 knots, or nearly 22 status mile*, per hour ; t ie other 18 21 knots, or over 21 statue miles jan hou-. Jt i*' expeoted that ti still higher pcrforrnaace will be obtained. ..< In the last aeronautical aSpCenJ; wJijch wag made at Kouen pn^nianday, J^w l^lh. by M. tFovia, M. Des naret-, one ; ij^|jje aeronauts, tried vrit success to'taj|^phqtogrupluof the lan.l below. Abou£. iSpaiff-'tp'ni:-view* were taken^ by>lnnfv)ilid,tir^frjs^dei;fu!ly executed. '"■■•••■ '■'*> XX .•' ••?! ; Tlje iiu-1 qf Dumaven pays the red Indian wjij be reraemtji-'red ; !}y ivro things at ]ea^t•7the bircli-rbark canoe, whioli no produoiion of tin? wUit« n.an san\fto,util for strength, light^; nes?, gracefi|Unesß, saa-guing (juUj'ieg, and earning capacity ; and tho'suow sljoe, wliicli iippeai-3 t-> be perfec| ia:iti» *jforUM?n<l> lijte.n vio-in. incjpubla of improveineVit. The r^'ue ol fiie pu.Citljnlus in alloying tJ^

IS . m_xmM, ■ - -,^^^ — aiiwiui«f mane-1 of^ the nwl^iiil .ii^tric s i«>r*- poßitive'v nujj^il i" a rerun t number o -L mdon Natui'e.up;! <» -estnnony in t.u|.po I of tbe efficacy o^lfcalvptu* in this respect, .i ho vi'er toa^convjudin" fft^P -fftyl&J N| *K&*fr> Vwh«*»>fl<e| 'oVftr^irce rfjfelnni^ljvsrs^||v^;'iknown,onfi.' arfd^n Ai^m^rßio^'^rl:er^i.b c i -f meqt : of pl^nt''' I ?^^ Jrcil^h the" »t>'e|g|i tf' tfii^'"TPpUfc4, >*siieß 4^W«IV fj»tenati<rtlly's •ijSde Bi'me'^arA iijo, mHlarial'-tp^P^h^Te^ entirely disappeared. From Alg-'rinVt "es-< pccially, the evldcoco of if 8 virtues is vei'y oonTJncing Oon.'ul Play fair reports,; for extJanßfe'refd.^by afenc^ 3ftlw fdfet?treej and that, wherever it is cuftfj^ated, fevers ore JounrUouduuii^Ma ikf.'Grimbert recpnliv > tnoae a} report of like bftfflfaißtrtot^S^lU Wf otßonfei Known -as the Campagn«gi,|iad until lately, a world* wlrtft repntation^a a ventabte" hot-bed of | Jeadly fever<, X# m now affirmed' to bivo vastly impmr^d" ill* wholenQmeness in con- > *>auenco .of the ni'epenae of Wgenumbepe of eit?ulypt^aV inty o|uce|f \a'#|fcrfye >i 3 by ordrr of the Italian goTemn^nt. Two Urge gold dishea^we been lent to the Science und-^rfr^ bTuspuiti, Leinster House,- Dublin by JTr Charles Konn«dy. of Mul!anteah. The larger one, which meaturea Iwo feot nine .inches in diameter, )3 euid to be the wedding pres£»t of t^a Dauphin ,bf E^n.c.e^|o piiifl .Que^n of Soots. ?1 ' The] total »o ; lwiiV milonge of the United States is 86,263, nearly one-half of the entire 'mileage of the world. The tide of railway aftivity^u al.no=t entirely turning west of tbe Mississippi. The Eastern states hare already ooveMfll their districts wi'h networks of line*. No fewer than six biogropliieß of General Gat field, the Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United Skates, are in tbe , pre*s. dna of these, by W. J. B. Gilmore, ! will be issued in the Hater's Franklinsquare Library at an excopdinjjiy !Aw price. In respon«B to the United States Senate resolution, the secretary of the Treasury has furnished to that body an elaborate statement, showing the expentei of the 'LLnji icconnt of^lie war oftttft «be!lioii from Ths crand-OTais are as follow :— Gross expenditarps, 6,^6,792,509^1019 ordinary eipen" difnr3B,^Oo-,5|9,124 lots expenditures growing oat of tbe war^f||7,2l3 3Ssdul9. Aooordinr .■lo^^Bnii and wafer the Nor--«TP|{iin h l|^^^' vr V'! °* r W P/#^ wr B ? n MmA e *^|^Pp 8 * b"»diQf/tc!esotipo fc.tlletf a i water tele^Me. This is a tube three or four feet l'^^^Jwith an eye»piece ftt oup. endThe -dt|mjtwhieh is open, is placed in the watec|wer the city' of the bout, anJ a little t prac^ro easily enables the observer to dis« , flfn«rjb T ' obfectlj «6 .1 a .'"dtep.sl . o/ fiwin <ten .t£ • flf^en fathom<i. Tlie fishermen are thus enabiifl to discover shoals which would otlierwise^go unnoticed. They then give the s gna"l»l their comrades sii'round them with j^^h/n&ilAyrfregUi'ntl?: make wonderful hag's in places and under circumstances that would never fejve tfese/i suspecte I but for tbe use of the telesoope.^Mr Frank Bucklmd recommends the instrafnent to the English and Scotch herring fishers. * W^pclen f?ef«el| Jre .pecrea9iazj ; |steft]n^itß| ii!crcai4ig in-Vnum^r. ithree »ufSd.'ert «md« thirty fiye new stoamevs Were last year built against 151 broken up ; but only 170 new nailing ships as.iin«t 821 lo*t or broken up.