THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22 1880

Inangahua Times, 22 December 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22 1880

llenry Thomas Keeley was brought hefore theloeal Magistrates on Honda j', charged with having been drunk, for which ke was fined os, or 24 hours. On tho information of Frank Smith he was also charged with being illegally on the picmi.es of informant at Boss Town, and 1 with assaulting said informant. Por each of these offences, he got a Christmas bos of fourteen days in addition to a free pass to Hokitika, where he will, ncleas vaLns, spend the holidays at iir deary's hotel. Mr Ruvell, R.M., is expected in Beefton to day, to hold the sittings of 11. M. and' "Wai den's Court advertis. to comn rappee at l(j__u.j.r Hd^to^W'fTliiirsfl^vV ~'d'J7d "instant. " Ko WTtynoTaaniilquiry on the spot to»day as to the origin of the •fire; wliich occurred some lime siuce at M Gahey's, aud of which the explaualion does not septn to be satisfactory. Tho funeral of the remaius of Mr John M'lntosb took place yesterday, and was very" largely attended, the procession reaching lrom the Oddfellows' Hall from whence it started, lo the corner ol Broad wiy and Smith-street. All cla.se_ of the. community joinod iv paying the hi-fc fribule of resj,ect to the deparled. The pj-ocession was headed by the BiacL'Point band, playing the dead march, and tbo coffin was borne by members of lhe Oddfellows' and St. Andrew's lodges alleruatively, the deceased being a menu '.her of both. 'Tlie ledges, in full mourning •rcgali., rnuslerecl very strong on tho occasion. Tho funeral service was read by the Jtev. Mr Parka, s in au impressive manner. T^e day being a yery fine one, .a number of Indies were preseut afc the t cenietry. ] I Mr Junes, "tha ne\\ly admitted i_ict_--1 ber to the 'lenal profession, made U. _ 1 Ceb vl before the RM. Court yesterday, .when he vce/ -ably defended his client, ani übtained'an acquittal: We congratulate JVlc Jones for' having suceeciled so well with -liis firai case, as it will ass-st hint materially in nco^uiriiu; the necessiry amount of confidence — legally culled " front"— so essential in tie profession. 'Lord Granville, the leader in the House of Peers, is 63 years old, aud ha. a second son only a for'^ighl o'd. TJto .Gotefn'r r s official do cription i* thii-, given iri' the Government Gazette; — ( ' His Excellency theilioi_o.al>le v AWhui\ Hamilton Gordon, <Kni»ht Grand C-'os'. of the MosGfDi.Unnui-du-d Order of St. Micltuol, and St. G.i.rje, Her M.j.-ty's Higji Commissioii.r for the Western" •^icili-, Governor and Commander- ip* Cl/ief in and over lier. Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies and Yice«Ad\ural of the same." It is •worthy of no.te that in lhis discription ■ piior'uy i.s. giyen lo the Commissiouer.' , •■hip. , r An Aucltla-nd telegram, dated Decern--17, savs:—llie police boat returned from Tui Tin, wiih the bo ,'y of lhe youth Leith, winch : wa . found at the base ot the cliff sadly dislig^ed. Th.co t attemptby sea, and one by ropes 07er the cliiF^ 10 search (or tbe body proved unsuccessful, atl.r 21j hour- lahoi. The fourth succeeded, h,ut the bo it was swatoped. .ivi my-row/iy esi'aned ilesiruetion, and •he j olii c boat's crew, and th'<? lighiho se kcepc-F weie'm j-.»piirdy ol b^ing h_m» ■ ned in by the sea at the ba>. o,f the fliil". The Uody of Leilh was brought to Auckland. 1

reported in jilting and 'Hayes's aVid .Buckley's claims. . The Inspector of Mines declares the Manarlc Lead to be an alluvial ledge similar lo lhe Canadian, at Gnlgong, o;' that found at Carcoar, During,, the hearing of one of the cases in l ho Court of Appeal, Hr Jtisl'ce Richmond i.jreporl-d by tbe "New Zealand Times to bavo made somo obstji' valious ou the colonial cusiom pf giving "bills as well as mortgages, concurrently, to .ecure tho pau>e liabtyilv, and paid, ho felt certain th,- givjng ,of a n.go table and -a non-negotiablo security for oue obligation would yot result iv diQI-uUieß and a "vcat amount of litigation., lv a oaso iv which by will one-third Of an estate was left lo first cou-ins, and two- thirds to second cousins, it has atla^t beea decided that second cousins avo not, db very many suppose, . first cousins onco removed, but person ." descended irom the same greal•grandfather. Tt ia understood (hat over C3J3O persons are liable to the Property Tax in 'the 'Wellington" district. - ' ~ Wpmond's creditors at the Nelson meeling resolved to rcccommend the suspension of his certificate for three years, and approved of tlio pro»e_ution of lhe dubtor by trustees. Mr Gordon Allan lately applied to the. Chief Justice <• to havo tho express alleged lo have been stolen by Peter - J. H 'Henna (agaiust whom the Grand Jury rolurncd " no bill,") handed over by the police to the owner, Mr JBohtsn, of Manners street, Wel-. lington, but his _lon.or said he had nothing to do with tho matter. Subsequently the trustee in JM. Henna's estato claimed tho vehicle as an _s_et. Tha Westport Times saye : — We understand that tbo,tln_e Captain yDi.lon~lca.ye_ deposited in aif elson b uik 1139. Ifc is said Ihat ho has two sistcis residing at Dublin, Ireland. Hl3 icmaius were la.en lo _. elson this morniiijj by the s.s. Murray. Tho sugar crop of Loui.isinia is spoiled. Tho dire.tnise.pf' the t 1 ,.{.., n.ln^say'vgo.d coin, md bullion in the country amounts lo 5-8,0p0,000 dols besidos 85,00 J,000 doU bullion. At a farewell diuner tendered to Mr Thomas Hugos, on November sth, ut New York city, by prominoub -iti-.us, Mr Hugea gave a brief history of tho co-operative movement iv England, and als. of hi. Rugby colony in the State of Tennessee \i4iich latter ho' expected to prove \ery successful Sarah Earnhardt made her debut in New Yoik, in Iho City Theatre ,01 ito. eraser 7th, beforo an" iiiiinoil.o^ auai^ncoy^SiiJc'e then* howevor, tho houses havo fallen off. Mr JV. H Lingtrd, actor, has filed a declaration of insolvency. A ' new chum ' named David Ilay is making a tour through Canterbury on foot, with a wheelbarrow, in whicli ho can ies his impedimenta, fn a letter to the Press he tli us explcin. his preference for th« 3 .in^u'ar modo of pmgresiion:— ' U"iist of alt is its cheapness. Waa thero ever, a Scotchmin yet who was not mindful 6f the « b^wbe.. ? * Well., I have no lod.ing to pay for, hecause I carry my tent with me, strapped lo one of tho spokes 0$ my biri'OTY. I can-iot stand upright in this tent, but it serves to keop the dow and rain off at night. I transform my , vehicle < in to" a "of; bed '"by 'taking tfi_, wheel and sp.ea&mg'ont its-w&terproofcovL on the ground, thon wrapping my rug round me I defy uil eh mges ot wealbo,. The wealher, however, allow u^o to say, is iv this land bj unexpectedly gonial that really nit much , d..yi-g of i.s changes js oullcd.foy.. Ivis "a highly favoured land in respect." Tie says that lv lia., travelled u\ Am. riot in tho same manner, and ha, comes to the conclusion thai pr.fetoncf} is decidedly to be givon lo theso Litter, both ou account of the better eli-nato, th. more homelike aspect of the gonaral features, and for many other reasons. It is not so much a l.nd Jor a speculator to coma to make a, pils of money to go off with, as it ie a land for a qa : et an J hoiuelovi-gsetof peo-plo to live,, and be happy in an unambitious way. . Queen Vi.tom (says a was bom, not exactly Ani poverty, but the next door to ifc. Hor n_ot:.or married her father four years after tho death of her first husband tho lVmco of Leining.n. Tho'-^uke/grior, to tho mniriago, had boon. iVingVtßriis'ioN,' iv a 1.0U3Q rented for 1500 dollars a year fiom an English admiral, and made frequent excursions, into (Germany. They wero married at Coburg on May 29th, 1818, according to the Lutheran riles, and the inarii_"e was ro solemnised at Kew, according to .thoso ot the Church of England. They remained but* a short time in Jingland, aod then went to Aniorbach, where the . D.uchcss had been residing as gua-diau of her son and r.ucn .