THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 31,1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 31 January 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 31,1881.

•We observe from a recent Victorian paper, that Madame Carandini, Miss Carandini, and Mr Walter Sherwiti, are announced io take part in an Oratoria at the Melbourne Town Hull. Miss Deaken and Mr Huxtable, are no longer travelling with the Carandini's. Mr A. D. Boyfeild ha 3 commenced business in Nelson, as House and Land Agent. "The Miner," is the title of a small newspaper just issued by Mr Job L- Munson, of Wflstport.- It i 3 intended that for the present it shall be issued monthly. The bulk of its rather limited space is devoted to mining matters of local interest. The paper is well printed, and has a nice, tidy appearance. Mr P. Brennan will submit to publio auction to-day, the property known as Pizzy'a Phoenix Brewery, situate at the west end of Broadway. The plant is by far and away the finest and most complete io be found on the West Coast, and comprises every requisite for carrying on operations upon an extensive scale. , The business has been established for nearly ten years, and ita connectiom embraces the whole trade of the Inangabua, wbile the quality of the ales is un» surpassed for excellence. The property may, on the 4 whole, be classed as a Bure independence, as it is safe from all competition, and as a moaey making concern has no equal i n the Inangahua. It will, we believe, be put up in one lot, and will, no doubt, call forth the keenest competition. A meeting of the committee of the late picnic will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall, at 9 o'clock this evening, for the purpose of closing the accounts, and receiving the balance«3heet. All outstanding subscriptions Ehould be handed in to the hon. treasurer, Mr J. Grieve, not later than noon to-day. The P.esident Magistrate's Court sat again on Friday last, and was occupied nearly the whole of the day with the hearing of a charge of robbery from the person preferred against George Barton alias " Yorkey." The accused was committed for trial, to the next sitting of the District Court at Reefton. A meeting of the Tender Committee was held at the Council Chamber?, Reefton, on Tuesday, January 25th, 1881, at 4 p.m. There were present Messrs Brennan and Davies. Tenders for the construction of culverts on the Grey road were opened, and dealt, with as follows :— Bartlett and Co., £88 19s ; Blakely and Molloy, £92 10s ; Philip Alexander, £87 10s j Cochrane and sonß, £70 55., and Connington and Co., £65, There were two other tenders, but owing to the fact that they were not put in at o v before the [advertised time, they were not entertained. The tender, of Coanington and Co. at £65, being the lowest, was accepted. The meeting lapsed at 4 30 p.m. The application to the Warden for a dissolution of. mining partnership between Kiernan and party, miners of Alfred river, was called before the Court on Friday last. Tenders had been received for the purchase of the claim and' other privileges, but Kiernan, being the highest tenderer at £130, was not prepared to make good bis offer. The Warden thereupon adjourned the case to the end of the sitting to enable the parties to adjust (be partnership accounts, which had been handed in, and which were to be paid out of the sale of the property. Mr Jones brought the case before the Court on Friday, aDd 6tated that all parties interested had met at his office, when a revision of the accounts had been made, reducing the amounts considerably. The liabilities had been counter* signed by three of the party — Kiernan not being present. Afterwards had ..been arranged that Kiernan, on being released from nil liability in the matter, should transfer all his right, title, and interest, in claim and privileges to M'Cartby, Cassler, and Neilson, who were to become responsible for Kiers nan's' share of the debts, and to work the cluim, which was to be placed under a mortgage to the creditors until the debts are paid; All parties having agreed to this, the Warden ordered that all necessary documents to caver the arrangement should be prepared and submitted at the next sitting. of the Court, when the final order would bo, entered up. The United Alpine mine gives promise of out«doing ail preceding returns. Of late, the yields have been weekly on the increase, but thai for the last five and a half days crushing, shows a more than ordinary increase. From 153 tons of stone crnshed up to Friday last, 376 ozs. of amalgam were obtained from the top plates only. The general cleaning up will take placp on Friday next. The Very Rev. Father Yardin, VicarGeneral of New Zealand, arrived in Reefton on Saturday evening, and yesterday conducted Divine Mass in the Catholic Chapel. There was a very large congregation, and the sermon was listened to very attentively, Mr T. M, Atkinson, authorised mining snr- ■ vevoi'j elsewhere announces that he has : sonuneuccd practice in Reefton. Sir Atkm- : son proceeded this morning to Hokirika for ,

the purpose of forwarding his instruments io Keefton, and will return here on Thursday next. We have received the programme of the Boatman'a Jockey Ckb Races, to be held on Thursday and Friday, the I7lh and 18th of March next. Stakes to the amonnt of £145 will be run for. The programme reached ua too late for insertion to-day, but will appear in our Wednesday's publication. A resident of Beefton, Jwho has just res turned from Melbourne via Sydney, reports that at the latter place he met P. O'KeeTe, carter, formerly of Reefton. O'Keefe had been five months at Tern ova without doing any good. John and James Bankin, are also •in Sydney, the former driving an omnibus. Mr P. Q. Oaplea returned to Reefton on Saturday evening last, and does not give a very highly colored picture of the reefing prospects at Te Arahoa, The quantity of stone crushed by the Welcome Company up to Saturday last, the 29th January was 365 tons of 23ffc to the ton. The mine is in splendid working order and stone is coming forward freely. The workings are fully manned, and there is no doubt whatever that the wealth which this company will turn out during the current year will be something prodigious. Tenders are elsewhere invited by the Caledonian Extended Company, for driving 150 ft of low level tunnel. This work is for the purpose of following up the stone, which was lately met with in the face of the.drive, and sanguine expectations are entertained of cutting the line of reef within a very short distance. Applications are also invited by the company for a mine manager. . We direct attention to the advertisements ap« pearing in another column. The Lyttelton Times congratulates the colony on its escape from Mr Bryce and a Native -war. Our contemporary, however says nothing about the hundreds of pounds|gt day which are being expended in Taranaki, for the purpose of over-awing Te Whiti. For a sound reason of the expense only putting aside for tho moment the high, moral ground upon which our contemporary poises itself, it is certainly desirable to put an end to the present state of uncertainty with regard to tha Parihaka Maoris. The question ie, how long is this consuming expenditure to last ? From Major Atkinson's and a Taranaki point of view, the game is worth the candle, but it is not hard to see that the colony generally, is tired of the expensive faice. A special meeting of a '* Church," to consider the conduct of a member's wife, lasting " no less than seven hours," is rather a surprising item of news from Rangiora. What a mass of gossip there will be in that lively town for the next nine days ! Webber, of Wellington, and Wooleston, a local man, ran two miled for £30 the other day, the latter winning. Two thousand shares have been applied for in the West Coast Railway Company. It will not be registered till 10,000 Have been applied for. A Cookfown telegram of December 22nd says :— " Samoan adyicee to 16th November state that forty Solomen Islanders, who were engaged on o;ie of the German plantations, and took to the busli were so hard pressed by hunger that they seized a boy who hud fl.'d with them tied him up, and portioned his body off by running a knife more than skin deep alonsj the favourite joiuts, previous to cutting him up in pieces to eat, when a wild pig appeared and they left the boy and rushed after the pig. The boy wa3 found some time afterwards in an exhausted condition, by some Samoans. The London " Figaro " throws cold water on the proposed Australian Foot ball expedition to the United Kingdom. It says : — " Because a cricket eleven his come, and played, and filled its pockets, Australian athletes of all kinds seem to regard our country as a Tom Tiddler's land, where any amount of filthy lucre is to be picked up. Already the cricketers and the scullers have come over, und now, as we have said, a football team is trying to arrange a trip to this insular Golconda. Next, we presume a set of Australian lawn tennis champions, or of sprint runners and high jumpers, will be coaling ovsr the oesan. The thing should not be forced ; for tho present Australia bad much better repose on tha laurels her scullers and her cricketers have won." Tho following tough story told about the Prince of Wtvles is told by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York Sun : — As I am telling stories, here i 3 another in which Count Aldorburg figures and the hero is no less a person than the Prince of Wales. The thing happened during one of the Prince's visits to . the capital of the Czur. Alderburjr hai given the prince a supper which lasted till daybreak. About four o'clock in the morning the Prince took leaye of the company, jumped into the carriage, and started for $he vV inter Palace, His Royal Highness had done such honor to the wine, and espfcially to the foaming champagne, that his ideas were a little mixed. As he was passing the Palace of the Holy Synod he thought he recognised the facade of the Imperial Palace, and he halted the carriage. The coachman said something to him, but the Prince did not understand the Russian. He got out dismissed the coachman, and then marched up to the door. A monk, half asleep, opened the door and asked him what ho wanted ; but the Prince did not understand the monk's Russian any better than he did that of the coachman. Without answering his question he advanced, not too steadily into the interior of the edifice, thinking that he could find his way to his apartment. The monk undertook to stop him. The Prince is one of tho best boxew in the United Kingdom. Ilia first blow laid ouc the monk, who believing thut he was face to face with the devil, shouted lustily for help. You may fancy the upronr. The police were soon en the ground As the Prince couldn't mau'3 himself understood, and was not recognised, lie was taken to the nearest police station. Fancy the stupefaction at court in the morning when it was discovered that the Prince had not returned

fo the palace. The Emperor was v%ry uneasy. He scolded the governor of the palace roundly for baring allowed the Prince to set out alone. Thsn the grand master of poliqe, Fedo Feedorowiteh Trepoff, had a happy thought. lie gave, orders for a 6earoh among the police stations, and the heir of the crown of England was found fast asleep among the revellers of lower degree. The Emperor laughed heartily, but not too loudly, over the adventure, aud steps were promptly taken to bush it up." Tho owner of Grand Flaneur it" is said talks of taking him to England to try conclusions with some of the cracks there"- Long, bis owner, won £30,000 from the bodl'makers over his Cup victory. The Queen lias con 'erred the A\bert Medal of the first class on Farabini Seedie Tindal, serving in her Majesty's ship Wild Swan, for the fallowing services :— On Aagust Bth last while the Wild Swan was off the coast; of Mozambique, a fujntive slave boy named Farejallah having jumped overboard from a stage alongside the Bhip, was immediately seized by an enormous shark, which bit off his leg at the knee, dragged him under the water. When %c rose to the Burface the shark again atfS^^im, tearing off his remaining leg and prt of tbV thigh. On' Farejallah beginning to rise to -the surface again, cl osely f Gllb^e^" "frf* tfiß shark, -Farabani jumped from the netting into the water, and brought the unfortunate boy to the surface, nor did he leave the water until he had placed the boy in a position of safety. The captain of the Wild Swan adds that what makes this, if possible, a more gallant deed, is the faci; that Farabani saw the whole of the horrible catastrophe from the first seizure of the boy, and that, when he jumped into the water, not only the attacking shark, but three others were seen close to the ship, attracted no doubt by the blood.