The Inagahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARGE 16,1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 16 March 1881, Page 2

The Inagahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARGE 16, 1881.

, With respect to "the letter signed "Shareholder," which appeared in the Herald of yesterday stating that 100 shares in thesHoroeward Bound Company bad been " dammed '' on to the 'reporter of this paper by Mr J. Tren. nery, we merely desire to'say that the 'statement is utterly devoid of truth. The race at Cronadun will commence to. morrow morning, and shoajd the weather prove favorable tbere'will no doubt be a large attendance, and a good day's sport. A counter petition against the striking of a fire-rate by the County Council is being circulated for signature, and will be presented at the next meeting of the body; The movement originated in the lower part of the tow ft , where • radical measures generally spring from, /but in this instance it is to be hoped that com* tbon sense will prevail and the fire rate duly levied for the very necessary pnrs pose for which it is intended. -} The J«st«in-Tir|fe Company, have finished their trial crushing from fheir own nripe and also that of llie old Boatman's Creek claim, and the machinery is now idle, and will remain so until after tie St. Patrick's holidays, when crushing from the Cffbpeful will be taken in band. Tbf defendant in the libel action, Aiken v. Campbell has received notice froth the Bdlicilnr of the complainant of the discoutimiante of thesu't which was to be brought before the Supreme Court ,jt its next sitling, ac Hokitika. \ The many friends of Mr Peter Em ana ael.will learn with regret that he met wit%tv<?ry severe accident, whereby he he is, tendered .in invalid, and likely to be confined to his Bed for some time. It appears that whilst in the act of levering a log he slipped off and fell down an in* cline of 10 or 12ft, coming into violent contact with a I%np, susiainiog injury to some of his rib?, which Dr Thorpe pronounces to be badly broken. The accident happened on Monday, and Ibe patient is 'now processing as well as could be ezprected. There are now four patients inl he hospital, namely, .Messrs Emanuel, Smith, M'William?, and Carreims. The telegraph lines sustained some injury daring the recent storms, by the blowing of branches across the wires, but all damage has. since been repaired. • Tenders ore elsewhere invited by the Specimen Hill Company for extension of tunneli Tenders close on the 19th instant. The Welcome Company cleaned up on Monday last, the gross yield for the four weeks and a-half being 14670z of gold from 460 lons of stone, or an average of nearly 3£oz per ton. This return, which is quite equal io the former one, en« abled the directors to discharge the bal. ance of the liability on the plant, and declare a dividend 5* per share. Mr George Moonlight arrived from Hampden last evening, bring several horses to take part in the approaching races. ' True to that Jack-in-the-box cbaracferistic which has ever distingu ished the Reefton share-market, the recent ex* citement seems to nave quite died out, and interests which but yesterday ' stood against the world,' are to-day some* thing like Tony Lumkin's green spec tacles. It is hardly a favorable omen with wbich to face the winter, but large holders of the green spectacles will have to comfort themselves with Mrs Toodle's reflection about the coffin " Its andy to 'ave em in the 'ouse." The coach arrived last night bringing the news of the assassination of the Czar and several competitors for the coming foot-races, and it is bard to say which/ created the greater sensation In some minds. There is no doubt; that Beefs ton is fearfully fall of running at the present time, and the interest in it is quite proof against such a small matter' as that referred to, at least it would seem so. In one of Mr. Tennyson3'a newely^publishetl poems he draws a graphic, but not at all complimentary, portrait of a Burgeon in a childiecs's hospital. This gentlemen is represented as having " coarse red hair, big face, big chest, big merciless hand," and as

being " happier in using the knife than in crying to save the limb." The British Medical Journal asserts that such a figure as this is not known as a type in any of our hos« pitais ; and says that medical men will bitterly feel the insult Mr. Tennyson has offered them, and the injustice he has done. • Some of the sufferers by the Bimutaka rail* way accident have received compensation allowances from the Government Messrs Studbolme Bros, of Waimate have grown this season about 165,000 bushels of wheat, or, say 3875 tons, sufficient to load four large ships. (The Australasian concludes an obituary notice of the late Miss Florence Colville with the; following touching appeal:— "Let us think of her as a beautiful woman and a brilliant actress, and if at a period when she was still beautful and brilliant, there fell up« on her a dark shadow, let us not seek to look into the darkness, but remember only the sunshine in which she once moved. And of this sunshine there was a very flood. The history of the Australian stage has no records pleasatter than those which let forth her successes, and it seems to us that'the long career before her ended all to soon, we may temper our regrets with the recollection that while the sunshine was upon her, she rat* fldjflto ifflh "*' dferMwrferfar art that earned everbooly's prafce. , Let us water the flowers that are planted on her grave with the tears of pity and forgiveness." To Say that a train had been stopped by caterpillars would sound like a Yankee yarn yet such a thing actually took place on our local railway* (says the Advocate) a few days ago. In the neighbourhood of Turakina an army of caterpillars, hundreds of thousands strong, was marching on the line, bound for a new field of oats, when the train came along. Thousands of the creeping vermin were crushed by the wheels of the engine, and suddenly the train came to a dead stop. Oh examination it was found that the wheels of the engine had become so greasy that they kept on revolving without advancing —they could [not grip thejrails t and the engine-driver procured sand and strewed it on the rails; and the train made a fresh start, but, it was found that during the stoppage caterpillars in thousands had drawled all over the engine, and over all the carriages, inside and out* :•■ ■" Notwithstanding the hne-and«cry raised against the [Irish Land Leaguers by many of our New Zealand Tory organs, it appears that some of the foremost members of the advanced Liberal party in England are in sympathy with the movement against landlord monopoly in Ireland. In the division on Parnell's amendment, eight English, members voted with the minority, viz :— Arnold Jacob Bright, Cowen, Thomasson, Bradlaugh | £urt, Labouchere, and Collins. Jacob Bright is John Bright's brother j Cowen. is proprietor of the Leadirig newspaper in the North of England, viz., the Newcastle Chronicle, and Labouchere is editor of Truth. But of course these gentlemen are not nearly so well posted up in Ttish affairs as the enlightened scribes who pen leaders for the New Zealand 'Tiraesj j the Southland. Times, and papers of $6 Some kidney in New Zealand. There is a chance of Taranaki becoming self-supporting after all. A New Plymouth paper says : — " We have had forwarded to our office by Mr W* H. M'Gonagle a sample of pens made out of the common fern stalk, which are quite equal to quill pens and far more lasting, besides not having the propensity to splutter. Mr M'G-onagle informs by letterthat a pen of the description he sends was in use and stood the test of the Sentry Hill Goods Sheds work for a period of six months ; and they are the only pens in use there at the present time. Having written Ibis paragraph with one of them, we must admit that for quick rough writing they are better than either steel or quill pens, and for persons in the bush should be invaluable, because they have any amount of wear in them." At the quartely meeting of the Wellington Licensing Bench held on Tuesday last, the Chairman (Mr G. Shaw, B,M ) referred to the existence of a business which, he said, was fast becoming an established institution in the city, viz., a kind of '^public-house agency." He remarked that it was impossible for him to shut his eyes to what was passing around him evejry dny, and he bad discovered that applications were frequently made for the temporary' transfer of licenses to "dummy" transferees or " warming pans," who were ready to clear out of their position the moment a real licensee turnpd up. Now, he considered that it was highly desirable that the licensee should be a lonafide occupier of the hotel, competent not only to stand behind the bar, but also to conduct the business generally ; and with regard to the executors of diseased license-holdera. there was no reason why they should not bestir themselves and find either a manager or fit licensee with as little delay as possible. Te Wbiti (the Taranaki Herald says) has. gained another convert ; and this time one who is well educated and versed in the English law. It will be remembered by some that after the engagement with the natives at Te Ngutu-o-te-manu in 1868, a natiye boy was taken prisoner, and as he seemed to be an intelligent lad, he was seut to school by Sir W. Fox, and educated. After a time he was articled to Dr Buller, with the vi°w to ; his studying the law j and fron# all account the boy showed a decided talent for that profession. Thi3 native is iiow about twentythree years of age, and had every prospect of a successful career before him ; yet he has abandoned everything and surrendered himself—body and soul— to Te Whiti. He is now at Parihaka, living as the other natives | are living there. From this it is very evident that it is impossible to civilise the Natives } and it is only a waste of time and money attempting to do bo. A Wairarapa resident drew the winner in a "£SOOO sweep" on the Dunedin Cup, and for a time was revelling in imaginary riches and building all sorts of castles in the air with his unexpected wealth, AH his a.a-

ticipations, however, received a cruel cheek < when he found that only 118 tickets were 1 filled out of the 5000, and that consequently , the prize was very paltry indeed compared with what he had been expecting, ( Be f emng to the recent discovery of gold in the Rushine Ranges, the Hawke's Bay , Herald of the 9th instant published an extract from a letter written by Mr Allen one of the prospectors :—" On arriving at the bend of the Oroua River we came across several shallow bars like those on the Wakamarina crevice Hunter yells out.^ • There's gold j can't you Bee it ? ' and so forth. On trying a paa before the gravel was half seduced. Hunter was picking the lumps of dark-looking gold out and when panned off sat down com* pletly overcome with the excitement. This will gyve -you some idea of the pleasant visions of » digger's life— and a digger's' dream.' Mr Allen adds they have * prismatic compass, pigs, dogs, a gun, and complete equipments and will have the whole of their stores deposited on the top of the range to day and that they are sangnine of Buccess. We hope that the digger's dream, so well told may prove a reality,' According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the " Cologne Gazette," a Supreme Council of State is to come into existence 4a^fa«ti»^at^ibp^Riw»iatt- w n Council is to carry on all the business of the Cfcar, the latter retaining the decision only of questions of war and peace. His union with Princess Ttalgoroski will be proclaimed as a legal marriage, without her becoming, however, Empress. She is to receive the title of Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, and her children Irifrbe princ?* and princesses of the same name. Henceforth the 'Czar is expected t6 live with his family in perfect re* tirement at Livadia, remaining Emperor in namfe, but so far as Eussian circumstances permU,"Ctransferring the cares of business to his son, , A teleTram from Birmingham says : — "The following letter, written partly in red and partlv in black ink, and ' embellished with skulls/ cross-bones, and coffin; has just been received by Sdperintendant Wilcox, of the Birmingham police force : — ' Blood.' William Wilcox, you had better put police on the track. Mr Bradlaugh will by tome unknown hand be put to death. The fire in hell is wriggling about in its great frenzy and fury to bUrn his body to ashes. . . .If be does not repent soon it will be too late* many bullets are being, moulded to penetrate the head of the determined atheist. This is from one who knows you. The hand which wields this will have, no part in the plot against that— —man, Bradlaugh, but yeu be on the alert. You shall see what you shall see. When I saw you it was in Sheffield — Blood- -Death— Your?, Richard J. S.'