THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 25 March 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1881.

Tte Golden Treasure Company cleaned upj&steriay.f jtli tfietplendja result of ! ytih 15dtrt # W no'tdns 6f stone, whiih is^ual rb >« l^wt per tdri/and there U gdiae thing like. 6ob or gold still to iubniW in. This is one of the highest yields we hare had to record from! Murray Creek for years. The half-yearly statement of the affaire of the jffnHed Alpine Company appear* in the Government Gasette. From it we le»m that u^io the close of last year £10,266 13s 4d hid been paid in dividends, The number of shareholders in the company at that date was twenty-three. The total amount of flails , made by the company up to the commencement of crushing wa§ £12,400. n Owing to unexpected length of the Court sitting at Hampden, Mr Revell. R.M. was usable to reach Reefton in time to sit here, as appointed, yesterday Tb* Court «as therei fore adjourned until this morning. ■ ■ The 58th regiment, which met with such a disastrous reverse the other day under Sir George Colley, at the hands of the Boers, did MrTiee in New Zealand, in the * Johnny Hickey Disturbance,' at Wanganui and Waimata, in 1843-5. In one battle with the Maoris at that period the 58th lost 108 men, and, the graves of the men are still to be seen at Waimata. The Maoris surprised the soldiers on that memorable occasion, and in the short space of fife minutes 108 of the British fell. The comrades of the fallen, however, subsequently avenged to the full the slaugh* jer pf their men, for at the taking of the pah, which followed shorty afterwards, the dark skins suffered terrible slaughter. In the interior of the pah after its capture were found among other papers, a number of bills from a the* prominent (European) Church dignatary, for powder and bullets supplied to the Maoris The dignatary in question was a missionary, and his labors had up to that period placed him in possesiion of many thousands of acres of the finest land, but even this fact did not prevent his being disfrocked. This was, however, only for a time and the worthy archideacon received back his gown after a time. The name still survives in the North Island yet, as well as the patronymic lande, and some of the descend* ants continue to wave the banner of the Church against the devil and the flesh. Mr John Williams, of Fern Flat, and Mr W. Williams, formerly of the local police, both belonged to the 58th regiment, and fought against the Maoris at the period stated. Lieutenants Jopp and Bolton who have jmt fallen at the hands of the Boers, were then only -privates in the 58th, their subsequent promotion having been honorably won by service in the field. The proposed amalgamation of the Homeward Bound and Occidental Companies has it s|eo>o, fallen through, the shareholders of the latter having refused to ratify the terms as arrange^ between the directories p,f tye two companies. The tepms as agreed between the directors were that the Occidental should receive 8.000 shares put of 24,000 in the joint venture, but when, the matter was submitted to the Occidental shareholders they declined to endorse the action of their directors, and demanded ap equal interest in the proposed new coir.pqoy, which demand the Homeward Bound re (use to entertrin, and the matter is therefore in statu quo. A very droll incident happened at the sports on Tuesday last. Two men were on j the, ground with sor^e educated canaries taught to draw carcjs out of a box for sweepstakes. It was }ate in. the day, and the men were doing a roaring trade, and in the course of the proceedings one of them receiied from a bystander a tcp-pound note from which to deduct 2s entrance money. However, before the canary man had time to fftre change one of the birds contrived to escape, and took to the woods, followed immediately by the man with the unliquidated ten-pound note The owner of the money jecmed for a second or so in some doubt aa it ■ ■ ■ : : ■ '

to. the real interpretation to be put upon tbife proceeding, and finallj gate chas«) to the jastt disappearing canary-man. AWftj we.nt the bird; away went the owner, and. away weak the de-copitalised bystander/ The bird could fly, and its owner could run, but the pursuer followed closely leaving a broad trail of profanity and perspiration. Twice the bird alighted, and twice the canary-man was in the act of clutching it, when the pursuer hove in eighty and renewed hi» de» mand fo/ change^, only, J however, to re* startle the bird and add new vigor to the chase, bat the strangea kept on. However, afjerVTong and wearying hunt tne fowl was eventually captured; the ten pound-note was duly returned to its owner, and the parties started acoss country for home. The owner^of-tbfr ton pound note made rare the bird was going overland to Nelson, and is quite sure that a note in band is worth two in the bosh. The settling of er the Boatman^ races took place on Wednesday last, and proved in every way satisfactory. The; total disbursements over the meeting reached to £199 10s. The » winnings , were pretty well distributed amongst the different hone owners. Chamopened and nearly £50 subsoribed in the room towards a raco meeting at Cronadun at ■ Easter. News has been received here from Temora of the death there recently of Phillip Jones, and Charles Bennett, two well known West Coasters. Mr P. Q. Caples hat just received a letter from Mr W. H. Hobby, manager of the New St. George Crushing Works Stawell, Victoria, in which the writer alludes to the pro* bability of bin visiting the Inangahua shortly, for the purpose of learning something of the nature of mining and amalgamating in this field. Sir Hobby is a gentleman of very ex« tensive experience in quartz mining and all that perilling to it, having been oonneoted with some of the largest re^potion works in Victoria, and his presence here could not therefore but be attended with advantage to the field generally. The sports committee held a meeting on 'Wednesday last to consider the protest en« teredby Williamson in the mile race. It was resolved tq. opmpromiie 'the, matter by adding £3 to the staUs and ofrerinfe l £Q each to Cochrane and Williamson, £2 to M'Aleer, and £1 to O'Rourke. In the event of this offer being refused, the lice to be tun over again. '. . The awkward squad members of the Beef* ton Fire.Brigade will' meet for, practice at the engine-house this evening at 9 o'clock. The Pall Mall Gazette says that a remarkable case of a dream fulfilled is mentioned in connection with the drowning of the master and crew of five men of the fishing schooner Sly Boots, of Brixbam, which has been run down off Torbay. The night was fine, and about a hundred fishing boats were tawling, when the American steamer Compton, as her captain reports, ran into 'something,' but After stemming found the Spot for an hour failed t« find any wreckage; Thai this wa? the Sly Boots now admits of no doubt. It is stated that on the same night the muster's wife dreamed that her husband's vessel had been '"run into and sunk, and woke up screaming, ' Richard* gave my boy,' one of her song as ; welt' as ; htf»batfd : being on board. Early next morning her eldest son came into her, room and said he had heard his father come home in the night and go upstairs with his sea boots on. They told these dreams to their neighbors, but their fears were ridiculed. Tbe London correspondent of the Mel* bourne Age says r— The trial of Mr Parnell and his fellow traversers is slowly dragging itself to an end, amid an amount of indifference both .here and in Ireland which is surprising. "Most of ihf defendants have left the trials to take care of themteW, and bare oo'me to fu'fil their Parliamentary duties at Westminister ; and they treat tbe proceedings which are going on in Iceland with respectful contempt. The penny papers which devote a oouple of columns to reporting a murder trial at the Old Bailey condense the constitutional philippics of the Irish AttorneyGeneral into a singlo paragraph ; wHle the few Irishmen who hang about the courts seem to be there solely for amusement, and care more for th« chance laughter some of the more extravagant speeches provoke than for the supposed serious end solemn issues which are involved. The Qfate trials so far have unquestionably proved a mistake. What was to be an impressive nnd imposjng drama/hat |^» Jtaien;. b^y| the pub)ic a| a; light comedy. 'The present generation read the Mysteries of Udplpho in a very different sense from that intended by its authors., and in the tame way the • State trials ' have fallen from the sublime to the ridiculous. Very different feelings will doubtless be inani* fested in the evejifc of the trayersers, or any of tbem, being convicted or punished j but Mr Pe'neU's Irish sympathiser* seem to allow Its shadow to fall on them at present. [By cable we have been informed that, the jury dHgree. — £4. A.] Violent crimes and violent speeches still abouud, but these latter at all events are not confined to our Celtio neighbors. Mr Forster casually mentioned a night or two ago that be had received as many threatening letters from the party of 'peapo and order ' in England las from the Jrisji agitators ; and Mr Gladstone similarly has .been made the object of innumerable rabid attacks. The deputy-lieutenant for, the county of Wigtown /rec.en|lrm ( ade a speech at Newton-Steffarti jn>< Sdofclbudj; |ttwjlicb, as it was reported, he urged on his fearers the national benefit which would ensue if come patriot were to poison the Prime Minister. This foolishly wild advice, coming from a country magistrate, lias been the subject of a correspondence between Mr Stopfprd Blair, tbe gentlemen i\v question, and the lord Chancellor, in wVich ifie former explains (hat bis vemavk waa meant as aj v desprit. was made in a • cursory ' way~whatever that may be—and was never intended in sober earnest. Threatened men live long, and it is doubtlets a matter of little moment

if Mr Blair me»nt wjjiat ha said or not. A hundred threatening tetters are written "in sport ' to one written in earnest, aod this fact js rip less tpuo of the letters which issue from the Land Leaguers ' than of those wbioti originate with county magistrates. '. Directly after tbe clock struck twelve on the n : ght of 31st December the whole of the prisoners for debt in Scotland were liberated, in accordance with Dr. Cameron's Act. Twenty-fire men and frw,o women .were setfree from Glasgow Prison* As they passed out of tbe gates, carrying with them their | beds and bedding, several hundred persons who were waiting greeted them with bheers. It is stated that Lord Haryey fhipps, the son of his Excellency the Governor of Victoria is about to marry Miss Blanche Clarke, daugnte* of" the Hott^ J. Cnete, M.L.C. Miss Clarke only * came out ' this season, and gained universal admiration. The young lady istjaid to.be of an exceedingly amiable discbsutdn. snow niamoffe with a gentleman so popular as Lord Phipps will no doubt add to her happiness. Miss Clarke may be congratulated on having secured so desirable a husband. The, date of the wedding it not ' flii^^t^a^siyffedoMjtaJto: The Dublin Evening Mail, the property of Messrs. Maun sell Ssott and Co., has been stopped, by order of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, for publishing articles calculated to prejudice the fair trial of Messrs. Parnell, Biggar, and others. A water famine prevailed in Plymouth for three days through the freezing of the Leat a stream which supplies the town. Hundreds of soldiers and laborers were engaged in opening a channel through the snow and ice, bat very little progress was made; in consequence, of the water freezing as fast as it was uncovered. Several more deaths from j exposure are reported from Farringdon, Northampton^ Oswestry, and other places. i! '*" Treeless _ I?** is being transformed into a forwt coverlS country, by a taw which* remits, certain taiet for five years on every acre of. forest trees planted and kept alive. Over 85,000 acres of fruit and forest trees have been planted, and 200,000dpls? have been remitted in taxes, ; fbiltj Fftzgtrlld D* CBeaumomV ;thj trench 4 *oount I? who was arrested by De* tective Potter a week ago on a charge of larceny as a bailee, was brouet before the City Bench recently on remand. Mr Kidston, who appeared for the prisoner, stated that he had only recently been instructed, ani) ' .was' not prepared to go on with the case. He therefore applied .for a remand til) Tuesday, which was granted. Another charge that of imposing on Louis Flegeltaub, jeweller, in jßourke-strelk. has also been ; p>eYeWeo* »<raintl t««lirisWeV. '^The • Count * is alleged to have visited Mr Flegalteub*,, establishment and ordered £300 worth of jewellery, He first ordered a diamond bracelet, then a watch and chain, a set of jewellery (all of the nature), and fjnatiy, * f niter iea "and coffee service; He represented himself mV man of means, about to be married, and desirous of making a present of the artioles ordered to his fiance on the day of his marriage. Mr Flegeletaub, rather Bttßpiita»ef*tbo.estiavagatti nature of his customer's order, requested an instalment of the value as earnest of the fulfilment of tbe contract, and the 'count' as readily supplied him with a valueless cheque for nearly £100. He inspected Mr Flegnltaub's stock of jewellery, and impressed himself as highly satisfied with the character of the workmanship, and in several other ways tried to allay suspicion. Information was, however, given of the occurrence to the Detectives department, and Detective Potter, after con* siderable difficulty, traced the prisoner to a Mcl in Carlton, where- bi arrested .him.* ' A sample of tobacco leaf-grown aiGrisborne has been sent to Cbristchuroh Industrial As* sociation. It has a fragrant smell, and nice brown color. . An old man named Shanton Sherman aged 84 years, who died in the Hospital at Auckland last week, He witnessed Nelson's tuaeral. Turnip growing is extending in Waikato. Mr Murrayi M.H.R., is putting down 2,000 acres. - - M