THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY,MAY 18,1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 18 May 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY,MAY 18,1881.

A small leader of stone, five or six inches in thicknest, was cut through in the Low Level Tunnel on pouchy last, but it baa not proved gold bearing. The following item was unavoidably omitted from our Monday's mining report :— Wealth ov Nations.— The wince, whioli is being Bunk on the 4 Energetic boundary, is : vow down nearly 120 feet, and has /or some time been piercing a snbntantial body of stone j the quartz raised therefrom amounting to about 30 tons is a splendid sample* and allows gold freely. It is intended to continue the sinking to a depth at which tbe Energetic low ley el will be reached before any stoping oat is commenced. The good people of Boatmans intend to throw some interest into the forthcoming 'County election of a member for that Ruling and the prospects of each of the three condidates nominated are being diligently looked after. At their meetings' the candi* Vintes will bo called 'upon to explain their views fully upon ait the leading politioal unJ social questions which have in the post now, or may at any future time agitato the human mind. SlrCashion will address hi* constituents at the Union Hotel, Capleston, pn Thursday night, at 8 o'clock. An accident which might have been at* tended with very disastrous consequences, occurred in the Hopeful mine yesterday afternoon. Tt appears that a number of hands were driving from the Welcome level io connect with the foot of an old shaft sunk in the Hopeful ground some years ago. It was known that t6e nhaft oontaiced water, and all due precautions wore therefore taken as tbe work approached the point of junction, Ihe intention being to let the water down" a disused pass. But immediately that a vent was made a volume of poisonous gas eecaned into tbe mine, knocking the ' foremost 'men down and rendering them insensible. AssWanae was at onoe attracted from other parts of the mine, but it whs some time before any one could reach the lace owing to the foulness of the air. After a time the men 'were reached and wero found lying near the face motion* less and quite insensible. Upon being carried out the sufferers soon recovered consciousness, but had to )be' curried home, and are novf progressing fdvdrably; l! No is jury was Uotte to the /nine. ' • .' ■' j ' The following rrport of ijie Catholic School, Reefton, busbeen received from Mr \y. C. Hodgson. School Inspector, Nelson :— /• Reefton, April 22nd, lßßl.~The Fey. D. P. parew, Reefton. — Sir,- At your request, and with the permission of Jthe Nelson Education Board I have this day inspected St. Joseph's School. I was well pleased with what I saw there. None of the uniriiitakeable s : gns ol n well-f aught and wtllWdered' school were w.uitiig. Tho time< table was carefully drawn up, so as to provide for each scholar W.ig fully occupied. The style of teaching was energetic and thorough, the master being able to secure ilie iitienlion of his pcbolars Ihro'ugliout every lesson. My object, on t])JB occasion, was raiher to observe the nieilx-d of teaching")' untied, thun to test :>i'cur;.tcly the attui. nicnts of the scholars, fliii h tan oi ly be done by a fuivnal examin- ■ U'-T, -uu'ii >)3 I jiu pose unJu'taking if tim-

will admit, on .my next visit toEeefton. It may be of service, however, to point out a few matters that appear to me to require amendment. As a rule.^the children speak very indistinctly, I had much difficulty in following their reading,;or in catching their answers to£ue»tionfc.put by the toaster, who, indeed, wai^ften eqtitt^^'a loss with myself to make out what his pupils were saying. In the junior department I did not observe that any attempt was being made, either to explain the lessons, or to get any explanation from the scholars, the work being, apparently, confined to hearing, reading, and spelling. The soholars were yery insufficiently provided with books, this being entirely due, as I was informed, to the reluc- , tance of parents to incur the small outlay necessary. Although the floor space is ample, the desks are badly placed and badly constructed, so that time is unavoidablyjlost, and confusion created, when the classes are moved, Sixty-two scholars were present, a number for which the teaching'staff, consisting of a master and on assistant mistress, is quite sufficient, The school work is now being carried on*in strict conformity with the requirements of the standards, as* prescribed in the Regulations of the Education Department. Thisthgjll greatly facilitate the work of examining, I huvettbe more pleasure in expressing a favourable opinion as to fib* present conduct of St. Joseph's School, because, on a former occasion, IJfelt it my duty to report on its then management in terms which, however justified by the fact*, may have 'appeared] to%ome unnecessarily severe.— l am, sir, your obedient servant.— W, C. ITodGSOk, Inspector of Schools, for the districts of kelson and Maryborough.'' . We elsewhere publish the memorial of registration of the Lyell Creek Extended Company. The Welcome Company had a general cleaning up yesterday, with the tru^y splettdid return of 1.51£0z 16ilwt of retorted gold. The gold will be melted to-day, after which the directors will meet. I Mr James Pee has handed parcels of Tas* manian quartz to Mr Beeche and Mr Caples respectively, to be tested, and has "received the following reports :— Mr P- Q. Caples reports as under— Reefton, May 13th, 1881.— To Mr James Dee, Tasmania. Dear Sir — No. 1 Sample.— The stone submitted to me for a practical test for gold per ton from the « Boyal Mint,' Tasmania, taken from the surface, 60ft south from the main workings, gave at the rate of 7oz lOdwt 3gr per ton. The stone is of a very easy kind to crush, and en* tirely free from any minerals that would in" ter ere with ordinary battery amalgamation. No 2 Sample. This sample, taken from jthe same mit c from the workings next thetunrel gave a ieturn at the rate of 9oz ldwt 19gr per ton* I examined both samples carefully with a magnifying glass, but could not detect any gold in the stone before being crushed, the quartz from the Boyal Tastnan ''Mine, Tasmania, taken from near the surface, gave at the rate of 19oz lOdwt 21gr of gold per ton. This test was made without the aid of fire or chemicals, and therefore any ordinary battery would obtain the same result, provided the stone operated upon was of the same quality, fairly taken from the mine. Before oushing I examined carefully for gold but could not detect more than one fine speck. The' minerals in the stone are magnetic and sulphurets of iron— about one per cent., and with ordinary care will not inters fere with quicksilver amalgamation. P. Q. Caplbs. Mr Beeche reports as follows : — Beef* ton, 17th May, 1881.— Mr James Dee— Dear Sir,— l have tested the four samples of stone submitted to me, the treatment having been made in the ordinary way (i c.) battery treatment, crushing and amalgamating. The firet sample marked, Boyal Mint, Mount Cameron — '• stone taken from the cap of the reef," yielded at the rate of 9ozs 6dwts 16grsper ton. No. 2 taken from the same reef at a depth of nine feet, yielded at the rate of llozs 13dwfs Bgrs per ton, in neither of these samples could I detect the color of gold before treatment. No 3 sample' marked "Royal Tasman, Mount Cameron, taken from a depth of 30 feet from the surfice." This quartz I particularly examined, with and without a glass, and could not perceive gold, and I was therefore greatly astonished to find it yield at the rate of 37oz* sdwt 16grs per ton. No 4 sample marked " New Chum, Nine-mile Springs." Th*s stone showed gold, but nothing comparatively speaking, to what it yielded, as it gave the enormous return of 3920zs per ton.— l herewith setid rou a card with the gold from each separate test. — 1 am, dear sir, yours, $w , Joh* B. Bbechb. j ' * The West Coast Times says :— Mrs Emily M'Gahey, wife of the man who now lies in the Hokitika Gaol charged with the murder of Bell, arrived in town by the coach from Chriitchuroh on Saturday last. Soon after her arrival, she went to the police station, and confessed to Sergeant Moller that she bad wilfully set fire to her husband's house at Larry's Creek, in the month of December Just. It appears from her story, that funds Were subscribed to enable her to leave Reef* ton, and that she went to Westport and from that port took ship for Lyttelton. She 0%---taineJ an engagement as servant to a family in Amberley, by whom, «he states, she was very kindly treated. She was, however, constantly disturbed by the apparitions of her 'husband and the znurdeied man Bell. These "ghostly visitors urged upon her to make atonement,' 'and as Bhe could not bear their continued' reproaches, she determined to come back to the' coast by the first opportunity, and deliver herself up to justice. This she has done as just now related, at,d Serjeant Moller arrested her, as he was bound to do, upon a charge of arson. She also informed Serjeant Moller that she asked the spirit of the murdered man whether she should take her own life, but was advised to come over here and confess what she had done. Her statement was minuted, and she said she had walked twelve miles in order to burn down her house, which she resolved should never become the property of the mortgagee, after all her hard work to make a home fcr herself. She will, if well enough, be brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, whetf a remand will be asked for by the police, probably with a view of air-ertainin'g more precisely her mental condition. ' : One of tlia most beautiful traits in the eolorral working man (remarks the Observer) is the unquestioned faith with which he receives the verdict of a British jury. At a quarter-past 10 on Friday ißOrninir no one would hare spoken to Procofly or touched b. 13

hand, much less have • shouted ' for him. At half-past hundreds were vicing with each other for the honor, and doing their level best to celebrate the wretched man's release from prison by making him blind drunk. The Directors of the' unfortunate City, of Glasgow Bank, says a contemporary, seem to be flourishing. From a correspondent in Scotland we learn that the manager is living in the Modern Athens *as bright as ever.' Potter-is also located there in a fine mansion. Inglis, another Director, is a factor for a Scottish nobleman in London. Another resides in a magnificent house near Stirling, and gives stato banquets j while another has built a beautiful palace on the shores of Lake Geneva. Garibaldi, in a letter to the Seclo calls attention ia his usual style to one of the greatest evils [attendant upon the systems of universal military service. Of all the emigrants landing in New York t it is declared that ' the most deformed, ricketty, dirty, wretched, and thievish r are the Italians.' Too true, says Garibaldi, and whyP Because the Boyal Cuirassers, the Royal Carabinieri, the soldiers ol all {arms, the gendarme?, the police, and the monks must all be picked men. The flower of the population being thus doomed to compulsory or voluntary celibacy, ' what remains to propagate the Italian race ? The narroWtycjieftted, the riSketty, tfcie/Bcrufolous, the deformed, the lame»*n^ all that sort of people. Garibaldi only] 'repeats the warning which Haeckel years ago addressed to the rulers of Germany when bejtold them that the principle of universal 'military service might strengthen a nation for a time ; but it ensured its ultimate degeneracy by practically decreeing 'the survival of the unfittest.' TboTaranaki Budget says :— A large shark, fifteen feet Ion?, encountered the wha'eboat Faugh-a-Ballagh while out in the roadstead on Sunday morning. The monster attaoked the boat and seized hold of the steer-oar, capsizing the coxswain, and taking a piece out of the oar of fully eight inches. Making a second appearance alongside the boat, the shark was rewarded with two severe thumps on the head from the stroke«dar of the boat and then disappeared.. The Western Star says that in the Chinese quarter in that town it is no unusual thing to see two or three girls and a similar number of boys about ten or twelve yean of age prowling about the residences of- Chinese with the greatest familiarity, encouraged thereto by friendly attentions of the inmates. The Star cautions the parents, and advises them to take greater care of their children. From his place on the Bench at the Resident Magistrate's Court recently, Mr Whitefoord took occasion to Comment' sharply on a custom that has grown into an entolerable nuisance at that establishment. He said that in every twopenny-halfpenny case that they brought into Court many of the counsel employed took every opportunity 1 they could force to speak. They spoke on introducing their cases ; they spoke on concluding their cases ; they spoke, if they(got a ohance, on every law point that could be raked up during the conduct of their cases, and every oue^ claimed a light of! replying to every one else until at last (the Courtjhad comedo belittle -better than a debating club for the discussion of frivolous -questions and the waste of time. Gentlemen knew perfectly well that the liberty they thus took was a license not allowed them, by the Act which regulated proceedings there. He hoped that whenever be occupied the Bench gentleman would strictly conform their practice to the rules laid down in the Act. A telegram in the Australasian states that letters have been forwarded to the two racing clubs in Adelaide, signed by owners of horses and book-makers in Melbourne, stating that they will not run their horses or bet on the Adelaide race meetings where the totalizator is used. At Cherra Poejari,,lndia, although it does! not rain at all during' November and December, and less than 5 inches in three other months, the fall during the year amounts to 608 inches, or over 50 feet. The editor of the Schlesisohe Yolkszeiting has been sentenced to a week's imprisonment for having published an article in his journal stating that the Jews use the blood of Chris* tian infants in their Pussover ceremonies. The Tararua was valued at #19,000, and we understand is insured for £14,000, £9000 of which is insured in English offices. The sufferings endured by some of the miners on the road to the Wilcannia rush, New South Wales, were most terrible, and some extraordinary devices were resorted to in order to save life. Here is one extract from a letter published :^y the Dubbo Six* press* :<-?* On Sunday we got a sleeping lizard and sacked its blood, and we found three young ones in it, and ate them with relish, but they did not do so muoh good.' The travellers were walking through 'the desert ' without water from a quarter to 4 on Friday morning until 10 o'clock on Monday. Their predicament may be imagined. They arrived at Wilcannia in the last stage of exhaustion, almost naked, and od the verge of madness. ..■ His Grace, Duke of Manchester! is bat the seventh Duke of the name. He hits no lets than seven fat Church Livings in his gift, is 57 years of age, and he owns 27,000 acres of land yielding him £39,000 a year alone. Besides getting £230 a year from the Army vote as an ox -Colonel in the army, he is a Colonel of Militia and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Hunts. His land is in three counties, and lets for 20s per acre. He is a good-natured man with modern idiosyncraoies attached to Ducal ' perquisites,' "and, in common parlance, would never set the Thames on fire ; had he to earn hw own living. The necklace now being executed in Paris for Sarah Beruhardt is near completion, and is considered one of the finest specimens of the j' weller's art of the nineteenth century It is of the flat shape so mucli worn of late years — a mere bund worn round the throat of the kind called collier de chien. It is composed of two rows of magnificant bril* Hants about an inch and a quarter aparf, between which a wreath of field fljwors in

precious stone?, representing the natura colors of the rustic blossoms, seems to flow with the greatest ease and grace imaginable. The minute poppies are composed of rubies, the cornflowers of sapphirlll the marigolds of topaz, and so on, wHr^the leaves are of emeralds. * No two flowers, are alike,] and altogether this necklace is pro* nounced one of the finest composed during this generation, General Booth, of the 'Salvation Army,' says a contemporary, has despatched a •Captain' named 'Sutherland' to Australia to commence a campaign. There are 174 stations and 963 officers wholly em* ployed.- Last year they held 166,000 services and £17 699 were raised and expended in con* nection with the movement. Their paper, the 'War Cry/ has now a circulation of 120,000. Lady Egerton Tumour, an English lady of fortune, now in New Zealand, is said to contemplate visiting Victoria, to judge of the colony as an emigration field for the English poor. — Oh Thursday"(says the Herald) upwards of 600 (air daughters of Eve were weighed upon Fairbanks scales at the Exhibition, which have been awarded four prises of the first order of merit. The weights of the ladies ranged from i#rftlb%lißt 2lb. Tfl&y from the^he^hborhood of, Yackandandah kicked thi beam at the latter figure. Kate Kelly (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Ararat Advertiser) has been once more in Melbourne. This time, it is said, that the remnant of the family came down to endeavour to get back Mrs Skilliau's selection/ which was forfeited for non-pay-ment or because of the outbreak. The Kellys are said, to be very poor, having nothing but the bit of land to depend upon, and the Government will restore the selection. Kate, Mrs Skillian, Mrs Kelly, and several others, all live together at the historic farm at Greta.