THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAT 23, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 May 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAT 23, 1881.

A serious accident happened on Saturday morning in the Golden Fleece Extended, to an old employee named Thomas Ben/ose,, who unfortunately got bis leg fractured by a slip from the hanging wall falling on him, It appears that the morning shift had just been relieved, and the men who came in had set to work after having sounded the face and found it, fo all appearances, safe and' solid. Penrose, after baring taken down a smalj block of quartz pointed out to him by the previous shift, was in the aot of handing down a set of timber to the men working in the lower slope, when a piece of rock of insignificant djmensjons slipped from the hanging wall in the stope without the slightest warning, and inflicted the injury mentioned. The sufferer was at onoo taken up from the workings, and brought to town in the ordinary way, and placed in the Hospital. A M r Mitford delivered an essay the qfher day before the West port Literary Society, on the subject of Afghanistan,' and some trouble seems to have grown out of the occasion. This is what the Westport Times says :— The YicePresident, (who occupied the chair) after complimenting the essayist upon his treatment upon the subject, led off }n defence of \he Liberal policy in abandoning Oandahar. The Rev Mr Munro followed in a speech which, to pay the least, was injudicious, and entirely out of place. He virulently attacked the late Eapl Beaconsfield, his foreigh policy, and especially that in respect to Afghanistan, and trad peed the British army ; and stated that he held a thorough contempt for Disraeli, the British army, and the late Czar of Russia. He reproduced the oft-repeated phrase that Disraeli was a political mountebank, eyer anxious to work wonderful ph^nges, and that his desire seemed to be to ' set all Europe in a fiatne.' British soldiers, as a class, Mr Monro said, were 'a set of unprincipled villains. 'and he could speak from experience. Rev. Mr Cross replied, stating that Beaconss field's name was respected all the wotld over as * qne qf the best • political leaders England eyer had,' and that British soldiers Were always allowed to be ' the noblest fellows that ever breathed.' Mr G. West on also spoke on tfye L b9ral -Conservative side. The essayist was accorded a vote of thanks. His Honor Judge Broad, with Messrs Perkins and Warnar, arrived from Grey mouth per coach on Saturday evening. The sitting of the District Court will open this morning, before His Honor Judge Broad. The list of piyil cases is an unusually heavy one, and in the ordinary course will occupy the best, part of the week. The following are the cases :— Heslop v. National Bank; Greeve and Gothajfd y. Shaw ; John Dawson v. Shaw ; Alcorn v. Shaw ; M Lean and others v. Kieep-it-Dark Company. There are fi/e applicatipns for orders of d : scharge und< r the Bankruptcy Actr applications to confirm the appointments of liquidators in the Union and Victory Companies. Letters of Administration will also bo applied for in tbe estate of John Vjftlliams, and that of William Newman.

It is notified that all debts due to the estate of John Bell, deceased, intestate, mast be paid immediately to Mr Gh C. Bowman, the local agent of the Public Trustee. It is notified that \Tr Oliver, Minister of Public Work*, has resigned his portfolio, and it is believed that Mr Hall, the Premier, will take the position until the Hou?e meets. The Canterbury Times in referring to those who shipped by the Tararua, says that Mr Chauncy Burgett left New Zealand with the intention of investing in the tin mines in Tasmania. No body is believed to have yet come ashore from the wreck answering to the description of Mr Burgett. The election for the return of one member to represent the Biding of Boatman's in the Inangahua' County "Council, will take place to<day, and if the interest taken in the contest is ouly proportionate to the s'ze of the placards put out on behalf of one of the can* didates, there will be some skin and hair flying about. The candidates bave been re* duced to two, namely Messrs Feehan and Billett. Nnthing fresh seems to be known ,as to the number of candidates likely to take the field on the coming occasion. Mr Fitz-G-erald's candidature has already been reduced to a matter oftcertainty, and it is now stated as a fact that Mr Woolcock will also enter the list, but as the latter gentleman has not yet made any direct communication on the subject to the public, his real intcn* tion is still in some doubt. AMr Morris, of Nelson Creek, is casually spoken gof as likely to offer himself for election, but until Nelson Creek obtains the feparate power of? returning a member, we are afraid that Mr Morris will have to rest contented, The Grey Valley seat recently held by Mr Masters has been formally proclaimed vacant, and Mr Stratford, 8.M., Grey mouth, has been appointed Returning Officer for the coming election, the date of which has not yet been fixed. The Tararua inquiry at Dunedin appearl to have taken agratber ugly turn. It came out in thef evidence that the Union Company admitted the boats and life-saving apparatus on board the ressol were only for 136 pas* sengers. whilst the Government surveyor's declaration certified that it was sufficient for 224. The Court will bring the matter under the notice of the Government. A telegram from'Cooktown announces that the steamer Glamis Castle, arrived there on the 18th instant, from gong Kong, with 850 Chinese, most of whom are en route for New Zealand. Dr Skae's case has been duly considered by the Executive at Wellington, and it has been decided to give six month's notice of the termination of his engagement. George Darrell's ' Transported for Life ' is a houling frost at 'Frisco, says the Bulletin. It WBS liberally laughed off the stage. The Australian authonactor is now musing on the mutability of human affairs, and it is at length beginning to dawn on him that all of bis success as an actpr and as an author, and very much of his popularity, tyq owed to his late wife, Mrs Robert Eare. Refreshments for judges at the late Sydney International Exhibition cost £689. , The people of London spend about ten thousands daily in cab«hire. Magistrates in England are enforcing the anti-lottery laws very rigidly. Even the old fashioned innskeepers raffles of Christmas fare have subjected those holding them to penalties, The young lady who objected to be embraced by her lover was gravely informed by him that she was putting a restraint upon the liberty of the Press. Recent Social scandals in Paris (says the Home News) have revealed the existence of certain clandestine associations, which have improved blackmailing insq a perfect trade. It has always been thought that estoblwhments of this kind were only to be found in the feuiltyqns of Emile Goboriau, Xivier de Montepin, and other prolific sensational novelists ; but it now appears that ingenious individuals have chosen as a calling ot discover and keep account of any dangerous or derogatory actions in the life of well«known persons or tho»e Jikely to become so, in the sole view of driving base bargains with the victims at some given period. It will be difficult for the police to reach these occult organisations, which flourish in mystgry ; but their effect has been clearly felt in some late painful oases, and anj one in Paris conscious of a skeleton in a cupboard will live in dread that the secret blackmailers may bave obtained the key of that receptacle, and will assail him with threats to throw it open to the world unless he purchases their silence at an enormous rate. Numerous meetings continue to be held in the United Stated in - support of the Irish Land League* Mrs Panel),, mother of Mr Parnell, was among the speakers at an assembly at Brooklyn on March 3rd. A movement has been set on foot at Philadephia with a view to the formation of a Central Union of the Land League. According to the • Irish Wojrld ' the Land League Organization in America sent £1200 to Ireland last week. The total receipts are over £14,000. and it was expected that by St. Patrick's Day they would reach £20,000. There are now 919 branches of the League in America. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at New York says that the breach between the two j factions of the League organisation grows wider every day ; and the prospect now is that the party will be divided into two camps, who will fight each other as bitterly as the old Feniana. If you wish to polish up your furniture, mix equal patts of vinegar, spirits of turpentine and sweet oil in a bottle, and apply with a flannel cloth, rubbing afterwards with a chamios or piece of silk, It is better than a coat of varnish. An American editor acknowledges the re* ceipt of a bottle of brandy forty-eight years old, and says—'! This brandy is so old that we fear it cannot live much longer." Nothing Bets so wide a mark between a vulgar and a noble soul as the respect and reverential love of womankind. A man whj

is always sneering at a woman is generally a profligate or a bigot. Emboldened by the success of their railways, winch are paying 4 to 5 per cent, the New South Wales Government propose an addition to their lines of 800 miles at a cost of nearly £8,000,000. An exchange says there are some unpleasant statistics connected with London life. We pay about a million and a quarter for our police, and having more constables than Canterbery, Durham, Hereford, and Licbfield all combined, have free and independent voters. But even with this supply our metropolis is increasing much .faster than its guardians. Last year they added 230 to the police, while the number of streets cons Btructed amounted to several miles. There were 21,589 houses in London last year that had no existence the year before. Of course, the growth of property m9ans the growth of thieves. It is a kind of rule of three sura. More than £100,000 worth of goods were stolen, and, notwithstanding all our police, only a quarter of it was recovered. But it is not property that is lost \ People are lost ; they ' disappear.' They disappeared last year to the number of 12,000. But they were recovered to a large extentrecovered or acco^bte% for. Some were murdered; some comittittedT suicfie (240) j •ome went to sea ; and some quietly came back again, and * all was forgiven.' Still, on the whole, when December was reached, there were 166 ofyrhom no account could be given. Their disappearance was a mystery, and remained a mystery.- And this leaves out of account the 'agreeable statistics of street accidents: When we read that 124 were killed) and about 3.000 wounded, the campaign seems to have becn^carried on with very creditnble activity. There is a new journal in New York city which might be a welcome visitor in families afiScted with a superfluityjof cheerfulness, if there are any such. It is culled the Sbroud, and is devoted to the interests of the undertakers. On the right hand side of tbe heading is an engraving of Father Time, with his ever busy sickle ready for the stroke. On the left hand side is a representation of a hearse just entering the followed by the mourners, and between are the words, •The Hour Cometh.' Tbe general get up of the paper and its contents wquld^chUl the soul dfsYorrick, The European Mail gives a description of a disgusting discovery made recently on the premises of Mr Wiles, potted meat manufacturer, Winsoni Green, Birmingham. On entering th« premises, Superintendent Birchley and Inspector Latham found in the 1 manufactory ' the steam machine in operation, and about 13001bs of diseased horseflesh, mutton, &0., in varions stages, from tbe * raw material ' to the ' finished ' potted meat sausages, saveloys, savoury ducks, German polonies. &o. There were nearly 2001bs weight of sausages recently made, and coloured with redf&chre to give them a fresh appearance, Two diseased sheep dressed but uncut were in the manufactory, besides quarters, breasts, * legs, and shoulders of diseased mutton, together with upwards of 200 lb weight of diseased* horseflesh cut into small pieces, cans of recently made ported meat, the meat being mostly horseflesh horribly diseased and coloured with red ochre, large German/ polonies of equally unwholesome, if not poisonous material, and a large number of cans' ready to receive as potted meat the strange Compound. The borough and oounty medical officers immediately condemned the meat, remarking that they had never seen such a disgusting collection. A tin of red ochre was also found in the loathsome manufactory. A son of Mrs Dollimore, of Lyell, a?ed about 13) had his leg accidentally broken on Saturday. The Hospital boat, with the sufferer aboard, left Lyell for Westport on Tues Jay morning. The frequency of ac« eidents in the district of late is becoming something remarkable. It is not impossible that before our coalfields are exhausted we shall have discovered some means of doing many things without that at present invaluable fuel — at least, ia regions where the sun shines. We have previously given an account ofM. Mouobot's solar engine, but tbat extraordinary method of utilising the heat of the sun has been epHpied by an improvement devised by M, Fiflre. It is stated tbat the latter Las gone so far as to utilise 80 per cent of the available heat of the sun's rays at Paris, and has actually constructed an apparatus with which he pumped water to a height of ten feet at tbe rate of over twenty gallons a minute. As in Mouchot's sqlar engine a reflector receives the light and concentrates it upon a .boiler— in this case containing nearly ninety gallons of water, which,, upon a clear Paris sky , begins to boil in about forty minutes and has sufficient pressure to drive the engine working the pump. In the not distant future, then tropical countries will be the places were motive power can be had for next to nothing.