THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1881.

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

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1881.

Mr H. Thomas is the holder of Lord Burleigh, and Mr T. Crumptou of Avernus in Tonk's sweep, and King of Trumps has fallen to Miss Alice M'QafSn. The sitting of the District Court opened on Monday morning, but came tp a rather abrupt and unexpected ending on the same evening. The case of M'Lean v. Keep-it-Dark Company, in which no less than five counsel were engaged, was fully expected to last oyer several days, but as will be seen by our report, tbe action came to an end before any evidence was given by the defendants The remaining business was light and soon disposed pf, and the Court adjourned at 10 p.ni* Judg9 Broad left for Westport yesterday morning. We notice that the Ferro^photo Company advertise thejr intention to depart in a few | days. Judging by the number of customers who have visited their gallery, we imagine tb.3 company to haye given general satisfaction. The defendants in the case of M'Lean v. Keep-it-Durk Company, heard in the- District Court yesterday, take just exception to the poinment which appeared in the Inanga* I hua ITerald of yesterday concerning the case. It is therein stated that " As a matter of fact tbe contractors were directed to cease raising stone, the result of working the same not being considered as satisfactory." As tb.e defendants were no/; called upon to give evidence, none of the allegations of the plaintiffs could be fairly spoken of as " a matter of fact," until the evidence for the other side had been heard. Again, the manner in which tbe ground of action is given is equally hostile tp the defendants, and wide of the facts. The same remarks apply to the comment which appeared in tbe paper in question in reference to the case of Heslop v. National Bank, the whole of which is painted in undisguised enmity to the bank. Thorough some unfortunate bungling our u'ual telegrams did not reach us last night. The explanation probably is that yesterday being a holiday in the Government service, our agent overlooked the fact that the ofiice hoprs at the telegr iph ofiice were al- _ ■ j"* -* t. i*i tered. Mr Levin, in his address at Wellington, took a cheery view of affairs. He said M This country is full of resources ; it has responded nobly to the call made to save its credit, and showed it was able to more than meet calls. With care and thrift be had no doubt of a triumphant future.' It is one of the things not generally known says the Otago Daily Times that migratory birds sometimes visit New Zealand shores all the wny from Australia. At present half-a--dozen Australian swallows are located at Moeraki Point and the same bird has been S3en in former days about the Clutba district. Two pr three Australian ducks haye been shot here, one of which is now in the Museunj. In an ortjele pp the late Earl of Beaconsfield tbe Auckland Stat says ; — Tbe title wili die wMi its first holder, Earl Beaconsfield having neither heir apparent nor heir presumptive. His wife, who was 49 when he

married her. and who lived 33 years afterwards, hnd no issue. The Earl's only relation is his brother, Ralph Disraeli, Deputy Clerk of Parliaments, who had one son Coningsby, born in 1867. Some time ago the Queen offered to make the title go to his brother, hut Earl Beaconsfield declined. A Wakiara paper has the following ;— •* A singular accident happened to Rewi on his way to the Hikuraugi meeting. He fell down a precipice 70 feet deep, from which he was taken pp insensible by Messrs Ross, Thompson and ? Mokau -Jones.' Rewi when he recovered consousnoss, asked to be dipped in the Funui River, and afterwards found that he had recovered the use of hia left arm which hud been for some time previously paralysed. Rewi was carried back to his residence at Puni, where he remains for the present.' Considerable interest appears to he manifested in the forthcoming sculling match between Heara of Wellington and White of Mercury Bay. It will be pulled off at Wellington in July. The Times says :— A meeting of Hearn's supporters was held at the Pier Hotel last ™gh-> when the amount of the challenge money, viz., £100, was guaranteed in the room. It was arranged to alter the day which had been previously fixed for the race to the 9th July instead of 25th. Tbe day fix d falls on a Saturday, and should the weather be favourable there is little doubt hut that a number of other pulling events will take place. A committee consisting of Messrs Balkin, Hayes, Stewart, and George Fisher was appointed to arrange any preliminaries which may be found necessary in connection with the match , The New Zealand Tablet has a letter from its Wellington correspondent strongly attacking the Duke of Manchester in connection with the Orarge deputation whioh recently waited upon him. It also denounces his Excellency the Governor for allowing Government House to be used for the purpose. During the month of April, nine persons filed in the Supreme Court, Wellington, declaration** of insolvency. Eight ofthe in* solvents were residents in the city and one belonged to Featherston. Last month there were thirteen bankruptcies) in February, four, and January sixteen, making in all 42 insolvencies during the foil** months, 37 of which occurred in the city. The Tuapeka paper has been told rather a good story in connection with the collecting of papers for the recent census. Tbe subenumerator, while on his rounds, had occasion to call at a Chinaman's bur, and in filling up the paper, put the question — ' What is your religious belief ; Are you a Christian or a follower of Confucius ? ' John renlied — • No, no. Me Freethinker j all same as Mister Stout. You savee?' The Roman Catholic Vicar General of South Australia, in expressing his disapproval of a proposed procession and demonstration on St. Patrick's Day, said it was unnecessary to state his religious objections, but he repeated his social ones, namely j 'that " these processions or demonstrations will sooner or later call forth counter demonstrations, which may cause ill-feeling and hatred amongst the citizens of tbis hitherto pacific land, as they have caused even in Ireland [and in America.' The reward of £40, offered by certain residents of Waimate to the discoverr of the first payable gold bearing quartz reef in the district, is about to be claimed by a man named Eades, who brought into Waimate re- ' cently a piece of quartz showing the precious metal, and which upon being crushed in a I mortar gave a yield equal to half an ounce to the ton. .The piece tested is Btated to hare heen broken, oft the outcrop of a reef on the Waihao river. In a recent letter the Wellington corres** pondent of the Lyttelton Times writes :— ln wiring you the other day, I quoted from a telegram received from Auckland. I now send you the full telegram (original) merely prefacing that it is from one politician to another, and leaving -. our readers to attach whatever importance they like to it:— Or* mond's speeoh is considered very damaging to Hall's Government. Pitt, of Nelson, has intimated hia intention of joining the Opposition. Whitaker has again tried to get Wood to join the Cabinet : no go. Wood will be in Opposition. Sir Geojjge Grey has arrived, he goes to the Thames to-morrow ; Coromandel after ; nnd south after. It is reported here tbat Ministers and the Governor have had "another rumpus. Uneasy rumors about the action of Sir William Fox and Parris reach me from Hawera. Hurst's libel case against Wickham is loo' ed upon as fishing for an apology. Both Whitaker and Why te are getting very unpopular in the Waikato, notwithstanding that a few hundreds additional have been sanctioned by Oliver for tbe Whatawhata road, 1 * A native of Dundee, Miss Baxter, a sister of the late Sir David Baxter, has given the sum of £120,000 towards the founding of a College in her native town. To this sum a Dr Baxter and his wife, have resolved to add £10,000, making the total of £180,000. A committee of 60 gentleman has been formed to obtain further subscriptions, and carry out the intentions of the generous donors. It is intended that Science and Art classes ••hall form a leading feature ia the future e_*» j-_blishment. A friend of George Elliot, in speaking of the deep tinge of melancholy in her books, says that one of ber most constant thoughts turned on the waste of force in the world. One of the most anc'ent Jewish poms known has been found among the Hebrew antiquities in the British Museum (says the Jewish World.) Dr Ginsburg, referring to it in a speech which he made at the last conn ference ofthe Palestine Exploration Fund, said : ' A few days ago a gentleman in tbe British Museum, taking casts of coins, brought to me a coi n which has been in the Museum for years. On this coin we have, so far as I can decipher, Jehu in his carriage. There he is, and tbe name Jehu in the old Hebrew characters, exactly resembling the letters on fhe Moabite stone, only in fact more perfectly written. You will find Jehu consisting of

three letters. On the right hand side is Yod and He, *nd on lhe leftehand side of the figure is the vowel Vuu, making Jehu. Then you have the chariot ; and I liave the authority of the gentleman at the head of the numismatic department of tho Britidi Muse, urn for saying thnt it is tbe only winged chariot that has ever been discovered on any coin. Putting the date at the very latest, the period of tbis com would be about 400 years before Christ.'