THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 30, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 30 May 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 30, 1881.

The time which has elapsed since the resignation of Mi* Masters and the issue of tlm writ; to 611 the taciuicT, having been sufficiently lnrg to enable Mr T. S. Weston to qualify himseif as a candidate, he has accepted the invitations made to him from different parts of the electorate, and to-day announces his intention of contesting the forthcoming election. Mr Weßton's a^dres?, as telegraphed through on Saturday, last, appears elsewhere in our columns. Mr Q. G. FifzGerald addressed the electors of Beefton in Dawson'a Hall, on Saturday evening lost, Mr Mirfin in tin chair. The room was crowded, and the speech attentively listened to, and at the conclusion Mr Brenndn moved an 1 Mr C. M'Gaffin sreonded a motion that Mr FitzGerald was a lit and proper person to represent tlio constituency in Parliament, which on being put to the meeting was carried unanimou3'y. The report will appear in our next issue. At tl'e half-yearly meeting of the sharehol* dera of the Caledonian Extendod Company, held nt Mr Wise's office, on Saturday evening, Mo.'srs Gissing. Gross, Burr and Show were clouted directors for the ensuing twelve months, and Mr R. Houlston, wis appointed iiurlitor. At. a directors' meeling held sub srqurnt'y, the mining nnina«er wis instructed to continue the pross^cut now being driven out a dutancp of 95 feet ov thereabout, which according; to Mr Atluneon's survey, sluuild lTiio'- flic line of No. 2 South Larry's reef. We have to contradict the styfetne: t irnde

by the Inancnliui Herald on Sat urttay,— Hint the Just 'in-Time Company, Boa tuning, have raised the charge for water to Feeche and Co.' from £1 to £3 per week, and "as a further obstruction to the Utter allowed a vast body of tailings to run to wnste." As is usual when these splenetic statements are made, tbo paragraph winds up with " If thesa statements are correct, etc." The object of these attacks on the management of both this company and others on the eve of meetings of shaueholders, is thoroughly under* stood by local shareholders. According to the Benalli Standard, there is not the slightest doubt that the formation of another gang of bushrangers is being meditated in the Greta district. We have it, says that pnper, from most reliable authority that the Kelly sympathisers have recently spoken to this effect openly, and the general actions of these poople infer that some secret work is occupying their attention. The sympathisers' rendezvous — Mrs Kelly's house — 13 seldom empty, and frequently it happens that the number of visitors to this domicile is very large. Many threats of revenge have been made since the tragedy at Glenrowan, and grave fears are daily entertained of ano l her outbreak. Although the police authorities have provided both Greta and Gienrowan with police protection, there being four mounted men at each place, the presence of the constates does not appear to entirely 'suppress the unlawful practises of the inhabitaujte^pf these hot-beds of crime. Horsei stealing ia said to be again indulged in, and it is carried on in such a manner that it is difficult for the members of the force to ascer* tain the culprits . , . . Under existing circumstances, it is necessary that all precautions should be taken by the police in this dis'rict, in case of a sudden oubreak, which ia threatened, and t!ey should be prepared Ip meet any emergenco that may arise. The actions of the lawless inhabitants of Greta bear a suspicious character, and speak badly for the state of things ia this localily. Some of the more adter.turous members of the Alpine Club, who begin to feel that they have now exhausted the Alps, have made known their intention of exploring the high mountains in the Canterbury Province, New Zealand. Mount Cook (remarks a Gloucester paper), will quite suite their taste, as it has an elevation of between 13,000 and 14,000 feet, and has never yet been scaled. The Australians mako tours to New Zealand to see the scenery, just as English and Ameri* cans tourists rush to Switzerland in the summer months. A cash -box robbery took place at the office of the Observer, Auckland, on Saturday evening last. The proprietor, Eathbonc, locked up the week's takings, £69, of which £25 was in cheques, nt 5.3 J p m , intending to bank it in the morning, and on coming back to the office after tea, at 6.30, found the . front and back doors open, and the cash-box , taken out and prized open with a chisel belonging to the premises. The cheques were left, and £44 in cash stolen. Apparently it was some one who knew the run of the office, and the habits and movements of the proprietor, We (Morning Herald) are iuformed that most of the missing bo lies could be recovered in a very short time if a boat were sent round to the reef. The people on shore can see many bodies entengled in the kelp some distance from the beach, and are obliged to witness the horrible feast of the seabirds upon the remains of the unfortunate viotirn* of the wreckt As no one in authority aps pears to think it necessary to look after the wants of those who are engaged ia the painful task of recovering the dead, we hope the relief committee will not think it beyond the scope of their duty to take prompt action in the matter. The ketch Good Templar loft for Waipapa recently, taking boats and a party of men \o the Bdne of the wreck. The Government intend to at once commence diving operations at the wreck for the old silver. In an article on the wreck of the Tararua, the Tasmaman Mail gives a list of some of the maritime disasters that have occurred on the shores of Australasia. It says—' Perhaps the worst wa9 the wreck of the emigrant ship Cataraqui, on King's Island, in 1845, whpn 414 lives were lost. The Dunbar disaster at the Gap, near South Head, Sydney, in j 1857, will be remembered by the fact that ! there was only one survivor, Jhonson, out of 120 passengers and crew. Nine years afterward?, singular to say, he rescued the only survivor from the wreck of the steamer Cawarra, at the entrance to Newcastle, 59 persons being drowned. In the wreck of the steamer Admella, on a trip between Adelaide and Melbourne, in 1819, there were 75 persons perished ; while thfl disaster that befel the ship General Grant off the Auckland Isle 3 in 1866. caused the loss of nearly 90 persons. Then there was the loss of the British Admiral off King's Island in 1874, 79 lives lost ; the steamer Gothenburg, wrecked in Flinders Passage in 1876, 102 lives ; and the steamer Dindeiiong off Jervis Bay h 1876 40 lives.' Will it be believed (risks a writer ; n the "European Mail) that in the dincase of Canterbury , whose head receives £15,000 a year, nnd has two palaces to live in, an assistant curate ig to be found who receives the munificent sum of £5 yearly and a furnished house ? Of curates in sole charge, one in the diocese of Norwich receives only £20 a year, and one £30 ; three have an income of £40 : and the numbers gradually increase from that salary to £150 of which their are eighty»three lucky recipients in this richest of all ecclesias* <ical organisations in the world. There are four as'istmt-curates at 4s a week eaih, seventy-one who get less than £1 a week ; and .~ this class, as well as in the former the largest number is found under the amount £150; namely 1109, the next sum in favor being £120, of which there are 1014 recipients. We (Daily Time?) have been f avored with the following extracts from a letter of an Enst Lothian farmer qf standing, dated Murch 22nd, 1881 : — ' In f.ict, land seeios to be cheaper to buy by the acre in England than with you. Mr Long, of the Dundee Advertiser, stated at a meeting lately that In knew of an e?ta(e

in B°rl(sliiri i , of 1830 acres, with a good house and eight cottages, which had been offered for £6700, nml foiled to meet with a buyer. . . As jou will have seen by the papers, we have had a fearful winter, such a one a* I have no recollection of passing through before, We began curling on November 21st, and carried it on, with slight breaks, till March 6thYesterday and to*r?ay we have, a new snowstorm, and as almost all the land is still to be plough for seed, you may fancy the backward state we are in. Farms are being thrown up in many cases, nnd large reductions of rent have been given on some estates to sive the alternative of bankrupt tenants. For my part I take gloomy views indeed of farming prospects in this country, and doubt if land is now worth any rent at all. One English laird I was told of, on good authority, who owns thirty farms, has had them all thrown on his hands together, and he has not a halfpenny to stock them himse'f,' The London correspondent of the New Zealand Times says :— With respect to the infernal mach'nes employed to compass the destruction of the Czar, a statement from Geneva describes them as glass globes filled with nitro-glyeerinc by women, and stoppered with tubes containing an acid. On these bursting, the acid mingles with the explosive compound, and a raorirfhan ordinary effeot ie produced. Almost the entire lawer portion ,of the Czar's body was blown away, and the greatest d iffl ; ul ty^Wil&et jtefieUdfed ' by those who had to dress out the body for the lying in state* I may tell you, as a matter of fact, that as far as cau be ascertained, the Emperor did not, as reported, get out of his carriage to enquire after the wounded by the first exploa)jon. There really was no time j all he said was to his Cossack in attendance, * Give me your handkerchief/ the man replying, 1 Sire, its too dirty ; ' at the same moment the .second explosion took place. Eeport has it that the new Czar has already been threatened. Scarcely had he been Enmeror three dajs before he found a letter on his pillow warning him of death in six v weeks if he does not by that time grant a constitution.— The Princess of Wales accompanies her husband to St Petersburg at her own wish, and contrary, it is understood, to the wish boh of the Queen and of the Government, her affection for her sister overrode political or other considerations. All the members of the House of Denmark are much attached to each other. In former letters I have mentioned how the concurrence of the introduction of steel for ship-buildin?, and the springing up of the active provision trade with America, referred to above, had led to the giving of orders for steamers of gigantic size. Some of these are now leaving the stoeks, and will soon be running. One of them, the Allen liner Parisian, of rather more than 5000 ton-regis-ter, enjoyed for a few days the distinction of being the largest steel vessel afloat. On March 1, however, there was launched from the yard of Messrs J. ami G. Thomson, Clyde-bank a vessel which quite eclipsed the Parisian. This was the Servia, a new Cunard liner, whose gross tonnage is 8500, her measurements being — length. 530 feet ; breadth, 52 feet ; anil depth of hold, 42 feet 9 inches. She can carry 6500 tons of cargo, 1800 tons of coal, and 1000 tons of ballast water, has four decks and a promenade deck, and is divided info sections by nine watertight bulkheads. Her engines are expected to reach 10,500 horse powes indicated. The ship's company will number 200, and she has accommodation for 450 first-class passengers, She is also fitted with permanent berths for 620 steerage passengers, but these can be increased to 2000 if required. The Servia is the largest merchant vessel afloat, next to the Great Eastern. The same builders have now in their yards, also in course of construction for the Cunard line, several other huge steamers— viz , the Aurania, 7500 tons ; the Pavonia, 5500 tons ; and the Catalonia, 4800 tons ; and smaller vessels. The Sydney correspondent of the Ashburton Guardiin writes :— The Orient Com* pany have accepted a contract from the Orange Meat Company — a very wealthy corporation — to carry 150 tons of meat to England every fortnight, at three thousand guineas per trip. The first shipment will be made immediately. So extensive are the new works of the company at Dubbo, they can send 7800 tons of meat home every year, and in order to show their faith in the trade, they have offered a similar contract to the P. and O. Company, in order that the ?ervice may bo weekly. There is no doubt that we are on the eve of an immense trade to the old country in meat.