THE Inangahua Times. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 June 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1881.

The following letter YrbinMr T.S.HVeston reached us last night :— " Yie!d : ng to the solicitations of numerous friends, I have arranged to address the electors of the G-rpy Val'ey before the closing of the poll, By

doing bo I may suffer some little inconvenience through a hurrifcl da^J^||. j\J>utjjtol iß<* ing to the fullest extcmS^the" liind^lf^dif sideration received during my.su yews' resj*/ dencecn the West Coast, I am bound {a throw myself heartily i#td ;thi servicWof, t^ electors, and answer tfc^ deniarid. ft ifl^feSr: the district requires all the help its members can procure to make up for the indifference which during the last two years has been cern*, and t« iltd piWeijity anai^ejfare lof the districtrwbich was at"orie time tue chief nursery of the Colony, and which, under goo^man^m^Wi^Wmimmxm' wealth, and with the advantage of railway from Christchurch, which reward, jfojP jfhe unceasing exertions of Mr Wickes, a few friendfl,flQdnlyß^f^ilppe-toaeeaccQiftplialled >: with the Harbor in Grey mouth and, dogged determination on the part of your represi n« tatives, to have the interest of the district protected, brighter days should ?be> fn ? ,B^or^. fUfy respect for the rninin^'comtnumty as' b*eeli frequently proclaimed, and they and all classes may rest assured that if returned I will do my utmost for them.— T. S. Weston." We elsewhere give a resume of Mr Fit** Gerald's address to the electors of Beef ton. Much of the speech on Saturday night was taken up with reference to matters of Native polioy.jHid the circumstances leading up to , the resignation oi Mir^ircci, Mie late%allvie" Minister, and this our space compels us to 'eliminate. . . Messrs P. Q, Caples and J. Dee left for (Jrey mouth this morning, en route for Tasmania. Mr Caplea has kindly undertaken to furnish ua at an early date with a reliable report upon the Tannanian mines. The next sitting of the Supreme Court at Hokitika has been fixed to be held on the 12th September, when the trial of the prisoner M'Gahey will come on. The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Low Level Tunnel Company was held at Mr Wiee'B office on Monday evening last. A large number of shareholders were present. 5 and the balance-sheet, and djr^ttfK re~j port were read and adopted. Ic was decided to test the leader passed through some time ago, by following the stone for fifteen or twenty feet, and, if considered advisable, to have a small crushing a 4 , the Dauntless battery. A long discussion took place upon the subject of proe^ifng^orfifg mfehifcer^,bnt the discussion wiraiTjoVmJd. '*' *^ vS The man M'Breaty, who is on remand charged with passing valueless cheques, escaped from the Keefton lock-up yesterday morning. It seems that the prisoner had been permitted out of the, jC*]Mo have, a « constitutional^m^t^^rlf^inffl wWw police force was at his breakfast, the man jumped the fence and disappeared; Constable O'Brien was gent down the Biiller road on horse -back, in quest of the runaway. At about 3 p.m., the prisoner wai y sew* coolly walking up Broadway, past the police camp, and Mrs Nevillo, who at once recognised the man, followed him up the street, until assistance was obtained, when the prisoner was, returned £o sa|» lodgings^ The man was smokmg » pip/ e af£?the tiijie^ W; his re-arrest, and marched off to the* logs ' with as much unconcern as though he were going to see somebody else looked up.- "" We have to acknowledge the' receipt of the Lyell Times in its new and enlarged form. The paper is n^j^njyj/pjjo sjje, j*s, printed, and has altogether a very whole-' some appearance. The reading matter is well selected, while the number of healthy advertisements it contains shows that the inhabitants are substantially seconding Mr Smyrk'i enterprise. The absence of a local newspaper has hitherto been a serious drawback to the Lyell, and the hearty support accorded to the new journal proves that the people suitably appreciate its influence. The New York liners have always been reputed for quick passageß,^>tit>oe^qic|eßt ffn| record must now •be^erefli&d to^theftv'bne* Star Liner Britannic, as she recently made the run from New York to Liverpool in six days ten hours. The net cost of the war in Afghanistan including that of the frontier railways, was about twenty-one crores of rupees, or £17 500, 000 sterling. The colony of New Zealand is more richly endowed with local bodies than any other country in the world. It has 63 County Councils, 316 Road Boards, 65 Boroughs, 9 Cattle Boards, 12 Education ' Board'. 13 River Boards, 11 High School Boards, 10 Waste Land Boards, 25 Harbor Boards, and a practically unlimited number of School Committees. Yet in spite of all this machinery (remarks the Wn^aa^H^ald) centralisation is rampant, tne Government mCoWbil is everywhere dominant, and scandals in, colonial institutions are increasing rapidly. There \a a very old superstition among sailors that vessels whose names begin with T are unfortunate. The experience of the Union Company during the last four years affords what Jack would consider strong testimony in favor of his belief. In that time the company has lost three vessels, the names of which all began with T— the Taupo Taranaki, and Tararua. Each vessel met with an accident before its final wreck. The Taranaki was sunk in Tory Channel and was raised again to be finally wrecked near Tauranga. TJie Tnupo shortly before its wreck struck upon a rock and had a marvellously narrow escape from destruction. M&* will be remembered that the wJWftrwas mistaken for the Is&e'ew of an earthquake, and ip was not until the vessel was docked that it was seen how near-^to r U had been . Recently £50§0 jwjfrtb wk(AA * & stolen from the Tararua and all the officers and crew were discharged in consequence. — Hawke's Bay Herald. A coincidence in the temptation to crime recently occurred which is of a curious and unusual order. Two persons were arrested, within a few days of the same v tim£ % /p£ rf tlie/t. One was a man and jthe other -o^^^s*!s^ coincidence was that they both stole to furnish themselves with means for getting married ! They now languish in the solitude of a prison with their matrimonial prospects dimmed,

and probably for eyer obscured. But even £f they tad <|4ap«^ deUctiMt^^iat hippiness 1 |ofeuld^n>y BajPlff a- marriage Tbu,i)jded . A lad nariied John "Brooks discovered a' mm hanging frqm^a sw^ig in ifrotrt'of Mt-J- A. 3^rr'rsbu9^iri Loipoil street Dunedin; He, at bnteelinforVned Con table Saeketfcipf the occurrence, who proceeded to th'e^lace and cut down tlie body. The deceased, who it transpired, was an expressman named Peter Ha£rf fipijd |^;.f^^jig?;'alwfit^tfe '^edtre't'f the "Bwiiigv 'tiini'-'ftofc *f&tn the ground/ A' razor along with the following letter were -/©u^ipth^ 4«c«w€d'frpocLflta i-*r'JL lovi my~ wife and my dear little Jennie and Bertie, but ohi mother Wilson has t^ken, them ? frJm'rae, ib" that rniy Mary will'tie a servant to them. It's all through her advice that Mary left me ; ~rnstead^f tfyln|»*tß T^itd fflatTeYY 6hf "K*Wfff 9 • went between us, she tried to separate us be- \ fore this, and has done so at last. Without my^wife anjl oh^en I oanno^live. L neverinteftdoy io gdto Melboirne.l il iold htatat Fort what my intentions were. I suppose the jury will bring in ' Insanity,' but I am not insane, nor never was. As I write this I see a policeman going into the house so I am off. Goodobye.— Peter H. Kirk.' About a week ago the deceased was summoned by his wife for maintenance. moneys belonging ttf ihe Government, at Hawera, was again arraigned on' a second charge. The trjai lasted the whole day. At about 9 o'clock last evening the jury retired, and after twenty minutes' consideration returned with the verdict of ' guilty,' but recommended the prisoner to mercy on the ground tbaTlhffobf9W!ment were principally to blame, for appointing a man like the prisoner, who appeared to have no knowledge of accounts, with a small salary, as receiver of revenue, when such a large amount a3 over £26,000 had to pass through his hands. Judge Richmond sentenced; the prisoner to five years' penal servitude. > < Bffi> <l u s!*¥ n M f°. w^ich face— European ' or li^ri^||^alfi<ciNkei Maojifclongs w 60fc#n< put, and some confusion appears to exist on the point. We have therefore been requested Ho publish the following question submitted to the Registrar-General, and his reply there' on :— Question x-? 1 W^en a half-caste, one of whose parents is a Maori, contracts marriage with a tta>ri,^i9*-Be,o>aßh4 tobe cotisldeWd as of the natire aboriginal race to whom the provisons of the marriage Act. 1880, do not apply?' Answsr!— 'lf a half-caste has been brought up with one Maori parent as a member of an aboriginal tribe, such halffor the purposes of the Marriage Act, the Act not applying to such persons ; but if the half-caste has .been brought up as an Euros pean, or with the European parent, then of the Marriage Act in case he or she should marry anyone.-tW» R. E. Brown, RegistrarGeneral.' Dr J. M. Qra|yitte, in an interesting, work on 'Sleep -or Sleeplessness ' says, with refenpeej'^ the .disculty*ome find; in s!^^'jP^iigijlEt|y hfips the. performance of the initial act, and the cultivation of a habit of going to sleep in a par* ticular way, at a particular time, will do more to procure regutaVand healthy sleep than any other artifice. The formation of the habit is, 'th'fkh JheJ .rtreltion ; TOli Jidetelopmjent x)f a special centre, or -combination, in the nervous system, which will henceforward produce sleep as a natural rhythmical process. If this were more generally recognised, persons who suffer from sleeplessness of the sort which conASt«>iitt ! .aifia^l,y: i^ei^g;' unable to go to sleep.' would set themselves resolutely to form such a habit.*lt is necessary that the training, shouid be explicit, and include attention to details. It is not very important what a person does with the intention of going; to sleep, bu| he should dftj precisely the. sa»na thhig> in;^ the-- same at- the^Aae'vtfidijions, nigh& after night for a considerable period, Bay three or four weeks at least. For the Sydney tramways there has. just been imported an engine, manufactured by Merry weather. London, that is noiseless and smokeless. Neither fire nor machinery is visible. It turns in its own length, takes a load.*/op- -an- inoliae-of. one in twenty, and travels from eight to ten miles per hour.