The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1881.

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

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1881.

The Hero on Wednesday lust took away about fifty West Coasters, the bulk of whom are bound either for the Mount Browne diggings, Gympie, Tasmania, and the Cape. Edward Long, well-known as a pedestrian, proceeds to Mount Browne, having received very encouraging private accounts from that place from an old West Coast digger. A number of quartz miners proceed to Tasmanian tin and gold mines in quest of employment. The quartz mines at Gympie are turning out splendidly, and at the pre ent time eclipse any field in the Australian colonies in point of productiveness. This news we are able to confirm by the receipt of newspapers from that place, all of which furnibh the most glowing accounts of the prosperity of reefirg enterprise there. It appears that some O.'ago policemen, dismissed from the force about' eighteen'montbs ago, HacJiureachf d the Transvaal, and by the there is ft great demand v for .experience policemen on the ftiamona fields, and almost any number could find immediate encage* ments at 20s per day. This news has led to the resignation of several West Coast mem bers of the force, amongst; them Sergeant O'Malley of Abaura, who left by the Hero on Wednesday. A large crowd gathered on the wharf to witness the departures, and many miners and others amongst them where hoard to express their intention of following in the next trip of the Hero. Amongst the passengers were five Chinamen, who together paid duty on 400ozs of gold. Who after this will saj that the glory of West Coast gully-raking has departed ? The Hero took away gold to the value of nearly £25,000. lfAtthe adjourned extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Lyell Creek Extended Company. Limited, held' at the company's office on Saturday, ft code of rules for the company was adopted. Messrs T. M'Loughlin, William Wateon '. (Dunedin), George Wise, Walter Williams, and H. Cosgrove were elected directors, and Bojd and Harold auditors. The Grey County Council have by resolution approved of the principle of electing the chairman of the council by vote of the ratepayers, and have telegraphed to the representatives of the district to support Mr Fisher's BUI. It . appears that the counter petition against the striking of a firegrate was signed under the Impression that the rate was to be one shilling In the £. ' This is altogether 'a mistake ; the rate is but thrse pence in the £, and except, perhaps, in. the case of the larger property«bqlders, ,the individual payments would be co small as to be hardly felt, i It is certain that the brigade cannot live upon air, and a separate rate is un question* ably the most equitable method of providing it with something more substantial. We understand that Mr W. B. Archer of Boatman's is negotiating for the purchase of the property known as Brandt's Accommodation House and Ferry ,'at the.Landing, on the Buller road. '' Tenders are invited to-day for the driving of a' section of the Low Level Tunnel. Mr Colquhoun, gardener .'announces that he is prepared to arrange for "the ilaying out of gardens, and all work pertaining thereto. He also advertises a prime sample of bone* dust. A large number of mines shortened hands on Saturday last, thus throwing a considerable number of men out employment. The correspondent of the Intransigent in St. Petersburg, who professes to be equally well informed at to the movements in the pajaces, and the plans of the Nihilists, writes that the impress, recently discovered between the leaves of her prayer-book a sheet of paper with a pen-and-ink drawing on each Bide* Both sketches represented a gibbet, on one of which Jesse Hslfman was seen hanging, and on the other Her Majesty. Beneath were written the words, 'An eye for an eye. Your child will meet the same fate as mine.' The Empress is said to have fainted on reading this lugubrious threat. Considerable discussion took place at the meeting of the shareholders of the London Chartered Bank the other day with reference to the way in which the business of the bank has been conducted, and the decrease in the dividend for the Jialf-year. It was suggested that some of the directors should go out to Australia to personally inspect the books of the company. Complaint was also made that capital to the amount £1,300,000 was invested in London, instead of, as it ought to bo, in Australia. The chairman, Mr Hon« riqu9s, denied that they had made any advance to the Australian Land Mortgage and Finance Company, and said that it might be a satisfaction to the shareholders to know that, although they had provided against the heavy losses, they believed, from recent information, that securities for £20,000, which had been valued at £14,000 or £15 OOQf would realise the full sum they were taken for. Ultimately, the report was adopted, and the retiring directors haying been re* elected, the proceedings were brought to a close. The Globe gives some details of the precautions taken to ensure the safety of the Emperor nt Gtitschina. Every person arrivirg at the palace, without exception, has to be subjected to a strict examination as to who be is, the reason of his coming, and other particulars. All this is wriften down in a book, and, if considered satisfactory, he is carefully conveyed to the person with whom he lias business. On leaving, his name is azain written down, and he is seen off the premises. All the servants and workmen • cmploje-1 uro prologrnphed, ami carry one i «.'O|/y iibout t.hfin, with v written aertifiijute op tbi- liiiL'li; a duplicate beine kept in iLe offioo. " " " !

Mi'MLeau. the member for Waikoua it i, was rather hard on the Wellington newspapers the other day. According to llanaard^ he suid— ' He wa» well acquainted with most of the newspapers throughout the Colony, and he : cauld say that two more miserable rags he had never seen than those published in Wellington.' The s#m of £560 has been collec!ed by the Key. Father Mahdney on the West Coast, in aid of the fund for re-building the Catholic Church at Nelson. Collections . elsewhere amount to £1700. The cost . of re?erecting the building will be between £2000 and £3000.— Westport Times. Accordicg to a correspondent of the Geelong Advertiser, who profrssess to have heard the secret of the new patent gas, Mr Dixon's discovery is the carrying out of on old idea— the separation of the hydrogen from the oxygen in water by a process of the simplest character. It has been the dream of scientists for years to accomplish this. Water will be the fuel and light of the future. ..The possibilities of the future are enormous, aa the discovery will not only be applied to supply gas, but also heat and motive power, Mr Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, and railway king of California, is under--Btoodjd.bave invested £25,000 in the dis* ■*■ -. . ■■ -^-.- -:■.- . „..-,_ ftjstriking ins^tice of "■which iriny be seen in Christchurch at tho present moment. A man occupying a not very exalted position in society received information on Tuesday that a legacy of £2000 had been left him. He immediately chartered a four-wheeler, and attired in a Crimean shirt, with his coat on his arm, seemed to have no further object in life, unless it were to get his beard dyed. When this is accomplished, to all appearances be will have reached the ' summum bonum ' of his existence. A curious calculation would be how long his legacy will last out the expense of a cab for say twelve hours per day. There will be some competition among the Jehus.— Star. Government has issued instructions to quarantine ull vessels coming from Sydney until twelve days have elapsed since their departure from that port. Even the Detached Squadron is not to be exempted. Our old friend Mr Hoos has come to the front again, not as County Chairman this time but as an Agricultural authority, on which subject (to please his enemies) he has written a book. 'An exchange says :— • That will shortly issue a volume entitled ' The New Zealand Practical Agriculturist.' The piler is aMr C. Hoos, an experienced continental, Scottish and New Zealand agriculturist. Mr Hoos is one and the same gentleman who occupied the position of first chairman to the first county that ever created in the colony — the Westland— and his love of agriculture was shown in the way he utilised and beautified the grounds attached to (he Government house. The work is a crown octavo volume of 300 pages, after perusing the manuscript, Dr Hector, Government Geologist, says. — '1 recommend it to be published as a text book for Agricultural colleges," Mr Bradlaugb has .announced his deter* mination to again claim his right to sit in the House as member for Northampton. The Speaker accordingly has given orders to the officers of the House to prevent Bradlaugh from entering. The Sydney Bulletin says severely : — ' When a new arrival from England or America is about to propose to a New Zealand girl, he first enquires whether her father has had a fire.' . The Bey. Father Geoghegan was the first ft C. minister who officiated iv Victoria, and he offered the first mass in Melbourne, on May 19lb, 1839, on the site where the new Colonial Bank ia now going up. The most recent sensation in the play line at Monaco, writes the London World, happened to a newly married couple— a Mr and Mrs Goodlake — who had never been at Monte Carlo or seen gambling before. Changing a £50 note, Mr Goodlake got on a run and won £6.000, after whhh he returned to his hotel, packed up, and started for Florence to enjoy his honey-moon at the expense of the Monte Carlo adminstators,