THE Inangahua Times published tri-weekly FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1881.
A trial crushing of quartz raised from the winze lately cdmpleted by the Wealth of Nations near tne Energetic and Independent boundaries, resulted in the very satisfactory yield of 66ozs of gold, from 108 tons of atone, The erection of the gear will be com* pleted jn a few days, when more hands will be put on in the mine, and crushing operation resumed, Our broker* are having a busy time of it just now, and report advancing prices generally in mining stock with a brisk demand for shares. This satisfactory state of things is doubtless owing to the improved yield and prospects of several af our mines. Three dividends have boen announced during the week, and altogether things look more hopeful, and we pay fairly anticipate a general revival with the coming spring. . Mr Hipgins of Black's Point announces in another polumn his intention henceforth to supply his customers the 4 lb loaf and a hot bun for 7d. This will be good pews to pater familias, who has many mouths to feed. The usual monthly practise of the R.V.P. B. has been postponed until Friday, the August Majlp for the Australian Colonies and United Kingdom close p. the Bluff, on Friday, sth instant, at noon, per steamer Rotomahana.* As showing the length to which journalistic rivalry is carried on in Reefton, on Tuesday last one newspaper proprietor met with an accident through falling off a horse, and on the following day the rival proprietor, determined apparently not to be outdone, also got up an accident in which he sustained a dislocation of the ankle. CochraneV billiard tournament will commence this evening at 8 pm„ and will be continued to-morrow at the same hour. The following handicap has been declared : Dornan, 0 ; Pain-, 5 ; Little, 45 j J. Anderson, 50 ; Melody, 65 ; Cox, 70 : TjT". Seymour, 70. The directors of the Welcome Compauy have declared a dividend of Qs per share, payable on and after this day. This will absorb 4.f500, and leave a balance after all expenses are paid. Mr T; Gallagher, late of Cronadun; Inangahua, has started in a new line of business, that of bacon curing on a large scale, The Kumpoi correspondent of the Christchurch Pi ess, says : — Siuce the commencement of the present season bacon and ham curing on an extensive scale has been carried on at Kaiapoi by Messrs Gallagher, May and Co., whose cured meats already, are among the first brands on the West Coast, to which district j they are chiefly sent. Some 1500 pigs have been pickled, salted, smoked, and packed away fopr export, while a further supply is being prepared as epeedly as possible to meet the demand. The premises upon which the cur ng is carried on are situated in Charles street, and besides being roomy and well adapted for the drying, are in every way most convenient for a bacon factory. The carcasses, after being most carefully examined, are weighed, pjkillfp.ly cut up, and are al. lowed to steep in a stone tank containing brine pickle, which receptacle holds about 120 pigs at a time. From this the side?, hams, cheeks, and other parts are dry sailed, then suspended from rafters to dry. Afterwards they are smoked by an improved method, whioh adds greatly to their flavor. The packing-room a week ago was a very busy place, and altogether this industry seems to have been a higl ly profitable one, judging by tbe demand. An English paper s&ys :-So this is the end. After a reign of almost unparalleled glory, royalty sndling on hor, the populace cheering her, thp Press praising her, poets celebrating, a wprld to admire ber beauty and beauty aud her beauty exhibited in all windo #6 fpr the world to admire, the end of it all is the sound of the auctioneer's hammer in the little hopse in Norfolk street. Society, which bud flattered and fawned, was there to sneer, to ciiticise the neglect of the house ar, d to pour scorp on the tawdry appointments. Mrs Langtry herself is all the time in Jersey. Her husband ip recuperating in the United Slates She may yet succeed on the stage, is intelligent and an actress, or Nor. folk strppt yesterday would not haye m .de pilgrims of so many envious and inqui.itive ladies. But the paragraph, « Mrs Langtry occupied the box next the Royal box, and was dressed more marvellously than evt-r. ? Will appear nev,pr again in the papers, With their Queen the whole regime of the'professional beau:ics' js passed away.
_-»-----»-->--M-----_--^jJ^_----W-----I^W^ ,M -^'^-gg»MWM An American journal thus drop 9 into poetic prose j — Tbe boy stood on tbe back yard fence whence all but him had fled, the flames that lit his father's bam shone just above the shed. One bunch of crackers in his* hand, two others in his ha*, with piteous accents loud he cried, I never thought of that ! ' A bunch of crackers to tha tail of one small dog he tied ; the dog in anguish sought the barn, and • mid its ruins died. The sparks flow wide and red and hot, they lit upon that brat j they fired the crackers in his hand, and eke those in his hat. Then came a burst of rattling sound— the boy 1 Where was he gone P Ask the winds that far around strewed bits of meat and bone, and scraps of clothes and and balls and tops an J nuils and books and yarn, the relics of that dreadful boy that burned his father's barn. The Canada Pacific Railroad Company have sold 200,000 acres to the French Agrictural Society at 125d01s p a r acre. The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press says :— The eoldfields report was presented tbe other evening. Mr McEerrow reports unusual activity during the year, especially in prospecting new country. The total yield of gold for 1880 Bhows an increase of 17.78410Z3 over 1879, but the March quarter ol 1881 shows the large decrease of 28,6610zs as compared with the corresponding quar._e____________J.Bßl_.. -_3___v total export of gold from 185^--the^end of June, 1881. was 9, 659,2660z5. value £23,810,653. The average number of miners at work during the year was li 736, and the average earnings par man about £75 8s for tbe year, as against an average of £82 7s 6d for the four previous years. The average in Victoria is £80 15s per man, but New Zealand miners have the advantage of cheaper living and fuel, and pay no rent. Fully two-thirds of the year's yield of gold was obtained from alluvial workings over 5000 miles of water-races, constructed by miners at a cost of nearly £800,000, in ad - dition to the Government races, which cost £450.000. Ground sluicing is stated to be a favourite mode of alluvial mining, and is described as a most destructive process. The yield of gold from quartz and cement was ll_j,47Bozs, an average rate ol loz 2dwts 2grs per ton of stone, as compared with 9dwt 15grs per ton in Victoria. Auckland quartz crushings yielded from loz lOdwt to lozs l7dwts ; Westland, from 13dwts to 18£dwts and Otago, from lOdwts to 18_-dwts per ton. _ The Sorator's total cost since stranded was about £50,000. Value of f essel, say £120,000. Saved, £70.0.0. . Tbe Nelson Colonist has been informed tbat a party of diggers at the Wakamarina had found a nugget of gold, mixed with some quattz, which was so weighty Jh^t one man could only move it with difficulty. Il is unable to vouch for the statement, but the particulars were related with minuteness. Tbe names of tbe fortunate men, it was stated, are Me.srs Gray. Gasson, apd Rowljotham, all Nelson men. A petition against the passing of the Ganging and Lotteries Act is being circulated in Christchurch, and has already received a con* siderable number of signatures. The Australian Mortgage, Land Finance Company will give a piece of plate, value twenty guineas, for the best merino ram bred in New Zealand, and shown at the forcoming pastoral show in Dunedin. Wo extract the following from "the " Parliamentary Gossip " in tbe Weekly Press of July 30: — Thursday afternoon was principally occupied by the two members for Napier, who are cot exactly a well matched pair. Mr Seymour gave one of his neat little speeches, which are always models of conoise brevity ; after which Mr Taiaroa commenced a speech, setting forth sundry grievances which it seems that he has long been storing up against tbe present Government. It had been arranged that tbe Premier should speak when tho House re-assembled at 7.30, and every available space in the House was orowded to hear him ; but Mr Triaroa likes a good audience and a blooming Indies' gallery as well as anyone else, and being in posses, sion of tbe House at 5.30, he kept it for more than half an hour after the Premier's time had arrived with his sage advice. When at lost he sat down, Mr Bunny was politely allowed to rise, as it was desirable that his vote should be booked as soon as possible. When that ceremony was over, and the Premier at last rose, bell-topper and notes in hand, another head popped up as high as a very small supporting body could carry it, and another voice said, 'Mr Speaker." All eyes were instantly turned to see where such an audacious interruption could come from, when, lo 1 it was seen to be something of no lees importance th^n another doubtful vote to be proclaimed. The little member for the Grey Valley was for the moment of more importance than the Premier, so the Hon. J. Hall gave him one of his most gracious re* tiring bows:— And down he sat, for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore ; Yet loss of votes, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. For no less than three-quarters of an hour the little ex-Judge kept tbe patient Premier and tbe crowded House waiting whilst he summed up tbe evidence on both sides with the most laudable deliberation and impartiality. He had been for two days worried by advice from both sides, and now both sides eagerly listened to hear his impartial decision. He cleverly ayoided letting his secret out for the wbple three-quarters of an hour, and resented with great dignity l)ie " colhague's " attempt tp force on his decision. He spoke very nicely, much too nicely in fact, but i-ose to fervency when resenting Sir G. Grey's attack on the Judges. When at lust he let the secret out there was a roar of disgust from the Opposition, His rough colleagues would hear no more of him, and he had to sit down looking hot rifled at their vulgarity. Sergeant Provo, of the Dunedin Cjty Guards will be tried by court-martial for causing a ' local ' to be inserted in a paper derogatory to the Corps. The new coal discovered at Pictop ? is said
to have comeeo much in favor that the Union Steamship Company has agreed to take 1000 tons a month. Friends of Mr T. S. Weeton will be pleased to learn that he is being appreciated as a politician. Writing of the discussion on Dr Pollen's pension, a correspondent says : — ' The best speech in the debate was undou .tedlv that of Mr Weston, who distinguished himself greatly by the good taste, good feeling, and good sense of his thoroughly judiciul treatment of a difficult sub* ject.' Sir G. Grey has presented a petition from the Thames Liberal Association, praying— (l) that the record of the proceedings of the come mittee on the Christchurch election be erased from the journals of tbe House, as forming a precedent inimical to the liberties ofthe people of New Zealand.
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 August 1881, Page 2
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