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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 19 August 1881, Page 2

We present \o our readers to-day in a supplementary form the spegch delivered by Mr T. S. Weston, M.H.R, in the recent noconfidence debate. The course taken by one member as well aa his remarks on the motion in question have been so grossly mi^repres sentod that we have deemed it advisable to place Mr Weston's address fully before the public; feeling confident that it will be read with interest and approval by every impartial elector. Further copies of the address may be had on application to Mr W. Faler, office of this paper. Victorian advices per last mail contain the intelligence that another reef has been struck by the diamond drill in the Crown Cross United Company's shaft, Stawell, at a depth of 1778 feet from the surface ; three feet ten inches of stone had been passed through and the drill was still in quartz, which is reported of a >cry promising appparance. AHhough mining news from India reaches us only in fitful scrapa, such as it, it carries upon tho face of it very great promise; Here j is the latest item for which we are indebted to the Soufh Australian Resistor, late files of which have been kindly forwarded to us by Mr George Tilbroob, formerly of Reefton. The paragraph which is dated, London, June lOtb, lays:— At last a Colonial Club has been launched, and if respectable sponsors hare any influence it should suoceed. There is one South Australian name on the list of Directors— the Speaker of the \ Assembly, Mr Ro«s. Its candidate-book, I unierstand, is filling pretty rapidly, both with Indians and Australians. Old Indians have not much time just now to think about Clubs or anything else than gold mines. The Wynaad mining mania has taken another start this week, and has been flying higher than ever. One of the first Companies formed— the South of India Gold Mining Company — has received a telegram from its manager reporting as the result of the first crushing a yield of four ounces per ton. This inspiriting news was published in Glasgow, last Saturday nighty and sent the shares of the Company up like a rocket to 400 per cent premium. They are £10 shares and to £40 was offered for them. On Tuesday, when business was resumed after the Whitsun holidays, the price took another bound, and busi* ness was done at £60 to £65. All the minor Companies have shared in the bouyancy of the gold market. Most of them stood before at 100 to 150 premium on the original £1 shares. They started up f to i, and the prices to-day are from 1£ *° 3 per share, which have not yet made the slightest return to their holders. Geological opinion is in favour of payable gold being found in the Wynaad district, and if so it may be a genuine El poraijo, which the3e speculators have dropped into. Archedeaccm Denison has condemned the revised version of the New Testament with characteristic vehemence as ' an abomination in the sight of God.' A Wellington correspondent of a southern paper says that Mr Weston is just now a special object of aversion to the colleagues from the West Coast, and his going through much the same process that his more sensitive arsd nervous predecessor, Mr Masters, underwent at the hands of the same party. In the House of Repiespntatives yesterday, in answer to a question, the Minister of Justice said that the report of Messrs Giles and Meuller on the charges preferred against Mr Tom Kenrick, late Clerk of Court, had been received by the Government, but they did not think it advisable to produce it.— Grpy Argus. Active lobbying is going on in regard to the Representation Bill, and efforts are being made to form pombinarions for pressing the claims of particular districts. Judging from present appearances, there will be a general scramble for seats and the only way out of the difficulty will be some sort of unsatisfactory compromise. At the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, Robert M'Carrey, cook on board the Stormbird, was charged with stealing £210 in half-crowns, and £190 in shillings, the property of the owners of the Stormbird. Accused was remanded. Mr Garret, a butcher, was fined £23 for selling a hare without a license. The Magistrate said he would take steps to have the fine reduced. The memorial to Prince Louis 'Napoleon* which has been sculptured by Mr J. E. Boehm. has now been fixed in the Braye Chapel, in St Geprge's Chapel, Windsor. The site on which the memorial has been placed was chosen by the Queen, and to make room for it an ancient font has been removed. A young man named Scott, aged twentytwo, employed on the Invercargill and Riverton railway, whilo out shooting a few days ago, had his thumb blown off, the contents of the charge and part of the thumb bone lodging in his shoulder. He died, mortification having set in. All the female teachers of the State Schools of Wanganui have been re-vacci-nated. Probably, says a Wellington paper, fiom the infoquency of the occurrence, generxl ap? proval is almost invariably accorded to a man who is fortunate or dishonest enough to f do' a lawyer j and a case in point illustrating this to be so, cropped up yesterday. A suit was brought by Mr Buckley, solicitor, & 0 ., against aMr Cockburn for the recovery of £14, being the balance o f £20 for money leut. The plaintiff amidst co niderable merriment, iv which he unfeignedly joined, shited I bat the defendant, somo time since requested him to lend him £20, for the pur-

pose of paying some w»gr ( . Th.s ar comrnod- «■ ution was at onoe and unsuspectingly ufforded ; 1 hut. judge of the just ire of Mr Buckley, when | he ascertained that the defendant, instead of appropriating the money to the purpose for , which it was lent, went straight to a rivul firm of lawyers, whom he forcf d to ' put him through 'the erstwhile fashionable process , known os • whitewashing,' and to intensify the planMff's grievance, the defendant now . plended his bankruptcy as a bar to further legal proceedings. An order was given for £14, together with interest upon the amount borrowed, and also substantial costs. Paragraps have from time to time appeared concerning the mysterious disappearance of a s irvcy party (Messrs Lamont, Young and others) who started in a boat from Bermngai, N.S.W, towards the end of last year; The boat was found bottom up. but nothing could be found of the pas»engprs. The police, it is S vid, are in possession of facts which have convinced them that the whole party were murdered. A German has since disappeared. The police have a clue to this man, and are now searching for him. It is expected that they will shortly obtain further facts to throw light on this extraordinary affair. The Dutch Parliament has passed a Bill dealing with the abuse of alcoholic liquors in I Holland. The maximum number of licensed j housps 'b to be in future one for every 500 inhabitants in cities containing over 50,000 : one for every 400 -iuhabitants in towns of 20,000,,t0 50,000 people •. one for every 300 persons in places containing 'from 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitant? ; and one for every 253 people in all places inhabited by a population of 1e33 than 10,000. The Bill also provides that all persons convicted of drunkenness in any public place shall be punished with imprisonment without the bption of a fine. The Desert News reports a fatal accilent having happened on June 29th, at Salt Lake City, to a late Kaiapoi resident. Win. Edibunda Knight, a son of Mr T. Knight, employed at digging clay at Bro. BrJuVu brickyard, Tw nty^first Ward, hod gone to bis work as usual .at 5 a.m;. and between that hour and six o'clock he was found buried under Ja mass of earth, his feet only expised. Steps wore taken to extract his body which was quite lifeless. Deceased, who w. r i twenty-seven years of age, had arrived five weeks before from New Zeiland, and leaves a wife and two children. He had obtained a it.nding in connection with the Mormon church.J jmd was appointed a teacher in his ward.