THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 16 September 1881, Page 2

THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1881.

The Btonewallera are to be tmmortolfaed ere their political'substance hies. A Wellington photographer (says a local paper) has brought out a capital photographio picture of the seven numbers of the Houae of Representatives who formed the original ' stonewall ' party on the Representation Bill ■— Jtfessra Pitt, Shepherd, Gibbs, Leyestam, Seddon, Reeves, and Bastings.' . The following are the winning numbers held in Keefton in Fleming's last sweep, as iMp ? B^^-t05.1(32,' 330, 5016, and 5024. Mr Fleming in another column announces another sweep on the I Melbourne Cup and Christchurcti Metro- ! politan Meeting. Mr R. &, Koulaton has been appointed here for the sale of tickets. Mr Roulston is also the local agent for Fleming and Stapleton's, and Mr Theodore Brown's sweeps respectively. •■ , We learn that a number of persons have discovered a new form of amusement, which consists in blowing up snags in the river by means of dynamite explosions. If fish haps pen to be killed by the discharge, they are carefully bagged so as to prevent th9m from polluting the river. The adjourned meeting af the provisional committee of the Diamond Drill Company will be held at Dawson's Hotel, to-morrow evening, wben~all members are requested to attend. Over £16 was raised by the last fire brigade coupert. Mr<9 Trennery left for Greytnouth this morning, en route for Melbourne, to purchase a diamond drill for the Golden Fleece Extended Company. Mr Trennery will be absent about two months. Mr J. Ivess, newspaper proprietor, thinks! no more about starting a law suit than he does about starting a newspaper. He has several important projects of both kinds on hand at the present time, the latest being a libel suit against an Ashburton lawyer named O'Reilly. A man that can run five oc cix newspapers, carry on an auctioneering business, and still have sufficient time on bis hands to give lawyers lessons in law, must be made of no ordinary stuff. The reef in the Just-inrTime mine is rej ported by the under-ground manager to fullj maintain its promising quality and dimensions. On Wednesday last the reef was 7ft in thickness at the face. The Railway Bill has been advanced another stage, having passed the second reading iv the Legislative Council. The possibility of the Bill now completing the final stage is stiong. It will also be seen that the Government have made fair provision for subsidising prospecting works on goldfields. A cablegram states that the immigration to the United States during the month of August last reached 34,000. Dresses are no longer to be worn clinging close {to the figure all round, but they are to be set out or expanded by a crinolette all the way down the back. The haut monde in England have adopted this fashon commencing from the first state ball of the season, and their imitators have increased slowly. Now there are a few matters connected with tbp new crinplettes which our readers may find useful to know. In the first place, if they are to be worn, great care must be taken i that they are not only put on straight, but kept securely and permanently in their place in the centre of the back. Some people may imagine it rather superfluous to call attention to a matter whioh every woman would be I supposed to think about ; but let those who believe this look around and see how many of their iriends keep their crinolettes straight in the bustle and turmoil of a round of pleasures which involve standing, sitting, walking, and carriage driving. Before an hour has passed the tiresome crinolette is generally two or three incber out of position one side or another, and then alas ! what a figure the wearer presents ! A deputation of gentleman from the mining centres of Sandhurst and Maldon asked the Commissioner of Customs to abolish the duty on imported mining machinery compressors, rock borers, and diamond drills. This, with numerous other urgent requests of a similar character, will be referred to a Royal Commission to be appointed to revise the tariff. There is working on the New York Sun a compositor, a sturdy old man of seventy-nine, who, except once, when he was attacked by yellow fever, has never lost a day's pay ; for sixty years he has worked at case upon the newspaper, steadily, day after day, a credit to hi» employers and an honor to his profes* sion. An experimental trial of Aebproft's quartz crushing machine was made yesterday at Wellington, in the presence of many pepple. As aduption of the old berdan principle, it ap« pears effective for tailings, bat nothing heavier. The amendments to be moved in committee on the Railway Construction and Land Bill (telegraphed last night as having been agreed upon), are mainly as follows ;— To omit clauses 11 and 12 ; to add after clause 14 a new clause providing that the Governor in Council may contract with companies without waiting (or Parliamentary sanction, and such

contract 'o be valid unless repugnant to tte Act ; to subsiiiute for clause 45 a new clause empowering the Governor, directly after a oontruct U capable of taking effect, to grant to the company the foe simple of the land required for the construction of the railway, euhj ct to reasonable conditions ; to add to clause 47 a provison that the Governor may require to be carried out a;iy additional altera* tions or repairs necessary to the utility or safety of the railway ; to omit clause 40 ; to insert a new part 4, conforring optional rating powers, the company to advertise the proposed railway district for rating purposes such district not to extend more than twenty miles on each side of the railway ; classified-* tion of land to be made for rating purposes based on the benefit derived from the railway ; the company to apply to the County and Borough Councils for approvnl of the prai pnsals ; a vote of ratepayers in the railway district to be taten on the question whether this part of the Act may be adopted by the company ; the Governor to be the judge that the proviso has been complied with. A guarantee of interest on the cost of the railway to the extent of & per pent, may be pro* vided by a special rate to be levied by the company, that rate to vary according to the classification of tbe land : the cost of levying to be paid by the company, and the proceeds to be applied toward the payment of interest. } Part 4 to be part 5, and so on with the others, in clauw^9jo_onii^£aragropb~ ffrdj-aatl-in-r,. sett a proviso that if coal is found on land granted to the company, the latter to pay the Queen a royalty, to be specified in possession may be resumed under the Act, but the value of the metals is not to be taken into account in awarding compensation. In clause 106, to authorise the Governor to restore possession of the railway to a company, or waive a breach in the contract ; to insert a new clause, that if the Governor exercise the powers under the above section, any company inter* ested or affected may apply to a Supreme Court Judge, who shall hear in a summary way, and decide whether the breach of con* tract was an inexcusable delay, &o, ; to add a schedule of the l'nes, for the con« struction of which tbe Government may cp Q tract A t once, under the new clause 15 above quoted, viz., Morrinsville to Boto» rua ; Wellington to Manawatu ; Bellgrove to Nelson Creek ; East and West Coast Middle Island ; Otago Central. Such are the main new provisions, the others being generally of a minor character. It is rumored that the Bill is to be stonewalled, but I doubt this. Whitelawhas shaken the vile dust of New Zealand from his feet and departed for Byd« new where— he said— a Government billet awaited him. What can it be? Before leaving he visited his mother, who is now an inmate of the Befuge for the Destitute, and abused her in the foulest language, till he was .expelled from her bedroom. This is the man for whom a subscription was raised as a protest against the ' injustice ' to which he had been subjected. Mr T. F. MTonogh, late of the Goyernment Insurance Department, it very indig* nanfc because Mr J?rull, of Wellington, at a public meeting in that city re insurance, called him a nobody. To show that he is somebody Mr M'Donogh contributes the following to the • New Zealand Times' :— 'Like Mr Krull, I too commenced life in the colonies at the foot of the ladder— not being brought up to a trade or profession. 1 had a turn at harvesting in Victoria ; I drove a six* horse team for Cornish and Bruce j I had the usual turn at gold -digging, which occupation T left at the call of a friead— Robert O'Hara Burke— to join him in his exploring ex« pedition for which I have a testimonial from the Victorian Government. I had the honor of receiving tbe thanks of Sir Henry and Lady Barkly, and of being cheered by over 5000 Melbourne citizens for saving the life of a woman and child from tbe attack of a camel in the Royal Park, Melbourne, before we started on the expedition. I had the honor of being acquainted with Prof. Neumour, a most distinguished countryman of Mr Krull's, who took a great interest in the expedition and the .' party. I can claim also the acquaintance of the German Consul General, whose brother I served with me. Twice have I saved livesonce in the Wanganui River, and another time by jumping my horse and buggy over a precipice of 45ft into the Molyneux to save the life of a groom, os may be seen by the Dunedin papers of May 12, 1878/ In reference to the now famous ' Suppressed Despatch 'of Sir Julius Yogel, Mr J. B. Fisher intends to ask the Government to point out the passages to which they took exception, and upon the strength of which they considered they were justified in returning it unanswered. In the Legislative Council, Col* onel Brett, amid some laughter, gave notice of his intention to move. ' That in the opinion of this Council, the action of the Govern* ment, in returning the letter of Sir Julius Vogel,,now made public through the Press, was discourteous to that gentleman, which is much to be regretted.' The Melbourne coi respondent of the Ararat Advertiser says : — I am not going to »ay any« thing about a late case, I must refer more 'pointedly to a class of hotels, which are too plentiful in the city. Wealthy men put their mistrerses into hotels, and these become hells on earth, in which yqung men are weekly ruined. For several years post a system has been in vogue in England which prevents the stoppago of bank letters, or the correspondence of mercantile houses, for the mere value of the stamps. Any firm o«* business corporation can have, for a small extra charge, four letters* or figures stamped in the four corners of all stumps used by them. As different styles of letters are used, an infinite variety of forms can be devised. These stamps are of pouvsfi, useless for sale, as the corner let* te»-8 or figures whuld at once betray the fact tbar they were stolen: More than 5,500,000 barrels of Engli 8 h beer are annually consumed in London. An insane woman recently walked down California street, Sun Francisco dieted only in her night-gown. There is a talk of founding a German Unlvrrstty at Milwaukee. Wis., and of raising £400 000 fjr the project. *