Untitled

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

A meeting is railed for thi» evening at Dawion'i Hall of the committee of Jaques' art-union. It teems tliot boiJj^ doubt has arisen at to the ownership of the Winning ticket, and tbe meeting ia convened for the purpose of deciding the matter. >■; There was to have been a meeting of the County Council on Thursday evening last; At the appointed lime the Chamber was lighted, up, but as a qnorum did not ihowup the meeting was" fuf ther adjourned for seven days. •.. ■. ■■ ' ■■ : . ,;. It i« announced that Messrs Campbell and Mitchell will despatch a special coach from here 6ri Saturday next, for the conveyance of the witnesses in the case of Begina v. M'GBhej. Some excitement was caused iv fieefton yesterday by a report that a Chinaman had died suddenly during the morning of tome strange disease. As the death took place in the Chinese quarter, in the lower part of the town, the affair created no little consternation in the neighborhood* By some it was regarded as t> clear case of small-pox, while others preferred to ascribe it to leprosy. An inquest will, however, be held on the body to* day, when : the true cause of death will no doubt be ascertained. < . . An active search has been made by the police during the past week for, the body of David Oundy, but without result.. :*: ' We are glad to notice that the formation of the Diamond Drill Company is being pushed ahead energetically. A very successfurmeet* ing was held at Dawson's Hotel on Saturday evening, when it was deoided to proceed at once with the formation of the company. Mr Hobby, Engineer, late of Stawell, Victoria and now manager of the Welcome crushing works, attended and afforded the committee much valuable information. We see that a similar company has already been formed at Tuapeka, in Otago, On the Re-distribution of Seats Bill, Mr Pitt desired to record his solemn protest against the Bill becoming law, and at some length gave his reasons for opposing the measure. He repeated ttie speech : which tie had previously made in committee, and again ex* pressed his conviction that, following the operation of the Bill would be the moving of the seat of Government to either Canterbury or Otago, 1 and that following thereupon saparation would ensue, and by and by the public works scheme would provide for the construction of the Otago Central and Christcburch and West Co^.t railways out of colonial funds, and that, prdbablj /the n>Bt expenditure but of new loans would! be thus spent. He said it had b^en rumqured in the lobbies that the provincial members who had opposed the Bill would be punished when the estimates came down, and he believed (here was more than rumor in the ;thrpat. ! The last phrase in * the romance , of . the Ferret is the arrest of the steamer at the suit of sonae six of the crew, fpr the payment of the wages due to them pn account of their trip from England. Messrs Wolley and Co.* the agents for the Highland Railway Company, offered them a small sum each, to cover wages up to the time of the arrival of the vessel at this port, but the men were advised that they were entitled to payment of their wages until the time of obtaining their disoharge, and also to compensation for breach of articles, and for the expenses incidental to the return voyage to England/ Thhv Messrs Wooley declined to grant, and the present aotion has been instituted to try the question. The form of the aipest w»s rather amusing The sheriff, having nailed to, the mast a parchment document purporting to be a warrant, called upon the ship to say what ever it could in defence. No answer being given, two men were plaoed in possession. The aotion will be defended on the ground that the men suing are co«oriminalt with Henderson, and the other two convioted conr spirators. Cold feet, tight shoes, light clothtacr, costive bowels, sitting still until chilled through after having been warmed up by labour or a long, hasty walk ; going top sud ~ denly from a dose heated roofnV w a lounger or listener, or speaker, while* tbV body is weakened by continued application, or abt stinenoe, or heated by alone'address ; these are tb,e frightful causes, of sudden death in the form of congestion of Ihe lungs ; but which t being falsely reported as disease of the heart and regarded as an inevitable event, throw people off their guard, instead of pointing them to the true causes, all of which are avoidable ; and very easily so, as a general rule, when the mind has once been intelligently drawn to the subject. In an article again attacking the amended quarantine regulations, the Lyttelton Times says: — Ihe gems of small -pox may be in every cargo of goods that comes over from Sydney, in the portmanteau of every seaman in every parcel and bundle carried on deck or under hatches' yaccination, even successful vaccination, of passengers, will not destory these germs. The only thing to do in such a case is to keep apart anything which ; may contain germs until the period in which infection is possible is past, The only metbon by which this can be done is by returning \q the original quarantine regulations. In view of the serious news from Sydney, we hope the Government will ccc their way to adopt this, the only course which can be said tq provide effectua.l protection against the 'introduction of a terrible disease.' ,V. In the Hquso of Representative?, ga

August lßilT> Mr Gisborae asked the MinisofJu > tice,--(l) Why, in tbe case of the petitWoffe" 1681011118 * 011 ' re P° tted on by tbe Public Petitions Committee last session, and, again -ajWs ; eewion, the Governmenl abandoned the prosecution of ailmer, stated by tlieMin'«ter of Justice laet year to have beendrdered by Groternment? (2) What itops the GeTernment propose to take in the matter this, prosecution ?n Last session the Public Petitions Committee reported that a prosecution by Mr Johnston against Gilmer had failed iv v cpn?equence of irregularity on tbeWt of; the C^o Prosecutor: The Comfmittee'alsb stated tsat they fjund out that the pirosecution could be renewed by the Crown, and* recomnlen^ecl the Crown, to ret new it. Tbe Minister of Justicei 'last' seasionj in reply to a qoesMbn pot by, him (Mr Gisborne), stated!. 'that instructions hq'd bean given by the Crown for the pfos?cuiion but hfld been abandoned. Th.Q. first part of liisyj question was for the purpose of finding out the reasons which caused the Government to abandon it, and the next part was to ascertain what steps the Government proposed^© take , Mr Dick said it was cdrreot that the Govern* inent gave instructions for the prosecution of Gilmer. The Crown Prosecutor at Kelson was instructed to proceed with the matter, and all the papers were forwarded to him. On going into the question and investigating it fully, that gentleman came to the conclusion that it would not be expedient to prdbeeti* The reason- he gave was, that the trial would have beerr exceeding cqstly, a large number of witnesses having to be Bubpanaed from the most distant parts of New Zealand also the prosecution would almost certainly, in his opinion, have fulled, and, if successful, that it would not in the leact have satisfied tbe purpose for which it was intended. The Government considered it advisable to accept that recommendation of the Crown Prosecutor and they did not propose to take any further steps in tbe matter. The people who always knew that the collapse of Dixon's gas was only a matter of time, and welcomed Mr Newbery'a revelation as a prool of the sagacity of their judgment are not a little puzal«d to account for the,, steadiness of tine shares. After- tbe scientific, demonstration that the specifications were all rubbish, the expectation not unnaturally was that the shares would fall to almost nothing, notwithstanding desperate efforts on the part of the principals to arrest tbe collapse by buying to an unlimited eitent. They did jfall/oertalnly, very much, but almost immediately began to 1 recover, and during the last few days the market has been firm. Whatever may be the ultimate of the thing, it has supplied press men with the materials for many paragraphs,, . «ome pf which have borne witness to the fertility of their authors' imaginations. The last \ read alluded to the consternation felt by the shareholders on account of the scientific exposure, and trusted that the gentleman who had demoralised their 'hopes mu?V feel uneasy at what he bad done. Kowv so far as I have been' able to observe* the shareholders display this consternation in a most remarkable manner— namely, by holding on to the scrip, and the directors, who oujght tiiibfl toost alarmed-, are : actually going to odnßi^Bp99e«x^ense in putting,, up works for the production of the gas on a more extensi?e Mole than : has yet taken place. The chemist who has been making the gas by tbe specifications appears to be no less infatuated with the discovery than others wbo have come in contact with it, but had it not been fqr the express wishes of the directors to the contrary, be would have entered into tbe scientific arena and boldly taken np the challenge. A pity that be had not done so, for we might then have had rather an interesting discussion. . .