THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 26 September 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1881.

Savage and party of the Welcome lease j (writes our Lyell correspondent) have let a contract to drive a tunnel to cut the large | reef at a low level. The tunnel is now in 15 feet. Two of the party are also engaged in another part of the mine driving on the \oie y which carries fair gold, The stone is from 1 to 2 feet thick. In view of the promising prospects of the mine, Messrs Savage and party, have applied for machine, paddock sites, water •rights, &c. The party are all experienced miners, and the energetic manner in. which they have opened up their discovery has won them great praise hare. The venturefpromises ireH.V ' Tbe sittings of the Supreme Court will open at Hokitika this morning. The calendar is not, we believe, a very heavy one, so that the case of Regina v. M'Gahey will no doubt be called on early. It will, however, last for some days. The whole of the Reef* j ton witnesses left here on Friday and Saturs j day last. i We understand that Mr T. S. Weston, M.H.R., will take an early opportunity of meeting his constituents, although we have no I hesitation in saying that so far as public feeling here is concerned the step is not at all necessary to his re-election, It cannot be denied even by those who opposed him, Mr j Weston has honorably and assiduously acted up to every promise he made when j seeking election, and no. representative could establish a stronger claim upon his constituents than thjs; Some ' hard cases ' are at it up North. The Wellington Mill says j— "'That other besides Wellington people believe in the quartz bearing capabilities of the reefs of the district is proved, by the fact that during the past weak two West Coast miners have visited the city their object being to endeavour to obtain a large parcel of shares in the Albion Mining Company in the locality. The inquires -of the wouldabe buyers, however, had the effectof running up the shares from Is 6d to 6s j settlers evinoing a decided disinclination to quit even at the figure, as the West Coasters were only able to obtain about 90 scrip after several days'quest. Now that experienced miners possessing capital exhibit an inclination to endeavour to develop the auriferous resources of the district it is to bo hoped that the citizens of Wellington will second their efforts in &c direction indicated." We notice that a Ter? absurd and misleading paragraph, is just now going the rounds of the papers. It originated in the Inangahua Herald, but through having been copied by the Grey River Argus obtained a much wider circulation. The paragraph refers to the application of diamond drills to mining purposes, and states that by manual labor it will take fourteen years to complete the driving of the Inangahua Low Level Tunnel, whereas by the aid of tbe diamond drill the work could be accomplished in half the time. It is patent that the author of the paragraph in question new as much about the diamon d drill as the diamond drill knows about him. Au a matter of fact the diamond drills if used to-morrow could no more ac» celerate tbe driving of the tunnel than they could accelerate the rotation of the earth. They cannot under any condition be used for blasting purposes, and are not of the slightest use in driving tunnels ; In fact cannot under any circumstances be used for such work. The mistake has of pourse arisen through tbe Herald confounding diamond drills with rockuborers, appliances as widely different as a sausage machine, and a centrifugal pump. The only means by which the driving of the tunnel can be hastened is by the use of rock-borers, but as they are of no utility except in '• shooting ground " or that which is too hard for tbe ordinary piok and gad, it will sometimes happen that the work can be got on as quickly without as with them. ! The adjourned meeting of the provisional committee ef the Diamond Drill Company was held at Daweon's Hotel on Saturday evening last, Mr W. H. Jones in the chair. The sub-committee appointed to prepare a draft prospectus of the company presented their report. The chairman read the pros- j pectus for the consideration of the committee. A discussion then ensued, in the course of which several suggestions were made. A communication was also read from Mr Hobby making a number of suggestions. Some ad« ditions and alterations having been made to the prospectus, it was? approved of. If The fol« lowing are the principal features of the pros* pectus :— The capital of the company to be £6000, in 24,000 shares of 5s each ; 3d to be paid on aopliea|oo, 3d on allotment, and the balance^ in : |i«|tflrot to exceed 6d per month. No promoters snares. A full meeting of the committee was ordered to be called for Weddesday evening next, at Mr Jones' office, after which the company will be launohed. The meeting then adjourned. Madame Wilmot will give her farewel leoture in Duwson's Hall, this evening. Tbe subject " Courtship and Marriage," ought to prove very attractive to young people, and the fact that the discourse has drawn large and fashionable audi"nces in all the principal towns of the Colony, is something for its popu lurity. Tambourini opened on Saturday evening last, but the attendance was by no means equal to the merit oi the perforuiance. The

entertainment will be repeated at Boatmau 8 tins evening. Frark Bell, in the employ of Mr Archer, Boatman's, had a very narrow escape (torn death pn Bat«rday Jast. He was proceeding along the road between Caplestou ajod the Just-in-Timo machine, with a trolly laden with iron castings, and when turning an angle of the road the trolly, horse, and driver slipped over the sidling, and were precipitated into the creek, a distance of about 80ft, carrying away some flaming in the descent. Fortunately Bell and the hprse escaped uninjured. ■ It should be widely "kugwp that ihej^s% Zealand Post Office made last year * profit on the operations of the year for the flret time in its history. After paying £26,000 for conveyance of mails over sea beyond the colony, the fact that the department shows a profit of £9000 is most satisfactory. The penny postage is! getting nearer-. - In the House recently. $fr Hall said 'No doubt there was a great doal. well worth reading in New Zealand newspapers; but there were a grea.t many statements in them that were not worth the- piper they were printed on. If ever there was a country blessed with newspaper correspondents of j particularly fertile immagination, it was New Zealand/ Mr Hutchison subsequently aaid he quite agreed with the honorable gentle* man as to the fertile imagination of newspaper corre«jgondents in this cpnntrjLLJthey flhowgd.. peculiar fertility of Imagination in 3>tiblifihing •< the virtues of the Government . and th,eir friends, and tbe vices 'of those who opposed* them. The astronomers of the Washington Observatory compute that the nucleus of the late great southern comet is 7000 miles diameter, and the coma 200.000 miles. The length of the tail is set down at 5,000,000 miles. Professor Harkness says the main result of the spectroscope investigations is to show that there is a blight continuous spectrum with two or three diffuse or ill "defined bands. Baker Pasha has been re-elected a member of the Army and Navy Club. The result of the ballot was that 359 members voted for and 38 against his restoration. A story of endurance extraordinary ""comes to us from the Wakatipu district, relating hew at the Halway Bay, 'William Payne got his leg broken while blasting a log of wood. He orawled down to the Rocky Biver, but owing to the -flood was unable to cross. He then crawled back to his hut. It was twenty hears before he was relieved, having crawled back to the Rooky live* again. The skin was quite torn off his knees and ankles, Hit agony must have been very great. He is now in the Hospital at Queenstown. The Nelson Mai) says :— We are glad to learn that the Government have at last seen fit to remedy the inconvenience occasioned here by the frequent absences of Mr Broad, the Resident Magistrate, one-third of whose time is now occupied in visits to the West Coast and Mailborough in his capacity as District Judge. Mr Oswald Curtis has now been appointed Resident Magistrate at a salary of £100 a-year, and will act as such in Mr Broad's absence. The death is annonneed of Mrs John Car* ter, who was one of Nelson's oldest settlers, having arrived there in the barque L,ond.Qn in the year 1842. It is rumored in Wellington, and we hear from good authority that there is a strong probability of the rumour proving wellfounded, that the two well-known contractors, Messrs Brogden and Proudfoor, are likely to join forces for the construction of railways and other public works. — Christohurch Telegraph. Now say that a Scotchman oan't make a joke! The magistrates of Aberdeen have solemnly given it as their opinion that it is unlawful to take spirits out of an empty oask, A great South African diamond, which weighs an ounce, and is described by'connoisseurs or finer in color than the Kohinoor, is drawing large crowds in London. The owner has been offered £150,000 for it. The number of members in the New Zealand House of Representatives from the first Parliament have been as follows; — First Parliament— population 32,000, 27 members ; 1860— population,83,000, and 53 members ; 1862— population, 200,000, 54 members; 1865— population, 250,000, 70 members; 1875— population, 375,000 with 84 members ; being one member for 4400. At the present time the population is about 500,000, and it is proposed to increase tbe members to 91, making one member to every 5400 persons This is the age of great dictionaries says tbe Pall Mall Gazette. France has produced her Litre. Germany her Grimm, and if our great English dictionary ha* not yet seen the light, it is at all events something to know that a separate iron chamber has been built to contain the slips. The scale on which these dictionaries are done is so vast that it it no wonder that a number of special lexicons | have grown up by their side. Thus by the side of Grimm's enormous work are the two great dictionaries of Bavarian and Corinthian German, and the first part (extending from Ato Agnus Dei) has been published of a great Swiss dictionary, which will be a pro* digy of its kind. The German of Eastern Switzerland is, of course, in many respects very different from the German spoken in Germany. Both Leasing and Herder recognised the treasures of idiomatic German that were to be gathered from the common Swiss speech, and the present dictionary will doubtless have the effect of reinforcing ordinary German from its materials. This first part, extending as it does over half of a single letter, is the first result of the labours of nearly twenty years. The first idea of it was conceived in 1845, but it was not till 1862 that the Antipuarian Society took the matter up and organised a commission of representatives from every German-speaking can* ton, by whose meanß workers for the dictionary were found in the remotest mountain | hamlets and among every olas9 of the people. The dictionary has profited from ihe unrequited labors of no fewer than 400 con- > trjbutors,

A novel feature of the season at Saratoga and Long Branch (says a correspondent of 1 New York Herald ') will be an advertising belle at each of those places. Two handsome girls of good form and style have been hired for the purpose. They will be fashionably dressed, but their mission is not to display dry goods. A dealer in hair, hairadyes, washes for the complexion, and toilet articles of a beautifyiog sort, employs them, and will pay their expenses. They will serve as models on which, to exhibit the latest achievements in false hair and bair-dresiing. Their faces will be carefully ' made up ' with «uch preparations as he manufactures. The plau is a bold one, bn,t entirely feasible. The hotel balls at Long, Branch and Saratoga are open to all who come, and, these two pro* feesional beauties are personally respectable, know how to dance gracefully, can talk. well enough, and will certainly eotipte moat of the amateur beauties. There- seems to be"a ' pit,' and a lively one at that in the House of Representatives, A Wellington correspondent says: 'We have had sundry departures ' of late in connection with the: strangers' gallery. In it a few nights ago a member's speech was loudly ap« plauded; last night another speech was equally lustily groaned ; to-night an inebriate had to be ejected amidst considerable confusion. The facts prove, that the gallery is becomingjan'ljttraotionj.forja variety of talent." '^\~:~ .'■ . : An old adage says that there is nothing jew undier the sun. The author of this stupid say in; knew nothing about it, here is a new excuse for dunning your debtors: On the 22nd instant, at her residence, Bombala etre6t, Oooma, the wife of John Walker, of a son. Persons indebted to the father will kindly look upon this as an appropriate occasion to settle tbeir accounts. As showing the value of the diatnondadrill in Victoria gold-mining, it is stated^the Mags dftla Company have taken out three ' cores ' from a depth of 2894-Vfeet. one from a depth of 2905 feet.,£Btated to be 2162 feet the level of the sea, and two from a depth of 2918 feet below the surface. These * cores ' are deposited in the Ballarat School of Mines Museum. '.•„ .•*• .' '■ - A ♦Domestic Economy Congress,' got up in imitation of those for the discussioa of social science, to enable the ladies of indepen* dent position to showiheur -learning on such qnwtions as food, servants dress, health, and the like, is being held from day to day. An amusing incident ir^ieeeribed by the T Daily News' as occurring at the . Society of Arts on June 24 :— There was much amused syui" pathywith Lord Alfred Churehhill, upon' whom fell the duty of reading a paper on • The Prevention of Disease ' sent by Miss Louisa Twining. His Lordship kept a toler* ably 1 grave countenance while, discoursing up* on feeding bottles, but bsgan to falter over 1 tight stays ' and utterly broke down with confusion and merrijnent wh en the necessity was forced upon nim of denouncing the femine use of ' compressing garters.' A few days ago similar aftusement was caused by the attempts of Sir Henry Cole to read an absent lady's paper weitten so badly as almost to defy bis efforts to dffecipber it. ' Tbe previous imfermation respiw.ting the yield of gold from Mount Fjfe quarti sent to Victoria is slightly incorrect. 16 dwti. per ton includes the whole quantity in quartz and pyrites, At a meetiirg^of 'the promoters it was deeded to further tbst the reef and Obtain quartz from other parts of the range. In lieu of sums papable as subsidies to the county under section sof the Financial Arrangements Aot, 1876, Amendments Aor, 1877, there shall be paid out of the Coneolit dated Funds during nine months of the current financial year from tbe Ist day of April last past to 31st day of next December, both days inclusive, in respect of all sums received by way of general rates during the year ending 31 day of March, 1880, the sums fbl r lowing : — To each county counoil a sum emk to ten shillings for every pound of getpr^fk rates so received , by* eaoh such, council or equal to ten shillings for every pound on the total of sums so reoeiyed by all road boards or parts of road boards within the county, whichever of such two sums is greater, pro* vided that in any county whereto road board exists, or in respect of general rlitts levied in any part of the count} not included in road district, there shall be paid to, the Counoil of etch suoh county, t^en^ .shillings for every one pound of gen^ra^.rttes so; retfelVed . Pro* vided that for pt^rjoß^s' of the section, no sums receivable, 6n a. rate of one shilling in tho pound of annual value of rateable property, and this proviso . shall be deemed to have been in operation in any previously existing enactment providing for payment of subsidies to local bodies.