THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 3 October 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1881.

We publish to-day the prospectus of tbe Diamond Drill Company, and the memorial will be presented for signature during the week. It will be observed that the battery returns for the past week run into a -very respectable total, the Welcome and United Alpine yields being considerably above the average. The figures in the form presented cannot fail to show that although a considerable amount of capital baa been sunk in investment here, the field is beginning to give forth solid evidence of its worth. We understand that Mrs John Allen has disposed of her interest in the Rainy Creek battery to Mr Hugh Graham, who is now sole proprietor of the property. A meeting ofthe Beefton Jockey Club was held on Friday evening last, at Mr Lee's office, when there were present Messrs J. Dawson (in the ohair), Lee, Williams, Quigley, Smith, Cochrane, O'NeiU, Twohill, Eater, Edwards, Connolly, Dick, Paine, Mirfln, Dunn, Richardson, and Beilby. The Secretary reported that the harrowing, rolling, and sowing of grass-seed on the oourse would be completed on Monday, when the work would be passed. Measures were ad* opted for paying the amount of the contract, and tbe small balance which was found to be required beyond the funds at the immediate disposal ofthe Club, was subscribed in the room. After discussion on the subject it was moved by Mr Lee, seconded by Mr Williams and carried— That the mid-summer meeting of the Club be beld on the new course, on tbe 26th and 27th December next. Moved by Mr Twohill, seconded by Mr Paine and carried— Tbat a list be now opened in the room for subscriptions to carry out the fore* going resolution, when a considerable sum was promised. On the motion of Mr Williams, seconded by Mr Twohill; the* chairman and Mr Beilby were appointed a committee to canvass the town and district for subscriptions for the ensuing races, and lists were ordered to be sent to outlying districts. A discussion ensued as to the advisability of erecting a grand stand, when it was resolved that Mr Garvin be requested to prepare plana and estimates for a structure to accommodate 300 persona, And further discus-ion on the subject was then adjourned till Thursday, tbe 6th instant, when the* report of the canvassing committee will be presented, and the programme drawn up. Tbe meeting then adjourned. We publish to-day the programme of the Hospital concert, whioh has been fixed to come off on Thursday evening next, 6th ins etant, in Eater's Oddfellows' Hull. Tbe billof«fure (or the occasion is a very varied one, and will no doubt draw a crowded house. A Victorian paper says that the dimend drill will be the means of ante-dating the tnioeral hi. Tory of the Australasian colonies by fifty years ; will save the expenditure of millions of money on barren enterprises, and give to mining investment much greater security than is to be ipund in many other of the great channels of commerce. Farther particulars have been published respecting the discovery in Egypt, to whioh reference was made in our last, of a rookhewn gallery containing thirty royal mummies—kings, queens, and princesses, with all tbeir royal wrappings intact, their bodies still adorned with the flowers and garlands laid upon them by mourners three thousand years ago. One of the mummies is that cf Thutn-es 111., who reigned 1,600 years before the bj. th of Christ, and who quarried the obelisk, pjeppatra'a Needle, which now stands upon the fhamjes Another mummy tjbot ,of Bam.es, 11., who, 270 years aftcp (Lh_ dej^tyi of Tliitfmj.,-, c_u_.d fra

own official titles to be carved upon the same obelisk. Papyri were found in all the coffins, some ofthe highest possible value, alabaster vases containing the hearts ofthe deceased, and a number of huge hair wigs, anciently worn by princesses of the royal house only. AU the mummies have been removed to the Bou'ak Museum, and the contents of the papyri will be anxiously looked for. The coffin containing the remains of Nunt Nedyem, a daughter of King Ramses 11. is adorned with gold and precious stones of great value. In all nearly two thousand objects have been discovered. One of tbe most remarkable relies is an enormous leather tent, which is in a truly wonderful state of preservation. The workmanship is beautiful, it being covered with hieroglyphics most oorefnlly embroidered in red, green, and yellow leather, the colours being quite fresh and bright. The discovery was made in a gorge of the Lybean Mountains, in the Tbeban district. From a pit thirty-five feet deep a secret opening led to a gallery hewn out of the solid rook, and in this gallery the relics of theTheban dynasties were discovered. The Army and Navy Journal reports the death of a soldier who had parried a bullet in his brain for sixty .five years. The wound was received at the battle of Waterloo. The bullet entered the right eye, destroying it of course, and, traversing the brain, lodged in the back and lower part of the head. After the outer wound was closed he suffered no special iqoonvenienoe from the presence of tbe bullet, although always when turning himself in bed he could feel that the ball dropped into a different position. He was unusally healthy, and he died of old age. In his address to the Grand Jury his Honor Judge Richmond is reported by the West Coast Times to have said :— The present calendar was an unique one. It contained only a single case, unfortunately a charge of unusual gravity, a charge of murder. The district was to be congratulated, on the absence of crime some few oases had been cleared away by the District Court, but the remarkable absence of crime spoke a great deal for the settled, and industrious nature of the population. The crime of murder might happen anywhere in any community. It appeared to be a crime not committed by a per* son belonging to that unhappy class, .be criminal olass. It was a crime arising out of a passion deeper than the law of the land could suppress. If the charge made by tbe Crown were sustantiated it would be a crime of passion. By a verdict of a coroner's jury a charge of wilful murder bad been found against the accused. He might have been arraigned oo that inquisition, but it was customary toprefer an indictment to the Grand Jury. The charge was already found against prisoner. But the jury must begin de novo independent of what bad been done before His Honor then said be would digress a little from the usual practice, and piooeeded to suggest to the jury, in order to save publio titoe, the order in which they should call tho I witnesses before them. Of course the jury would take do facts Irom him. On one matter he ought to speak, although that was. a fact in the case. There were some grounds for j supposing that the wife of the prisoner had j committed adultery with the victim, aud also for believing that the prisoner suspected this The law was this : A man was justified in killing his wife or her paramour if he discovered then, io the aot o# adultery, and when be so discovered them. But beyond* that human passion was not indulged by. the law. A man was not justified in killing another deliberately. Tbat waa murder*. If done at tbe moment when the blood waa hot, if an adulterer was slain in the aot, it would be manslaughter. But even if a man knew the fact that adultery had been committed by his wife, ho was not allowed to plan the death of any man. After an absence of threequarters of an hour, tbe Grand Jury returned *o Court with a true bill against M'Gahey for murder, and were then dis* charged from further attendance with the thanks of the Court. The Electric light is said to be now used at the New York theatres to produce various new and startling effects. It is applied to tlie incantation scene in the ' The Black Crook,' at Niblo's, for instance, with curious results. It flames from the eyeless socket* of the necromancer's skull, crackles along the dead branches on skeleton trees, and floods the whole stage with an unearthly brilliancy. In the duel scene the eleotrio wire runs through the handles of the swords of the combatants, and when the blades meet a eirouit is oomplete, and flashes of lightning play around the weapons in a most diabolical fashion.