THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, OCOTBER 7, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Issue II, 7 October 1881, Page 2

THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, OCOTBER 7, 1881.

The Magistrate'! aud Warden's Courts sat yesterday, but the business waa not of any special importance. , A painful sensation was created in Beefton early yesterday morning by receipt of the sad intelligence of tbe death of Mr Michael Hartigan at Boatmau's. The news was brought to town by Mr B. Currie, and others, who came in to attend the sittings of the Warden's Court. The facts as far as can be gathered; are as follows : Mr Hartigan left Capleston about 10 o'clock on Wednesday night last, for his hut near the Welcome machine. It appears that he was alone, and proceeded up the track. The night was moonlight, bnt the way- being in the shade of a steep bill, travelling received no aid from that fact. Nothing further was knows until an early hour on the following morning irhen the body of the unfortunate man was found lying in the bed of the creek, some six feet below the track. I/ife was extinct, and the body quite cold. The supposition is that the deceased slipped off the track, falling □rad-foremost on to the rocks below, it hay« ing been ascertained that deceased's neck was broked. The scene of the accident it only a •hort distance from Mr Archer's store, at a point where there is a shavp turn in the track. Upon the matter being reported at the police station a constable was at onoe despatched to Boatman's, and the body will no doubt be brought in and an inquest held. Hartigan was a very steady man, and had been for soire time in the employ of the Welcome Company. He was very well known in the Grey T alley, having worked for Borne years at Callaghan's Creek, near Ahaura. Deceased was highly respected throughout tbe Inangahua for his quiet, unobtrusive de* meanor, and the news of his untimely end has been received with genuine sorrow. ; He leaves a wife and two children. . We publish to-day tbe programme of the next concert in aid of the Fire Brigade. Owing to the demand upon bur business columns we are compelled to hold over our leading and other matter. There was a very good attendance at the hospital concert last night, and tbe occasion gave the greatest satisfaction. At the request of many wbb were unable to attend 1 tit night owing to the threatening state of tbe weather, the committee have decided to repeat the concert to-morrow evening. Mr Re veil, R M., proceeded to Boatman's yesterday, for the purpose of holding an ir,» quest upon the body of Michael Hartigan . The inquest was fixed for 4 o'clock, but up to the hour of going to press no particulars of the inquiry reached us. The ouly other item which has come to hand concerning the cad affair is that Mr Biliett was the first to find the body, ond upon turning it over, it was found that deceased had a deep cut on the side of the head, caused evidently by the fall, aud also that he held a pocket-handkerchief in his hand, which gives rise to the supposition that deceased was cii her in the act of using the handkerchief when tie fell, or was conscious after the full. The body was brought into town at a late hour last night. The funernl will take place this afternoon, at 3 o clock precisely[Since writing) the above we learn that the jury returned a veidiet of ' accidental death ;' the evidence of Dr Thorpe going to show that death must bttve been instantaneous ; It appears that deceaieil left Capleston in company with a man named Patrick Cooney, but the latteron1 atteron arriving at the upper bridge eros-ed over to the baker's to get some bread, telling f'eceused that he (Coone)) would follow in a few minutes, lliu was tlie last time that the unfortunate man was 9te» alive, for on Cooney following inure 'i.;toly ufl-r he ceoeyed, bu t

eueiving no unswer, concluded that llarti^sin ad hastened home to his own hut; A requisition has been forwarded , from leel'ton to Mr T. S. Weßtun, u»kii>g him to ]!o»v himself to be nominated for thelnftri* ahuaat the tipprouching general election > a imilarstep i?, wo believe, being taken hi Jreyinoutli. .Mr Weston's reply will be pubished in our uext isaue: ; During the past month, some rich specimens of quartz and gold b a v* been found at ;he head of a dry gully nea r Melbourne. i\no;her sample of 10oz9 of flaky gold have been found on the beach working! at Wuratuh Bay. The discovery ie considered important is drawing attention to the possibility of marine, bed*. formed. from . the, .wearing of the paleozoic •formatidtiV being- sufficiently auriferous to p»y for working the locality. This is a year of eccentricity.., of costumes. At a London reception a young woman was Been who had carried' a vajried use pf colojurs gilt embroidery, and cut glass beads to such an extent that she looked like an East Indian princess. The whole surface of her dress was covered with this heavy glittering surface. Even her arms were clad from shoulder to mitts. When she danced the bits of gkss rattled and shook, and if she were to fall under thi3 weight it would be utterly mv* wt6U#*i x ».»Uu» JS -. Two young ladies appeared in Philadelphia in dresses which looked as if woven from sunlight and moonlight. One was of cream brocades wrought with gold thread, and made with a box plaited train, and a baby tront embroidered in gold and pearls ; the other was of silver cloth, with front and side breadths of white satin embroidered in white chenille and pearls. The Goulburn Herald reports that intense excitement has been caused by the reported discovery at Upper Temora of an immensely rich reef, which is estimated to yield 1000 oz. to the ton. It appears that Periman and party had taken up an abandoned: claim on the road at Upper Temora. alongside Harris's Hotel, and in a trench at the depth of 9 inches had unearthed the grandest stone ever seen equalled at G-ympie in its palmiest days. One piece was crushed, and yielded 7 oz. 10 t dwt., and the remaining twenty- pound weight of stone taken from the leader is nearly all gold. The ground has been covered up, and is now watched by the shareholders, who are camped on it. It is situated only a few yards from the Amelia Company's boundary, and has been tried by three different pftrtiepy each of which Periman wAs- in, but they could not get the reef. An old post was sunk within a foot of the leader. The shareholder ask £1060 for their interest An injunction has been granted to Lucas and party, who were recently in the ground.. All Wednesday vehicles were carrying visitor* ' to 4hel reef which is in a line with Bourke's Mine, and parallel with the Amelia. This confirms the report of Mr A. R. Wilkinson as to the Upper Temora being a reefing district. •An unprecedentedly large return of gold 1 has been obtained,' says the Sydney Echo, 1 from a small parcel of pyrites sent to England for treatment by the TCeform Gold Mining Company, Lucknow. near Orange* From 17 cwt. oC stone perCotopaxi no less than 245 oz.. gold and 55 oz. silver were obi tamed, for which th* company have received net value credit to the amount of £853, 4a. lOd. enabling them to declare a dividend of £9 per share of £25, making some* £36 per share paid in dividends since Ist June last' There are only ninety shares in the company which are of course* at au enorrtfbus premium,' as, iv addition to the large return now to hand— probably the heaviest yield of gold per ton yet obtained in any part of Australia — seveial more shipments, supposed to be equally rich, are on their way to England for treatment. This rich shoot, which is dipping almost perpendicular in the company's ground, at present shows no sign of diminishing in wealth. Tt is stated that a Sydney firm has offered £25,000 for the mine, but that the shareholders are not inclined l to part with it for that amount.' : ; The wheat lands of England are reported by Mr Caird, an acknowledged authority on such matters, to be yielding smaller crops every year, while the opposite condition prevails in France. The Panama canal will shorten the voyage between Liverpool and Australia by 2000 league*. M. de Lesseps has pledged his reputation that the work shall be completed by IBRB Tom Cannon, the English Jockey, refused an offer of £1250 per annum from James R. Keene to act as the latter's private trainee. At Connemara,. in (he west of Ireland, the old women of the vicinity are given the privilege of gathering the wool scratched off the sheep's backs on j the stones, hedges, and bushes. This wool they then spin and knit into stockings, selling them at 6£ a pair. As many aa 200 pain are knitted by a person in a season. A new rule of racing has been adopted in 'England as follows : — If a horse carry more than 21bs. over-weight, which has not been duly declared, he is disqualified, unless the stewards be satisfied that such excess of weight has been caused by wet weather. Mr H. J. Hall, of Motunau station. Amuri (says the Christen urch Star of September 23), di.-covered in a bluff on his property a collection of rooa bones in excellent condition. They mu?t have been buried for a great length of time, and but for a landslip during the past winter would not have been aeen. He has collected them and brought them to his residence at Riccarton, A paragraph in the St. George Standard states that Skuthorpe has arrived there, and persistently asserts that he has thje Leiohhardt relics, end will produce; them. when sufficiently remunerated. He alleges that he has Leichhardt'a and Classon's diaries, and a telescope compass, all in good preservation A correspondent of the South Australian Register, in discussing the returns from the proposed roil way from Adelaide to Port Darwin, says.-' Every extention of 200 miles of the Cruma railway^} make- accessible country 200 miles ahead ' of it and 400 miles in width, equal to 80,000 square

ml. 1 ?, which at the increased rental, w« u'd soon piodu-e in round figures 33,000. The cost of making 200 miles of railway would be say, £700,000 ; this at 4 per cent interest would co9t the Colony £28,000. leaving a balance of £50v0 to the good for working expense. Trains would not be run oftener than twice a week, and I feel certain that the up traffic of passengers, wive, store?, &,, and return traffic of produce, ,&uoh aa wool, live stock, minerals, &c. would fully cover working expetiseg. It may be paid that, a 9 the Government now gets 2s 6i per mile, that should be deducted froirt th« increased rentBut bs the loss to individuals, which this rent now is, can be no gain to the State in the long run, I contend.it is'lair to leave it out of the question. How long will the present lessees hold it at, a loss? An extenaion of 200 miles would give U9 the whole of the trade oJT.sputh> western Queensland." An American journal gives an account of the manner in which vicious horses were managed at a.n T . exhibition recently held at .Philadelphia: • The first trial was that Of a kicking- or bucking mare, whioh her owner said had allowed no rider on he? back for five years. She became tame and gentle in about as ninny minutes, and allowed hereelf to be ridden without a sign of her former wildnesa. plished was by a light piece of rope, which was paused' around the. front |aw of the mare above the upper teeth, crossed in her mouth and then secured back to the neck. It Vas claimed that no horse will kick or jump when thus secured, and furthermore that a bucking horse, after receiving the treatment a few times, will quite abandon the habit. A very simple method was also shown bj which a kicking horse v,as to be shod. It consisted in connecting the animal's head with tbe tail and then to the bit, and drawn tight enough to incline the horse's head to one side. Tbi«, it is claimed, makes it absolutely impossible for the horse to kick on the side of the rope. At tbe same exhibition, a horse which for many years had to be bound to the grouud to be shod suffered tbe blacksmith to operate upon him without attempting to kick while secured in the manner described.^. ..