THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 17 October 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1881.

The Chinese are gradually edging their way amongst the business frontages in Broadway. They have already four store* cum«gamlling establishments in the heart of the town, and yesterday two other premises passed into their tenancy. Johns aggression n are by no means popular 1 amongst his neighbors. We understand that informations were on Friday last served upon Mathew Byrne and Louis Davies, on behalf of the ratepayers of the County of Inangahua, to test the validity of the expenditure incurred upon (he recent deputation to Wellington. The ease will be heard before Mr Revdll, E.M., ia the Magistrate's Court, Riefton, on Thursday next. The Grey coach came through yesterday afternoon. The Westporf co^ch will probably not arrive till to-morrow evening. Mr Richard Reeves reached Reefton from ! Nelron yesterday afternoon. It will be learnt with satisfaction that the number of shares already taken up in the i Diamond Drill Company leaves no room to doubt the abjlity of the promoters to float . the undertaking. Through the exertions of Mr Beeche somewhere about four thousand shares were subscribed for in the Boatman !« district, oa Saturday last. This, with the number already applied for in Reefton represents close upon half the number required : tp be disposed of, and it is believed that the balance will be placed (taring the current week. Now that the possibility of floating the company has been established it is to be hoped that those who have so far held back will now lend a helping hand. Should the remaining shares go off as rapidly as is ex* -ected, the prompters, hope to have a diamond drill at work in the district early in the month of January next. The time of closing tenders for County Council contracts has been extended for one week. As a correction to a telegtam published in the West Coast Times of the 12th, that journal in its next issue published, the following :— The correspondent who telegraphed us from Wanganui on Tuesday last to the effect that Mr Bonar had assured Mr FitzQerald of success at the forthcoming eleotion, must have been misinformed as to the pyrport of Mr Bonar's message to Mr Fitzs Gerald, as Mr Bonar assures qs that he not only discouraged Mr FitzGerald's Candida* (are here, but recommended a neighboring constituency as less likely to be productive of defeat. The weekly returns from the Welcome battery, which have been gradually increasing for some months past, reached (he maximum on Saturday last, which is reckoned equal to 6oz per ton. Mr Hobby, the mana« | ger of the wo^ks is to be. congratulated upon the improvement effected. 1 Willcox and party are the successful ten* i derers for extending No. 6 level of the United Alpine Company. Lyell The distanco contracted for 19 500 ft, and the price 26s 6d per foot. The tender of Muldoon and party has been accepted for driving tunnel for tbj» Phoenix Company, the price being 39s per foot Some very good news was received yesterday from the Golden Point mine. Some remarkably rich stone was met with, the announcement of which sent the shares up to 2s 6cl. 4 11 acnount of the find will be given in our Wednesday's issue. Tenders are required by the Ross Goldmining Company for driving 36 chains of their tunnel tail-race. Tenders (accompanied by a deposit of £100) will be received by Mr J. ; Gibson, the manager, Ross, up to noon of Tuesday, the 25th October. Letters received in Duneain by the San j Francisco mail from Bishop Moron (pays the Tablet), report his Lordship to have been in good health at. the date of writing— that is about the middle of July. His Lordship was then in Ireland, and hoped to make arrangements by which a party of nuns for the Punedin mission would leave for this Colony by the Orient steamer in September. It was his Lordship's intention to visit Rome in October, and. if possible, to start on his return journey to his diocese early in November. The Melbourne Age say? : -Gold mining in Npw South Wales is attracting a fair share r{ Victorian capitalists and mining speculators' attention at the present time, The latest discovery of god worthy of note from a quartz mining point of view has been made at the newly christened town 1 of Mount M'Ponnld, near Milburn Creek. Some twelve months since a solitary prospector was the only human being existing in the thickly wooded hills where now is rapidly growing a thvi>ing mining township. The rich jielde of gold obtained from the several prospecting ehaf's put. down on some half dozen disHnot

quartz ree's have marked out this district as one worthy of oapitalisis' attent'on both in Sydney and Melbourne. The latjter have, however, taken the lead, although the last in the field. We observe in the official report issued by the Mining department of New South Wales for 1830 that Mr Warden North and the local mining registrar both report very favorably of this rising goldfield. At the present time we observe by the local paper th-'t shares in claims and allotments in the township are selling at rapidly in* creasing prices. The reefs are only just opened out at the surface, and consequently there appears to be a good margin for large profits should the yields continue to be as rich as those obtained hitherto from pros* peoting operations, It will be observed, on reference to the map, that this new goldfield is situate in the centre of the great auriferouß belt of New South Wales. The American correspondent of the Morning Herald has the following:— One of the oh jections to Chinese immigration is the fact that it does not involve families. But very few women come over, and these, alas ! nearly all lead impure lives. Still, some of the Chinese merchants have wives and children, i and occasionally a marriage takes place. Recently in San Francssco were married Mr Lee Young and Miss Ah Chung. The ser« j vic*B were peculiar. The presents to the bride were from her female friends alone. On the second day after the migrriage the newly »mada husband gave a banquet t\> 500 guests. It wan a strange feast, and included swallows' nests, stewed sharks' fins with chopped chicken, roast Chinese goose with \ ginger and cucumbers, ducks wrapped in dry oraoje peel stewed, and, of course, tea with- ' out etint. While the feast was under way a roar of fire crackers announced the coming of the bride. She entered the rooai with a fan before her face, and it was with difficulty the guests caught a glimpse of her features. The feasting was kept up three days, and then the bride entertained her female friends, The groom was not permitted to be with his bride until the third day, when he was sent for, and took her away from her father's to bis own house. The law on the question of the Maori vote is important at the present time. The following is sub-section 3 of section 2 of 'The Qualification of Electors Act, 1879:— 'Every male Maori of the age of 21 years and upwards, whose name is enrolled upon a rate* payers' roll in force within the electoral district in respect of Which he claims to vote, or who is seized in severity of a freehold estate of the value of £25, whether subject to in* cumbrances or not, is entitled to be registered at an elector and to vote at the election of members for such district for the Bouse of Representative*!. Bat no Maori shall be entitled to be registered as an elector, or to vote at | any such election, in respect of any other Qualification of natives may be one of two kinds. Either by paying rates to the County Council or some other local body, or by being * seized in severalty of a freehold of the value of £25.' Under the beading 'Estates in Severally,' we find the following in Wbarton'a Law Lexicon *.— • He who holds lands or tenement^ in severalty, or is so|e tenant thereof, is he that holds them in his own right only, without any other person being joined or con* nectad with him, in point of interests, during his estate therein.' in oil painting of the signing of the Treaty at Waitaugi is being disposed of by art union at Chiistchurch. The mountain of food collected at Pariliaka for the last meeting was said to be one chain long and several feet high, made up q f potatoes fish, and flour. The lessee of the South Canterbury Times has been unfortunate. Directly the imprint was altered he was deprived of the motive power to work the printing machine, and consequently had to obtain manual labor to do the work, incurring a loss at the rate of £600 a year. The claim for damages and expenses of working is now before the R.M. Court, Timaru. It went the round of the papers some short time since that rabbits poisoned by phosphorous were not injurious as articles of food; We notice, however, by exchanges, that a family named Clark, living at Camperdown (Victoria), recently had a narrow escape from poisoning, in consequence of eating a pair of rabbits which had been shot in a paddock laid with phosphorised oats. Mrs Clark bought the rabbits from a dealer at the door, and after soaking them for 24 hours in salt and water they were made into a pie, which was served up for dinner Symptoms of poisoning immediately were manifested Mr Cfo\\ being seized with violent pains in bis head and aftewards becoming insensible. Hi 9 wife lost the use of her limbs, and her head was also affected. Another member of the family suffered severely, but all eventually recovered, and are now considered out I of danger. Mr Locke, candidate for the, Wairao electorate, told a meeting that ' there was a great debt of £30,000,00p in the polony, the interest on. which they had to assist in paying ; none of that money had been spent in the district and it was time they received a fair Bhare of it/ This is the way to talk, — to go |n for a fair share ! of what has been speut ! An address written by Mis? A. C. Donnelly on behalf of the Ladies' Committee appointed by the Land League meeting held n the Temperance If all, Dunedin, a few month? ago was. on August sth, read nt the Ladies' Land League meeting held in Dub» lin. The Bddress was published in full in the Dublin Daily Freeman of the following day.