THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 26 October 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1881.

A m eel ing ot ehnrcholdora of the Eureka Co., for the purpose of deckling upon o plan for future operations was held at Mr Lee's office, on Saturday, 22nd instant. An exceptionally Inrge number, viz., 14,811, out of a total of 16,000 shares, into which the company is divided, were repre ßended in person and by proxy, and Mr Thomas Brace ■ras voted in the chair. After the vnriout ich ernes for reaching the company's ground had been discu-eed, it was proposed by Mr M'taugblin, and seconded by Mr Beechc, that the company join in with the Homeward Bound, Occidental, and Specimen Hill Corns panics in driving and constructing the proposed low level tunnel, a distance of 2610 feet from tbe Little Boatman's Creek to a point shown on plan, and 75 feet below the No. 6 level of the Welcome. After the mover and seconder had directed attention to the salient points in the project mentioned in the resolution, an amendment was moved by Mr Cochranc, and seconded by Mr Anderson, to the effect, that the project of the incline tunnel of say 2000 feet, to comtnenco •t a point below No. 5 level of the Welcome, as proposed by the directors, be adopted, on account of the greater advantages offering by this proposal as the means of opening the mine. Both resolution and amendment had a number of supporters, and were warmly debated, and as it was apparent that the division wonld be a close one, it was ul- , timately resolved, on a motion of Mr Boeche. seconded by Mr T, Collins, that the vote on the question before the meeting be taken by ballot. This resulted in 7676 votes being re* corded in favour of tbe amendment, as against 7135 for the original resolution, which was therefore declared lost, and amendment carried. A vote of thanks to the choir terminated the proceedings. Mr Charles Clifford has applied for a mm« ing lease adjoining the ground of tbe Welcome "So. 2 Company, Boatman's, The pro* posed low lavel tunnel will traverse the lease. The company will be styled (he Welcome Oon-ols Gold Mining Company. We are glad to notice that the Government have made it a condition precedent in granting subsidies for tracks in this County i hat the work shall be performed to the satis* faction of Mr Gordou. This will put an end to a fruitful source of corrupt patronage, and afford a guarantee to the public that the expenditure will not be thrown away upon such undertakings as the Big River track. At a meeting of the directors of tbe Low Level Tunnel Company, held at Mr Wises* o*?ce, on Monday evening last tbe tender o. Penrose and Austin was accepted for driving 250 ft, the price being 39s 6d per foot, including tbe fixing of air-pipes, tbe latter being supplied by the company: Some of the directors of the Golden Treas* me Company visited the mine on Monday, and brought to town the satisfactory intelligence that tbe stone in the bottom of the winze looks remarkably good, the show of gold improving as the sinking advances. The next English and European mail via San Francisco, will close at Reefton on Mon. day, the 3l»t October, at 7 a.m. As the date of tbe County elections approaches, interest gathers, and snares are being diligently laid to entrap voters. The bulk of the ratepayer have, however, fully made up their minds for a radical change in the constitution of the Council. The present party have now had an innings of five years, which, quite apart from any other consideration, w an all-sufficient reason why they should now be got rid of. There is alway* ground to suspect the motives of meu »bo display too much anxiety to serve the public, and the anxiety which the present membeis evince furnishes tbe best possible evidence why they should not again be trusted with power. The position U a eeri>us one for the tommunity and must be faced in a spirit be« fitting its importance. It is not to be settled by mere bultonsholing, however assiduous, Or by dependence upon privute friendships. By their actions in the past the members of the Council must be judged, and measured by that staneord there is not one member who has established the smallest claim tn n. mnonmi nf

public confidence. They have blazed awa} ih* substanoe of the County in compensa. tions, salaries, and in wasteful and useless ex petidUure, and virtually dragged the community to the verge of bankruptcy, ond if these, charges agftimt them are not sufficient to outweigh ull private or personal cansiderationfl, then there ia aq end to fche.very name of local government. News was brought to town last night of the striking of stone in the south level of the Just,itinTiiof mine. It ii singular, remarks a London journal,

how iiitie- udvauue lisv? been reullj made. notvsiihsfanding the industry of our ecientiGe men, in iniiu>iiii/.iitg the danger of coal mine rxplo-ion*, and we wil 1 >m« l.vo different i»rtoriß in this direction, Wiurh both ore 'rom ilte Coutinrnr. The one is founded on ♦•ipe-j nent« by M. Michel Rohm", provina lli it fire-damp rxplo hna are preepdt-d bi' lij»'it microseismic cli turhuncee at,d fainl Bubterr.iU,e»n floises, which the microphone detects with great tendiness. He therefore suggests with much reason that this instrument shculd be added to the equipment with which most well vrgulated colleriea are already provided. The other proposal is from Herr Muhlrac], an engineer at \f agdebnrg, who bus invented nn appura'us consisting of ft large hermetically closed metiil Hrum, suspended from a very «en»iiive*piir of ecwles, «o that the*e are kept perfecily balanced in the air, which is fee fr»m fire damp, by means of ajpo'.id weight. But as soon as any firedamp, wliich is lighter thnn atmospheric air, enters the sbu't, the equilibrium between the hollow drum and the solid weight is disturbed, and the motion of the heam of the scales sets an alarm going, which warns the miners,to leavc^t^e nit, ' A' correspondent write? :— Jerusalem], now contains! about twenty -four! thousand of -fwwrrily ver*. poor people—the Jew^contrary to experience elsewhere, being the poorest. 'J be"oi*y is wul'ed in, and has five pates. 'dui*of which ore dosed every night at sunset and the fiMi guarded. The town is badly buil% unliglited — ihe inhabitants, should they be out at night., carrying lamps — and the streets as dirty, irregular and illpaved that walking or riding is alino3t unpleaennt. As for a carriage or conveyance of any kind, such a thing was never inside the wall*, and it is only recently} that one could be got even in Jaffa. A Mahomedan is your genuine Conservative. Jerusalem is n city of historical* and relic ious wonders, and it would be hard to say what religion possesses the most. The church of the Holy Sepulcre not only contains the tomb of Christ, but that of JAdara,Vof Joseph, ofJ.Nicodemua, of Melchizedech, of Godfrey of Bouillon, and Baldwin. It'also'oontains the spot which is the centre ofj the earth and from which the earth was taken to male Adam, besides innumeral other? objects of -interest.^ The really beautiful Mosque of Omar which standsf'upon the" site of Solomon's JTen. pie, contains the rock upon which Abraham was about to offer up Isaac,* and from which Mahomed upon the back of his steed ascended to heaven. The rock, it appears, wished to go with him, but was held down, by the Angel Gabriel— Gabriel's finger-marks, pretty deep ones, are there to show for themselves. There is also a stone'into which Mahomed drove nineteen nails ; each nail marks an epoch in the world, and when the last shall be taken out the world shall end. One day the devil got*at|this stone and had taken sixteen out before he was stopped by the Angel Gabriel. Be grateful to the an<?el. Theee are not bad as far as they go. but the mosque contains much more. In a cavern underneath the rock I saw the proving plac99 of Elijah. David, Solomon. Abraham, and Mahomet. The rocky ceiling contains the impress of the tatter's seal, and underneath the cavern, tbe floor of which sounds hollow — is the well of evil spirits. One thing greatly pleased me about Jerusalem, and that was the certainty with which the guides knew the exact spot upon which everything happened. It is so satisfactory. From the South Canterbury Times we gather that a reply was received on Saturday last from the Queensland Government to a petition sent some time ago by the Tim urn Labor League, signed by about 250 persons asking if that Government could render them any assistance in emigrating to Queensland, or promise them employment if they went over. The answer was to the effect that no such assistance or promise couli be made. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt in Wel» lington at the Library Committee denying to respectable citizens the privilege they have exercised during the past ten years of using the Parliamentary Library during the recess. Mr Cbarlea White, a well-known accountant protests in vigorous language against the wirhdrawal of a privilege that hits never been abused, and says. ' I suppose that Wellington has the questionable honour of being the only city in the universe possessing a library puid for out of the Public Treasun whose doors are slam mcd in tbe face of the student.' A visitor to Dunedin has informed a local paper that he happened to see Mr Blankwood. Commissioner for the Colony at Melbourne. Exhibition, on Oct. 4, in Melbourne. Mr Blueliwood stated to him that he had that day attended a meeting of the Commissioners, and that he had intended to bring the New Zealand medals, &o, (of which there are some 400 in ali, we believe) which were ready, but that he could not wait to get them. However, they will probably be forwarded by next steamer. A Melbourne cablegram in the Christen urch Telegraph suvsj- ' The report which was circulated a few days ago, to the effect that fighting was goin-j on in Zululanrl, is confirmed. The latest advices from the Cape announce that the Kaffir chiefs have rinen, and are now fighting desperately. Considerable excitement prevails in tbe Cape Colony in confequence '