THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1881,

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 31 October 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1881,

MrG.C. Bowman will hold an auction sale of dairy stook, agricultural implements, &r\, at Brazil's farm, at 2 o'clock day: We publish ta-day the programme of the concert to be bald at Boatman's on Thursday evening next. The sharemarket was unusually active oo Saturday last, and up to a late hour in the night a considerable amount of business was done. Welcomes leaped during the. day from £5 to £7 and £7 10s. 25} charged hands in one parcel at £7. A brisk business was aleo done in Specimen Hills, intelligence having reached town of the finding of the track of the reef in the mine. The scrip advanced from Is. 6d to 4. Just-in-Time?, Golden Treasures, and Keep-it-Darks also received a large amount of attention, and made some advance in price. On the whole there is more real life in the share-market at the present time than at any time during the past two or three years, The nomination of candidates for the approaching County elections will take place at noon to-day. The Keep-it- Dark mine promises tore* alise the best anticipations ever expressed concerning its future. Some 14 feet has already been cut into the new reef without as yet «ny appearance of the foot-wall. The character of the stone is unmistakeable, gold being well distributed throughout, leaving no doubt as to the payable character of the reef. Mr James Stevenson, Mr J. C. Craig, and Mr Jacob M 'Kenny will be nominated for the Murray Riding. Our advertising column* contain two ap« plications for quartz mining areas in a new quarter of the field, namely at Antoions, Some nine years ago an outcrop of golden stone was discovered on the ground applied for,, but the richness of the . alluvial workings at that time drew attention from the discovery, which subsequently passed out of notice. If. however, present accounts are to be relied upon, a great future is in store for the district in question. It i» understood that Messrs Boardnmn, Bruc9 ; Byrne, and Feehan will be amongst those nominated for the Boatman's Riding. The names mentioned for the Antonios Rid» ing are Messrs BeaTtJ »nd Williams. The \ only persons who have been invited by the ; Crushington people to stand for that Riding are Messrs Aiken, Irving, and Overend. Several people were making purchases in a Woodward avenue grocery yesterday when an old man with a cane in one hand and a bundle in the other stood in the door and asked : • Did any of you drive up here in a sleigh ? ' •Yes I did,' replied one. ' Was it an old woman in the cutter ?'• Yes." And can she manage the hoss ? ' ' I guess she can.' ' Then it's oil right/ said the man of the cane and bundle. ' The old hoss has ran away and the old woman is hanging to the dash-board, and yelling murder with all her might, but if she can manage him, there's no use of anybody getting excited over it. Let me inquire what the price of cranberries, is today '—Detroit Free Pren9. 'Winter is a mean season,' said one pickpocket to another, ' and very bad for business besides. Everybody has his hands in his pockets. I don't like it at al?. Ten thousand pounds is a little present the Duke of Portland will give bis coimn Miss Bentinck, on her marriage with Lord Gliimis. The Emperor of Germany is indisposed, but his illness is said not to be serious. Thirteen years ago, Skobeloff, the • hero of Plevna,' of whom Lieutenant Green, in h's ' Army Life in Russia,' predicts that he will equal if not surpass Wellington some day, was a private soldier. Mark Twain, the American humorist, has written a letter to a friend in Adelaide, in which he refers to the numerous communications which had been received from the colonies respecting the rumor that he had been insane and was dead. He stated that neither of tbe rumours were correct at present. A plague of rats has appeared near Dagneux, in France. Innumerable swarms, which seem to come from the direction of Lynns, have invaded many commune*, doing greet damage to the crops. Some farmers, it is stated, Lave killed from 5000 to 6000 rats in their fields in a single day. A writer in the Otago Witness says :— •Iho colonial society paper is the mosquito of journalism, is very insignificant, very blood-thirsty, very annoying, and no one can suy for what useful purpose it exists. The literary level of the society paper is that of ' the billiard marker, the barmaid, and the milliner's apprentice, vet it is evidently written for a much wider public than that. It lias niuohiOßoy about members of the Civil Service, much about bank clerks, much about chureb choirs, much, and niO3t of nil unnamed Indie?, who, as it expects its readers lo believe, are persons of decent reputation, and living (' moving ' I believe ia the correct word) in repp ebble society. Of these it chseours.s wi;h a tla-jry impertinence clearly

not intended to be pleasant to tlio viclims. It knows, or effects to know, the whole of their affairs, doga them in their public walks and sacred ways, pries into the reoesses of their domestic life, advertises their loves and bates, flirtations, quarrels, reconciliations, their debts, their duns, their drinks, their dinners; paragraphs them for a neflT dress or a new baby (in ease or in posse) chaffs (hem on their personal appearance, the color of their hair, the shape of their noses, their aira in walk and gait ; chronicles faithfully their moral peccadilloes, hints at worße behind, and fastens on any genuine pocial scandal that may occur amongst them with the wicked delight of a Mephiatophelee.' We (Colonist), understand that a writ of ProhibUion is to be applied for against Mr Broad, Eesident . Magistrate, on account of his drcision in the late case of Koberts v, Dorreen. A score of 415, not out, ia on event in the annals of cricket It was made the other day at Cambridge in a match between Caius and Emmanuel Colleges by Mr W; N. Roe. We have been informed that this gentleman is a brother of the genial host of the Denbigh. The Rangiora Standard has the following lay :— Let England sing of roasted beef, and Scotland of burgoo; let Erin's lay her praties praise, and France her ragout ; but we — let it be right or wrong, we do not care a button — we strike a newer, gayer song, and sing New Zealand's mutton. The recent railway accident at Melbourne having shown the necessity for a means of communication between pna?engera and the guards of train?, the Minister of Railways bus decided to try an experiment with an electric communicator. A train on the Saudridge line is now being fitted with this arrangement. Each carriage will be provided with a knob or handle, which, upon being pulled, will ring an electric bell in both the guard's van and on the engine. When the bell has been rung it will be impossible to push the knob back to its original position, so that the guard will be able to ascertain from which carriage the alarm was given. The Patea Mail announces that Mr Bryce has been invited to join the Ministry on the understanding that the Native policy on which he resigned should now be carried out. Mr Bryce declined. His reasons are understood to be that he was not offered the post of Native Minister, but another portfolio, and was expected to be responsible for the Native policy under circumstances very different from those when he proposed to rush Pnrihaka.' Mr R. Halkett Lord, who was formerly connected with the press in Napier, has we hear, been appointed London correspondent of the Liverpool Daily Chronicle. Mr Shaw. R.M., of Wellington, following the recent decisions of the English Courts on the subject) decided that a eas company is bound to snpply gas to any one who wishes to purchase it and has the money (o pay for if. The Wellington Gas Company had refused to supply a person who refused to pay arrears due by a previous tenant. Speaking of the Hokitika eleotion, the Wanganui Herald says :- 'Mr R. C. Reid has received a requisition from the electors of Hokitika which places all rivals out of the running, and though opposition has been threatened we imagine second thoughts will show that it would be hopeless. Mr Reid is one of the moat respected members of Parlia* menr, is a staunch Liberal, and deserves for his loyal and devoted services in the interests of his district, a renewal of the confidence so long reposed in him. We are therefore pleased for his own sake, as well as for the West Coast of the Middle Island, that the electors have placed his candidature beyond much doubt. It was thought at one time by some of his friends that Mr Rfid wouM not stand again, and hence the requisition. Than Mr Reid, there are few men capable of taking sounder views of public questions, and his absence would have been a great loss to the new Parliament.' A discussion has taken place as to whether the admixture of water with spirit?, will render a publican liable to a penalty for selling adulterated liquor under the new Licensing Act. The New Zealand Times thinks it scarcely clear that this is co, for water is not an ingredient or material injurious to health. The Post, however, argues exactly to the contrary. Our con« i temporary insinuates that the Times has found a mare's negt, and aayf,:— 'The Adulteration Act, under which posecutions for grog-adulteration are undertaken. pro« videa (vide clause seven) that any article of this kind which shall have been mixed with any other substance, with intent fraudulently tj increae its weight or bulk shall be deemed an adulterated article. It follows, therefore, that if water be mixed with spirits, &c, with the intent we allude to, the rasulc ia adulteration under the Act.' On the whole it will be perhaps safer for the publican to permit his customers to adulterate their spirits with water according to their tastes. At Kidderminster, in England, has been unveiled ; near the Town Hall, the memorial settle of Sir Roland Hill, to which some 200,000 persons in all parts o<" the world have contributed, nearly all the contributions being a penny each. The monument of Sir Rowland is ten feet high, and of white Siow lian marble