THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY NOV. 2, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 November 1881, Page 2

THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY NOV. 2, 1881.

T.he hospital concert at Boatman'r to- > morrow evening promises to be a great success. Mr Walker, the genial host of the Union Hotel, is doing all in his power to secure a bumper reception, and the people will unite in making the proceeds worthy of the occasion. The hall has been tastefully arranged, and every regard will be paid to the comfort and convenience of visitors. At the close of the concert a. ball will be held to celebrate the occasion. Almost every other person to be met in the streets of Reefton at the present time is either a County Council candidate or a Chinaman. At anyrate there are no less than fifteen candidates in the field for this and the adjoining ridings, and it » to be feared that the aspirants in some of the Sidings will be placed in something the same position as Mark Twain's family during the measle epidemic— there will not be enough totes to go round. In the Omshington Biding, for instance there are tome twenty-eight or thirty totes— provided they all go to the poll, and as there are four candidates it will just run seven totes apiece. There is good reason to believe that the Beturning Officer by his easting tote will be the arbiter of (he day; Speaking about Chinamen ; there are now some two or threo hundred of them assembled in Beefton, celebrating one of their great annual festivals. On Saturday last, they repaired en masse to the cemetery, and paid their duty to the dead, and the balanoe of the time is filled in with banqueting, gambling, and billiard-playing. The half-yearly meeting ol the shareholders of the United Alpine Company was held on Monday last, and was yery largely attended, many sharsholders from Beefton and Nelson being present. The directors' report and balance-sheet for the past six months were read, and showed the company to be in a satisfactory financial position, the credit balance being £500. A resolution was carried to the effect that in future all works in the mine, where practicable, should be earned out by contract. The following gentlemen were elected directors for the en» suing six months :— Messrs Fennel], Fraser, Butler (John), Cacaci, and Feddemon, and Messrs Clarke and M'Coy, auditors. The mHie manager reported the discovery of a large body of quartz in the stope, a short distance below the No. 6 level, which is of good payable quality. The great racing event of the southern hemisphere has 'again passed away, and once more tho prophets have proved false. The bookmakers will hate reaped a great harvest. Last jear the double win of Grand Flaneur straightened up the 'ring' terribly, but the bteadhas come back, 'and buttered too for sartin;' . Mr John Trennery writes to us from Mel* bourne string that he has experienced unexpected difficulty in reference to the purchase of a diamond drill, owing to the great demand there in for the machines through* cut Victoria. The Monthly meeting of the hospital committee will be held at the Council Chambers this evening at 9 o'clock sharp. A final practice for those who are to take part in the Boatman's concert will be held in Dawson's Hall this evening, at 8 o'clock. Mr Mirfin, ono of the candidates for the Crush'ngton Biding,. held a meeting there last night. About ten local residents were present. The candidate devoted half an hour to abusing the late Council, its officers, and everybody connected with it. He pars tioularly condemned the celebrated deputa- ' lion, and would oppose the re-election of the present County Chairman to that office. 'Ignotus,' in the New Zealand Times having written contrasting Major Atkinson unfavorably with Sir Julius Yogel. Dr. Grace of tbe Upper House, took up the i cudgels on behalf of the present Treasurer. The following is a quotation from his letter : — ' Mfljor Atkinson bad the courage to fill the niche which the great Treasurer, with a prescience of the future, vacated, and has since shown a solidity of judgment, calmness, and masculinity of tempcrment of infinitely more importance to the State than the eomparitively flimsy Eastern*financial policy of loan re- | esntly advooated by Sir Julius Yogel could have been at such a orisis in onr affairs. Money is money and credit, and no bighfalutin will he accepted in London as security, even at tbe investigation of Sir Juliua Yogel. There was nothing for it bat to improve the security by economy and increased taxation, and the present Government, nobly supported by Parliament, has done both . and can afford to be sneered at by Ignotns.' Miss Eloise Juno, an actress well known in the Colonies some years ago, (and who Tinted New Plymouth during the war, with a dramatic troupe under the management of Mr Tom, Fawcett, (also well known in tbe Anstralian Colonies) has returned to Melbourne, and was announced to make re* appearance on tbe Ist October, at the Opera House, in tbe company supporting Herr Bandmann, who commenced his' season on that date. A correspondent from the bu9u beyond Eketahunft informs tho Wairarapa Star that ever since tbe big earthquake that knocked down tbe chimneys two months ago that neighbourhood ha 9 been in a state of up* heaval, It is quite a common thing for shocks to be felt daily, and letter writing is generally pursued under difficulties, the pen, owing to OBcilations from beneath, having a tendency to run over the paper. The correspondent adds that the other evening one

of (be shocks was sufficient to upset a pannikin of tea that he was preparing to enjoy. Mark Twain's latest good thing is to be found in tbe book of autographs presented to Mrs Hayea on leaving the White House, in recognition of the remarkable success with which she had, 'ran the Presidency ' on teetotal principles. Mark's signature appears among those of other celebrities with this characteristic eulogy, Total abstinence is co excellent that it is impossible to carry its principle to too great a length. I therefore totally abstain even from total abstinence. Comparing tht results of the New Sooth Wales and Victorian E xhibitions,' it appears | that the number of paying admissions to the former was 850,180 and to the latter 986,000.. The total cost of the Sydney Exhibition was £3139*6, leas receipts £49,742, or a net cost of £264,244. The number of awards of the New South Wales Exhibition was 7554, and at the "Victorian 10,850. The Victorian Exhibition altogether was about one-third larger than that of New South Wales. Referring to Mr (Hirer's appointment and the filling of the office of Minister of Public Works, the Oamaru Mail observes :•— There was not an Otago member available suitable for the position. AH the Otago ability was on the Opposition benches, and Ministers could scarcely be expected to seek a colleague from the ranks of Messrs Full on, Shanks, M'Caughan, and Co. This is where the connection between Mr Oliver's preferment and the appointment of a- Minuter for Publio Works lies. The 'claims of Otago have been reasonably satisfied, and Ministers will now find themselves at liberty to seek elsewhere for a working colleague. We may therefore expect to hear shortly of the appointment of a new Minister for Public Works. From a case reported in a medical journal it appears that the skewers with which our joints are skilfully trussed up for cooking may, unless care be taken in the selection of the wood from which they are cut. be positively deadly in their effect. We do not, we suppose, often have them made of oleander wood in this country, though, as this flowering shrub is very commonly grown in pots, and flowering shrubs in pots are very apt to become dried up and dead it is not improbable that we do occasionally have oleander skewers roasted and boiled with our meat. Used in this way this wood has just caused the death of seven out of twelve persons who partook of the meat into which it had been thrust. It evidently possesses, we are told, properties similar to those of nerinm odorum, a plant common in India and Persia, and in which two powerful cardiac poisons have been detected. It is not worth while to make too much of the possibility of meeting 'death in the pot* from this cause, but it does seem to be desirable that a substance which is to be roasted and boiled with our food, and which may be so fall of sap as a Btout new wooden skewer is often found to be, should be innocuous in character. ' Civis ' in the Otago Witness thus humorously discourses :- A 'Church of England Clergyman ' announces through the Columns of the Argus that he has discovered ' a solution of the Strong difficulties.' All that is needed, he thinks, in order to put Mr Strong right with his brethem, and heal the whole trouble, is to amalgamate Presbyterianism with the Church of England. Apparently, the good man's notion is that the two religious bodies resemble two houses in the same line of business, who are attempting what is known as a ' cutting trade ' and so playing the game of ' beggar my neighbour.' They are like the rival Guardian Companies just now appealing to the Dunedin Publio. There is business enough for one, but there may not be enough for both, and either they should amalgamate or one should buy the other out. This is perhaps a somewhat worldly view to take of the relations between the Churches, bnt as it comes from ' a Church of England clergyman ' that objection need not weigh much Kith outsiders. What interests me chiefly in the proposal is the simplicity, and at the same time the originality, of the means by which the C. of E. C. would carry it into effect. Concession, he says, is to be the order of the daymutual concession, though perhaps not very praotical. Are Presbyterians to surrender their Presbyterianism, or Anglicans their bishops ? Nothing of the sort, says the C. of E. C. :— Let us have 49 Articles of Religion instead of 39—' ten more than we now have, as a concession to the Scotch, to show -them that we are willing to concede.' The advantages of this kind of ' concession ' will strike a Scotchman at onoe. He will be allowed 10 Articles of bis own provided he accept* the Englishman's 39. Ec may not like the 39, but then the Englishman won't like the 10, so the thing is equal. There is a disproportion between the numbers it is true, but practically that may be of little account. The English firm puts more dead stock into the new concern than the other party, that is all. Theoretically the figures ought to be equal, but when you come to think of it, a Scotchman who would swallow 10 English Artioles would just as soon swallow 39. In what way amalgamation on these hopeful terms would be a ' solution of the Strong difficulty.' I confess I don't quite tee. Petbaps the notion is that in a church where the doctrinal standards were of this mixed description it would be impossible to say who WBB a heretio and who was nor. No doubt that would be convenient. A Church that could thus head northteast by sou'west ought to be a really popular institution. The export of gold for the quarter ended September 30th last from New Zealand, was 83,710 ounces, value £332,787. During the corresponding quarter last year, there was exported 69,631 ounces of the value of £279 554. The return for last September quarter is made up as follows :*-Auckland value of gold exported, £55,785; Marlborouoh' £4531; Nelson, £8319; West Coast, £156* 437 j and Otago, 107 715. ' '