THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOV. 25, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 25 November 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOV. 25, 1881.

A meeting of the Jockey Club was held at Beilby'fl hotel on Wednesday evening last, when some trifling business was transacted, but owing to the paucity of attendance no important matters were brought up. The meeting stands adjourned until this evening, and as the letting of booths, gates, and pognate privilege!, together with other urgent business will be discussed, it is expected that tbe meeting will be largely attended. The contractors fer the erection of the grand •tand have finished the foundation, and are now waiting fyr timber to go on with the work, Our enterprising neighbours, the Lyell people, are almost as busy at ourselves at the present time, and speculators are on the alert for any new discovery. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that considerable stir was created in mining circles when it became known on Tuesday night (hat a new reef had been found by Mr Henry White about two miles from the township. Very little sleep was indulged in that night, and at break of day a considerable rush set in to the place* Claims were pegged out from the site of the new find right into tbe township, when the holder of the last claim found himself in possession of ground including within its boundaries, Anderson's brewery, with a good stock of excellent beer. This at present is considered the best claim on the line. We understand that the premises at the corner of Broadway and Bridge'street, opposite the Bank of New Zealand, have been purchased by a new firm of sharebrokers, who will commence business in the eourao of a day or two. At tbe first meeting of the new County Council of Insngabua, held on Wednesday last. Mr P. Brennan was re-elected Chairman for the ensuing twelve months. Mr A. Guinness has been re-elected fo the position of Chairman of the Grey County. A meeting of shareholders in the Imperial lease was held last night, at the Southern Cross Hotel, when it was decided to register under the Mining Companies Limited Liability Act. Tbe oompany will consist of 20,000 shareß, of £1 each, 103 to be con* sidered as paid-up. Mr George Wise was appointed manager, and Messrs Ashton Kilgour, Bruce, Hankin and Clifford were elected directors. Tbe directors subsequently held a meeting and arranged about visiting the ground with a view to decide upon the point at which to commence immediate operations. Tbe company's ground is situ* ated between tbe Justwin-Time . and tbe South Hopeful, Boatman's. Mr Hindmarsh was appointed auditor to the company, It was reported in town yesterday that I stone bad been struck in the Golden Fleece mine, but the matter will be more fully reported incur Monday's mining report. Four new raining leases are advertised this morning. Reefton appears to have now put on an appearance of settled activity. All the carpenters in town ure closely occupied. Several new building 9 are in course of erection in Broadwoy, while workmen are busily engaged adding to, altering and repairing others. Painters are also at work polishing up the shop frontß, and otherwise effacing the ravages of time aud evidences of bad times, Even tbe people seem to move about with renewed activity, giving an air of bustle and fueaineea to daily life which contrasts ttrangely with the order of things a few month's back. A decided advance has also taken place in the price of business properties and frontages in Broadway, and rents have risen in proportion. The expectation of an influx of population from other parts of the Colony is already being verified by the daily arrival of Granger?, and there is no doubt that wo shall have a strong accession to our numbers befpro the end o( the year.

" " ""* ' I The share market continues bouyant, and j prices of all kinds of rtocks hold firm, and a steady, sober business is being done with all parts of the Colony, money being abundantly forthcoming for all bona fide investments. Mr Pilliet one of the candidates for the Stanmore (Christchurch) District, spoke as follows in the coarse of a speech to the electors: — 'He now catne to a subject to which be had given a great deal of attention and of which! he had some experience. One of the reforms that was absolutely necessary, and one which would come bon«e to every man, was law reform. At present they could not open the temple of justice without a golden key. The laws]|were made to that they played into the bands of the rich at the expense of the poor. We had adopted the old English judicial Bjstetn, and allowed it to rule us up to the present moment. The Courts were constituted in the same way as the Courts of England 109 years ago. Our deed?, summonses, and processes were worded in an absurd sort of Norman French English, which nobody could understand. The people had to pay for these forms, If be asked a question of a butcher or baker, he was not charged 6s 8d for an answer. He was aware of his own knowledge that in the Supreme Court, the District Court, and the lower Courts, justice was only a secondary consideration, the first thing being law. The preliminary procedure was of such a character that if a man had not sufficient money to begin an action in the Supreme Court — if he could not put down £30 in order to bring his action for £150— he must stand back and lose his money. It was a very dangerous thing for a poor man to go to law with his rich neighbor* Wolven. did not eat one another unless they were very hungry*' ' Society ' at Portsmouth has been amazed and scandalized by the issuing of an order by Admiral Foley. for the style of which a precedent might in vain be sought in the annals of garrison or dockyard towns, In future, if a dockyard officer sees a naval officer playing lawn tennis on the green, who is, in his opinion, improperly or insufficiently dressed, it is my direction that he report to me, and I will, communicate with the Captain of the Excellent or the Commander-in-Ohiof on the subject. The 'opinions' of men differ so much on such matters, that no little wrangling and trouble is likely to be the result of this astounding ediot. The American correspondent of the Melbourne Argus mentions an unusual bit of scoundrelism having been brought to light. 1 Mujor ' Marvin was arrested in Virginia for obtaining money on a * bogus ' draft. He turns out to be the husband of fifteen wives, every one of whom — except the first who was courted two years~appears to have married him off hand on a few weeks' acquaintance. His favorite game seems to have been to represent himself as a wealthy widower seeking a governess or housekeeper. One, of course, pities the silly women who threw themselves into his arms, all of whom were robbed of money as well as of their affections, but after all some sympathy must be felt for » wretch who has had such melancholy and extensive proof of the gullibility and cupidity of the beau sex. Marvin has spent three years in prison for forgery, but his occupation seems to have been marriage, and bis main source of revenue the purse of his wives. He is not at all captivating in appearance, being small and of mean countenance, and quite slovenly in habit. His charm was his widowerhood and his supposed wealth and warmth of affection. At the City Police Court. Dunedin, recently, John Dupree, a police constable, was charged with stealing four ducks, anJ three fowls, the property of Daniel Lewis. In reply to the Bench, the bobby said he had picked up the birds when leaving his beat. It tifas shown that the place where the 6ffence was committed was not in the cons stable's beat ; it was the width ot the street away from it. Evidence having been given as to the finding of the biids — in a headless state — at the constable's above, Mr Mac* Dermott said he had no evidence to offer. He would simply ask the Bench to dismiss the case. The Bench drew Mr Macßermott'a attention to the fact that they wers satisfied that a prima facie case had been made out, and, look ng at the position of the accused as a guardian of the town, it would be very unlikely that they would take upon themselves to deal with the case as one of larceny of the ordinary kind. Mr Mac Dermott submitted that no prima facie case had been made out. The Bench however, thought differently, and committed the accused to take his trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. The Chmtchurch Press sayß :— ' On Monday, as the men employed in forming the roads in the ' villiage ot Radley, near the wharf, Ferry road were digging they found a skeleton about two feet below the surface icbicb. had evidently been buried a very long time, as it was so much decomposed as to leave the question of sex or of European or Maori, a matter of conjecture. The police took charge of it, and had it removed to the depot. Bumor has it that prior to European settlement a Maori pah was situated on the | apot. If ao, it is most probably the remains of one of the aborgines.' Oae of the candidates tor Jthe Wakapu »eat in the General Assembly was allowed to sit amongst the members of the bar at the R. M. Court and was seen frequently to prompt a solicitor in endeavoring to defend nn elector from being struck off the roll through alleged misrepresentation. We have often seen or heard of electioneering dodges, but have not been able to understand that in a Court of equity, any Parliamentary omdidate other than a duly qualified lawyer, could appear and assist in the defence of any person, unless called forward to give his evidence in the witness box. But of course a vote is a rote just now :-rAßhb«rton Guardian.

The Court of Appenl to day was oC rupied with argument on demurrer, renewed in tbe case of Broken a n d Co r Thp Queen, ' *