The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, NOV. 28, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 28 November 1881, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, NOV. 28, 1881.

I A meeting of the shareholders in the Sqnnyside lease was held on Satnrday even* ing last, at Kater's Hotel, when it was .a* cided to register the company under the Limited Liability Act, Mr Bowman waa appointed manager, and Messrs Brown, King, M'Lean. M'Masters and Wilson, directors. This company's ground is situate on the sonth side of the Inangahua river, and on the line of the Keep-it-Dark reef. The sitting of the District Court, before fudge Broad, will open at 10 o'clock this morning. The Heather Bell ball on Friday evening last proved one of the most enjoyable aocial gatherings held in Beefton for many years past. Tbe attendance was perhaps hardly so large as on former occasions, bnt thia proved rather an advantage than otherwise: The whole of the arrangements were perfect, tbe mosie excellent, and the supper was served up in host Dawson's best style. His Honor Judge Broad, and Messrs B, Oxley, and W. M'Lean arrived last sight from Westport. At an interview beld last week by a number of Boatman's residents with Mr Lemon, Superintendent of Telegraphs, an under* standing was arrived at in regard to the extension of the telegraph to Boatman's The leading residents of Capleston have agreed to gp^rantee a fixed proportion ofthe annual cost of the service, and upon these terms the Government bave agreed to construct the line. Three new mining leases were applied for on Saturday last, and appear elsswhere in our columns There was some excitement in town on Saturday evening last by a report that the reef had tyeen struck in the Specimen Hill mine. Shares rose considerably in price, and sales were very active. Mr William M'Lean announces bis intention to address the electors of Inangahua in Dawson's Hall to-morrow evening: Mr Sampson, postmaster! informs as that the time of closing the English mail has been extended to Wednesday next, at 7 a.m; | JThe many friends of Mr Edward Masters will learn with regret that he has suffered a ralap-e, and a cablegram yesterday conveys the sad intelligence that the trey worst fears are now entertained. The directors of the Imperial Compa ny are going to work energetically to get the mine in operation. On Saturday last they visited Boatman's and laid out the work to be first taken in band, 'and tosday tenders are called for sinking w inze. , The Waimangaroa quartz discovery appears to be of importance. The reef is situated in new ground opposite the site ol the old battery, and specimens brought to town are very highly spoken of, one person who saw the stone going so far as to say that it would yield Sozs. to the ton. » Messrs Bonafaoio and Edge have , applied for a lease of the ground under tbe name of tbe Golden Sign Quartz-mining Co. Priority of pegging out is, we hear, disputed by Mr Savage-, o{ Lyell, who was one of the party that originally worked the claim held by Mr Kartin and other*. It would appear that Bonafaoio was the discoverer of the reef, and went to work at Lyell, keeping the find quiet. Savage got wind of it, however, and both came down in hot baste. Farther information will doubtless be available in a few days.— Westport Times. There ia a fashion in drink aa in dress. Everybody knows that blaok, in its several varieties of porter, stout, and cooper, has for generations been the popular drink oi the Londoner. The foreigner who respeoted tbe maxim which enjoins the use ot 'the drink of the country,' swallowed it, although often with a wry face j the countryman called for it because it was tbe drink of the Londoner; and the genuine Cockney would consume no other malt liquor. All this is changed. Beer, we are credibly informed, has fallen into desuetude, and the light ales are succeeding it. Tbe porter, after whom the beverage was named no longer calls for his pot of ' porter,' but for ' four ale,' And it is the same with the general public. The fact ! is recognised by the great brewery establish* ments, (hose of them who formerly brewed i black beer now producing ale. Enterprising caterers of at one time lager beer might bave a chance of the necond place, if not the first ; but from a return of the total quantities of foreign beer and ale retained for borne consumption in the last three years, it would ap« pear that the foreign article baa not the slightest chance of getting a footing here, fi.ht is between black beer and our own alet, and the victory seems already more than half won by the latter.— Home paper. The ex Empress Eugenic made her will on a recent visit to Paris, leaving all her fortune to Prince Victor, and deolarine bim head of the Bonapartist party,- A clause in the docu* ment says that the young Prinoe is to devote .11 his mind to the service of the cause of the Empire. The United Kingdom has been visited by a terrible hurricane. A dispatch of the 16th mentions it as one o f the most disastrous for years. There was much damage done lo the shipping in the .Mersey* and many boate were aground. In tlie Thames steamboat traffic wa9 suspended The London parks were strewn with fallen timber. The gr»le damaged

property all over tbe country, unroofing and wrecking hundreds of houses in Ireland and Scotland, and killing many people, Forty five fisherman are reported lost at Barnmouth and Eymouth, Scotland, and fifty belonging to Berwickshire at sea during the gale are given up a. lost. Seventy Dunbar fisherman are reported drowned, also three pilots io the Tyne. At Stockton-on-Tees, live persona were killed by falling of roof.. Tbe steamer Cypridan, from Liverpool to Genoa, waa wrecked on tbe Welsh coast, and 122 livas were lost. Eighty»five vessels in all were lost. The approximate value of the property destroyed is £8,000,000. The wires were down in every direction, and communication was uncertain, Most of the land wires connecting with England and the Continent were broken. A handbook giving a general account oi the Jews, jit?! issued by Dr_c.And.ee, estimates tbeir total number throughout the world at about 6,100,000. Only 180,000 ol the race are to be found in Asia, 400,000 in Africa, 300,000 in America, and 200,000 i_ Anstralia The great majority of tbe race, more than 6,000,000, live in Europe,