THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY DEC. 21, 18181,

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 21 December 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY DEC. 21, 18181,

The Railway Commissioners, in spite of the unfavorable weather, are making the fullest U9e of their time. On Monday last they were dmen out to;B©a*m,an*s by Cr. Byrne, and shown over ' thai prroofpal mines tbere. Yesterday the party, under the same leadership -visited the Golden F]eew_ work>_ ings, and were shown Through Ibe wine by Mr J. Trennery. A visit was afterwards paid to other of the principal gold and coal mines iv the Ideality. The Commissioners riiext prbirerted: tcr Ewkey Grully, anil-rin-*: speoted the monster coal. seams there, returning to-ReeftoH. in-the afternoon. This morn» ing the party proceed to the- Cannibal Jfipigß, vjaihg Maruia routspand .will be ablent three or four days. The (bounty Ccwn* oil have attended in every possible way to tin equipment of the party for the journey, add all. that remains to hop?!* is., that 'the' weatber may smile, benignantlv upon the undertaking. Mr Thornton, wbo is familiar with the country, will accompany the party. It wat reported in (own yesterday that JBhmnix mine, and shares-rose considerably, Lord Sherbrobe proposes in* the August number ol the Nineteenth Ceriturr to abolish all bankruptcy, law. Be says: — 'If lam asked what I would put in its place^l would answer without hesitation— Nothing. I cannot tee that we require anything more except a very considerable shortening of the statute of limitations. It is quite reasonable to trust a man far- his wealth, his ability^ his honesty, or his industry | bat every day's experience show.* us that nothing is so- unsafe as to trust your cwn money to the fear of disgrace or punishment. The effect of such * law would: I believe, be most salutary; with nothing but the estate of the debtor to look to there would be fewer bad debts t trad* would b» more safely and therefore more; profitably managed and (he ridiculous notions as to the peculiar wickedness alternately imputed to borrowers and tenders would be for once and ever exploded. You cannot call back what is, lost.- but you make it less by bankruptcy. It is better :tbat debt* should be paid unequally than ; that the' property should be destroyed in the effort to attain an equality ..which yields a purely metaphpsical and imaginary . < satisfaction^ *o: the thirsty creditor, v.- ; # /.-:•• *..:.-. .••'■• ■;•-.:: ' Sir W. Fitiherbert and other leading colonists of : Wellington have not yet been brought «p before, the Magistrate at Wellingtonfordrawing a mild sweep on the raceedttrse. If the authorities' bad any sense, they would have them up quickly.. A connotion is certain and a conviction will show the- absurdity of an Act which allows people to risk thousands with bookmakers, pound notes and fivers in the totalisator, and punishes them forgoing a pound apiece in a friend's bat in the openest, most pleasant, and most perfectly undemoralising method of gambling known. Up to the present time it has cost the Government of New South Wales a sum of £50,000 to try and stamp out the small-pox disease, A nioe little bill this. Among the Irish business to be brought be {ore the imperial Parliament next session will be a Bill to repeal the Acts in force prohibiting the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland. During the recess arrangements have been made for the collection of information and statistics on the adaptability of the Irish soil for the growth of the plant. It is not proposed, should the cultivation of tobacco be resumed in Ireland, to exempt it from duty. , , The new Hotel de Villo in far is, which has been in course of construction for the last seven years, is now nearly finished. It ia not yet intimated how much the new building is to cost, bnt some idea of the general magnitude of outlay can be drawn from such de« tails as appear in the schedule of accessories. Thus, the contractor's estimate for doors, window-frames, glass fire-places, and locks, amouuts to £28,000; and about thrice that sum is alloted to Art decoration and furniture. On the four fronts as many as a hundred and six statues, eight feet in height, will be placed. All these will be representations of persons born in Paris, and raised by their geniu», patriotism, or public services to eminence ; and it is gratifying to learn that nearly a fourth of the number will signalise the merits and the labors of literary men. This from the Sydney Bulletin :— Though we don't care to open an old sore we'd still just like to remark that Uljett, who would not meet the Australians when in England, is one of the team that arrived by the Frisco moil. It is hoped that ' the sons of convicts' will behave themselves on this, occasion. If they don't they may offend an English gentleman. This is merely a professional remark. The water from the sacrsd well of Mecca might have been supposed to be beyond the need of sanitury supervision. At least, we are accustomed to look upon the pollution of wells as an incident of our imperfect civilisation rather than of the healthy barbarism of Arabia. Professor Fran kland, however, tells a different Btory. He has analysed the water, and found it not merely to be polluted w4s)i aewnge, but to be sewage o f a peculiarly Ticious kind—' seven times as oncentrated as London sewage.' As this water is sent in large quantities to all Maliortimedan countries, it beeom99 a ready j vehicle for the distribution of any disease I that happens to be prevalent at Mecca, and i is capdble of being conveyed in water: It is in fact, nothing lesß than bottled cholera. As such, it is the most fatal liquor (hut can bo I u*ed in the East. Whether it is possible to do | any tiling to improve the rhavaofer of the well we do not know ; but it is plain that as regards Indi.i, sanitary improvement must not willing*- bo a slajcr at lroaie. If we

cannot cither improve the Mecca water or stop the drinking of it, the prevention of cholera and similar diseases in India must re» main an impossibility.