THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 December 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1881.

Tbe telegraph office at Bahotu is now closed, and a station opened at Panbafca. The Beeffon Committee of tbe Church of England have just received a large consign raenfc of elegant and U9eful fancy wares for their buziiar which opens on Christmas Eve, The goods contain some choice rarities, which were selected in London by tbe Ret, Mr Bulberford expressly for the committee, the goods bating coma to band by the last English mail steamer. The order was largely supplemented by useful goods oderod by Mr S. Barr from Victoria aud Tasmania, co that tbe display at the bazaar will be quite unique. The petition against the recent Couniy election for the Biding of Reefton was called on in the Magistrate's Court on Friday last, but at ihe initial stage, Mr Lynch acting for the members petitioned against, raised a point; as to insufficiency of notice in regard io advertising the hearing of the petition. Under the Counties' Act, it h imperative that publio notification by advertisement shall be given by tbe Court of the hearing of any petition, not less than seven days before Ihe sitting of the Court. In Ibis case the adver* tisement was published one day late, and Mr Lynch held tbe objection to be fatal. Mr Jones, for the petitioners, argued that the other side were in no way prpjudiced by the ground of objection, which wa9 of a purely technical character. Tbe petitioners were in no way responsible for the omission —it was a purely official lacfie, and it would be very bard i r his clients were excluded from red re 68 through the act of tbe Court. The advertising of the notification was a matter which rested entirely with the Court, the petitioners having no power uodeA the Act to interfere, and would, therefore, as* the Bench to disallow the objection, particularly as it was a mere dry technicality. His Worship said he must; frankly admit that the omission was entirely his own, The petition had been properly filed, and all the preliminaries fully complied with in order to bring it on for hearing. The Court had, however, omitted to give the requisite notice in terms of tbe Counties' Act, and as the provision was clearly mandatory, he was afraid the objection was fatal. He regretted exceedingly that tbe petitioners bad been placed in such a position through no fault wbatpver of their own or their counsel, and he (his Worship) felt the annoyance acutely. The omission occurred through his being in West port at the time the petition was filed, and closely engaged in bis official duiies, and that he should have been the means of plac» ing tbe petitioners under such a hardship be could only again express his deepest regret. Mr Jones, in reply, said be could not but regret the unfortunate position his clients had been placed in, but in the face of Ihe frank and candid admission of the Bench nothing more could be said. He (Mr Jone?) would accept his Worship's explanation in perfect good fuitb, The petition was then struck out. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Lankey'a Creek Gold Mining Company, held last night the following directors were elected :— Messrs Beeche, Stevennon, Levy. Barr, Solomon, Hunter and Elder. Mr W. Hindmarsh was appoiuted manager. It was decided to register the company with « capital of £24,000, in 24,000 shares of £1 each, 10s paid up. - The directors will visit the ground forthwith to fix the site of machinery. The near approach of the races is indicated by the arrival of a number of raeprs, accomx panied by an ample retinue of horsey-look-ing individual?. Several Nelson horses ar? expected to«day,- so that large fields and square racing may be expected. Mr William Dunn ; the contractor for the erection of Mie grandstand on the racp« course, is making excellent progvess with the work, in spite of the heavy drawbacks with which he has had to contend. Latterly tbe wovkhas been pu*hed on early and late, the bands being kept going throughout all the rain, and Mr Dunn is now sanguine that he will hare the structure completed by to* morrow night. Tbe race committfe have reason to congratulate themselves that tbe work fell into such able and energetic hands. Tbe following borses accepted last night, for Ihe Inangjluvi Cup : — Longlnnds, Lippie. Sir Stafford, nnd Worrignl. Tho following nominations were received: — District Pinio: Native, Syringe, Sir Stafford, Fuatic.ondThe Bat, Hurdle Knee : Black Prince, Slumhroefc, cr.fl Th«! i'-.i-,.. Vull e^is' Fm-y : i ! h •li^ku'.ri?, H;-" 1 ! 'Prince. F ■■v-; : '<:i > , - Ci iy;iri?*. '

Snowdrop, Achievement, Warrig.ilf'Sir Stafford, Bustu. Weights for the District Plate will be declared at 8 o'clock this evening, and acceptances will be received tife to the same hour to-morrovr evening. The railway Commissioners loft for the Cannibal Gorge yesterday morning, but it is to be regvetted that the weather has since eecn anything but favorable for the expedition, The party would camp at Bull's Flat last night, nnd we are afraid that their experiences under canva3 will not leave the Commissioners in the most amiable mood for subsequent reconnpitering. A meeting of the Children's Pic-nic Committee wi'l be held at Mr Jones' office this evening at 8 o'clock. We learn that the canvassers hav«rbeen very successful. A sensational affair occurred in Melbourne recently. A cabman named Brown fell into one of the deep channels which border the streets of Melbourne, along which a torrent of water was rushing at the time. He was carried under i'll the footbridges and the sewer at Liltle Bourke street, with a crowd of excited persons running along, making vain attempts to rescue him. They could, however do little towards that end, as their own safety was at stake. A la~ge dog belonging to a shopkeeper, plunged into the stream, and caught hold of the unfortunate man for a moment but he failed to keep his grasp. When the whole length of Swanson street, from Lonsdale street, hid been traversed by Brown in the channel, a last determined and successful effort to save him was made. He was hauled out of the waler as the bystanders thought, dead, and conveyed to the Mdboume Hospital by Constable Walsh. Upon an examination being made it was found that Brown's right leg was fractured just below the knee, the injury being caused by his being dashed agai.ist one of the foot-bridges on the side of the curve, and that he was in a thoroughly exhausted condition. A correspondent from the country writes to the Sydney Bulletin to say that the doctor up his way (who is also visiting surgeon of the gaol) has never been sober within the memory of. the oldest iuhabitant. If called in to see a patient, he gives them the choice between black draught and camphor julep, which are all the Aeuga he possesses. Usably before administering the dose, he steathily tossea up a halfpenny — heads for ' black strap,' and tails for the julep. The, last surgical operation he performed with a handsaw and an oyster knife ; and when he was recently called in to blesd a man, commencd to bore a hole in the upper part of his arm with a pair of scissors. It is said he has no diploma, but when taunted with not possessing the necessary authority to practice, he produces two documents — one of which is a sailors discharge, and the other an old publican's license: It is hardly needful to state that tbe health of the prisoners nt the gnol, of which he is the medical officer, i 3 excellent. None of them ever by any chance send for the doctor. The cry of the mopoke by night and of the kingGsher during the day are sounds familiar f o all dwellers in Kuraara, but the twittering of the sparrow is something entirely new. Two of these much persecuted birds put in an appearance yesterday, and were busily engaged in examining the new land in which Ibey - had- nrriyctJr—'Tirey" fluttered here, there, and everywhere, and it is to be presumed that they a>e niPiely the advanced guard of the main body of interesting strangers whose irrupijon into Canterbury and Olago has caused so much disturbance in (he minds of the farmers. —Times. At the annual meeting of the Vincent Couuty, Mr Mackellar, before the election of a chairman was proceeded witb, raised a question as to the right of Mr Pyke to prsside. The latter and Mr Mackellar were armed with legal opinions on the point, each opinion being opposed to the other. Messrs Pyke and Mackellar were proposed for the chairmanship, and the voting was four to four, Mr Pvke gave his casting vote in favour of himself, and was accordingly elected. Mr Bastings, in the beat of on election contest, said that the editor of the Otago Daily Times 'is now paid co much a year to advocate the cause of the squatters.' The Times, which it need hardly be said, did noc support Mr Basting's candidature challenges him either to retract his words, or to bring forward the evidence on which he con~ aiders himself justified in making such an ac* cusatioD. In five years, say from 1877 to the present date in 1881, inclusive, there have b;'en three executions in Victoria, and this year shares with 1864 and 1878 the distinction of an unused gallows. These are the statistics in wiiich unlike the bank deposits or the birthrate, we don't want to see any increase . Mr John M'Call, ot London, the pioneer in the introduction of Australian meats into tha English market, was a passenger by the R: jH.S. Ausiralii, from San Frincisco, which arrived in Sydney on the 16th ult. Mr M'Oall is visiting tha colonies for the purpose of inspecting the various meat-preserving works in Victoria, New So'ith Whlps, and Queensland, with a view to the extended development of this branch of our ioduatriea, Melbourne Punch is always interesting ; its articles are skilful, and it writers piquant. The recent establishment of Ins household gods at Hughenden manor by Sir Samuel Wilson, the merino king is tb« ?uhj?cr o! last week's cartoon. The recent picture of Lord Beaconsfield's study, with the Earl's portrait over the desk, which appeared in the Graphic, ' adapted Sir Samuel in a rich brocaded dres9 sits awkwardly in the erst vacant chair, while the Earl, from the portrait frame, looks qu'zzica'lj on the gilded parvenu Irom Australia. It needs not the jnckdaw, decked in borrowed plumes, to point the moni, nor the ' thoughts' in the lotterpress to explain ic. At tiio 9 arr,e rim-.- th,-: contemptuous conclusion of the jartor ' U richly humorous. Rallying from hu feo'iuw o f unn''V-n-e at I'ht 1 e.:pr ■•>;«v.:>i o r {i w ,;,.,, i atnt^ar.'a ■;:«•, iv.- V.u^A ..,,.;,,,, ;]nt j

he couldn't tell washed from greasy.' Dwan threatens a libel action against the editor of the New Zealand Time?, which, on the morning of the election, published a letter referring to the suspension of his certificate at Woslport. The letter embodied a telegram from Bowen, Clerk of the District Court, giving dales and partiouh>rs- It is no secret that Tmvers, the city solicitor here was the author, and as he also referred to Forwood as uncertified chairman and lawyer there will be wigs on the green shortly.