THE PUBLISHED WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1033, 9 January 1882, Page 2

THE PUBLISHED WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1882.

Tlie Hon. Mr Rolleston, Minister of Mines, accompanied by Mr Barron, and Mr. J. Browning, Chief Surveyor, Nelson, arrived in Reefton on Saturday evening last, The visitors arrived at a rather later hour than was expected, it being nearly half-past 8 o'clock when they reached town. Mr Warden Revell, who rode up from Westport to meet the party, received them and rooms were taken at the Exchange Hotel. The visit tors came from Fox-hill to Hampden, thence to the Cannibal Gorge, via Maruia, and down the route of the proposed East and West Coast railway to Reefton. The journey was made on horse-back, and the fact that the stage from Hampden to Reefton—some forty odd miles, of rather roughs travelling, was made in one day, would show that the Hon. Mr Rolleston is no feather-bed traveller. Yesterday the Minister was driven out to Boatman's and the Welcome and Just-in-Time batteries were inspected, the party returning to town in the afternoon. A number of deputations will wait upon the Minister of Mines to-day, including one from the Boatman's Creek Low Level Tunnel Company, in reference to the right of driving through intervening leases ; and another from the Inangahua Low Level Tunnel Company, in reference to the payment of accrued subsidy. We learn by private letter from Tasmania that the reefing prospects there are by no means as hopeful as could be wished by those who had invested in anticipation of a great "spurt" hi the spring of the year. The prophets proved at fault, however, for instead of going up like a rocket, quotations have fallen away to a nominal standard, and for the time being speculation is almost wholly engrossed by the tin mining ventures. Messrs Caples, Butler, Gulline, and other Reeftonites, have , therefore given the Tasmanian goldfields best, and are now on their way back, to Inangahua. ' Tonders are invited by the Golden ' Point Company for 5780 feet of sawn ! timber. Tenders close on Saturday next. The item "Property Tax," is figuring 1 up to very respectable amount on the ex- * penditure side of Reefton companies' bal-ance-sheets, and it is a healthy sign that ] the sums under this heading are yearly '' increasing, , j The Minister of Mines will leave for ! the Lyell to-day at 3 o'clock. From the a Lyell Mr Rolleston will proceed to West- ! port, returning to Reefton on Friday even- ] ing, en route for Greymouth. Mr Rolleston, after receiving deputations at the ' survey office this morning, will visit the 1 Golden Fleece, Keep-it-Dark, and other * principal Murray Creek mines. s Cement mining promises to become s an important addition to the mining in- 8 dustry of the Inangahua, and bids fair to c rival our quartz reefing in magnitude. l Some hundreds of square acres of cement £ bearing country have been taken a up, and, much of it has already been proved to be payable. ' As this class of T mining cau be earned on at little cost, 1 aud made immediately reproductive, the c possibilities opened up by this new de- * velopni.nt of tho wealth of the district J aro incalculable. d Tho Hon. Mr Bolleston, who is cvi- _ dcntly a veiy cio.^e observer, was much t struck when j:a sshig through the Hampden . and Upper J'ull.r districts, at the fact of ii residents thereabouts carrying on thu v joint work of mining aud farming, in a: rn'iuy Ln-aliSif's the claims and the farms T' bei.ig in tiie wune paddock. Tin's joint h for.n of o.cni .ation in said to bo very b rjo lei-si ■'.hroii^liMufc the H-.unpd.ii district, r: i id. iua,.y of those eiigfigod in iv knock n ■iv vyy ;.">od iiiconi-.:: , ihe '-oil b-eii i.; f- l v- b •ih. and _..jue t-'i ibe a*'.!vi:d very v -. r }-. V.

favorably impressed with what he has seen of the eoun tiy passed through, and particularly with respect to the mining industry of the Inangahua, ahd appears keenly desirous of obtaining information I bearing upon the subject, On the whole i it may he inferred that Mr Rolleston will carry away with him a good impression of the district. A meeting was held at Walker's Hotel, Boatman's, on Saturday evening last, when it was decided to hold a race meetmeeting on the 17th of March, and a considerable sum of money was at once subscribed for that purpose. A jury at Braidwood on an enquiry into the death of a Chinaman, found that he had been " choked by the eye of a cat." The particulars are as following : — A Chinaman, whose sight was failing, bought a cat with a view of eating her eyes, in order to do his own good, Pussy was killed in true "celestial" fashion, her eyes were cut out, and John began the doubtful feat of swallowing them one by one without mastication. The first went down all right, but the second struck the wrong track, and stuck in the Mongolian's gullet. His mates did what they could to relieve him, but without avail ; in a few minutes he was a dead man, and pussy was avenged. Ballance, of Wanganui, has Bignified nil^i____t_r__S__ of petitioning against Watts' ' election. A Marseilles, ID, man has invented an organ and piano combined, which can be played together or separately from the same keyboard, the change being effected without a break in the music. , . The Hon. W. Gisborne and Mrs Gisborne, accompanied by several members of their family, left Wellington on Monday week for England, via, Melbourne, by the s.s. Rotomahana. Diptheria is said to be very prevalent in New Plymouth. Mr John Campbell is applying for four leases at Cascade Creek — the ''Cascade Creek," "Buller," "Canadian," and the "Australian" Companies. Mr Campbell thinks so much of the reefing ■ prospect, of this district that he has decided to take up his residence here, going into business as a share-broker &c. Mr Hugh Jones has gone into partnership with him.— Westport Times. The little German city of Kilngenberg, in Lower Franconia, not only imposes no municipal tax, but every voter receives an annual dividend from the city treasury of a sum ranging from £4 10s to £5. The city recently celebrated the Sedan anniversary by giving every citizen 2s, with 2s extra to every soldier of the war with France. The Governor is now in Christchurch with his family. He has rented for 12 months the residence there of the Hon. J. Studholme, and will leave his family there while he goes home. The servants at Government House have all received notice, aud the establishment wUI be broken up. His Excellency has not yet vouchsafed any reason to Ministers of this eccentricity. He does not like Wellington, and Wellington certainly does not like him. A civil action, that should interest the members of Benefit Societies generally, (says a Christchurch paper) was decided by Mr Mellish on" Thursday at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Tlie point at issue was, whether a. medical man acting as a doctor for a benefit society could recover his fee for attending a member's wife for a complaint that was constitutional, and of which he had no knowledge at the time of her husband's joining a Lodge. Mr Mellish held that it was the surgeon's duty to satisfy himself as to the health of an intending member's wife at the time of the former's making the usual declaration, and, that, if he neglected to do so, he could not recover a professional fee for any medical attendance. To show the advance of civilisation (says a Melbourne paper) where the explorer Start was camped for six months in the very heart of Australia, for want of water, they are now playing cricket. Boyle and Scott received a large order for cricket materials from that remote region. There is no mistake about it, cricket will flourish wherever English descendants are — even in the very wilds lof Australia. Success to the noble patriots. The Rev. Paul Coffey, who is commonly known in Wellington by the sobriquet of "Hot Coffee," from the vehemence of his utterances, has made an onslaught on our education system. He says : — (1) the New Zealand scheme is vicious from every point of view ; (2) School committees have not dared to enforce the compulsory clauses ; (3) It involves a tax on the very poor for the benefit of their betters (sic) ; (4) It prevents head-masters from teaching, and compels them to waste their time in returns, &c. ; (5) It is the ill-omened offspring of blatant demagogues ; (6) It is once more an utter failure, and should be abolished. — Exchange. Mr George Coppin, Australia's oldest actor and manager, has retired from the stage. , Commenting upon the prohibition put upon newspaper correspondents by Mr Bryee at Parihaka, the Australasian says : — "The duty of the newspaper to the public is quite as clear, and, we may add, as imperative as that of the Minister or commander. It is bound to furnish the fullest and earliest information it. can on important subjects, and if this cannot be done with official sanction, it will, as in the Parihaka case, be done without it. We can understand that in some positions secresy may be necesssary, but the Parihaka one could not be of this kind. So that the result was that Bryee offended and affronted the newspaper men, and, so far as we can judge, without any reason. " It adds that, after this offence to an irritable class, it was, perhaps, lucky for him in more senses than one that his enterprise ended as successfully as it did, and left so little on which criticism Could fasten. The News Letter, commenting on the recent murders in San Francisco, says : — The Jury who found Jeseph Kenn, who carved hia wife to pieces, only guilty of murder in the second degree, is a better jury than the average Sau Francisco dozen dolts. Some juries would have acquitted Mr Kenn : in fact, it is beyond mortal ken to predict what a Califomian juiy will do. Mr Kenn only carved his wife to pieces in a fit of emotional insanity, and he goes up to prison until somo other equally insane governor pardons him out. Young Kalloch slew Charles de Young, and he '■ iias since waved his bloody hands in benediction from the pulpit. _ There is no L-udit, no law, no sense of justice to the , murdered, but only a maudlin sympathy , burn out of wedlock fcr the. mimWor. P.r.f ■>, '?. iv ir ! ( ..^ -.; i:.V^ Ar, -yyi\yAo •■.p.v.e j

thoroughly. Let us rather take away the name of San Francisco from our city for the name is an insult to the memory of a I good man, and get a new name — one that I would express the idea of a city of un- | avenged blood. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of Now South Wales, has positively declined to receive any testimonial in recognition of his public services. In a letter to the Chairman of the Testimonial Committee he says he could not reconcile the acceptance of a gift of money from the public with his sense of propriety and obligation as the occupant of a high political office. Wiiile gratefully thanking the committee for the generous intentions they entertained on his behalf, he asks to be permitted to leave the colony for a short time without any recommendation to strangers except such as may be fairly drawn from his services to liis adopted country. The Wellington Post says:— -"The latest piece! of red-tapeism which has come to light is an absurd regulation by the Post Office authorities, that while under the new system, postage stamps may be used as. stamping receipts, receipt stamps are not accepted in payment of postages. The impression very naturally exists among the public that receipt stamps are so available, as -they are in England and it would be interesting to know how many fines have been wrung from receivers of letters in consequence of this ridiculous destinction. The regulation is the more absurd because it is announced that there is shortly to be a new issue of stamps to be available for both postage and revenue purposes. ■__»/>--______-______■