THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1039, 23 January 1882, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1882.

A report having been circulated that the Alhambra lease (now held by the Imperial Company) was never cancelled, we nave the authority of v r Lucas, Clerk of the arden's office, for saying that the report is wholly devoid of foundation, the cancellation having been made and gazetted in due form. Mr James Stevenson annouuces ah auction sale of fruit and produce, at his I mart, Broadway, at 12 o'clock sharp today. Professor Hugo, who will be leaving Reefton in a few days, announces that he may be consulted daily at the private S,rlor of Campbell's Southern Cross otel. A Western editor, who thinks the wageß demanded by compositors an imposition, has discharged his hands, and intends to do his owi» type setting in future. He says :— " owiNG To the eXoßbirant WaSas dEnmNrfed by^riojeßs we hove Cononv/ed To dO ouR oiin type seTTing iN the fnTuEE ; auD alrfhouGh we nevei teamed Tqe Business we do Not saE any gßeat misTery in the aRT." Orson Pratt, the Mormon leader died recently at the age of 70. Pratt was one of Joseph Smith's earliest colleagues, and was the chief adviser of Brigham Young. It is believed that there are now only three of the "first quorum of apostles" remaining. There are now only five veteran officers who served under Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, viz. : — Admiral Sir George Rose Sartorius, aged 91 ; Admiral Robert Patton, aged 91 ; Commander William Vicray, aged 90 ; Commander Francis Harris, aged 90 ; and Lieutenant-colonel James Pynmore (grandfather of Mr Fynmore, of the Land Office, Dunedin), late Royal Marines, aged 92. The Victory, Nelson's flagship, is now the sole surviving vessel which was under fire at Trafalgar. Queer stories crop up in the San Francisco papers. Here is a specimen : — "J. B. Epsy has been criminally intimate with the wife of E. R. Sproul, and hears that Sproul is hunting him with a shot-gun. He is afraid to drive up to his house in the dark, so he gets out 200 yards this side of it, leaving a young man named J. S. Andrews to take the horse to the stable, where Sproul is waiting. Young man gets both barrels at short range, and falls dead. Slayer gives himself up, and is overcome with remorse at having shot the wrong man. Seducer at large. There is talk of lynching, but, in the name of common sense, we trust that it is not the man who did the shooting will be strung" up. " About the most enterprising of the newspaper people about these parts is a pretty young widow lady who runs the Carcia Chronicle. This talented little lady manages the whole paper herself, and not content with that she has started a paper (the Mount McDonald Miner) at the new diggings, which promises to be a success. She rode out to the diggings, called a meeting of the diggers, addressed them, told them what she purposed doing, and secured a great number of subscribers on the spot. This lady is a splendid horse woman, and a few weeks ago she rode to the diggings and back — a distance of over 50 miles — in rain such as few men would venture out in. Her husband died about two years ago, and since that time she has run the paper splendidly. The Wanganui Herald says .— "The operation of the Gaming and Lotteries Act is very peculiar, very much depending upon the way in which the police authorities in the several districts view the spirit qf the Act. In Wellington the police not only stopped sweeps of all kinds but actually proceeded against those that wilfully broke the law. At Rangitikei sweeps were conspicuous by their absence. That, is to say the r>l<l fashion. d method of i ■liHwiug the printed tickets from n hat ttna '

dropped, and the money invested instead in a chance in the totalisator. But with different districts different notions prevail. At Auckland private sweeps were winked at, and at Waitara we read in the Taranaki Herald :— The police did not interfere with the friendly ' ' sweeps " which were got up ; they with good tact, contrived not to see any trivial breaches of Gaining and Lotteries Act which might have been committed, although we apprehend that if any person had the bad taste to direct the'attention of the police to the sweeps, and laid an information, proceedings would, no doubt, have been taken. The point is, therefore, not whether the law is strict, but whether those entrusted with the carrying out of the law are strict in their interpretation of it. " Here we have it at last. An eminent electrician has been making a study of the heretofore unaccounted for affection existing between the average old dog and the cat, and advances a rather strange theory as the result of his investigation. He says that the aged canine is naturally rheumatic, and every time he licks the cat, or passes his paw affectionately along her back, he is simply doctoring his rheumatism by the aid of electricity in the cat's skin and hair. The dog does not regard the cat so much as a friend aj3 a magneto-electrical machine. — Detroit Free Press. The British army is the only one that includes in its equipment a travelling photographic laboratory. This is at present fitted especially for wet plate work. The Photographic News says that no army corps in this country — a body of some 36,000 mcli — is considered perfect without its compliment ef army photographers who are trained men from the Royal Engineers. The photographic van is a compact little office on four wheels it accompanieß the head-quarters drawn by a pair of horses, one of them ridden postilion fashion by a soldier. The van may be used as an office, having window, seats, and desks ; or as a photographic laboratory, for which purpose special glass windows, sink, and taps are provided. Whether instructed to take views or portraits, to copy maps or print in photo-lithography or silver in the field, the military photographers are in a position at once to carry out orders. A most complete set of apparatus is included in the outfit, and there is an ample stock of chemicals for the making up of formulae. It was in the Abyssinian campaign that a body of military photographers took the field for the first time ; they were capitally equipped on that occassion, even down to a copy of Hardwich, and the pictures brought home were decidedly creditable.