THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1057, 6 March 1882, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1882.

The rights and privileges at the forthcoming races were sold by auction, by Mr P. Brennan, on Saturday last. No. 1 booth was purchased by Mr Roxborough for £39. No. 2 booth fell to Mrs Hartigan also for £39. The gates were purchased by Mr Blakely at £60. Fruitstall, £6, Mr Beilby. Cards, Mr Cereseto, £3 11s. The total realised was £137 11. The amount realised by the sale of the privileges at the December meeting was £155. There was an unusually large number of visitors to town on Saturday evening last, but there was little or no movement in the sharemarket, owing in great part to the circumstance of the many directors' meetings being held. Applications are invited by the Golden Eagle Company, Queen Charlotte Sound, from experienced persons for the position of mining manager. Applications are to be* addressed to the legal manager of the company, Mr W. E. S. Hickson, Wellington. •■■..-■ The percussion tables at- the Welcome battery, erected under the superintendence of Mr W. H. Hobby, the manager, appear to be doing their work admirably. It will be seen that seventy-one ounces of amalgam are credited to the tables for the past week. A young woman, or rather girl, of about fourteen years of age, who recently came to Reefton as the wife of a man in charge of some race-horses, was on Saturday arrested by the police on a charge of vagrancy, and brought before the Court and re manded to Chrictchurch, where, it is said, her parents reside. It is reported that the proceedings have been instituted by the father of the girl, she having left her home without the consent of her parents. A Napier paper states that W. L. Rees i 3 now lying seriously ill at Gisborhe, from congestion of the lungs. He is reported to be in a critical condition. The Auckland Star accuses high officials in tho Native Land Department with jobbing in native lands in the Taranaki district. Scrip in the Guiding Star, Mokihinui, (says the Westport Times) is quoted at 25., with no sellers. The cancer in tho mouth and face, to which the late Colonel Anderson, of Victoria, finally succumbed after many months of hopeless suffering, was brought on by the constant smoking of a peculiar kind of cigarette, which is made in Mexico, where a similar disease in a mild form frequently prevails amongst the manufacturers of the article. It is stated that in rolling the cigarettes the Natives are in the habit of wetting the outside covers with their saliva, those suffering from cancer thus sowing the seeds of contagion amongst the consumers. The Wanganui Herald says":—" For the third time in its strange eventful history the Cook Strait cable (between Lyell's Bay, Wellington, and White's Bay, Blenheim), has broken down, the catastrophe happening from an unexplained cause, and at an hour no man at present wots of. As there are four wires in the Cook Strait cable and it is the main communication between the two Islands, the state of things is serious. There still remains the one wire cable between the Wanganui Heads and Wakapuaka, but of course this is insufficient for ordinary traffic. Messages for the South Island y/ere refused at the Wanganui Station today, 'and the officials seem to think that even to-morrow none but "urgent" tele grains can be sent. No doubt the Government will have to despatch the Stella to pick up the fault in the Cook Strait Ciible, a process which should not take long a-jcomphish. A hornet's nest is said to bo tho best polisher in tho world IVr gliiHK lenses. P»nt jui want to do your polishing when the ( h'll-ii'.'t i.s not around to help you. For : Wiiiit shall it profit a n:an if lie polish a ' n ihouiand glass Ivmvu in one day and one

hornet catch him at it ?— Detroit Free Press. Mr Speight and the Good Templars, it is said, have bought or are buying the Thames Advertiser. The price has not yet transpired. According to a writer in the Pharmaceutische Zeitung a room covered with a paper, in which ultramaine has been largely used was found to have an unpleasant odour of sulphuretted hydrogen, the source of which long escaped detection. It was ultimately found that the ultramarine in the design was being gradually decomposed by the alum forming an ingredient in the paperhanger's paste. — The German Government contemplates sending out two expeditions for observing the transit of Venus in 1882, one to the mouth of the La Plata River, the other to Magellan's Straits or the Falkland Isles. The expedition of 1874 cost the Govern--600,000 marks (£30,000), the one of next year is estimated to cost only 195,000 marks (£9,750). It appears that the hunting of alligators in Florida is carried on to such an extent as to threaten an extirpation of the species there. Nothing is used except the 'skins omthe belly and legs. The rough I^My Ipw ß o|i are rejected. The heads are^put off and buried for a few was announced lately tfiaJv olfe person had collected alligators' teeth to the amount of three hundred and fifty pounds. This will give some idea of the destruction going on. On the St. John's river a new method of hunting has been devised. A dark lantern used with experience in approaching the quarry. The animals seem bewildered with the strong glare, and make no effort to escape. The gun is held within a few feet of the head — a touch to the trigger, and there is one " 'gator " less in Florida. This process is very effective, and the hunters are enabled, not only to kill, but to Becure their prey. Large numbers of these animals are slain annually by tourists for amusement only, besides those slaughtered for profit. Further, many young alligators are stuffed as specimens, or sent off alive as curiosities, while myriads, of eggs are blown or disposed of by dealers. The belts brought to New Zealand by Jem Mace, the champion of England (says the New Zealand Times), are really beautiful works of art. The more valuable one, presented to its possessor by a number of friends and admirers in Australia, is said to have cost £700, and was manufactured in Melbourne. The clasps are of massive gold, bearing appropriate devices and inscriptions, while the belt itself is of silk brocade, profusely ornamented with solid gold flowers and scroll work. The silver belt held by Mace as champion of England is not of such large intrinsic value, but is more highly prized by its holder than the other. It consists of seven solid silver links, each about five inches square, and bearing in relief representations of several of the pugilistic encounters in which Mace has been engaged. As a specimen of the silversmith's art it is well worth inspection while from the associations connected with it, will no doubt be viewed with interest by a large number of admirers of "the noble art." An accident, which might have been attended with serious results, occurred on the Palmerston cricket-ground a few days ago. While at practice one of the batsmen " skied " a ball, and two of the fieldsmen running after it from opposite directions came into collision. Both were stunned, and one a young man named W. Wren, remained insensible for two hours. Inebriates, who are apt to be unruly when "in their cups," would do well to note that now, when the double offence of being drunk and disorderly is proven, a double penalty must be imposed. In accordance with this phase of the Act, a citizen of East Invercargill was fined in two sums of 10s each. Some five years ago a good deal of moralising (says a Home paper) was indulged in, over the death of what was supposed to be the last of the Tasmanian aborigines, Queen Truganini, otherwise known as Lallaßookh, who enjoyed a pension of £80 a year. It would seem, however, from a statement by a correspondent of the " Colonies," that we have not yet seen the last of the Tasmanians, there being still one survivor, Fanny Cochrane, who is in receipt of a pension of £24. We fear that none of our colonies have much to boast of in their treatment of the natives during the early settlements, but the brutal butchery of the Tasmanians by the English emigrants, and that not many years ago, surpasses anything on record in any other colony. The work was so thoroughly done that there is now only one doubtful survivor. Probably Canada, putting aside the first seizure of-,the land, has acted with more justice to the natives than any other English colonyj and that it -was for long a French cojony. There, at all events, the natives are on the whole prosperous and on the increase. In one recent settlement of Sioux refugees from the United i States the people have taken to agriculture, having raised a considerable number of acres of various crops, and reared a good many head of cattle. They seem to be self supporting. Recent investigations both in the United States and Canada seem to show that the Red Man is by no means doomed to extinction, but is in fact increasing slowly in number. The Oamaru Mail relates that a case of a very novel nature was to come before the Resident Magistrate's Court when a farmer was to be charged with cruelty to animals, the grounds of complaint being that, by over-stocking his land with sheep he caused them to dio of starvation. The Nelson Mail says :— "Mrs Hampdon again addressed an immense audience ,a1; the Theatre, when after a most en couragmg address to those who had given in their names as converts, she proceeded to make a powerful appeal in favour of ti-tal abstinence from intoxicating liquors,

so powerful so earnest and so convincing that before the meeting dispersed no less than 300 of those present signed the pledge. Hanlan and Boyd are to row on the Tyne for the championship and £500 aside on the 3rd April next. Writing on the subject of the reform of the Legislative Council, tho Wanganui Herald says :— "This body is always in the hands of the doctor, who varies his prescriptions with the symptoms of the patient. The grand prescription in 1880 was election by the Hcd^e of Representatives. The same physician (the Premier) changed the medicine in the following year, and ordered a strong dose of Hare's system, coupled with a property qualification, each Island to return an equal number of representatives. The patient however has received the attention of other doctoM, who think that they have got nostnnris far more efficacious. For instance, the Dunedtn Morning Herald, which is edited by one of, the ablest members of the Lower House, discards Hare's specific altogether, and would have, the Council's constitution built up by the drastic remedy of manfcrfbd suffrage, each Island beujg one constituency, returning, we think an dqtHt^ dumber of members a^'d giving % cifaifequence'each elector as' many votes as there Are members to be elected. Mr Stout, in a most interesting article in the Melbourne Review on the late Wilson Gray, states the opinion of that much regretted man as having been in favor of a nominee chamber, with the members nominated for a certain term — a suggestion that has much to be said in its favor." The steamship Newport, of Ward'B Line, had an unusual experience during a recent outward trip to Havana. She sailed from this pojs on Thursday, October 27, and before daylight next morning she was off the Cape of Delaware. At about eight o'clock, when she was steaming at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, she ran into an immense school of whales twenty miles long and quarter of a mile wide. The animals were of all sizes, and disported themselves in the water as if enjoying it. Suddenly the ship shook from stem to stern, and she struck a monster about 60 feet long, which was attempting to cross her path. The whale was cut in halves, which passed astern on either side, while the water was dyed red with his blood. The steamer came to a standstill, and her stem was examined. It was found to have escaped injury, but the steering gear was slightly damaged. This was soon repaired, and the Newport proceeded, but the passengers were not so delighted with the whales as they had been before the shock. The sight of the monster's head as it shot upward from the water had been anything but pleasant to them. Ten minutes after the vessel started there was another and a heavier shock, which almost threw the passengers from their feet. Another whale had been cut in two. The body of this animal passed under the vessel and struck the propeller with great violence* The engineer rushed on deck, imagining that the ship had struck a submerged wreck. Captain Sundberg ordered the course of the steamer to be changed, and she soon ran out of the troublesome whales.— Scientific American (New York.)