THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1058, 8 March 1882, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1882.

Mr Job lines announces that he will run a tri-weekly mail between Westport, Reefton and Lyell, to connect with the overland coach for Nelson. The up Grey coach was crowded last night. Amongst the passengers were Messrs G. W. Moss, O. R. Lecky, G. Perotti, F. Garth, T. Field, and others. At a meeting of the Bonanza Company, held at Mr Hindiparsh's office on Monday evening last a code of rules was adopted, and other formal business dis posed of. We were yesterday shown some stone taken from the foot of the Imperial shaft, now close upon 80ft. down. The specimens equal the Welcome stone in richnesp. About five inches of stone carrying really excellent gold has been crossed in the course of the prospecting now going on in the Golden Hope ground. It will be recollected that this lease was taken up for the purpose of looking for a reef which was found about twelve years ago, in the course of the alluvial workings then being carried in, but subsequently buried ,with the tailings and sludge from the races. It was in the course of this search that the stone in question was met with, and if it is any gauge of the character of the hidden reef, the shareholders have every reason to be satisfied with their prospects. Mr E. Hanking was a passenger to Reefton by the Westport coach last night. We learn from the Lyell that a good deal of trouble has been occasioned of late in the United Alpine mine through the gradual settling down of the ground in the upper workings. This subsidence was chiefly caused through defective fill-, ing-in in the early stages of working the mine, and teaches a lesson which it would be well for other mines to profit by. It is believed that the whole of the ground has now found a secure foundation, and the hands have thus been enabled to fully resume operations. At a meeting of the Licensing Board for the district of Boatman's, held yesterday, Mr F. Rooney was appointed Chairman for the current year. There will be a sitting of the Magistrate's and Warden's Courts to-morrow. A mining case of some, public importance will come on in the Warden's Court, being an application for the cancellation of a mining lease held by the companies. Mr W. H. Jones and Mr W. Perkinß will, appear for the applicants, and Mr Lynch will conduct the defence. Some commotion has been occasioned ' throughout the Grey Valley in consequence /of the sudden and mysterious disappearance of a farmer named David 1 Jelly. Diligent search and enquiry since Monday last has failed to r&veal any trace of the missing man. (,», The following correspondence in refer ence to the Brunnerton-Fox-hill bi-weekly mail service, lias passed between Mr T. S. Weston and Mr J. Petrie : — [Tedeqeam.] " Joseph Petrie, Esq., M.H.R., to Mr. ?, & Weston, M.H.R.— Petition from Reefton and Grey, re bi-weekly mail service Grey to Nelson, being signed. Have you any objection to present Reefton petition? I send Grey one.' — [Letter.] 'Mr T. S, Weston, M.H.R., to Joseph Petrie, Esq f , M.H.R. — Christchurch, March 1, 1882— My Dear Sir— I received your telegram of the 27th ultimo early in January. I saw the Postmaster-General (the Hon. Mr Johnston), who had recoived tenders for tlje weekly service by coach from Helson-Foxhill to Reefton. Mr Johnston desired that the service should be weekly until the end of the year, then the several majl services on the coast wpuld be re-let to meet the wants and convenience of the people, With a view to securing at once coach communication, I acquiesced in the PostmagterGereral's views, and I should not feel justified in attempting to disturb the ar- { r: ngemcnts made. I entertain, however,

but little doubt that next year a bi-weekly service will be established, and I will do my utmost with you to obtain it — P.S.— Since writing the foregoing, I telegraphed to ascertain whether the mail service referred to had been established, and the following reply was sent :— • Thomas S. Weaton, M.H.R., Chpstchurch,— Fourhorse coach from Bellgrove to Lyell, thence by mail coach to Christy's, West Junction, connecting with Westport and Reef ton service." An attempt was made to obtain in Australia a successor to Dr. Skae, as inspector of lunatic asylums, it being believed that a suitable man could be obtained there. T^iis, however, proved not to be the case, aiida new inspector is to be Bhortly impbrted from Home. Mr John 0. Boys, of Rangiora, writes as follows:— "Sir,— As you drove the mare alluded to up to Rangiora the day after you landed in New Zealand, I am sure you will feel interested in the following statement : I yesterday buried a bay mare Bessie, which was imported into Canterbury by me in' 1852. Mr Charles Sidey brought her down from Sydney for me, and she was then five years old.' She was, consequently, 35 years old when she died. From reference to my diaries, and knowing i4|. number of miles I generally did in a month when on the Canterbury surveys, I am not exaggerating in saying that I have ridden tbat j mare over 30,000 miles— although I hare 1 not ridden her for the last ten years. She died from an accident after all, having got mislaid in a ditch/" — Star. The Lady Superior of the Dominican Convent at Dunedin is having plans and specifications prepared for the erection of a Catholic girls . school at Invercargill. The building will be constructed after the most approved principles, and will be sufficiently large to meet all requirements for a considerable time to dome. Country borough councils (says the Otago Times) sometimes make strenuous endeavors to obtain the settlement of an auctioneer in their town, but the £50 license fee is a decided stumbling block. Different means are invented of overcoming this difficulty," and it is one of Captain Barry's "experiences" that the Axrowtown Council took his bill at three months for the amount. The following suggestive paragraph is from the Dunstan Times : — " At a meeting of the Alexandra Borough Council an auctioneer's license was issued to a Mr Tamblyn, and on the motion of Councillor M 'Donald, seconded by Councillor Theyers, it was resolved — " That Mr. A. H. Tamblyn be appointed treasurer for the Alexandra Borough Council at a salary of £45." The Otago Daily Times of the 17th instant, refers in the following terms to the Union S.S. Company and the passenger traffic : — "Notwithstanding the fine fleet of steamers which the Union S.S. Company has running, occasional growls are heard from various parts of the colony relative to overcrowding. The list of vessels given underneath, which are building for the company, is ample testimony that it intends to keep pace with the times, and is making provision for a rapid increase of traffic. It is probable i some of the vessels would have been in the colony ere now had it not been for the scarcity of skilled labor at the building yards. The Manapouri and Wairarapa will have the saloon forward. In addition to the steamers already advised as building, the company has contracted for two others, each 280 ft by 36 by 35, with a cargo capacity of 1300 tons, and passenger accommodation — saloon 120 ; steerage 100. The list of new steamers and probable dates of sailing from England are : — . •

The Sydney correspondent of the New Zealand Times writes:— "The extraordinary mania for land buying, which set in some five years ago, continues unabated. During that period there has been sold in the suburbs of gydney more land than would accommodate the entire population of the whole of the Australasian Colonies, and at a price largely in excess of that which would be asked, for land in the suburbs of London. Allotments distant from six to eight miles from city have been sold at £15 per foot frontage, and during the year just closed one firm of auctioneers in the city sold land and house property to the value of £1,764,580." For some time past 33001 bof butter have been weekly potted in Wellington (says the correspondent of the Lyttelton Timeß) by three firms, and sent to Victoria for exportation Home to China. In the latter place the butter realises a very high price. A correspondent of the West Coast Times telegraphed yesterday: — "Since his arrival in Christchurch, Governor Gordon has received a telegram from Earl Kimberley, giving him leave of absence to visit the Home country. He will probably leave before the House meets. His family will remain for a time and rejoin the Governor at Home, as he is unlikely to return to this colony." Referring to the Rev. Mr Bruce's new undertaking, the Patea Mail says : — ' He may succeed, but is more likely to fail, if common experience goes for anything. Clergymen are generally impractible editors. It is one of the oldest things in life that anyone can edit a newspaper better than the person who does edit it. You find that opinion everywhere. When Charles Dickens started the Daily News in London, the expectation was great. He was then the most popular, most entertaining, and apparently most versatile writer of the age. He edited the newspaper a few weeks and then confessed to his most intimate friends that it was a

failure— that he could write a novel, or make a brilliant speech at a banquet, or , govern- a kingdom, but he could not edit a newspaper with sQoces9. • / He had the" . sense to give it up, and by doing so he saved himself from being lost in that grave of genius— the newspaper press. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard states that one of the perpetrators of the gi % eat diamond robbery at Hatton Garden is ' believed to have been seen a few days ago in Seligenstadt, a small town in Upper . Hesse.' A man who had formerly been a navvy, and who was somewhat tipsy, showed there over twenty diamonds of large size, partly cut and partly uncut. He said he had found them at the diggings in America. It was only on the following day that the London diamond robbery became known there The police at once went in search of the possessor .of the diamonds, but all efforts to find him proved fruitless ; he had left for Mayence. Mr Graham Berry has received through the Italian consul letters patent from the King of Italy creating him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, in ; recognition £of r ms. courteous treatment of the Italian exhibitors at the Melbourne International Exhibition. The same distinction is also conferred on Mr W. r j. Clarke, the late President of the International Exhibition. Messrs. J. J. ©asey and G. 0. Levy have been created Knight ' Officers of the Crown of Italy, and Mr J. C. Newbery, a Knight Companion of the order. At Chatsworth . Island (Clarence R.) there was a Scotchman's Ball on the 2nd January. It was no good any one going who wasn't Scotch ; the password was " Hoot ! and the countersign " Wliusky," and any mispronunciation of those mystic words was detected immediately and admission sternly^ refus^at When the time for dancing arrived, ,and the bagpipes concertinas, and fiddles were all tuned, there were forty-five kilted Highlanders and nine girls present. So a skirmishing party was sent out to capture some more lassies, returning after a while with a reinforcement of eight/ \S6 long as reels and flings were on the pf ogramme, the bare-kneed warriors shone, but when a waltz came only two couples rose to the occasion. There was plenty of singing and 'soopin,' and fun was kept' up till daylight. Then the f scotia went home full of joy and Glenlivet. The lassies were all beautiful, and the lads were— all Hielanders ; and what more could be desierd under heaven than that. A Lyons policeman for dome months past had been suspicious of his wife. She is young and pretty, whereas he is middle-aged, gruff, and far from being good looking. She had many admirers. Bollaert (the husband) went a few days ago as usual to his duties, but returned within an hour, and furnished with a skeleton key. Finding his door closed, he opened it, and to his surprise and horror beheld Madame Bollaert Bitting in the lap of a stranger. Before the lovers had time to speak a word, the injured husband with the bound of a tiger brought them to the ground and beat them furiously. Then, seizing the man in Ms arms, he carried him to the window of. the second story, and dropped him into the street below. Bollaert then pitched a pail of water over his postrate wife. Considering his vengeance satisfied, he locked the house and went back to his duty. The lover, whose name is Lemonier, broke no bones in his fall, but was shaken and much bruised. He was conveyed to the hospital, and from what he said a warrant was made out to arrest Bollaert. The husband was forthwith locked up, but when he was brought before the court he was cheered, and the magistrate said, considering the provocation, he would deal leniently with him, and therefore dismissed him with a caution. At a cost of about a million and a-half sterling the telegraph system of the German Empire has been supplied with a complete net work of underground wires, which in peace and war are alike practically safe from meteorological influences and from the acts of the mischievous, and the "enemy." With that determination which is characteristic of the German mind when it has been convinced of the advantages of a change, the work has been Bteadily prosecuted since 1876, and the Empire is now traversed with a network of subterranean cables, which will probably in the long run be found more economical than our system of erecting the wires on poles exposed to the weather and to the vagaries of the mischievous. The coming winter may possibly cause so many delays in the transmission of telegrams in this country that the Post Office authorities will be compelled to adopt the safer system of the Germans ; but, judging from past experience nothing will be done until some great breakdown galvanises our officials into unwonted activity. The Hon. John Hall, Premier of the colony, when in Auckland narrowly escaped being interviewed by an ambassador who would have caused him no small surprise had he not been intercepted. He attempted (says the Herald) to enter the Northern Club, and when questioned as to his object, the man stated he was Elijah the prophet, that he had come down from heaven with an important message for the Hon. J. Hall, which he was bound to deliver personally for the good of the colony. It was at once seen that the man was not in his proper senses, and a policeman was called. He was brought up to the station where he was recognised as Elijah Roose, a settler at Pukekohe, where his wife and family reside. He was committed to the Lunatic Asylum. Says the Nelson Mail of Saturday :— "In our advertising columns will be found applications for % two mining leases on Mount Owen where a gold bearing reef of considerable richness has been discovered to work which it is proposed to

form a company without delay. The applicants Joseph Gibbs and Charles Buhner together with a third man whose name we have not heard have been prospecting the country ever since November, 1880, and at last their perseverance has apparently mat with its reward. We have seen some of the stone in which a considerable amount of gold is plainly visible, and it is their intention to crush all they have brought down in the presence of witnesses. The reef, which is five feet thick, ia situated near the source of the lefthand branch of the Owen River about twelve miles above its junction with the Buller. There is no store within 27 miles so that future prospectors will have to provide themselves with provisions. The reef is in close proximity to a good stream of water, and will be very easily worked as no very expensive road making will be required to convey machinery to the spot. We sincerely hope that this new discovery will indeed prove a valuable one and that it will be one of many yet to be made in this hitherto neglected district. Our Lyell correspondent refers to /this discovery in a telegram. The precise locality is thus defined by the applicants who ask for two leases :— On the second left hand branch of the Owett River above Raigent's Station and about jt a mile from its junction with the Owen and about 12 miles from the junction of the Owen with the Buller River. We have named the precise locality Bulmer'a Creek.

Speed. Cargo Sin. Ste Mahinapua, Feb. 28 11 400 — — Manapouri, March 16 14 800 120 120 Omopere, May 1 ... 11 650 20 25 Wairarapa, June 15 14 800 120 120 Hauroto, Sep. 1 ... 12* 2000 60 80 New Ship, Dec. 15 13| 1300 120 100 New Ship, Mar. 15, 1883 13 \ 1300 120 100