THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1059, 10 March 1882, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1882.

The Warden yesterday stated -that he would give judgment in the Golden Treasure case on this day. The application on the part of the Eureka company, for cancellation of the, lease of a portion of the Fiery Gross ground will also be heard today, and the greatest interest is felt as to the result. The men, Brown and Gibson, charged with cutting the punt at the Inangahua landing adrift on the 29th of August last, were brought up yesterday and remanded at the request of Sergant Neville till this day, when their cases will be dealt with ■finally. We learn that the Just-in-Time, Imperial and South Hopeful Companies, have a proposal under consideration for sinking a main shaft to be jointly used. The proposal is a veiy sensible and practical one, and in the interest of each it is to be hoped that it will be agreed to. It would ftppear as nothing short of a waste oif money for mines situated as these are to enter upon separate works for opening up their low levels,' while the object can. by a union of interest be accomplished at a third of the cost. Mr Gilbert, dentist, notifies that he will remain in Reefton until the Uth instant. _ A meeting of the.Reefton Jockey Club was held last evening at the Council I Chambers, for the purpose of considering a letter that had been received in reference to alleged misconduct on the part of a jockey named Cah.ll, better known as * ' Sprightly. " Messrs Dick, Quigley, Edwards, Beilby, Finlay, Byrne, Williams, Cochrane, Twohili,. Stevenson, Mirfin, M'Quillan, Richardson, and Connollyr were presant, the attendance being large, indeed than usual. After the letter had been read, Gahill was asked for an explanation, and gpve it to the members present. It would seem to have been satisfactory, for after a somewhat stormy discussion it was resolved that the alleged offender should not be disqualified from taking part in the coming meeting here, And the objection to him was overruled. A meeting of the committee of the Athenaeum was held last night, there being present Messrs Hindmarsh,* Steel, Carew, Broad, and Sampson. It was decided to remit £50 by the next out-going mail to London for a supply of new books, and Messrs Hindmarsh, Steel and Carew were appointed a committee to select the books to be ordered. The secretary was empowered to procure a set of chess-men, and two sets of draught-men for the of the room, -and it was also resolved that members should' have the privilege of introducing youths to thp room. Some other routine business was transacted and the meeting adjourned. We elsewhere publish the programme of the forthcoming concert in aid of the funds of the liter___y Society. ,It has been so long since there has been any public amusement in town, that the occasion cannot fail to draw a large attandance. Yesterday was a re&ilkvr, field day in the magistrate's Court, the sitting continuing all day, but we are compelled to curtail our report, and hold over the balance. , Tho Grey River Argus says *. — Amongst the cargo brought by the Adieu, from • elbourne, is all the necessary air compressing plant for driving a diamond drill or rock-borer, consigned to the Golden j Fleece Company. The whole will be taken up to Reefton in a few days. The Leader of the 18th ult., has the following paragraph :— " We understand that Mr Montagu Brown has been appointed agent under the new management at the Opera House, who go into occupation in September next. In the meantime Mr Dunning and Mr Wallace purpose visiting England to obtain fresh talent for the colonies. " . The Austrian Band are still in Dunedin, but move northwards shortly. They ' will 'shortly give some of tbeir concerts

in Oamaru, Timaru, and Ashburton en route for here. They will moat probably reach Christchurch about ten days hence. Burton's circus has left Invercargill, and is playing overland to Dunedin. Jem Mace gave an impromptu public exhibition of his skill in the art of attack and defence without weapons recently in Wellington. While strolling along one of the thoroughfares of the city, shortly before midnight, he noticed a small but excited crowd standiug opposite an oyster saloon. One of the men present was endeavoring to make peace between several others, with the by no means uncommon result that he himself was drawn into the quarrel. Afl three of his companions made a simultaneous attack upon him, Mace, who had been standing a little way off, quickly stepped up, and three scientific taps from him were then sufficient to settle the matter. It was not until after he was gone that the luckless wights realised who it was that had interposed and discomfitted them. Notwitlistanding the severe measures in force in the French island of Corsica against banditti, troubles of this sort not unfrequently crop up. Two gendarmes named Oravaldini and Nivellc received an order to transfer a well-known bandit from Loreto to the prison of Sartene. Scarcely had they got three miles Jrom Loreto when they found themselves surrounded by some dozen men, being the brothers and relations of their prisoner. They called on the gendarmes to liberate their prisoner between them, the one fired one way and the other in the opposite direction eaoh shot wounding a man. Their assailants returned the fire, killing the gendarmes and wounding their own friend fatally. The noise of the firing brought some more people to the spot, but they did not Succeed in arresting any of the highwaymen. Successful lawyers (says the Law Journal) as a rule do not covet the baronetage, whether because Sir George Jeffreys was a baronet, or more probably because they shrink from endowing an hereditary, title, and prefer tHat their sons should win their spurs like themselves. A baronetage has, however, been a favourite mode of doing honor to an Irish Master of the Bolls. Since the Union there have been Sir Michael Smith, Sir William McMahon, and Sir Michael O'Loghlen, Irish Masters of the Rolls and baronets. Of English Judges, Sir Frederick Pollock, Chief Baron, is a recent instance of the few who have accepted the baronetage. Sir Robert Fhillimore, the last ofthe Judges of the High Court of admiralty, is' we believe, the' only one of those Judges who has achieved . the baronetage. Lights of that Court like Sir John Nicholl. Sir Christopher Robinsen, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, were simple knights, while Lord Stawell sprang at once from knighthood to the peerage. The Melbourne Argus of the 15th Feb. says : — " The country papers continue full of harvest notes, the general tenor of which has been already given. We notice that in the shire of Albgrton an average yield of twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre is expected. The outcome of threshing operations in the Ballarat district has been to show that in most oases the yields are the best that have been known for the past twenty years. It was publicly stated a Bhorttime since (says the Argus) that M_bs Eva Carmichael, whose marvellous escape from the Loch Ard wreck some years ago caused a universal feeling of interest in the people of the Australian colonies in her welfare, was married. News from the young lady's relatives, with whom she is at present liying, sent by the last mail, gives information, says the Ballarat Courier, to the effect that she is not married. She is in a very delicate state of health, having suffered from inflammation of the lungs during last winter, and her medical adviser, an eminent physician in Dublin, has ordered her to spend the winter on the Continent, as he feared consumption. • I - i