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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1062, 17 March 1882, Page 2

<*<£ aanijpj&Af th&best atone ever shown m Reeftoft ia f now on view at Mr Brennan'a office, in the Broadway. „ It. was got from the Keep-it-Dark claim, Crushington, and was obtained from the face of the reef. The quantity of stone is small, and as a matter of course, picked pieces, but many of these are literally loaded with gold. No glass is required to see it, for it exists in some of the specimens in small lumps and in every fragment gold in quantity is discernable. The reef from which it was got is nine feet thick, but it is of course, unreasonable to suppose that this golden streak runs nearly through its mass. The company in question well deserves its latest success, for it has struggled gallantly on in the face of the greatest difficulties, and has now earned a well merited reward. When they sank on the deep reef on Christmas last they struck very poor stone, though shares went up from thirteen to fifty shillings but they subsequently declined to about twentythree shillings. This discovery has of course, sent them up, but we are unable in this issue to quote prices. There is, however, a great mass of stone, and the results cannot but be, in the highest degree, favorable to the shareholders. It singular that just as a reaction in mining had set in and times were getting depressed, such splendid returns should show from the Keep-it-Dark at Crushington, and the Welcome at Boatman's, a distance of at least seven or eight miles apart. This proves conclusively that there is wealth beyond knowledge in the district only requiring capital and energy to ex" tract, for it would be simply ridiculous to suppose that the rich reefs laid bare are the only untouched. The extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the New Zealand Company, which was convened for the 15th of March •" has been adjourned until Saturday, Bth of April, at Mr Bowman's office. A small quantity of very good stone from the Guiding Star claim, Mokinui, has been received by Mr Wise, sharebroker. This claim is next to the Halcyon mine, which was opened and abandoned. Though not rich, the stone is goodlooking, and is exactly similar to that got from the Caledonian claim, Larry's. It is supposed by many good judges, that the reefs run right from the latter place to Mokinui. The reef from which the stone on view is taken is well defined, the gold bright, and scattered through the stone. The shares in the company should be in demand in WestportTand no doubt. will be. Were equal prospects in a mine shown here they would be at a high premium in a few hours, and IWestportians will unquestionably be equally alive to their own local interests. The Concert in aid of the Library fund of the Reefton Athenaeum, came off last evening, and was most successful. The attendance was very large, and all the pieces were specially well rendered. Owing to the late hour at which it concluded, we are compelled to hold over a detailed notice till our next issue. About £17 was taken at the doors. Intelligence reached us last night that a man named Dooley, or Doonan, brother-in-law of Mr T. Sheehan, Westport, was drowned in the Buller at mid-day yesterday, by the upsetting of a canoe, near Lyell. An epizotic disease, to which the name of " pink eye" has been popularly given, has lately been prevalent among the horses of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. It is really a species of influenza, in which all the symptoms which characterise the disease in the human subject are present. Languor, disinclination for exertion, headache, weeping from the eyes, red and puffy eyelids, discharge from the nostrils, and swelling of the legs, with much general fever, are among the symptons. There is no trouble with the lungs, nor any cough, as in the aggravated or pulmonary influenza. The disease lasts from three to ten days, and with good nursing and rest disappears without any secondary complications. Fortunately it spreads slowly and does not make a general onslaught upon the horses of a locality at a sudden swoop. One is taken, then another and another ; but in the meantime the first is recovering. Even with this, great inconvenience has been felt. The Montreal Telegraph Company have now in full operation an instrument by which four messnges may be transmitted over the same wire at the same time, two operators working at each end. The difference between the time taken by the message on the wire on the old system and on the new is extraordinary. It is estimated fifty thousand bushels of wheat will be sent from the Rangitikei district this season. The farmers are getting 3s 6d per bushel cash on delivery at Feilding, and an allowance of 9d each per bag.

Tho Colonial Sugar Company have spent half a million sterling in purchasing land for sugar cane growing in the Mackay and Herbert river districts, Queensland. Cotton farming, is again spreading in Queensland. When the of the crop is thoroughly understood cotton is likely to become a permanent Australian product. Last year 18,581 carcases of sheep, and 334 quarters of beef were sent Home from Melbourne alone. The average weight of the sheep sent Home by the s.s Protos was 751bs per carcase. From a private letter the Argus learns that a company is being formed in London for introducing the electric light into Australia. The Duke of Manchester will be chairman of the Board, and the provincial directors representing colonial interests will be Sir Samuel Wilson, and Mr Gilchrist of Sydney. Sir Herbert Sandford wiil represent the iEnglish companies whose systems of Ujjhting are to be employed. Gambling in grain is how very popular with the ladies of Chicago. Many of them conduct their operations openly ; but considerable trading is, acordingto the 'Chicago Times,' still done for ladies who would not on any' account have their names known to the world. Not a few of the brokers have "tickers" in their houses, and a coterie of ladies moving in the same circle form a speculative syndicate, meet daily at a house that is blessed with a "ticker," watch the course of the market, and send their orders to some broker with whom they have established a credit. Others who live at hotels avail themselves in a similar manof the information that is gleaned from the tape of the hotel "ticker," and operate accordingly. The patrons of the "bucket-shots," or exchanges for the special benefit of women, are more miscellaneous ; and all classes of women speculate at these establishments, which are five in number. A goodly percentage of these speculators are the wives, sisters or relatives of the members of the Board of Trade or of men employed about the Board in some capacity. They obtain "points" from their relations and work on them, or else act independently. They are given an allowance of pin-money with the tacit understanding that it is to be devoted to grain gambling. The women grain gamblers are, as a rule, "bulls " ; they all make money on an advancing market. They sometimes let their profits accumulate to a considerable amount ; but the bucket-shop keepers say that their fair patrons invariably "dump" their profits and more, too, on a declining market. The arrangements for the late very successful " Old English Fair," held in Melbourne, were under the direction of Mr Montagu Brown, formerly editor of the Charleston Herald, a gentleman wellknown in New Zealand. A correspondent asks a southern contemporary: — "Can you inform me if a man can belong to a brass band, and be a real earnest Christian?" To which the editor replies : — "We see no impediment in the way. But if he is a member of a brass band, and is given to practising on his cornet at home, it is 'an impossibility for the man living next door to be a Christian."