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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1069, 3 April 1882, Page 2

In the Warden's Court on Friday, the lease applied for by Mr Hankin on account of the Happy-go-Lucky Company, was objected to by Mr. E. Ashton, and the objection was sustained by the Warden. The lease to the Lankey's Creek Gold Mining Company was objected to by Mr Johnson as encroaching on his rights. The objection was not sustained, but Mr Johnson was informed that his rights would be kept inviolate. This was all the business, and the Court then adjourned.

We are sorry to record a rather serious accident that happened to mounted-con-stable Bamford on Friday morning last. He was in the act of feeding his horse about 6 a.m., and happened to lean across to clean out some rock salt from the manger, when the animal suddenly, without the least warning, drew back and struck at Bamford with both fore feet, one catching him in the stomach, and the other on the ribs, fracturing three of

them. At first he did not know that he was so much hurt, and tried to remain on duty, but was soon obliged to knock off, and on examination Dr. Thorpe found that he had sustained the above injury. The doctor at once attended to him, and though he will be for some time incapacitated from duty he is getting on favorably. This constable has been very

unfortunate. Several years ago, when acting as orderly to Sir George Bowen on the latter's tour through the Otago goldfields, the horse he was riding fell, and rolled over him, breaking all his ribs, on

the same side as those fractured now, as also his arm, and inflicting other injuries. On another occasion, when on duty in Dunedin, he attempted to stop a runaway horse attached tq» a heavy dray. He managed to sieze the reins but was thrown down, and the wheel passed over one leg and both feet, breaking the former and smashing up the latter. It is to be hoped that as this is his third it will be his final mishap. The monthly meeting of the Reefton Hospital Committee, will be held this evening at the Southern Cross Hotel, at 9 o'clock.

The Messrs Kohler concluded their entainments here on Saturday evening, when a large number of visitors attended the show. They open at Boatman's tonight and to-morrow, and will, no doubt, attract full houses. We have already fully expressed our opinion respecting the exhibition and the music connected with

it, and can only say that those who patroniao them at Boatman's will have no occasion to regret their visit.

On the accident happening to mountedconstable Bamford, Sergeant Neville at once telegraphed to Inspector Emerson, asking him to send another constable up. The request was at once complied with,

and the new keeper of law and ordor, constable Kelly, arrived yesterday.

The first local option poll was taken at Black's Point and Reefton on Saturday last. The questions submitted were : — l. Should there be any increase in publicans' licenses during the next three years? ; 2. Should more New Zealand wive licenses be issued ? 0. Should accommodation licenses be increased ? 4. Should bottle licenses be increased? At Reef ton, No. 1 was decided in the negative by 20 to 17 ; No. 2 was similarly disposed of by a narrow majority, 18 voting against and 17 in favor ; No. 3 was decided in the affirmative, 19 voting for and 15 against ; No. 4 was negatived, 13 voting for and 19 against it. At Black's Point, the voting was very different, the majorities being favourable to every one of the proposals, so in that district there are no restrictions whatever. The absurdity of such a poll is shown by the numbers that voted in this town, for not one twentieth of the residents went near the place at all.

In reference to the working of the new by-laws of the Blenheim Borough it was (says the Times) gravely stated last night by a citizen that a lady who had left her boy in a perambulator on the footpath while she went into an establishment to ptttdiaftes, was told f that she 3^^ ccHD {Bitted, a CMpjja nf--tn^-l^'ja<w^4fr teiMhgf the vehicle^ihtHe street' #iSujut first having locked the wheel. It was also stated that a tradesman had been cautioned against leaving a rocking horse, outside his door, as it was contrary to the by-laws to expose articles for sale in the streets, and there was also a penalty for horses being on the footpaths.

In Auckland a father applied, under the new Licensing Act, for an order forbidding publicans to supply liquor to his son. The Magistrate granted the order, and the publicans were duly warned.

The Nelson Mail of a recent date has the following : — A splendid six year old stag bearing a grand pair of antlers was shot on the Wakapuaka hills yesterday morning by Mr John Oldham, and brought into town and placed on view in Mr Trask's shop where it attracted a considerable amount of attention. Disembowelled, but with its head and skin on, it turned the scales at 35G1b3 ; without these it weighed 2921b5. The kidneys were thickly covered with fat of which there was also a thickness of nearly two inches on the haunch, and altogether it was without doubt the finest stag that has been killed this season, although one that was shot near Mr Newport's in Brookstreet Valley about three weeks ago ran it very close for the first place. During the season, which closes next Thursday, fourteen fine stags, and one beautiful little fallow buck killed in Aniseed Valley have passed through Mr Trask's hands. As numbers' of others have been shot which have not found their way into the butcher's shop our local sportsmen must have had a very fair share of luck on the first occasion on which deer killing has been permitted in New Zealand.

Captain Grant, of the Elibank Castle, (says the Morning Herald) while on a voyage from Greymoutß, reports on the 13th ult., the vessel being 15 miles west of Stewart's Island, the dead body pf a female was passed, floating face upwards. It was tall in stature with dark hair, and clothed in a brown colored dress, and did not appear to have been long in the water. The Dunedin papers state that some audacious mid-day robberies have been perpetrated in that city lately, by a clever culprit who is presumed to be of the female sex, and who has up to the present evaded detection. Her plan of operations appears to be to enter the doors of res pectable premises and lift whatever she can layher hands on and then decamp. If accosted she has managed to disarm suspicion my making simple queries about tenements to let, or the place of abode of somebody or other in the neighborhood. From one house she abstracted £30 worth of jewellery, but vigorous search failed to reveal any trace of it.

Host Warner, of the Commercial Hotel Christchurch, has introduced a novelty in the shape of a new kind of table knife. On ordinary inspection they appear to be the usual steel table knife, but examinations shows otherwise. They are composed of a composition in which silver powder largely predominates, and when in use require only to be dipped in hot water, and dried in a towel to make them look as clean as if they had just emerged from the knife cleaner ; no polishing process is needed, and they are then fit to be placed on the table.

A recent Auckland telegram says : — James Martin, licensee of the Wade Hotel, was charged at the Police Court with a breach of the new Licensing Act by permitting disorderly conduct in the hotel. It appeared in evidence that a meeting for |he election of a Licensing Committee jinder the new Act was held there, and a row aro3e out of the election. Martin, the landlord, was fined 20s and costs.

The Auckland Star says there is great excitement in Melbourne over a series of challenges to '• le box " that are filling big space in the sportsman's columns. Mr W. Miller, whom I take to be Professor Miller, waits till Mace's back is turned, and then challenges him to box. Mace replies from Sydney full blast that he will box Miller from £200 to £2000, while Jack Thompson also skips in and offers in Mace's absence to box Miller for £500 a side in five or six weeks. After this all round war whoop, Mace appears in New Zealand, and there I suppose the matter will stand, a case of "no more brandy, no more fits."

A Tobaccogrowing Company was recently formed in the Wairarapa, The Standard states that a large number of samples of the full-grown green leaf have been received by the manager, Mr Volibracht, from the Bay of Islands, Wanga nui, Gisborne, and Wairarapa. These have been cured and some of them are

now on view at the Office in Panama street. The Bay of Islands specimens have attracted considerable attention, being particularly fine and having a rich and aromatic fragrance. We hear that the growers in this northern district find that they can be continued until September. The manager informs us that the company has already received a3 many applications for seed as they had last year, and begin to experience sonic difficulty in keeping the applicants supplied. At present there are about 134 acres in crop, and samples are combined to show that the prospects of the company ami of tobacco manufacture in New Zealand are most healthy.