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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1078, 24 April 1882, Page 2

Tenders are invited bjr the Fiery Cross Extended Company for five hundred feet of driving. The tenders wili be received up to 7 p.m. on Monday, Ist May. Smith and Barkley announce the arrival of their winter stock of drapery, which is now being displayed. The firm's advertisement will appear in our next issue. The Court over which Mr Revell will preside to-day will be -his last for two months, as he has obtained of absence for that period to proceed to Ohristchurch on urgent private business. Whether for business or pleasure, Mr Revell has well earned a holiday, and we wish him all pleasure on his trip. Ml* Ebenezer Baker, of Wellington, it is understood, will supply the temporary vacancy, and will discharge Mr Revell's duties during his absence. This gentleman was for some yean Clerk of the Bench at Wellington, and was subsequently created a Resident Magistrate for a northern district of the North Island. On the great retrenchment coup of the Hall Government he was put on the shelf, and, we. suppose, now acts as emergency man when Resident Magistrates require a rest. We hardly think that he will prove the right roan in the right place as Magistrate and Warden in a goldfield community, for however painstaking and conscientious, as he is, he has not, as far as we are aware, ever had any experience in goldfield's administration, and the travelling will be a severe tax on his energies. One thing, however, he may rely on, and that is that the utmost courtesy and consideration will be Bhown by all with whom he may come in contact in his official position, and no doubt he will get through these new duties in a satisfactory manner. We understand that he will be in Reefton when the next Court is held. We may add that Mr Baker is probably one of the best Maori scholars in New Zealand, but the acquirement of the Native language is not likely to be of great use in this part of his district, at all events. { We are glad to see by an announcement An another column that Mr John Corbett, who was burnt out at the late fire, will resume business this day, on the site of his old premises, next to Dawson's Hotel. We are sure all will wish him every success. The R.M. and Warden's Courts set down for last Wednesday, were adjourned till to-day, Mr Revell having reached here on Saturday evening. The business, we understand, is very light, and no cases of importance are set down for hearing. We are glad to be able to definitely state that Mr Bowman will return to Reefton during the current week, and may be expected to arrive from Greymouth on Thursday next. We need hardly say he will be warmly welcomed by his many friends. One of the civil cases set down for hearing to-day, in the R.M. Court, which has been adjourned on two previous occasions, will probably be settled by the parties concerned, so that his Worship's decision will not be required. The cause of the death of Michael George Green seems to be shrouded in as great mystery as ever, though an analysis of the stomach of deceased has at

length been made, and the Wellington analyst states that he could discover no trace of strychnine. That is not surpriaing> for the stomach has been kept in the police camp here since November Jast, though it was a special injunction of the jury at the inquest that it should be forwarded to head quarters at once for analysis. How long it would have remained on the police shelves is unoertain, had not the foreman of the jury telegraphed to the head of the Police Department, Colonel Reader, on the 11th instant, asking when the analysis was : likely to be made, and stating the facts, j Though he received no direct reply, Constable Bamf ord was sent off on Saturday week in hot haste to Wellington with the organ in question, so it is likely that the officer in charge here had had a rather strong hinj; from head quarters on the subject. The late analysis proves nothing, and the delay is most unjust to those on whom suspicion rests. It is now five months since Green's death, and the j jury's recommendation, though the stomach was never sent as directed. As a probable coudequence it was very likely in a putrid condition on arrival, and a vegetable poison like strychnine might not be discoverable after fcucha lapse of time tWughV^^rpOoa aifi ohetfrieal changes of tom^^ind^'Be it which way it may the whoid matter is most unsatisfactory to all parties concerned. Mr Weston, M.H.R., has telegraphed to say that he; will be in Reef ton on the 4th of May next, and on that evening he will address the electors at Eater's Hall. Far. liament will meet on the 18th of next month without fail, now that the Government hajggbeen reconstructed, so if any of the constituency wish to bring forward matters connected, so if any of the constituency wish to bring forward matters connected with the district, they will have the opportunity of interviewing their member prior to the session. The Family Reader Bays :— "Mr Tuckett has given some curious figures with regard to the size of hats worn by several eminent men, which may interest the curious in these matters : Lord Chelmsford 6^ full; Dean Stanley, 6f;Lord Beaconsfield, 7 ; Prince of Wales. 7 full ; Charles Dickens, 7J ; Lord Selbourne, 7 J ; John Bright, 7s ; Earl Bussel, 7£ ; Lord Macaulay. 7f; Mr Gladstone, 7§; Mr Thackeray, 7f ; Louis Phillippe, 7| ; M. Julion, 7f Archbishop of York, 8 full." Whatever may be the case with regard to brains, it would certainly seem from these figures that hats are a criterion of brainpower. Public libraries are frequently put to hard shifts to raise the needful, and the ingenuity of the managing committee is severely taxed. The following advertisement, clipped from a Wanganui paper is unique: — "Geutlemen willing to advance the sum of £350 on the security of the books in the library (insured under a policy of 400), are requested to communicate with the undersigned. Ten per cent interest will be paid-" One of the first clergymen that landed in Port Phillip is now the Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, in England. Fifty years ago, Dr. Ullathorne, then a young man of 26, arrived in Sydney. In 1839 he visited the infant Melbourne, but only remained for a short period. He is the author of about twenty works, including " The Horrors of Transportation," "The Austrian Mission," "The Conventual Life," and "Mr Gladstone's Expostulation Unravelled." It is expected that the breakwater will be completed about the end of next month. | The New Zealand Tablet declares that there is so much money in the colony "that many people do not know what to do with it." A poor fellow named James Rodgers, has lost his life at Stoney Creek, Palmerston North. He 'was digging a well, and had got down forty-five feet when he was poisoned with the foul air which had accumulated. Recently a fisherman at the mouth of the Waimakariri found caught in the nets a trout weighing 18£lb. Salmon have been caught in the same locality and in the same manner. The will of Mr A. Jardine, well known in the racing and coursing world, has been sworn under £1,371,000. Mr E. De Mestre recently lost the valuable mare Sour Grapes, through a poisonous snake biting her on the noße. The Timaru Herald in a notice of the Christchurch Exhibition, says :— Of colonial wines there are three exhibits-— from Wanganui, whose vintages are already very favorably known, and from Nelson (Mr James Smith's) and Dunedin, of the former of which its climate would hint that more will be heard in the future as a wine-producing district. The total amount of money paid away by the Victorian Racing Club over the late Autumn Meeting amounted to £9365. Of this Mr E. DeMestre received the largest share, £1540; then came MrH. Philips, £1400 ; M. W. Pearson, £1465. We (Weßtport Times) have seen a sample of the productiveness of the land at Karamca in the shape of a bunch of luscious grapes grown there in the garden of Mr. Jennings, surveyor. Mr. Thompson, County Overseer, brought the fruit to town, and left the bunch in question. The flavor is delicious and the appearance very good indeed. As a strange coincidence, it may be mentioned that no sooner had the settlers of Ormondville, Hawke's Bay, decided that a medical man should be invited to that place than the Cemetery Committee ordered a further portion of the cemetery to be cleared, and also drew up a petition to the Minister of lands asking for an extension of their boundaries. The Weßtport Times states there has been a very large land slip on the Karamea beach road. Many thousand tons of the cliff side have slipped into the sea. Mr Cuvtayne, of Karamea, nar-

rowly escaped being buried by the avalanche. He was. coming to town at the time and had just passed the spot when the slip came down.

Two new Armstrong guns have been shipped for Sydney which are said to be capable pf smashing to pieces the strongest armour that any vessel can carry.

Mr Federii, of Akaroa, will show at the Ohriatohurch Exhibition a very interesting collection of silkworms and cocoons, also a treadle reeling and specimens of mulberry timber from an old tree at Akaroa.