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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1089, 19 May 1882, Page 2

Mail* for the Australian Colonies and United Kingdom per 8.1. Botomahana, close at the Bluff at noon on Friday, 19th May. Telegraph stations are now open at Fortrose and Pinebush, both in Southland. We understand that Mr J. 0. Craig, of Black* Point, has purchased Kelly's Hotel in Broadway, at present temporarily nhAiiinifwl httjtfr Jnhn P*««|n. and Will Elincaid wd M'^ueen, iron founders, of I)unedin, paid a visit to Reefton this, wieek", arid went over several of the mines. He visited the Phoenix especially, as Jhe was requested to give an for the supply of a ten-head battery. We understand that he has done so, and that the figure is likely to be satisfactory alike to the founder and the shareholders. He has expressed himself as both pleased and surprised *t the prosperous condition of mining affairs in this district. Notice has been given that Burton's circus will pay a visit to Reefton, and perform two nights next week, on Monday and Tuesday next This is without exception one of the best travelling circuses that ever visited New Zealand, and will, we are sure, be well patronised by the public. Mr Burton is one of the oldest caterers for publio amusement in this line in the colonies, and he has brought his experience to bear in getting together one of the most attractive and complete companies that could be desired. Every kind of amusement is provided, and the Press in other places speak in the highest terms of the entertainment. The fact that no less than five new batteries are about to be supplied to com panics in Reefton speaks well for the permanency of the district, and the confidence of shareholders. These are about to be obtained by the Specimen Hill, I Phoenix, Golden Point, Inkerman, and Lankey's Creek Cement Company, and when the various orders have been completed there will be at least seventy-five fresh heads of stampers at work in disintegrating the gold of the district. By a notice in a Gazette of the 11th instant, the Clerk of the District Court, Reefton, is authorised to frank, free from prepayment of postage, letters and parcels posted on public service. The District Court yesterday was formally adjourned till to-day, when it will be opened by his Honor Judge Broad, A correspondent writes us referring to the new diamond drill about to be imported by the County Council. As a shareholder in other companies than that making the first application for its use he object* to it being handed over to them, solely on the ground that they were the first applicants. He urges, and it seems to us with reason, that if machinery of the kind be provided by the local governing body, it should be for the benefit of all, and not for one particular claim or undertakings, He alleges that the drill now being obtained is not of a portable kind, and that once being fixed it will cost hundreds of pounds to move it, and detach it from its site. Whether this is so or not we are not in a position to say, but if it be correct it does seem a most extraordinary oversight. A recent Australian telegram states that a reduced tariff fur telegraphic messages

between Australia and New Zealand will come into-operation on the Ist of June next. This will be welcome news to many, for the rates exacted hitherto have been exorbitant* , The O'Connor- Johnston feud has now, we presume, ended, and the series of cases have closed. The wind-up must, however, have been very unsatisfactory to the complainant, Johnston, who was convicted of perjury at the District Court at Westport on Wednesday last, and was sentenced to twelve months' ira prisonment. Sydney Walsh, his ally and confederate, fell on equally evil times, and will do a like sentence for the same offenae. Yesterday at the Police Court, Sarah Rumble was charged by M«inley with having stolen a goose, the informants property. Mr Jones appeared for the defence. Sergeant l^eville applied for a remand, to which the presidingmagistrates objected unless some evidence was given. Mr Jones also protested against this system of remands without evidence being given to establish' some prima facie case. Sergeant Neville stated that in all cases of the kind where an information was sworn, iiwas customary .for the Bench to grant a rennrad on appMtion. TKb B«ioh, said that that precedent was not one thai should guide them, as it was evident great injustice to accused persons could arise thereby, for innocent people might be remanded indefinitely. Eventually the case was adjourned till Saturday, defendant being released on her own recognizance. Messrs G. Wise and W. J. Potts occupied the Bench. It is-veiy satisfactory to know that all the coal mines are turning out first class. The new onelately opened out by Mr Connolly has struck a splendid seam of coal, which burns well, throwß out a great heat has an excellent ash, and is in every respect a capital fuel The price at which he disposes of it is most moderate and we have not the slightest doubt that he will have no difficulty in obtaining purchasers for his output. Mr Hanwell Williams, who has recently come up to Beefton with an excellent photographic gallery, will only stay a day or two longer. Indeed he contemplates leaving to-morrow, and those who wish excellent portraits taken must secure his services without delay. Some exceedingly beautiful specimens of his handiwork can be seen at his temporary rooms, next Mr Schulhoffs, in Broadway, and those who desire admirable likenesses cannot do better than consult him at once. A large number of people attended the funeral of Mr Gallagher's child yesterday, and the greatest sympathy with the parents ia their repeated bereavements is felt. The following memo was furnished by the Telegraph Department to us hut evening. "A telegraph station is now open at Devpnport, Northcote, and Takapuna, all in County of WaitemataL .'- ! .'At Dunedin a monkey which broke loose somewhat severely handled a number of children,' Macavtt^ gflaat consternation by enterflfg one of the public schools. The police eventually got hold of the animal, and ran him into the lockup* , . , lit order to meet the comf6rt and convenience of passengers between Beefton, Nelson, and Westport, Mr Job lines, the mail-contractor, has just placed another new coach on the line. The coach is of Nelson make, and will comfortably seat ten passengers, and is altogether one of the finest specimens of coach-building we have seen. We are pleased to learn that the overland route from Nelson is fast growing in popularity with travellers to the West, and that Mr Lines' enterprise is likely to be well rewarded. The Age still holds the belt. This is its latest :•— " Eighteen hundredweight of pure gold to a ton of crushings." The precise locality is not given, that is inmaterial. Mr M'lntosh, master of the Temuka school has received three months' notice of dismissal. The Secretary reported that Mr M'lntosh, had during the past two ( years been engaged in farming and appeared to devote more attention to that than was compatible with a proper fulfilment of his duties as teacher. Thirty-three millions of new bricks are estimated to have been used in Melbourne last year in the erection of new buildings. There is & glass jug in one of the Exhibition courts said to be worth £160. It took 20 years to engrave. A person, calling herself " Lady Agneß M'Lean," said to be a lady of title by birth, and widow of the late Count de Montmorency, died suddenly in the St. Pancras Workhouse on the Ist inst. At the inquest a sad story of her want and suffering, and finally mental aberration, was told. Apoplexy was said to be the cause of death. Betting on next season's Melbourne Cap and Victorian Derby appears to be receiving attention in Australia. Mr E. E. Jones, the well-known bookmaker, has laid £60,000 to £260 against the double of Navigator and Gudare in these races, the odds being, in other figures, 200 to 1. Te Reiroa, a N.Z. Chief, has shown how civilised savages may become, by selling for 300, to a gold mining company, three acres of land that did not belong to him, and then clearing with the money. The manufacture of infernal machines has gradually spread until some genius in this Colony has been tempted- to try his hand at one* The other day, a man while digging in his garden at Riverton came across a small tin canister, closely sealed, of the diameter of lib coffee tin and about 2in deep, sloping up from the bottom in the shape of a dome. When prized open with a chisel, it waß found to be full of gunpowder, and soldered to the bottom were three short pieces of thick wire, which did duty as nipples, on each of which was placed a percussion cap. What the object of the inventor of this ingeniua

contrivance; could have been it is hard to conjecture. ' Perhaps (remarks the local paper), he Will try dynamite next time. The Christchurch Resident Magistrate gave a somewhat interesting decision yesterday in a hot uninteresting case. The action wasiratween two publicans, Rlchardaon and Goldstone, and arose out of an arrangement by which the former disclosed to the- latter the figure of his tender to the Government for the lease of the Railway ' Refreshment Rooms, in consideration of the receipt of £10. Defendant Goldstone was the successful tenderer for the rooms following this, and then declined to pay over the £10, on the ground that the transaction was fraudulent, inasmuch thai as the lessors were the Government,, the agreement was an illegal contract, being of a kind 1 that might be made use of to defraud the revenue, as if left to legitimate competition the rent realised might be much higher than could be obtained if theaflairwasnot pre-arranged as had been done in this case. Hfe Worship, in giving judgment, said he could not see any/ attempt to defraud the revenue. The transaction was a perfectly legitimate busfagss operation. Judgment would be eijlefM for phfo*-«fl; ■ of a Pedagogu^P^a-gdlleetion of ?queer answers and ridiculous statements elicited from youths undergoing examination. He adds :— "I am reluctant to close this list without some attempt to show that we can do almost as well in the colonies. I quote, therefore, a recent bonne bouche from our own High School : — Master : What does Shylock mean when he says that he refuses ' to eat outof thenabitation which your prophet, the INazarene, conjured the devil V Answer ; He refers to the occasion on which Christ made. the devil eat pork ! And yet they have the Bible in the High School." The happy-go-lucky manner, says the New Zealand Times, in__which some people come, or are sent, to the colonies in the hope that they will fall on their legs, received an illustration at a recent meet* ing of the Benevolent Society, when an application for relief was received from a person who formerly held a commission in an English infantry regiment. It appears that he arrived at Lyttelton from Home last month, without sufficient money to meet even immediate wants. Major Knpllys under whose notice he came, sent him to Wellington with a recommend* ation to Colonel Rosier for admission to the Armed Constabulary, but as the force is being reduced, thisattempt at providing him proved futile. The Yen. Archdeacon Stock then provided him with the means to obtain food and lodgings until the end of the week. Aa nothing had turned up in the meantime, an application for relief was made to the^Benevolent Institution, with the result that a night's lodging and food, together with a railway pass to Belmohi, where a woodcutter is required, were found for him. This class of immigrants is 1 probably the moat undo j sirable of all. ; Alluding to the prospects of the two jbintstock papers in Dunedin, the correspondent of the Cromwell Argus has this to Bay: — ''The Morning Herald i balance-sheet has been published, and that of the Daily Times is just about to be. The latter, it is generally understood, will show a good result for the year's operations of a fair dividend. If this turns out to be true. I suppose it must be set down to the success attending the reduction of the paper to a penny, by which the advertisements, and it is said, the circulation has increased. The Morning Herald, on thecontrary,meetsits shareholders with but a sorry tale. The year's loss is £474. and that for the previous year was £327." The correspondent argues that Dunedin has not an opening for two morning journals. Mr Weston, Bays the West Times, member for Inangahua, has been addressing the electors in his own and in the Grey Valley district during the past week, and has been most favorably received elsewhere. He will reach Hokitikathia afternoon, and proceeds to Christchurch to-morrow morning. We feel sure, judging from Mr Western's past action, in the Assembly, and the interest he has invariably manifested in the progress of the whole Coast, that if he can do anything in the cause of this district in any shape or form his services will be at the disposal of the inhabitants here, both during his short stay amongst us, and subsequently in his Parliamentary capacity. In an article on some of the new blood in the coming session, the Otago, Daily Times writes thus of our new member : — " Mr Fitzgerald,a journalist and ex-magi-atrate, is brother to the Auditor-General by birth and aecotid cousih by talent. Many believed the Controller owned the cleverest pen and tongue in the colony : his relative is very much after him in both He will be more marked by facility and readiness than by sterling qualities. If the term is not unparliamentary, Mr Fitzgerald will be a Bohemian in politics. His chance for a first turn of office is level with Mr Sheehan's for a second. When speaking he will be heard, but his speeches will not lessen the labor of one teller or increase that of the other. " The Victorian Government have reduced the postage on letters foa penny per half-ounce within the colony, and a half-penny for newspapers to all the colonies. :