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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1111, 2 August 1882, Page 2

The excitement current in tho share market for some days past has once mure sobered down, and, though business is still being actively plied, it proceeds in a measured kind of way, which is after all, the most satisfactory to nil parties. ( n Monday last some favorable news was received from the Gladstone mine, at Painkiller, which had the effect of bringing their stock into immediate notice, and, since then, a large amount of business has been doing in tho shares, jfchor linos are for the. time being stationary. } - Ne\¥ Zealand is responding J^b^iijljr' t(5 ■ ..the (^ which h<o^ be dTi^iH(fc»'^tt"wfci®j^v^i tile distressed Jews of Russia. ,and f , in, at/ most every town in the colony influential committees have organised to collect sub?.' scriptions. Ar P. Salmon at the solicitation of the Central Committee in Wellington, is kindly interesting himself on Reefton on buhalf of the Fund, and we are glad to see has met with a fair measure of success. The list will be closed in a few days and those desirous of contritributing to the deserving cause should make application at once to Mr Salmon, at Dawson's Hotel. A further batch of applications was | lodged in the Warden's Court yesterday j morning. This morning we publish four i fresh applications. Sixty-one niiniii" I leases were applied for in the Inangahua during the month of July. After an illness extending over nearly twelve months, borne with a patience anil resignation that was hopeless throughout, Mr Charles M'Gaffin died at Westport at 9 o'clock on Monday evening last. Though not unexpected, tho receipt of tho intelligence caused a painful sensation in the community, and most of the | business places in town were close yester- ! day as a mark of respect to the deceased. Mr J: M'Giiflin and Mr J. I. Aiken left for Westport early yasterday morning, to meet the body which was being brought on to Reefton by special conveyance. Mr M'Gaffin was a very old colonist, having arrived in Victoria 'in the hey-day of the gold- discoveries there, and shortly after joined the iiafcjuted gold escort, under Mr Caleb Whitefoord, and continued in the performance of that duty for some years. Upon the putbreak "of the goldfields in Otago Mr M'Gaffin came to New Zealand;, and soon after joined in -the-i'Ußh-^v-tlie^W-est Coast,' ■? eventually establishing an hotel business at Kosa, which lifflj then just opened. From that time to the present Mr M'Gaftin's name has become known over .tht, whole of the West Coast, and his genial and engaging manner, added to the uniform integrity of his life gave him the faculty of making warm friends of*' all with whom he came in contact. In accordance with a wish expressed by deceased in his life-time the body will be interred with Masonic honors. The funeral is announced to move to-day, at 3 p.m.