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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1112, 4 August 1882, Page 2

In. the . Wafcdan'g Court yesterday Mr Warden £Jwj|jj<£spHed attention to the piniilftrjtjj^mclx existed' between the namps of a Iflrga number of mining companies in the Inaijgahua, and added that this gave rise»to a deal of confusion, and in several instance3vjed to serious mistakes, It was commoi>:to name new ventures after o}d-estabjishad and productive ones, wjf;h the ftddition merely of the WQV& "north oraouth, pv No, 1, or No 2," as t))e case might be, and this had bpen found to b^ vgry niisjeading, Hp thevcffore suggested flic necessjity of changing ajl such names to others more djaDinctiyg. ge further allied to tjie fact that appjicanjts fop mining leases were in the habit of attaching the names of absent persons to applications, which was in itself forger/, Thja piagtice woujd not

be permitted in future, and all such applications would have to be signed by the person purporting to be the applicant, or if for an absentee, as agent. The Warden further pointed out that lessees commonly neglected to take out certificates until long after the leases had been I granted. In future when an application was made the applicant would have to be present, and take out the certificate at once, and those neglecting to do so would run the risk of having their leases cancelled. Another source of annoyance was the delay of applicants in filing the newspapers containing the advertisements. Henceforth the papers would have to be lodged in Court immediately that the advertising was completed. Much additional work had been cast upon the officers of the Court in the past through neglect of these requirements, and in future they would have to be strictly observed. | A party of gentlemen leave this morning for the purpose of visiting and inspecting the lease of the Globe Company, Devil's Creek district, which is now commanding considerable attention. Mr Bowman will offer at auction, on the premises, upper Broadway, to-morrow at 3 o'clock, sections and cottage. There, has been some demandtofTiery ' Cross shares during the past few ' jfej,buyers offering"]^. ?-* .; '. tuj|pr •The firat shotwnsijrHd j.-«?t4,^^%^ nice fat crow for 'iiiekwyu;;?. i '■ : :)-$ : ?p.T that sor-e three or four yt;;u# .\'jCJ>%^: ■"'• Collinsand Savage applied in rhV-Oajial j way for a mining lease of ground "acl^iriing the then boundary of -the K^ep-it-Dark Co. This application is corifcTi-' ded, has never been finally 'dealt with, but in the meantime a portion of the same ground was applied for and actually granted by the Government to the Keep-it-Dark. The difficulty occurred . during the administration of Wardens Broad and Shaw, and is likely to thoroughly open the flood-gates of the law, but against whom, or how the law'd only knows. j The Magistrate's and Warden's Court's I opened yesterday morning at 10 o'clock before Mr W. H. Revell. The civil cases were few and unimportant. In the Warden's Court a number of applications for mining leases were heard and recommended, and the Court .adjourned at 12 -30 p.m The following return, showing the amount of charitable aid distributed in the colony for the year ending 31st March, 1882, has been presented to Parliament :— Auckland, £7468 ; Taranaki £810 ; Wellington, £30(i6 ; : • awke's Bay £419 ; Nelson, £2212 ; Marlborough, £104 ; Canterbury, £1274 ; Westland, £622 ; Otago, £3073. Total, £30,520. The shillings and pence are excluded from this return. A boy aged fourteen months, son of Mr Alexander Thompson, of Okute Valley, Little River, was choked on Sunday .afternoon by swallowing a large glass marble. The mother of the child states that the little boy was at the dolor of her house ; she tobk.him up in herjarms, and sat down by the lire with him. Direotly she sat down she noticed th«» <^i^#aß*^idking.-. sh#* putter' ■ ; ffn*goiM(&wtf^ and codld* touch the marble, but 'could not remove it. She then called to her husband, who had just left the house. The husband returned, and they both tried by all means in their power to get the marble out of the throat, but without success, and while so doing the convulsions of the child were so great that they had the skin torn off their lingers. The child died in about 15 or 20 minutes after swallowing the marble. — ' Akaroa Mail. * The vicissitudes of a prospector's life are exemplified in the life of Major W. Downie, He has been immensely wealthy several times. At times in the flush days of Sierra County it has taken two bucketsful of gold dust to pay his liquor bills after a single night's spree. Now he is penniless, and has gone to the new goldfields of Idaho. A Sydney telegram in the Melbourne Argus says : — "lt is stated on good authority that the colleagues of the Pi'emier handed him out of the public funds on his departure for England the sum of £2500 for himself and for his expenses, and £500 for his secretary, and also that subsequently, in response to further applications, even a larger sum of public money Avas placed at the disposal of Sir Henry Parkes." The foreign resident in Egypt are very numerous. ' At the last enumeration, that of 1858, they numbered 79,696 souls, consisting of 34,000 Greeks, "17,000 Frenchmen, 13,906 Italians, 6300 -Sustrians, 6000 1100 Germans, and 1390 natives of other countries, and there j is no reason to suppose that they ii%vv \ decreased since that 'time.' The awMuu^ exodus of such a. number of . pq4{B^^ffff3*ui be a very serious auajjt^r. '^P» ' v ' 1 i * 'ifiifcver ■ ; pem"vwjs»*4#STrv Sari. TmW cisco : ' ( A recent marriage has made the curious bubblo over mth. astonishment;. Six years ago two lovers in high Society married Bgpretiy, one women friend alone knowing of the circumstance — wonderful to relate, she never let the secret out. The bridegroom was poor, but proposed to make his way to wealth, have a grand wedding, and at the altar produce .his. marriage certificate ; but, after waiting three years, the happy, or unhappy, couple, as the case may be, got a divorce for Borne possibly cogent reason. Two. years passed, and Jo ! the separated doves came together again, and the other day were married in style over again. After the first nmrriftge, $he lady went at once home and the gentleman went the opposite way, Whether they ever came together before the divorce does not appear. The cqrions pflrt of the divorces here is that sp frtjquenfcjy the parted souls marry again and are better friends than ever, showing the utter absurdity of the ways pf men and women,

The strangest suicide ever heard of was recently committed at I/vroser, Hungary, by the steward of a certain Baron Horvat. After killing a nia.iv of whom he was jealous, the steward, dug his own grave and buried himself alive. He managed it in this way; He made a grave of the right dimension, put across it a board, placed thereon a quantity of earth, and then lay down in the hole, and by* means of a rope pulled away the board, on which the soil fell upon him and he was self-killed and'self-buried. To provide for any accidental derangement of his plan and to make, *s it"were, assurance doubly sure, ho took a dose of arsenic immediately before descending into the tomb. A very influential mefting has been held at the Duke of Bedford's to consider the subject of emigration from the west coast of Ireland. The Duke of Bedford himself presided. It was resolved to form a society and to raise a fund for the purpose of promoting emigration from these poverty stricken districts. Sir G. Gait was present, and promised the assistance of the Canadij#i^GoYe/iiirient. Upwards of £1), 000 wasjnbscribed. *" .^...Cetewaytriias startei froin '-Capetown for.F- .'fci-uil. J__ ] £ Couiicil^WdTi^T^to^ivks "re-elfifited. Speaker of the Assembljjf. I J h®^ Ai* allege^ ease of '' limbing dovfS^' on the part <jt 'a Dunedin hotelkeeper came befbre the Rediljjftftt ' Magistrate's Court recently. The pMnpfr asserts that about a fortnight ago $tj came to town with a cheque for £40 o$&, and after staying at the Newmarket Hotel for two days and a half was informed that he had drunk or " shouted " aWay all but £13 of that amount. He. refused; to take this. Then the' hotelkeeper offered him £'15, and eventually gave him I^2o.