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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1183, 16 October 1882, Page 2

/» nother application was lodged for a mining lease on Friday last, the applicant being Mr Hiiulinarsh, for ground situate in the Big River district. The notification will be found in our advertising columns. Pressure of telegraphic matter compels us to hold over our mining report until next issue. There was some activity in the share market on Saturday last, Keep-it-Darks and Welcomes being in good demand. The Dark returns for the past week show an average of about loz. per ton, We direct the attention of both business men, and probable passengers, to a notification in our advertising columns, wherein it will be seen that the Union Company has laid on their new steamship Mahinapua, to trade regularly between Duneclin, and Greymouth. On the up trip she will call at ( >amaru, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Westport, and on her return, she will visit Westport, Nelson, and Lytteltun. There can be no doubt that she will be well patronised, and will prove a great convenience to the travelling public. We have to ocl.n^v.L l-e with thanks the receipt of an instalment of the statutes of last session, forwarded from the Government Printing Office, in Wellington. The whole of the Acts will occupy more than 800 pages, and the portion to hand extends to page 244. It will bo some weeks yet, we believe, before they will be altogether out of hand. The Lankey's Creek Coal mine, now held by Messrs Roxborough and Caird, is turning out some excellent coal. A few days ago they got out a block 3 cwt in weight, in executing an order for Mr Campbell of the Southern Cross hotel. Unfortunately it was broken in half when being brought across the river, but the lumps of 150 lbs or so each, showed what valuable mineral this district possesses. Itsquantity is unlimited, and quality equal to any in the colony, or even the old country. By an amendment of the Vagrant Act any person obscenely exposing himself may be indicted atone of the superior Courts, should the magistrates before whom the offender is brought deem the nature of the offence sufficiently grave to justify the step. On conviction, whipping, not to exceed twenty five strokes at one time may be added to imprisonment. Under an Amendment Act of Dog Registration, dogs kept for the management of live stock, or the destruction of rabbits, must pay a fee, but it mayb e reduced to a shilling. Any person making a false declaration with respect to the purposes for which dogs are kept is liable to a penalty of £20, or a month's imprisonment. Unregistered dogs may be seized by the police, kept seven days, and then sold, the funds so realised going to the local authority, here, the County Council. Their notion of the proceedings of a dancing assembly at Footscray appear to be peculiar. At an assembly in the Royal Hall we are told : — "Shortly before 10 o'clock, when the dancing was at its height, the doors of the ballroom were locked, and the master of the ceremonies having passed the word, ' Wire-in, Footscray.' a general fight began. A constable hearing the noise of the row, and cries of 'Murder,' attempted to force open the front door, but was prevented by a number of those inside lying against it. The constable then went into the gallery (the hall is a small theatre), and saw some 20 of the dancers pummelling one another on the floor. Notice is given in the Gazette that the sum of £0000 having been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries the distribution will take place on the 31st January, 1883. Every public library maintained by rates will be entitled to share in the distribution according to its income from rates ; and every library maintained by subscriptions and voluntary contributions will bo. entitled to share according to its income from subscriptions and voluntary contributions : provided in either case that admission to the library, if within a borough, is open to the public -free of charge. The distribution will not be in proportion to the several incomes of the libraries ; but a nominal addition ef £25 will be made to the amount of each income, and the vote of L6OOO will bo divided in proportion to the amounts as augmented.