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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1185, 20 October 1882, Page 2

The funeral of the late Jacob Schmidt was well attended, a very large number of residents following to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased. As has been already stated lie was greatly esteemed by those who knew hint, and the Black's Point band showed their appreciation of his worth by playing the Dead March to the cemetery. Without doubt Mr Wildt was one of the best, if not the best musician in the district, and the compliment on the part of the band, was a fitting and a graceful one. -Mr G. C. Bowman will submit to auction to-morrow at his rooms, at 4 o'clock sharp, the hut of the late James Paul, who, it will be remembered was drowned in the Inangahua a few months ago. We have received a copy of the Victorian Press Manual, a work that will prove of great use to persons wanting to advertise in other colonies, as it gives the names of all newspapers in Australasia, with the places of publication and the number o': weekly issues. It is well got up and is published by Moore and MacLeod of the Exchange, Collins-street, Melbourne. The men employed on the Wide- Awake claim have struck a solid reef, from which great hopes are entertained. As yet the stone has not been proved and its value is therefore unknown. It is however in all probability gold-bearing, and will in such case, increase the reputation of this already prosperous part of the district. '•' c are glad to say that the Christchurch people are not in any way abating in energy respecting the railway route. A meeting of the Industrial Association was held last week, at which Mr Weston, M.H. H. spoke in warm terms in support of the western route. A. meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was also convened to consider the subject and was held on Thursday. Probably before the meeting of the League Committee to-night, some information may come to hand relative to the result of the deliberations of both the above bodies. The usual weekly meeting of the Executive Committee of the Reefton Railway League will be held this evening, at the office of the secretary, Mr H. G. Hankin. A letter has been received from the secretary of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, acknowledging the receipt of the resolutions . adopted at the first public meeting, and promising to lay them before the Chamber for con- i sideration on the first occasion of their meeting. The Gladstone Company seems likely to conio to the fore, as a solid reef is now found, which is gold-bearing. The following is the report handed in by Mr Wills, on the 18th instant, to the directors: — "I have broken down the reef to-day, and it has widened out to t.iree feet in the face. There is a little gold in the stone with pyrites and antimony, but mixed with a little mullock. " In our telegraphic report of the result of the Caulficld Cup run for last Saturday there was an obvious mistake as to the number of starters, and we queried it accordingly. There were 32 acceptors, and the probability is, that there were nearer 30 starters than three. The singular part of this race is that neither the first or second horses were thought to have the ghost of a chance of winning, and Gipsy Cooper, who secured the third place, in the latest betting was at 100 to 3. Little Jack, and Verdure, were not mentioned even. Darebin, Prattle, Sardonyx, and the Assyrian, were heavily backed. Augur, in his tip on the 2urd ult., did not name Little Jack, evidently considering him one of the hopeless division, and with respect to Verdure, he only referred to that animal as having been leniently treated at 63t 71bs. He included Gipsy Cooper in a pick of thirteen, but on the whole cannot be congratulated on his judgment. The winner of the Cup, Little Jack, is trained at St. Albans, and is the first of Mr Wilson's surprises this season. He is in the Melbourne Cup, and was at 100 to 4 by last Australasian quotations. This we notice was taken pretty freely, and his Caulfiekl.yictory will bring him to a very mifch shorter price. A great deal of excitement is getting up about the great race of the year, to be run on the 31st inst., and even in Reefton, there is a good deal of money depending on the result. It has been suggested by many of the amateurs in this town, with whom the late Mr Schmidt was intimately associated, that an entertainment should be given by them to provide a head-stone and fence for his grave. A meeting of those willing to assist will be held on Monday evening next, at the Oddfellows Hall, at 8 o'clock, to make full arrangements for the performance. An accident happened at Boatman's, yesterday in the Fiery Cross claim. It seems that a miner Martin Kearney, was engaged in putting up a set of timber, when n large block of slate, nearly half a ton in weight, foil on him, fortunately Bideways, and pinned him to the ground. . t tirst it was thought he was killed but

such was happily not the case, and he was at once brought into the hospital here, f n examination no bonts were found to be broken, but he was severely bruised and will be confined to his bud for weeks to come. We take the following mining items from the Westport Times :— Mr F. Ray returned from a visit to the Mokihinui reef on Saturday evening, bringing with him about 301bs of stone which, ho inform? us, he broke out of a reef he has discovered in the Red Queen Company's ground. Like all the Mokihinui stone exhibited in town, these lumps of quartz ;u-o permeated with gold, both coarse and fine. The Ked Queen lease is situated on the opposite side of the Mokihinui river to the Guiding Star. The fifth lease at Hough and Tumble was applied for yesterday. There are twelve shareholders in the Alabama Company. Mr James Slowey, the newly-app< tinted Mining Manager of the Guiding Star Company, returned from Mokihiuui on Saturday, bringing some grand specimens of golden quartz with him. Half-a-ton of stone was brought to town yesterday, per dray. Mr Slowey, who ia a reefer of large experience, expresses himself in the highest terms of adiniratiflfi with respect to the Company's property, He says he has rarely seen a reef in which such rich gold is so evenly distributed throughout. We hopo some measures will be taken to improve the means of communication with the reefs, so as to further the development of the riches of Mokihinui. The Southland Times thus records the fall of an aerolite in that town: — "Yesterday an aerolite fell on to the roof of Mr Evans' house in Kelvin street, about one o'clock in the morning, during the height of the gale. The appearance of the stranger is peculiar ; it somewhat resemblod the pumice stone in color, but not in weight, for it is a good deal heavier. The largest fragment just covers the fingers, and is about two and a-half inches in depth. In color it reminds one of a cheap cigar ash. It glitters all over with specks resembling tin, and has a streak of what looks very much like petrified coal. Needless to state that the noise caused by the fall created a good deal of alarm in the minds of Mr Evans' honsehold, and it was at first feared that something dreadful had hapened. Those who are interested in such matters may gratify their curiosity by calling at this office, where portions of the seorlite sre on view. The durability of ti-tree wood is, says the Auckland Star, afforded by the excavations now going on in Vulcan Lane in connection with the improvements to the Queen's Ferry Hotel. Several ti-tree house blocks which have been in the swampy ground for 40 years, were brought to light recently. The heart of the wood was found to bo ns sound as the day it was cut.