The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1187, 25 October 1882, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI -WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1882.

The next English and European Mail via San Francisco, will cloae on Wednesday, November Ist., at G. 30. a.m. Telephone stations are now open at Weston, Enfioh*!, and 2fgapara, in the County of Waitaki, also at Gcraldine. Wo are indebted to the courtesy of the Government Printer, for a further instalment of the statutes of last session, as well as a bundle of other Parliamentary papers. Mr C. Muldoon has been appointed mining manager of the Big River Extended Company. A meeting of amateurs for the purpose of organising the proposed concert, in aid of the Schmidt Memorial Fund, was held at Kater's Hall, on Monday evening last. The meeting was well attended, ant 1 , it was decided that the entertainment should be held on the evening of Friday week. The pieces selected for the occasion are "Perdue the Terrible " and "No. 1 Hound the Corner," the performance to be inter spersed with vocal and instrumental music. A full rehearsal will be held in the hall this evening, .at 8 o'clock. At a meeting of the stewards of the Rcefton Jockey Club, held on Monday evening last, the tender of M>W. Newton was accepted, for certain alterations and additions to the grand stand. The improvements will consist of the erection of a lean-to at the back of the strtnd, for the accommodation of the booth-holders, and the stewards. The building will be 10ft. wide, by the full length of the stand, and will be roofed with iron. The seats on the stand will also be raised, so as to give a better view of the course to sitters in the back rows. Iron will also be placed over the booth*. The tenders was £87 103, the contractor providing labor and timber, and the club supplying the necessary iron. We have received the programme of the Hokitika races, which are fixed to be run on the 2Gth and 27th of December next. The to,tal amount of the stakes offered is £270, irrespective of two selling races of £15 each. The most valuable stake, is jtho Westland Handicap, £75. The Magistrate's and Warden's Courts will open at the usual hour to-morrow morning, but there ia no business of special importance set down for hearing. Tenders are this morning invited by the Public Works Department for the construction of a dam near the loop lino road, Kumara. Yesterday's Grey Argii3 says:— *' It is reported that Mr Kichard Beeves has been successful in floating the Randall Creek •'•• ater Race Company at Rt-cfton. It will be recollected that this ia an old scheme revived. It is claimed that this race will command an enormous area of auriferous country, much of which cannot be at present utilised in consequence of it being above any available supply of water. The following pi? era may bo worked by this race :— Waipuna, Nobles, Half Ounce, Granviile, Braudy Jacks, ? apoleon Hill, Gum Boot, and Orwell Creek. Messrs Street and Co., share-brokers, of Dunedin publish a very useful Share List and Investors' Guide, giving the latest quotations in Colonial stocks. The pleasing intelligence was circulated yesterday, that a marked change for the better had shown itself in the appearance of the stone of the Imperial Company, Boatman's. The shares, which had been stationary for some time previous at about 7s Cd., were quoted at 9a. yesterday. Owing to the breaking of the pinionwheel attached to the air-compressor of the Golden Fleece Extended Company, the drilling machinery has been brought, to a temporary stand-still. .'■ n order for a fresh wheel has, however, siueo been executed by the Despatch Foundary Company, Greyiiiouth, and everything will be in going order in the course of a short time. We understand that an application was lodged in the Warden's Court, yesterday, by John McCafferty, for the cancellation of the Lucky Hit lease, Boatman's, on the ground that tho_ present lessea lmve failed to conform to the covenants of the lease. The case will bo heard to-morrow. The game <A lawn tennis bids fair to become a favorite arid fashionable paatirna in Reortou. Already tiit.ro are two private courts for pl.-.ying the game, and the relish with which it is patronised by players of loth .scxea testifies to its growing popularity. As an indi'.wtion of the pe.unlinr lmnner in which share trftnjactions are sometimes conducted in other parts of the colony, it may be mentioned that there arc at the present time several men sitting as directors in Reefivuji mining companies, who have months ago told the shares by virtue of which they hold oittee. This may appear strange, but, wo are informed it is really the case. The s;i!e3 have been effected "by wire, say in Duijcdi?), and the same shares have- subsequently post through innumerable hands, having been sold and resold over and over again, the original holders name atjjl appearing on

the register of the company as the owner, j ! In other cases persons who have purchased 1 '. shares outside the district have subse- '. quently been debarred for attending and voting at company's meetings, simply through the neglect of the seller to send down a transfer. We have been requested to draw attention to this matter in order that some of the delinquents abroad may take a hint. We take the following mining items from the Buller news :— The Manager of Guiding Star G.M.Co., Mokihinui, came down to town on Saturday, bringing a small parcel of stone from t£io Co.'s reef. It shows gold freely. Mr Slowey is highly pleased with the promising indications of the Co.'s ground, and also of the Mokihinui generally, saying there is plenty of stone there, and good gold in it. Considering Mr Slowey has been used to see such stone as the famous Welcome mine, in which he was working, alone turns out, that he should be favorably impressed means a great deal. Half a ton of stone has been taken out for a test crushing. It was intended to have sent it to Dunedin, but the experience of the Christmas Eve crushing has brought to light the fact that the battery there has lain long disused, and is now utterly unfit for a trial crushing, and it will therefore be sent elsewhere, probably Victoria. The tardiness of the Government in making a road to the3'j reefs, is greatly to be condemned, as the amount of revenue which would accrue would make it a very reproductive work. A block of stone from the lied Queen Gold Mining Co.'s lease, Mokihinui, has been shown us. It is studded with coarse scales of gold, and is undoubt. edly another proof that the Mokihinui reef has only to be put through the battery to yoild big dividends. The process of development will of course take time and money, but the harvest will be a golden one in the truest sense of the word, if the body of stone carries anything like the gold the chips of outcrop which have been brought down do. The presumption is that the best gold does not lie on the surface. It is not too much to say, that in other places where capital is more abundant, such evidences of latent wealth as have been shown in Westport lately, would evoke a little more eagerness and energy to develop and utilise the resources of the district. At the coroner's inquiry into the origin of the Sydney Garden Palace tiro, Kerchen, the watchman,- swore that he observed a man leave the building just before the fire. The man gave an evasive answer to him. He believed that the man was one who had recently been discharged by the Lauds Department. It will be weeks before the full amount of damage done by the recent (Iv; at. the Garden Palace can be estimated. The statue of the Qeeen was found to be completely shattered. The safe found on examination was discovered to be much injured by the heat, but the diamonds for drills unimpaired. Some of the jewellery will require re-cutting. Amongst the documents destroyed are those belonging to the Forest Conservancy Departmenc and the Railway Survey Department. The loss to the Government in this respect will probably amount to £100,000, as the work must be done over again. About £200,000 was taken from the Treasury by Arabi Pasha. Eighteen thousand pounds deficit has been discovered at the War Office. Deficits are probable also in the Department of the Interior. The Wellington gold export trade is looking up. During the quarter ended September, Wellington exported loz of gold valued at £3. This, at first sight, docs not seem much, but in the corresponding quarter of 1881 the export was nil. The rest of the colony exported 7-4-,77"v>zs, valued at £208,442. This is a material decrease — about 10 per cent. - as compared with last year. The falling off if> very largo in Auckland and Otago but the. Went Coast, on the other hand, exhibits a substantial increase, the value of the gold exported being no less th.-n ■6160,5(M, considerably more than all the rest of the colony added together. The grant of 1.0,000 in aid of public libraries will be distributed on the 31st January next. All claims to be sent in according to prescribed form before the 2'2ud of that month. Every 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 be 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 frou of charge. The income of each library may be stated either for the year ending 31st December, 1882, or for the year ending with that day in the year 1882 on which the annual accounts of the library were made up. The distribution will not be in proportion to several incomes of the libraries ; but a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each income, and the vote of £6.000 will be divided in proportion to th« amounts a?, thus augmented. In order to slake tho thirst of readers for something "fresh," Home newsjiapws are not always particular as to the authenticity of tho "news " they ptibhr.h. The "Referee," an exceedingly !iv!y print, thus refers to the practice : — Tf this sort of fabrication goes on in these days of searching investigation and publicity, and the Press of a ■whole country can teem with leaders on what, never occurred, what are we to b?lievo of the stories handed down to us from days when there was no '•' Times " and "Referee." Was there ever a great fire of London ? Is the execution of Charles I, a gross fabrication — may he not have slipped up on a piece of orange peel and decapitated himself pn a door scraper? When the

Spanish Armada was announced were the i Devonshire worthies playing bowta on Plymouth Hoe, or were they in an adjacent public house drinking champagne and playing nap ? Did Nero fiddle while Rome was burning? That is a state- I ment which evidently went the round of the Press of the period, but was jt a fabrication like many of the statements now gaining currency. s His Lordship S^Kshop ""Redwood was a passenger from Wellington by the Waituki yesterday, and will proceed to the West Coast by the Charles Edward to-morrow. j We understand that his other engagements, will prevent his opening St Mary's Church before Sunday, the 31st December. — Nelson Mail. It is seldom says the ' Taranaki Herald ' that the members of the legal profession have the moral courage to confess themselves ignorant of the law. On the contrary they no doubt protend to know more than they really do. Yesterday one of the lawyers was proceeding to quote from the " Justices of the Peace Act, 1806," whon His Worship, after listening patiently to the- -arguments used, quietly remarked, "Thakt.ct his been repealed," thereby intiin^Bre that Jhe legal gentleman's efforts *tojsjay~ do wiii the law were futile. The astonished lawyer, evidently awakened for the first time to the real state of the law, asked, "When was the Act repealed — was it last year or the year or the year before ?" His Worship : "' n the 4th September." The lawyer then complained bitterly, that he had not obtained a copy of the new Act. Other members of the profession were present, and sympathised with their disconsolate brother, and a general denunciation of the Government Printing Department ensued at their dilatoriness in supplying tho public with copies of the statues. The Melbourne Telegraph reports a peculiar phenomenon, not altogether unknown in the mining world, occurring tho other evening at the Duke of Timor claim, Maryborough. Some men were at the bottom of the shaft engaged in sinking the bore, when a tremenduous movement of the ground beneath them, accompanied with a large upheaval of matter, so alarmed them that they immediately telegraphed for the bucket, which was quickly lowered. Into it they at once got, and not a moment too soon, for as they were drawn up they were surrounded with a vast column of mud and water, and it is Baid that the bucket was so buoyed up with the stuff that the hands at the windlass felt no difficulty in winding. Tho matter rose up with them to a height of GO feet. An accident is reported in the daily papers which is very liable to occur (Hiring the operation of tooth extraction, if care is not taken to remove each drawn tooth from the mouth. It seems that the patient, a boy of ten, at Chorley, in Lancashire, had seven teeth extracted while under the influence of gas, and that he was observed suddenly to change countenance, put his hand to bis throat, and immediately afterwards he died. It was found that a tooth had become impacted in the larynx, and so caused spasm of the glottis and asphyxia. — 'Lancet.' It is worthy of remark (says the writer of "Echoes from the House " in the New Zealand Times, that the Otago members have not had their •'scrimmage" during the past week. The modest Fish, tho poetic Bracken, the oleaginous Matthew Wood Green, the fearless Fergus, and the perennial Pyko have let one another alone, and there has been peace so far as the Southern members were concerned. The same writer also mentions as a curious fact that Mr Green has managed to gut through a whole week without making the slightest reference to his conscience. It is to be hoped, however, (he adds), that the silent monitor is still at work, and that the honorable member for Dunedin East has not sunk to the moral level of his political associates. •■ ur readers will have noticed that on the succeeding Wednesday night the con- | science was once again " trotted out " as Mr Bryce termed it.