The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1190, 1 November 1882, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1882.

Our cablegrams this morning furnish particulars of the Melbourne Cup race. The messages poured in upon us up to a very late hour in the night, and many we have been compelled to omit. Mr '"owe left yesterday for the Lyell, and will remain there for some days inspecting the different mines. Instructions have been issued to the officer in chief of police Reef ton, Sergeant Neville, to suppress all sweeps, and other illegal games at -the forthcoming Eeefton races. An " identical note " conveying this peremptory command has, we understand, been forwarded by the Defence Department to every police station in the Colony, and this year au attempt is to made i to give the ., Gaming and Lotteries Act practical operation. Intimation is given thus early in order that the public should not be taken by surprise on the day of the races. The Act does not provide that the meeting should be opened with prayer, but it is to be presumed that no objection would be offered to such a course. It has been arranged that a second cricket match married v. single, shall be played on the oth instant, Prince of Wale's Birthday. Those who dcaire to qualify themselves for playing in the former eleven have very little time to spare. We understand that Mr T. S. Weston M.H.R., for Inangahria, and Mr E. Weeks have been appointed delegates by the Beefton Railway League, to represent the West Coast at all future Kaat and West Coast railway meetings in Canterbury and particularly, at the Conference of public bodies, to be held in Christ church on the 9th of November. A reply has since been received from those gentlemen expressing their willingness to act in the capacity appointed. There is now a general awakening in favor of the West Coast railway on the other side of the dividing range, and it was necessary that some such appointments should be made in order that the people there should be kept thoroughly posted up in the cousre of the agitation in Canterbury. The contractors for the construction of the dray-bridge at the Inangahua Junction are getting well under way, and in the course of a month or two will mak oßl considerable show with the work. The work has evidently fallen to good bands. 'n Italian named John Brown, was arrested by the Reeftpn police on Friday last, and on the following day was brought before Messrs Bowman, and Wise, J.Ps., who upon the evidence of Drs Thorpe and Collins, committed him to the Hokitika asylum. The man had only bee# sent down from here about five or six weeks ago on the same charge, but after a short detention at Hokitika, he was liberated j there as " cured. " The man himself says that he is as much fit to be at large as the asylum authorities in Hokitika, ant! as his behaviour during the last few days has been most extraordinary, Dr Collins and Dr Thorpe, both concurring in recommending his instant confinement, we are disposed to think that there is some truth in what he says. We can hardly congratulate Reuter's .Agents in Wellington and Melbourne upon their celerity in the transmission of the news of the running for the Victorian Derby. In the first place, it was after 6 p.m when the news reached us of the winning, the message thus taking something like two hours in transmission. Again we received no less than three cablegrams, all to the same purport, one giving .Navigator as the winner, one giving the names of I»avigator, Fryingpan, and

1 Segenhoe, and the third repeating the 1 three last named horses, with the addition of the number of starters. Ab these niessages were all ''urgent," and consequently charged for at double rah s, I our own pecuniary interest in the event was greatly increased, and fur some hours after their receipt our benedictions and malediction were so thoroughly mixed up that we hardly knew whether it was Navigator or Reuter that had won the Derby. The monthly meeting of the members of the Reefton Hospital Committee will be held at the Southern Cross Hotel, this evening, at 8 o'clock sharp. .AH members are particularly requested to attend. It is notified that the well-known horse Lochliven will be quartered this season at Brazil's Paddock. Lochliven is a splendidly bred horse, hia pedigree boing unsurpassed in the Colony. Full particulars may be gathered from an advertisement in another column. There was considerable activity in the sharemarkot yesterday, and a large amount of business was done. No 2 South Keep-it-Darks and Pandoras changed hands pretty freely, and a good demand also existed for Big !<ivers. ~ : . : The news of the result of the running for* the Melbourne Cup was received by lus at 6.10 p.m. yesterday, and immediately afterwards published, but as there were comparatively few persons j directly interested in the event, the in I telligence did not excite so much interest i as on former occasions. There seems to be an end to the possij Witty of getting even a flying survey of I the Cannibal Gorge railway route in time to be available for the Ko3 r al Commission. We learn from elliugton that the Commission will commence work at once, which is understood to mean within a i fortnight, and it is believed that having taken all the official information obtainable in the Public Works Department at Wellington, the Commission will proceed to Christchurch and there take oral evidence. This done, they will proceed to Picton with the like object, and thence on to Nelson and return by Reofton, Greymouth and Hokitika. \ 11, that therefore remains to be done by the League here is to be prepared with all the facts and data possible and to obtain from the Commission a definite appointment as to the time and place to receive it. The next English and European Mail via San Francisco will close at this office on Thursday, the 2nd day of November, at 6.30 a.m. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Eureka Company will be held at Kater's Hotel, this evening. Shareholders are requested by advertisement elsewhere to attend the meeting personally, and not by proxy. We take the following from an English comic paper : — Mr Bull, senior, (to young Bull) : You can't row ; you can't run ; and now you can't hold your own at cricket. — Get along with you and play lawn tennis with the girls. The discovery just made of a goldbearing reef in the ground of the No. 2 South Keep-it-Dark Company continues to be a leading topic of conversation, and has sent interests in the company up immensely. Replying to a temperance deputation in Auckland the Hon. Mr Dick, among other remarks, said that a circular might be issued enjoining on the police officers the advisability of carefully issuing the prohibitory notices. He did not think any satisfactory definition of "unlawful games " was either expedient or possible. It would have to be left largely to the discretion of magistrates. With regard to the employment of females in publichouse bars, Mr Dick expressed his opinion that nothing in this direction was practicable for gome time. There was an indisposition amongst members to tamper further with the Act, and probably it would be just as well to let it alone for a year or so, in order to see how it worked. If it were desired to prevent publicans employing barmaids it might be better to introduce a special Bill for the purpose. t the next meeting of the Directors of the Wellington and Manawatu : ailway Company the following resolution will be moved by Mr John Plimmer : — " That as in carrying out a work like the Wellington and Manawatu Railway it is not to be expected that it will be exempt from accidents and casualties attendant upon all works of this description, therefore I ; beg to propose that, in order that some provision be made at once for those whoso misfortune it may be to suffer by these accidents, the Company set apart a certain quantity of land near each of their town- J ships to be given in compensation to those workmen, their wives or children, if they have any, in lots according to their misfortunes, not exceeding fifty acres nor less than five acres in each case ; and I propose that the resolution be recommended by the Directors at the next general meeting of shareholders, in order that they may give it their sanction." A. meeting of shareholders in the Picton Coal Company was held at Picton a day or two ago, Mr Pickering in the chair. We learn from the Marlborough Daily Times that it was stated by the secretary (Mr Leslie) that there had been about 20 applicants for the position of mining engineer. In reply to a shareholder, the chairman Btated that 12,240 shares had been applied for up to the end of August. The chairman stated that Mr ! Jeeves, of the West Coast, had undertaken, on behalf of the company, to be their agent in that locality, He Buceeded in disposing of 3250 shares in all; but when he found that the shares were not going off so well as he expected, be withdrew from the affair, and refused to send in the applications which were in fiis possession. The legal advisers of the :ompany were of opinion that the application papers could be recovered from

Mr Keeves. On the motion of Mr A. G. Fell, it was agreed that me question of Mr l>eeveß's applications for shares be left to the directors. The articles of Association were passed uuin. con. In answer to v bliareholuer, uiv Parley man staled that the ouuipai.y wouicl be registered inuneuiacoly. On tiio motivui of SirG. Whitmore, second*).! "»>y Mi Renfrew, it was agreed that it be an iustructiun t<» the director* to prucuf.il ;if the earliest possible moment with the necessary operations toMppeu the iumv, and bring tho coal to Market in -/«K-h manner a» th«y might lind most dosir* ;■]■'. Subsequently the following gentkiiii <■<< were elected the Marlborough directors ? the company : — Sir George Whitiuow, Messrs E. Paul, J. Rayner, L. Wafcts, 0. Williama, A. G. Fell, A> G. Duncan, S. Swan wick, and A. Fisk. These gentlr:inen have the powor to appoint the six other directors to represent the sharehrlders outside Marlborwtigh.