The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1193, 10 November 1882, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1882.

Yesterday was generally observe .l as a holiday in town, business being .almost entirely suspended. The cricket match was well attended, and proved a very exciting contest. We ore compelled to hold />ver our report of the match. The following telegraphic items reached jis last night : — A. E. Tennant, clerk in 4-lie stamp office, Hokitika, has beon arrested for embezzling £59 in stamps and money. — An eclipse of the sun occurs on to-morrow, and will be observed as a partial eclipse. The moon will enter on the »uns disc about 942 a.m. The middle of the eclipse wjll be about 11 22, and the last contact at noon. — The race for the Canterbury Cup resulted in a complete boil over, Cheviot, the favorite, only i securing second place to Sir Mo 1 veil, Vanguard being third. The race wna run i in a pelting rain. I We publish elsewhere the pnv.M;,;ii ,..i >, > f«f to night's concert in aid of the ]•■■■ ' : fund*, and trust to see a bumpc. ■.. .ts :. . «m the occasion. In addition t<> £h>; per- j fortnance by the Austrian ' Band, several local amateurs will play instrumental B<>loS I am sorry to say (writes tlic London /correspondent of the ryus) tliat my fciftnds the Salvationists have bt^un 1o (mwrol about watshea. JivA a.3 it is nut, j

Jawfol for gny officer in the Queen's *ervice to accept titles of honor without her leave, so General Bpoth does not allow <" testimonials " to be offered to his officers. Three of them., however, have had gold watche* given to them by grateful audiences, in acknowledgment of their distinguished "services," and they won't give them up. They have not gone the length of saying the length of saying they will see the General at Jericho (or father) grst. but they have stuck to their watches. "Very good," says the General ;" you are for Time, lam for Eternity." Re has not put it in those words, because he is not a humorist, but such are his sentiments ; and in the meantime the watchkeepers have organised an opposition ''campaign." The call for an electrical sheep- shearer made by a New Zealand correspondent in the columns of the Scientific * ineriean some months ago, his apparently brought forth fruit in an unexpected quarter. The head of the Hudson's Bay Fur Company of England is S.ir Curtis Lampson, by birth a Vermonter. It is now announced that he applied electricity to the trimming of sealskins. The skin is " fed " over a knife-edge bar above which is stretched on a fine platinum wire, which, raised to a white heat by an electric current, meets the longer hairs which rise above the under-fur, and mows them down. : conony is wealth. It takes a child six or seven years to learn to read and spell intelligently. But an English gentlemen says his little boy of four years will read any phonetic book without the {Tightest hesitation, not even baulking at the hard names in the Bible. :I is father taught him to read after this method in eight hours. Another gentlemen says he has taught poor children in Glasgow to read ,the Sermon on the Mount phonetically in the course of six hours' study. Time is money. The following curious 'Government Orders " were issued in the early days of New South Wales : — " Government House, Sydney, April 14, 1801. -The regiment to be under arms on Monday next, the 19th inst., at half, past nine in the morning, to attend the execution of John Boatswain, private soldier in the New South Wales corps, sentenced to die by Court-Martial, for desertion." A.pril 19, 1801 : Raining in torrents. The .execution of the prisoner, as directed in the the order of the 14th inst., on account of the inclemency of the weather, is deferred until to-morrow, 20th inst." "April 20th : Still raining in torrents. Execution still further deferred." "April 25 j Favourable circumstances having been reported, the Governor of the settlement is pleased to extend a reprieve and grant a free pardon to the prisoner, John Boatswain, sentenced to death for the unsoldierlike crime of desertion ; but the Governor trusts that the awful position in which the wretched man was placed will deter others from following his example. God save the_ King." The Sydney. Bulletin says of the recent football campaign in this colony : — " ' >ur foot- bailers have been but fairly successful in New Zealand. The team was weak as representative of the New South Wales ugby play, but still the ' ew Zealanders have in some instances shown themselves to be worthy to cope with a much more formidable lot. If, as it is mooted, New Zealand sends a team next season to Sydney, and the players are at all up to the New Zealand strength', our clubs will have to lower their colours to thorn, and it will take the champion team all its time to find a passage to the Maori gaol-poats. The recent tour puts the New South Wai os plap behind New Zealand, as far as the Ru/iiy game is concerned." The "Man at the corner " in the Taranaki News says : — I get some queer sauir pies of penmanship at times from correspondents, bui I must give the palm to a correspondent who hails from Yvaitara. I have spnnt many odd minutes, nay hours iv attempting to decider his letter, but without any good result. His writing reminds m<j of an American yarn, which relatives thftt a Governor official wrote such a wrigrJy sort of hand that one ingenious fellow conceived the idea of baiting his fish line with a few words from the official' letter, and that the fish thinking it a new sort of worm, made such desperate attempte to secure a taste that the man's arm aclird with the exertion of pvlling them out. If any ambitions fisherman wants to try a bait of that kind I can supply him. Blood is thicker than water, says the Home Njws. When the foreign ships steamen out of Alexandria Harbour to leave the coast clear for the impending action of the English fleet, the Americans played " God save the Queen," while the others passed in silence. When the fight was over, and the British required as3iatence to restore or.ler, the American marines were the first to land to help them.