The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRY-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1882.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1198, 22 November 1882, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRY-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1882.

Mr Browning, Chief Surveyor, left for Westport yesterday morning en route for Nelson. Mr Browning will re-visit the Inangahua about the end of the present year. A beautiful Aurora Australis was visible in the southern sky at about 9 o'clock on Monday evening and lasted for nearly two hours, its greatest brilliancy being at about 9.40., the instruments at the local telegraph office indicated a strong magnetic disturbance, nearly the whole of the lines being unworkable, Throughout yesterday the phenomenacontinued and- the work of the office was in consequence much impeded. We understand that Mr John M'Gaffin of M'Gaflin's Hotel, Broadway, contemplates making very extensive additions to his establishment, and excavations to this ] end are now being made. The premises will be carried back the full width to the right-of-way at the rear, and amongst the improvements designed will be a splendid Exchange room, fitted up and finished after the style of Heffernan's Hotel, Sandhurst. Mr M'Gaffin's friends will bo worry to learn that he has been very unwell of late, and for nearly a fortnight i past has been confined to bed. A change ' for the better is, however, reported, and the genial host will be shortly able to retium© active duties. The adjourned meeting of mine managers, which had been initiated for the purpose of framing and adopting a uniform code of special rules in conformity with the Mines Act, 1874, was held at Campbell's Southern Cross Hotel, on Saturday last. — There were present Mr John Trennery, of the Golden Fleece Co. (Chairman), Messrs A. M'Kay, (Goldeu Treasure), Jas. M'Callum, (Energetic), H. Currie, (Firey Cross Co.), John Trelaw, (Nil Desperandum), John Lawn, (Just-In-Time), F. Rooney, (Welcome), E. FitzMaurice, (Keep-It-Dark), Thos. Wateon, (Wealth of Nations), James Adams, (Globe). Apologies were received from others, who owing to other business engagements, could not attend. Mr G. Binns, the Inspector of Mines, under whose instruction the rules had been framed, was present by invitation, and rendered very valuable and material assistance by explaining various matters relating to the business of the meeting, and by pointing out the bearing of the Act upon points of discussion, which arose during the meeting. The draft of special rules was feSa,""Sirid after having been slightly altered and amended was unanimously adopted. A sub-committee, consisting of the Chairman, with Messrs Watson, and M'Kay, was appointed to revise the proposed re-written rules, and to attend to other matters in connection with bringing the rules into operation. This committee will meet on Wednesday evening, 22nd inst, and report to a general meeting of mine managers on Saturday 25th inst., at the same hour and place. A very cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr Binns, for his courtesy in attending, and for the very clear and lucid manner in which he had explained matters relating to the working of mines, which had been brought under the operation of the \ct. ..Mr Binns in reply said that it had always afforded him great pleasure to visit the district, where he had invariably met with the most earnest co-operation and assistance from the mine managers. As it Lwas compulsory under this Act for each wbmpany to adopt special rules, and alp|jiough each company might frame their Own, he was glad to find that unanimity existed. The advantages of uniform rules )in this field, where the similarity of country left but'tyttle room for variation in the mode of operijtipn, were many and to immunity .Irjjni complicatiojK^m^the number, •a^ft^l^l^he Act and peac^tringe^iti - fhey wojßalfiH&hat by Btript iiaiierence to tl^pipv^^^^thoth. jjec^eats^ mines w^ld/;' &c r^m^«;to a ifo'ssySTe minunum/ A/-: ve#e % thinfe to we s j^airA tef&in&fcejjr thsj. bqpiess. T3ie^neetf|^wa£Njt(en j^fftir^ld till .Saturday n|pL |p>' " -To-night <|^|%|^^|^deHvered in th(e^dfeUowslaad|^grTl. Clapcott, of the Gc^grnment Insurance Department. Lectures %ft this subject are not usually very j"nserestW, but Mr Clapcott does not btfrden A his**sjg|narks with a mass of dr^AjßS. du«^4fttai!^fcut touches lightly up^ri-tiie mainprincipmtof life Insurance only, and ipr thet^w* enqtewurs to afford his Inptement as >*ell asinifrucra^ It is notified that adlj^ioiijja^ee, aflwadies are particularly •■^Hotdays, bulrajbftres and a scarcity of w^rvgge the olnal concomitants of '^flonWw&Mpers, and Reeftonisjustnow }$&sss&*& these evils in an aggrat^Jfjp^P^Pp- On Friday last the therfcra|jßj||MSfcat Mr Bowman's residence |mmuPrl 110 degrees in the sun.' and snHjWren it has ranged from 95 to 105, Iresterday attaining the record jcl 108°. iFor several days past Peefton has been surrounded by bush fires, and the townspeople have been compelled to consume a large portion ofcthe smoke. The inconveniences of the day are, however, more than compensated for by the delightful, evenings and nights. The want of water is, however, beginning to be felt seriously all over the town, and the evils which have been so long predicted to arise froira this cause, are in a fair way of being Tealiaed.

A meeting of the Lankey Creak (Reef- ; ] ton) Gold Mining Company shareholders ; ] was held in Dunedin on Friday last, at j which, after reading the reports from the | Beef ton directors, as demanded at a fur- 1 iuer meeting, a resolution was carried ( that the reports were very satisfactory, and that had they been sent earlier there would have been no necessity for the resolution passed at the previous meeting. At the last meeting of the Warden's Court here Mr ftevell took occasion to refer to a paragraph which appeared in a local paper in reference to the order of business of the Court. He said that it had always been his custom to take the unopposed applications in the Warden's Court first, so as to enable miners requiring registrations to obtain them on the ssiuie day and return homo. or tho same reason undefended cases in the Magistrate's Court were next in order, and after them contested cases, or those in which counsel were employed, and some years' experience had satisfied him that this was the moat convenient course totake. He (the Warden) was the best judge of the order of business and ho did not think there was any wish on the part of public that an alteration should Ibe made. For our own part we think the paragraph in question was quite uncalled for. The practice of dealing with unopposed applications, and E.M. cases firstin order and so allowing the persons interested to close their !)usiue?B in a few minutes, in&tuad of hanging about the Court for perhaps a whole day, seems to us to raise no possible complaint. There is an old Rrlftf/e about teaching one's grand-mother to suck egga, and it seems to us that it might in this case be very appropriately applied to the writer of the paragraph in question. The directors of the Lankey Creek Company visited the mine yoetorday, with the legal manager, Mr V". liincltnarsh, and express themsolvoi >vs wa'l 1 satisfied with the progress btsinu; ma !•'. with the various works. Tho whole of the machinery is now on the ground, with uhe exception of the boiler, which is expected to be delivered on the site during the week, when every effort will be made to get the plant in working order at the earliest possible date. During last season it is stated that more than seven billion feet of timber were cut in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. The quantity of timber now standing in these three States, according to the latest reports, is 81,500,000,000 feet. Tho supply, at the present rate of destruction, will not last more than 12 years. A match wis played recently at Btonhoiin between representatives of the Marlborough and Nelson Lawn Tennis Clubs. Messrs A. P. Seymour (late Chairman of Committees) and P. G. Douslin played for Blenheim, and Messrs G. C. Kaikes and J. Sharp, junior, for Nelson. The match was won easily by the .Nelson Club by three sets against nothing ; the games being 6 to 3 in the first set, six to four in the second, and six to one in the third. Another match between the same players was to take place subsequently, but we have not yet heard the result. With the view of lending additional credit to a charge of drunkenness brought against the jury in the Hynes case, the * Freeman Journal ' publishes a list of the beverages consumed by them. ( Tho night before finding their verdict" — which means of course between the rising of the Court in the afternoon and the rising of the Jury the next morning — ' they had eight pints of ale or stout, one bottle of sherry, three bottles of claret, six glasses of gin, one half-glass of brandy and thirty five and a-half glasses of whisky. Four of the twelve jurymen were abstainers ; champagne was divided between two, and others took no whisky. ' An important development of the Debating Society movement is under serious consideration in Dunedin, the project being no less, according to a local paper, than the formation of an amatuer Parliament, by which the government, is to be conducted (strictly in the imagination of the members). The success of similar schemes in England has doubtless inspired emulation in this direction, but for the j formation and conduct of such a club . exist here. The idea is only at present under discussion, but already there would seem to be a trifle too many aspirants for portfolios, and quite an army corps of would be Premiers, all of unquestioned administrative ability. If such an institution is started in Dunedin it is to be hoped that it may exhibit the decorum and loftiness of tone that characterises the deliberations of the Hackney Parliament. This latter is by far the most distinguished of these asssemblies in the Old Country, and has only recently been immortalised in the columns of a leading London journal. This, however, was on the occasion of an em.cute startling and quite unparalled in the records of the House, which all but terminated in a Ministerial crisis. The night, we are informed, was wet, and First Lord of the Treasury entering hurriedly, deposited his dripping umbrella in unpleasant vicinity to the neck of the President of the Board of Trade. The latter occupied the floor at the earliest possible moment and a most acrimonious debate followed upon a "personal matter" which afforded an outlet for the secretly-nursed animosities of a whole Bession.