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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1216, 5 January 1883, Page 2

Mr. R. W. Raithby, at onetime battery manager for the Inangahua Crushing Company, and lately in charge of cho Just-in-Time battery, has been appointed amalgamator and battery manager for the United Victory Company, Lyell. Mr Raithby left for Lyell yesterday

morning,

Scratch matches at cricket will be played in Smith's paddock this and tomorrow afternoon. The wickets are to be pitched at four o'clock.

The regular meeting of the County Council was fixed for Wednesday evening last, but owing to the absence of a number of Councillors from Reefton, the meeting lapsed.

A meeting of the stewards of the races will be held this evening, for the purpose of passing accounts, and closing other business of the late meeting.

Our old friend, Dr T. S. Bulmer, formerly Medical Officer of the Reefton Hospital, and now Health Officer in charge of the Sanitary Station, at the port of Melbourne, has a work in the press on Variola. The concluding sheets of his work on Darwinism and Science and Religion have just reached us. The worthy doctor is a most prolific author, and he has already issued a large number of works on scientific subjects, the whole of which have been favourably reviewed both in the Colonies and at Home. Writing to a friend in Reefton, Dr Bulmer slyly remarks : — " Some of the papers are advising sending an artillery company here to the battery, and do quarantine duty when required. In case of war I shall then have hot work. It is rumored in that case I shall go on board the Cerberus and attend at the batteries. A nice termination to my life, after risking myself at Heefton for five years."

Although no generally recognised holidays intervene between now and St. Patrick's Day, it is understood that the Reefton cricketers will contrive to arrange a return match with Greymouth some time next month. Nothing definite has, however, yet been decided upon, but the general wish is to get the contest over before the season is too far advanced.

A man named Matthew Brown, who had been before the Court lately on three occasions charged with drunkenness, was again had up for the same offence yesterday, before G. C. Bowman, Esq., J.P., and was sentenced to fourteen day's imprisonment in the Reefton lock-up. Brown was very humble and very penitent, but it would'nt wash.

We understand that it is proposed to throw the property, known as the Lankey Creek Coal Mine, into a Joint Stock Company, the scheme to embrace the manufacture of gas for the supply of the town. The proposal is to lay a tramway from the pit to Reefton, by which means a great reduction can be made in the price of coals. The undertaking is well spoken of, and the promoters are confident of being able to float the concern.

Mr Gilbert, dentist, arrived by coach last evening, and may be consulted in the premises adjoining Mr Cohen's stationery establishment, Broadway,

The Greytnouth coach arrived at the usual time yesterday afternoon, but much to the disappointment of everybody brought no mail. The inconvenience and annoyance thus occasioned have been heightened by the fact that the public ' were led to believe there would be a daily mail so long as the coach ran daily, and business correspondence was regulated on that understanding, and now without the slightest warning, the arrangement has been broken up. What possible reason there can be for withholding the mail we are at a loss to understand, the mail contractors being willing to perform the extra service gratuitously. The daily service has proved of immense public convenience, and in the present state of business it would be a great loss to the community to discontinue it. We trust, therefore, that the postal authorities will have some little regard for public convenience, and not sacrifice it to this reddest piece of red tape that was ever evolved from the official mind. The Australian Central Committee of the Irish Land League are in receipt of a that Mr J. E. Redmond, who represents New Ross in the House of Commons, had . been deputed to proceed to Australia to further the objects of the new national organisation that has recently been founded in Dublin. The telegram states that Mr Redmond was to take his departure by the Indus. The platform I which Mr Redmond is to advocate in the ! Colonies embraces the following heads :— National self-government, land law reform, local self-government, extension of the parliamentary and municipal franchises, and the development and encouragement of the labour and industrial interests of Ireland. He will also urge *the assimilation of the Irish franchise to that of England, and the adoption of the English system in the registration of voters. The cardinal principle of the campaign, however, is stated in the following words : — " The restitution to the Irish people of the right to manage their own affairs in a Parliament elected by the people of Ireland." Mr Redmond, it is understood, "will visit all the principal centres in the Colonies.