The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1883

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1218, 10 January 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1883

The Union Shipping Company's Pocket Guide for the month of January, may be seen at the office of this paper.

A private letter has been received by a resident in Reefton stating that Mr Milner Stephen will visit the Inangahua early in February.

A summons meeting of the members of the Manchester Unity order of Oddfellows will be held at the lodge room, this evening, when all the brethren are requested to be present to consider business of importance.

Collectors to the Ralph Hall Relief Fund are requested to forward their lists and contributions as early as possible, to the hon. treasurer, Mr J. B Beeche, as the committee desire to.close the fund at an early date.

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Welcome Company was fixed for Saturday last, but a quorum not being present at the appointed time the meeting lapsed, and consequently the old directory continue in office.

In order to meet the increase of Court business at Reefton, in future the Warden's and R.M. Courts will be held on separate days. The opening day of the Court will be devoted to Warden's cases, and the R.M. business will be taken on the following day.

The mail coach arrived on Monday evening last, bringing a full complement of passengers, amongst the number being Mr Thornton C.E, and surveyor, of Christchurch, who, we understand, intends to establish himself in practice at Reefton. Mr Thornton was for many years Provincial Engineer of Canterbury.

Great complaints are made by travellers on the overland route between Reefton and Nelson of the wretched hotel accommodation at the different stopping places on the route. So indignant indeed, are the protests on this head, that unless some improvement is at once made traffic will be driven seaward. We trust this hint will not be overlooked by those directly interested.

Broadway was made lively on Monday afternoon by a miner from Boatman's, who had evidently imbibed too much colonial whiskey. In attempting to ride a horse through the street, he came to mother earth and was at once taken charge of by a policeman, but the guardian in blue was unable to get the man along. In a few moments the stalwart frame of Constable M'Manus was to be seen hurrying up from the police station, and with little ado, he tucked the inebriate under his arm, and hurried him to the

lock-up.

The Hampden people like ourselves, had bad weather for their races, which were run on Boxing Day. The following is the result of the races : — Trial Stakes, lOsovs., weight for age Jone's Bonny Doon, Bst 9ft, 1 j Wadsworth's Syringa 9st 4ft, 2; Wain's Comet, Bst 4ft, 3. Buller Plate, 20sovs., 2 miles, Syringa, Bst 10ft, 1 ; Wain's Rustic, lOst, 2 ; Bonny Doon, lOst 4ft, 3. Hack Race, ssovs., 1 mile. May's Modridro, 1. Hurdle Race, lOsovs., 1\ miles. Jone's Peter, 9stlOft>, 1 ; Moonlight's Warden, 9st 10ft, 2. Goldfields Handicap, 15sovs., 1\ miles. Moonlight's Dandy, Bst 4ft, 1 ; Wain's Comet, 7st, 2 ; Lingford's Tommy, Bs, 3. Forced Handicap, 15sovs., 1£ miles. Syringa, Bst 10ft, 1 ; Rustic, 9st, 2 ; Bonny Doon, Bst 10ft, 3. It is intended by the people of Hampden and Upper Buller to form a permanent Jockey Club.

A resident of Boatman's was charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday with being drunk while in charge of a horse, and pleading guilty was found 20s, which ia the lowest penalty allowed by the new Justice of the Peace Act. The same defendant was further charged with assaulting the police in the execution of their duty, but as the offence was not shown to be of a very aggravated character and the police did not press the charge, he was fined in the sum of 20s. Two other charges of drunkennes and insulting behaviour agahißt the defendant, being regarded as emergent from the former

ones, were viewed leniently, and the sum of 5s only inflicted in each case. In default of the payment of any one of the tines, 24 hours imprisonment. The Court then adjourned.

In the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday a man named Thomas White was brought up upon an information charging him with using threatening language in a publicfplace at Black's Point, towards Mr J. Kilgour. It seems that Mr Kilgour paid the man's fare up from Greymouth and gave him employment at the foundry, but yesterday morning 0 on going to the foundry yard the man was not there, but shortly afterwards came to work in a state of liquor. He was ordered off the works but instead of going became very violent and seized first a billet of wood and then a chissel and with those threatened to take Mr Kilgour's life. The threats as well as the hostile demonstrations were admitted, and defendant was tined £5, and costs, or in default of payment 28 days imprisonment with hard labor in Reefton Gaol. Defendant was further ordered to enter into his own recognizances for £50 to keep the peace toward complaint for the space of six months. Messrs Wise and Potts J.Ps., presided.

The proprietors of the Roslyn Woollen Mills (Messrs Ross and Glendinning) are thoroughly satisfied with the electric light, which they have been using for some months. The work in the mills goes on continually all night long, and the light has been thoroughly tested. The cost is much less than gas, and the steam motive power used for the spinning machines, is also used to generate the electricity.

To shear 154 sheep (says the Wanganui Chronicle of a recent date) in nine hours is a notable feat, and one which to very many persons will seem quite incredible. Yet we are informed that this was done at Messrs Moore and Curries Bushy Park run, by George Brough, who learnt his shearing in Canterbury, and is well-known as one of the quickest and neatest wielders of the shears in the Wanganui district.

In a paper read by Mr Frank Stuart recently before a meeting of delegates of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, he said that he believed that if they imported 30,000 immigrants next year they would not be able to keep the half of them. In the decenniad between 1871 and 1881, they sent by sea to ffew South Wales, Queensland, and South and West Australia, 19,000 more people than they received from them, and these were nearly all young and enterprising men, many of them with considerable capital.

We take the following items from the Lyell Times of the Gth instant :— There has been but very little doing in mining matters during the past fortnight, owing to the holidays, but most of the claims are now again fully manned, and by next week will all be in full swing. Mr R. W. Raithby, the newly appointed battery manager to the United Victory Company, has arrived and taken charge. He will subject the battery to a thorough overhaul, which will occupy about a week or so that crushing will scarcely be resumed until about the loth instant. The Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts will sit on Friday next, at 10 a.m. The sittings have been arranged for the current year so that His Worship will visit Lyell about once in every three weeks, instead of monthly as heretofore. Courts will be held at Hampden on Wednesday next, and will in future be held monthly. Hitherto the Warden only visited the Hampden district once in every two months, so that the new arrangement will be hailed with much satisfaction by the miners in the Upper Matakitaki and Central Buller districts. On Thursday evening next at 6.30 a tea meeting in aid of the Church of England building fund will be held in the Schoolroom. The ladies are busily engaged preparing for the occasion, and there promises to be no lack of comestibles. After the tables have been cleared, the Rev. Mr Sedgwick and others will address the meeting, and several ladies and gentlemen will render songs, so that altogether a really enjoyable evening is in store for those who may attend.