PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1266, 2 May 1883, Page 2

PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1883.

Recently we had occasion to refer in no hesitating terms to a published telegram from Mr. E. Shaw in reference to the affairs of the Inangahua Low Level Tunnel Company. The telegram did not appear in this journal, , but having been published, its contents were, of course, public property, and as such courted public comment. The grave impropriety of publishing such a communication, or allowing it to be published, was one of the very things we most strongly condemned. The company obviously could gain nothing by the publication of the telegram, and what then was the aim of laying its glowing contents before the public? The object, to our mind, was palpable enough, and was simply to unduly favor Mr. Shaw's candidature as against Mr. Wakefield. We do not pretend to say whether the directors of the company were or were not privy to this proceeding, but sufficient for our purpose that such was the effect, and regarding the whole thing as a most unwarrantable, if not positively unlawful, attempt to interfere with the liberty and purity of election, we took the very first opportunity of denouncing it. This, then, is the view we took of the matter at the first blush, and we see no reason to alter it now. We bave no desire whatever to m any way prejudice the interests of the company. Few people in the community are more largely interested, both directly and indirectly, in its success than we are ourselves, but we are not, for all this, prepared to allow its interest to stand in the way of a fair light between the candidates, and we do not think there are many shareholders who would. We believe that the company has a perfectly valid and indisputable claim upon the Government for subsidy, and, believing this, Aye see no sufficient reason why its payment should be hampcrr-a even mfarentially with such a condition as the return of Mr. Shaw.

Mr Wakefield telegraphed from Spring- ! Held last night that heavy floods prevailed ' there, but the coach would be able to resume tho journey to the Cass this morning. The list of subscribers to the Hall Relief Fund is unavoidably held over till Friday next. . Masses will be celebrated on Thursday next (Ascension Day) in the Catholic Chapel, I'eoffcon, at 9 a.m. ; and. at Boatman's, at 11*15 a.m. Mr. Warden Eevell reached Reef ton on Saturday last, and tho sittings of the Warden's Court opened on Monday morning, The whole of yesterday was occupied with civil business in the Magistrate's Court, and tho sitting will be continued to-day. The case of Lee v. Roulaton, which was a claim for £54 Is lOd, being balance alleged to be due on Bbare transactionsextending over a considerable period, occupied the Court for several hours yesterday, and resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for £2 103 and costs Interest over the approaching election seems to be gradually warming up to concert pitch. It is said that on a recent occasion a party of rival supporters met, and were discussing the merits and demerits of the respective candidates, when from arguments they caino to blows, and finally skin and hair was flying about in all directions. The Waketielders, we believe, claim the victory, their forces retiring from the battle-field in good order. Mr. Hindmarsh, legal manager of the Globe Company, on Saturday last received a telegram from Kincaid, M 'Queen and Co., foundrymen, Dunedin, stating that the first portion of the company's crushing plant and serial tramway had that day been shipped for Greymouth, and that the further portion would leave on Tuesday, Ist May. The arrival of the machinery in the ( : rey may therefore be looked for in tho course of ten days or a fortnight. We may remark that the works in the mine are all well advanced, and the utmost activity is manifest on all sides.