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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1267, 4 May 1883, Page 2

The nomination of candidates for the representation of Inangahua in the House of Assembly will take place at the Uourt House, Reefton, at noon on Monday next. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Messrs Bowman and Potts, J.P's., Richard Lee was remanded for eight days on a charge of wrongfully detaining partnership moneys. Defendant was admitted to bail, himself in £100, and two sureties of £50 each. Mr VV. A. Price's Happy Moments Combination will give an opening entertainment in the Oddfellow's Hall to-mor-row night, and on Saturday afternoon there will be a matinee for children. The entertainment is highly spoken of. Mr E. Wakefield reached Greymouth yesterday afternoon and was met by a number of his Reefton and Grey Valley supporters. This evening he will address the electors of Taylorville and Brunnerton. Mr Wakefield will be in Reefton on the day of nomination. General complaints are made of the want of a horse bridge over the Left-hand-Branch on the track to Boatmans. It is many months since it was decided by the County Council to remove the suspension bridge from Reefton to the locality in question, but nothing has yet been done in the matter, and the approach of the wet season revives the question. Good accounts continue to reach us from Mr Wakefield's committees in the Grey Valley and everywhere his supporters are most confident of success. The arrival of Mr Wakefield seem 3 to have awakened fresh enthusiasm on his behalf, and his friends are going to work with great energy. In alluding to the absurdly lavish promises which Mr Shaw has made to tho

Inangahua electors, the Marlborough | Times appropriately remarks, that "Mr Shaw evidently understands the J art of electioneering," we should rather think so, but the electors of Inangahua understand , Mr , Shaw, and this is where the laugh comes in. A meeting of the Rcefton Railway League was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening last, the County Chairman presiding. There were present Messrs Brennan, Beeche, Oxley, Hindmarsh, Campbell, Connolly, King, Lee, Collings, Byrne and the secretary. The secretary reported that he had received notice, from the Commissioners they would be in Reefton about the 11th May. On the motion of Mr J. B. Beeche a subcommittee was appointed to receive the Commissioners on arrival and to arrange for the necessary evidence to be tendered, such sub-committee to consist of Messrs Brennan, Connolly, Campbell, Oxley, Hindmarsh, and the secretary. The meeting then adjourned. The first prosecution under the Stamp Act was heard at the Magistrate's Court on Monday last, when John Gilmer, farmer, of Pern Flat, was charged with giving a receipt for £20 13s. without affixing a stamp thereto. The defendant admitted the charge, but pleaded in extenuation that he lived five miles from town, and no stamp was procurable without coming to Reefton. His Worship, in the course of his judgment, remarked that this was I the first- information of the kind laid in the districjb, and he trusted it would act as a warning. It was ho excuse to say that the parties had no stamps at the time of the transaction. The Uw required that stamps should be affixed to make receipts legal, and that requirement must be complied with. In this case he would dismiss the information, and order defendant to pay 7s. and costs The Westport Times says that the construction of a further portion of the harbor works, according to Sir John Coode's plan, will be commenced at an early date. A full-weight training wall i3to be erected commencing from the Nelson street groin and joining the" present, half-tide wall, which, in course of time, ' will also, jbe, above full-tide height. The Buller News of a recent date contains the following sensible paragraph : — There are in every community certain sneaking people who are the bane of newspaper editors. ' These are constantly trying to obtain insertion for letters or paragraphs containing some dirty insinuations against others, but bo wrapped up that they hope it will escape, in the hurry of setting up a daily paper, the editorial eye. I hey are hardly removed from those pests of society, the anonymous private letter writers, of which there are a few in this town. To these latter no punishment can be too severe, for their villany is generally partially, successful.They not only wound the feelings of the party they address, but they destroy the confidence of society, in causing innocent people to be suspected of their own miserable cowardly, crime. The writer of a threatening letter, how base is he or she, for unfortunately women are the chief sinners, who d&turb households with lying anonymous; letters, se nt not for the purpose of friendship or timely warning, but to gratify the meanest revenge. Public punishment is not often meted out to these, because of the pain given in so doing to innocent ones, but private punishment can be given them, and occasionally is given in as severe a fashion as the most public expiation could do. We cannot follow the example of the Empress Catherine, who had a young and beautiful libeller publicly knputed and deprived of her tongue, but we can take less horrid but no les3 effectual penalties for these detestable social crimes.