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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1282, 8 June 1883, Page 2

Many of the Reefton business people have just been ■'had" by an American advertising agency in a way that must be awfully comforting to kindred agencies nearer at home. A few* weeks ago a dapper, fussy, talkative little man appeared in Keefton and commenced an active canvass for advertisements for a most wonderful American almanack. It would tell you exactly what day Sunday would fall on a hundred years hence; what day of the week tlie 4th of July would fall on in the year 1987 ; supply heaps of other important information of the same kind. It had already been patented in every country on the globe except Iceland and the arctic circle and was a 1 household word on all the uninhabited islands, in j&e..S,QuthJiea&--. As. a,, me.diu n* TSr^vertiSirTg it" r therefore ' -licked creation." It would be hung up everywhere and the eye of the whole universe I would be focußsed upon it. All this and I much more, for the indefatigable little agent talked at the rate of lOOlbs to the square inch. All the stock arguments of travelling advertising agents he had at his command and many more. The enormous fortunes amassed by Holloway, Cockle, and other colossal "pillionaires" were eloquently dilated upon. Of course advertisements rolled in in sheaves, those securing the biggest and most costly spaces resting satisfied they had done the best days work. Well, in the fullness of time this almanack of almanacks duly made its appearance, each advertiser receiving a bundle of them. But the tremendous accession of business which like a great tidal wave follows them everywhere hasn't set in yet, though its getting about over-due. The agent of course always keep3 pretty well ahead of the wave, and it is perhaps as well he does, for we should be sorry to see him swallowed up any way. In the meantime, however, in anticipation of the good time coming the recipients of the almanacks are anxious to get rid of some of them, which fact has had a rather depressing influence upon the wastepaper market. While Reefton has been swathed in a thick icy-cold fog during the past two days the residents of the Ajax Hill have been enjoying uninterrupted sunshine, the temperature there being more comparable to summer weather. As far as the experimental crushing of the Lankey's Creek Cement Company has gonej it has raised excellent hopes for the future of the undertaking. The> cement is easily obtainable, and the plan; of sluicing it down to the battery is found to act admirably. The contractors were bound under the terms of their agreement to keep the machinery going for twenty-four hours after the starting of the stampers, and this preliminary having now been fulfilled, possession of the plant will no doubt be taken by the company to-day, or to-morrow. The progress of the crushing is being watched with the deepest interest, not only by Shareholders in the Lankey's Creek' Company, but equally by the large number of persons interested in the adjoining cement leases, and tne payableess of this branch of industry once conclusively demonstrated, immediate steps will be taken to bring these areas into active work. At the annual meeting of the Licensing Committee for the district of Reefton, held on Tuesday last, the following renewals of Hotel licenses ln Reefton were granted without opposition : Angus Campbell, Southern Cross Hotel ; Hans Jacobsen, Club Hotel; William Beilby, i Buck's Head Hotel ; John McGaffin, | McGaffin's Hotel ; John Dawson, Dawson's Hotel ; W. Cochrane, Cochrane's Hotel. The following applications were opposed and adjourned for twenty-one days, in order to remove tlie cause of complaint : — Mary Enwright, Melbourne Hotel; Patrick M'Guire, 'Albion Hotel; Elizabeth Danks, Empire Hotel ; John Quigley, Quigley's Hotel ; Patrick Twohill, Twohill's Hotel; John M'Quillan, M'Quillan's Hotel; Walter Williams, Williams' Hotel ; Anthony Kater, Exchange Hotel and Hugh Duggan, City Hotel. The following accommodation licenses were granted :— Patrick M'Geady, Square Town, fee £10 ; George Batira, Little Grey, fee £10 ; James M'lnroe, Junction : Robert Wolfe, Left Hand Branch, fee £7 108 ; Arthur Breen, Grey Road, £10; John Gannon, Boatman's Track, fee £5. A wholesale license was granted to Robert Patterson. An application by Patrick Mona^han for transfer of the license of the Suburban Hotel from Robert Dash, to himself, was adjourned for a week on the application of the parties. The Committee subsequently sat at Black's Point, when the following applications were heard and adjourned for twenty-one days, to enable the applicants to provide necessary accommodation at their respective establishments : James Roxburgh, Crushington Hotel ; Norah Burleigh, Black's Point Hotel; J. C. Craig and N Ramsay. The application of Mr J. S. Fitch for renewal of license was granted. An accommodation license was granted to Mr M. Murray, Cement Town, fee £5. This concluded the business. Tho Orawaiti, thesecond screw-steamer built to the order of the Westport Coal Company, expressly for the local trade, arrived at Westport fcm Tuesday, the 22nd

ult. The new boat is under the charge of Captain James Alexander, and he brought her to her destination without mishap of any kind. The Orawaiti is almost a duplicate of the Kawatiri; the former's carrying capacity is three tons less than the sister-boat ; the cabin in the Orawaiti , is differently arranged — an additional room being provided. — W estport Times. The "Pall Mall Gazette" records a tale of horrible cruelty by a stepmother to a little girl, aged 11 years. The unfortunate little victim was clothed in rags, starved, and once left for three days and nights without any food whatever. Her body was covered with bruises and sores, both her eyes were blackened, and her toes were so injured that they would shortly have dropped off. Her stepmother had branded her on the back with a hot poker. She held her finger in a lamp to burn it, and put it in a door and squeezed it. She also dug a fork into her hand. The girl had a chilblain, and after hammering it with a hammer the stepmother put it into boiling water, and then covered it with salt and then with sugar. Every day before she dressed it she used to strike it with a piece of wood. She also hit the girl several times on the head with a cane. As a result of ''mental sympathy" caused by this ill-treatment, j^^gfa-L.bap^now. j_gnr ihSLIVf disease, and will probably die. According to the Mercury, whilst the Westmeath was at Hobart, twenty stowaways deserted. They were mostly firemen and sailors who were working their passages to Auckland at the customary wage of Is a month. Many of the emigrants by the Westmeath also tried to get ashore on the quiet. Few, however, succeeded in their desire, though it seems that a great number of them from the accounts that they had heard of the colony during their stay in port, had entertained a decided preference to Hobart over Auckland, where they were bound to. Some amusing tales are told of the ingenuity of some of the women who were desirous of leaving the Westmeath there. To their tender pleadings to stow them away in the coal tenders the crew turned a deaf ear. One girl implored a boatman very hard indeed to pull her through a port-hole and hide her in his craft.