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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1285, 15 June 1883, Page 2

Where the crow is, there is the carrion. The legal profession is to have another representative in Reefton shortly, in the person of Mr Harley, a young Nelsonian, who has just earned the right to don the long robe. The slip on the Black's Point track is still causing inconvenience to traffic. In the early part of the week, after the preceeding heavy rain, a large quantity of loose rubble slipped from the hill-side, and for several hours blocked wheel traffic. Travelling by night was also made very dangerous, owing to the stones coming down. The difficulty is one which it will be hard to get rid of. The tender of Martin Maher £172 10s has been accepted for the maintenance of the Black's Point road for the current twelve months. The following tenders were considered :— E. Reilly, £234 ; P. McGuire, L 22 5; D. Young, L 18 9; J. Connolly, L 176 and Martin Maher, L 172 10s. Mr Dargaville, M.H.R., in a recent address to his constituents said : — ''When the proposal was made to borrow the million >for the North Island railway, the inveitSHrHthe meantime. He (Mr Dargaville) pointed out that it could be deposited with the six Banks trading in the Colony, on the practice which obtains in New South Wales and Victoria. Exception was taken to this proposal, and he was told that it could not be done, and that he would not propose such a thing if he were not a tyro in politics, and so on. If that had been done, the money, which they have borrowed at four percent, could have been deposited at live or six per cent., making a profit on the money. New South Wales had done this recently, but when he proposed it he was poohpoohed. Almost the first commandment in the political decalogue of some New Zealand members was this : — ' Thou shalt have none other Bank but one.'