The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1288, 22 June 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1883.

The Half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Eureka Company, will be held this evening at Mr Hindmarsh's Office.

Mr G. 0. Bowman has been appointed legal manager of the Golden Treasure Gold Mining Company.

We are glad to learn that Mr G. W. Moss, the well-known sharebroker, of Greymouth, has decided to establish a branch business in Reofton, in the course of a few days.

Tenders are elsewhere invited by^he Inangahua Low Level Tunnel Company for driving 25Qft of main level. Specifications to be seen at the office of the

manager. At the annual meeting of the Masonic brethren held on Tuesday evening last, Mr D. L. Cochrane was elected Worshipful Master of the Lodge for the ensuing twelve months. It is, we believe, the intention of the brethren to commemorate the installation by a ball, to be held at an early date. , „

A special meeting of directors of the Inangahua Low Level Tunnel Company was held at Mr Wise's office on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose of signing the agreement with the Government in regard to subsidy and haulage rates. The Government agree to pay £ for £ subsidy up to £2250, on the progress of the work. These preliminaries having been arranged *he way is clear for the company to resume work.

It was recently stated that the cost of furnishing a rock-lJorer and air compressor for the Inangahua Low Level Tunnel Co. would reach tobetween £2,000 and £3,000. This was a mistake. The cost of the plant, inclusive of I,oooft. of piping, would not exceed about LI, 200. Mr J. Trennery, as agent for the Messrs Naylor & Co., of Victoria, has offered to furnish the Government with a plant of the kind, exclusive of piping, for the sum of L 1,050. The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Golden Treasure Gold Mining Company, Limited, was held on Monday last. The report and balance-sheet were read . and adopted and the following gentlemen were elected directors for the current half-year :— Messrs C. Macquarie, J. B. Beeche, D. Young, D. P. Anderson, all of Reefton, and Mr Wm. Watson, of Dunedin. Messrs F. Smith and J M'Sherrywere elected auditors. Mr G. C. Bowman was appointed legal manager. A deputation of sharebrokers, and leaseholders waited upon Mr Warden Revell on Saturday evening last for the purpose of bringing-under his notice the hardship occasioned by the existing regulations in regard to the taking up of occupation certificates and execution of lease. It' was represented that within a short time after applications for mining areas were recommended by 'the Warden the certificate, of occupation .came down, and uuless these were taken up by the applicants and rents paid after short notice, the certificates were sent back to Wellington with a recommendation that the leases 1 should be cancelled. It was pointed out the shareholders in the leases were scattered 1 abbut the Colony, and it often happened that contributions could not be collected from them in time to comply with the regulations, and as local holders were not at all times prepared to assume the sole responsibility of acting, leases were often forced into cancellation unnecessarily. It' was inorever represented that in times of. depression the rates should be relaxed to some extent, as by this means much land would remain in occupation. After hearing the deputation at some length Mr Warden Revell requested those present to commit their request to writing, and promised to consider it, and then forward it on to the Mine's Department to be dealt with there. The deputation agreed to this course and having thanked the Warden, withdrew. Steps are about to be taken, on the advice of Professor Hutton, to introduce into the Canterbury rivors a Tasmanian crayfish, sometimes attaining a weight of 71b or 81b. , -.<'■■

New Zealand should take 'warning, Terrible stories are told by a correspon : dent of the San Francisco "Chronicle" of the spread of leprosy in the Hawaiian islands. There is almost a panic on these islands, and bo malignant is the disease tha|al healthy person' will contract it from clothes washed by a' person afflicted. There is no cure for leprosy. -

The most forcible expression of into erance was uttered a short time ago by a Scotclj clergyman of the Free -Kirk, who referring to the introduction of an organ into the. neighboring Established Church, declared that "soon they would get a concert in the old Kirk. The devil would have his bandmaster there to discourse music to them on the organ, - and the captain, like, the cursed pirate, would hoist hia false colors to lure soula to destruction?"

The people of Belfast, Ireland, have already gone mad over the pure Greek fßce» with its ariatically arched brow, the .classically pillared throat, and exquisite complexion of a young Irish girl, born in Blackrock, County Cork, a worker in

Carter's mills, in the city of fine linen. She is described as eclipsing auy female which the British Isles or Ireland have produced in all the elements of surpassing loveliness. So great are the crowds that surround the mills to see her that , the proprietors allow her to depart a half hbur before the other operatives in order to get rid of the polite mob. Lately/she visited a Bhoe shop on North Street, Balfast, kept by one Maginnia, and was followed by several hundred people. The crowd increased to such an extent that policemen were called in requisition, and the besieged beauty was compelled to beat a retreat through a rear door. Ireland gave birth to the three Sheridan sisters, called the Three Graces, in consequence of their extreme beauty, and here is a Hebe who seetns to eclipse all.