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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1299, 19 September 1883, Page 2

It is understood that the County Chairman has been fairly successful in his interview ffflfti the Government re liianganua Comity matters. Mr Brennan is expected to return to Reefton ea^ly next woek. ■ •■?..

We publish in another column a reply forwarded by the local directors of the Lankey'a Creek Company* to the belligerent shareholders in Dunedin. It is thought that by about Thursday or Friday next, the Globe Company's tramway will be quite outof hand, and !in full operation. Stone is still being sent down, but it is not considered advisable to run the trucks at top speed until the alterations now in progress are completed. There is a fair show of gold in the quartz now arriving at the battery. Mr F. Pitt, who succeeds Mr. King as teller at the National Bank here, reached Reefton on Monday evening. Mr King leaves for i'okitika to-morrow morning. Tenders are invited for the purchase of the Rainbow Hotel, situate at the corner of Smith-street and the Buller road, Reeftori. The house is doing a good business and being the only hotel in that part nf i the town, has an extensive and established connection. Another of the hardy pioneers of the West Coast has gone to bis rest. Mr i John Hennelly who died suddenly on Friday last, at Auckland, was amongst the first explorers of the West Coast, and at Okarifo, Charleston and elsewhere his name is associated with the earliest gold | discoveries. He was for many years in business at Charleston. The proposal to prospect the bed of the Inaogahuu river for alluvial gold is likely to take definite shape The originators of tlie project are Messrs Han kin and Palmer, who yesterday made an inspection of the river bed with a view of deciding upon the nature of the works to be undertaken At the part of the river course selected the shingle is- not more than from two to ( th»-ee feet deep and lies upen the bed-rock. The intention is to tirst of all sink through the shingle and should the prospects off the bottom be sufficiently encouraging sluicing operations upon a largo scale will be resorted to. As the whole of the tributary streams and gullies emptying into the Inangahua*for mile 3up on either side are gold-bearing, and some of them i exceedingly rich, it is fair to suppose that the maiu stream must be alao. At all events, the trial will not be expensive, and is worthy of the effort A good deal has been said and written as to the rigour of the climate of the Inaugahua, but the fact that grapes can be cultivated to great perfection here would go to show, than although so to speak cradled iv snow during a great part of the year, extremes of temperature are by no means the rale in Reefton. L ast year the grape crop of the Inangahua, although only the result of amateur effort, was considerable, and the quality quite up to the imported fruit. This satisfactory result has stimulated vine planting very much, and this year special attention is being given to the subject all over the district. People abroad will have to give over re- ; garding the climate of the West Coast as I the synonym for everything that is bleak, and wre'ched. ' A- Wellington correspondent of the "Rangitikei Advocate writes :— " There i has been a serious disagreement between ! Sir George Grey and Mr Sheehan. The latter gentleman having stated that Sir George's hands were not clean in the matter of Native lands, Sir George met him outside the House, aud used some excessively pointed language expressive of his indignation. In vain Mr Sheehan tried to pour oil on the troubled waters, and offered to apologise in the House, but Sir George would not be pacified, and so the matter stands at present." Mr Sheehan's statement was that Sir George Grey, while Governor, could have effectually stopped all traffic in Native lands, but failed to do so. Sir Samul Baker, writing to the Times with reference to the outbreak of cholera in Egypt, says:—" Damiettais a disgusting example of Oriental neglect tilth accumulation. \ long, narrow street run 3 parallel with the river at the back of the dilapidated houses, which for a distance of a mile rise from the level of the stream. •The street is without drainage, and is a miserable channel of communication, deep with poisonous mud after a heavy shower, and full of dust holes emiting germs of pestilence during hot and sulhy weather. If cholera can be manufactured, there could not be a more elaborate factory." A French dector has been sent to goal for selling a tonic warrant to make a man live 200 years. Clergymen, Lawyers, Editors, Bankers and Ladies need Hop Bitters daily, for nerve force. Read.