The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1314, 24 October 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1883.

In our mining report, on Monday las', the dis'ance driven in the Just-in-Tinn? and Imperial cross-cut was stated to be 336 f , whereas it should have been 136 ft. Also in rrferring in the same reporr to the distance driven along the "rack of the reef in the Caledonian Extended mine, the figures were given at 248 ft. and •boold have b3en 348 ft. Lucy Munroe (better known as 'Itady " JVf unroe) was charged at the Central Police Court at Sydney, the other day, with being drunk and disorderly, and was fined 20s, or default seven days' imprisonment. It is said this unfortunate woman at one time used to move in the height of fashionable circles; that she is the < daughter of a Scottish baronet, the wife < of an officer high in the Engljsh army, <

and^a^wiltman, wHo^ in her time— and $lffi£ tiiiie can %p recollected in Sydney — ha? been full of grace and beauty. She has,, however, through drink, sunk so low that she spends much of her time in gaol, and $, when at liberty, among the most I abandoned in Sydney. She receft|fc a* monthly remittance from Hoii-JJ-enotfgh to;keep her comfortably in ffiSpectabllity— with which she has a periodical carouse. She has been pronounced perfectly incurable. - Speaking of enterprise (says-the Melbourne correspondent of the "Sydney Morniug Herald ") it is interesting to observe what different forma it takes. Thus there -Was- a railway accident at xewmarket station on the North-eastern station the other day, and several persons were fortunate enough to be shaken a good deal ■ And while they were making much moan, an enterprising person living in the neighborhood betook himself to the Scene, and, joining the crowd of the shaken and* shaking passengers, made moan also. But, happily for Mb enterprise, his proceeding had been observed,: and he was consequently ignomimouflly 1 dragged oiit of the group and kicked. The ingenuity of his project, however, .must be acknowledged. Like many another man: he failed. Another enterprising persott of the same olass has been sent to prison by •Judge Cope iqt f<%jfsy r %^ M.X4 8 . asked what he natl to say why h^sjiouia not hav^ hw , liberty < labjidgsd,- Jh& re- ; marked that no tpaatt had, aver tried harder than he had tried to be honest ;< but had been compelled to take to roguery against his convictions. As he had been in'prison a good many times, this appeal did not avail him anything. But he .went out of the Court obviously convinced that he whs a victim to the prejudices of an unsympathetic world. It is reported in New York that Mr Flood, the "Bonanza King," will begin, building on Nob Hill this winter a house which will cost £1, M0, 000, and will supass Vamlerbilt's house in costliness of of interior decoration. . It is also reported that the pictures which Mr Mackay ib buying so liberally in Europe are intended for its walls. The manufacture of wood-stone, a new building material, is assuming consider' able dimensions in' the United States. It differs from brick made of ordinary clay by not being brittle and hard,. but porous, and by wearing out the tools employed in cutting or shaping it very little more than wood. It is* produced in large blocks; which are cut up according to what is necessary or desired. The method of producing- the material is very simple; One part of the kaolin clay is mixed with from one to three parts of shaving^ and the' mixture reduced to a sort of milp ( >n becoming solid this is cut into blocks or plates, which, when dry, . are put' into stoves, heated to white heat, bvwhich the Bhavings 'are bimfea* up,4e^yfn* behind a more or le3s porous ukte^lajl/ Wood stone is fire-proof, and is^ohtyiialf the weight of ordinary, brick, whjle it canbe worked with the s^me. ease as wood. It is found particularly valuable for party walls, vaults, and so forth. \ Mr H. Campbell, of Wanaka. Sjtation, Otago, has been affording valuable assistance to. his fellow runhplders in the direction of combatting, the rabbits and keas by lecturing on the matter. He explains means "of trapping both pests. With regard to the keas he instances his own experience as justifying the assertion that if something is not done the keavpest will become worse that of the rabbit.' ' He calculates that on his own station about 30,000 sheep have been destroyed by keas in the last fifteen years He himself had killed about 30U0 keas during the last twelve years — sometimes as many as 5 ! )0 in one year— and still there were keas on I the run. They were not bo numerous as formerly, but still they were very destructive. ■ -'. ■:■'.- Dyspepsia, billiousness, nervousness, and miserableness, all cured with Hop Bitters. See' /