The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1325, 19 November 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1883.

Ih our last issue we republished from the Auckland livening Star an article referring to the manner of Mr Brandon's appointment to the Legislative Council, and the circumstances under 'which Mr E. Shaw became a candidate for the Inangahua seat. We reproduced the article word for word as it has already appeared in half the newspapers of the Colony, prefixing merely a few lines by way of introduction. For this we are told that we have been disporting ourselves in the shoal water — the sea shore, so to speak, of b.our ocean of "journalistic baseness." Tfais we take as no mean compliment Ilis something to know that we have ' Mi yet ploughed the blue water of journalistic rascality, or plumbed the «• v&Bty deep " of editorial infamy. We gay it is something to be told this, particularly by an old " salt,"— a journalistic whaler, whose life is — i " On the ocean wave And Home on the rolling deep." ocean wave and home on the rolling ,We repeat, we are glad to be told there is a depth of journalistic baseness we. have not yet reached. We cannot return the comp i nent.

The Otago Daily Times says : — '-The story told by the Auckland Star about the Inangahua election, and Air Brandon's appointment to the Legislative Council, will, if it is not refuted, sound the knell of the nominee system of appointment to the Council. It was well known at the time that the Government used every effort to defeat Mr Richardson at Selwyn, and Mr Wakefleld at Inangabua; and the part *>layetT by Major Atkinson, if the Star's %eftsk>n is correct, is not such as to increase public confidence in the Government. As Mr Green has found out, there is a great deal more goes on at Wellington than the unsophisticated electors of Otago have any idea of. Wellington is so isolated from the rest of the Colony that politicians are able to do there many things which they would not venture upon in Dunedin or Auckland, where there exists an independent public opinion." No exhibits for the Christchurch Industrial Exhibition can be received t y the local committee after Tuesday next, 20th instant. Trump Yobs, Black Diamond and several other non-starters for the Melbourne Cup were drawn by Reef on subscribers in Zealandia's Consultation, (Auckland). The second steam boiler for the Inkerman Company was conveyed through Reefton on Saturday afternoon, and will reach the machine site to-day. The remaining portions of the machinery will be delivered as faat as it can be ereeted. Mr D. O. Freshaw, secretary of the Reefton Hospital, has written io the different Lodges and the Black's Point Band, inviting their co-operation on behalf of the Hospital Carnival, to be held on or about the Ist January next. Arrangements have been made with Mr Smith for the use of his grounds on the occasion, and the gathering will be carried out on as large a scale as possible. A meeting will be convened in the course of a day or two for the purpose of appointing a committee of management. We publish this morning the programme of the concert to be held in the Black's Point State School-room on Friday evening next, in aid of the Hospital funds. The bill of fare for the occasion is a very attractive one, and, apart from the object for which the entertainment is given, will no doubt attract a large attendance. At the close of the concert a ball will be held, the music being furnished by the Black's Point Band. The committee have arranged for Mr Kidd's conveyance to run between Reefton and Black's Point for the convenience of the Reefton ladies taking part in the concert. We publish in our advertising columns the dividend numbers in " Robin Hood's >: Melbourne Cup organisation. We under stand that seven horses were drawn by local ticket holders. The first horse, No. 1702, £636 4s 2d, was drawn by a policenun in Dunedin, the second, No. 505", £318 2s Id, by a farmer at Waimate, and

the third, No. 177, £159 Is, by a minor 1 i in Charleston. In the New Zealand Cup the first horse, No. 1646, £318 2s Id, fell to a well-known coffee merchant in Chrisichuroh, the Becond, No. 595, £159 la, to a Bank official on the West Coast (Middle Island), and the third, No. 7969, £79 Us 6d, to a Chriatchurch publican. We may mention that we have been furnished by " ;.obin Hood " with the names and addresses of all the winners as above. The event closed with 7,069 subscribers. We elsewhere announce "Robin Hood's" presentation on theC.J.C. Summer Meeting, on the Ist January. Tickets may be obtained from Mr P. Salmon, Dawaon's Hotel. Mr J. Ring, photographer, announces that he will leave Keefton on Monday morning next, 26th instant, so that those who desire to secure portraits or views should call as early in the week as possible. It is perhaps not sufficiently known that by the new instantaneous process Mr Ring is enabled to execute portraiture of the highest class in any weather, a sunny day being no longer a desideratum. — [Advt. ] The greatest nourishing tonic, appetizer, strengthner and curative on earth. Mop Bitters. See