The Inagahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1339, 21 December 1883, Page 2

The Inagahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1883.

Mails for the Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, per Te Anau, close at the Bluff on Friday 21st inst at noon. Mr Warden Revell held sittings of Courts here yesterday. This is the last, sitting for this year, the next being fixed for the Bth January, 1884. Mr Revell left for Westport yeaterday afternoon. ■ Mr A. A. Corfield, for some years assistant clerk in the Warden's Office Reefton, and Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages here, has received the appointment of clerk of the Warden's office, Lyell, and left on Wednesday last for Lyell. A public meeting -will be held in the Oddfellow's Hall this evening, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of receiving and considering Messrs Hobby and Little's scheme of town water supply. Mr W. H indcnarsh has been appointed liquidator in the matter of the compulsory winding up of the Lankey's Creek Company. ■'•t the half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Golden Fleece Extended Company, held in Greymouth, it was decided to increase the .capital value of shares from ss. to 205., of which latter sum 10s. is to be regarded as paid up. An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders will be held on the 28th instant, for the purpose of winding up the old company, and reforming the venture upon the basis indicated above. There are 48,000 shares in the company, so that the increase will provide a capital of £24,000. A very pleasing ceremony was performed at the State School yesterday, at 2 p.m. It consisted of the presentation of a large number of valuable prizes to the scholars. The prizes were the gift of Mr J, B. Beeche, Chairman of the local School Committee, and comprised a number of very handsomely bound books suit able for young readers. The Rev. Mr Sedgwick, who was prerent, made an address appropriate to the occasion, and Mr Beeche also referred to the labors of the past year, and the duty of tho children in the future. He also spoke flatteringly of Mr Thornton and his teaching staff. Hie presentation of the prizes was then made by Mrs Sedgwick, all the more de-

serving scholars receiving a suitable souvenir. The proceedings then closed with time cheers for the donor, Mrs Sedgwick, and the Rev. Mr Sedgwick, and Mr Thornton and the other teachers. A large number of the parents of the children attended, and the ceremony proved a veiy interesting one. The Globe Company's aerial tramway will be formally taken off the contractors' hands by the company to-day. The alterations and improvements effected in its working by Mr M 'Gregor have brought the undertaking up to the efficiency stipulated for in the speci6cations, and the tinal trial yesterday registered a rate of speed in excess of that contracted for. The directors of the company accord their fullest praise to Mr \ • 'Gregor for the • ability and ingenuity with which he has worked out the scheme, and brought it to its present effectiveness. Very encburaging accounts continue to come to hand resjarding the prospects of the Inglewood Extended mine, and the starting of crushing by this company early in the new year is looked forward to with pleasant anticipations. Very little work has yet been done on the newly 6pened reef iif the Keep-it-Dark low level, attention being devoted to timbering, and otherwise preparing for opening the level systematically as soon as the holidays are over. It is announced that the presentation of prizes to the scholars of the Reefton | Catholic School will take place to-day, j prior to the Christmas vacation. Several of the recently cancelled mining leases have been re-applied for, and to-day we publish applications for the ground formerly held by the National (Merrijigs) and Arizona (Boatman's) companies, respectively. On and after to-day throughout the holidays Messrs. Mitchell and Campbell will run a daily coach between Reefton and Greymouth, and as a concession to the travelling public return tickets will be issued at single fares. Mr Rugg announces that he will run a coach between Greymouth and Reefton, commencing the down trip on Monday next, and returning on the following day, and thence continue running throughout the holidays. An adjourned meeting of the Hospital Carnival Committee will be held at the Southern Cross Hotel, this evening at 9 o'clock sharp. The letter of "Progress,'* together with other local matter, is unavoidably held over till Monday next. We have been requested to state that the Reefton exhibits for the Christchurch Industrial Exhibition were conveyed from Greymouth to Lyttelton free of charge by the Black Piamond Shipping Company. Mr Mitchell conveyed tike articles free hpnce to Greymouth. * We are informed that " Navigator's " consultation on the forthcoming Inangahua Cup is filling fast, and that there is every probability of the event being drawn for the full sura advertised in the prospectus. A formidable looking legal document, in the form of a stamped agreement, was presented to householders in Broadway for signature yesterday, binding the subscribers to contribute a fixed sura weekly for the payment of a nightwatch man's salary. We learn that every property holder in the street, with , one exception, has agreed to share the burden, in sumß ranging from Is. to 2s. 6d. weekly. The * Canterbury Times ' remarks : — " The new Minister for Public Works has begun well. H e did not fence with the deputation, which jogged his memory about the Little River Railway, but gave it a favorable, and what is more, most 1 direct answer. Again, he went to see the rival routes for the VI ount Somers railway continuation, which is proof of goodwill and practical good &euse, if he would only settle the matter himself without a Royal commission. We have paid nearly £30,000 in Royal i ommissions in three years ; in other words, we pay at the rate of £10,000 a year for want of moral courage in the Government. Here is a chrnce for Mr Mitchelson. No matter what your feeling or ailment is, Hop Bitters will do you good. Prove it and see.