The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8,. 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1359, 8 February 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8,. 1884.

Mails for the Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe via Melbourne, per Wairarapa, will close at the Bluff* on Monday, 12th inst., at noon. With regard to the resolution moved by Councillor Williams at the Infcmeetitig of the local body granting a sum of £15 to Mr W. C Mirfin for keeping a certain piece of road in repair in the Antonio's Riding, and which we, upon public grounds, thought proper-to comment upon the Inangahua Herald, as might be expected, comes to the rescue of the Council, and thus champions Councillor William's action. The paper in question says : "Reference is also made to 'a sum of £15, I which, it is alleged was voted to Mr W. C. Mirfin as a retcard for his support. The matter is scarcely worthy of reference, but it is only right to state that a resolution was- carried that an offer of £16 be made to Mr Mirfin for that purpose. Whether it will be accepted we cannot say, but at anyrate such acceptance has not yet been signified by Mr Mirfin." The italics in the above are our own. It will be observed that Councillor William's motion is in the first part of the paragraph referred to as only something " alleged " on our part, but that subsequently it is admitted to have been "carried*" We ' may here explain that this particular motion, although it appears in the minutes i of the Council, never appeared in the Inangahua Herald report of the proceedings, having been carefully omitted therefrom for what reason the publio will judge. It was not said by ' us that £15 was voted by the Council to ( Mr W. C. Mirtin as a reward for his support. This may or may not have been ' the case, but since the editor of the i Inangahua Herald tells us in express i words that it is so, we are bound to believe i him as the accredited mouth-piece and champion of Councillor Williams and the Council. That Mr W. C. Mirfin has not yet " signified his acceptance " of Councillor Williams' very liberal offer is, of ( course, very much to the point. The ] fact that the Herald is able to inform the ] public so fully and authoritatively upon < this lat er point may be taken as an cvi- 1 dence of the intimate knowledge which \ the editor of that paper possesses of the ■, "Cabinet secrets", of the Council, and, on the principle that the physician to effect a cure must have a full knowledge of the disease, the relationship is, no doubt, perfectly proper. A couple of years ago in the eyes of the editor of the ' Inangjhua Hirald the Council was a ] combination of Land Leagueism and po- i litical corruption, against which he vainly £ knocked his wooden head in an attempt £ to burst it up. At that time however, the , Peri was outside the gate. But the whirligig of time has brought about a change since then, and in the erstwhile , apostle of " fcrew blewism " and political sanctity behold the champion of to-day whose printing contract is renewed by the s Council without the inconvenience of ten- I dering. And so the law of gravitation * goes on. j

At a meeting of the directors of the Boatman's Low Level Tunnel Company, held yesterday, it was decided to suspend driving operations for the present, six out of the eight contributing companies bein^ in arrears, some of them to the extent of three culls. The works have in the meantime beeiv placed in charge of one man as care-taker, and work will not be resumed until the delinquent companies pay up. ' Mr 6. C. Bowman will hold an auction sale of sundries at his mart at 4 p.m. on Saturday, (to-morrow). Owing to either the careless or malicious acts of some person or persons, the Globe Company have been compelled to threaten legal proceedings against anyone injuring their head-race. Trees are fallen carelessly across the race, and no later than Wednesday last, the battery was delayed for several hours, owing to one of these interruptions. A notification on the subject appears in our advertising columns. | As we predicted, an bverflowing house greeted the opening night of the Combination Company last evening, .and the performance from first to last was thoroughly enjoyed. Owing to the lateness of the hour at which it closed we are compelled to hold over a more extended notice for next issue. The piece announced for tonight is The Serious Family, a dashing three-act comedy, replete with the humor of the old school, and of a kind which | never palls, and at which one can' never tire laughing. It is a play with which the name of Coppin will ever be associated in the Colonies. Founded on Fact makes up a capital bill of fare for thts evening. > Pressure of late telegraphic matter compels us to hold over our leader and other local matter. At the Roman Catholic Chnrch in Christchurch a few days ago, the Rev. Father Oinaty preached in the strongest ' terms against the practice of allowing young girls to go out at night without their parents or an elder relative. He particularly condemned the practice of , girls going out for walks alone or with young^men at,night, and declared that sucg practices Were destructive of modesty : and virtue. Father Ginaty has frequently prohibited young women and girls from coming to evening service at the church unaccompanied by their parents or other relatives in charge of them. The expense of making authors' proof corrections has often been found very great— sometimes, as in Balzac's case, greater than the original cost of printing. The New York publishers avoid this expense by having the manuscripts which they accept printed in the first instance by the "type-writer." This, as nearly all the world knows by this time, is an ingenious little machine, like a very small piano tyith round keys (only not so noisy),aud it yorks with great speed at a Very cheap rate. The author thus receives his manuscript back in type, whereby he has the advantage of seeing his own work under a new light, and the alterations which he makes on this system costs next to nothing. Finally, the printers save their eyes by working from the copy produced by the type-writer. Girls are Usually, employed-* ta manage the typewriter, and earn about twopence for every 100 words — that is to Bay, about twopence every five minutes. Nothing purifies and enriches the blood and destroys all poisons in the system like Hop Bittess. Read.