The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1373, 12 March 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884.

The privileges connected with the approaching Boatman's Jockey Club races were sold by auction on Saturday last, and resulted as follows : No. 1 booth, P. O'Neill, £30; No. 2 booth, (bought in) £21 ; gates, Stephen Garven, £36 ; curds, Atkin, LI 10a ; refreshment booth and fruit stall, H. Wick, L 5 10s ; totalisator (bought in) L 43. The purchaser of No. 1 booth has to provide a room or tent and refreshments for the stewards, for which the club refund LlO. A private offer for No. 2 booth has since been made and will probably be accepted at the meeting of the stewards tonight. An offer has also been made for the purchase of the right to the use of the totalizator, but as it is not up to the reserve fixed upon i 8 not likely to; be accepted. We remind horse-owners that acceptances for the first, and nominations for the second days races must be made with the secretary of the club this evening, being the night «f general entry. The unfortunate man Morris, who- was injured so severely in , the foot at the Inkerman Company's works on Thursday last, is suffering greatly from hi 3 injury, but Dr Thorpe, the medical officer of the institution, is unable yet to state whether it will be possible to save the limb, though every effort in that direction is being made. The worst will, however, be known in the course of a few days. The Specimen Hill Company's crushing which commenced at 8 a.m. cm the 24th January, was continued. with a few. short stoppages until the Bth March, when a general cleaning up took place, the result being 221 ozs. 12dwts. of retorted gold fur the six weeks crushing, or »n average of something over sidwts. per ton. It is reported that during the last week of the crushing 120 tons were reduced, which yielded 2500z5. of amalgam from the top plates, but in the face of the denial that any scraping up had taken place, this is probably only a rou^h guess. In accordance with announcement a general meeting of the shareholders in*the Inangahua Mercantile Company was held in the Oddfellow's Hall on Saturday evening last. There was a very good attendance and Mr H. .G. Hankin was voted to the chair. The acting-secretary, Mr Jonathan Auld, related the steps , already taken by the provisional comi mit tee and reported that shares had been i subscribed for representing a capital of Lo. 6o<>, and said that as soon as the undertaking was fairly floated the issue of shares would reach double thepresentnumber, the applicants in nearly every instance having expressed their willingness to take up an increased number. The share list contained the names of all the largest consumers in Reefton, Boatman's, and other parts of the district. The Chairman tbeu vead from the printed reports of a n :mber of English and Colonial Mercantile Companies showing the succeas which had attended their operations, and predicted an J equal success for the undertaking here, i provided that the management was , prudent and above all, economical. After some discussion a resolution was eventually moved seconded and carried that the interim-secretary proceed at once with the registration of the Company, the same t<S be effected as cheaply as possible. The meeting then adjourned. We understand that " Nugget's" sweep on the Champion Race was drawn before the arrival there of the Reefton returns. The money paid by investors here will there be returned on application to Mr C. Cohen. Mr George Robartson, the well known Australian publisher, has been appointed publisher of the People's Edition of the Works of the Victoria Philosophic Institute of London. The system of money drawings initiated by "Boaz" of Dunedin appears to have been received approvingly by the public, the full amount of L 2.000 having been subscribed within the advertised tima for his first event. This fact fully testifies to the confidence felt in the bona fides of the drawing, and the principle upon which it is conducted. Thus encouraged " Boaz " now announces a second drawing for L 3.000, to be distributed in the manner stated in the advertisement in our advertising columns. The timbering of the ground in the vicinity of the newly opened reef on the low level of the Golden Treasure will bo finished by Friday next, when the work of driving on the reef north and south will be commenced.