The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1385, 9 April 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1884.

reef which would be wanted to work the 1 mine, and he induced Coulam to go into : •i the "spec" with him, and to give him, ; I 80 to buy the race and the necessary ■ leases. M'Gregor was found guilty and sentenced to twelve months' hard labor. The. Daily • ews says that his Honor, in summing up, after referring to the as- ' : surances of the discovery of a quartz reef nur.le by the prisoner to Coulam, and the - display of lumps of gold-bearing quartz, \ : continued : — "All this delicious chaff was , : spread before that old bird, Mr Coulam, 3 , who therupon swallowed the whole, and - '■ became, as he stated, 'reef-proud.' ReefB ! pridu may be defined as a sort of pe- ' cv nary pip, which occasion-illy afflicts ' i storekeepers on the' diggings— and othera r ! too, for that matter— and is invariably " cured by speedy depletion." ' In the course of the 52 weeks that^ended J on December 29, there were 133,656 births ,! r.-iii- tered in London, the population in y 1833 li.-iiig estimated at 3,955,814. The i birth-rate for 1883 is the lowest one that ' has been given since 1860, when it was taken at 33 6. There were also 80,578 deaths recorded in London in 1883, against 82,905 in 1882. The death-rate thus falls from 21.4 to 20 "4, the lowest one yet given - for the metropolis. Only 134 fatal cases i of small-pox were recorded in the year. ! 1881 the number of fatal case 3 was 2307, I n 1882 it dedinu'l to 431. • " At the last meeting of the Ctntrai Board of Education, Nelson, a letter was received from tho Reefton Committee expressing regret hat only wo applications for the teachership had been for- - warded to the Committee, whereas there i had been ten sent in to the Board, and stating that the majority of the Committee . feared that there was an attempt to force upon the Committee, a favorite of the Board and 'lnspector. Discussion enstied,' when it was stated that the Board of Examiners had taken special uare in enn quiring iutd the merits of the various I applicants and were unanimous in regarde ing Mr Burnham as by far the beat of the ten Resolved, that Mr Burnham be ".. appointed,--- the ouiifiittee having been ' s consulted. A letter Was received from £ the Black's Point Committee asking that | Mias Sundcrland, a probationer, might be II appointed assistant teacher. — Resolved, ' " , that their attention be directed A o the .rules. regarding jproba.trdnerp, and stating*' rs that Miss Sunderland, at the end of her ; " ' term of prouifion, might be permitted to 11 apply for an assistant teachorahip. "f . Take Hop JJntovs three times a day, w and j r ou will have lio doctors' bills to pay. ! ir , See. ;

There will be a total eslipseof the moon . to morrow night. The elipse will commence at 9.22 p.m., the middle of the eclipse being at 11.16 p.m. Shareholders are reminded that tomorrow night the monthly instalments are payable to the Reefton Building Society. ' j The local directors of the Inkerman Co.nj.miy have granted an extension 'of two ■•. v-j'ks. for the completion of outside w ..!■!■:•■. n->\v b''in'4 carried on hy Messrs Q ■:•■:'■. ■•■ .<;; i ".''Williams. It is expected that ti.- j '.iat';jry willbein full operation early in May. Anderson and party, the contractors for the extension of the low I level north have driven 19ft. of their i contract. ' We have received a copy of the Vo; Ipeth (N..S.W). Times, printed and published by Mr Thomas Pogonowski, a .compositor, formerly on thu staff of this ! paper. We notice from its pages that , that prince of lecturing humbugs, and i platform bore- Captain Jackson Barry, j has made his way thither. The. paper in i question contains a most laudatory notice ! of the New Zealand Sinbad, but strangly enough, no mention is made of the whale. Barry is announced to spout at all the inland towns, amongst the lither attraci tive features of his programme being the ! relation of his adventures with a certain "Maori Princess" whom the "Gallant Capting " met one day while out pighunting in the Waikato, when the dusky maiden played Venus to his Adonis. The captain's account of this charming adventure cannot be otherwi.se than interesting. - A geod deal of uneasiness, indeed, alarm, has been occasioned to residents round the suburbs of the town, by the j vagaries of some drunken or half-witted i fellow who has been nightly prowling about the private houses, trying the doors and windows, and otherwise annoying and terrifying the inmates. This disgraceful proceeding has now being going on for more than a week, and the nightly frame of mind of -women and children can easily be imagined. The scoundrel, whoever he is, has created quite a reign, of terror in the outskirts of the town, arid it is high time that something was done in the matter by the police, otherwise the aid of fire-arms will certainly be resorted to by the residents in self protection. We could mention one or two cases where such preparations have been made nightly in the household for the reception of the maurauder that, had he shown up betwetn the hours of 1 a.m and 5 a.m, he would have met with a welcome that would have astonished him. . " Uuder the heading of " Harvest Anticipations, the LytteHon Times says :— " A very .amusing' cartoon was distributed about town yesterday, just to make it plensant for the Government at the meeting this afternoon. A Canterbury farmer is looking dolefully at his wheat field thinned by hail and wet, while on t,he rails sit two locusts, easily distinguished as the Premier and Minister of Lands. Mr Rolleston' twangs the banjo and Wajor Atkinson manipulates the melodious concertina to the tune, as we are informed beneath, of "The Locusts' Glee," "In th -s — wheat by and bye." . ard by, the General Manager makes a puppet dance to the music, whoso extended limbs, bearing the legend "Grain Tax," are easily understood to be the octopus arms of the new Minister of Railways. Was it by accident or design that the artist represented this gentleman as a "woodenhead?" In the background an engine draws a long line 1 of empty trucks. The ' cartoon is a very happy hit at the cause of the present a/itation. At Invercargill lately a man named M'Gregor was charged before Judge Ward with obtaining money by false pretences from another named Coulam, a storekeeper on the iSokomai. It seems M'Gregor concocted a story ab-nit having found a valuable quartz reef, and showed Coulam some specimens of quartz, which he. said he obtained from the nuw reef. He represented also that there was a water-race existing near the