The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 5, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1396, 5 May 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 5, 1884.

Friday last was the day appointed by the local Committee for closing theState School, pursuant to their intimation to the Central Board, but we are glad to say that wiser counsels have prevailed, and the threat was not acted upon. In accordance with the suggestion made by us on Friday last the Committee has decided for the time being to accept the position so far as regards the Central Board, but have resolved to lay the facts of the case before the Minister for Education, and a resolution to that end has boen arrived at. This is undoubtedly the proper course to pursue, and the only regret is that it was not adopted in the first instance. The Minister will now refer the Committee's complaint to the Central Board for report, and this report will in the ordinary course reach the Committee. "We are afraid, however, that unless the Committee are prepared to substantiate a charge of partiality against the Board of Examiners nothing can come of the last step taken. If they can do so they will have done a service to the Colony at large, by furnishing the last argument necessary for the sweeping away of both Central Board 3 and district ! Boards of Examiners. I mmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmm. Ix cannot be at all comforting, not to say creditable, to those who were instrumental in floating mining undertakings here during the recent " spurt" to see themselves now characterised and denounced throughout the length and breadth of the Colony as the projectors of " bogus ventures," ♦' mining swindles," and by other unsavory epit hets, nor is it at all to the credit of the community as a whole that such things should be said of the place. It is not our present intention to go at any length into he unpleasant subject. This we purpose to do on a future occasion, but the prominence it has just , received at the hands of no less an influential censor than the Premier of the Colony renders it necessary that a passing allusion should be made to it. With the justice or otherwise of the accusations made against the dis- , rict we shall not at present deal, what we desire to more particularly point out is that the community and people here are now only reaping the harvest so abundantly sown by the " Spur s," the " Scrutators," and the other lying anonymous caluminators, who in order to serve their own private ends, have so copiously plied the Dunedin Herald, and other outside papers with their slanderous inventions. . These, it is, who have made the very name of Reef- ... .top stink in the nostrils of the public : Abroad, whoset bitterness against the " place to-day is not ' s'a much because they have been unfortunate, as because they have been told by these anonymous revilers, that they have been swindled. This is the feeling which now stirs the resentment of the Dunedin people. And the very men who have debased themselves and the community and stirred up all this outside , wrath dwell in our midst, and who, if the district even was as bad as they would paint it, would be none to bad for them. Fortunately lor themselves these traducers of the community have shielded their skins behind an anonymity which has not yet been penetrated, but if it ever should be it will fare badly with them, or should do so.

The usual sittingß of the Warden'i Court, before W. H. Revell, Eaq , R. M will open this morning, and the Magistrate's Court business will be taken tomorrow morning, Mr Montgomery, District Surveyor, haa just completed the re-survey of the sections in the northern suburbs of che town, and connected them with the general trigonometrical system of the district. It is believed that the work will show some inaccuracies in the earlier laying off of the town, a circumstance which will probably necessitate a change of boundary in nearly all the sections, fn some cases the filocka are found to contain less than the area shown on the town plan, while in other cases more. Thi3 renders a re-adjustment of the dividing lines necessary, and in all cases the deficiency or surplus will he apportioned equally amongst the whole of the section holders in each block. But in no case will the deficiency or excess be more than one link either way, so that individual holders will not be appreciably effeoted. In order to prevent, however, any disagreement amongst the persons concerned the Government have drawn up a short form of agreement for signature whereby holders bind themselves to accept the new survey and abide by the re-allot, ment of the land. The importance of this re-survey will be understood when it is pointed out that without ii no action for trespass between adjoining holders could be maintained, as it would be impossible to legally identify the line dividing the land of each. As is probably known, the sections in Broadway have not yet been connected with the trig, system, but the District Surveyor is empowered to so connect them, providing that the frontage holders sign the requisite agreement, as in the former case, and the survey will be performed free of cost. It is for the townspeople to say whether they will not take the authorities while they are in the humor. The local School Committee' received a lele^rato from the Central Board on Thursday evening last, in reply to the j resolution passed at the recent public meeting. The Board regrets the appointment is not acceptable to the majority of the Committee, but having been made in accordance with the provisions of the

Education Act, the Board sue no reason to justify them in cancelling it. The new bell for the fire-brigade was delivered in Reef ton on Saturday last, and in the afternoon its sounding qualities were tested. The tone is deep and full, and was heard plainly on the flat above the saw-mill, quite a mile from Reefton. To-morrow the plant and mining leaseholds of the Lankey's Creek Company will be aold by auction, by order of the Liquidator. It is almost unnecessary to point out that the machinery is as good as new, having only been worked for a couple of months. We are informed that every line, will be sold unreservedly. The Auckland Star says that amongst the passengers from Fiji by the last trip of the s.s. Penguin, was a gentleman named Bailey, who, it was understood, had samples, of auriferous quartz with him, said to have been found in "the crown colony of a severe type." Mr Bailey was not of a communicative disposition, and therefore nothing very definite regarding the new Dorado leaked out. We now hear from the Thames that several miners have been engaged to proceed to the islands, and coupling this fact with the secrecy that lias been observed, it certainly looks as though there wan something in the discovery. A gentleman who was in Fiji during the Cakabau regime, informs us that auriferous quartz was discovered by a friend of his amongst some building stone brought by the natives to the coast for the purpose of building a church. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the United Victory Company (Lyell) is called to consider the advisability of winding-up the Company. The Charleston butchery is selling beef and mutton at 2d to 4d per lb, pork 4d per lb, veal 3d per lb.