The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TILL- WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1409, 4 June 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TILL- WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1884.

Mr Gilbert, dentist, has arrived in Reefton, and may be consulted at the Exchange Hotel, .upper Broadway. At the half-yearly meeting of the Just-in-Time Compauy held at Mr Wise's office last night the following directors were elected : Messrs tTuugerford, M' Gaffin, Watson (DunediuX Butler, Gallagher, Casely, and Graham. The directors of the Keep-it- Dark Company have declared a dividend, the 57th, of one shilling per share. A meeting of persons interested in the formation of a Rifle Volunteer, ompany in. Reeftori was held at 'Campbell's Southern Cross Hotel, on Monday evening last. At the appointed hour over twenty persons were present, and Mr A. S. S. Menteath having been voted to the chair, he briefly explained the business of the meeting. A discussion then followed, and it was eventually decided that a Riflle Company should be formed, and all present at once enrolled themselves. Mr H. Cooper was appointed treasurer of the Company, and- Mr Oi C. St. George, Secretary. The meeting; was then adjourned till this e^ehiiig, when additional members will be enrolled and the election of officers will take place. Great interest was manifested in the movement and there is very little doubt that a strong corps will be formed. Mr Burnham, who for many years was a leading spirit of the Picton volunteers, is an expert drill instructor, which will be a great advantage to raw recruits. One of the first steps to be taken is to apply to the Government for the erection of a commodious drill shed on the Government Reserve, and as the only condition of such grant would be an effective strength of forty members, there is little doubt that it can be complied with. The monthly meeting of the Hospital Committee will be held at the Southern Cross Hotel this evening. Owing to the parting of one of the stringers under the floor of the Inkerman Company's paddock about ten tons of gtone ran through*- oli" Sunday morning last. Messrs Huugerford and Casely rode out to the mine on Sunday and put hands on to stop the leak and prevent further damage to the paddock. The mishap is one of a trivial nature. Mrs Atkinson, wife of the Premier, was a passenger for England by the s.s. Aorangi. Mr A. L. Kins, well-known as host of the Exchange Hotel, Hokitika, died there on Friday last, after a short but painful illness. Mr King was a leading member of the Masonic body, and was a native of Dantzig, Prussia. He was 59 years old, and leaves a wife to deplore his losb. The Kumara paper says that the victims of the late terrible dynamite dkpl'ision at Hayes' Terrace are going on bo very favorably as to be comparatively nut. of danger. With reference to Lousich, who lost his right fore-arm, we believe it is the first instance in Kuinara of recovery after an amputation. A subscription is beingr set on foot in the Grey Valley J>y the friends of Mr Ctorlu-Mori,- of Orwell Creek, for .the purpose of raising -a -fund -to enable him to iM3it the Hot Spring?, in the hope that he might ihid a cure there for the malady Prom which- lie haa so Jong V>een suffering. j[^^us been unable to work for the last

three years, and has a wife and large family to provide for. i In his Auckland speech Major Atkini son said : " The Government have had in 1 preparation for some time past a work of great difficulty and labour. It will not, I i ( regrot to say, be ready for some time. j That work is known an a kind of Dooma- | day Book, which. wiH show the holding of every mail throughout the Colony. It will give his name, »he quanti'y of land he holds, the value of that land, and it will be stated in what borough, town, or county it is held. The cost is very large, I am sorry to say, but having obtained., copies of English books of this kind I am able to aay that it will give more information and be more perfect than any book of the class which we know of." The topic of conversation in Oamaru is the discovery that a gentleman who has had many ups and downs in the district, and who baa lately earned a living by acting as assistant bailiff to the Resident Magistrate's Court, bids fair to end as the occupant of an earldom with an annual income of some £70,<H)0. The gentleman referred to ia Mr F. W. O. Grant, whose father, the Hon. James Ogilvie Grau't, i has just succeeded to the title and estates •if the Earl of Seafield, consequent upon the death of his nephew, the late earl, without issue. Mr Graut— who now becomes Lord Reidhaven, and the direct heir to the earldom — has long resided j iv the district, and has. tilled a variety of i positions, from commission a-^eiit down to labourer. When the news arrived of the death of his cousin, an event which gave him a title and a competency, lie was, and is still, the " man in possession " at a farmer's homestead in the district, a duty from which he stoutly refuses to ho relieved, so that the unfortunate fanner has the satisfaction of knowing that, under compulsion, he is entertaining a lord and a prospective member of the British I House of Peers. The present Earl of | Seatield is in his 67th .year, so. that the j Oamaru assistant bailiff will in all likelii hood be the ninth to bear the title con- ' ferrcd by William 111. He is married to a daughter of Major Evans, of Oamaru, and has a family.