The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1412, 4 July 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY . FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1884.

I The Hospital entertainment last night ' was very largely attended, ar.d was fl<oroughly enjoyed from first to hist. The different vocalists acquitted themselves with the utmost credit, and many of the ladies add gentlemen singers \vere_ loudly encored. Our report is unavoidalily held over. ' Acting npon the advice of hi» friends here Mr W. ll'Lean has decided uoc to con test the Inangahua sea tat the approaching election. Mr It. Reeves has within the last day or two also been strongly urged by some of his leading supporters here to withdraw, his chances of election not being considered sufficiently encouraging. Yesterday, however, it was reported that Mr Reeves would be a candidate, but whether Mr ReeVes has any serious intention of again trying liis luck we are unable ;to aay., Encouraged \*y the .flattering requisition presented, to him, Mr Mentcath lias now plunged fairly into the 'fight, and liaa already visited many of the outlying districts of InangaKua, where, it is understood he has received the strongest ansurancoa of support. Mr Blenteath left for Ahaura yesterday afternoon and during tlte next few days will malse a diligent caucus of the Grey Valley. Mr G. O. Bowman will oifer at auction ot 3 p.m. to-morrow, ,nt his mart, Broadway, a choice and varied assortment of Nelson fruit trees, bln-übs^ and flowers Rev. Mr Thorufcon, M.1.,' wiU 1 preach roorpin-jf wnd evening iv the Oddfellows Hall, on Sunday oext, Tliere.ai-H aUogether 19?8 electors on the new roll for the district of Inangahua. The supplementary roll ia "h6w being printed. » > v FollowinjiOn their victory in the match against the gentlemen players, the Australian crickeiiers navo acored' another de cisive viciory against the Players of England, a team including all the foremost professional players. Up to the present time the Australians have won eleven matches, lost four, and drawn one.-— Not bad work. If we may judge by a paragraph in the London Daily Telegraph, the ideas entertained in England, of the "high living" in this Colony are rather remarkable. Writing on the subject of Colonial. mutton the Telegraph says : — " This commodity in the Australian Colonies and New Zealand has been regarded as little else than a, waste product until the frozen meat shipments to .England were organised . In the abundance of game, wildfowl, and more dainty meate; fhe colonists never were accustomed: to utilise any other portion of the sheep except the leg themselves, and the whole of the remainder being boiled for the sake of the fat." A genuine Yankee dasoription is given of a skeleton-like Neapolitan lady, Sig nora Vantelli, at present being exhibited in London. "She is,'* says the writer, "about middle height, with a hatchetedged face,' ridged with a nose large enough for Goliath.- This is her great feature, 'and' suggests "that*, she has run into proboscis, as the Thibet sheep run into tail. She might be packed in a section of water-pipe. She is shaped from shoulder to toe like a four square timber joist. The exhibitor says that it U necessary to stuff her ancle boots with cotton wool to keep the bones from grating at the joints." .The Ashburton correspondent of the Lyttelton 'Times tells the following stcfry ':— 'Fancy a wealthy settler Coming , ipto your printing office aud complimenting you on the superior tone ©f the country paper 1 you rcftv Of course you expect to receive an order, to ( putj hit> na^e . on. the subscribers Hot ; but— you don't. Instead, a conversation like the followingtakes place :— Squatter : "Don't you know. I would like your paper very much, but I am afraid I cannot afford to take so many papers. " Publisher :" Oh i!} would not be felt by a man of your means, sir." Squatter: "Yes, it would ; but I'll tell you what I'll do. You send, I know, a free copy to our local institute. Of course I can always see it therp aq it in, now. But if you send it to me instead, I'll give you half price for it, and guarantee that the institute gets every copy after I have read them." If you can trot out a meaner man than that you can keep him all to yourself. Amusing stories begin to be told of the horror with which the Puritanical delegates of the Transvaal witnessed some of the social cust'oins of France. The Boer ladies appeared .at .every entertainment with dresses up to the neok, and when the men were introduced to the fashionable and nearly nude beauties of Paris, they steadily, when addressing them, looked over their heads. When they were at the opera they turned away their eyes when the ballot came on. xl iEgles " writes to the Australceelan : — They boasfc in Wellington of possessing the champion mean man of Australia. A list of signal economic performances has been sent to me, out of which I cull two. He is a legislator and a rich man to boot, his son being a squatter, and both employ the same agents. The son, who is just now in England, neglected to pay auficient postage on a letter to his father and the latter promptly called on the agents and caused them to credit his account aud debit that of his son with one shilling. He lately joined the Blue

Ribbon Army, presumably ii oro.e.r r,o j escape having to ask visuors ft>. hifi '.muse to take wine. A t'riuiicl, Miv'.vinrj-hi'j failing, bantered him about thts (fcMst'r^ , constantly renewing tho ribb«m a>» it becomes fadefl. But Lhe old genlleninVi^ivHq eoual to the emor:»eney, and .e.'Lplivujiic' : — "It is not rib'tou at ■ till ; (iV^bfi/^f bluo-painted meUl I cut out of Rn'empiy preserved meat tin. It washes you know and will last a life time." The la'ieet America;) notion for strengthening the btoiiiiicii it. gvavbl. A confirmed dyspeptic, impressed with the fact that fowls swallow sand end gravel to resist their digestive organ: 1 ,, one day determined to try the effoct on himcelf. The result ex^eedyd tlmt of any patent I pills extant, for after a dose or two of fine j sand at eaph mer.i die indige^tio.i '- disappeared, -and the bold experimentalist became a now man. Now that the secret is disclosed, an . extra attraction will be added to seaside resorts wliere sand is plentiful .