The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1471, 17 November 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1884.

A man natnelJanies M'Naniara fainili arly known as " Jemmy the Boucle " died in the Reefton Hospital yesterday. Deceased was au old resident of Inangahua and was well known throughout the West Coast and Otago. He .entered tins Hospital complaining of pains in the side, and gradually sank, expiring yesterday after* noon. The cause of death is supposed to be kidney disease. He was 50 years of age The funeral will leave Williams' Hotel to-morrow at 2 p.m. The Red Queen Company, Mokihinui, is expected to commence crushing to-day, and as the Company will start aluv* t wholly free from debt shareholders are looking forward to a Christmas box from the venture before the close of the year. The contractors for the erection of the Church of England Sunday School are making good headway and will have the work out of hand early iu --he coming month. The building will be equal in size i to the Oddfellows Hall. Tho American Comedy Company performed to another crowded house in Reefton on Saturday evening, and left yesterday for Ahaura. Wo learn that four dramatic companies will visit Reefton between now and Christmas, these including Webb's Marionetts, Fisher's Troupe, Harts "Happy Hours," and Miss L. Crawford's Combination Company. The annual entertainment in aid of the Reefton Hospital at Black's Point has been fixed for Friday, 28th instant, and the assistance of lady and gentlemen amateurs of Reefton will be invited for the occasion. We have received a copy of the Filver Age, a newspaper newly published at Silverton. The paper is well supplied with advertisements and shows that all kinds of trades,- professions and busintas are well represented on the Held. The place is evidently a good camping-ground foJ members., of the legal profession, no less than seven solicitors beiug among the advertisers. A bi*- weekly coach runs between Silverton and Wilcannia, the journey occupying thirty hours. Our old friend ' Burton, who once ran the Christchurch —Hoki+ika line, has a coaching stage from Silverton via Menindie to Hay (N.S.W.) and Swan Hill (Vic.) This is the shortest route from Melbourne or Sydney to Silverton. Up to 18th October last the greatest heat record for the season was 9Gdeg. in the shade, though the pivper states that ; at mi d■ummer at he Barrier 140dog. is "not considered but of the way. " Several smelting mills are in course of erection, and between £200 and £300 worth of silver ore is reported to have been taken from one of the mines in two days. In our next issue we wiU furnish some mining items from the locality. We have received from '* Ada Mantua" a printed list, giving the names and addresses of all persons who held starters in her .last great Copsultation on the Melbourne Cup* as also the names and addresses of those w"ho drew the four principal money bonds (£Bl eaoh). The citcular also furnishes the names of twenty-two prominent Dunedin residents who were invited to attend the drawing, as well as those who were actually present. From the information thus supplied the whole affair seems to have been conducted in a thoroughly hona^de- manner and we are glad to be able to extend this assurance to investors. The Gympie (Queensland) -goldfield is still to the fore with its gold yields. The Silw r 'ge reports that the Gympie quartz mines for the month of September produced dividends to the amount of £34,672, the yield of gold for the month was 13,632 oz, the average per ton being 2bz 13dwts. From January to September of tho present year the mines yielded 92-,4690z of gold. A good joke anent the corpulent Colonial Treasurer was told us ( Wanganui H raid) by a gentleman who has lately been spending a few days at the seat of Government. It seems Sir Julius has a smart little daughter of some eight summers, who reads the papers and retails any tit bits concerning "papa" to that corpulent parti . The other morning she exclaimed, " Look here, pa' ! I always knew you were rather fat; but these nasty papers need not call you * the Stout-Vogel Party,' need they ?" The Premier on Saturday told Mr Rolleston that the Government did not see the necessity of placing before the House next session, the names of the several shareholders in the railway companies affected by the resolution re the five private railways to be purchased by the Government, nor the number of shares held by each. The Wellington Post nf Monday last SA y a . "The House, which has passed a Sunday observance law unequalled in stringency in any country in the world, save Scotland, evinced its practical respect for the Sabbath by sitting until 1 a.m on Sunday morning engaged in a most unseemly wrangle. As "transacting business " in view of any public place is one of the oflences made punishable by the new Act, which, we believe, was assented to and camo into force on Friday last, it appears to ns clear . that the Speaker of the House of Representatives and all those members who Voted in the divisions which took place on Sunday morning have undoubtedly broken the law and aro liable to prosecution. The reporters will, we are sure,, gladly supply I the necessary evidence. -if the police will only do their duty in this matter. The

I Colonial Secretary should certainly direct ! a prosecution, for the eon duct of the House beats cocktSghting,, and he has not thought thnt /rd'bject unworthy of hie notice." There is trouble in store fbfc the mjich married Maori monarch when ho returns to tho home of his heart. Some vague rumors are afloat to the effect that dissensions and dis >rder have crept into the .r^yal household during the temporary absence of its patriarchal head. On-: of the r >yal spouses in said ..•> !-av: elnptd with pome infatuated inn tal of her «>wn color some weeks iftyr the departure of her liege lord for England, and is at present dreaming away tho happy hours of hor illicit honeymoon iu the fairyland of "aupo. Rqur stomach, sick headache, and dizziness, Hop Bitters cures with a few doses. See.