The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, DE EMBER 1, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1477, 1 December 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, DE EMBER 1, 1884.

We understand that Mr Warden Wood

will not succeed Mr Stratford at Greymonth, as previously announced.. The latest information on the subject is that Mr Wood is disinclined to leave bis pre sent wardenshipiu Otai^o, and has written

to the G()\-''rnm -nfc t> that ffFcl:, ]»n«.forVing to withdraw" from the|servico altogether rathei- than bivak up liis home. For onraelve3 we regard t\\\n shiftin" f>f Wardens about as very great nonsense so far as concerns the public, and a monstrous injustice to the Wardens th^msolves. There certainly was a time iv the history of this, as <>f other goldh'ilds in tlie Colony, when something nii^ht have boyn s dd in favor <>f nuiking tho Warden's itiner.mt, l»ut we think the majority of people

arc now pretty well agreed that that time is k'uut; bye. Indeed it may be safely

said that tin* cry for the removal of the i Wardens could never have \mtin heard at all in the past on the West Coast goldtiylda had the Wardens been undor General, instead of Provincial, Government control.. It is undoubted that the officialism of the old Provincial days had rather much <>f the " family party" ab->nt it, and t'us is what it wan sought to break up by the request for the pe.rli.lieal removal of the Wardens. But t!ie condition of things has wholly changed sin?e then. The position oF t'»e '_".llM'Ms War lens no lev th-j Uuuural G./veinnviit is now mi. h :is'>re secure than it was under Provincialism. The whole service h now much more independent, nnd writing with some know ledge of public feeling on the subject we are confident in saying that the desire for change has wholly ceased to operate in the public mind. The recommendation for the removal of the Wardens was tirat made by the Goldfields Committee in the House some ten years a«n. at the instance, we think, of Mr W. H. Harrison, and, like a d'Vbit balance in a ledger, it has been 44 brought forward " Y-a- after year in every subsequent Goldfiells "Report, nnd at lerurth a Government has been found to jrive effect to it. Tf the ehsinw was ever npcss'iry ten years ia certainly a long time to wait for it. nnd the fac-t of its not Tieinur made sooner is a strong ' argument neninst its being made at al 1 . But not. ojilv is it V'einir broiiirM about inte in the dav. bu* in a very unfair way. Thus "Mr Warden Ri veil, who for n<>arly twenty years has presided ov»>r 'he Grey and Wesfport. diptrir-ls, which may be considered the two most, important nnd responsible wardensliris in the Colony, with the utmost satisTaction, is to be re-lefrate-l to aseeond-rote place. likoNaseTiy. This we reward as a ereat act of inju-tice, and one- which oucht imt tr> be passed without protest by the people here. Owing to r- rest ire of nthe.r matter the letter of "Old Gully Raker" is held over. Wh pnblish to-day "Ada Mantm'n" annual event on the Christchuroh MidBtimmnr Handicap. The allotment is fixed at 1300). ! I The members of the IT rather Bell Lodge commemorated thoir anniveraary by a banquet in Dnwqon's Hotel on Friday evening last. In another column wo ijve a condense'! report of the proceeding.-}. The banquet v/:w very largoly attended and v\'33 a v«rj* cuoceaiful affair.

Tlie remains of the late Sergeant > . L. Neville nf the Eeuftun police furco, were Cunvey-d to tho c«.notery yostordny, the t'/iiin <>f numr luri buint; unusually l«>n<», the brethtivn of tlie Loyal Reefton L'xljj© *>f Oddfellows niiivohing in niourniug regalia. The Ijlasik'a Point and City Bands headed the i>roccss3'>n playing th'J " Doad Match in o;iul."' The burial service was perf')i'tnc«l in a very impressive manner \>y tho Rev. T. B. aTrtcleiiu. Cr>piu« of tho sixth is3ua of tho AngloNew Zealiind, dated 10th 'Utoher, arrived by yesterday \s mail. This is quick work to have Enidiah pa purs to hand in a little over five weeks from late of publication. A rival in the AngloNew Zealauilerhas jmt appears 1 in London un-lcr tlje title of the British Australasian. The wife and family of the late Sergeant Neville, having been left wholly unprovided for, the Uvtiireii of the Reefton Lodge of Oddfellow's have taken in hand the task of laisinii a fund on their behalf. \ yctod start was made yesterday at the conclusion of the funeral, when each member of the lodge contributed freely, the result h«ing that a considerable amount was collected in the room. A committee was then appointed to invite the co-opeva'io:) .»f the p.» >lie in the matter, and we believe that some further Jictiou will be take: i during t"-d;i_y. In a case «>f this prussim; nature we have n-> d..>uht that the committee- will meet with a liberal and hearty response from tie pu'iJicAt a meeting of the Teachers' Association iv Wellington the other evening, the Post reports that Mr Ma. kay read a shoit paper on "The il^lation-s of Tusp ctor to Teacher." He th-»n^!it it fortunate that New Zealand Inspectors, besides being men of culture, wet's mon of c {perielice in actual teaching, an-.l might therefore Vie expected to have not only an eye to clisjern, but a heart to sympathis; wiih the teacher's work. In his opinion tlie term "surpri.ie visits" might well be abandoned, as savouring of espionage ; and the practice of referring to masters and Schools by na.m? I.i public reports was calculated to I.»wer the master iv theeyes of his pupils. The same pu 'p^se would bo as well served if mastuis and school inspector's, re| orts were referred to in cipher, and tiie key supplied to those more directly interested. The utmost harmony even in trivial matters was to be cultivated 1 y all those wii-is-j vim it was "to tr.un to riper growth the mind and will." The sympathy of the meeting was with Mr Mackay, and he was thanked for his p:;.p''.r. Last night's Post snys :— " W, ; .-try g!ad to be :\b!e to give an iinqiialir'e'l contradiction to the rumors which have circulated, evidently to servo a purpose, that (here are dis«u n v 1113 in the Ua >iuet, and that a mi.-v i le.rstivnding has tak^n p'i-ce l)Ot\v«jen the Premier and the Colon; 1 Treasurer. There i 3 not the slightest foundation for the minors iv (pusrio . Certain statements which have been telegraphed to papers at a dtita-tVae but not published in Wellington as to tl.e principles on which the Government scheme of local government are to le founded are also purely ima^in ry. Nothing whatever on the subject has b_en d iculed upon, and the matter ha., n>t even been discussed in Cabinet. "

When worn down and ready to ta! c your b:.!, f-fop i'iltt-rais what you n< d to relieve yon. Sue.