The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3,1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1478, 3 December 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, DE CEMBER 3, 1884.

The Resident Magistrate, Mr W. H. Revell, will sit this morning to hear the petitions lodged against the recent County Elections. The 2nd of January is the date fixed upnn for the children's pio-nic, and the Committee have decided that the gathering shall be open to all children in the district. The Golden Treasure Company cleaned up on Saturday last over their late crushin", the result being 147-izs. 18dwts, of retorted gold. We have not ascertained the tonnage crushed. We have been requested to state that Mr J. Stevenson, has been app >inted local agent for " Ada Mantua," and programmes on the O.J.C. Meeting may be had on application. The consultation will close on the 20th instant. We understand that Mr Warden Revell's transference has been altered to Lawrence, Otago, instead of Naseby, as originally intended. The change is a much better one for Mr Revell. Mr A. S. Menteath returned from Greymouth last night, and will addreß* the electors in the Oddfellow's Hall, Reeftou, on Friday evening next, at 8 o'clock. In the parrots gardners and farmers are this year a prey to one of the n»ost destructive pests that has yet been experienced in the district. Tha birds are everywhere in unexampled numbers, and all kinds of expedients have been resorted to in vain against them. In Reefton they have not only cleared almost every garden of goosoberrius, currants, strawberries, cherries and other fruits, but have also attacked the vegetables, pulling up onions and eating the bulbs, pea tops, and generally mining every kind of growth. In the outside places they have attacked the potato crop, nipping the stalka off close to the ground and getting at the young potatoes, while incalculable Injury has been dune to fruit trees. The contractors for sinking the main shaft of the Globe Company aro making rapid headway having accomplished fifty feet during the last month. At this rate the company will be able to stope from the low leyel by February next, and as this will afford stone for several yeara to come, there in a good prospect before the shareholders.

As appropriate to the construction of the water works tare, we publish in another column a short account of the opening of the water worka at Queenstown. It will be seen that with mi elov.ition of 246 ft, and piping somewhat larger than that being laid hero, the Queenstown sup- j ply throws the water a distance of 120 ft. The elevation at: Re-fton ia only some 140 ft, and the supply pipus b'ing somewhat smaller a corresponding diminution in the strength of the jet may be expected. The monthly meeting of the Hospital Committee will he held at the Southern Cross Hotel, at the usual hour this evening, j As straws upon the surface of the stream indicate *'ie sot of tho current, so the vote of thanks and confidence accorded by the electors of Leestop to Mr E. Waketield, M.H.R., last night may be taken as a significant i i lic-ition of the drift of public feeling in that electorate. The result of the meeting will be a knock down blow to the political opponents of the member for Sehvyn and collaterally will hardly be pleasant for the Government. Our telegrams this morning contains an item which will be r»:id with intarc'-t in this district. An influential mv. ting was held yesterday in Christuhnrch wh n it was decided to undertake preliminary arrangmenls for the construction of the East and West Coa-»t railway, and a committee was appointed to take the necessary steps. The meeting, we aru told, was of a semi-private nature and full particulars of the proceedings were not therefore made public. Tn a day or two, however, more definite information on the subject will no doubt leak out. In the meantime is very satisfactory to know that the agitation is being kept alive in Canterbury for it is aftor all from thence we must look for real help for the undertaking. It seems utterly hopeless to look for anything like reciprocal action on this side of the range, on behalf of the project. Our Railway League appears to have died from inanition. The County Council as a body never has shown the slightest interest in the project, and it seems too much to expect that it will do so just now. There is no doubt, however, that important aid could be rendered at the present juncture by public organisation here. Kelson would join willingly in the movement, and by this means the Colony would at all events be made to know that we are not utterly indifferent in the matter, a conclusion, however erroneous, which might not unreasonable have been drawn from our past inertness in the matter. An Auckland paper having attacked members of the Legislature for having given the ball on the 3rd inst. "at the public expense or nearly so," the Post in reply says that no falser statement could be made. Not a single penny «>f public money was spent on the ball, but each member paid for the guests he invited and there were no free invitations. When worn down and ready to take your bed, Hop Bitters is what you need ■ to Teliereyon. See. 11 Buchu-paiba." — Quick, complete, cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. At Druggists, Kempthorne, Prosser & Co.. Agents hristchurch.