The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1479, 5 December 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY FRIDAY, DEC EMBER 5, 1884.

A meeting of delegates from the Friendly Societies was held at the Southern Cross Hotel, on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of making arrangements for the forthcoming Carnival in aid of the Hospital. It was decided to hold the Carnival on Monday, December 29th, 1884, should the Jockey Club grant them the use of the grounds on that date. Mr M. R. Gisaing has just received per s.s. Rupahu, aconßignment of real Brazilian Pebble Spectacles. The glasses may be relied on as thoroughly genuine, and Mr Giasing ha 3 received with them a delicately arranged little instrument for gauging the sight, so that the most perfect satisfaction in this respect may be depended upon. This being Mr W. H. Revell's farewell visit to Reefton he was entertained at a public banquet in Dawson's Hall Ust night. The attendance was very large. A report of the banquet will be published on Monday next. The Walhalla Extended Company elsewhere announce a call of seven pence per share, the foot-note appended thereto will explain the necessity for this step. Mr Menteath has postponed addressing the electors until to-inorruw evening, in order not to clash with the Hospital concert and ball at Black's Point this evening. A forty-eight hours' pedestrian competition is to take place during the time of the Autumn Races at Dunedin, and Swan, of Sydney, and Raynor, of Melbourne, have signified their intention to compete. Both men also challenge Scott to walk, and on Scott's behalf Mr A. Austin has sent a reply, offering to match him to walk any man in the Australian colonies twenty-four hours for £200. Some trouble has arisen between the Kumara Hospital and Dr Monckton which may lead to the resignation of the latter. A correspondent of the Kumara ! Times asks if the members of the Hospital imagine <l they are dealing with nobodies like themselves when they insult professional men." The Stout-Vogel Ministry has been subjected to pungent criticism by the Otagn Daily Times. That journal declares of Mr Stout : — " He became Premier of New Zealand more by good luck than good management, or, if that view leaves out of sight the iutrigues by which he gratified his ambition, we will put it by good luck and good management rather than by desert. Of the part which Mr Stout played during the crisis, , we can only say that it completely destroyed our respect for him. Only those who were on the spot, and before whom his character unraveiled itself at each fresh turn, can feel the disappointment to use no stronger word — that we felt at his want of loyalty, his selfishness, and his crookedness." From correspondence now being published in the Wellington papers as well as in those in other parts of the colony, it would again appear that there must have been a perfect fleet of Ospreys cruising about the southern seas in the " forties " and "fifties." Mr G. L. Goldfinch, a settler in the Manchester block, now writes to the N. Z. Times stating that a ship named the Osprey visited Port Phillip in February, 1849. The vessel in which the writer came out, "The Steadfast." ! was a whole week in company with the ship in question, and those on board the latter afterwards learned that the former | reached Port Phillip on the day that they i arrived at Sydney. The uncle of Mr Bryce, the late Native Minister, he adds, was also on board the Steadfast. An exchange says — "A stone to the memory of Richard Parker, the victim of the Mignonette disaster, is to bo erected in Pear Tree Green churchyard. Southampton. The subscription agreed upon will notify the name and age of the deceased, and will state that he died at sea on July 25th, 1884,' if ter 19 days of terrible sufferings in ah. open boat in the tropics, after being wrecked in the Mignonette. The stone will also bear the text from Job, "Though he slay me yet will I trust in him," suggested by the

vicar, and, by request of the poor lad's friends, the prayer of the Martyr Stephen, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." There will also be a memory portrait inserted." When worn down and ready to take your bed, Hop Bitters is what you need to relieve you. See.