The Wanganui Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY JANUARY 23, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1500, 23 January 1885, Page 2

The Wanganui Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY JANUARY 23, 1885.

Tlie tribntors of the Oriental Company liavu cleats '. a? after a crushing "f about ttrn liui! Ire«i t<>ns <>f st->ne, the yield prnvimj to bt» only some 34>>z« of irolfl, the tvi 1 ii*m-s ha»<» r Mnquii'i" 1 the tribute. i \\\. „ . I^v>im ' ♦'• -\t Mv A. *'. Oninne^R, j (1 f a, .„.. ,u'h, 'i:js b«.«»n ••."iainvd for the d|tff.-nee in tie master of thn County P"tiMoii against the flection of Mr P. BriMinan. Soihh of tho mininw companies are Hejfinnintf to experience inconvenience for want of water. The Golden Treasure Ci>mpHny have about eitrhty ions of stone in the machine paddock, bur the battery cannot be started owing to the shortness of water. The rise in the Wealth of Nations low level having been carried up a sufficient distanc, a smpe has been opened, and stone is now being broken down. Tt is reported that the ri«e carried stone up all the way. and the intention is to commence crushing towards the close of the current month. The hearing of the petitions against the mvnt C'-unrv elections f.»r the Riding of R.M-ft.iM, will take plaen to-in'irrow, at the Afn"i strap's Court. b«fore F. Bird Esq., j R.M. The proceedings will be likely to ]n*t fur some days, as more than one hundred witnesses have been subpoenaed in support of one petition alone. It can be iin^ersNv-d from this that tlie cost of the A»li<ni will be considerable, aid how l<'nr it wUI tak^ to uft to the end of it is a question it would be hard to answer. For several days past the district has been over-nn with process-servers, and the circulation of the "stiff" has been far and wide. On Friday last the Welcome Company decided to dispense with wa-^es hands in sinking the main shaft, and tenders are now advertised to carry <»n the work by entrant. This, we are informed, is the first occasion for years past that the principle of contract work has been admitted by this company, the whole work of the mine having in the past been carried on by waj;es hands. One or two typographical errors cre v t into the programme of the Poatman's Athletic Carnival These have, howev* r, now been rectified and the programme a* corrected will b»« found in our advertising columns. The Boatman's people are detftrminod to leave no effort untried to make the leathering a success in every rtsp cr. an) as the carnival is snre to command a lar^e attendance, it seems to us tho stewards of the R.J.C. would be acting wist ly in cnn«i luring the propriety of postponing tbf lora! races until Easter. Tt would undoubtedly be a mistake to hold the two jratherimrs on the same day. A meeting of the Electoral Protectior Afsociiiti-m will be ludd at Campbell's Southern Cross Hotel, this evening, at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to attend. The following odd advertisement appears in Monday's Xew Zealand limen : — "J.'mi Smith Harris, known to the f olish a« the " whifflar," hereby gives piibpc notice tha*. if anyone who is worth powder and shot sta'es in the presence of witnesses — and he (J.S.H.) has plenty on the look out— that Mr Harris has a screv L.ose." "a tile short," a shin«rle off the roof," "a bee in his bonnet," or that "he is not in his right mind," by the powers, he'll go for them straight from the shoulder." A reform in the method of feeding passengers on board ocean steamers has been discussed in the columns of the 'lime-, and a strong case has been made out in favor of charging a fixed price for the passage, and of allowing the passengers to eat what, when, and as much as they please, just as if they were in a hotel or in a first-class restaurant. At present, it is argued, the management "f the trans-Atlantic steanoors, more particularly, is b.is-d on the principle that pe.oplu have no business to be seasick, and that if they ar« they merit no more <r»n«idem l ion than imbeciles, ?.nJ ineatables of any other class. Thanks to the kindly feeling and judicial knowledge of Mr Baron Huddlestojie, (writes the London correspondent >f tUv Auckland the jury who tried

the captain and mate of the Mignonette were enabled to avoid the painful necessity of pronouncing them guilty of murder and to pass on the responsibility of deciding the case to her Majesty's judges. The affair is now practically at an end, for there can be no doubt that Dudley and Stevens will be absolved from punishment, even though tit-y may be found technically yuilty of aim-. I met a barrister fie other I ly whogoos the Western circiit and wa« present in the Courtat Exeter during fie trinl. He tells me the most remarkable feature <>f the case was the difference between the demeanour of Dudley atid Stevens. The former was bluff, cheerful, and defiant ; the latter bowed down with shame and palpably apprehensive. When Brooks began to give his evidence both Dudley and Stevens showed signs of considerable anxiety, the latter turning ashy pale and trembling violently. This may merely have been caused by a rec» Election of their mutual sufferings, but some of the ablest counsels on the circuit are of opinion that there i asile to this terrible tale of the sea that never has nor ever will be known. Perhaps Dudley and Stevens feared that at the last moment Brooks might tell something which they had all decided should not be told. Of course, this is purely conjecture, and not very ltimUy conjecture either, considering what appalling agonies we know the poor fellows underwent ; but barristers are for ever sniffing o t something wonderful. An awfully sudden death occurred in Hamilton street the other d;»y. Mis 3 Green, a very old resident of Hokitika, was walking along the street, when she suddenly fell, and died almost immediately. The deceased was moved into the residence of Dr. King, and Dr M'Carthy was called in, who arrived just as the pour woman breathed her last. The cause of death is supposed to be the rupture of an artery on the brain, accelerated by excess ofj->y. Tt appears that Miss Green had been in redu.ed circumstances for some years, and news had just reached her of the death of her brother, in the Isle of Man, who had left her £350. The deceased was on her way to Mr Lewis' office, to 1 sign the papers, and get the money, when death over-took her. The body was removed to Pciike's Koyal Mail Hotel, where an inquest will he held, i Mr Jules J. Archibald, the original projector and one of the present proprietors of the "Sydney Bulletin," is still in London, but in better health and spirits than he was some months ago. M»* Archibaht returns to Australia in February. He is at present interested in ventilating through the metropolitan pros* a very remarkable theory ho ha<« evolved a? to the Tichhorne case. Tt is that the lunatic in the Paramatta Asylum is (as the Claimant avers) Orton, and that the Claimant hinißuif as William Crasswell. The evidence by which Mr Archibald hopes to prove the identity of Orton appears overpowering. For one thing, the facial likeness between Arthur Orton's two brothers and the Syilney lunatic is something extraordinary. All three men, too are afflicted with pr -cisely the same spinal complaint and consitutionnl defects. On the second day of the M;uterton Opaki races some capital dividends were paid by the tota'isator. In the Hack Hurdle Race, Rainbow won and gave his backers the nice little haul of f2O 16s for every £'1 invested. Tn tha Hack Race Snsatte, who had only seven partisans, who received £23 2s per pound ; both these were, however, surpassed in the Consolation Race, in winch Ctibbage rewarded his supporters with a 126 14s dividend. "Jacob Terry" (Mr R. J. Creighton) i writing to the Otago D.iily Tin -m, siys that the cultivation of beetroot for su^ar manufacturing purposes hns proved a complete failure in California. It was found that making the sugar did not P ay - Mr C. Y. F»U l«ft Nelson for England on Thursday, as a delegate in the interests of Nelson, in connection with the overland railway. We urn lerstand that ho is to be paid 1000 for the work, wirh an additional provision of ' 5 par day for every dav he is absent over *\x m tuths. The Union Steamship Company have issued an illustrated T7an Ibook of Zealand, entitled, "Maoriland." The work has not being well received by the Press. The Lyttelton Tini'S says, infernlut :---" Wo are told that there are two ways of reaching Nelson from Westport : one by sea direct, the other involving a return to Christtthnrch. What, then, has lmcnmn of the overland route alongside j the Buller River, the scenery of which ie one of this Island's glories ?" We take the following items from the Wear port 'limp* : — "Tt is painfully noticeable that the number of unemployed to be seen about the streets <-f Westport is larger than his been the case for a loner time past. Tn addition to the men thrown mit of work by the colliers' strike— and this unfortunate occurrence has affected many laboring men besidos the colliers themselves — the promised commencement of 'harbor works has attracted many men here from other parts of the Colony, most of thorn old Westporfians, and all these of course, are anxiously awaiting tho time when they can get to work. It is satisfactory to know that Mr Bell is doing |,; s level best to get a start made with the works. In connection with the unemployed we may mention that half-a--dozen colliers— single men — left for Gr<»ymonth, by the Grafton, on Thursday night. Some few w»ekft a»o liconses for prospecting areas of 610 acres ench, in the Raremea district, were anpiifld for by Messrs Thomas Sherlock, P. O'Brien, and J. Nestor, on behalf, we understand, of a large party. The why and wherefore is now made '»n"wn, in the f.ict that a deposite of stream tin ore has been din covered in the Karamea district. A sample

of the mineral was brought to town a wuek or two back, and aoiuo of it aubiuitte.l to MrCaples, of Reeftow, (whu is an amateur mineralogist) has gained a very favorable report. Mr Z. C. dome has imw roceived a largo parcel of the orj. To the unimtintod even, the value «>f the stuff ia plainly apparent, on account of the large percentage of gold it contains. A quantity of the ore is to be forwarded t<» Dr Hector for testing. We Bhall anxiously await his report.