The Inagahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 18,1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1511, 18 February 1885, Page 2

The Inagahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 18,1885.

The luglewood Extended Company, Reef ton, advertise in Dun«din for the purchase by tender of an engine and boiler of not lees than 14 horse- power. At the Ministerial banquet the '•t'l.er night, speaking of the coal resources of the Colony, Mr Thos. Bruce bore the following testimony to the valuj of our deposits ; He said he had himself been a miner since he was nine years of age, and had labored in that capacity for from one shilling a day, to £10 per week in England and New Zealand, and speaking from long experience he could affirm unhesitatingly that our coal resources were second to none in the world. Within the last three years he had visited England, and had seen them working there at a profit coal seams three feet thick. At firunnerton the coal was 16 feet thick. When he told them at home that seams of such thickness were common in this part of New Zealand they looked with incredulity. He had inquired a good deal into the coal industry at Home on his recent trip, and as the result of his experience and knowledge of the subject he had no hesitation in saying that the foal resources of thit colony would eventually prove the mott valuable possessions under the British Crown. A meeting of the members of the Reefton Foot-ball Club will be held at the i Southern Cross Hotel, on Thursday, (to- ; morrow) evening at 8 o'clock, for the • purpose of deciding upon the color of uniform, and ordering same. Messrs Gallagher Bros, had to close their salvage saleyesterday evening, owing to the Oddfellow's Hall being othewise engaged to-day, but as there isstill a large quantity of drapery, boots and shoes on hand they will re-open on Friday morj ningand continue the sale until Saturday j night, after which the balance of the goods if any will be positively withdrawn. We are requested to state that every article I will be re-marked to-day, and still greater reductions made upon each, the desire being to clear every line at any sacrifice. Mr P. M'Parland announces that one of his coaches will in future leave Boatmans daily at Ba. m ., the other leaving Reefton for Boatman's daily at 4 p.m. thus enabling visitors from Boatman's to do their business in Reefton and return home on the same day. A correspondent writes to us cnmplaining of the nuisance caused in the lower part of the town by flocks of geese "camping" nightly in the vicinity of his residence. He declares that he resides on a guano island, and he has tsked us to insert this paragraph as a sort of flag of distress, in order that some one who sails the deep " blue " may note the signal, and succor the sanitary cast-away. In another column we give a somewhat condensed report ot the Hon. the Premier's political address at Reeftou. The report was taken under some difficulty, the lighting of the new Schoolroom being bad, and is therefore not as complete as it might otherwise have been. The contractors in the Just-in-Time Company have now completed 85ft of their distance. The country being passed through is of a favorable character. The returns from the Golden Treasure Company for last week's crushing gave 94 oz of amalgam from 90 tons of stone. We learn that the committee of the Boatman's Athletic Carnival have received a large number of entries for their St. Patrick's sports. Amongst the nominations to hand being some from Westport, Bruunerton, Kumara, and other outside places The nominations for the handicap race closed on the 15th instant, but as letters bearing the post mark of that date may yet come to hand, the list of entries will not be available for publication for a few days. The Soudan Expedition has already j cost the English Government 113,000,000, and it promises now to reach £30,000,000 before the object is accomplished. The Black's Point School Committee, owing to the prevalence of whoopingcough amongst the children have found it necessary to close the public school there for a time. What is supposed to be the codlin moth is doing serious injury to the apple crop in the Inangahna. The crop otherwise would have been a remarkably profitable one, but the fruit is all disfigured by the insect which first attaches a leaf to the apple and then bores into the fruit. New South Wales has immortalised it self. Having " licked creation " at cricket and rowing she is now sending a team t<> Egypt to howl over the Mahdi. It is said ' that Joe Thompson, who has opened a hook on the event, backs the Mahdi this time. The following amongst other business was transacted at the last meeting of the Nelson Education Board : — The Reefton Committee made au application for £369, of which £275 was for a new house and i £25 for land. It was resolved to grant 4:25 for erecting a division fence in the playground and boxing in watf-r tanks. Mr Shepherd Raid he would rather allow ' the teacher holism-allowance than erect a I building at Reefton. The Black's Point , Committee applied for f 115 for fencing and draining, but the application was held over until the Inspector's return. (

f following paragraph is from th« Matauta Ensign :— " The heathein Chinee hat broken one in a fresh place and , fatter displayed his wonderful power of adding himself to # e^Jb»ofttancejg|j» The deflHl furnished tefthe Waikal*^llce ar» f*nu»in<?. Yanq^fet ia an Englishfjieajting Chinaraalk^ v.tfq does much bttnness for his oeolßtrymeii. Ah Yum is a celestial of the ordinaryjtype, whose correspondence Yam Yet conducted Ah Yum has a brother resident iv, Victoria,. , whose circumstances are * above the I average. Of this fact the astute Yam Yet availed himself by writing a letter stating that Ah* Yum was. arrested ojla. serious charge, but that for £35 remitted he (Yam Yet), who was interpreter and detective, could bribe the Magistrates and j save him from hanging. The brother, with that family affection so characteristic of the race, immediately forwarded a post office order for £10, and promised to remit the rest as quickly as he could raise it. Yam Yet quietly pocketed this as windfall, but unfortunately f<>r him the second remittance was forwarded direct to Ah Yum. Then the fat was in the fire, and the matter was handed over to the ! police. Forger}' and embezzlement have hitherto been so exclusively the privilege of the upper ten, such as lawyers, bankers, and commission agents, that this bold intrusion of a Chinaman on their domain is certain to excite just and vehement indignation." I The other day (observes the Wanganui J Chronicle) two aspiring youths, who had wearied of their monotonous existence in a Iwcal ironmongery store, decided to set out upon a search for riches. In other words, they took asu Iden departure for Wainu, where they started gum-digging. The first two or three mails brought news that they were clearing £50 a week, but it now transpires that their experience is but a repetition of the Scripture story of j the prodigal son. They have been eating the husks, and finding them less palatable than home fare, have, in effect wired down to the old folks, ' Fatted calf for two !" The Charleston Herald is very wroth because the Charleston people were not officially invited to the Westport Harbor Celebration, and that the Ministerial visit to that town was unannounced. Our contemporary blames the member for the district, and protests against him assuming the autocracy of this district so long as it can boast a newspaper, and men residing ir. the locality capable of dealing with local questions and supporting their claims with intelligence. Only a few hundred of the Victorian aboriginees remain in the land of their fathers. The small remnant, largely ! mixed with half-castes, is taken care of on two or three mission stations. These i senii-civiiised people appear ta eirjot/ tikeiri condition .pretty jrelL . JtU^now a l«jrge,j party of them are encamped on the beach j at Brighton under the shade of the titree | ; scrub. They have had numerous visitors, ; ! whom they have entertained with the ; singing of hymns and other exercises. I The tueti are mostly married, and have j families, and when on the mission-stations j they are employed in agricultural and j other work, for which they develop a j moderate taste. In the shearing season they give help to the neighbouring squatters. Their Salvation Army exercises seem to be up to the level of those j of their white-skinned brethren. I