The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKY WEDNESDAY, MARCH .18, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1523, 18 March 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKY WEDNESDAY, MARCH .18, 1885.

The bazaar in aid of the funds of the Reef ton Catholic School opened in • the Qddfellows Hall on Monday, evening last. The room presented a very attractive appearance the stalls, six in number, being •ranged d<twn each side, and the display of fancy wares was of a very choice and varied description. The hall was literally packed with people during the evening, the crush of visitors being such thnt it was only with the greatest difficulty and discomfort that persons could get about. The.varioas stall-holders did a fiir business, the aggregate of the sales reaching to between £70 and £80. A novel feature of the txjcasion was the naming <>f the different stalls after the leading mining companies. Thus for instance there was the Welcome stall, the Energetic stall, the Hopeful stall, the Wealth of Nations, Justiu-Time and so on. The City Band was preseut, and during the evening discoursed some excellent music. The bazaar was continued last night, the attendance being if anything larger than on the preceding night. It will reopen again to-night, when the balance of the goods will be cleared.

The principal event at the Grey races yesterday was won by Cardigan, Volunteer being second.

Mails for the Australian Colonies and United Kingdom via Sydney close at Auckland per Ringaroomaon Wednesday, 18th, at 10 a.m., due in London on sth May.

The non-arrival in Rceft»n yesterday of the customary accession of visitors from Bnattnnu's deprived the town of much «»f the bustle and crowding incident to holi day time. Business people generally must have felt the absence of the visitors. A good many Reef ton people wont out t«» Bo:it ma;fs, the drive or ride being one of the principal atttractious.

The races will be continued to-day, and it is intended to offer a number of prizes for foot-racing to be run in the intervals between the events.

Mr J. Nagle has removed to his new premises adjoining Smith and Barkley's Broadway.

At the opening »>f a new girls' school in Sydney, Archbishop Morau referred to the recent dynamite outrages in London, Paris, and other places on the Continent, which he said had tilled the whole civilised world with horror. There whs not, hewas sure, a man »>f cotnnmn flense in Sydney or throughout Australia who would hesitate before venturing on the statement that such fiendish men were trained in religious schools. It was not by the teaching of the Church that such men were led, and their acts, which filled the world with shame and horror, were the fruits of that system which aimed at the suppression of all religion and authority.

It is almost exactly 31 years (writes a contemporary) sinco Russia was tbe recipient of an ultimatum from England, who »n that occasion was supported by France, by whom also tho ultimatum was signed. The occasion, of course, wan that which subsequently led to the Crimean War. The AngloFrench ultimatum was sent to *t. Petersburg on February 27, 1854. The only response was contained in a dispatch of March 19 following, to the effect that "the Czar did not judge it suitable to give an answer " In the meantime, on March 11, the Baltic fleet had sailed under Sir C. Napier, on March 12 the treaty between England, France, and Turkey was concluded, and on March 27 and 28 England and France respectively declared war against the Northern P»we». The hostilities that followed did nut cease till February 29, 1856, and peace was proclaimed in April following.

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