The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1547, 13 May 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1885.

W« regret to have to record the death of Mrs Gittoas, wif* of Mr E. <Jitt->es, butcher. Black's Point, which took place 'on Monday last. The funeral took place yesterday and was largely attended. The chamber in the Globe Company's mine was finished on Monday last, and the work of driving to connect with the reef has been commenced. The reef will be met with in abaut a fortnight's time, and within a short time thereafter crushing will be commenced at the battery. Murray and party have just completed a small crushing of something less than two tons of stone at the Golden Treasure Company's battery. The yield obtained j was Boz 4d"wt 9gra of retorted gold. Tbe quartz is said to be from a newly discovered . quartz r«ef in the vicinity, the •xact locality of which is n«t yet made known. Owing to the inconvenience caused to the workmen, the directors of the Happy Valley Company have decided to stop visitors from going down the shaft. The progress of the sinking has been much delayed of late by the number of persons wishing to inspect the mine. The usual fortnightly sitting of the Warden's and Magistrate's Courts will be held to-morrow. The chief business set down f«r hearing is the case of Plaskwtt v. Williams, au information charging defendant, a member *f the Inangahua County Council, with having taken part in the discussion, and voted upon a ffiotiou in the Council in whicb he had a personal interest. The particulars of the action are well known. At the last meeting of the Council a motion was proposed that the County Chairman, in which position defendant was acting, should receive a salary of L2OO per annum. To this an amendment was proposed tHat the salary should be only one shilling per month. The votiag on the amendment and the motion was four and four, and on the casting vote of the chairman the amendment was thrown out and the motion declared carried. There was a capital attendance at the I Oddfellow's Hall on Monday evening last when the Willmott Company performed a new version of "EastLynne." The piece was played throughout with marked effectiveness, Miss Lawrence, Miss Wyatt, Miss Robinson and Miss Norris appearing at their best. Indeed it is hard to say upon whom the greater praise should be bestowed. Miss Lawrence in the leading role, had the most difficult and trying situation*,- and it is only scant justice t« aay that she fairly eclipsed herself. Upon the whole her representation of the character was the best we have witnessed. Miss Wya t was no less effective, her acting being at all times easy and natural. Mist Norris as the grumpy Cwrney was really excellent and during the evening won unstinted applause. Miaa Robinson had but littie to do, but iv that little gave unmistakeable evidence of histronic \ talent of no mean order. The male parts i were well balanced, and between Mr ! Balfe »nd Mr Diver the huuors were well I

divided. Mr Simmonds had a good deal to I do, and proved himself a thoroughly useful and rising member of the Company. Mr Marter played with care and judgment as he always does. Taking the j representation altogether it was one of the most enjoyable yet £.iven in Reef ton. A football match will be played on the race-course grounds on Saturday next between fifteen of the local football club against all -coiners. Play will commence at 2-30 sharp, and it is to be hoped there will be a good muster of all-comers, in order to give the match team, if possible, a good tying up. The match with Greymouth is fixed for the 23rd instant, and it is therefore advisable that the real prowess of our contingent should be put to the test on Saturday. Several of the leading residents waited upon Mr F. M. Willmott yesterday and expressed their desire, on the eve of his departure, of tendering some mark of recognition for his enterprise in catering so handsomely for the amusement of the public of Recfton. Mr Willmott expressed himself gratified at having secured the appreciation of the people of Reefton. He had brought the company up at considerable cosft, Mid if he had *«t been so successful as ne could have wished, he had at all events much to thank the people here for. It was arranged that the presentation should take the form of a complimentary benefit to Mrs Willmott, and Friday evening was suggested as the most fitting opportunity. Mr Willmott tmu\ he would place, up»n the boards a play worthy of the good offices of his friends and the occasion. The piece would be Dion Bouccicault's magnificent dramatic creation "Formosa." The company lonre for Boatman's this morning, returning on Friday. Nothing could be more complimentary to the musical taste and culture of the people of the West Coast than the faot of this part of the Colony being now almost invariably included in the Colonial taurs of all musical artists of any eminence. There was a time when a third or fourth rsfte company of " niggers " was thought to be fnily up to the public taste and intellectual development of West Coast audiences. But a better understanding evidently now prevails, and scarcely has the fervor excited by the great Remenyi and his talented associates subsided when two other stars of the musical fermament are with us, in the persons of Macfame Paulineßita ;»;•!#<» doxnaassohrfrt and Mr J. Radcliff. The latter may be termed ' the Remenyi of the flute, and his execution is spoken »f as nothing short of marvellous. These gifted artists will* appear on Wednesday next. One of Mr Radcliffs specialties is that \v all his groat solos he finds ample scope in the popular airs of the day, a circumstance which has everywhere aroused jn his audiences an enthusiasm which has rareiy been equalled and never excelled by the " King of the Violin." Tn the course of his recent address to the Nelson Chamber of Commerce, the President said :— The gravest local matter dependent on the political situation is the success or failure of the floating at Home of the East and West Coast railway. Tn this, hwwever, we> are powerless to act, and can only await the issue. The question of local defence is an important one, and will, I trust, be discussed to-day. It ia a matter of congratulation that the West Coast overland mail service has been made tri -weekly instead of bi- weekly. As to connection by rail with t!ie coach, I there appears to be nothing approaching ! paya"le inducement to run extra trains, but possibly something may be done in the way of altering the present service to give better connection. Mr Stone has expressed his willingness to meet your Committee to discuss the matter. In the course of his remarks at Oamaru, Major Cautley said the Government were giving to try and keep Russian cruisers 1 away from the larger towns, where the guns now lay, but the expense of doing so was frightful. It would cost £100 to take one of the guns at Port Chalmers and erect it at Taiavoa He»ids, and it was cheap to the Government at that price, as the mau who had offered t« do it had all the necessary tackle which the Government were require i to purchase. The guns would carry 4000 yards, and make tolerably good shooting, but t!iey were out of date now. Yet the English had hundreds of similai ones defending ports such as Gibral.ar, hut of course they were bt:ing gradually replaced by others. The great objeot now was to protect gunners from the machine fire as these machin* guns tired about 100 shots per minuie, and some of them fired explosive shots as well. Tue*Nordenfclt jjnn throws a shut Gib weight, but the Russians had not got many of these guns. The question of fortifying the smaller towns would shortly cmne bofore Parliament after his report was sent in. What the Government required was a fast cruiser to defend such ports as Oamaru. A correspondwnt writes as fallows to the Grey Argus : — Sir. — According to the i Reefton Times of the 4th inst., the match to be played on the 23rd inst. between the Reefton and Greymouth Football Clubs is to consist of three spells of thirty minutes each. It is necessary that our footballers should be made acquainted with tins foot 30 that by regular and frequent practices they may prepare themselves for such a trying ordeal. Without proper training a man may cut a dashing figure in a football contest for ona or. even two spells of thirty minutes, but without training it is impossible for him to play the third halfhour in such a style. What our men want, but what, unfortunately they persistently ignore, is system , lie practice in all the branches of the game of football. If they paid more attention to dribbling, passing, &c. ; if they displayed less selfishness, and, did not endeavour to run with the ball whenever by any chance i they get possession of it if they thought

less abnnt the applause of the spectators j , and more about their duty to their colleagues — then scoring would become more rapid, and victory more certain. Every man who has been selected by the Reef ton Club is known to me. But that does not give me any anxiety, for experience has taught me what to confidently expect from such men as M'Greggor, Miller, and Harle— plucky Harle —nothing but excellent work. But in the backs, halfbacks, and quarter-backs I don't place such confidence. It is well-known to all farward players who took part in the late match between Hokitika that they were actually afraid to feed the backs ; and, as a consequence, almost the entire brunt of the battle was borne by the forwards. I do not mean to say that there are not »wifi> runners — at all events tolerably ■ivift runners atn«»« the backs, but Ido say that they wore n*>t then reliable ; there was t<io much stumbling and s« forth shown by some <>f them. Things may have improved since that time, but I doubt it. In or ler to enable them to Bay when the match with Reefton is finished, that they are the best footballers on the West Coast, let the tneu wh« have been chosen to play or. the 23rd inst. forget themselves altogether and think only of the honor r.f their Club ; let them cease to imitate the majority of our cricketers, who imagine that cricket consists in batting and batting alone ; let them go in for thorough practice— practice in all the branches of the game ; let them remember that the m»re skillful the footballers are the less the scrimmaging | will be. These lines have been written, with the object of infusing some life into the members of our Football Club.— l am, &c,, H. A very exciting incident occurred last week at the Constellation mine, Eaglehawk, which showed the extraordinary presence of mind retained by a miner named Shirley, resident near Eajlelmvk. Shirley was engaged blasting, and had sat fire to two holes which had been charged with dynamite, and was ascending the ladders te get out of the way of the charge, when the ladder by some means fell, 'and Shirley was .precipitated to the bottom, falling fairly over the charges. Fortunately the ladder fell on one of the fuses^and extinguished it. Seeing the danger he was placed in, Shirley seized the other fuse and pulled it out of the hole without being injured in the slightest, thefiise merely smouldering. He sustained rather severe injuries on the legs and arms through the ladder falling, but otherwise he was not injured through the Wast. He is now progressing very favourably. A complimentary dinner was sjiven to Hanlan in Sydney prior to hia departure, when he was presented with a diamond and saphire breastpin and a massive silver salver, and a gold bracelet for Mrs Hanlan. In returning thanks Hanlan said he felt it very hard to have to leave the honor of the sar in Australia, but he had been beaten fairly by an oarsman such as n* otlier nnrt of the world had seen excepting the P rt »ramatt;i River and the people of Sydney. He had been beaten in n fair contest, and by a better man than himself. It was, however, hia intention to visit Australia again to compete with thwir representative, Beach, and he knew tliat Jip should receive the fairest of fair play, which was all he wanted. He had never sesn a faster sculler than Beach. The following is a comparative return of the value <<f gold entered for duty for exportation from New Zealand for the quarters ended 31st March, 1885, and 31st March, 1884 : -

I Totals £255,215 £249,579 The Hon. John Colt«n, Colonial Secretary of South Australia, who recently visited this Colony, says :—'• New Zealand is a fine country, hut there is a good deal of inferior land, and most of the lest soil is pretty well taken up, and a great quantity of it is in the hands of a few people. N*w that the New Zealand people have became acc«st«mod to i they say they hare' no difficulty in work ing the Property Tax Act. At the sam time, the Govern snant there intend to % in for a Land tax para and simple if the; can manasre to get Parliament t« adop it. Of course there are differences o opinion on the question, but from what 1 heard of the genera! opinions expressed, now that they understand the Property Tax better, it works comparatively easy. Still they are, as I said, going in for s Land tax, and if they can they will ais* try to pass an Income tar. I saw Mi Stout, the head of the Governmeni frequently. He was always the essence of politeness, gave mo every information and placed all the papers he could at my disposal, particularly in regard to the working of their taxation and education systems. -Their educational system is a m«st expensive one, and the people complain that they are spending too much money upon it. I think they are. It is comparatively more costly than our system. " Mr Labouchore says in Truth :— When I consider how very few things that are in this world really worth knowing, and that most of these can be picked up in conversation ; that reading, writing and arichmetic are all that a man wants to s'art with in life, and the largest fortunes nave been ruacheil t>y men ajstting out with no other equipment, I can't boliove that it is necessary to catch a child fram his mother's arms at tive (the legal a»e,) and keep him in school all day J'MUC till he is thirteen, and ruin his health and tloHtr jy hi* liapuineßS, at the expens

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; 1885. 1884. £ £ Auckland 26,441 26,778 Wellington &}0 Nolsun 3,735 3,338 West Coast "... 125,887 109,762 Otago 99,152 109,311