The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15,1855.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1574, 15 July 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1855.

The crushing defeat sustaiued by the Government on their amended tariff proposals seems to have deprived the course of the session for the time being of all public interest. The Opposition having asserted its strength land humbled the Ministry, has suddenly "smoothed its wrinkled front," and, waiving all regard for. constitutional precedent, appears to have but one other aim left, and that is to keep the Govecnmeut in office, while at the same time preventing them from doing harm. On the other hand the Ministry, fully aware no doubt of the weakness of their position, yet reluctant to throw np the sponge, are cutting and slicing their measures with the desperation »»f a drowning man. Their latest defeat on the Employment of Females Bill, though in itself a comparatively trivial matter, &hows how- completely the Government have misjudged popular feeling, and their determination to force a division on sudi a stupid fad as the prohibition of barmaids, and this in defiance of the strongest protests from their own supporters is not the least surprising part of it. A Ministry in a minority framing laws, and an Opposition in a majority tearing them to pieces is truly an unique experience in Colonial Parliamentary,, 'history, and certainly cannot last long. News reached town last night of the striking of the reef in the Lucid lease. No particulars are yet to hand. The District Court will sit on Fridny next, before His Honor Judge Broad. There is no business on the criminal side of the Court, but there are one or two civil cases which will probably occupy some time. The annual election of W.M. of the Pacißc TxWlge of Reefton, took place on the 30th ult., when Bro. W. Cummins was duly returned to that position. The installation ceremony will be performed by Bro. J. Kerr, D.D.G.M., of Greymouth, on the 28th instant. The following officers will then be installed for the ensuing year : Bro. W. Cummins, W.M. ; Bro. G. Casley, S.W. ; Bro. W. Cochrane, junr. J. W. ; Bro. J. Wills, S.D. ; Bro. W. Banks, J.D. ; Bro. J. v aysuiith, I.G. ; and Bro. J. M' Arthur, Tyler, Bro. J. I. Aiken was re-elected hon. Treasurer. After the installation ceremony a banquet will be held at Stevenson's Hotel. The European cable news this morning is a little disquieting. In the first place the Minister of War, in bringing down supplementary estimates, including, as it would seem, an additional demand for military expenditure, informed tho House that military preparations were being continued pending a settlement of the Afghan question with Russia. We have also the information that Russia is still pouring reinforcements into Central Asia. These facts, with the communication recently made to the House by Lord Salisbury go some way to prove that England is only as yet at the end of the beginning of th# Afghan difficulty, and that time has in no way lessened the probabilities of a rupV»r«. .... •■ . „ Mrs Haropson, the well known evangelistie l«ut ureas (says the Hubart Mer

eury) secnred a friend indeed in her homeward passage, via California, in the persf>n of Mr John Thomas Waterhouße, who traded in Hobart as a merchant and shipowner from 1839 to 1851, after which he translated himself to Honolulu, where his lines have fallen in pleasant places, j and he is one of the most liberal religiousj enthusiasts of the day. At Mrs Hampson's farewell meeting at the Cedar Rapids on the 20th April, the heavy expense of her mission was brought before the Sixth -avenue congregation of 3000, j by the presiding clergyman, who proposed a sdol. subscription to meet the engagement, when a still small voice waa heard in the body of the assemblage, protesting against such a mode of doing evangelistic ( business, and offering to pay the whole of the expenses (SOOdol.) It was Mr . l. T. Waterhouse who spoke, and it need | scarcely be laid that his generour offer was gratefully accepted. He is the eldest I son of the first Superintendent of Australasian and Polynesian Wesleyan Missions, and brother of the Hon. O. M. Waterhouse, an ex- Premier of New Zealand. It was announced in our cablegrams recently that the rush in the Snowy River distriut had turned out a failure. From our exchanges we glean the following particulars of the locality and the cause of the ground is at Black Watch Creek, 15 miles from Mount Ellery and 46 miles from Orlwst. It appears that Messrs Wman, Whitelaw, and Robs M 'Donald have been prospecting the ranges in that vicinity for some months with no great success, but at Black Watch Creek they came across some promising prospects. They assort positively that the ground has been tried for a distance of between thret> and four miles, and that gold has been obtained in every ' hole. There is nothing, however, to warrant the rush that has set in. The diggings were discovered about two months ago by Norman Whitelaw and Ross M'Douald. They had washed up a small paddock, shallow -sinking, 3ft. to 6ft. getting coarse, shotty gold. One piece brought here weighs 2dwt. 9gr. and is of very good quality. The diggings are 46 miles from OrboSt ; the road is bad ; there is no feed for horses, but plenty of water. The country is very cold and wet, and a perfect v ildornesa. Flour will be from A3 to £5 per bag, and all other stores in proportion Everything must be brought by pack-horses. There is no house between Orbost and the scene of the rush. The prospectors <pit*l£ozs for six days' work for three men ; the six days' work was washed in three hours. A late Canterbury paper says :— The news of the West Coast Rs.i way delegates is good. Yesterday a r,el.;j>ram was received here that a meeting with certain capitalists was to come off the following day. Having been asked for his opinion as to the result, the Aywit-General has cabled that he thinks very well of the possibilities. Though the Victorian and Queensland loans have proved entirely successful, \ they were not raisfid without beinsr sub- j jected to some and possibly not altogether i unwholesome criticism. England's Mittl« j bill acains' the colonies is mounting up. The Australasian colonies (including New , Zealand) now owe the trifle of £125,000, J 000. . I Mr Guinness's motion to provide a i home for destitute miners and settlers on fche West Coast, was withdrawn at the suggestion of the Premier, who stated j that the subject could l>e discussed when j the Hospital and Charitable Aids Bijl was I under discussion. Mr O'Conor objected to the erection of poor houses in the colony, and protested against the Coast being chosen for the first experiment in that direction. He did not wish to see a system of pauperism introduced, with which, he felt sure, miners, as a body, had no sympathy. The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star says of Mr Wak^field's speech : — He scored point after point off Sir Julius, the most effective one beinij that in the early days of the Colony, before we had financiers and politicians with patent methods of producing prosperity,employment was far more frequently and more easily found than now, because employers were more numerous and better off. Another point was his reference to the working men's cottages scheme, which the Financial Statement claimed would be a power as benefteient as it would be profitable. He said that it would be a power that would prove as demoralising as it was likely to be ruinous, and he did no\ believe that any working man worthy of the name would live in one hi these "road board sheds." Another point was when he censured the Treasurer for bringing before the House Mr Seed's documents on the Customs tariff, palpably with the object of laying open to blame a gentleman who was not in the House, and totally unable to defend himself. The La Monte process of gold-saving is rapidly .coming into tiae at rho Thames. The Advertiser says :- -The proprietors of the Woodstock ciaim, Karaimhake, have lost no time in setting in motion the arrangements for the erection of the La Monte smelting furnace. Application was made at the Warden's office recently for a machine site on the flat near the Hairauki Company's battery, and «!*■» f<»r the right to the necessary water race, from which power will be taken for driving the blast connected with the furnace. It may be mentioned that Mr Davis, who has undertaken the erection of the plant, receives one half the ownership of the mine, and in the event of the venture proving successful his expenditure of £4000 will be recouped from the P«" 4| fiy| he, however, accepting the full risk W failure. A let'-erfrotn the Governor of Kiisi»a!a, dated April 13, and received at Suakim, « Bayß ; " Having heard of the advance of

the British troop* we are still holding <tut with the hope that we ehall be relieved. WV) have eaten all the donkeys, and are now living on sesame. Although I have orders to cut ray way out, I will not leave my people." It u impossible, a correspondent says, to express the feeling at Cairo of the forlorn hope of this brave garrison, which has held out for over a year. It might have been saved,' but it is now evidently destined to share the fate of Khartoum, Tokar, and Sinkat. The Governor of KassaU is a Circassian, and is called a second Gordon. The inhabitants are estimated at from 25,000 to 30,000. There was much the same stir among commercial men at home before the delivery of Mr Ohilders' Budget as with our traders here beforo Sir Julius Vogel unloaded himself of his financial proposals. For instance a well known firm of tobaocouists cleared, }t is said, to the extent of £48,000 of duty. Tea merchants, under shiilar ahrm, also made heavy clearances, twi« London firms alone paying just upon £100,000 oY fduty. Spirit merchants, thinking they had already reached the maxim urn, nefer dreamt of increarad duty. There was quite a rush of customers at the spirit department of the various co-operative stores on the day after the Budget. The Christchurch iV"*» hits Sir Julius Vogel's logic fery smartly when it says : — "Some of the Treasurer's excuses for selecting the Custom House as the medium for raising the extra taxation, which he says is necessary, are most extraordinary, and almost as foolish as the proposals which they are intended to excuse. He finds that the receipts from the spirit duties have been declining for the last two or three years, because we drink less than we used to do. In his opinion, therefore, the fact that we have became less drunken and more respectable is a good reason for {hitting an extra 2d a ft on tea, and other heavy duties on many little delicacies an-i on most of the necessaries of life. Because we do not warm ourselves with spirits as muchjas we did, he is going to make it more expensive for us to warm ourselves with coal. This is surely an odd way 1 of improving the condition of the people. To punish a people because they drink less whisky and brandy than they used is rather- a novel idea. Trees have been found in Africa which were computed to be 5150 years old, and a cypress in . Mexico is said to have reached a still greater age. The oldest individual specimen of any species in fact, the oldest living tiling on the globe —is probably theoypresß of Santa Maria del Tule, in the Mexican State of Onaxaca. If entitivsfes of tree ages are to be. relied upon, tlus veneraHe forest monarch may have spanned the whole period of written history. At last accounts it was still irrowingg and in 1851, when HuntI holdt saw it,, it measured 42 feet in diameter, 146 feet in circumference, and 282 feet between the extremities f of two \ opposite branches. ' | ONJfi BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 : PILLS .is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either sex (n. (j'ifrecl.or constitutional). Gravel, and Pu. is in th<3 Back. Guaranteed free fmm Mercury. Sold in Boxes, 4s. 6*l *r/i.'h, by all Chemwth andPatent Medicine V% uAnn ; Sole Proprietors, Thb Lincoln .'.:;') Midland; Counties Dbug Co., Lin<v.l>>, England. Wholesale of all Die Wholesale Houses Kidney and Urinary *complftints of all kinds permanently cured with Hop Bitters. Genuine made by American Co. Read