The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JULY 17,1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1575, 17 July 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1886.

The nextf English and European mail i via the direct contract steamer Riinutaka, I will close at the postoffice Reefton, on i Tuesday, the 28th day of July, at 6 a.m., doe at Plymouth on September. Correspondence to be marked " via Rimutaka.'' The sittings of the District Court, before His Honor Judge Broad, will open this morning at 11 o'clo k, instead of 10 o'clock as hitherto. The principal case set down for hearing is an appeal from the decision of the Warden's Conrt in the case of Justin-Time and Fiery Cross Companies v. Beeche and Co., in which action the assessors found for the defendants, Beeche and Co. It is understood that counsel on either side have agreed to a statement of facts in the case, thus obviating the necessity offgoing over the evidence afresh, and reducing the dispute to a dry matter of law. This will have effect of greatly shortening the case. There are one or tw.o applications under the Mining Coapanies Act and bankruptcy matters, which, however, will not occupy the Court for any length of time. We understand that there was considerable speculation yesterday in Venus shares, transactions being closed early in the day at 4s. j The Welcome battery started crushing on Friday last, and will probably be kept j fully employed for a fortnight. In the ■ meantime the work of opening up the j number eight level is being vigorously ! pushed forward. j His Honor Judge Broad and Major j Keddell, R.M., Greymouth, reached j Reefton last night, having driven through in a private trap. In another column Mr Sydney Smith, who has just arrived, announces that he w j prepared to give private lessons on the j piano, also that be will undertake tuning [ and repairing of instruments, an oppor- ! tunity such as this seldom offers itself < here and no doubt many wiH, therefore, j avail themselves of it, further particulars^ may be had on application to Mr Smith, ( al William's Hotel. The long pending action brought by F. M. Willmott, theatrical lessee, against the owners of the s.s. Hauraki for £52, the value of boxes of clothing and jewellery washed overboard between Waitara and Picton, was called on again to-day. There was no appearance of the plaintiff whose council said he had' no instructions to proceed,. On the application of defendants' counsel the case was struck out, and the plaintiff ordered t« pay £17 13s costs. It was on April 28th, 1880, that Mr Gladstone assumed office, so that his Aministration lasted 5 years 41 days. That of his great rival (Lord Beaeonsfield) whom he suceeded, lasted 6 years and 66 days. Mr Gladstone's previous term of office was 5 years 74 days, and that of Lord Palmerston's second Administration was 6 yean 141 days. These are among the longest periods for which an English Government has held office in modern times, Pitt's Ministry, formed in 1783, ' however, lasted 17 years 84 days, «md the ] Earl of Liverpool, who became Premier in ' 1812, remained in office 14 years 319 iays. The shortest lived Ministry on ' rec«rd in the present century it that of ' Sir Robert Peel, formed in 1834, which ] ifter a fitful existence of 113 days, gave jlace to Lord Melbourne's Government. In a report of the atonual meeting of the C Jnion Insurance Company, which was ! leld at Christchtirch on Tuesday last, it appears that a r«ts<dution was moved, that c agents and officers of the company were J o take uo part in any contested election j or the directory of' the company, except '( j recording their votes. In seconding r

the motion, Mr Louiuon aaii he thought the motion absolutely necessary, "fr.«m # what had taken pluce at the Hokitika branch." The Chairman (Mr P«acock)' said that u Mr Buimr, who was the gtntletnan particularly aimed at, .«•»« au old friend of himself and Mr Stea.l, and no 1 doubt had interested himself in their favor from spontaneous good feolin^ He might say that Mr B<.t»w ha 3 auiforised him to contradict the statement that any shareholder had been n-iused a pr«>xy." A Wellington correspondent of the Kuraara Times, telegraphs as follows :— " Dr Monckton has askt;d an enquiry into the cause of his dismissal by the Kumara Hospital Committee. The Committee, in a letter of 29th of June, also courted inquiry. To oblidge both parties the Colonial secretary had appointed Dr Giles and Major Keddell to inquire into and report an the whole matter from the beginning. The. Colonial Secretary also asks to be supplied with the alleged written agreement entered into between Dr Davy and the Committee." A correspondent writes to the- Western Independent of Jane:- Rather a novel sight was t» be se«?n on the road between Sunny Corner and the main road to Rydal on Friday evening last a dray with five stout horaes all but broken down, laden with pure silver from the Sunny Corner : mine. The roads are in a terrible state ; ( and the axle of the dray was fairly ; bents with the weight, and the horses were ploughing it through the mud. SomeI 'An\e after I saw the dray containing the { 'precious burden," it was then being discharged into another, I presume a stronger one. I counted 32 or 33 neatly made boxes, about 20tn. by 6in., strapped with narrow hoop iron wire and sealed in counter sunk holes. I inquired of the official in charge what weight there was in th« lot, and he said about 26cwt. They got dowu to Rydal nil safe. A gentleman who was waitiug for the train ■ and staying at the hotel in Rydal bold me [ that the value of the silver was about I £13,000 ; it was higher value than ordini ary silver, as it contained a small quantity !of gold. Who would have believed a year ago that one would see a stout dray actually broken down under a load of pure silver ? T am told that even this large quantity is but a small sample of what the company (the Sunny Comer) expect to send away in some six months hence. I wish them a better road to Bend it over. In the course of the debate on the State forests conservation there was a slight passage at arms between Sir ,T. Yogel and iMr Wakefield. The latter had applied the term "stock jobbing" to the proposal for borrowing uti'l?r tho Bill, and Sir J. Yogel twitt.'/i him w'.rVming a ; word he did not know the meaning of. "T admit I have not »b? linn. #.ujMeman'n , experience," was the reply of Selwyn's member ; hut the Tr^vuiar wh.» «.*j<ial to the occasion, for *.<: qnk'kly an»-sveret! "Some gentlemen im^ had Hie t-x* : perience, but may not have n'.ade full ma of it." Hardly hal the lau^'h oc<jHsioo«d by this remark subsided than Sir Jutitis went on to Bay that whatever opinion !i<3 : hon. friend now entertained of him, last : session, when he was deairous of h^in^ taken into offica as a colleague, he wouht have accepted any menial office offered ' him. | The Timaru correspondent of the Lyti telton Times, joins in swelling the chorus ' of- discontent which is heard from Canterbury and Otago farmers. He says : — i "Truly the lot of the South (Janterburv farmers is a hard one. He is mortgaged "up to the hilt," he spends his life in 1 paying interest on advances,, while his crop, that has cost him so much, and on which he so much depended, lies in store "eating its head off," because no price is obtainable. Yet all this time the capitalists and the mortgage companies are enjoying their " pound of flesh !" The Import and Export Returns show a trade in and out of New Zealand in curious articles, fast year seven packages of bees and 14 mongooses were imported, and one mongoose was exported. In the previous year the imports included two bears, eight hedge-hogs, and two turtles. The trade in "curiosities" is brisk both ways, 42 packages being imported and 94 packages exported, 456 packages of fireworks came to the colony, and only one package went out. One piano imported last year came in free, "for Government use." It was valued at £100, and was probably for the meml>ers to k-arn the scales upon in Bellamy's. Of sausage-skins no less than 1,325 packages were imported, though 126 were sent away. It tal*?s the breath away to think how many •' bac;s of mystery " the settlers of ew Zealand consumed for breakfast last year. How few who eat sausages know the skins are imported. No le3s than 2,117 lbs of snuff came to the colony, and are responsible for good- , ness knows how many millions of sneezes. New Zealand exported two very useful , articles— oysters and umbrellas, sending away last year 445,475 dozens of the former, and seven packages of the latter. And yet oysters are scarce and dear in ' most parts of tho Colony. As fer urn- ; i brellas, the two facts that individual j property in them is not always retpec*ed, j and that seven packag3s went away from J ( the colony, may perhaps shind in relation of cause and effect, '.rprm*. The Registrar Goneiai estimates the ; population of New Zealand nt the be- ! ginning of the current year a* 608,401 , persons, viz, 331,035 mates and 277,306 \ females. j Lady Portsmouth is .vtva Mng. the electors of the new South Mci <»n division ' )f Derbyshire on behalf of her son, Lord Liymington, the selected Liberal cftndilate. She has attended several public nestings, and i« reported to have de- | B ivered som« effective speeches. Lord ' t Symington, who recently married v ' | ( Quakeress, ia mean while uu his aoii'ey* i noou tour in Australia. * °

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