The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 20, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1576, 20 July 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 20, 1885.

As an indication of the unsettled condition of public feelling at Home regarding affairs in Afghanistan, the Sydney Government have been induced to withdraw.their proposed loan from the London money market for the preient. There is also an announcement that Bussia has now set up a further demand on the Afghan frontier, claiming the right to occupy a position commanding Zulficar Pass, which though within what has come to be spoken of as the " disputed boundary " is still a cotisideraWe stride nearer Herat then Penjdeh, and as the position is one of considerable military importance it is not likely to be ceded to Russia. Reefton has at last been fortunate enough to draw the 6rst horse in one of the great interprovincial consultations, Wymlet, in Ada Mantua's event on the Melbourne Grand National having fallen to a resident in Reefton and a miner in Murray Creek. The sweep was advertised to be drawn for £600 first prize. . In the District Court 011 Saturday last Mr Lynch moved for probate of the wills of R. and C. Murray, brothers who died gome time ago within a week of each other. Probate was granted in the name of P. McGeady, surviving executor. The matter of the bankruptcy of A. M. M'Donald was, on the application of Mr Jones, adjourned to the next sitting of the Court. Re M. R. Gissing, deceased. Mr Jones moved for an order removing the proceedings for the administration of the estate into the Supreme Court, there being no provision under the District Court rules enabling an executor resident out of the Colony to prove under the will. The brother of deceased, one of the executors in the estate, is a captain in the Royal Navy, stationed abroad. The order was granted as prayed, and the Court then adjourned sine die. The welcome intelligence reached town on Saturday evening of the striking of the reef in the main low level of the Venus Company. The stone had only been met with when the messenger left the mine, so that no particulars are yet known. Our mining report is unavoidably held over till Wednesday. Dr Morice reached Reefton last night from Greymouth, for the purpose of consulting with Dr Whitton regarding the state of health of Mr Charles Fraser, who we regret to learn still lioa in a most critical condition. There was a good master of footballers on Saturday last, and a hardly contested scratch match was playea. A remarkable feature of this session is the very general feeling among all the thoughtful men in the House of profound dissatisfaction with the financial position of the colony, and I can see everywhere the rising signs of a stern determination in the direction of economy. The Estimates will be very largely cut down ; the borrowing proposals will be knocked out of the Forests Bill ; the subsides to local todies will be kept within bounds ; and the Million Loan Bill will have a narrow squeak for it. Even the question of Educational burdens is being pondered over. I think lam justified in saying that the feeling is nearly universal that Sir J. Vogel, with all his power and originality, is by no means the man for troublous times, and there is no saying what changes there may be before the end of the session. News has just been received that MrMcKerrow, SurveyorGeneral of New Zealand, has on the motion of Colonel Tupman. been unanimously elected a Fellow of the Royal Astonomical Society. It will be remembered that Colonel Tupman was in charge of the English Transit of Venus Obsur vation Party in New Zealand in 1882, and Mr McKerrow was in charge of the New Zealand Government observative. I hear that several distinguished astronomers are likely to visit New Zealand to view the great solar eclipse next September. Among these will, it is understood, be Mr Ellery, the Government astonomer for Victoria, and Mr Russell, the Government astonomer for New South Wales. Give your daughters a thorough education. Teach them to cook and prepare the food of the household. Teach them to wash, to iron, to darn stockings, to few on buttons,' to make their own dresses. Teach them to make bread, and that a good kitchen lessens the doctor's account. Teach them that he only lays up money whose expenses are less than bis income, and that all grow poor who have to spend more than they receive. Teach them that a calico dress paid for, fit* better than a silken one unpaid for. Teach them that a full healthy face displays greater lustre than fifty consumptive beauties. Teach them to purchase, and see that the account corresponds with the purchase. Teach them good common , sense, self'trust, and that an honest mechanic, in his working dress, is a better object to esteem than a dozen haughty, finely-dress idlers. Teach them gardening and the pleasures of nature. Teach them, if you can afford it, music, painting &c, but consider them ao secondary objects only. Teach them that a walk is more salutary than a ride in a carnage. Teach them to reject, with disdain, all false appearances, and to use only "Yes" or "No " in good earnest.— From a sermon by Mgr. Capel. The Christchurch Prett thus sketches lome of the New Zealand born members f)f Parliament :— " In Canterbury we tiave only one member born on New Zealand w>H Mr Pearson. He is a use- [«|, rMpwUble, *ud intelligent yonng

gentleman, and as a practical farmer is one of a class of whom it is very desirable that there should be representatives in Parliament. But his warmest admirers cannot say that he has as yet given any proof that he is the stuff out of which a statesman can be made. We think we are right in saying that Otago has no native representatives. In Westland, we believe, Mr A. R. Guinness is of Now Zealand birth, but it may be taken as certain that he will never set the Thames on fire. His abilities are small, and their usefulness (such as they are) is marred by his political shiftiness. Auckland also can boast of at least one New Zealander among its members. We refer to Mr Hobbs. • He (is also a useful and creditable member, but we think we can safely prophecy that he will never play a distinguished part in politics. Taranakihas a New Zealander as a representative in the shape of Mr Oliver Samuel, a young lawyer, a protege, we believe, of the late Mr Moorhouse. He was a successful scholar at Nelson College, and has some reputation as an excellent man of business. But he has a good deal to learn and something to unlearn before he can hope for political distinction. To begin with, he must get rid of some of his conceit, and he must try hard not to make himself a bore. Wellington sends two New Zealanders at least to Parliament. One is Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, the member for the Hutt, a young lawy.r who might successfully plead not !t««lty h» a charge of being deeply w* Ui lilW ' or anything else, and who h;u» only got into- Parliament because he is the son of his father, that crafty uld v»^ •««:«•. Sir William Fitzherbert. Me Fit:v> .rt« .•> Va only idea of statemanshij) is tc try a; id keep his seat by begging hard i-.,r favours for his constituents, who are chiefly workmen employed at the Petotie railway works. He does not inherit his father's i abilities, and will never take any position in Parliament. Then lastly there k Dr : Newman, the diminutive, irrepressible, i and ambitious member forThorndon. Dr | Newman is very ambitious of political I distinction, and as he is very pertinacious and lias a cortain amount of superficial ability, it is within the bounds of possii bility that he may do something ye J , if he ; can ke^p his s*>at. He gets the repu- } tation iu some circles in Wellington, we ! are told, of being, always ready to adapt ! his political principles to suit the passing i wishes of his constituents. If this be I true he will find that it will not do, and ' his political career will be as short and inglorious as have been his medical, ; mercantile, ani editorial careers, for ' yuueig aa he is he has been already by i turns a doctor, a wholesale grocer, and ! an editor." Mr Mattews, the American boxer, arrived yesterday in Hokitika, in search of more foes to " knock out." He has already vanquished some eight or nine of the best boxers in New Zealand. To-day is published a challenge from Mr John Sheedy, offering to bet £20 that Mr Matthews cannot knock him ouc in four thrt&minnte rounds. It is understood thafH Ross boxer ii i anxions to meet Matthews, so that there should be no difficulty in getting on a match or two. ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the. Urinary Organs, in either sex (acquired or constitutional). Gravel, and Pains in the Baqk . Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold iu Boxes, 4a. 6d each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors : Sole Proprietors, The Liscout and Midland CorNTiES Duuo Co , Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the j Wholesale Houses We know that there is nothing on earth equal to American Co.'s Hop Bittars as a family medicine. Look for