The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRT-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1583, 5 August 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRT-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1885.

Mr J. Mnntcomerie, District Surveyor, and staff returned to Reeftou on Monday evening last, having completed the survey of the mining leases in the Black Ball district. Exceptionally had weather was experienced during the whole time the party were engaged on the survey, and the field work was proceeded with under difficulties of no ordinal y kind. Owing to the altitude of the ground the frosts were very severe (Turing the last three weeks, the whole surface of the j country being frozen to such an extent as to render travelling in the precipitous country a work of great danger and difficulty. However, no mishap occurred, though the party ran out of supplies on several occasions and had to go for days' without meat and other necessaries. Mr W. H. Jones and Mr J. Lynch, solicitors, proceeded to Lyell yesterday for the purpose of attending the sitting of the Warden's Court there, the business being of more than ordinary importance, Mr Haselden, solicitor, of Westport, is also retained in some cases there. The long pending debate on the Government railway proposals was opened at ■ last night's sitting of the House, Sir J. | Yogel leading fff with his motion for the appointment of a Select Committee. The j interest taken in Wellington on the subject is shown by the fact, that the gal- j leries wero crowded last niirht, numbers ; being unable to gain admission. Our j Wellington correspondent wives it as the i opinion upon the spot that the House will j reject the motion. We can only hope he | is a bad prophet. It will be seen that j Sir George Grey is up to his old tricks, ! having moved an amendment the effect of j which, if carried, will be to shelve the i whole question. He moves that in linn ; of the syndicate the Government make \ the railway at the "earliest practicable, date." which, of course, means never. ■ In moving this amendment Sir George \ Grey seems to have forestalled the Op- i position proper, just as he did a fow days ago with his abortive no confidence mo- j tion. If the Opposition refuse to support j the reduced guarantee to the syndicate | we cannot see how they can consistently vote for the amendment,. However, it is very little to the purpose at this hour to j I speculate upon such a contingency. The ; debate is now on, and within V.w rrxt twenty-four hours the fate of the undov- j taking will be settled. j We notice that the Willmott Comedy Company have made their way to Nelson, where they are playing to moderate business. A little episode which occurred during the present week will be of interest to j such of your readers as take an interest in j mining matters, or are concerned in the i freedom of the Press. You have doubtless heard of a gentleman named Wakeh'eld, who, after a long and varied political experience, is now part owner and editor of a Wellington paper called the Press. He is also chosen standard-bearer in the House of the blue-ribbon -party. Woll, on the evening following the delivery of the Mines statement there appeared in the Press a very satirical article on the statement, in which the Minister for Mines was lampooned fearfully. This was on a Saturday, and on Sunday or Monday following Mr Larnach met Mr Waken" dd in the lavatory. The latter gpiitlemnn made some remark, and thereupon Mr Larnach intimated his ambition to horsewhip Mr Wakefield, making special allusion to the estimate of a man that spoke of the Queen as "Mother Vie," ( a refer ence to something which had appeared in the Pre*»). Mr Wakefield being a man of abstinence, and gifted withal with a delicate perception of the difference between discretion and valor, retired hurriedly, and the result of the whole affair was that on Monday evening in the Press appeared a most fulsome eulogium of *he statement, which it had so effectually damned in its previous issue. It is supposed by some that this second effusion is intended to be sarcastic, but there seems to be very little grounds for such inferference. At anyrate the sarcasm, if it be there at all, has been carefully hidden. The affair created some little amusement at the time. The Lyttelton Times is exceedingly earnest over the matter of the East and West Coast Railway, and is consequently very bitter at the opposition from Wellington. It hints that a war of r pmals should be carried on, and Wellington should be deprived of the honor she now possesses of being the seat of Government. The Wellington correspondence of the hehnn Math writing under date the 28th July saya :— Fresh rumors are current tonight as to the special object in view in proposing the reference of the railway scheme to a Select Committee. From careful consideration of thu fa<;ts, and as tho result of conversations with members, I am inclined to Hiism-ct th:it. the. intention is an follows : I believe the Government have at last become convinced by the number <>f formal secessions already announced and threatened that there is no chance of carrying the scheme as it stands, and they recognise that the only feasible way out of the difficulty in which they have involved themselves is a compromise. I have already referred to th« suggestion that the guarantee shall be

t"{u,ooo and chargeable entirely on the listricts affected, lint I anticipate tint this will be merely put forward ttn';.tii'ely and without any great idea of its being accepted, because it is well known that, a strong feeling exists against the idea of the colony being committed to a syndicate, consequently there is likely to !>..■ :i majority against the Meigirs scheme whatever shape it may be modified into. Assuming that this view is accurate, and that Ministers see the grave danger to their own positions in trying to force the proposals down the throat of the House. T expect that the outcome of the reference to the Select Committee may l>e a pro posal to abandon Mciggs' scheme altogether, to throw overboard the Nel&or. part of the railway plan, and to construct the Canterbury and East and West Coast line at the cost of the colony. Under the Meiggs scheme the total c<-st of construction closely approaches four millions, besides 1,250,000 acres of land gran tod. and the t97,000 per annum guarantee for 20 years over wording expense, but under the contract between the colony and the promoters the total estimate was only two and a half millions, of which the. Canterbury and Westland portion would absorb about a million and a ha'f. Tf, therefore, this latter alone were ad' ered to, it miirht be carried out by floating a loan of a million and a half, and I shall not Ye surprised to find it proposed that sivh loan shall be passed, the expenditure to be spread over a term of years. If this is proposed, I have some reason to believe it will be carried. In Melbourne journalistic circles (says the correspondent of a Sydney contemporary) considerable changes are being made. The Sydney Press has already annexed Mr Henry Gullett, who is leaving the ' Australasion ' after twentythree years' service ; Mr Alexander Britton, the well-known sub. of the 'Arirns,' after twenty years' service ; and ' Humming Bee,' the contributor of feminine gossip to the pages of the ' Australasian.' The new editor of the ' Anstralasion ' is Mr D. Watterson, the leader of the ' Argus's ' staff for many years ; and Air Westlalce,' subeditor of the 'Acre.' has! been transferred to a responsible position j on the 'Argus's' editorial staff. A very simple remedy is claimed to : have been discovered by the French faculty, for croup and other diptherie complaint*. It consists in lighting, at ; the foot of the bed occupied by the child who has been seized with the malady, a morsel of tar steeped in the essence of turpentine, placing it first in an earthern vessel isolated from the floor. By keeping the room well clos-'d, it is presently | filled with a vapour, \vr,i<j.'> t lie little ! patient generally inhales wit it pleasure,, j Very soon after the fumos have entered ; ■ the respiratory organs of tho child, the false membranes dotf-h themselves and ! are readily expectorate ', and the feeling of suffocation is exchanged for a sense of relief. If new membranes present them--1 Reives the process has to be repeated, and it is recommended that, the throat should be afterwards moistened with a sponge dipped in water tinctured with the chlorate of potash. The remedy has been tried in several of the hospitals of Paris with a general favorable result. News by the San Francisco mail states that a despatch from Boston of June 24 Ba y S : — "The journals of General Gordon i at Khartoum, voluminousjextracts from which are given out to newspapers today, make a crown octavo volume of over 500 pages. It was published on June 24. A prominent feature of the extracts are the remarks, frequent and bitter, which Gordon has for what he terms the 'indecision of? the British Government.' In this connection ho "writes : 'It is not easy to get over a feeling that a hope existed of no expedition being necessary, owing to our having fallen.' He believes the Soudan should be given to the Turks, and incidentally referring to India, says : ' India to England is not an advantage. It is the cause of all party intrigue, and if the same energy were devoted elsewhere it would produce tenfold. India sways all our policy to our detriment.' In a similar manner he touches upon the marvellous, but constantly recurring, theme of the shortcoming of the English Administration. 'Oh, our Government, our Government,' he writes, ' what has it not to answer ; not to me, but to these poor people ? I declare that if I thought the town wished the Mahdi, I would give it up, so much do I respect free will.' 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