The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1584, 7 August 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1885.

The intelligence of the rejection by the House of the Government proposal for a Select Committee to consider the railway question reached us on Wednesday evening last, and was at once made public. On the instant the public disappointment was very bitter, and found vent in the warmest denounciations of the opponents of the undertaking. Very short reflection, however, encouraged the hope thatall is not yet lost. The majority against is after all light, and with the powerful influence at command there is stood reason to believe that it will yet be kroken down. The agitation in favor of the railway has taken too many years to raise to its present height, and its influence is now too far reaching and powerful to be stamped out by a first reverse of this kind. Thus we see that Canterbury means to return to the charge with renewed energy and activity, and in this she will be cordially backed up by the other districts interested. It is pleasing to find that Otaga is largely befriending Canterbury in the agitation, and we may yet see a closer alliance between the two powerful Provincial districts, and should such a political union be brought about Wellington patriotism will soon be at a discount. The division just recorded on the question may be said to be only a preliminary cante.i. The real issue has yet to be decided, and we are half inclined to believe that all this select committee business was merely a clever device of Sir Julius' Vogel's to sound the House. If so it has succeeded well. We'ahall be mnch surprised if the astute Colonial Treasurer's mjxt move is not a much bolder one. The following telegram from 'Mr T. S. Weston, Christchurch, re the East and West Coast railway, was received by Messrs Hind mrsah and Potts yesterday :— " Sympathise in my friends' disapointm<jnt. We will persevere until success attends us- T. S. Westox." The scheme is not yet by any means lost, and agitation must be carried on vigorously. The sitting of the Magistrate's Court was fixed for yesterday, but owing to the detention of Mr Bird, R.M., at the Lyell Court, was adjourned. A large number of Boatman's suitors, in the belief that the Court would be held, c;ime to town yesterday, and when they found they had come upon a fools' errand their disappointment and disgust was in no measured terms. Amongst the wrue^ses in attendance were two of the leading mine managers at Boatman's, who complain of the great inconvenience they j have been put to in leaving the workmen | and the mines without supervision, to nay j nothing of the personal expanse th-.y j have been put to. It would be well in i future to have a telegraphic notice posted at Boatman's of any intended adjournment of the Court sittings, so that a repetition of the inconvenience and injustice just referred to should not occur again. An analysis of the voting in the House on the railway question shows that all the Canterbury members with the exception of Messrs Wakefield, Rolleston, and Sutter, voted with the ayes. Eight Otago. members, including three holding scats in the Cabinet, also voted in support. Only five North Island members, namely, Messrs Ballance, (Wanganui), Tole(Eilen) Smith, (Waipuwa), Cadman, (Coronmudel) andFraser, (Thames), voted with the ayes, all the other Northern mem burs, including, of course, the Wellington city members to a man, blocked against the Government. Seven members dirt not vote at all. Since the division the Government have gained another supporter in the person of the newly elected member for Bruce. Tn another column we publish the result of the annual Hospital Sunday collections at the various churches in Reefton, the total reaching to L 23 18s 4d, the receipt of which Mr Preshaw acknowledges with thanks. The Bailiff of the Resident Magistrate's Court will sell by public auction, at Boatman'a to- morrow, under distress, the ri^ht, title, and interest of the Golden Arch Company to mine and battery at Italian Gnily, Boatman's. The saie will take place at 2 p.m. A pleasant little ceremony took place in the choir of the Catholic Chapel on Sunday evening last. It consisted of the presentation of a very handsomely bound photographic album to Miss E. Moller, who for a length of time past has been connected with the choir. The presentation was made on behalf of the nv.mbors of the choir by Mrs P. Twohill. The present was a very handsome one, and bore a snitablu inscription beautifully illuminated by Mr W. Hindmarsh. ! In order to ascertain what form the continued agitation in Canterbury would take in regard to the East and NVnt (.'oast railway, so that concerted action nti.'it be taken here, Measra Hindmaveli and Potts yesterday telegmphud to Mr T. S. Whston, Christchnrch. To this a reply was received last night from Mr Weston, Rug {resting a ohoit delay, as he wiw writing with authority. The coniiinmipa'ior^ which will pro'-«aUy be f..nv;inie \ <<n behalf of the railway promoters, ..f whom Mr Weston is one, will reach bore on Monday afternoon. The United Alpine Company chii'! up on Tnesdav last, with a ro-mi' of 7--. ' / ' of gold from 705 tons of st<>no, < iv the directors tude^lare iidiviii'-i- i ;■-... |<er share. The yield shows coii,-i .... < i .-.; over loz per ton.

At the extraordinary meeting of tlio Golden Fleece United Company, held at Greymnuth early in the week it was r«solved to dispose of the company's property and wind up the company. Mr Kerr, M.H.R., is not alone in his opinions regarding the present education system. At the la t meeting of tlic Otago Education Board, Dr Macgregor spoke of the possible injury to the children from instruction in too many subject*. His candid opinion is that under the present system we are rearing a generation of "clever imbeciles." At the recent meeting held at Christchurch with reference to the railway proposals, Mr Wynn Williams said : — His experience of the House had taught him that even a work of such importance as this might easly be stopped by political intrigue. (Cheers.) What he advised the members for Canturbury, Westland, and Nelson to do under the circumstances was that they should oppose any public work* being given to any other put of the colony until justice was done to them. (Cheers.) The only danger of this course was that it might result in the turning out of the Government from which Canterbury had the best right to expect justice as the House was at presenc constituted. There might be this, that there might be a coalition, and their members might find themselves it theposition of having allthemembers against them, which would be a most unfortunate position. They would, therefore, see that their members had a most di'ficult part to play. All the people could do was to agitate, agitate, and agitate until they got what they wanted. (Cheers.) The contractors, Messrs Meiggs and Son had completed in Peru a railway at an elevation of 14,G(!G feet above the level of the sea, or 3000 fe^t higher than the highest part of Mount Cook, so that they would look at the railway to Hokitika as a mere flea-tite to this gigantic undertaking. The West Coast Times says :— ln today's issue will be found an article on the Sunny Corner Silver Mine, New South Wales. Some eight years ago Mr W. H. James, Inspector of Police here, tool; up a lease in that locality in conjunction with several Hokitika gentlemen, but the district not coming to the f • t« it was abandoned. Mr James had visited the district having a cousin there who owned a battery and was engaged in mining. From the description we had it appears that the formation of the whole country was most remarkable, appearing as if caused by some convulsion of nature. Mr James especially mentioned the quantity of heavy%looking mineral ore scattered about, which had been roughly tosted for gnl land found to be very patchy, an 1 this fact, combined with the alwn-je of confidence expressed in the district, caused the Hokitika holders .t.i throw up the lease. Had they retained it they would have been in velvet. At hist, after being compelled to go through a perfect labyrinth of official red tape (says this morning's 'Argus') Messrs KiJgour and Wickes have been informed that in due course the twelve chains of railway extension they have been asking for to enable them to send .their coal in-, 1 t>-> town, will be laid down*. The work is j ne-Jtwsary, and of the very simplest kind ; j a few days would be sufficient to do it, i the formation being really. •It will now, I however, be laid down as a permanent way, and may therefore be recrarrlcd as practically the first section of the East and We«t Coast Railway. The Otug't Daily limes of Thursday ; supports the Ministerial proposal to refer the West Coast Railway question to a Committee,, saying that '■ it gives time for further consideration and moro thought and impartial investigation than is possible in the preHPiit excited state of the House, and prevents the districts concerned from feeling that they have not had a fair hearing. It will give both si.les titne to cool down, and can scarcely fail to throw a strong light upon all the bearings of the question." — How different this to the line of action pursued by tho Wellington press which would burke ail enquiry • and prevent the appointment of a committee lost it should, after making itself acquainted with all the circumstances, report in favor of the railway. The Or ago Daily Times of Thursday last., speaking of the Kast and West Coast Railway, says that it feels confident that the Qon.se will nut agree to the Treasurer's proposals for giving a colonial guarantee to the Railway. At the same time it adds : "We do not think there is any justification for accusing either the Government or the Canterbury and West Coast members of log rolling or any other unworthy action in the matter. The fact that the Auckland members are going to vote .against the proposal refutes the first charge, whilst the burden den which the Canterbury and Westland members offer on behalf of their districts to undertake is an irrefutable proof of their confidence in the success of the undertaking. Nor can any impartial person help admitting that, such a proof ought to carry weight with the rest of the colony. If a similar condition , had been imposed with regard to many of our other railway lines a great deal of waste would have been spared. When a district says "I will give a pound out of my pocket for every pound you give towards tho construction of thid railway," it becomes absurd to contend that it is selfishly wanting to swindle the rest of the Colony, because it follows that if it swindles the rest of the Colony it must swindle itself to exactly the same amount." In an art Him m " Crime in Weliiiis:'.' n " the Post of Saturday snyß^-We desire to utter a word of warning to women — not \ to pass through lonniy stress or places ; after nightfall without adequate pn.-lcj j tion in tlu> way of escort. Very serious I dau»«r will bo incurro.l by those who i nt"_'loc.t the warning, for unfortunately j there are some most atrocious* ruffians at | I'irffe in the city just now. An influx of , '•ri'iiinals may, in-loed, b« looked for in j • i I'-ction with the Fxhibihon. nn-l I while our citizens should adopt ;t!l pos- | Bible precautions on their owu part tho

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