The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1604, 23 September 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1885.

4 Our Parliamentary column this morning contains the report of the Auditor-Gen-eral on the Expenditure of the Tnangahua County Council. i Mr Menteath, M.H.R., !'t Wellington j for Melbourne on Monday niirht. mime!- -! diately upon the closing of the business of 1 ! the House. The legal manager of the Gl.il.e C-m- --: puny receivod intelligence from ''i? isii-ift • last night, stating that they lia ? broken , through from the uprise to the foot of tiie winze, exposing payable stone. Ada MAtitua has sent us the result of the Hawkesbury Grand Handicap drawn g, the same having been conducted in her usual satisfactory tuanner. A Committee 1 of gentlemen of good repute were present on the occasion, also representatives from the leading Dunedin nowspaners. Tlie principal prizes were drawn as follows : — First prize, net, £159 16s 61 by a miner at the Thames. Second prizu,. net, »95 17s 9d by a servant ijirl, Auckland. Third prize, net, -63 18« 7d by a gentleman in Dunedin. Ada Manhia anuounciMi that I her consultation on the Melbourne and , New Zealand Cups w now open. i The Rev. Mr Mouro, announces that ! he. will deliver a lecture on Father ! Mdthew, the Apostle of Temperance, in the Public School, Black's Point this evening. This lecture is brim full of 1 humor, and, when handled by such a masterly speaker as Mr Monro. will no I doubt prove highly interesting and amusing. It will be remembered that Mr Monro delivered a lecture entitled "Father Taylor, the Sailor Pastor" about twelve months ago. which was very much appreci ted. A meeting of cricketers will be held at Campbell's Hotel on Saturday next at 7.30 p.m. All those who are desirous of joining the Club are requested to attend. The directors of the Energetic Company disposed of their 30 head steam battery, tools, and rails, to the Venus Company on Monday last, for the sum of ! 900. This will, doubtless, prove a very Wneficiid transaction to the latter Company. a« they will he enab'ed to connect their mine with the battery, a distance of 25 chains, by means of an serial tramway. The Just-in Time Company is now adveitising fur tenders, to close on Friday next, for an Uprise to connect tl;c Wjnz..- with the Boatman's Cretk l«vtl, a distance <>i about 130 ft. 'flic contractors for driviitu the low level have obtained the consent of the directors to allow them to reliiKjuirsli their contract. The Inkeruiau Company { did not scrape up on Saturday. Some I time wan loaf in making repairs to the . battery, th« r«by reducing tlm crushing to •4£ day* only Tim paddocks retween the : inine and battery are full of quartz. ! Tlitj iiftu«l monthly m > ■ ■ • f i 1 1 (4 of the j Comity Council will bo ln;i>i to-morrow ' CI hiimday). Tlie K<!ii'':i»i<>h>tl ftniitiit.. <,( W'.lliii'.'---j <->it \<n* adopted tli« fn||'».'. 1117 n: :<ilufi-ni : ! ''That in the opinion ..f Him in iiitntc Hi" Hppojnt.i(M!nt of t«a«;!i ■•! -< 1 •!. ■■•■■ << ■ it ■■,!• !y witli t.h« fioanl, mil ■»»* ■ p, • | , li'« |!||trilNt>!(l to COtlllllittC(!H, II: <: : i- a j <!(>py uf this resolution b« f-irwur.iti-t t<i I the different memh<>rs of tfi- ■ i ■ ,lilut« j throughout the Colony, and b*i Hiibniitt«- 1 to the conference at Dunedin in January next for discussion." We make the following extract from the Tlawku'* Bay Herald* iH|xirt of a recent mooting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce :— Mr Millar said he would move the following motion, if in order, and if j not <riv« n<tti"i' to move it at th« n«xt nnsetimc— "That the strenuous off' >its now being made by Canterbury, Westland, and Nelson fur h through railway have tho sympathy of this Chamber • seeing that these provincial districts neck '■■ to bear the contingent risk on their own luidn. This Chamber hopes that the I Ciuierniuent m:iy spvedilv deviae taeaua

to guarantee the loan required for this j purpose, and the interest there m, in such manner as will satisfy ilie other pr >vineial district* that the burden shall fall mi the districts to be benefited by the proposed railway." In support of the motion Mr Miller urged that the peonin "f the dis tricts interested only sought to saddle themselves with the cost of the railway, and it did not look well to see the North Island against them. If the North Island people were agitating for a railway they would feel it very much if the South Island opposed it. Men like Dr» Hector and Von Haast had certified that the line , would pass through country rf wonderful mineral richness, and financial authorities like Mr Bowen had spoken of it as a sound speculation. He (Mr Miller) would like the resolution passed as then a copy of it could be sent to the members for the district before the session ended. Mr Lirge seconded the motion.— The Chairman ruled that the bye-laws of the chamber forbade the motion being put without notice. The Evening Po»t of Thursday last had an article on Captain Russell's motion which has Biuce been carried. From this it is evident that in Wellington this proposal to reduce the Public W irks estimates by half a million was regarded as a very serious matter from a local point of view. One contemporary says:--" If Captain Russell's proposal is given effect to, not only will work on the North Tsland trunk line be suspended, but the Woodville-Palmerston line through the Manawatu Gorge will not be commenced. The important of this line to Wellington cannot be overrated. The Government Ion? ago gave a distinct pledge that it should be procee/led with so as to be completed nimnltaneoiwly with the completion of the Wellington-Manawatu line, through communication thus being opened up from Napier on the East Coast to Waitara on the Wesi Coast, and from Wellington to both Waitara and Napier. The work is one of vast importance to Wellington. Unless this line is made, the Wellington-Manawatu line will not realise one hajf the advantages which it otherwise Would realise for thepiae^. The link which would virtually complete the railway system of the southern portion of the North Island will be wanting. The plans are all ready for the line, and if the vote for its construction is passed, contracts can at once be let. Captain Russell's motion however, is fatal to it, and we cannot see how any Wellington members, those from Wairarapa excepted, can ni».vMv, with due regard to the interests of their constituents, vote for the motion." The London correspondent <>f the Dunedin Star writes :— Talk in society is all about the " rose ball " given by one hundred aristocratic maiden* to tlie Princess Louise of Wales. Tlie -Maidens permitted to take part in the affair are elected by a very select «. -omittee of great ladies. E:u?h mriden subscribes £5, in return for which she gofs five invitation tickets, which are to be filled up with the names of any gentlemen friends she cares to invite. On dit, that the Duke of Portland and another specially-eligible party have already received seven or eight cards apiece. The Queen has given the light of her countenance to the ball, which promises to be a great success, notwithstanding the absence of the Prince of Wales, who is cold-shouldering the affair because his particular friend, the pretty American Miss Chamberlayne, was blackballed. A few days ago a boy named John Jones was sentenced to twelve strokes of a birch, by the Auckland Bench, for larceny, the sentence to be carried out by the police. In the afternoon (says the Herald) the sentence was carried out in the police guard-room, under the supervision of Sergeants Donnelly and Kiely. The modus operandi was as follows.— Constable Christie got the boy's head in chanceiy, and then Constable M'Cojinell holding the youthful sinner across his knee, struck home on the old, old spot, as the Roman matrons did two thousand year ago. A correspondent of the LytiHon Times makes the following suggestions for the construction of the East and West Coast railway :— l. That Government will have laid off blocks of lands, from five acres up to five hundred, on both sides of the proi>ostid railway ; also town settlements every ten miles, where practicable, the Maid town blocks to be hid off in quarteracres. 2. Blocks of bush land, or rather forest land, in similar blocks as aforesaid ; also same in cases where there are mineral deposits likely to exist. 3. That Govern ment institute a grand national drawing, on a somewhat similar Bcale to the State drawing of Germany, open to all Australasia, Great Britain, and India, the Government to reserve certain blocks along the line, so that when settlement has progressed to a certain extent the reserves will l>e available for sale, and will realise a good price ; all moneys to go into one fund— the East and West Coast | Hail way fund. I w«>ul<l venture to say } t],ai thousands would avail themselves of *neh an oppor unity of acquiring a home. Say, for instance, quarter-acres in township tickets would bo 10s, five acres tickets 20n, and so on; the larger the blocks the larger is the sum paid for a ticket. I am confident that if this was framed in a financing point of view it would come out successful, and he of immense good to thousands of people. Once tho settlement took place, Government has a traffic established, so that the line would pay fairly wwll. I will leave a better pen to touch this subject. The following is an extract from a letter recently received by Mr Hawkins, Paringa, and kindly handed to us by Mr M'Goldrick, M.C.C. The writer is .Hr H. PuUen, aod he writes from Pembroke

Lake Wiui ik<\, under dat-? August 16th, 1885;- "I hare arrive! here over the Saddle, from Pann<fa, wilhnut any serious : calamity, though some parts of the Pass | are in a rery bad state after tho rain. I trust then* will imt. bg mncli rain before i I g*t back again, for thu river having | shifted in many places, raikt s it more , dangerous to cross in time <if a fresh, far more so than it used to be. There is quite a stir here juat now anticipating a rush in the spring at Mount Griffel, just at the back of Pembroke here. It so happens the two original prospectors are [ here, so I had an opportunity of speaking to them. They tell ine'that before the fall of the year, a party of three men got sixteen pounds weight of gold for a period of four mouths, but nothing can be done just now before the snow is off, it being on the side of a range 2500 ft high. I Seven parties who have beeu up from Tuapeka, returned on account of snow, intending to have another buuk at it in the spring. I have it from good authority it will not (urn out anything like the locality people here anticipate. In the first place it is under the disadvantage of shortness of water in summer months, no firewood, and very steep range. However, there is no doubt a bit of a stir will take place about October."— West Coast Times. Duncan C. Ross, champion athlete and wrestler, was to leave San Francisco on the 29th ult. by steamship Zealandia. en mute for Melbourne, where on arrival he will be prepared to meet any man in Australia for 1000 dollars in the following matches :— Mounted sword contest, mixed wrestling, general athletiqs, or heavy weight competition (conceding s»t to Donald Dinuie or any other athlete in the last-mentioned match). Ross is of Scotch parentage, weighs 2031 b, stands 6ft Jin, measures 44|in round the chest, and biceps 16in . He is in his 29th year, holds the champion belt for tha United States and British provinces, and has a fine record. He defeated Dinnie twice at putting the stone and hammer, and wrestled a draw with Miller. The following "tall" yarn is vouched for by the Telegraph Department:— " When the lineman on Wednesday last reached Kekerangei, between Blenheim and Kaikoura, he found that where the interruption had taken place the $.alj '. V blown with such tremendous force that a rabbit had been blown on to the tele wires, and there it had stuck fast till ii starved to death."