The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1612, 12 October 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1885.

We have received from the Robin Hood Company the names and addressi-s of the principal winners in their Hawkesbury meeting, also Borne of Committee of Drawing. The promoters alao tell us that their 50,000 on the Melbourne Cup is going ahead wonderfully fast, and that the number they will close for at the end of the month will astonish the world. Agents are requested to obey instructions on Hooks. Mr Greenwood, Dentist, announces that he has taken rooms next to Mr Oxley'g Store, where he may bo consulted until the 15th inst. Mr Hodgson, Inspector of Schools, arrived in Reefton on Friday evening, and on Saturday examined the scholars attending th« Caplcstoii State School. Tbo

scholars attending the Reefton State School will be examined to-day. Captain Hume, Inspector of Prisons, arrived by the Nelson Coach last night, ■ and is staying at Dawson's Hotel. Mr Ellis' lecture entitled " The Religion of the Future " w;\s listened to by a small but very appreciative audience last night. At the conclusion Mr Ellis was requested by some of the audience to deliver his lecture entitled " Religion without SuperBtition " which he agreed to do this evening. There will be quite an exodus of witnesses from Reefton to Hokitika by tomorrow's coach, in connection with the cases Martin v. Bird and Aiken, and Government Life Insurance Co., v. Seaborne. Much chaff is being bestowed upon a certain reverend gentleman who, at a recent banquet to an operatic prima donna, was asked to say grace, b it, forgetting he waa not in church, gravely gave ouc his text, from Acts xx., 1, — " And after the uproar was ceased." N.B.— This story is not vouched for. At Gisborne Police Court, Mr A. C. Arthur, a popular settler, whose farm is named "The Willows," was charged on Saturday last, by the police, with issuing an order for 4s 2d without the same being properly stamped. Mr Nolan appeared for the defendant and pleaded not guilty on the ground that the amount in the order had not been paid. If any breach had been committed the defendant did not want to get out of it, but there was a provision in the Act, which would allow him to pay a certain amount, thereby protecting him from any breach of the Act. Sergeant Bullen said his instructions from the Treasury were very clear and he wouM have to go on if a plea of not guilty was given. He would have to apply for an adjournment to procure his witnesses from Tokomaru. Mr Nolan said to save expense he would plead auilty, but would ask that the merest nominal penalty be inflicted. Similar orders were given every day in the course of business, the outside public not knowing that an order of !ess valuothan £2 should be stamped. He would also like to draw attention to the conduct of the informer, whoever he may be. It appeared to have been all through some petty spite. Taking all things in consideration he thought a nominal penalty would answer the case. His Worship considered that if breaches were taking place every day as stated by Mr Nolan, it was important that the charge should be marked with a substantial penalty, or they would go on as heretofore. He would inflict a penalty of £2, with costs ss. The proceedings of the Resident Magistrate's Court, on Tuesday, were enlivened by pasßages-at-arms h-hvuen the local lawyers, the warmth of which quite surpassed all previous exhibitions of the kind. Reference to horse-whipping was freely, made, and other similar plesantries were indulged in. Hi? Worship the Magistrate alluded to the matter from the Bench, nest morning. He said the scenes in Court were disgraceful ; during his experience he had not witnessed such conduct as obtained here, and he expressed a hope for reform. In the course of his remarks, Mr Bird referred to the fact that Mr Moynihan had reported him to the Minister of Justice about, the judgement of the Court in the case Home v. Costello, heard at a recent sitting : he had furnished a report to the Minister on the case, and an enquiry would doubtless be held. Mr Bird also stated 'that he had "received a letter from from Mr Haselden. complaining of the latitude Mr Moynihan was allowed in Court, and which he, (Mr Haselden) alleged was^tho cause of the scenes. — West port Times. ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either sex (acquired or constitutional), flravel, and Prtins in the Hack. Ou.iranteed fri^e from Mercury. Sold in Boxes, 4s. Cd each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors : Sole Proprietors, The Lincoln j and Midland Cohntiks Dbuo Co., Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houses My wife and daughter were made healthy by the vse of American Co. 'a Hop Bitters, and I recommend it to tity people. — Methodist Clergyman. Read