The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKI.Y. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1621, 2 November 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKI.Y. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1885.

Mr G. C. B>wman was to have held a an auction aale of sections and cottage in Church-street on Saturday last, but the sale was inadvertently announced for next Saturday, to which date it therefore stands ad'ourned, of which further notice will be given. Pressure of late telegraphic news compels us to hold over letters, reports and other matter. Mr G. A. Sala has met with the same enthusiastic reception on the West Coast which has been accorded to him everywhere throughout the Colony, and the one regret seems to be that his stay is bo short. He will reach Reefton by Wednesday afternoon's coach, and in the evenin. give one of his celebrated lectures in the Oidf. How's Hall. Two thousand transport horses were wan'el for the autumn manoeuvres of 1883. They were obtained with the greatest difficulty, and 1500 of the 2000 had to be imported from France. That single fact may give some idea of our national destitution in transport -transport, without which the finest army in the world is a stationary mass of men to be out-manoeuvred, starved, and surrounded at leisure. — St. James' Gazette. A sun of the Governor of New South Wales has been appointed secretary to < the N.S.W. Commission in the London Colonial Exhibition. The salary attached i is £1000 a year, and in Sydney, where the Governor is anything hut popular, there has been considerable grumbling at the civil servants being passed over in such a lucrative appointment. Considerable amusement was recently caused in the House of Commons by the awkwardness of expression of an hon member entrusted with a petition, who rose solemnly, and remarked, without any punctuation :—" Mr Speaker I beg to present a petition for the better proetction of girls from young members of the Young Men's Christian Association." A contributor to the Auckland Herald writes : "I go a long way in conceding .equal rights and powers to women, hut! I stop short of the length to which the Raratongans have gone. There are it seems, reigning over that group three queens, each having well-defined territories, but no kings. There are, of course, husbands for each of the queens ; they could not do without, them. To have a husband is a woman's right, which T cheerfully concede. But how does it come about that amongst these barbarous people there is this cheerful acquiescence in the superiority of women ? How is it that an anti-Salic law prevails among the Raratongans ? It has been said that, looking at our own history, the reigns of women have been more glorious and happy for the nation than the reigns of men. This has been most nngallantly accounted for by the : saying that under queens men govern, . while under kings women govern. Perhaps human nature is much the same amongst the Raratongans as with ourselves, and these wily savages have found out the truth stated above. But it would be clearly impossible for the advocates of women's rights and equality— nay ' the superiority- of the female sex to commence an agitation that the law of our , Empire should be changed for the reasons stated above." ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PTLLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either sex (acquired or constitutional), Gravel, and Pains in the Back. Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in Boxes, 4s. 6d each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors : Sole Proprietors, The Lincoln and M inland Counties Drug Co., Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houses ,\] tbe change of life nothing equals American Co.'s Hop Bitters to allaj al) tumbles ia^dent thereto. £cc