The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1885

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1629, 20 November 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1885

Mr A. Greenfield. Corn'm-sion^r of Crown lands. Nelson, will return to Roe.fton on Tuesday next, and remain here till Thursday morning. We regret to learn ihn' Di Thorpe lies • in a very danger- >us condition at WellingJ ton. He is now wholly confined to his ( l»ed, nnd the state of his health causos jrrnvf anxiety to hw fami'y and friends. j Mr Campbell, who reached here frmn ( Ojimaru in the ea»-ly |»art of the werk, | vi<»itß th« district for the nurposfc of oh- I taining the necessary pcnni»sion from fhe l h»cal tiolifs to woik a traction engine on i Mie Oroy Reeft«m roal. Tt will h« re- ( meiiiltt-re'l that a simi'ar proposal was ( •na«le i<u»e yearn ayo. }Nt came to noth f i»itf, the enterprine heinir "p;x>sed on the t (.'i'iiuiiil that the Hrid^ps hiil culverts on I 'he rond were not. Rtrons; enough for such j traffic The same ohjrct ion will not. ipply v tn the pr -sent proposal, for. a* Mr Camp- r hull poin'sout, thttsfmin u]xm th^brid^es [ and cnlve.rtH l»y the use of traction onifines fi will be actually lesa than that of ordinary ft home wagons. Hia proposal i« this : He a will place on the road a traction enuine } C!i|>aUle of drawing two waggons each a contaiiiiiitt five tonßof freiifht. On reach- t a bridge or culvert the engine will cross fi first, and the waggon*, will then he c '• tomrci] " over separately with lon^ tiiw- f, lines. By this means no greater weight than fivu tons will be on a bridge or out- v vert at one time, while the vibration t caused will he only a fraction of that re- h Milfinii from tho passatre of a ninu-ton waj/gon and eight horses. The tiers of U the traction engine will he sixteen 8 inches broad, and will therefore act c: as rollers to tho road* smoothing tho o wheel way and removing all inequalities, w thus vmAtly cheapening the cost f»f main- oj tenun -o ju»d reducing the wenr and tVar tl up'»n coach and other light C"n\vy;vuce pi traffic. It is well known thattht? dbc|. hi r Jts I'a'Kv'd.br narrow tierß,'f(»rmttiV; W tbov at do channels for the lod-'inont «»f v,i(i>r, mm T the principal cause of the •■xpi-iu-.iveiivss ni of iiiaiuitiiiaiicj. JJiidiJes tliis, however, ct

white the narrower tiers have a tendency to c throw the metal off the rotftfy: the" -wtd* % j ones of tlg» traction engin^l! bind it so a as t" ev&ilnally form a Ipiwl track as c hard and smooth as a flag pavement. An- ■ other w>tiaider.*hl« saving in maintenance' 1 Ito be affected by the use of these entrin^,;!' 1 consist in the possibility of matntai i ; ni.' a t good crown on the mad, which wilfkeep. the j r.»ad thoroughly dry at all s isons ..f the f year. One thing will b« nocesnry t • the • tffi ient working of the traction engines on the road, namely a greater number of i turns-out, or passing places. But the«<- < are absolutely necessary with any kin -i of traffic, and sooner or later wou'd havo t«i i bo provided. There is n» doubt the present maintenance contractors would be, only too glad to construct these, ami «!«•»* wi luu the r-ia I in places, if u«oded, free <»f cost, in consideration of tin* great saving to them which would result from the use of the traction engines. Mr Campbell estimates that he would be able to rednce the r;»»e of freight "by £1 per ton, and this of itself is one great reason in favor of t-lm I .c I >.<i!y offering fVfry possible facility f •»• the introduction of the machines. T!v traction wasfsr'»rw w<>nl ! perform the trip from Oreynvmth to RecfMn in from t»v 'ye t-i fifteen honi-s, conveying from ten to tw<ilv.' tons -f freight t>er trio, the e.,.rj,vs Ivins canal >1« .if making all the heavy ascents on the mad with its loading at tli- rut •< * fiv> miles per hour. Mr CamnVll has. w<- h-Unve., made a formil application to the Tnan*;^ua Cou-K.'iJ for t'»f j n"<v><s-iry '"» •■rmision. :nul j should it be acceded to, as it no d><u''t will be, the. machines will be on the road before the end of th« present year. Mr Cauw'»ll further inftrm-' us t' at ho will j be able to take hack freight to Oreymonth j at 15/- per ton. which would op«n un nn extensive market for Peefton p..al b-»(hiu the Grey Valley and GreymoutlY. The uniforms for the Tnan-rahui ftifl !« retfihed Greymoiith. by the « «. K>»r«»nui which arrived a* that port yesterday.. The "round formerly held by the Boston Oonrnny. adjoinina 1 the Venn* Extended Company, Murray Creek, has been re-applied f-r undur the name of the North V^nns ' 'ompany. The announcement appears in another column. Mr J. Ring, the well-known artistphotographer, notifies that he will visit Reefton on a professional visit on Monday n->xt, 23rd instant, and as his stay will be limited to a few days those desirous of sitting for portraits would do wetl to cnll at his studio as soon as possMe after bis arrival, and thus ensure the pictures being finished before his leaving f»r Greymouth. It. appear* that Mr Menh-nih, M.H.R . was the only repre«enta»ivo from the Wnnf Coant who attended the Ffrnpit " ' and Charitable Aid Board meoMnrr h«ld at Nelson on Tuesday laR». As the bu!!t of tlv members constituting tho T :---\rd are n-silents of the West Const it seems that some difficulty is likely to be experienced in getting a quorum together. The meeting had to he adjourned, at, 3 as Mr M«nteath was- en route-' tn We'Mnj/Nin he was a««k»>1 ti*» represent tothe G .vernnnMit the difficulty apprehended iv nbtainius a qnoram for the first mpeting, and to endeavor to get the statutory quorum rednced. The I meeting was aij »urned until Friday (t<>- ' day\ by which tim? Mr Menteath will -be back there from Wellington, -and it is understood be will return to Reeft'«n on Saturday or Sunday. We aro requested to notify that Li-nfc. Sp«uce,drnMnstru<;tor for the West Coast, will visit Reef>on on Friday next, and in the evening, at the usual hour and place, will hold an instruction parade, at which all members of tho corps will be required to attend. A late t-.degratn last night informs us of the melancholy intelligence of the death of Dr Thorpe at Wellington. The d«---c--.-is.--l g-utleman had been in a very !•»»■ atat • of health for some days previously, and !is life, had b»en dispared of. It is un lot-stood his wife and family are wo!) provided for. t>r Thorpe was a couiparitively young man, being only about 35 years of age, bat he had for many years been sufkriivj from a pulmonary affection of a d •in.iteroim nature. A Nnpiur -paper (the News) tells the flowing good st-iry of an anniHing .»c---currence aaid to hnv happened there lately. A certain lady residing on the Hill, l>ut who for obvious reasons shall be nameless, suspected that. h«r husband was in the h*'»it of kissing the cook, a pretty German girl, by th« by. and resolved to detect him in the act. After watching for days, she hoarl him com 1 * in one evening and gently pass through into the kitchen. Now, Katie was out that evening and the kitchen was dark. Burning with jealously, the wife took some matches in her hand, and hastily placing her shawl over her head, as Katie often did, she entered the kitchen by the back door, and was almost immediately seized and kissed in the most nrdent manner. With her heart almost bursting with rage and jitalonay, tho injured wife prepared to administer a terrible rebuke to her faithless spouse. Tearing herself from hi* embrace, she struck a match and stood face to face with Katio's be:iu, one of the factory boys. Her husband says his wife has never treated him so well sinco the Hrat month th-.«y were married as sins has for the. past week. The London correspondent of th« Lift (el ton Time« writing under date Sept. 25 ai y 8 , — The feeling which scums to he entertaiued in England by tho promoter* of tho East and Wmt Const, Railway is that, while annoyed at the ivjwtioit of their scheme, they cannot but admire tho skilful engineering by whioh the opponents of the project in the North Island have maintained . sufficient am. >ngst th'emseives^tb" dnsuroitfl'deTeat. " The scheme, however, h n-it by any means dead, and negotiations are proceeding with a view uf carrying it out and

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