The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1885.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1637, 9 December 1885, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1885.

The latest English election returns give the result of the polling at : Liberals, 315 ; Conservatives and Parnellites, 320. There are still some five or six members to be returned to complete the list, so that the triumph of the Liberal party will be narrow enough. In the Gladstone Government of last year the parties stood in the House as follows '.—Liberals, 302, Conservative- 240, Home Rulers 02, there being at the time four seats unfilled. Allowing for about 80 Parnellites in the present Parliament the numbers will stand at about : Liberals 315, Conservatives 240, and Parnellites 80, 6ve vacancies being still unfilled. Taking these figures as correct it will be seen that in spite of the | great storm of indignation Mised against the Liberal administration of last year in relation to its policy in Egypt and Afghanistan the party returns to power iv almost unimpared strength, the Conservatives having gained practically nothing by an appeal to the people. Oaring, however, to the increased strength of the Purnellite vote in the new Parliament the possibility of the Liberal party being able to form a stable Government seems by no means assured. Mr William Dunn, the well known architect and builder, has just prepared plans and specifications for a handsome and spacious public hall, the erection of which will shortly be commenced for Mr John Dawson. The building will stand on the site reserved for it adjoining Dawson's Hotel, and will cover an area of 30ft by 90ft in depth. The front elevation of the ball facing Broadway will have a hight of 30ft from the footpath to the parapet, the height of the hip-roof being in addition to this The hall will be tw<> storey's high, the ground floor containing, a stage, 23ft x 30ft, main hall 62ft x 30ft, the remainder of the space being devoted to cloak rooms, stair-case, lobby and ticket taken box. Over the cloak rooms, etc., there will be a gallery capable of seating one hundred persons. Over this again will be the second floor which will contain a spacious lodge room 53ft long by 30ft wide, with lobby and ante-rooms, over the main entrance. At the back of tho lodge room, there will be four convenient apartments for the separate use of the different societies, The walls of the lower storey will be 17ft high in the clear. The front exterior of the building will be in the composite order of architecture, with spacious front entrance to the body of the hall and gallery and folding doors opening outwards. The entrance to the reserved seat part of the hall will be by a side door, thus obviating the inconvenience of crowding which would result from one entrance and exit. The building will be ventilated throughout with Tobin's patent. The cost of the structure will be between £1,200 and £1,500. Mr Dawson is to be congratulated upon his enterprise, and it is very gratifying to find that his faith in the future of the district is unshaken. Retiton has bad a rather trying time during the last twelve or eighteen months, and though it is generally admitted that the crisis is past, Mr Dawson is one of the first to put his belief into practice, and we wish him every success in his undertaking. Mr A. S. Meoteath, M.H.R., addressed the electors of Moonlight and Ahaura on Monday last, and yesterday evening he ■poke at Orwell Creek. This week be is expected to visit Totara Flat and Gran-

ville, returning to Reefton on Thursday or Friday. Very satisfactory news was received in town yesterday from the Happy Valley mine. The reef has widened out con- ■ siderably and shows good gold. j The dramatic performance by the yonag ladies of the Catholic School will be given at Boatman's, this eveniug, and as great pains has been taken to make the representation a success, it will no doubt be well worth witnessing. The Justin-Time contractors, Eaton and party will finish their contract for construction of uprise on Thursday, to-mor-row. The remaining distance to connect with the winze will be performed by wages hands. The extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Inangahua Low Level Company will be held at the office of the Company, on Thursday (to-morrow) evening. Mr G. C. Bowman announces that he will sell by public auction on Saturday next, at 130. p.m., at the Church of England Paijonnge, the choice furniture and effects of the Rev. Mr Spencer, who is leaving the district. As the whole of the furniture was recently purchased by the Rev. Mr Spencer personally in London, it is of a descrip* \< .1 not ordinarily to be met with in the Coionies, and having only being in use a few months is as good as new. At a meeting of the Nelson Hospital and Charitable Aid Board held recently, the following letter was received from the Premier's Secretary : To the Secretary of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board— Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 24th and 2oUi inst. stating the action taken by the Nelson district and United Boards lo raise funds and bring the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Act into working order. Mr Stout directs me to inform you in reply that he has authorised the payment of the subsidy on account «»f the hospital and of charitable aid— L2B7 and L 283 f» 8d respectively— in accordance with the Board's request, and the money will be remitted as sunn as possible. He also desires me to convey to the Boards his sincere thanks for the intelligent and active assistance they have given the Government.- I have, Ac., R. H. Govett. Regarding the race for the Melbourne Cup, a Victorian correspondent writes to the sporting contemporary of a northern contributor as follows :— " The Cup was a grand race and well worth seeing, but had the mare not been baulked twice when coming through the horses, Sheet Anchor would never have won ; besides, when only a few yards from home, O'Brien, on ihe latter, hit the maro fair across the nose with his whip ; and I »'*» think if the jockey on Trenton h.-vl not dropped his whip, the result would have been different. I don't think any of the papers mentioned anything al- >iit it, but' l saw Hie whip drop myself when they were about 100 yards from home." Mr Thomas Watson, formerly of Westport, is now established in business as a merchant at Corowa, on the Lachlan River, New South Wales. Trade is prosperous with him. A Wellington volunteer named Asher, was iiued £2 by the officer commanding the di tict, for insubordination iv inciting members of his corps to keep away from the review on the Prince of Wales birthday. The Napier Telegraph has the following : " Does it pay to be a politician ? In other words do politics pay ? Mr W. C. Smith, wo think, has most satisfactorily answered the question. By getting into Parliament he sprang from obscurity into public prominence, and also into an income of £200 a year, as represented by the honorarium, not counting payments for committee work. He was also presented with a Parliamentary railway pass, which is equal to a good round sum of money to one who has to do much travelling. Then, being in Parliament, he was naturally elected as chairman for his ounty, and, as it would not coat him anything for travelling expenses, a grateful Council voted him LIOO a year. For a total of less than four months' work £300 a year is not a bad remuneration. Most decidedly, politics pay." ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either sex (acquired or constitutional), Gravel, and Puins in the Back. Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in Boxes, 4s. 61 each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors : Sole Proprietors, Thk Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Co. Lin coin, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houses That indigestion or stomach gas at night, preventing rest and sleep, wiil disappear by using American Co.'s Hop Bitters.