The Inagahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKELY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1662, 5 February 1886, Page 2

The Inagahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKELY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1886.

The monthly cleaning up of tli«s Unite*! Alpine Company was concluded yeatarday. The result was 69405». of retorted K«»M from 708 tout of stone. A dividend of one shilling per share was declared. The annual jiwetiug of the men\ber« and stil«crid»TS «»f the Reef ton Fire ■ Brigade was held o'lj Tuesday evening l*»t in the drill shed. Captain Collin^s in the chair. The Balance sheet was read and adopted, and it w-ib announced that the secretary had applied to the Insurance Companies doing i-itsine** in Re«fton for the annual subsidy of £30. Fnvoral/e replies had heen received from three of them, viz : Equitable, Standard, and Norwich Union, and it is expected the remaining ones will follow «uit. which will ermMa thn brigade to repleuinli the stock of hoaw, some of which is not of much mm. It was regretted that several persons who have been contributing to the brigade have either reduced thnir subscriptions or elne stopped them altogether, thereby reducing the amount until it is hardly sufficient to pay working expenses, and, which, if continued, will seriously affect the working of the brigade, inasmuch as there will be no mghtwatch-man. The meeting was adjourned until Tuesday evening next at half past 8 o'clock. There was a long sitting of the Magis t rate's Court, the business not being concluded when the uonrt adjourned. The Warden's Court will open again this morning. The concluding porti »n of our report of to day's proceedings is held over. The funeral of the youngest son of Mr I. Lewis took place on Wednesday last, and was very largely attended. The Rev. Mr Innis-Jones officiated at the grave, and read the service in a very impressive manner. It is certainly a matter of regret that an old established and respectable firm like Messrs Edwards attd Monteith should ■ have been th« first in this part of the Colony to feol the rigor of the penalties under the Beer Doty Act. For a mure technical infraction of the law they have bevn cast in a penalty which seems disproportionate altogrth&r with their offending. Put the Act unfmtUHately makes no distinction between acts of omission and commission — between mere ' inadvertence and culpnMe design. Such j however, seems to be the law, but if there ever was a case iti which a substantial pi* a could bw fairly get up for a remission of the fine this is one. Mr Brennan will sell at the police camp i t<> day, threw casks of ale, by order of the Collector of Customs. We take the following items from the Westport Times:— "Friday, January 20th, w»s the twenty fourth anniversary of the arrival of the first steamer in the Buller River. The bnat was the Tasmanian Maid, Captain Whitwell.-Mr Frits Norman 'B foot, wan fmind to be so tally crushed, upon examination at the H*pital, that amputation iif the greater portion of the member was found necessary. Drs Thorpe and Brnen performed the difficult operation. Th«y severed the crushed and broken portion at one of the joints, saving the heel. We hear this afternoon that the patient is progressing as well as can be expected.— Fi May's Star.— The latest report of the Charleston prospectors shows that m4sH 4MMw»ragii>g prospects have been nw* with in the shafts put down by them oh Thompson's Lead, but that at preawnt no payable ground has been struck. A new shaft was. be^mi tin Wednesday, 'atxMtt.6o feet inshore of the last, in which the pn»> pectors are very sanguine of their striking good gold.— Mr W. H. Brown, of Charleston, has been promoted to the charge of the Bank of New Zealand, Kumara. He is succeeded by Mr Mason. The Charleston people have presented Mr Brown with ft testfttonW and a purse of sovereigns and Mrs Brown a handsome bracelet. It is said that during the past few months six young men from the West Coast of the North Island, between New Plymouth and Wanganui, have gone to La Plata, with the view of ascertaining whether the prospects offered ttor* are better thau what are afforded by v tw Zealand. If the place suits them they will withdraw from this colony capital amounting to nearly £100,000. The terms of immigration to La Plata offered by the Argentine Republic are in marked contrast to those offered by the Colony of New Zealand. Mr Hulke informs the Taranaki Herild, that an immigrant from London or I iverpool is conveyed by steamer or sailing vessel to I a Plata, and then taken over 200 miles up country by rail for the sum of 13. The first ten years the immigrant live* in the Republic he is free from all taxes, both local and customs, and is also free from service in the militia. If he takes purebred stock with him they are taken to their destin Htion free, ami anyonu who introduces a syst«Bt<4 culture or manufacture differing

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