The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1685, 31 March 1886, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1886.

A narrow escape from a serious accident is reported to have occurred in the Welcome mine on Saturday last. The flue from the under-ground engine chamber to the surface became blocked, and the manager. Mr Rooney, with Messrs Carroll and Mynahan, ascended the flue for the purpose of clearing the obstruc tion, but on reaching seme distance up the flue partly closed in, wedging Carroll so that he could not move. Mr Rooney managed to climb to the surface, and giving the alarm at once an entry was mnde into the flue from an old drive, and after some difficulty Carroll was got out in an insensible condition, but soon after recovered consciousness. Moynahan escaped without injury, but the deliverance of the three men was scarcely less than miraculous, and r Rooney is to be complimented upon the great presence of mini he displayed on the occasion. The friends of Mr \, Carroll will be glad to learn that he has sustained no serious injury, and is progressing favorably. Mr Hill's lecture announced for last night was postponed to Saturday evening owing to the inclemency of the weather. The County Council met yesterday, Cr. Campbell moved that tenders be invited for the offices of County Clerk and | Engineer. But the mover was s the only member who voted for the resolution, and it fell through. Cr, Campbell also moved that the Rate Collector be allowed 12£ per cent, on those miners rights and business licenses only which he is directly iuutrtnnental in taking out. "This was negatived in favor of an amendment reducing the Collector's commission to 10 per cent, all round. The other business was of a merely routine character. The concluding portion of our report ia held over. Messrs Gibson and Dome, of the Westland Boot Factory, Greymouth, will open a branch of their business in Reef ton on Wednesday next, when they will offer great bargains in boots and shoes. The Globe Company have applied for the ground formerly held by the Union Company, which, in the light of the retent discovery in the Globe mine, moy be regarded as a valuable addition to the company's property. The Assessment Court will sit to-mor-row, for the purpose of hearing objections against the valuations for the County. The following remarks of " Beacon " in the Otago Witnes* have formed the subject of much comment in sporting circles during the last week.— "lt will be a matter of interest to racing people throughout the colony to know that the Dunedin Cup was this year carried off by a horse that was not entitled to it. Nelson won the race simply through the jockeyship of Brown in bringing him up on the outside of Necklace, and jamming her against the fence, when he found that otherwise he must lose the race. This in no mere romance, but a solid fact. The stewards, who from their station could see right down the straight, saw Brown, so several of them inform me, twice bear Necklace against the fence, and they were simply astounded that no protest was lodged against Nelson. When Necklace came back her jockey's loft boot was near!/ nibbled off his foot, and he told her trainer Chaafe, that he wished to enter a protest. Chaafe, I understand, agreed that such must be done, but Mr Marshall declined to adopt that course. Mr Marshall might by publishing an authoritative account of the affair, set at rest what has formed a common topic of conversation during the last few days " At his Gore meeting Sir George Grey was asked whether, in a case of bankruptcy, the matter of granting a discharge should not be left to the creditors to return a verdict unanimously before such discharge is given, unless it could be shown to the Judge that the dissentients acted from malice ? and he returned this reply "To reply to that fully would require very considerable thought— for" instance, an to whether the unanimous vote of the creditors should be required, and other things of that kind ; but my own view for many years has been this : that probably the greatest cause of litigation in the world, and one of the things that troubles the world most, are bankruptcy laws, and I have arrived at the conclusion that the best thing that could happen for men would be if there were no bankruptcy laws, and if every debt were a debt of honor. We see that gambling debts are paid, whilst other creditors are cheated because they are debts of honor. However Radical such a view may appear, I have arrived at the conclusion that that would be the best stale of things for us all." A Brisbane telegram in the Melbourne papers «tate« that Adam Gordon, a dairyman at Cattle Creek, 30 miles from j Townsville, has reported to the police i that his daughter Margaret, aged 15, with a servant, went w the creek to draw

water. The father saw an enormous crocodile, and vainly endeavoured to warn the unconscious girls. The brute advanced a few feet on the bank, seized Miss Gordon, and dashed like lightning into the water. The distracted father followed along the bank. The servant remained mute and motionless with terror. Neither Miss Gordon nor the crocodile was seen again. An Adelaide telegram in the Sydney Morning Herald states that the Commissioner of Police has had the whole matter of the alleged robbery of the Yankalilla branch of the Commercial Bank of South Australia taken out of his hands, except that the police are continuing to make inquiries into the affair. It now rests with the directors of the Bank to take further proceedings. It was rumoured in the city that a man in Western Australia had been seen with Adelaide Commercial Bank notes to the value of £1,400, and that he had absconded from Adelaide on the day of the robbery. This intelligence was confirmed to some extent by a telegram received from Perth, but the Commissioner of Police does not feel justified in giving any particulars beyond stating that the aitiount of notes in possession of the man at Perth does not reach £1,400. We published a cablegram last week Btating thAt Richard Belt, the well-known sculptor, had been sentenced to a year's imprisonment with hard labour. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald gives the following particulars of the case:— "Mr Belt, the sculptor, charged with receiving ' ghostly ' assistance in his stadio, who made himself and his case the sensation of an entire London season, is in Court again under very strange, not to say suspicious, circumstances. Sir William Abdy says he lent Belt £2000, which he has not only not repaid, but he has swindled him out of £5000 or £6000 more-in this way : Belt went to him and said he knew a Mrs Morphy, who had been in the Sultan's harem as one of his mistresses ; that she had a lot of diamonds she wished to sell privately, a bargain ; and finally, he induced his kind friend^to buy and pay for stones to the extent of several thousands of pounds, which were not worth a third of th« money, Belt having really bought them from London pawnbrokers and then invested them with a romantic and fictitious value. A brother of the sculptor was charged also, but he was acquitted.