The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6. 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1740, 6 August 1886, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 6. 1886.

The usual itting of the Courts was held yesterday, but was of very short duration, occupying'not more than half an lionr altogether. Tn trie Warden's Court there was one unopposed lease application. which vrn» recommended, the apnlie'int "being Mr Beeche In the Magistrate's Conrt there was an information demanding sureties of the peace. The parties were husband and wife, the former being the complainant. After hearing the case for the informant. His Worship held that no sufficient case had been made out to warrant the Court in binding ov.r the defendant, and therefore dismissed the case without calling upon the defence. Mr North, for defendant, asked for costs, but His Worship refused to'entertain the application.

The no«tsl authorities have decided on establishing a daily mail service between Reefton and Boatman's, to start to-day. The mail will close <at 10 a.m. daily, and will no donbt prove a great convenience to the public.

A case which has caused a considerable amount of interest locally was determined by Mr Bird, R.M., yesterday. The case was one in which Mr J. G. Heslop, Inspector of Miners-rights and Business Licenses, moved to compel the occupants of Crown lands within the town to take out business licenses. To this the parties interested objected, on the ground that by the reservation of the land in connection with the East and West Coast railway the occupiers had been deprived of the right of purchase, and it was arranged that a test case should be brought to obtain a decision upon the point. Accordingly a summons was issued, and Mr W. Hind marsh was appointed to represent the defendants in the proceedings. The case was argued at the previous sitting of the Conrt, Mr North, for the defence, contending that as the title was created under the Land Act, and not the Mines Act, the question could not be settled in the form in which it w*_ brought. Hia Worship reserved the point until yesterday, when he ruled that the action was rightly brought, and that defeudant was therefore in illegal occupation. As the case was merely a test one he would only inflict a nominal penalty, but the whole of the occupants would have to understand that without business licenses they were trespassers withont a legal right of possession, and liable to prosecution. This ruling of the Court places the unfortunate occupiers in a very bad position, and it would seem advisable, ere it is too late, that they should endeavor to find some means of escape from the difficult position in which they have placed themselves. Some of the cases involve great hardship. Those in which the occupants have been in possession for from six to twelve years, paid business licenses annually up to within the last year or two, and done everything to entitle them under the conditions of occupation to purchase. Through their neglect or failure, however, to take nn the Crown grant when it was open for them to do so, and, in default of this, to renew their business licenses to date, they are now mere tenants of the Crown on suffer ance, and in reality, unable to call their homes their owu. As the selection of the land under the East and West Coast and Nelson Railway Act will, in the ordinary course of things, be made shorfcVj^ and a large area of the Crown lands pass over to the Midland Railway Company, and in it, no doubt, as many as possible of the available town lots, whatever is to be done must be done quickly.

Messrs T. J. M illoy, the well known Hokitika tinn of boot import ers, who have purchased the premises and business of Mr VV. G. Collings, Broadway, have entered upo-i business here, and announce that in order to clear of the entire balance of tlie stock taken over, to make way for their new English stock now landing at Wellington, they have decided to continue their cash sale for one month, otferinj; every line at a reduction of 50 per cent, on cost price.

Mr F. W. Martin, Resident Enuineer, Greymouth, reached here on Wednesday eveniii!-, in company with V'r '{obinson, one of tho engineers and representatives ofthe Vidlatid Railway Company. The latter ventleiiuin proec-oded ovui I .nd by coach to Xel'ou on the following morning. Mr Martin re iiriiu.'l, and yesterday made a visit of inspection *o the bridge works in pr ■»_rt«e» under Messrs Co-lsraue and Co., at the Left-hand Hraiich.

In the M'i_iKtrah.!'B Court, Lyell, on Wediii'-wlay last, iv th. assault case of Wal.li v. C-tddigaii, defendant, who was indicted for assault, w*s dealt with summarily, and tiuod £2, aud costs. In the

civil case of Kennedy and Co. v. County Council, a claim for L 45, a compromise was effected, plaintiffs agreeing to accept LlO in full settlement, and pfty theit own i costs. Mr Lynch appeared for the deI fence in each case. The Welcome battery started crushing on Tuesday evening last. Mr Patterson, the representative of the contractor for the erection of the new water-wheels for the KeSp-it-Dark Oom pany, left Reefton by yesterday's* coach, and proceeds to Auckland. He takes with him the design of an alteration which he purposes to make in the arrangement of the nozzles. The casting will be made under his personal supervision to ensure accuracy, and it is not improbable that he will return to Reefton, in order to attend to its adjustment, and after trial, hand over the plant to the company. In the meantime the battery is kept fully employed, and the driving power of the new wheels meets all present needs. Our telegraphic news this morning contains a crumb of comfort for those who pin their faith in Kimberley, the Government agent reporting on the 26th July that all the men on the field are getting gold, and that experienced miners speak favorably of the place. Hh further states that it is understood that, much gold is in the hands of the diggers. Th« Tiijjiewo-M. T-xtem-ed Company are preparing 'to start crushing on Menday next. Homeward Bound shares are again coming into prominence, owing to the richness of the Welcome reef as it is being followed to the boundary. The following little sketch of the great city of Melbourne Ivy a recent Nelsonian visitor will be read with interest :— In early morning, in company with a Victorian, I landed from the Te Anau to explore the city when Melbourne was sup posed to be in bed, but found this was by no means the case in every instance, for very many seemed to be innocent of such an article, unless the stony pavement could be called a bed. All up Elizabeth street were groups of two or three or four sitting down on the pavement close together, probably supporting one another in the act of sleeping. Here and there you might see two or three ragged outcasts wandering about in search of a resting place ; around the coffee stalls bleareyed men who had by some'meatis raised the wind, with others' looking 'on in hungry expectation. As we passed a wharf ou our return two indefatigable policemen were rousing two of the homeless from under a covering of merchandise with no very sympathising words. "I have lost my hat," said one. " A good job to," with an adjective. "I will make away with myself." "Victoria will be well rid of ynu," said the unsympathetic hobby. Sad it is, but no less true, the wealthier the city the greater the poverty. No doubt much of the poverty is the fruit of idleness and vicious propensities, hut not by any means all. Bad social adjustments have to do with a great deal of it, and unless these social adjustments are rectified the scenes enacted in London will be repeated in the larger cities of the colony. We cannot go on educating the people without making them sensible of the mal adjustment of society, and if they become sensible of it they will endeavor to rectify it. If it cannot be done peacefully it will be done violently.

After the earthquake shock recently felt in Otago thousands of yonng fish, nearly all about two inches long, consisting of trout and other varieties, were cast ashore on the banks of .Lake Wakatipu.

A Wellington paper says that Sir George Grey is taking legal advice as to the possibility of instituting legal proceedings during the recess against Mr W. 3. Steward for a breach of the Disqualification Act in connection with the District Railways debentures case, and against Mr R. J. Seddon, in connection with the Kumara sludge channel matter, which was ventilated last session.

The London Telegraph of June 10th, publishes the following lefer from John Ruskin, the art critic, in answer to a circular received by him appealing for subscriptions towards extinguishing the debt on the Baptist Church at Richmond :— Sir,— l am sorrowfully amised at your appeal to me, of all people in the world, the least likely to give you a farthing. My first word to aii men and boys who coifo to me is " Don't get into debt ; starve and go bareheaded, but don't borrow : try first begging, I don't mind, if it is really needful, stealing, but don't buy things you can't pay for." And of all manner of churches, these idiotically built iron churches are the datnnablest to me ; and of all the sects and believers in any ruling spirit, Hindoos, Turks, Feather tdolators, Mumbo Jumbo Log, and fire worshippers, who want churches, your modern English evangelical sect is the most absurd and entirely objectionable and unendurable to tne. AH which you might very easily have found out from my books, as any othor sort of sect would before blithering me io write it to them,--Ever, neverthele s, and in all this saying, your faithful servant,— John Rpskix."

Mr VV. J. Shaw announces that in order to clear off his extensive and varied stock of ladies, gentlemen's, and children's boots and shoes he has decided upon inakin" still further reduction in his prices, and is now selling at twenty-five por cent, below any other establishment in Reef-

ton.— Apvt.

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