The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1743, 13 August 1886, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1886.

The annual concert and entertainment in aid of the Reefton Hospital will be held in the Oddfellows Hall this evening. The programme has evidently been arranged with great care, and is well worthy of the occasion. The annual concert in aid of the local institution is always well attended, as indeed it well deserves to be, and the gathering of to-night will be certain to be iio exception to the rule.

Mr Robinson, of the .Midland Railway Company, with Mr Napier Bell, one of the engineers of the company, reached here late on Tuesday night, and took up t^eir quarters at Dawson's Hotel. They left again yesterday morning for Westport. Am yet very little is known regard i iff the purpose of Mr Robinson's mission, or the exact position he occupies in relation to the company. It will, however, be understood that he left London for the Colony before any finality had been arrived at in the negotiations then going on between the Government here aud the promoters at Home respecting the railway, and'hence probably the uncertainty in the public mind as to whether his visit is of a private or official nature. We believe that up to the time of meeting \!r Robinson Mr Napier Bell had had no communication with the company in London, and knew nothing whatever as to its intentions, beyond what had appeared in the newspapers. A few days ago a brother of Mr Robinson passed through Reefton, en route for Nelson, whence be sailed for London. He had come to the colony on a pleasure trip, and had no connection with the business of the idland Railway, about which he appeared to know nothing. 1 Jin reply to a question he remarked that he did not think much of the country on the West Coast, hut whether this was meant more particularly for| the country between here and Nelson, or to the West Coast generally, was not made quite clear. It is a pity there is such a lamentable want of "front " in newspaper reporters on the West Coast. Had Mr Robinson gone to Auckland on a similar mission the representatives of the Pre«s there would have interviewed him, and turned him inside out before he had been an hour on shore.

The contractors for the erection of the Left band Branch bridge are getting the work well under way. Much of the timber has been cut and dressed, and tenders will ctase at F<»Mfth and Masters tomorrow evening for hauling 60,000 ft of logs from the stump to the works.

The lieefton Permanent Building Society, which is now entering upon the third year of its growth, continues to make satisfactory progress. The operations for the past year Bhow a profit equal to 10 per cent, each holder' of five shares in the Society being thus credited with a dividend of L 3. The Society is only a small one, but its wealth is increasing, and it proves itself to be a thoroughly good investment,

The crushing of a trial*parcel of stone for Messrs Heaphy and M'Cafferty, the prospectors of the- Lone Star reef, was commenced at the Specimon Hill battery on Tuesday last, and we are glad to be able to say that the yield promises to fulfil the high expectations formed of the stone from the moment the fortunate discoverers first brought it to light. Although the stampers had only been running for a few hours, as our^informant describes it, " lumps of amalgam could be seen on the plates." The Lone Star bids well to become a second Welcome.

Owing to increasing business Mr M« M'Nelies, saddler, has removed to more extensive premises opposite Dawsnti's Hotel, Broadway, where he is now showing a large stock of imported saddlery.

The needed repairs to the Welcome Company's water wheel being completed, the battery was set going at midnight on Tuesday last.

Mr James Roxborougb, long and favorably known as the licensee of the Crushingtoti Hotel, has become host of the premises hitherto known as " Coolirane's Hotel," Broadway. The building will he entirely renovated throughout, and to complete the transformation the name of the premises is to be changed to the '.* Rail fray Hotel," where the public will tind good accommodation for sleepers, steam always up, a civil and attentive train of servant*, tlie best of tender cuttings on the table in good time, the low est fares, and one of the oldest and best drivers on the Coast..

The miner* and inhabitants generally of the Thamen have evinced great respect tv the memory of the late Warden Ren-i-ick. As a testimony of their regard the iolialntants met in the town hall, To Acolia, for the purpose of giving public expression to their sorrow for his death. The following resolution was paMod :— " We, the people of Te Arohii aud neighbor hood, in public meeting assembled, desire to express ottr heartfelt sympathy with Mrs Ken rick and family in their great and sudden bereavement, and at the same time to testify to the high appreciutioii of the ninny eminent services so willingly rendereil to this district by our late and much lamented Warden and Magistrate." The Thames Borough Council also n;iß-u'd a vote of condolence to Jin Kvtirick. In Court V r Milltr, so]i-

citor, made a touching reference to the I deceased gentleman, and the Bench concurred in the remarks. The [Auckland Herald's correspondent remarks : "To my mind the gaandest tribute to the deceased is the universal regret expressed by the miners themselves. He evidently lived iv the hearts of the people." The deceased gentleman's life was insured in the Government Insurance Office for £1500.

We understand that information has been received from London to the effect that the staff for the Midland Railway construction will leave London for Christchurch during the current month, and that Mr Allan Scott, one of the delegates who went home from Canterbury with Messrs Fell and Dolman, has been appointed General Manager and Commissioner of Lauds for the Company in New Zealand.

Mr Ruskin has addressed the following letter to a gentleman in North Wales with reference to Mr Gladstone's measures for the future government of Ireland : — "Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, May 29. Dear Sir — Nothing that any Parliament could do would be the least use at present. England and must suffer for their past sins, how long and to what issue Heaven only knows. Your faithful servant, J. Ruskin."

Lung worm is said to b« causing great devastation among' the sheep in South Canterbury. The Timaru Herald says : — We learn from a farmer friend that the loss of sheep in the Pleasant Point Fairlie Creek district is just now very heavy, carcasses being found lying about in paddocks and river-bed land in all directions. On one estate the loss totals up from 40 to 60 a day, and two'men are actually actively employed taking the skins off the dead animals. The cause of so many deaths is said to be lung worm, a disease that is much dreaded by all sheep-owners.

Mr W. 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 making still further reduction in his prices, and ig now selling at twenty-five per cent, below any other establishment in Reefton. — Advt.

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