The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1755, 10 September 1886, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1886.

We learn that the Hopeful Extended Company have wiitteu to the Fiery Cross Company, suggesting the amalgamation of their respective leases, and interests. The leases adjoin, and according to present appearances the northerly strike of the Fiery Crohs reef will be found in the Hopeful ground at a deep level. We do cot know how the Fiery Cross people are likely to regard the proposal, but the impression of most people is that it is worthy of very careful consideration. A reply «o the proprsal is now daily expected. It has been arranged that the Beef tori foot-ball team will leave here on Friday morning next, for Westport, to play the match there on the following day. They will be driven through in one of Mitchell and Campbell's coaches, returning on Sunday. Owing to the unfavorable state of the weather for some time past our men have been thrown altogether out of practice. Should the conditions, however, be at all favorable, it is desired by Capt. Blakely that all numbers should meet on the ground at 2.30 to-morrow and Tuesday, to have the blue- mould knocked off them. We publish in another column the summing up of the Chief Justice in the libel Action of Yogelv. Waketield. Against the verdict Sir Julius Yogel has appealed, being apparently dissatisfied with the trial. The grounds upon which he moves are the merely technical ones which must be assigned in all appeals, or motions for" new trials in the Supreme Court, and therefore carry no meaning. He is possibly in the belief that there is more politics titan than justice in the finding of the jury. Nothing could better show the opinion held locally of the Lone Star undertaking than the fact that over two-thirds of the shares apportioned for allotment in Reefton have already been subscribed for, and there is every likelihood that the balance will lie taken up, and the list close before the week is out. It has been decided to make one Judge do the whole of the District Court business for the Middle Island. To this end Mr District Judge Ward has been elevated to the Bench of the Supreme Court, and the District circuit has been conferred on Jndgo Baoad, who will now holdCourtsat Wain.ate, Timaru, Oatnaru. Queenstowu, Lawrence, and Invercargill, as well as in his former districts of Westport, Reeftou, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Nelson. It is hardly possible to think the Government intend such an arrangement to be permanent. In order to keep up with these appointments, and hold some fifteen Courts annually in the whole length and breadth of the Middle Island, Judge Broad will have to be constantly on the move, on a sort of judicial starring tour, to say nothing of the expi use, inconvenience and bodily weir and tear of life which such duties mus» entail. The arrangement cannot possibly work either to the satisfaction of the Bench or the public, and never can be intended to be lasting. It is probably the last shift to wards the abolition of the District Court judicature altogether, and tho merging of the business in the Supreme and Magistrate's Court*, and next session will no doubt see the change brought about. That the District Court should be either abolished, or its functions greatly extended is what we have long contended fur. With Wardens exercising practically unlimited civil jurisdiction on the goldfields, the usefulness of the District Court in civil actions wasjhard to understand, and equally so as regards its limited criminal jurisdiction. It is to be hoped that should any judicial change, such as seems probable he proposed next session, efforts will be made, if not to secure a separate Supreme Court district for Net son and the West Coast, at least to provide for more frequent sittings of the Court in this part of the Colony. There 's but too good reasi >n to believe that scores of cases arise annually on the West Coast which would go to the Supreme Court but for the enormous cost and delay involved by the present system, which practically shuts out all but wealthy suitors from legal redress. Between Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Reef ton, Grey month and Hokitika ample work with quarterly sittings should be found to engage the time of one Supreme Court Judge. Owing to the washing away yesterday of two bridges on the overland elson.'eefton road, the coach was unable to lt«»ve Nelson yesterday morning. The Westport and Nelson coaches will there* fore not reach here till to-morrow evening. Owing to the flooded state of the northern rival* tkt t'ft.'ictl wiw J;ia v A' "j tcavc l»«

*ye*lerday morning for YVestpnrt andNelI son. • It is announced in <>ur advertising columns that the Bailiff will sell by public auction, on the ground, on Saturday next, the wh.»le of the right, title, and interest of the Little Batman's Creek Low Level Tunnel Committee in the machinery and appliances connected therewith. H^avy rain s«t in on Wednesday morning, and continued without break for fifteen hoars, and as there was an unusually large quantity of snow on the ranges a fl'K>d of more* than ordinary proportions was looked for. In this, however, expectation was disappointed, the fresh in the Inangahua being of only moderate volume. The flood seems to have been more severe in the Nelson district, where a considerable amount of damage Ima been done to private and public property. The >• dson Mail says :— ln view of the frequent convulsions that have recently been reported from America and the Mediterranean it may not be amiss to republish a paragraph which appeared in the Mail a few weeks ago regarding the prediction of a German Professor <>f Geology, who has made volcanoes his study In the course of a lecture at Trier on the Mosel, he predicted the St. Thomas' earthquake three years ago, which came true. He, at the same time, said that in May ox June, 1886, and September and October of the name year, there would be terrible upheavals and volcanic eruptions, reaching to the north of Wellington, New Zealand. He further stated that the tnor.th of September would witness the worst earthquakes which had occurred for over 3000 years past. The paper in which the above appeared uaid that 4he professor had prophesied a number of minor eruptions, which had all come to pass. W. J. Shaw is still selling boots 25 per cent less than any house in town. All goods of genuine first class quality.— Ad. Messrs Smith and Barkley announce that owing \6 the slackness of business for some time past, and the arrival of heavy consfar ments of new season's goods, they have decided to hold a buna tide clearing sale, hi such a substantial rml net ion upon ordinary prices as will thoroughly convince the public that they really mean business, and are determiued te reduce stiwk at any sacrifice. The sale is now on, an<i undoubted bargains in all the newest and most fashionable materials and makes are now offering. -Ad. 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 Pains in the Back. Guaranteed free from -ercury. Sold in Boxes, 4s 6d each, by all Chemists and Patent ediciue Vendors: Sole Proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland Counties Dkug Co., Lincoln, England. Wholesale the Wholesale Houses.