The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1792, 8 December 1886, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1886.

At a meeting of the directors of the Electric Light Company, held last night it vas decided to obtain flying surveys of both branches of the Inangahua river, ; for the purpose of ascertaining the best] site for the company's race and generating station. The surveyors reports are to be furnished by Friday next. It is announced in our telegrams this morning that Mr Hoare, with VI r Scott, and the members of the Board of Advice cf the Midland Railway Company leave Kelson on the 20th instant overland for the West Coast. Messrs Molloy announce the arrival of their summer stock of boot* and shoes. At the last Meeting of the Nelson Education Board. Mr Dawson was appointed teacher of the Little Grey school. The salary of Mr Dowling, assistant teacher at Reefton, was raised to £1(50. A letter from the Capleston Committee was referred to the Board's solicitors. Tho resignation of Mr Twißtleton, master of the Capleston School, was accepted, and it was resolved to advertise for a certificated teacher at a salary of £150 a year. A letter from the Capleston Comtnitte stated that Mr Coghlan had cut down the boundary - fenco, claiming that the school land was a portion of his lease, and asked what they could do. The Secretary stated that the laud undoubtedly belonged to the Board, but the lessee had had to pay rent upon the acre, it being a small amount, the intention having been to make the reduction at the end of the term. Resolved, That the Secretary obtain the opinion of the Board's solicitors on the question. Plans for additions to the school at Reefton were laid on the table and approved. Sir Julius Yogel, when speaking at Lawrence the other day, referred to the ups and downs of mining and in doing so said : — And here I may tell you of an anecdote which I saw in the papers lately regarding the uucertainty of mining, which is too good not to be true. A gentleman on the Pacific slope was called upon by a friend, who was surprised to find his whole study papered with the scrip of a Mining Company On enquiring the meaning of this eccentricity, the gentleman t>ld him that it was to perpetually remind him of his folly in investing in mining undertakings, with the view of preventing him doing th« same again. A f»>w weeks after lie was called upon by his friimd again, who found him with a pail of water nur\ a bnnh industriously pulling down tlie mining scrip. Be»ng asked the »ne:ining cf this lie sni<l, "Every one of thohtt fu-rin is wurth now lOOOdol, and I inn i-iking them down myself because I i co-iM iM't trust finyhody else to do s'l." Th« iviviit ri*ij in fiinbe shares from Is to 40* per s!i:»»-e is although not bo marked, a ri«o of tJio s;um> il«w:riution, whilst a > r.'iMitiein.-in forfeited his Wealth of Nntinns recently uinl li t'l flu 1 satisfaction «»f knowing, six weeks afterwards, that they wore wu'tli 12s o<l i;:ieh. Tt will he rucollectud that some time 1 ago (says tli« A gv») the legal manager of tUv ■€»•»! Icti fr-eoo fining Cnnpa^y sued i'

Mrs Dixon a shareholder, to recover some j £'00 for calls. .Mr Junes appeared for plaintiff and Mr Hannan for defendant. During the hearing of the case it transpired that there was an irregularity in the elect inn of the Board of Directors. Mr Hannan at once seized the point, and pressing it obtained a non-suit. Against this Mr Jones appealed, and so far successfully as will be Been from the following memorandum from the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hokitika, to Mr Jones :_ "Moss v. Dixon. • Judgment delivered this morning as follows :— 'The appeal therefore is allowed, with £7 7s costs, and the case is remitted to the Resideut Magistrate's Court for the District of Grey to complete the hearing.' I have notified the result of the judgment to the Clerk of tho Resident Magistrate's Court at Greyinouth.— A. H. KibQ, Registrar." The Buller News says : - " No less than twenty two summonses were heard against the owners of stray cattle at the 11. M. Court on Tuesday. It appears the police have taken under instructions from head quarters, and have acted so energetically that some owners of a family cow were summonsed twice or thrice, meaning the mulcting of them into considerable costs. Of course this means that cow keeping will have to be abandoned within the town, and that many a poor person will have to sell their cow for what it will fetch, and lose the help that it has been to provide wholesome food for the bairns. On the other hand the art of .floriculture can now be pursued without the trouble of shutting th» gate, and the front gardens of gentlefolk will be safe from the midmight marauders that haw played havoc among the lilies of late. The offenders were find 5s and cost for the first charge, and Is and cost for subsequent. Mr E. Clarkson, photographer, is now prepared to execute portraits of the highest quality aucT excellence, at reasonable prices. Having establi»hed a permanent studio in Reefton, and procured the latest and most perfect apparatus, he trusts to meet with liberal patronage aud support. |-Advt.