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

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1793, 10 December 1886, Page 2

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

T* is notified that a special daylight parade of tTie Inangabaa Rifle* will be held at the drill-room, at 6.30 o'clock on next Monday evening, at which all members of the company are' required to be present. We believe that Mr Watkin's flying survey shows that sufficient fall for water-race to answer the requirements thft Electric Lighting Company can be obtained in the river between Black's Point and Reefton. Should this prove correct the undertaking can be accomplished much sooner than was at first supposed, and at a comparatively small outlay. This evening a ball will be held in Messrs Gallagher Bros.'snew store, Boatman's, under the auspices of Mr F. D. Walker, the popular and respected host of the Union Hotel. Fine weather, we are sure, will be all that is needed to ensure * a large Attendance. Mr G. W. Moss arrived by coach on Weduesday evening, and will remain in Reefton till Sunday nest. Mr E. Clarkson, photographer, is now prepared to execute portraits of the highest quality and excellence, at reasonable prices. Having established a permanent studio in Reefton, and procured the latest and moßt perfect apparatus, he trusts to meet with liberal patronage aud support. | Advt. Speaking at Lawrence the oth*»r day Sir Julius Yogel said :— I hope you will not think I am taking too much credit to myself, but I cannot help feeling that this revival of the prospects of mining, and especially the revival of interest in mining pursuits, is coincident with the much larger attention given to miniug affairs by the present Government. — [Applause.] The Government have certainly done all they could to encourage mining pursuits, and I think they may fairly take some credit if good results follow. - [Applause.] The Minister for Mines, my colleague* Mr Larnach, spares no pains in his endeavours to do all he can to benefit the goldfields personally, so that he shall be under no mistake as to tho conditions which are existing, and ' I think also that the Government havo 1 done something in the way of legislation > to benefit the goldfields. I may point to the Mining Act <>f last session, and ask 1 you to a«fi-eo with me that the consolidation of mining laws in itself was a niost ' valuable w»rk, and it is all the inoro valual-le that together with the consididati'itu an-at Miany matters, the rftfult of ♦l>u knowledge trained l>y experience, I wi-e all.'d to tho new Act. Amongst iitliers, (here was the reduction of the miner's riiht— [m'plaiwu]— a step which T cannot L<-ln thinking was of the greatest p..Mii»>li) H<lvaiitn«« in allowing any person who h not in «>th«r employment the opportunity of toting his good futune in working on his own account as amiimr. We also tried, and tried hard, to obtain a reduction in the ra>e of the export duty on «'iM, with :i view to its ultimate removal. Ton are aware, gentlemen, that though we carried th's in the Lower H •»*«, it dirt not meet with the approval uf ike Fj-jgialitftvur Ciuucjl, and aft«r»

considerable amount of struggling the . i Bill was thr-.wn out for th« session, a j fate which 1 am sorry to say had frequently previously awaited a similar measure. Still I am disposed to think there will not be much lonper delay, and that we shall ghortly see those parts of the goldbelda , that consider that the goldtields revenue derived from the export duty should be reduced and ultimately removed will cany the day, and that such a measure will be passed. - [Applause ] The Wellington Post says :-" We regret to have to announce the demise of Mrs Mary Power, who died at her residence, Tattersall's Hotel, Cambridge Terrace, last week after a long and painful illness, extending over a period of two years. Mrs Power, who has been engaged in the licensed victuallers' business in Dunedin, Hokitika, and VVellin^on, for the last quarter of a century, was justly esteemed for her many amiable qualities and her open handed charity vhieh exhibited itself both so far the relief of private cases of distress was concerned and also in instances of public charities. The deceased lady, on the breaking out of the rush to Gabriel's Gully (Otagn) left Victoria, and since that time aha has been known as hostess of a number of hotels in different portions of the Middle Island and in Wellington, in which latter city she conducted at various times the Star Hotel, the Albert Hotel, and more recently Tattersall's Hotel. Vrs power has left a grown up son, who is at present at Kimberley, and two married daughters. The Court of Sessions on Monday in Brooklyn saw one ti the saddest scenes ever witnessed in a court of justice. Six years ago Nelly Babcock was married, and her wedding was one of the events of the town ; the church was brilliantly illuminated, and the altar decked with costly flowers. There were bridesmaids and groomsmen, and after the wedding a splendid reception was given at the home of the bride's parents, and amid GodBpeeds and showers of rice and flowers, the young bride started off on her wedding tour. All was sunshine, n<» cloud, no shadow. It seemed as if their «ilded bark might float down life's stream without a ripple. This week the glorious sun of that fair young bride set in a night so hopeless and dark, that no ray of light will ever break through it till the dawn of the judgment morning. No romance could picture a more terrible fall. The girl was a thief; she stolt not from necessity but from choice, apd often ran great risks to steal things for which she had not the sligliest need. For minor crimes she had served several terms in the penitentiary, and while there by gome means had made the acquaintance of a desperate burglar and thief, with whom she linked her fortune. Here robberies were all the boldest and most extraordinary character, and the offence for which of madness that the chanceTSreTffie may be committed to the Asylum as a kleptomaniac, instead of the penitentiary as a thief. One fine Sunday morning, she and her husband, both just out of prison, walking along one of our most frequented throughfares, when it suddenly ocenred to the girl that she wanted a new pair of shoes ; arriving in front of a shoe store which was closed, the husband kicked in one of the lower panels of the door, and through the entrance the girl crawled, and began trying on shoes, while the man kept watch on the outside. She was in the store an hour, and at last being suited with a fine new pair she left her old ones , behind, and packing up ten pairs of the best she could find, crawled out to run into the arms of a policeman. Husband and wife pleaded guilty, will be sentenced next week.