THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 70, 29 January 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1877.

A special meeting of the Boad Board was held at the office, Broadway, on Saturday last. There were present Messrs Brennan, Aiken, Kelly and the secretary. The meeting had been convened to consider what steps should be taken relative to merging the Board in the County, and after some little discussion, it was moved by Mr Aiken and seconded by Mr Kelly that the secretary pre« pare and circulate for rignature a petition praying that the Board be nrerged in the County. The resolution was put and carried and the meeting then adjourned. The late flood in the luangahua river has played the mischief with the old protective works, and the whole of the lower part of the town ia onoe more at the meroy of the river* Several additional lengths of the old embankment have been washed' away, and with them the last vestige of the lower strand. The river ia now running under Fox and O'Neill's old butchery, about fifteen feet of the riverbank having been eaten away by the last flood. A gap has also been made in the face of the embankment at the rear of Ching's store, one crate having slipped into the river, while the adjoining crates betray unmistake» able symptoms of following suit. It is now quite evident that the whole of the lower portion of the embankment is unsafe, and un» less speedily strengthened Will disappear as a large portion of it has already done. In tho moan tin e a part of the town stands in

very great danger, which will be still further heightened should the weather not take up at once. A very painful mining accident happened in the Hopeful mine. Boatman's, on Saturday last, whereby a miner named John M'Gilliouddy sustained a compound comminuted fracture of the leg. It 'appears that M'GHllicuddy was at worfeu* the mine wlten a large flake of earth fell from the' roof of the tunnel. He saw the earth giving and jumped on one side in time to escape being crushed to death, but a portion of the debris struck him on the lower part of the leg and foot inflicting the iDjury stated. The sufferer was carried into town on the same evening and conveyed to the hospital, and Dr Martin being in attendance, ibe injury was at once attended to It was then found that the fracture wa9 a very severe one, the whole of the foot and' lower bones of the leg being frightfully shattered. On yesterday morning there was no hope of saving the limb, and later in the morning it was amputated, and the sufferer is progressing favorably. The following letter from Mr John Brown, a former resident of Reef ton, who some time ago left here for the South African Goldfields, has been kindly placed at our disposal by tho recipient, Mr P. Brennan:— "* * * I was compelled to proceed to Adelaide there being none of Spence's boats on the berth at Melbourne. I had to wait a month at Adelaide before I could get a ship, and then not one going direct, so had to go by way of East London, which is about 200 miles from Fort Natal. The passage occupied sixty«six days, and we narrowly escaped being wrecked on the way across. We were overtaken by a terrific gale, and the vessel was so much strained that we had to throw overboard a large portion of the cargo, which, besides myself and wife, consisted of flour. Our passage cost £40. From East London we took the steamer to Natal, at a further cost of £3 10s each. Thence to Pelago Bay I proceeded alone, at a cost of £3 10. I there met a crowd of sixteen diggers, who had just returned from the diggings. There were some New Zealanders amongst the number whom I knew. They reported that the diggings were at a standstill on account of the war going on between the Kaffirs and the Dutch. 1 returned back with them to Durban. There 1 found everything very quiet. Every kind of labor is performed by black skins imported from Calcutta and Madras. They receive lid per day, and they cost about 2d or 3d per day to keep. White laborers when re* quired receive 7s per day. It is my inten* tion to push on to the diggings directly the war is over. It is a fine country, but over stocked with blacks, and there is no demand for white labor. I know lots of Europeans working for 4s a day and glad to get it. On the whole I would recommend no man to come here, indeed, my advice is— stay where there is a chance for a white man, there is none here." The amount of amalgam collected by the Wealth of Nations Company on Saturday last, add to the quantities previously obtained from .the plates, gives a return of 5260z 15dwt of melted gold for four weeks' crush* ing.

From a conversation which took place on board the steamer lararua, yesterday, with the English cricketers, it appears the whole blame in the matter of the mismanagement with the Gtreymouth cricketers, rests with Mr Bennett the agent for the All England Eleven. Mr Lilly white, the captain of the eleven, was in perlect ignorance as to Mr Bennett's arrangements with Greymouth. His instructions were to be in Auckland on the 29th January. The only means of getting to Auckland by that time, is by catching the steamer Wellington leaving Nelson on the 25th inst. Mr Lillywhite expressed himself exceedingly grieved that the arrangements made by Mr Bennett should be so unsatisfactory to Greymouth, and he offered to do anything in his power to rectify it> provided he could possibly reach Auckland on the date specified. He sent a telegram ashore to this effect, making inquiry if it was possible for him to play, in Greymouth and to leave in time. So imperative were his instructions from Mr Bennett to be punctual with bis engagement in Auckland, that the cricketers did not wait for the Kotorua, fearing they might be a day late. It is not possible for both engagements to be fulfilled by them at the timed arranged for, and it may be taken as certain that the English cricketers will not land at Greymouth. Dr Cairns, of Melbourne, was recently re. ported in the Melbourne Age to have said in the course of an address delivered by him to the congregation of Chalmers Church on Wednesday, the 20th, ult,, " I had to get over some scruples of conscience before reading prayers on Sunday from the Church of England Prayer-book." The Dootor writes to the Age, impugning the aocuracy of the report, and saying — " I beg to inform you that I never said anything of the kind ; a grosser misrepresentation could not be made. I told my audience that I read that service with a good conscience, with comfort to myself, and with the acceptance of a congregation three fourths of whom were members of the Church of England. I will thank you to publish in your earliest impression my unqualified contradiction of the statement to which j refer." In the remarks referred to, Dr Cairns alluded to Divine Service as performed by him on board the P. and O. Company's steamer while returning to Melbourne from Scotland.

A terrible disease If gravel is allowed to remain in the bladder, the accumulations eventually become so large that they can only be removed by one of the most dangerous and agonizing operations known to surgery The deposits pass out through the urethra so long as they are small enought to do so j but in their passage their ragged edges tear its Sensitive lining, producing the most excruciating tortures. Tho use of that beneficent diuretic. Ui)6irno WoLifE'a ScniBDAM Aromatic*: Schnapps materially assists in dissolving and passing gravel,