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Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 95, 28 March 1877, Page 2

In tbe 'jfogident Magistrate's Court on MondajTlaSt \A\ Worship delivered judgment in thfr ease- of Crumptoh v. Mace, giving judgsM;.to£ the plaintiff for the sum of £12 10a/ being Bd pc» scrip. We believe that no appeal will be lodged against the decision. Bishop Bedwood is expected to reach Beefton during the latter part of the present week. (Hi» Lordship will arrive by coach on Thursday evening.) An experiment will dhoHly be tried in Beefton to manufucture beer from locally grown hopa. Tbe hops appear to arrive at great perfection here, and all thing* being equa ebould answer the requirements of tbe case. We remind all persons thai claim* to yote upon tbe qualification, of the Hou»e of Bepregentatives must be forwarded to the Eegistra tion officer, Q-reytnoutb, before tbe 31st insft. * The contractors for the formation of Shiel street are bringing their work to a close, and appear to have carrieil out their contract in a most efficient manner. The street throughout will be one of the moot permanently con atructed under the Boad Board. Mr Kobert Craig, the co-delinquent of Mr '^ e^HfttfefJlL?C nrl^' t y as^ Bumnioi''ecf"b%fbi'e the Rewpyiatgfstrate on a charge of furious riding, and amerced in the sum of £5 for tbe o;ffeuce.

A eve of some interest to horse owners will come on for hearing in the Residemt Magistrates Court, Reefton, on Tuesday next. It appears that A resident of the town lost a horea gome two years ago, and never could trace its whereabouts. On Friday last the bailiff, acting upon a distress warrant issued against the disconsolate owner, seized a horse in the possession 'of a local livery stable keeper as the long-mißsing animal. The owner believes the horse to be his, but whether such is the caae remains to be seen. The animal in question has been in the town for a length of ttiem c past, and it was not until lately that recognition was established, or thought to be. The i horse can be traced through innumerable hands, and is said to hare descended to its present owner from the Matakitaki district. The '« missing link " in the mftroh of civiliaation in the direction of Rainy Creek has at length been supplied, and the government which is oalled "petticoat" has been establisted in the wilds of the Upper Inangahua One of the bands engaged at Messrs Graham and Allen's battery has located his wife and family in that quarter. The Reefton order of Good Templars will hold their regular fortnightly " social " in the usual place of meeting, Broadway, on Saturday evening next, when a number of songs readings, and recitations will be delivered by influential members of the order. The County Council will sit at 2 p.m. to-day, but there is not we believe, any business of importance upon the order paper. The applications reoently made for canoell" tion of mining leases in the Murray Creek district have had the effect of waking up some of the claim -holders there, and mining opera* tions are to be resumed in a large number of mines which have been lying idle for a considerable time. Many of the claims in the lower portion of the creek have been waiting for the completion of the Maoedonia tramway in order to get stone to Anderson's batteiy, and as the tramway is now approaching completion, the work of getting out stone in readiness is going on. It was hoped that the Macedonia Company would be able to start their battery by the end of the present week, but owing to the difficult nature of the country through which the tramway passes some urther extension of the time will be required Every effort is however being made to hurry on the work. We have received reliable intelligence (says the Westport Times) that any anticipations as to the Tadmor Valley supporting more than a few miners is likely to lead to disappointment. Neither the extent of ground, nor the prospects of gold yet obtained is sufficient to warrant any general rush in that direction. The County Council, Hukitika, has fixed the salaries of the Chairman and Clerk at £200 per annum respectively. Members are to be allowed £1 10 a per diem for each sitting day, that amount toinclule travelling expenses. We mentioned a few days since that two thirds of Cashman's, the original prospector's claim at the Kumara, ha 9 been purchased by the promoters of the Okuku Water Race Company for about £1300. The purchase of the remaining third share has just been com* pleted on behalf of the same company, by their agents, Messrs F. A. Learmonth and Co. The price given for this last third share is reported to be £1000 cash. The promoters of the Okuku Company, now possessing the full claim with all the rights, races, &c, formerly held by Cashman and party, intend to commence operations on a larger soale. A joint stock company will be formed, the pros* pectus of which will shortly appear, and from public report, the project is likely to be speedily floated. The number of shares will be very limited, and priority of application will be considered . From the success which attended the Kumara Company, watei 1 races would appear to be a popular movement at present. Scarlet fever has broken out in Laurence, Otago ; also at Waitahuna. A London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus tells a story of a Hospital Sunday sermon, which shows that the clergy are aware of the " ticklish" nature of commercial oredit. The rector of Bayswater parish read out, before his discourse, a letter which he j said he had received from one of his congregation. It was a case of conscience.—" lam apparently well off," said the writer, " but, I am in fact on the terge of bankruptcy. I j should like to put my usual contribution — a £5 note— into your plate to-morrow, but I feel that it is really giving away the money of my creditors. What am I to do?" The clergyman said that he- had advised the gentleman to give nothing. " And I give the same advice, dear friends to you, if any of you are unhappily in the like position. Those, on the other hard, who are in good circumstances will, I am sure, give in proportion to their v earis." It proved the largest collection that this wise rector had ever m ide. The Moanatiria claim at the Thames shows every sign of becoming one of those wonders in mining .ventures which oeoa* sionally happen and make men independent in a day when they least ezpect it. Shares in this company were quoted only a few weeks ago at 20s. For years before they remained almost unsaleable at any price. Daring the past fortnight they have advanced a few pounds daily, and they bto now. quoted in advance at £21. Transfers Were effected for considerable parcels only a few weeks ago at as many shillings as are now quoted in pounds We understand there is but; one shareholder in Hokitika, a knight of the oleaver, who has steadily stu-k to his, interest for years. There is also said to be v shareholder or two at Kumara ,. wtta.-have,, bet n Wfl^vjpg brokers' offers daily at advancing prices for the past, few days, but have not yet been tempted to part with their interests. The following remarks appear in a late issue of the Maryborough Advertiser (Victoria.) " All gover.msnt as now carried on is plunder, whatever may be its form. Absolutism, moritrcby, and republicanism are alike in that respect. The object of the governing classes is to tax, delude, use, aud amuse the people? and while they quirrelin

I the fiercest and bitterest manner among them* selves for the benefit accruing from iharing and enjoying the spoil,— or in their own language the sweets of office,— it makes no differ* enoe to the vast bulk of the population which section obtains the upper hand, as they are pillaged and misled alike by both sides. In all lands political life is followed as a profession, in which public affairs are made saner' vient to selfish and personal ends, and in which private interests are paramount abore all other considerations ; but more especially are these made prominent in those countries in which the government is what is termed popular,— a smooth word for cowering pas* sion, grasping sefishness, party strife, and hatred. In these instances, the most successful are those who are capable of adroitly flattering and deceiving lhe people tfcey address simulating the aspirations of public benefao* tors While intent only upon their own ends-, always talking with fair words of the happi* ness and welfare of the people, but using the position thus obtained for their own mdi« victual aggrandiiement. Everywhere the wicked rule and the people mourn,— mourn by reason of their wretchedness and poverty. The chief of the nations, tbe most powerful, is England. Rising from ft broad voloanio foundation of hundreds of thousands of famished people, steeped in the most abject I poverty, misery, ignorance and vice, it rises, j class upon class, each a little wealthier than i the one beneath it, but all alike anxhus, > careworn, and vioious, until the highest is f reached where avarice, wealth extravagance, pride and viciousness are unbounded. A singular case, wherein legal erudition, and that especially affecting banking matters would be of considerable use, occurred in Christchurch the other day. A well-known medical practitioner who had lately attended a patient up to his last moments, presented a few days after, at the bank where deceased had kept his funds, a cheque for payment for the sum of £500, The official who received the document having examined it declined to honor the cheque on the ground that the signature was somewhat 1 , unlike the signmanual of the drawer. It was therefore endorsed at the back " refer to drawer," and returned, Now the drawer being no longer in the land of the living, it might be supposed that the cheque would be honored, if proofs neoessary to relieve the Bank's conscience be forthcoming. But the hitch is wh it kind of proofs? And, so far, the cheque has not been presented a second time. — Rangiora Standard . Harvest thanksgiving services were recently held in th 3 Wairarapa, when the church was appropriately decorated. The curate, says the News, preached at both services. In the morning he explained tbe Jewish customs at harvest time, and showed the various usea of the word "harvest" in the Bible, and some of the many deep lessons connnected with it. As the offertory was in aid of the Sunday School, the sermon in tha evening dealt with the question of religion education ; the present system of secular instruction being strongly denounced as a contradiction to our religious belief, a contradiction to tha nifure of man, subversive of all morality, and inconsistent with the administration of civil justice. He urged upon parents the necessity of making up for the deficient school Caching by home teaching »3 far as possible during the days. Nineteen hundred years ago (says the Wanganui Chronicle) there was a great disturbance in Jerusalem about the water suply, which was not sufficient, and the Roman governor, who was anxious to get a proper sup« ply for the oity, proposed to bring it from a distance of fifty miles. The Jews refused the money for the purpose, whereupon the governor— Pontius Pilate— seized upon the sicred treasury, and raide an aqueduct through the solid ronk, thu* carrying water to Jerusalem, and this exists to the present day. We wish we had Pontius Pilate to take control of the Wanganui Borough finance administration, aud act in a similarly prompt, energetic and practical manner with regard to our water supply. j " Snyder," in the Poverty Bay Standard aaks— What is a moral victory ? A (ex days back there was an election at Hawke's Bay, j when a Mr Sutton was returned ai the bead of the poll, one Mr Buchanan standing lower down. That i* to Say Mr Sutton gained the day, and Mr Buchanan lost it. Then I ask „ hat does Te Wananga newspaper mean by saying Mr Buchanan obtained a moral vie- j tory ? It will no more give him. a seat in i the Assembly than it wiuld get me a glass of ale if I toH my landlord I intended to pay | him with a »noral sixpence. It is possible he might offer me a moral glass of ale, but there would be very little malt ani hops in its composition. If I were putting up. for a member of Parliament I would much rather not have a moral victory of the kind spoken of by Te Wananga. because I am quite under the impression that no honorarium goes with A matrirnSnilrt romance of the stage, which occurred recently, is rather more romantic than the average run. The lea ling partner of a well known and wealthy firm of solicitors while enjoying an evening at a theatre, was smitten with the charms of a certain lady of the corps de ballet. Something happened. The rich lawyer, not over young himself, but with intentions strictly honorable, obtained an introduction to the fascinating coryphee, and very soon the acquaintance enied in marriage he was over fifty, she under twenty. The handsome girl belonged to a family of eleven children, and by one of these outbreaks of generosity which elderly solicitors so rarely commit he has undertaken to support the whole batch of them. The new wife, too, must be fitted for a position " onto which she was not born," and the doting husband has accordingly engaged masters of " all the ao. complishments " to give her lessons. Mr i. occupies a splendid mansion, and employs servants to administer to his wants. The event has produced no small amount of sensation among the gossips, but the lady is well worthy of her good fortune. The days of pull-backs are at an end, writes a Melbourne- correspondent, Those wondrous costumes flounced and gathered

below the cuirasses are disappearing, tad at usual the waves of fashion hating ebbed, a refined simplicity has taken the place of the redundance of the past. Our ballet wear the ! skirt altrost plain, the cuirass terminating fa j a single bow of ribbon, and there is sufficient | room allowed to walk with ease and grace in a street costume. At tbe presont rate of change the pull-backs will hate vanished before lone as effectually as crinoline or the light of a spent explosive. The well-known and favorite racehorse Tambourini had to be shot a few days ago, the injuries he received on the passage from Wellington to Christchuroh proving incurable. " Tarn was eight years old and had won over forty races out of sixty-one he started for. His principal wins were the Dunedin J*C. Handicap in 1873, the Canterbury Cup in 1874 and the J.C. Handicap at the same meeting, and the Wellington Cup, in 1 1874. The cutter Dawn, which arrived at Wai* j tara recently, has a a Maori captain and a : Maori crew on board, and from the style in which they took the bar, they evidently | know well how to manage their craft. There is (says the London correspondent of the Star) a scandal — it is a scandal — about the ! New Zealand of to-day. ADr Newman hat been lecturing at Wellington, whether the ' wes* country or the Shr ipshire Wellington is 1 not slated, and has declared that from the lowness of its its atmospheric pressure, and from the absence of phosphates, New Zealand is unhealthy, and that consequently children born or reared in that colony are inferior both in mind and body to those brought up in the mother country. Mr Ifantell and others vehemently opposed Dr Newmans theory.