THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY,MAY 28,1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 21, 28 May 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY,MAY 28,1877.

Owing to the length of our Court reports, we are. compelled to holdover corrfispomiont'a letters, and other local matter. The Resident Magistrate's Court wiH sit this morning, when judgments will be delivered in the cage of Neilson v. Fletcher Brothers, and Bank o/ New, Zealand v. Temporiiey. The suspension bridge continue! to, bang together, oad despite the caution of the Road Board, parties continue to cross and re-cross as before.. The bridge is certainly in a most ritical position. Both tke anchors on the ' northern fide hare been torn ou,t of positipn, and are liable to part at any moment. If only for th esake of saving tbe material of tbe bridge from total destruction, something should be done, towards repairing it. The ' general belief is that the bridge can be thoroughly repaired for less than £100, and if | this c&n be done, we think the Road Board will be guilty ot great precipjtancey in rush," ing into an expenditure of £300 or £400 in the present Btraijtened condition o£ publio finance* Tfe,o ohie^. n^tiTO witness ia Moffntt's case Paiaka, has written to fhe Wangaani Herald a letter referring to the short sentence of tbe culprit. He argues, that wh.en Moflatt hju cpmpleted bis sentence his services, as a maker, of gunpowder, will be in great demand by the, Vfaikatioa or other disaifested tribea, and that therefore the Government shouW be very careful what becomes, of the man, The, following appears in an advisement in a Calcutta paper:.— "Wanted, by a | blackguard, employment of any kind, temporary or otherwise. The odrerdser having hitherto, conducted himself as a gentleman, and signally failed, of whjoh his hopeless state of impeouniotity is the belt proof, is induced to, a,dopt the other course, in the hope that be xt^ny meet with better success, No objection to.upcountry. Terms modeTate. Apply by letter to ' Perdita.' care of the Printer,"

( It was reported to us last night that the | bridge crossing Boatman's Creek, on the I Buller road, has been again washed away, and the wreck is now tying across the road completely stopping all traffic. The following is the text of the document which Mr Millar threw at his pastor's head at Dunedin the other day :— " Before God, and iv the presence Qf this congregation, I solemnly protest against this unconstitutional and illegal manner in which the English Presbyterian Hymn Book is being introduced into this congregation pending the judgment of the Supreme Court of this Church on the appeals taken tq it, and because its intro* duotion, at $he jnstaqce of a small minority of the members of |his congregation, will rjrtually prevent many from joining in praise to CM in his own appointed way." A letter signed " Ofljce-bcarer" in the Star makes out that th,ct new book was agreed to be introduced by nearly th,e unanimous vote of the congregation. A Paris correspondent, writing on the Ex. hibition says J-r?" It were idle to blink at the too obtrusive fact, that the charms of Parisian life do not pr«ve go potent a loadstone to foreigners as during the courtly ostentation of Napoleonic times. Our President, true to republican precepts, seeks not the bubble reputatiqn of an enthusiast in fashionable frivolities. Hi« i$ & post of stern and steadfast duty. However, there are strong indications that Boris, will, ere long, resume her sway in society. Even now these favored mortals, whose chief aim is the pursuit of pleasure in its various phrases, are anticiptaing with zest a succession of approved entertainments, until Good Friday shall usher in fhe Lenten extinguisher of all worldly vanities." The value of a kiss appears to have been authoritatively assessed at one pound if wo may judge from the following extract from a contemporary :— " A rather amusing case, in* volying the value to be set upon a kiss/was recently heard in the Melbourne County Court, before Judge Cope, when John Miller and Annie Miller, his wife, sued S. R Crox» ton for £40 damages for an. assault on the femald plaintiff* It appeared that the par* ties, wh,o were both, cabmen residing at Sandridge, had been drinking together on the 13th March last in Melbourne. About midnight they both went to Miller's house, and had some more drink, an 1 while there the defendant tried to kiss. Mn Miller. Miller objected {o any such- proceeding, and gave j Croxton, such a beating that he was taken to ' the Melbourne Hospital. His Honor consi* | dered that the plaintiff was entitled to a j verdict, but not to the amount claimed. Ho found, therefore, for the plaintiffs, with 20s damages, each, party to pay their own op»t|,'> A writer in the Wellington Argus says in* reference to the recent annexation by England of the Transvaal Republic in Southern Africa;— " The Transvaal Republic is an inland State, between the Yaal on, the south ' (henoe called Tranßvaal v th,e meaning of which is across Yaal) and the Limpopo, River on the north,, founded, by Dutch boors emigrating from the Cape Colony after the conquest, and acquisition of the, Ce,p.e Colony bjr fing-. land from the Dutch. Its surface is. an elevated plateau, thinly wooded in some parts but generally affording excellent pasture. There has. for some time been a feud between the Dutch boers and the aboriginal inhabitants, of the Adjoining district of Kaffraria, and the former being in the habit of getting the, worst of it, have sought the assistance of th,e British Power. The Kaffirs, as England has before now found to her Co3t , are no mean foes, and may yet prove, trouble* some. Th,e situation may very aptly be compared to that of the King's territory and the Waikato district in the Noith Island of New Zealand, except that the Maoris are becoming more peacefully disposed than the African 3£affirs."