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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 26, 8 June 1877, Page 2

Messrs Smith and Barkley announce the arrival of theitr winter stock, l»nf> owing to pressure of matter we are compelled to hold Of»v thei* advertiaemeiil; until our next issue, Ihe Rev. Father Carew will holdUdtvine service at Boatman's on Sunday next, 10th June, at 9, o'clock a.m., and afcßsefton at half-past eleven o'clock a.m. ,gg " ;: '■•**", The Comity Council was announced to m eet on 'Wednesday last,, bnt owing to the absence of the Clerk, the business was not proceeded with, and ths meethag was adjournect**ttntil Monday next* ; - . At the ordinary half yearly meeting ot th^ shareholders ij tiro Fiery Ooss Company, held at Mf Beennan's oiTtco, on Wednesday last, the following gentlemen were, eleotod directors for tho ensuin? half year :— Messrs Q-ttlline, Butler (J.) H. Thorny, C, B. King, ,and W,#Lean. There , was a full parade of the Eeefton Xaitikins last ni 3 ht. Thoy assemble*^bflat np auewly married couple which tke^fuly accojpishea. Rumor has it thatrthe yoSngflt^tnare sercral other similait erigagements on hantl lia nd which are expected to come off during the next few days. The Hopeful crushing continues to present a fhrotighly hopeful appearance, and a return quite equal to former , y>M 9ma y bo looked for. Th» prospeots of the mine improve daily with erery foot sunk in the winzo, and there really scerns to be no end to tho wealth contained in this Company's lease. The following gentlemen havo bcon tip. poised directors of the Italian Gully Gold- ' mmmg Ifcmprny for tha ensuing six months : MesaesjKlurrav, Aiken, Smith, Baylies, and Alexander., Me , Bayfoild was appointoU autJUor. "\ • " . i ''' ""* ■ ■' ■ ' . -\

Tho mining manager of tho Inkerman Company reports that lie has put in a cross cut from the tunnel being driven with the reef, and got some splendid stone— the best yet obtained jn the claim. Not sufficient work has been yet done since the discovery to prove it* value, but the intelligence as it is well no doubt be very encouraging to share* holders. The time of the Resident Magistrate was taken up nearly the whole of Wednesday last, investigating a charge of larceny of a purse containing £7 10s preferred against a j man named William M'Call, the prosecutor j being Joseph Woolf, of Antonio's Plat. At i the dose of the case, M'Call was committed, for trial et the Supreme Court, Nelson, but ' was liberated on bail. A considerable amount of public discontent nas been occasioned for mary months past all over the whole of the south-west portion of the Nelson Provincial District, owing to the unsatisfactory manner in which the notifications of the Crown Lands Office, Nelson, are published. By the present system it is corns plained that tho announcement do not obtain requisite publicity, and consequently a very Urge section of the public is kept quite in the, dark as to land applied for. The inhabitants of No Town have, at length entered a formal protest against the System, and at a public nfeeting recently .held there on the subject a number of resoln<|ps were proposed and carried, and all to )$ forwarded to head quarters. The following.,!*, one of the resolutions carried :— " Thai tho present system of publication of applications for agricultural leases, in the Evening Star newspaper, of Greymouth, and lnangahua Herajd newspaper, of Reefton, is no pnblicatipn at all so far as regards the lower Grey Valley district — these newspapers haying no circulation whats ever in the lower districts." In connection witii this matter we may take occasion to mention that the Inangahita Times not only circulates at No Town, but throughout the whole 1 of the Grey Valley. Wednesday last being licensing day, the publicans from all the high ways and by-ways of the lnangahua congregated in Reefton. I The whole of last year's licenses were re*§lfw€ss* and several fresh accommodation lice;rfoj|Jov new wayside hou?es were granted. , Ii is JaleßPiat a " fellow fading " made a ', number of the efffentry bonifaces " wondrous kind," and that several of them went home with a pretty good skin full from the cup that cheers and inebriates. It is related by a correspondent that two well«known country " pubs " were returning homo at a late hour of the night, the journey laying down the Buller road. All went well until the jocund travellers reached somewhere in th 9 vicinity of Ci'onadun, when by some foul mischance, one of the riders got thrown from his horse amongst a heap, of fallen timber. He made a fearful hellabullon and swore by his " Gott in hemmell" his "pack vas proken so much as ifc never vas pefore." His companion, fearful that something serious had happened, clashed > off at once for assistance, Tho relief parfy, bearding lanterns, soon returned, and after a short search tlje legs of our^Teutonic friend were seen sticking up from the midst of aheap of brushwood. However, after a good deal of labor, not altogether unleavened with language more or leas appropriate to tho occasion, our friend was eventually released, and, went on his way rejoicing in having sustained nothing more serious than a few slight scratches. We aye informed by tho West Coast Times that now that the new order of things is so far in working ordej; by the recently created public bodies, and arrangements between them and the General Government have been completed in accordance with the measures of last session ! of Parliament, the -Executive Officers who have beeu administering the Government in the various Provincial districts throughout the Colony, are not to hold offico after the 21st of this mouth. )f" A correspondent of the Oamaru Evening Mail gives the following recipe for the circumvention of rats : — " Take a piece of old sponge and cat. it into pieces about the size of a pige^Rt|gg ; . f ry the pieces a nice brown in some #npping, put away al| food out ofc^eacb, and strew the pieces sbout the places the rats frequent. They will eat this greedily: the; sponge rapidly absorbs the moisture in the stomach, and swills— a few... A^second do 3& seldom required." Some excitement, aaya the Melbourne Argus, waa occasioned under the Verandah at Sandhurst, on Friday evening % a fracas that took place between two persons offeelfio? tion matter. The agent for a gentlem^^ho was a for the representation of Mandurang at the recent was mak* ing a statement to tho effect that there were ' 2OPskLk*rs in Mandurang," basing his assertion onffihMkeumstarice, that his principal had hetfsj9HHvl more votes tfcin ho bad face, and requested him to "MfSKH&ft,'hands." On his refusing to ,him another blow, and then threfl^^P^ife' the gutter. The same 3 agent (obier^s the Bendigo Advertiser) has boen wearing a black' band round his hat ever since the eloction, to mark the death of Truth in Maadttrang. He greatly deplores the necessity which compels hxwio do this,* and steadfastly declares that there aro 2000 men in the elactorate who have not voted as they promised. A ludicrous mistake was made tho other day by tho New Zealand Timos. A telegram arrived by cable which read thus : " Chamant Chrowe Prince Siliza several ironclarls engaged Russian batteries at Brailow." This was slightly unintelligible, but tho editor was equal to the occasion, and informed his readers that tho my3tic words evidontly were intended for tho name of " Khamatchkrown, a dis- v tinguishod Turkish Admiral and Prince of Silvia!" It turns out that tbere ia no such person, and that m received at Sydney tho ifologram roa( j : — « r f wo thousand, Cham at, Crown Prince, Silvii. Several ironclads, &c." The telegraphist jumped at the con« • elusion that the w halo- referred to tho war, ll ' ..'V

where tho first part gives tho winner of the "Two Thousand" and two next hoises, viz., Chiimat (a French horae), Crown Prinpe, and Silvia.