THE Inangahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 36, 2 July 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1877.

It will be scon that fresh tenders nre in* vited by the Boad Board for the erectiou of a fooi snipentiou bridge across tho Inangahua. Mm M'Kerrow hating removed to the Club ! Hotel, Broadway, announces au opening ball for this evening. Mr Johu Quigiey has become licenseo of the Oolden A ge Hotel. Thero tras no meeting of the Koad Board on Friday last, owing fo there not feeing a quorum present at tho hotu* appointed. Tho * meeting theroforo itauds adjourned until Wednesday next, 4ih instant. It is contemplated tb start a Olco Club in | .Beefton, and ciroulars will bo forwarded during the current weok to those disposed to join. The Club will mccc for practice on Monday eveuings, in the Oddfellow-*-" Hall. Tlie quantity of amalgam collected at the Wealth of Nations batte ies for tho week ended 0.1 Saturday last was 4510z • the total returns for the last tbree weeks, being BS7oz of melted geld. . , , . The Hopeful Company will . o?ean up this inoining, aad the gold wil'. be brought hi eiiher this afterroon or on. Tuesday morning. The yield will, if, is thought, be quite equal to the last, so tbat another good dividend is in storo for shareholders. Wo havo heen riformod by Mr Wardeu Shaw that the Nelson Woste Lauds Board has deoided to throw the town sections at Capleatoj, Nelson Ci*ek, aad No Town open for sale at tho upset pries prescribed hy the Board. Independent shares have a strong hold npon pnblio favor at the present time, but they aye held very Arm. The low level tunaol is now in over 20.) feet, aud at the rato of progress now being made by tho contractors it :s likely that the entire distance— about 800 feet— will be complete*, very muoh sooner tban was at Grst supposed. Ou tbis and to-moirow evenings a series of rfissolvi'ig views will be exhibited in Gi'mevo' Hall, hy the Eev. Mr Dauglns. The collection, which is pronouueed to be a most complete and artistic one, -comprises a variety of historical scenes nnd views of i<i teresting objects. Tho humorous has not beeu overlooked, mi.l there will te ezhihited a vaiiety of comical situatioMS, whioh ivill no doubt, prove very amusiu*;. Tho desoiijfcive portion of the euleriain nont- will he undertaken by tho Rev. - 4 r Douglas, and th's happy ido*. of combining amusement with instruction will, we are um-e, be larj-ely patronised. ••■ Tlw boVu's chair aoross the lua:ig-hua river came to Pu»nwa"y grie. p yesterday *!r.orn* ing. J'r Campbell, bljicksmith, s.nrted io cross therivov at 11 oVlocl. but ho had hardly aot the chair undo, weijh wheu the mni.i wi.e ro.ieu.ion whioh tho pulloys irnvt-l parted midway, and tho ohuir and its occupant vr^-e p -eoijiitated into the river below. _he drop mv about fifteen feet, aud tho water beneath two feet deop nt the spot. Campbell was struck on tho head by ihe pulley and stujacd, and sustained a nasty wou id "oj tho si.lo of the head. A'sistanco was fortivi.itely at hand, • snd Campbell was soo • brought ashf-s-e. Had the ca 3 e Ir.-.vollcd a few yavjg furl hor beforo falling it would have dropped i-iton vleep and dangerous eddy, and iho consrqueaces might have boen more serious. n 0 ropo gave way at a splice, whioh ifc is ovi-lent had been made very carelessly. It j 9 perhaps a fortunate circumstance that tho aocident happened iv tho daylime, and when tbe river was low.

*■»■ —I—** — ■ ~--*i^ MM— —^— m Had it oeou.Ted n flood time ond nt ud ;it, [ tiie con: ractor or somebody k'so might haTe had lo answer a most serious rhave. The buzz iv tha shrre market, after bin* gnisbiug a littlo on Thursday and Friday last, w«s flgsin up to concert pi.ob on Saturday, and small parcels of ecri^ iv claims'' in the running " changed and retohanged hime's ra;id'y. The nriiTal on F/iday night of a co;ich load of bloated dowa country iu'.quity o<liled fresh fuel to tbo Aw, aad the market wns re* set going at Irish pressure speed, and up to Saturday night the ox-jitement raged fast and furious. Tho dabbing in 6tocks has not by nny moans beon confined to the corner men proper, but the infection has also spread equally to busiuess peoplo, and tbo more es. citable of them might bo seen mshi'ig breath* less up aud dowa the stroet with thoir hats resli-ig sideways on the places whero their heads used to be, and tho burden of thoiv song was— -ISorip. It is undeniable lhat considerable sums of money have beon mado by a large TUJibor of persons, tho brokers being in for tbei. fuii* share of good fortuno. There are, of courso, slid a number of persons about who havo not yot sucoumbed to Iho craze, but tho contagiou is about, and there is no saying whoso tuvn may como nest. Numbers of people who hitherto have sbled at tha sight of a t.ansfor as a young colt would at a wheel* bpirow, bavo quite oufgrowu the-iv qualme, an.l now plunge i.do (he ti»3lo wifch ail the zest of Iho most hardened •' o3Wlers."' I*i the niea.itime everybody aud everthL.-g saeois unhiiiged, ond uu'esii souieih'ug iiuej vencs to scud down (he (hermo.uelor, ire n.'O ve.y muoh afi aid oTerybod/ wi'l get ri^ht off Ms *'chn up," and the doctor will haro tobe seat for.