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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 37, 4 July 1877, Page 2

The monthly meeting of tho Hospital Cam* mittoe fixed for Monday evening lao.t, lapsed i and the meeting therefore stands adjourned. A special meeting* of the members of the Boad fioard will take place to«day, when tenders for. the suspension bridge will be dealt wijtb, i A meeting will be held at Qilmer's Hotel on Friday evening next for the' purpose of considering the advisability of forming a Jockey Club in Reef ton. " . ... : Tenders are elsewhere invited by the ]£eep» ifc-tDarlc Company for rising and breaking quartz. Tenders close on Thursday (tomorrow), at Mr M'J/ean'a oißce. The cleaning up of the Koep-it'Dark Company on Satu.rd.ay last ga,ve o, return of 2?9 oz 18 dwts of gold. The quantity of stone p^fc through was 65,5 tons, Blowing ftu average of about 7 dwta 8, grs per ton. There was a sitting' of the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, but the proceedings were of little general iuterest. The greater part of tho day was taken up with, the hearing of the case Aston v. Prentice-, Mr Warden Shaw's programme of official engagements for the current month will be found, in another column. Yesterday morning broke to the first frost of tho season, and. the visitation, came a,n unusually severe one. Ice a quarter of an inch in thickness covered all stagnant water, and what ia very unusual a portion of the still water of the Inan.gahu,a river betweeq Reefton and Black's Point waa frozen aver. We were, however, compensated by a glorious day, and the atmosphere being remarkably clear the haok mountains w.ith, their huge coating of snow presented a grand sight. The exhibition of Dissolving Views, by the Rev. Mr Douglas, at Gilmer*a Hall, on Mon* day evening, last, wa,avery numerously attended. The views proyed very interesting, those pf Oomo, Munich, Florence, Vienna, as well as those of St. Peter's at Rome, Tintu,n . Abbey, and others, were exceptionally good, A collection of views-from the Old Testament and eeveral humorous pictures brought the exhibition to a close; The entertainment was peated last night with equal succes*. Tho rapidity with which mining intelligence reaches Reefton from Boatman's has long been considered a.a bordering upo,n the marvellous.

I ate on Monday an important discovery was tpado in the Hopeful mine, and, it is now know th,at within an hoqr of the dispovery the news was in Reeftaq, and a large parcel of Hopefyla whiob, had been placed jn the market at £& Ss were withdrawn. A matter of even fire minutes in this transaction, would haye cost samehody about W^ t and resulted in that amount of proflt to another, aotnebody. . The Hopeful Company oleaued up on Monday last, and in the evening the gold was brought into town and lodged in the Bank. The nett resu^was ($7 oz of retorted gold.; This 'haudaopie parcel has enabled the directors to declare a further diyidend of 5s per share-rrequal tQ a sum of £206? XOs thus making a total of £4125 lQs 'declared from the present crushing. The stampers will, it is expected, he kept gpiug until the end of the present month, and even longer should the machine not be required. The Fiery Cross Company will be the nejft to cru.s.i*. There aye some peculiarly thin shinned people in the world, at least one would be lead to imagine so, from the tone of an anonjmous letter which, appeared yesterday. 4s a rule wp dp pot attach, muoß importance to anoinymou.B communications, but we are aware that such an exalted notion of journalism obtains in a certain quarter here that much of the matter which fluWB from the editorial source i« very, properly considered unfit for* place in the leading column, and is, therefore, drafted off into the correspondent's column under the garb of anonymity. In this j way, then, we are occasionally driven, to notice what we ■ may term these abortive efforts at literary assassination, but it will be understood that we use the term. <' aasassjnation" merely as conveying a,n idea of a maximum of intention, with a minimum of result. Now. somebody writing under the name of " I)own Country "• has evidently appropriated to himself what, considered, in any light, it will he admitted, was not a very grapious compliment. Had the writer of the letter in question attached his real name we should have at once informed him thqt he had taken to himself, in its literal aense, what was no more intended to apply to, him or anybody elae really than tp, the mythical v man in the mooa,'' The paragraph, in question was witten as a, passing sjcit, and intended as wholly impersonal in character. It may be that it was capable of a more narrow construction, and m reference to this we can O^y say tha.t we are lost midway betweeq regret for ourselves and for the utter silliness of those who, so interpreted it. \t is •aid tho.t when '< Lothair " fi>Bt appeared, its author received, three hu,ndrad threatening letters from various persons, each believing himself to be the original of the mojst unenviable character of the novel. In spite, how* ever, of 'the adage abou,t the cap fitting, &0., we still oay that we should have been sorry indeed to seriously perpetrate aueh a literary imper.tinen.pe as that a^umed, pr ftHeged to have b,een assumed. The expression was uaed in a mere jocular, atrain, a.3 must indeed have been manifest upon the face qf the whole paragraph* " Down Country" makes spine allusion to a place he, has seen—'' a. building equally protontjoue, where no e^oiteinent occurs "-rrtherehy possibly referring to the interior of a penitentiary, but we fail to see what necessity there was for him to obtrude this portion of his antecedents. Vanity. JTair vquoließ, for the truth of the following story : — " A Httle more than four years ago four officers in India joined together to build a small dwellingrbouso for their own habitation in the valley of the Jumna,. They took the stones for the construction from a native hurying-place close by whereupon a Fakear came dawn upon them, denounoed them with tertuhle curses, and prophesied that within four years every one of the four officers would meet with a violent death. Within three years and a half one of them was. killed while pig-sticking, a second was eaten by a tiger-, and a third accidentally shot. The fourth, however? met with no harm j qnd within two months before the expiration of the time fixed by theFakaer was congratulating himself and his friends pfl his being certain to belie the old mendioant'a prophecy, when he was upset in a boat on the Q-angos and drowned. Moreover, about the sqm'e time the river adjoining the house, which was the beginning of all the troubles, rose in an unparalleled flood, and swept away every vestige of the building-rrsacred atones and all. v It is impossible (says the North Otsgo Times) to take up the Dunedin papers from daj to day without being struck with the extent tp which what is called '•• Free Thought " is carried on, hut it is in reality anti-Christian teaching* and is followed after in the metro* pqlia pf the South, We believe it to be true that nowhere else in New Zealand can so good a living bo earned by attacks on Christianity as. in Dunedin, There must he a compact little body of men who 'enoourage this aort of thing,,, and act as fuglemen to. the apostles of spiritualism! or any atheist that seems sufficiently inimical to the current beliefs of the Christian churches.