THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 47, 27 July 1877, Page 2

THE The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1877.

The letter of. our Bottman's Mining Cor-, respondent is unavoidably held Over until next issue. '■'„'['-. As the first; reh.e&rsal oi the members of toe KeelW Glee Club will -be held at Gilmer's Hall on : Monday eyenjn|; next, members are requested to pay subscriptions,' and have their names enrolled. - ; Mr A. D, Bayfeild is the Treasurer of the Club. The members of the Jockey Club, will meet at Gdjnacr's hotel this evening, for, the purpose of receiving ropqrts from the Canvassing and; Course Committoes, and disposing, of other business connected with the Club. A ftdl attendance is desired. '\ Sensationally good news reached us. from Boatman's last night to the effect that Mh the Jußt-in,-Ti.mo winze, at a depth of; nearly seventy feet below the present Tsrofki'iigs, stone I had been met with which is estimated^tp.yielil a pound weight of gold to the ton. '^Tho>reef ;at the winze bottom h also said to. -be iwifening out co siderably. , P ; There was an unusually long and|piportant sitting of the County Council oh"vfednesday last, and tho length which the" rejiprlj makes Compels ub to cut short many local ;,it ; ems.' It seen that a rather warm controversy W§k place wjtb reference to the route^for the propose; Cirey roild, and the difljfsulty was at length got oufc of by Mr 0. V". O'Connor agreeing to go over the now, route in company with Mr Byrne, and on Monday nexfc Mr Cj'Connor will forward his report to the

Council, when the latter body will at once proceed to discuss the subject. With rererence to the present condition of the main road between Eeefton and Devery'a Terrace, Mr Munro reported it to be for the most part in very fair condition, taking all things into consideration. The worst portion was between Reefton and the Saddle He reported, as we pointed ous sometime ago, that if the ruts were filled in with broken meb-jl tb,e road would bo in passable order, and suggested that the present laborers slibuld be set' to this work tt once. In answer to a request of the Council re. ground on the Camp Eeserve, Mr Warden Shaw replied that, as his recommendations to the G-overnment were of a confidential nature, ho could not say whether or not ho would be prepared to recommend the applicatiou of the Council for a grant of land for Council purposes, adjoining the Court-house, on the northern side. A further ' letter was road from Mr Gallagher, complaining of .the condition of the Capleston road. Mr M* Byrne presented a memorial from ttu> residents of the Antonio's Eiding, praying for. an expenditure of £500 in that district iat roads urgently needed. The Council adjourned after 11 o'clock p.m. A correspondent of the Auckland Star, in a gossipy -letter, from Wellington, sayß:— All the floors of the Assembly are now being covered with Brussels carpet— none of your sham stuff, but the genuine article. I was admiring it the otlysr day, when the man who was manipulating it informed me that it was the best carpet he had seen out here, and would no doubt, have been fearfully expensive, only the G-overnment bought it in very, large quantities. I said " Did they purchase it by the ton ?" " No," he replied, " carpet is sold by measurement." I then suggested they had bpughtit by the acre, but he couldn't say. I have made a careful calculation, and discovered it will take anj acre and a half to cover the floods. Fancy, the following account :— tfew Zealand Go« vernment, Dr. toVr~ — 1.4 581t-lii ruBl i&LL carpet, £2000 per' .alb, &jjgK '■i&!0W festive port of item,flpM||prl ta!P||||> consideration the debtykeigMeen milli^J; j income, twelve ljWpd thousand ; i||| annual/ espendituiJaSfffifteen hundred thouThe Lac™f|Effor of London has received a comm^jfew^ fi'om ( M. Mignot, the Fresident os|Hfeambre • Syndicale des Ouvrjers MenuisierS^ptßatituent at Paris, intimating that, that bodj^ad determined to, offer,- as a token of th'ejpdd-feeling. existing between the two JttH^s,' a sculptured monumental pulpijjj^P^iraluo of from £1200 to £1,400, for flffiop in St. Paul's Cathedral, in tligjgplness for. the aid and BUecour rendered bjuSiland to the French sufferers during the Jlffiß|lߣo..i The cost would be defrayed by al^^^^^^^sbrjptiou among the members of-^Wlgpil 110 P ul P i(i woM be ex " hibited amon^^he of art at the Paris Exhibition jiextyea&^*Ehe Chamber addressed themselres in jßm:&t*b place to the Lord Mayor, to re iA^^^s *°, acee F fc tueu ' S*^and to lmow .'ii^^Rjrpposition would be equally acceptable l||t>': the ecclesiastical authorities. If they^^re honored with a favorable reply, they wonld.ss.n > d a deputation to, oee the place in the Cathearal where the/ pulpit; would be erected, to . decide^p^in we character'" oj 1 the design, and to take such advice 6s would produce in the result a work of art worthy of the splendid edifice for which it destined. The. Lord Mayor, iv reply, tendered his thanks to the Chamber for their very handsome offer, and. promised lo lose no time in laying their communication before the D,ean and Chapter to St. Paul's with whom the decision would rest. The case of abduction which was recently referred to in telegrams as remanded from Christchurch to Dunedin, waa finaUy and, it is believed, satisfactorily disposed of by the Bench at the City Court on Saturday. The prisoner, says the Guardian, appeared in the dock under the name of Frederick • p,egrouohy and waa charged with haying, on the 13th of April last, taken away a young unmarried giral, 15-yeara of age, named Mary Aun Bodier, against the consent of her mother, ■Mary .Ann Billette. Inspector Mallard'fltated "that since tb.e prisoner had been brought' from he ■ had cp,ns9pted to majrr/ the, girl, and he understood the mother •now desired to withdraw the charge. The inspector also said that, from what he had ascertained .from the girl, it appeared doubtful whether shOjhad been takep away against her consent. "The mother, was placed in the witness-box, and as she stated in reply to the Bench that she wished to withdraw the charge, the prisoner v(as acquitted. Both mother and daughter, who were dressed in black and tolerably well veiled, as if better prepared for. a funeral than a wedding cere* mony, disappeared from tho, Court apparently well pleased at the proclamation of the auspicious termination of love's trials ; whilst Degrouchy, smiling complacently disappeared through the pvisoner'se ntrancs.