THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 97, 19 November 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1877.

. A ppecial meeting of the momhevs of the Hospital Commitfec, -will be held at Mr M'Lean's office, this evening. The Eeaident Magistrate's and Wnrdon's Courts will pit on Tuesday nest, when a tolerably long list of cases will come on for hen ring. Tho sittings of, the District Court, T?eefton, before His Honor Judgo Weston, will commence on Thursday nexfc. It appears that a re.suryoy of the righf-of-way betweon Broadway and Shiel«stroet, has disclosod that thirteen of thohoiiseholders aro encroaching upon tho Una. Accordingly on Saturday morning last notices woro served upon the parties requiring them to remove. Over this ac'ion of tho Council it seotm somq of the parties in the lqwor blocks cut ur> a little rough. As the order, however, wns imperative it was duly complied wifh. Ib may he well to point out that in all resppct, save only in its sanitary aspect the cleansing of tho right-of-way alono benefits the holders along the line, and so far from offering any obstruction to the work they should in thoii? own interest assist is in every possible way. From a communication which reached B.eefton on Saturday last we are in a position to state that there is every probability of a, good number -of Nelson horsos afc out* approaching race meeting, and Mr Hecdwood's stable «yill be well represented . Mr Thomas Jolliffe announces fhat he has completed the erection of spacious looseboxes in connection with his stables, nnd will be prepared to accommodate a limited number of racehorses, for the coming meeting. A meeting of the stewards of tho RcePton Jockey Club was held at Mr Wise's office on Friduy evening last, presents Messrs ' Connolly (in the chair), Jolliffe, Rowlandson, Wise, Gulline, and Fott3. Correspon- : deuce was read from different horso owners in Chrislehurch an.d ilqkitika, ro postponement of tho date pf the raoo meeting. A long discussion ensued, and eventually it was deoided to adhere strictly to the dates already announced, and the, Secretary was directed to reply tp thivb effect. After tho transaction of some formal business tho meeting was adjourned to Wednesday next, by which date all subscription lists aro to bo returned. Mr Wallor, proprietor of G-hollah's Great Indian Cures., has visited Reeiton, with tho ; object of establishing an agency here for the [ 'salif'of' this far fam<»d medicament. Tho virtues, claimed for this specific in cases of rheumatism, gout, and other bodily infirmities are something marvellous, and are abundantly supported by innumerable testimonials from .prominent residents in all parts of Now Zealand. Rheumatism is an especially prevalent nilment in tho Inangahua, and should thpHo cures prove as efficacious to suffering humanity here as they are certified to have done in Christchnr-ch, Dunedin, and, othor colonial towns, then, indeed, will Mr> Waller be entitled to rank as a true beuo-f, factor not only to his gonoration, but to his race. MrM. E. GHssinge has been appointed the local agent for tho aalo of tho medicine, Mr Richard "Reeves, on Saturday last, offered at auction, on behalf of tho Trustees of theßceftonvßuilding Society, ono hundred and forty acres of agricultural land situate. qn the Saddle road about a milo from Reefton.' A protest was entered against tho sale by Mr H. &■ Hankin, which may possibly account for tho lot being knocked clown for the surprieingly low figure of £4.0. Mr W. S. Staite was tho purchaser. A small parcel of Phoonix sbtu'ea was subsequently submitted for salo nnd diapooed of at ? t s d 2 per scrip. The depression in the cjiaremnrkot com tinues, but quotations generally remain unchanged. News from some of the mines shows an improvement. Tho Wealth of Nations Company turnod out over four him. dred ounces of amalgam as the result of last week's crushing, being an exceptionally good return. The' Hopeful crushing promises remarkably well, tho appearanco of the tables bciug exceedingly good for the time the mill has been running, The Wcloomo Coc^ pony will probably not be able to get a crushing ut tho biitttry before about January next, Intultigcnco was brought to town on Saturday evening Inst, of tho otriking of <> new" payable retif in the Phoonix 'mine, Murray Creek. This new lode is situate to tho westward of the' stone formerly worked in tUe mine, aad in 3aid to show gold verj frellyi

At a meeting of the directors of £he Italian Gully Company, hold utllr Breunan's offlno, oi? Saturday last, a tender was accepted for JSO feet of driving. The price being 22a per foot. Men are employed by the Oriental Company (Soldier's) stripping the reef. The. lode is now visible on the surface for a distance of 600 feet, Cpnlractoru are at work opening up and, exploring the reef in tho 0-olden Treasure mine, Murray Creek . The United Alpine Company, Lyoll, have accepted a tender for extending their No 5 level. The price is £3 9s per foot. The great quantity of water now being mot within the'faco of tho level leads to tho oonolusion that the veof is near, and will probably be intersected in the course of a week or twoi Tho contractors for tho erection of paddocks, tramways, water racos, and (or cutting Bawn timber, for the Company aro now hard at work and making good projress. The whole of tho Company's machinery lias been landed, nt the Lyell, and tho curriagf contractor is now making his arrangements for its transport to the machine site. The attempted assassination of a family at Clunes, in Victoria, mention of which was made in these columns, now seems to boar a striking likeness to tho Kumdra Bank robbery. Tho apparent sufferers as pointed out aro the real criminals. The inquiries of the police says the Ballnrat Star, have put anothor aspect on the alleged extraordinary attempt to destroy a family at Clunes by means of an infernal machine. Tho police pay that there was nobody in tho house when tho machine wiw exploded, and that it was pre» pared and exploded by some member of the family whoso lives vvero supposed to bo sought. The object is said to have been to excite public sympathy, probably with a view to that sympathy taking a practical form, A man who was at first accused of being concerned in the business has been completely exonerated' aud the police put tho whole thing down to the family, which was not there to be destroyod. $uch was the force of tho ex* plosion that pieces of metal of tho bottle were found a quarter of a mile away. If tho voroipu of the police is true, something ought to b.e done to punish tho persons who jeopar* dised life for anyone passing near at the time of tho explosion could Bcnrcely havo escaped injury. ' The admirers of Woodlands (a Melbourne Cup favorite) will bo particularly interested in the contents of the following paiagraph taken from tho Melbourne Ago of Oct. 22 i— "On Saturday evening last a villainous attempt was mado to injure Woodlands, tho Melbourne Cup favorite. From what Cook, b,is trainer, says, it appears that whilst ho and the stable lads were having their tea, some evil disposed person, evidently acquninted with tho premises, threw into the colt's box tho bottom half of a broken porter bottle and throe sharp-edged oyster shells, clustered together. Luckily, the favorite sustained no injury, but had he chanced to hnvo trodden on either of the dangerous missiles, tho conecquencea would inevitably have been vury serious indeed. The broken bottle was well directed under the colt's feet, and he actually lay down upon it, the glass cutting through one of the rugs. Tho perpetrator of this actrocious act gained aaoess to tho stalls by standing ou an em,pty box placed against the door, and forcing in the fanlight. The trainor siys he was not absent from the stables a quarter of aa hour, and on returning his suspicions wore at once aroused by seeing the box against t]io door. lie immediately communicated with Mr Sjlberberg, tho owner of Woodlands, and v coustable was sent for to keep guard for the night. Tho A.J.C. Derby horo is nothing the worse for his brief lounge on the broken bottle, as ho appeared on the .trainijg ground, yesterday morning, and performed an excellent gallop. Every effort is being made to discover the perpetrator of this outrageous act." It will doubtless have been heard withj surpriso and pain that such scant reverence was shown to the dead by the English i parochial authorities who buried tho bodies washed on shore afoer tho Avalanoho disaster ! and the same feeling appears to havo been spread through England, Aueut the subject, a correspondent to the Times writes :— •' The account given of the method of burying tho bodies from the wrecks of the Avaluncho and the Forest U surprising, no loss than painful. Haying lived in a seaboard patish on tho east , coast for 23 years, I can only suy, that such a thing as burying a nudo corpse was unheard of. There is a tradition there that every oornso must bo enshrouded iv ' three yards of woollen,' and this was done even in the caaeof drowned "men thrown up on the shore. I tried to find out the origin of this, and was told it was by a law passed in the reign of one of the Edwards, to encourage the woollen trade in England. The corpses buried in our churchyard vvero so buried by order of tho coroner, and tho exponscs of tho funeral were paid out of tho oou«ty rite. If this law bo still unrepealed, why was it not acted on ? " In a genial article published on tho " Feast of St. Patriage," and coming from tho pleasant aud accomplished pen of the hon Francis Lawley, tho Daily Telegraph announced tho death at Sydney, of Mr Thomas Lake G'roinmelin, who a quarter of a oentury ago was so prominent a chara ■ter in tho English sporting world, and was afterwards so popular in Victoria and New South Walos as a magistrate, a commissioner of Crown Lands, and a Club Secretary. He died in the arm 3of his old friend Mr J. Bowie Wilson. }lv Crommelin lott bohind him a graphic sketch of his sooial and sporting exporicnooa which through tho courtesy of Sir Iloroulcs Robinson was forwarded to the editor of the Daily Telagraph. It establidhos tho accurucv of that journal's interesting reminiscenojs of tha wild days of mad Marquis of Watorford, of " Paul Mot* huen," of " Horace Pitt." now Lord Rivers, of George Anson, ami of Jack Mytton, at tho now disestablished •' Liminer'3," in Conduit ofcrpet. Many wero the races arranged and prizefights got up after mysterious confer* enoeb betweon sporting uobleroen and 'gentle*, men and truiners and pugilists in tho dark od^eri'Qoaa with tUo sanded Uoos at " Lia<»

mor's." Fnit. But " Tom Commolin " will long be remembered by hia friends. Like the late Admiral Rous, he proved by jb.is life that there is nothing in the turf which renders it an unfit taste (or an upright and. stainless gentlemen. The Otago Dally Times cornea out with an article on the political 9'ltuation concluding thus :-— " If Government weathers the storm we trust in the interests of the colony there | wi^l be an uprqtjng of those wrectbed official cottcries which have been the rulers of tho Colony in the pnst. The departments want sweeping, and, jhe insolent interference of the officials at the present hour wil,l remove every, hesitancy in the use of the besom. The new Ministry are intruders even in the estimation ' of tho Governor, and by common consent it is alleged he will refuse a dissolution to Sir George Grey, bi^t will give one to Major Atkinson. It will make little difforennn. Tho Governor has been already led into folly by his lute advisers, and is probably advised by them still ; but a dissolution, through what" ever h \nds it ta^ces place, will equally e\\dt the voice of the oountry, and in that deliverance in tho preoont case wo shall feel entirely confident.