THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 1, 26 November 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1877.

Anderson's Extended Company will start crushing at the Dauntless battery in the earjy part of the present week. The ReV Charles Clark will, it is understood visit Reefton during the current week, and deliver one or two of bis popular lectures. The Hopeful Company will have a general, cleaning up towards the end of the current week when no doubt, another handsome div.w dend will be declared.. The sittings of the District Cour^i will h,e resumed a£ 10 o'clock this morning. The only business for hearing is an application in the matter of the liquidation of the Kuiny Creek Company, There was a sitting of the Warden's Court on Saturday last, when the application of Clifford and others for the cancellation qf the lease of the D.efiance Company was called on, JjTr Bitt, on behalf qf the applicants moved for adjournment of the application owing to tlje, absence of a material witness, Mr Guinness on the part of the Company strongly objected to the adjournment, and a long discussion ensued. Finally the adjournment was agreed Ip, and the q\ate fixed for Tuesday, the 18th December. •On Saturcjay last Mr R. Reflyes disposed ofby auction the household furniture, etc., of Mr W. S,. Stoite. There w..is a large atteo-; I, dance, and the bidding ran high throughout. The Sale qf the right to bootlu, and otl^er i privileges at the forthjoming races is ijxed for Saturday next at 2 p.m., &tj Jolliffo's hotel. On Friday last Judge Weston proceeded by coach to Capleston, und during the day w.ao shown through the workings of the Hopeful Welcome, and other companies, returning by coach on the same evening, 'Jfhe directors of the Keeptit-Bark Coma pany met on Saturday evening last, a.id declared a dividend of (U per share, besides carrying the sum of £500 forward to the credit of the machine purchase account, All doubt, Jf eyr any really existed, may be now effectually at res^ as to the chances of ; success of tfye forthcoming races, as the, number and character of tho nominations re» ceived affords an all sufficient guarantee that 1 we shall have an excellent Geld, und com.a fast racing for the money. Eight horeea, have been nominated for tha Cup, seven for the District Elate, for the Gold Field's Handjoap, five for the Publican's Purse, an,d fojir for tha Hurdle Races. Tho entries for. the Ladies' Purse, Trial Stakes, and other races, do not close until the 2 1st December, so that we may yet expect a strong addition to the number, The handicaping will, we learn, be arranged locally, and as it will be, ]p(t to thoroughly competent hands, a fair adjustment of the weights will no dou/ot. induce all the owners nominated to accept. No pains wjll be spared by the stewards $o have the course in prouer racing order, and with fine weather and the ?ery large attendance of visitors w.hioh m,ay be relied upon the m e,etr ing should, and no doubt will be, one qf the most successful ev.er held on the West Coast. A meeting of the stewards of the Reefton Jockey Club whs held, at JoliflVs Hotel, on, Saturday evening last. Present : Messrs Potts (chair),, Rowlandson, Reeves, Davies, Gulline, M'.Qmly. O'Neill, Joliffd, and the Secretary, Nominations foi 1 the forthcoming races were opened, and will be found else" where. It was decided to submit to auction on Saturday next at JoliftVs Hotel, the, wjiole of the course privileges consisting of grand stand and steward's booth, two publican's booths, two refreshment booths, gates, saddling paddock, cards, games, oto. The next meeting of the stewards was Gxed to take place on Wednesday 28th instant, for the purpose of appointing handioappors, and transacting other business. Now that we are in a fair, way to enter into the possession of the treasure which has ao long lain buried in the sand at Alexandria, we seem greatly a,t a loss to know what to do with it, At first everbody appeared pleased w,ith the experimental Bite chosen by Wfr Noel Chief Commissioner of Works ; but after the darn, red model had been erected in Parliament square, the faot generally dawned on the artistyj mind that the, obelisk would be com* pletely dwarfted by the clock towers of the Houses of Parliament, and by the lofty and massive walls and towers of the adjacen^ Abbey and of S.fc Margaret's Church, do ( not attach top, much importance to this ob,» ieotion. because it doos not appear to me \]\at, ia order to secure either beauty or barmqny of effect it i.a, necessary that all the architectural objocts which are grouped together should be of equal, heigh^and proportion ; but the Westminster site is by many considered Undesirable for another and, still more valid reason. The model ' stands, right over the tunnel of the underground, railway ; and although no doubt meohan.i.o.al means might be devised whereby the monument might be provided with a secure foundation, and at tho same time the safety of the. tunnel ensurod i yet, on tho other hand, ■ the gravelling public

would be copsiderable, An alternative site is { the parade grounds in the front of the Jlorse i Guards j but the Il^ke, of Canibridge. hag qs« ? pressed lv"8 opinion that the tfbqle qf thiq j extensive avea should be kepj; perfeptly fi'e r e j from the evolution of troqpsj. Nevertheless;- i it is qujte on the cards that th,e obelisk may, ' be placed in this situation, and that the , Duke's objection may. be met by \ts b,eing . thrust back a^ near to park as pebble. All this speculation, however, depends upon . whether Dr Erasmus Wilson succeeds iv ■ piloting the famou9 needle through that treacherous waste of waters known as the Bay of Biscay. On Wednesday evening Signqra Yenosta, one of the Italian Opera Company in ]3unedin, had a benefit, at which a presentation was made to her. Judging by the notipe of $he as>jr in the local Styr it §eems $o have, been scarcely a Byccess. '.' While the house was ringing with appluuso," says that .journal, " Siguor Fqvao came on th,e stage, the bearer of -something or other which he handed to the SSignora, but no ono could make ouf; whnt he did or said, We presume tipt ij; was intended a9 a complimentnry recognition, by the trqupe of the lienejleiaru' 6. tnlents and as a token of friendship ; if so, tho audience, might have taj oomo means boon made acquainted with the fact-" I extract a few maxims from a book entitled Misanthorpio ot llepontir, written by Laurent Jan, a paiutur who diud last week in Paris {— " Women only tolerate intolerance. —An honest man should hold as sacred all that the law does no*- recognise : 1. A word, qf honor ; 2. A gambling debt ; 3. A duel ; 4 A friend* sweetheart. When the friend marries, three obligations only are left.— Modesty is only a Cjuestion of number j thht which shocks a ohaste woman when there are throe persons present makes her smilo when there are but two." ' Everything possible is being done to hi^sh up the unfortunate results of the march from Aldershot to Windsor and back from Ike reviews ordered last week bj the From the division of a little more that 14,000 troopo more than 660, fell out qnable to march. This is the number of authenticated eases, and does not include the men who rode on baggage waggons, bread waggqn? and other transport vehicles. If I thought any good would be derived from concealing this I would hold my tongue; but it is fur, better that the nation should know qf what stuff its one solitary division is composed ; and I hope that the reports of the medical officers upon the condition of the men on their return to Aldershot will be asked for in Parliament. If all that I hear is true the production of these reports would burst the bubble of " successful recruiting" so often Routed before our. eyes.—" Atlas." in the World. The Governor of Victoria, ia a speech made at the opening of the Ilamilton line, said:— From official statistics which I hold in my baud I find that in 1878, 965 miles will be open for traffic, and that the prolits will then pay all the working esponses and all the interest on the money borrowed for tho construction of the railways, with the excepiion of an annual chargo of ftbout £100,000. which charge, however, will rapidly diminish as the lines aye extended and the traffic U developed. (Cheers) It h well known also that the Victorian railways would have already afforded «■ " etb balance of profit were it not for the extravagant cost of some of the lines' which were first constructed, some of which cost something like £43,000 a mile. The good time coming for Reofton will ns.su/ftflly lend to ft considerable increase of population, tho weather that has aOlicted the district so long having brokpn up and dis-. nppeared, and the road* a«ain iv good work, ing order, will throw life anl chep'rfulnpps around and upon this portion of New Zealand, so favoured and so bles?ed, with all that renders life agreeable, but which naturally and frequently leads to those habits that ensrender disease through exposure to damps nnd chills, the healthiest may be stpioken clown by Rheumatism. Rheumatic Goer, Lumbago, Intermittent Fevers, Bilious' ness, &c., and it is well that all should know the most reliable cures for these are the famous Indian Medicines known as " G-hollah'ri Great Indian Cures," — they can bo had of M. R. Gissinoe, Chemist, appointed solo wholesale agent for Reefton and district. See testimonials in advertising, pplumns. — Adv. Tlie facts of the ease are that during | the last quarter of a century, maindips involving bodily prostration or a deficiency of vital power, all affections of the sensitive organs, kidneys and bladder complaints, bronchial troubles, sleeplessness, indigestion, and the nervous ailments to which the feebler sex nra especially subject, have invariably yielded to' the operation of Udolpho Wolfes Schiedam Aromatic Shoanapps. the purest, safest, and best article of its kind in use.