THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 30, 1877

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 3, 30 November 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 30, 1877

Tfli? suggestion that the Ch tJfBMAir of the County po^ftcil ghould proceed tp Wellington for the purpose of sectoring, if possible, a SRepinl money graqj; ifl aid of tlje large public tyorks of the ppgaty, seems to haye met \yith the entire concurrence of the Poijpeii and, as will be seen by our report, a,n4 ppinion \vas e^press^d uoiHjiittonsly ip. fayor of tho ifli^sion The booths and other privileges at tfte forthcoming rac.e meet, will b,e submitted to jiupfciou gp, Saturday next (fo.«morrow) a{; 2 Tlje stewards p.f the Jockey Ctyb, met on, Friday eyenjng'la§t. The business to be die cussed consisted, chiefly of formal matters. The mee^ng was adjourned to Friday (tbjg) evening at 9 } o'ejock, I Th» "sinking of the reef by th.c Jnkerman Company, brjngs this mjne once mqre jntq notioe. As the stone qn]y feppnfly cut, not sufficient work has yet been done to. thoroughly test the oharacter of tho stqne I Gold is, however, seen freely, and there seems little at present to doubt that payable stone has at length boon met with. ' We regrofc to learn that another old and worthy Grey Valley and Q/reymouth resident has joined the majority, in the person of Mr William M,orrice, who died recently in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. Mr Morrice for some years was storekeeping in Ahauru, and subsequently was engaged in the share* broking and commission business at Greymouth, and. Beefton. The annual celebration ba}l in connection $ith the Heather Bell Lqdge will be held this eyenjng, in Gilmer'B. Ifa)!. We regpet to loam thaf there is some doubt at to the readiness pf the Brasß B«»nd to turn out on the occasion. A cass of instruments for the Band has been detained in Greymouth for yearly a fortnight past, the carriers rofusing (*> convey it, owing to its great bulb, and the abundance of general freight now awuiting transport at Greymouth. Anderson's Extended Company commenced, c.ru.sfyng operations on Monday. The whole of the gear iv connection with tho incline tramway is in first- class working order, and (tone is being forwarded to tho buttery vrith the utmost regularity. Th,e appearance of (he stone going fhfouglf tho boxe« h,as tome i yp a little l^fe in, t|\p mar.kej;, and during yeeI and (he Bfe.pod.iog day there was some ; Remand fqr tlio scrip. Thp Hopeful Company will have a clearing up either to-day or to-morrow when the gold will* be brought in. A very tidy parcel is expiated,. The Buller County Council has lp,st no time I in turning the funds just obtained for tfce Buller-Beefton road to apoount. Several gangs of men are at work repajrjug the ?P»d at different po\a\^B. $I<M Qf th.c g^nt ob» t^ne.j has already beeu reoeiyo^ frQin tho govern men^, »n^ tb^e will be remitted n.B yforfe progresses, is e.xpec|;ed tftat the portip.n o,f tl\e road within th,e Buller County will be. rexoponed for dray traffic about the 2o.th o,f De-ember, and* letter from the Buller County Chairman was yesterday reocl at the Councjl meeting urging that all npco.ssa'ry action, may be taken by tho authori ties tyere to have our portion of the road open upon the same date. It is needless to say t^at every exertion w,ty be iflad.e |\ere to have the w. ork cpmplete.d ift t«fte. The sitting pf the County Gouncil wa§ completed, at 12.30 a.m, on Wednesday. Beside? a, heavy budget of oorrespondenca several yery important matters w,oro fujly discussed. Tho d^estion of widening the Hack's Point track. wa,s introduced by Mr John Bic.k and oc.o^pied the. Co^ncjjl for some time. The subject p,f prptecting pjy)oßil6 side of the r^ 0 ? $W> P.VAT O^ 6^ «P, n ß^orable. d,Uci\«iiou Thf p\auq a,p4 estimates iu I bmitted by t^o Engineer showed thut the wp,rk ooujd bo perfprmed at a much less cos^ tl\an yas e,t first opposed. But it 4eer[\e,d pru,dent npt to launch out top heavily, lyi^! the pi^lse pf the Government had b^e'n felt as to a special grant, fa % tne.a,nftmo ft in fended \o erect ft eho,rt tra\nmg wall to, re.sißt t)ho set of the c.urs9n( (o^ards t\ie Chanai^en'fl gardo^ ftnd to, build up a, fe,pjng. o,f s^ne to protcpt the Boutjher» p^er of th,e ■?ho Chairman, wh.e.n in Wellington, ene favour obtain a special gra.nffor. p.^otectiye works purposes, \f sticoessfi^l, the Counr 9^l will fake the prpper s^eps, to ifi^v pro. both shores. An extrap^dinavy iflp.eti.n^ of t^o Welcome Gold, Mining Company w.iU be at tt\e o # ffio9, Brpadway,, pfl |riday, December, at 1§ o,'c^pck noon. !£b,e prdinarv half-yearly meeting pf th,e eamfi ppmpapy w.i^ be b.eld rf % o'clook, p,.m-i on tl^e san^e day. We are informed ifhat owing to the expected arrival iv Reefton during the next few ifteeks of the Rev Charles Clark, Mr Bp.^9, e^ud the &ydia Bowardo it

ha* been decided to postpone to the first Friday in January the amateur dramatic dptettaijWPfctrt fixed for the 10lh Pecember. His Hpnojf Judge Weston, says a $Teitland paper, when recently summing up a case of assauft in is reported to have re« ferried to one of the diffic^es which beset a •ysten? flf frep, secular, ans' ; compulsory edu* cation, in Jibe following terms :— " Children pf the»wretched yyoman found their way to 9 certain loaal school, and mixed with tho ohjl? dren at irespectabfe parents. If that wag f o be tolerated, vhajb could be the result ? Wof it to be tolerated Ithajt these children, should mix with other children and contaminate their morals ? It was hard to visit the sinj of the parents on the children, but what could be done?" Wellington is indeed a go-a-head City, in proof whereof learn from the Post that the. Municipal Banking account js overdrawn, nearly twenty-four thousand pounds. That recently for a sale qf Tosy n Be.ljt leases a charge of #138 Is Qd was mode (including £70 for luncheon), and a little bill for £7^ Us 6d, for a dinner, tp Municipal delegates, was sraupr gled into the ncpqipt without being passed by the Ppuncjl. The other day, Mr. George MqLean, tl»o " great" financier proceeded to criticise M. Larnaph's figures in th,e Fina.nc.jal Statement £r«t decjaring them all inuccqrate, and in the nest sentence saying they were exactly the same as those of the Ho Colonial Treasurer! Yet McLean ia. a goo 4 old Scptch name immlying some kjnd qf hard-tyeadedness 1 The latest parliamentary incidents narrated jn Wellington and southern contemporaries, nro as fallows :-rMnjor Atkinson's speech qn Mr Lavnach's Financial Statement was very generally considered a complete crusher to, Mr Larnach's figures . Several proposal? Have been made to Mr Stafford to induce him to form a party to turn out the Government, but without succes*. The Government hope to prorogue on Friday next. Mr Sharp is said to have gone over, and the Government minority or otherwise is said to depend on Mr Gisborne, who U vacillating. It i 8 reported that Mr Stout, and also Mr J. Evans Brown, are shortly to join tho Ministry, the first»mentioned as Attorney-General. The Lyttelton Harbor Board havq agreed to $be following resolution :— That the Rational Bunk of New Zealand having been appointed the agents of the Board for fhe purpose of negotiating the Harbor Board loans be authorised to offer the said debentures for sale in London forthwith, te the extent of £100.000, and pending the raising of such loan, the said agents be authorised to borrof the sum of £25,0p0 on tho security pf the said debentures of the Board in nccordanpe with direptions yef; to be furnished by the Board. It io said the defalcations of thp ex« Receiver of Goldfields Revenue at the Thames which amount to several hundred pounds, will fall upon the Civil guarantee fund which will be taxed to ronko good the amoun i. The defaulter is believed to have gdne to Victoria, and he fyaslefta wife and a large family at the Thames.

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