THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, DECEMBER, 10, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 7, 10 December 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, DECEMBER, 10, 1877.

The rev Father? Ciirew visited Caplcston yesterday, and celebrated Mass in the new chapel there, The congregation was very large. On Saturday last Messrs McLean and Co., held P. sale of furniture and household effects at the National Bank. The attendance was good and the bidding generally high. The usual meeting of the County Council will be hold on Wednesday next. The members of the Glee Club will meet for practice in Gilmor's Hall this evening at the usual hour: Six hundred and three ounces of amalgam was taken from the plates of the Keep»itDark Company's battery on Saturday last. This return represents one week's crushing, and is the highest yield yet obtained from the mine for the same period. The prospects of the mine are excellent. On Saturday last Messrs W, McLean and Co., offered aemail parcel of scrip in this Company at auction the figure realised being 22s per share. Constable Williams ofWestport has arrived in Eeefton to relieve constable Jeffries on the station here. A large number of persons visited the iace course yesterday for the purpose of viewing the improvements effected. The grand stand is in course of erection, and as we have already stated will 'be a most commodious and comfortable structure. The building will be 40 feet by 25 feet. The following weights were declared for the Hokitika races ;— Kumara Handicap — Elfin King, Bst 101 b; Maritana, Bst 21b ; Phnntom, 7st 71b ; Colleen, 7at ; Kensington, 6*t 121 b ; Falcon, 6st 51b ; Lnncnster, sst. For the Hokitika Handicap — Elfin King, B<t 131 b ; Maritana, Bst 51b ; Merry Monarch, Bst 31b ; Phantom, 7st 101 b j Colleen, 7st 21bs; Native, 7st 21bs ; Kensington, 7st ; Lanc'as* ter, a feather. For tho Hack Hurdle Bace— Dick Turpin, lOat 7ibs; Lunatic, lOdt 7lb 5 Robin Hood, lOst 51b ; Rata, 10»t. The sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court fixed for to-morrow has been adjourned to jibe 18th instant: This step bus been ren< dered necessary in consequence of Mr Warden Shaw having this morning to proceed to Nelson Creek to hold an inquest there, and the Groy Valley Courts will occupy tho re» mainder of the week, We learn that a man named Patrick , Shealan was killed at Nelson, Creek,, on Saturday last, by a fall from a bridge. , The weekly practice of the Glee Club, to be held this evening, has keen adjourned, and ' as the Christmas holidays are now approach* '< ing there will bo no further praotice until the second Monday in January. Mr Crofts, at one time teaoher of tho Catholic School, Reefton, announces his in- ' tention, in the Kumara paper, of lecturing upon tho life and times of Oliver Cromwell, Mr Croft questions and undertakes to refute tho Rev. Charles Clarke's estimate of Crom<

Friendly Societies in our midst, will shortly meet for the purpose of discussing the subject of a united guarantee of £350 per annum to Dr Martin. It was announced, some months since, that a Bazaar would be held during the Christmas holidays, in aid of the building fund of the Church of England, but we do not hear of any subsequent movement having yet been made in the matter. We arc glad to be able to say that several of the publicans In Reefton who at first refused to silbacribe towards the race fund havo since fallen in with the movement and contributed liberally to it. The balance of the instruments for the Ist Reefton Brass Band have arrived, and on Saturday evening the members assembled tit Gilmer's Hall for practice. The total cost of the instruments procured is about £52 of which amount the townspeople contributed the munificient sum of £7 93. The societies collectively subscribed about £22, and the band is therefore etill in debt to the amount of about £25. 'It is, we believe, the intention of the band to take the earliest opportunity of refunding to the townspeople the small amount contributed. As Christmas approaches, the different, tradespeople are busily engrossed with their preparations for the festive season Tha different drapery firms are vicing with each other in the magnitude and variety of dia" play. The different storekeepers are receiving almost daily additions to their stooks. The butchers are making still fatter the fatted calf and there is on all sides the acoustomed provision to enable everybody and his wife to "eat, drink, and be merry." Amuse* inents are likely to be well provided during the holidays. The races will occupy public attention for two and possibly three days of the week, then follows the Hospital Fete, and a day's dancing on the green, and finally a Societies ball on the same evening. There is also some talk of a days sports in Smith's Paddock on New Years Day. On the whole visitors to Reefton during the coming holidays will be kept pretty well occupied. ( The London literary correspondent of tho Age writes : — ' Lady Barker, whose works on station life and station amusements in New Zealand, are among tho standard books on matters colonial here, has contributed a very entertaining volume on Natal to tho literature of the year. She calls the book " A Yeav|s Housekeeping iv South Africa.' It is written with her. usual liveliness, rut the outcome of it is that Natal is not a pleasant place to live in at present — it will be much improved when the railroad to the coast from the capital is i" working order, and that the climate U not so delightful as we have hitherto been led to belipve. The coun« try is indeed a paradise of flowers, especially of roses, but the inconveniences are more than a match for the beauties of the place." The following short record of the latest and futile attempt to recover the gold in the ship General Grant, lost some years ago at the Auckland Islands, appears in tins Southland News :— The s.s. Gazelle, which left here on the 14th of July last, returned to port on Monday evening. Captain Giles reports that he had a fine weather passage of 36 hours hence to the Aucklands, and that out of the four months they remained at the islands there was only one and a half days' fine weather, and then the sea hud not gone down sufficiently to allow them to work with safety to the vessel on the west coast, and it was simply impossible for the divers to go down, From the wreckage se n on the coast it seems probable that some vessel has been broken into fragments, any quantity of white pine timber being found strewn along the beach for a distance of sixteen miles adjacent to the cave in which the General Grant is supposed to have punk. As the weather continued unsettled, and appearances were strongly in favor of the " sunken treasure " never being obtained, the Gazelle left for he Bluff 1 . Frank Fudge in the Saturday Advertiser 6a yg — Ob, those cablegrams and those cable* crammers! Which of them are facts, and which fibs? Are the Agent-General's mes» sages to be relied upon, or are '• our own specials" the correct things? Have "the Russians taken Erzeroum ? or is it true " the Russians bare been defeated at Erzeroum ?" Has Muktar Pasha skedaddled, or does he still wave his horse-tails v the teeth of the Cossacks and Tartars ? Oh ! this horrible suspense. Oh ! this agonising doubt Oh ! this reliable intelligence, never to be relied upon. Talk of speaking to one another across the wide expanse of ocean ! Yes, we do talk to one another with a vengeance, and we tell one another some strange stories. The Nelson Evening Mail says .—A curious case of mistaken identity occurred at the Police Court this morning when a man named Thomas Maher was brought before the magis* trate and discharged. It occurred thus :— On the 22nd instant a violent assault was com. nutted near Reefton, for wtich a warrant wae issued against one Ja nes Connors, who wud supposed to have absconded towards Marl* borough via the Upper Buller, The sergeant in charge at Ri-efton accordingly telegraphed to Nelson, giving a full description of the man. The usual steps were taken, and Constable Knapp was instructed to proceed to the Tophouse, and thence down to the Buller At Rait's acoom mojation house he met with Muher, who suid he was on his way to Marlborough, and in every item, curious to say. answered to the description of Connors. Ho was accordingly arrested and brought to town but shortly after his arrival another telegram was received from Reefton stating that the real Simon Pure was in custody there. Maher was at once taken before a Justice and discharged.'. On reading the description of Con* nors, he expressed himself as not at all surprised at his having been mistaken for him. Mr Ballsaoo, in his fspeeeh during the recent want of confidence debate, made the following remarks on' the Counties Act :— "The present Counties Act provides plurality of voting, to an extent altogether unpruce» dented, in favor of property, Does any one i;.'?":' '.:'•>»' aiar." "■A--- " "Tar rf vri'iprfv wav

have under the present system ? He may uctually have 45 votes. And who attempted to withstand this in 1870 more than the honorablo member for the Tunnies ? That honorable member has constantly advocated the right of the people to have the liberty which they enjoyed under provincial institu tions, and thnt each man should have but one vote in each ward, and no more. Who ware tho party who resisted his efforts ? The Government, as our readers are aware, have a Counties Act Amendment Bill before the House. It has not yet been published. Its mam fenture, we imagine, will be a liberation of the country suffrage, if we may call it so. If it is not. the country will be greatly disc appointed. — Hawke'sßay Herald. The good time coming for Eeefton will assuredly lend to a considerable increase of population, the weather that has afflicted the district so long B having broken up and d{s^ appeared, and tho roads arrain in good work' ing order, will throw life an<l eheerfulnpss around and upon this portion of Npw Zealands so favoured and so blessed, with all that, renders life ugreeable, but which naturally and frequently leads to those habited that c igender disease t'-irongh exposure to tramps und chills, the healthiest-m ay be sickness down by Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gottf, Lumbago, Intermittent Feveus, Biliousness, &c, and it is well that all should know the most reliable enres for these are the famous Indian Medicines known a* '•Ghollah's Great indicia,, Cures,"— they can be ha:l of M. R. "Gissiuge, Chemist,' appointed sole wholesale agent for Reefton and district. See testimonials iv advertising columns, — Adv. |