THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 20, 1878.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 3, 20 May 1878, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, MAY 20, 1878.

Owing to preaauro upon bur advertising r.olumnn, wo arq o'ompollod to curtail our looal mattor. A man woll known in tho diatriot na " Ohriflty,*' dropped down (load, ot Black/" Voint,' on Saturday last." Tty appoarod to : bo in porfoofc hontth up to a fow minutes bo« forohmloath'i" JIo wad a har<! drinlfor, and ifc in to bo foarod that tho unfortunato roan's death is to bo Attribute^ to tyo roqult of intomporanoo. ''MrW/'iT. TTawiaon, ono of tho oandidfitos for tho yaoatit Groy "VflUoy 'aoitf, arrived in town yesterday, and will addrooa tho doctors at Dftwson'p Hall, at 8 o'clook tbia ovonlnff. Tho orushing plant of tho Italian Gully Oompany was Bold by auotion on Saturday last.' Tho attondanoo' ■was good, bufc tlio bidding wao not vory ootiyo, and tho battory wad ixltimatoly kn'ookod, down to Mjr J,» Walali, fi?r £200. Tho mining tools, ' &o«, woro purohaacd, by M^r Bpooho. Tho Groy coach arrived ycakorday, and, tho mnila will bo doUvcr'nd this morning. In our mining report of Friday laafc an 01 ror apponrcd in roforonoo to tho Bnlaolava mino, Brainy Crook, ntating that Uio roof hod been exposed on tho aurfnoo fop 8 ( 0 fcob in length, and 10 ( inohos Jiti width, whioh should havo boon 10 foot ioatoad, of inohes. Our roportor alao omittodj to mon lion, that a ■tunnol. waa being driven for 6^ foot, and dji foot jfurLhcr ia cxpootod to out tho lino of roof. Tho New Zoaland Tlhiob accma to look upon tho Speaker of tho ll.ouno of Ropreecn^ tiitivoß no tho Colonial Spbin't, and sots itßolf t'ho fank of explaining what it fa pleased to couaidcr tho riddlca that l;o uttorn. Alluding to tho spcooh at tho Huljt, (hifl brilliant cxpoundpr romarka i—" Wo'r think that in thin dißoourao thvco points oro diacorniblo which may bo rognrdcp ao bopoful gormo i Int, tliot tho altitude of tho momboi 1 for tho ITutt in regard to Sir Geoi-fjo Groy will bo an independent ono j 2nd, that tho Into agitation about manhood auflVugo w boliovcd by him to bo a ' oatohponny and a sham,' and 3rd, that any attempt to rovivo provinoiul inatitiuions jiow would bo absuvd. Thcao g'oriiin niny dovolop into an aoooptablo cpjyjMitiou poliny, and thono who woro dldappoin: tsd by Monday niglit'n onlortninmonl, at Ibo n.utt may, porhapn, when tho ncsnion rtjxmß, boo iho fuvom'ito fov tho Dm by, mart without ' Uobblos." Tho oviJont nnxioty

that prompts this inponiouo oritioiom jto highly amusing. " ' A epooial Auckland tologram in a Southland journal soyß s— ln rbfororioo to an affair arising "out of a Calcutta swoop tho wolla known • sport,' Mr W, Waltora of Papakurn, presuming allusion is mndo to him, makoa tho following explanation :— •" If tho para* graph rofors to a swoop »n»do on tho Autumn Handioap, tho fuota of iho 'oano aro lihoao : On tho night of tho first day's raooa I was in town, nnd onqulrod who had drawn Yonuß« iranoiti in tho swoop. I was informod it wao Mr Middlotpn ol;.tho Bay of Islands, and | tologrnph.od to : a jriond.'of mino to buy tier at onco. I got an answor that Mr Middloton I was fiftoon Vnil'os out of town, and that J. had bofctor wiro diroet. I eont tho following tologram to Mr Middloton— 'You hayo drawn Vonuß'Transit in swoop. *"t havo Izaalc fflak ton in samo race. '|f I »tnrfc "JTonuß will you flharo swoop with mo." ' On tho day aftor tho raoos I rbooivod ftn answor back, • yos I then wired to him, — Yory sorry j 'could not Start VonusnTrnn'sit, aa eho was lomo aftor| Logor)' 'Mr Middloton aftorwards oamo up to town and saw mo. Ho mado roforo'nco to eomo swindlo, and I may. hayo aaidj would, givo him in dhargo, for lio wont lip and down tho Btroot '" a'ocuein'g mo of* haying swindlod km, but so far as J know ho mado no complaint to tho Stowarck*