THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 58, 19 July 1878, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

Tenders «re olsowhoro invited by the Enor* gotio Company for driving fifty foot, moro or Jofld, of tunnel. Tender* oloie on Tuesday* 23rd instant, at 4 p.m., «t the company's offloo on the mlno. Mr W, Pitt, slier an absence from Beetles of Mveral weeks, returned on Tuesday even* ing \mU ' ■ < Wo undorstand that Mr ThomM Lee, for*, morly managing Olerk of Meqtri Pi«z«y and Co., brewers, Reofton, has acquired tho good* will and agenoies of A, D. B&yfoild, and will enter into tho buiinons of sharobroking, &o. on the Brd proximo. Mr Bayfoild having ao* ooptoda lucrative appointment in the Colonial , GoTornmont Insurance Dopnr;mont, ' wM shortly loavo Roofton to ontor Upon his dutiosi Tho newly crcotod post and telegraph oflloofl at Roofton wore passed, and tokon over from tho contractor on Monday hst, Mr i Andorson, tho Qorornmontlnspeotor of Build* ings, paid Mr Dunn, the contractor, a very high compliment for the faithW manner in whioh tho spooifloatiom have boon curried, out. Mr Andorson examined the ftraotur* moßt oritloally, and admits that the building is one of the most faithfully and substantially exooutod works of tho kind on tho West Coast, Mr O'Boa tha contractor for painting, var-» niching, &0,, is highly oomplimcntod for the manner in whioh ho has oarriod out his work, Tho entire work was supervised by Mr fiowen. of tho Public Works Dopartmont, HokUlka^ and it must bo highly pleasing on alt hands to find that tho final inspootion of the building has pro Tod so satiofaotory, Tho County Council yostorday accepted a tondor for oloaring a road way aorow.' lb.» ford near the snopension bridge. Tlie^wn^' tractor wilt bo bound te remove aY \s9/L stonos from tho wheel way aoroiS the pfjf and keep tho lino opon for trofllo for B|srtt* of twelve months? This action M thopwiofthoOounoll will, we are •mttofttmWk warm approval from teamsters', as thfl~rora >! is ono of tho roughest in the wliolo diitrioti and has boon tho oauso of innumerable MoUhnis, Two ftxlctroofl v«ro b'oUon in tbo ford last week, Wo rogrot to learn that intolligonoo was rooolrod hero yostorday that Goorgo Nioholas, an old nmidenfc of Blaok's Point, and |known as Qeorgo tho Greek, a boatman, wan drownsd in tho Moklnul rivor by tho capsizing of a boat on Tuosday last. The body hns not yet beon reoovored. but a search party has been sent out for that purpose^ The feeling against hanging as * mode of inflicting capital punishment seems to be on the increase in the United States, which his not surprising, at "smbm on tho gallows," owing to the bunglbg of eMo^ltons, iw h^owl in that country, wid «xdt« tb> «n«*» CUmUm booauso executions art oottdloili^ in poblib. At n late meeting in New York of the Medioo* lifgul Society, Dr Vaokard, after dwelling upon the horror* of ijhe gallows, suggostod oonviots sentenced to death, Instond of being oxooutcd by the olnmsy method of hanging, whioh Is often most painful in its operations, should be placed in a,n airiitiglbt room, into which oarbonio-oxid* gas it to be injeeUd. Death would, ho thinks, ensu« in about throe minutes » but this would b» a lingering de*th oomparod with that produced by the rope, if thore is any truth in those reports so frequently made of executions, that the unhappy oalprit 'appeared to die ins* tantaneously." Dr Paoktrd h of opinion that iho moral effoot of punishment is awakened as tho physical terror of punishment is ineread. The idea, howevor, of being suffocated in an air«tight dungeon would probably have more terrors to tbo criminal than that of being strAnglod by means of a rope | and if such woro the ottso, ocoording to Dr Faokards' view, tho moral eff«ot of his scheme would bo far loss strong than that of tho gallows* There, onn,-novorthote«s, bo Httlo deubt sonic i less barbarous system of exeoution than that which is in foroe in America and in England might also be devised, and that the terture too frequently inflicted on criminals iwbV undorgo capital punishment dees muoh Id weaken thnt vciioration for human lift whieti it is so doflirnblo to onoourage.'S-OPlsi! tiCitfl Gazette. . ■ ( ■ '<,'■ y'A Brisbano telegram says I— lt isaonouneid that an oxpodition bas beon organised by Mr Grestey Lukiri, tho editor and managing proprlotor of tho Queonslandor, to efibot a flying ourvoy of the lino of the proposod Transcontinental railway from Blaokall, Queensland, to Port Darwin. Mr Lukin ox* poots the 00-oj»ero.tion of tho South Australian Press, and urgos tho ooustruotion of tho lino by lnnd grants if tho route prove praotioable, South Australia to oomtnonoo from Port Ds>i> win, and Quoontlnml from the Baroeo, both linos to effect a Junction on the boundary at tho 21s| parallel of latitude; Mr Badono, a flrst*olast bushman, has been selected ■a leader of the oxpodition, with SarToyor Briggs h» second in commnud. Mr jtukin proceeds to thoßarcoo to start tho oxpodition, which is expected to lonve Blnokntl on Jully 12. nnd roaoh Port Darwin in flvo months Thoy will return by tho Nothorlands*lndia Sionm Navigation Go's stoamor, Muoh approbation is oxpresnod at tho ontorpriso of tho Quccmlandor, whioh lxvirs tho entire oost. It is boHovnd tho Mjiorlition will aohioro a nuncnPß, and prove tho prnctioubiliey of tho onjist.runt.ion of tho Triiifl-oontinontal railway by a systom of hind grttnls.

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