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Inangahua Times, Volume 75, Issue 75, 28 August 1878, Page 2

A mooting of tho mombors of tho Roofton Jookoy Olub will bo hold at M'O-aflln's Hotol, thia evening at 8 o'clook. It in tho intention of tho Government (the Timaru Horald undorßtandi));immodintoly fo propoao a polioy in comparison with whioh in rcspoot of tho importance of itn effect on tho condition of tho pooplo at large, manhood suffrage or land taxation dwincllos into insignifloanoo. That polioy is noithor moro nor less than a now publio works polioy, littio lens oxtonaivo than tho sohemo of 1870, and banod on much safor and bettor nsoor tamed prinoiplos. bn addition to tho.bnlanoo of tho loans, amounting to somo two millions, it is intended to-npply tho wholo of tho surpluflland fund both of tho pant year and of futuro years to tho extension of tho present railway oystem, and to tho construction of now linos of railway. Iho • Southland Times' glvo» tho following acoount of the snoWßtdrm on Saturday t— ' From Athol to Kingston, tlio wholo oouutry wan onvolopod in a white mantle, not a groen blado, not a brown tussock, nothing whntovor but, rjok and wow, and occasionally a turkey lying dead on its surfaoo, woro to bo soor.. About two milcn boyond Athol tv horso was notiood standing in a Maori head swamp with tho water and snow reaching halfway up hid sides, and busily cropping the groou tops of tlio Maori bonds. Ono mob of shoop w»« obflnrved at Fairlight standing on tbo plain huddled up together, and having tho snow around them as if thoy wero in o pen, noth« , ing eatablo for tho poor animals boing in sight. At Elbow, on Friday aftornoon, Mr Arthur was fnformod by ono of Mr Ilolmos's mou, thnt on his way thltbor from Gastlorock ho hud counted 06 sheoop lying dead. If this is to bo taken as «i sample, tho oonscqucnooa throughout tho country will bo very serious indeed j and tho gonoral public will got a flliaro of it in tho shape of high prices for butcher's >/irftt, An tho storm continues : wlnlMf, wo wi-iti', with unabated trnvcrity, tlio j i h'.tiifttion la d>;oidedly becoming >vor»> thun it ' has been,' } I

A Gisbomo telegram iv a Wellington paper, jiros partiouiars of a rathor interesting oa*o Ihoro as follows : —Tho Ilesident Magistrate wno ooeupiod on Friday with a oaso whioh excited considerable local intorost, owing to tho position of tho pariios who figurod as dofondants. lliohard Joyoo, ft contvaotor, oharged William King, A. K. Hardy, nnd J, It- Hurry with assaulting him on tho Bth instant at tho Itosoland Ilotol. Tho defendants nro all mon of moans. King in ft largo sawmill nnd land owner, Hurry in his partner, and prosidont of tho Ohuroh oommittco j lio in also a mombor of tho County Connoil. A. F. Hardy was Oapttdn Road's Into manager, and is nn oxtonsivo lnnd owner nnd shoop farmer. Tho ovidonoo showed th.it tho defendants woro at tho Boscland Hotel Jnst Saturday. Hardy oalled for ohampngno, and proposod Hor Mnjosly's hoalth, Joyco> who is an Irishman, was on tho yorandahof tho hotpl, ond oxolaiinod, •To h— -with tho Quoon, and tho Duko of Edinburgh, too,' At thin Hardy wont up to iloyoo and asked him if ho made tho romark. Joyoo ropliod ' Yes,' whon Hardy struck him in tho mouth and knocked two of his teeth out. Hurry solzod Joyoo to prcvont a furthor diaturlmnco, whon tho laltor tuid Hardy was n, coward, and then King struok Joyco. Aftor hoaring a lot of evidence, tho Bench dismissed tho ohargo against Hurry aud King, but committed Hardy to 'tako his trial at tho next sitting of tho higher Court; Bail was allowed, himself In £200 and two sureties of £100, Tho ease has oausod n great stir in town. Previous lo tho oaso coming on tho dofendautH offered Joyco ;CIOO to « squaw ' tho matter, and a froo pnssago to Wellington to got two fidao tooth. iToyco refused. A singular instance of blood poisoning (says the Wanganui Ohronielo) occurred to a whole family at, nnlcombo through their making uno of wator from a rooontly painted tank. Wo understand lhat tho tank having boon omptiod, and throughly eloanod, was thon painted on tho inside. Boforo, howoror, tho paint had timo lo dry, honvy rains oamo on, and tho tank rapidly flllod. Tho water whon drawn off, was found to bo vory unploasanft to tho tasto, and drinking it rosulted in nnusoa, Tho family, howover, boing assured that no ovil result would ncoruo if they boiled tbo wator, and not having any othor supply, oontinued to uso it. In A short timo, ono of tho ohildren siokoncd, nnd vory soon aftor nnothoi* was attaokod witb similar symptoms, and ono by ono all tho family, fathor, tnothor, and ohildron woro striokon down with illnoss, whioh tho medical attendant pronounood to arieo from blood poisoning. What this aioso from was a puzzle, but on tho doctor boing informed of tho kind of water thoy had been drinking, ho mado nn examination of it, from which ho was quite satisfied that it alono was tho origin of the illnoss of his pationts. Tlie good tiino ooming for Reofton wiii nssurodly load to a ooiißidorablo inoroaso in population, tho woathor that has allliotod the distriot. so long having broken up and disappeared, and tho roads again in good work* ing ordor, will throw lifo ani ohoorfulness around and upon this portion of Now Zoaland so fnvorod and so blessorl, with all that renders lifo ngrooablo, but whioh may and froquontly do load to thoso habits which ongondor disoaso through cxposuro to Bioknosn and ohills, tho hoalthiost may bo striokon down by Iln hi/autism, Rihiumatio Goun Lumbago, Intkrmittbnt Fkvkus, BrMonssNK3B, <fco., nnd it ia woll that all should know tho most rolinblo euros for theso aro tho ainous Indian Mkdioikrs known as Ohollah'ti Groat Indian Ouros,"— tboy can ho had of M. R. Glsslnge, Ohomist appointed solo wholesule agont for Roofton and distriot, Soo toßtimoninlo in advertis* ing column,— Adv