The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1878.

Inangahua Times, Issue 03, 9 October 1878, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1878.

In consequonccof tho prominonft attention lately directed' 'towards tho Poyil'B Or»ok roofn, our reporter" visited that quarter on Monday. The lino on whidi tlio Golden Point ltifiso (just now olttinis special notio'o) oro«»(!8 tho how road loading to, tlio .Orionta* and Union ohiiins,and i\ slight diversion to tho right from whioh oroasca.tho- crook, thon about GO or 70 yards you asotind on to ft low torraeo or flat, nnd on tlio siuHll hill in front shows you tho claim, or rntluu* tho workings ntprcwijt commonaod. Tho prosprcotovs, after buyiufj out tlrnw of tho original holders, h<vvo Btnrtod tvitU promptitudo to 'put on hando immediately, find thoso (throo'oiv four mon) nronovv bavn~ing tlio roof on tho surf»oo. On tho top of tho hill, and running pavnllel with tho roof ftfc prosont being oporatod on is another roof, in whioh th a gold is freely dissorainatod, thereby' showing (ho oxistanoo of two 1 clearly doftno 1 lodo*. Wbilo wo wow on Iho ground, wo saw throo, of four prospects tuken prorniaeuou»l,y from tho foco, of not i moro thon liftlf 4 <linh tt\6\i, with pwwpfcots VHrying, 08 wo fihoukl guenn, from 8 or 0 to 15,dwtfl, whilo cortftinly moro gold was ro-. tftinod in tho qourso vubblo in the dish, than tho: fop^djjtttftihtfitiioui'., inu.l If oculnr we o.m oortainly n^H^^^^^^HPaoli rich utano lms not jSH^^^HiPpdistriot up to tho prcßont taken out of tho lite" '» OAM? > Icitstributod m.h. tho tnofal. Lowor plowh and fttftherporth about 220 feot on tho ~uftli» ft shiifthaß been Bunk to toot tho voof, whioh they havo got at ft doptli of 5 or fl fpct» •howlng a 4 foot roof, thereby proving ifca oontinu»(,uco beyond dyuhk, nt lonat for this length. Thou regain to Btrcngthon tho opinion that tliio linrt is both long and continuous, wo liavo tlio fuot of iho rcof beiriß pioked up With good puyiiblo fltono notno hundrodo o( yards off on tlio flout U sido. A 8 tho proaoul 1 . shnroholdoro* psrposo putting through a ton!; orutibing of 15 or. 20 tons, as soon na th 0 vorkiugs arp pfopovly opono.l out, Wo will abstain '*t prodoufc from moro thun trjord oaraary yemarks, fonlirig ({uito asmirod that tlio results will 'bo suoh us will offoiui tho groatcßt Bfitiefufition to tho plucky bUhvoholders, n« well as ta tho gonoral publio. "from oiu* intimate noquitintnnco with renlln«| (or a oonsidorablo number 1 of yoars, wo lmvo not tho sliplUoflt hcHi'lntion in pi'onounoi'rijj Dovi/d Oreok distriot, an 0110 that will nppnui' to tho front before tlio fliur.mor is over, and onuso attention both for 100 pi and on (si do iuvoßttnont. Tlio oponinpr of this now and compamtiycly untriod ooantry, roijothor with tho immodittto roflumption of crushing by nil tbo mnohincs up Murray Crock wny, must oiuiao pjonuino fji\ti»f«votion throughout tho wholo or iho Xniuignhua at lat-fjo, aftor tho lato ordoal of dulnoaa wo havo pa«*cd through. , Tho Eqofton Ilibornian Sooioty intond giving a banqiv.'t ou Friday, llfcb. inetant, at ShQfthan's JToto 1 , to oolobrato tho fifth an. nivursary, to which tho other sooietioa, and all other friend* nro invited, In bonsoqiit'noo of tho nompulsory nbnoneo of tho Chairman and four of tho niombora of tbo County Council nt tho Supromo Court Sittings, Jlokitiku, tho next moef ■\n\* will bo defei'rod from duy to thy y ponding their .arrival. Mr Gavdnor, tin Conn 1 y Unginocv, roturnad on 'f uoflduy cvoning from fclio Hmnpdon disfcviot, whoro h» has boon ongngod flniMliing tho survoy of tho innin Noloon road, running through that district, . /»will )o soon. by aJvortisomonto in our columns oi.awhorc, tho publio uro notified by tho Oonnty •Enginoci'i t)»at tho now roa-d from Lardi's to M'lnroo'n at tho junot.ion is now thrown open for publio trufftj, with tho oxcoptbn of tho Blaokwafcor mid Snowy Crook brides, and thoso, wo aro hhvmnd by Mr Qordnor, will bo flnißhod abaut flvo dayn honoo, thus affording froo transit right through. Ooofl nOvvs for tho oawiors and , horflomoii. , Wo hopo it will not onusi) any .fooling' of urtuosincw or clisconidturo to tko lovora of luw iv our micUt, to loam tho latest telegrams' *»* •« » ■•■ >» '

yesterday evening, announcing tho verdict or j ' •' Not QnV.ity " (after tho shortest delibom > tion) in tho oano of Raithby vorsun Olifford, which wiva roooived in tbo orowdod Court with upplmtao. Sensiblo, knowing won, them In Hokitika. As ft notftblo instanoo of what enterprise and porsovornnco, oouplotl with ..honesty of ohnrnotcr, tnny nooomplish. It may bo mentioned that tho Uto M* John Symono, «010 t'oproscntutiva of tho firm of N. Edwards and Co., Nolion, atarlod in that city, not n groat ninny yoaro ago, ft poor mnn, and at tUo timo of hin donth, whioh has just tnkon plnco nt Brighton, nonr London, loavoa a proporty j j ostimntod nt about £300,000. I r J)ho tosvnnhip of Wnihola in bocoming almost oiujrqly inhabited by Gormans. It is oxpootcd that tho nlvoady largo uumbor of tnat nationality residing thoro will bo oou* eidorably nugmentod nhortly, Wnihulu township is only a fow milos from Tokomdiriro, Otngft, Tho Melbourne Argils Btntos that letter* patent vroi'o qrantod pocontly by tho A.fciovnoy« G-oncral to Mr J. MOuijjan, of Ootlinn stivcj onflt, for an improvement in small ftronrmfl by wliioh 'd linn oan flri> wilh rqunl prodittion and greater ortio nt nn objm t bohind him than ho oan nt onn in fvnnl,' Tin's Invention ia about to bo Bubmittcd to tbo local military authorities for thoir consideration, A npfoial M^ram dutod London 10 111 September, appears in tho Wellington Pont tn tho following offflot'.— tho astonish . mont of Kuropo, tho Porto announces its intention to noil to tho highest biddor tho wliolo of tho Bulgarian doininionfl,'. ! Tito rtutlior of tho next chapter on birds' liootu will bo ablo (o adorn his l ak* with tho following story of a poor old hollow •buckod horflo, which wo olip from tho ' LyttoHoh Timea: '—'Mr G-. lliiohie, bafcoiyof Colombo Btroofc north, inform* us of a curious clrauuv Btanou. 110 possoflflos n faithful old hoim 1 , of rtf exceedingly quiet, ways, and ono of tho hoiis belonging to him hat* tnlcon to reposing on tho anlinnl'a back. A fow days Biiiot 1 ko WftH fiomowlnii; ftatoniflhod to find that tho, hen had chosen this. singular plaoo upon which to lay hor eggs. Mr Ilitohio has satfrflod himself by onular demonstration of tho truth of this froulc' In tho London polico thoro pro 7017 Knglishmcn, 820 Irislnnon, 1460 Scotchmen, 13 Welshmen, and 23 foroiguora j of tho lattor 12 aro Qormans, A petition has boon posted to tho Governmnnt boaring about 1000 signature*, praying for tlio imin«xliat6 eoujtruotiou of tho Hokitika nnd Oroy railway* Chalk surmons' aro tho latoat novelty in Amorioa. Xho proaohor i« aooompaniod in tho pulpifc by an artist who allustratoa tYJ d ! «oourno by «kotoho» jn.. chalk on a lar^e blackboard fitted up at tbo sido. Tho British Government has canoollod an order, for 40,000,000 .cartridges, and various other indications point to a etopnago of war pi'epniMl.HMM, TUo growth, of Now York bus nb i 'O"bcd noarly one hu/ittrod fniais, .which in tho beginning of tho present, nontury, wero under cultivation or in puslurc, r l'ho nrmlosa lady, Mia- Loako, now Mrs Thompson, who threads a noodle, and writes an embroiders with her foot, holds levees at St. Ja'mos' lfall Molhouwiw, « Tho Amorioan sohoonor Parnllo!, &.i hor wny from San Franoiso to Portland, boarded' a JupAHflso Vflßsol on which was fourrl no living person, but only a numbor of (loud bodies of Orion tula who soemod to havo boon doad for some timo, As Hioro was tio food on .board tliey aro supposed to havo died from flturvntion. The ' Scoisman ' records tho death of tho Wov. Bobort Storllng, DD,, minister of tho piiriah of Galston, Ayrshire, who ban boon for oorefiil ybnvi iho oldcsft minister in the Church of Scotland. Pr Stirling was horn i« 1700, near Mothvon, P'ortlishiro, and wns thun, at the timo of his doath, in liia 88th year. Mr Stirling was in 1815 lieoiusod to pn'aoh by tho Prosbytory of Dumbarton, and in tho following your ho received a prcaontion 'from thn Odinmistionor of tho Duke of Portland to tho Kilmaruook second ohargo, into wliHih ho wns duly inducted. In 1824. hn was translated to Galston, which living i* in tho gift of tho muuo patron, and thoi-o he livod nwd loboroil dming tho romftiivcloi, 1 of !ii« !onj» niiiiiflterirtl oiiroor, whioh iv (ill oxtondud oifor a ptu-iorl of fift^ouro. The goid timo coming for Koofton will assuredly load to a considerable inoroui-) in population, tho wouthor that has adiiotod tho. district ho long having broken up and disuppoiircd, and tho roads again in good work-* ing oivlor, will throw life anl ehoorfnhiAAtf ' (iroisiid and upon this portion of Now Zoakncl no favored and so bloasod, with nil that renders lifo agreoublo, hut which may nnd frequently do load to those habits which engender discaso through oxposuro to sicknoss and uhills, tho hoalthiest may bo striokon down by Eiirt/matibm, RirßtrArAWO Goirr, LtTMWAGIO, INTBBJW'JJTBN'J? FkVJ!IW. BIMOWHani?3B, fia., and it 14 well that all ohould know the most reliable euros for theso am the fftinons Indian Mkhwhshs known ni (JhoUah'a Cl-roftt Indian Ouroa,"— they can bo had of M. R. Gissinge, Chemist appointed solo wboloiwle agent for Heofton nnd difltriot,, Sco tostitnoniala in advortls" ing columns,— Advt: it