THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 February 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1881.

Some excitement was caused in Beef* Jon yesterday by a report that stone hal been met with by the contractors in the Low Level Tunnel. Owing to the large number of local shareholders the news created a great stir and many anxious inquiries ware made. Uupn inquiry we learn that a reef 2ft in thickness has been passed through,, but up to the pres* I ent time no gold has heen seen in the stone. Tbe fact of the striking of stone tft Mich a depth is, however, of ' itself an all important circumstance, as it prores at least that the reefs live down, and as with side,- by/ shJb with ' payaßldJodes in tu¥wpp#r^6rking< the discovery is not without interest. Tbe tunnel has not yet reached jibe line of the Anderson's and the Invincible reefs, so that there was no room to suppose that the contractors were yet in the proximity of those lodes, but at tbe rate of progress now being made andtber month or so will see the tunnel well in for that line. Some of the Anderson's stone was exceedingly rich, as shown by the fact that the company took out nearly £40,000 worth of gold from tbe reef in the higher ground, while the Invincible 'company adjoining also took out a large quantity of stone at a profit. The fact then that the tunnel is approaching that line naturally gives additional interest to the discovery just made; Tbe stone is said to be of a very likely looking character, and to be enclosed in well defined walls. We hear of a small parcel of scrip that changed bands jeslerday at 6d, We elsewhere publish still another applica'ion for a mining lease in the Boatman's district. Tbe ground applied for is east of and adjoining the Specimen Hill Company, and was formerly known as the Flora lease. The applicant is Mr P. Brennan. We learn that there is every prospect of a large number of entries being received For the Boatman's races on the 17th and' lßth March next. Besides two crick horses from Christcburch and two from Hokitika, Mr Blower from ifreison and Mr Bolton from Blenheim will also have tbeir colors represented at the meeting, so that large fields and good racing may be expected* We learn that a fair number of horses have fallen to Reefton in the Greymouth racing sweep just drawn. Leveller has fallen to Mr E. Paine, and Sir Modred; to Mr Wylde ; Mrs Brou has drawn Volunteer, and Lure by Mr O'Shea. 1 The fortnightly sitting of the Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts will be held tomorrow morning, at 10 o'clock. No important cases are set down for hearing, so that the sitting if not likely to extend over the day. Tbe sitting of the District Court will open on Monday morning next, before his Honor Judge BVoad, when the case of Michael Lynch r. Inangahua County Council, claim for damages for land taken for public road, will be beard. Tbe Homeward Bound and Occidental Companies havo completed arrangements for amalgamating the two properties. The shareholders in each company can be Jastly congratulated on the wisdom of this step, as united action will render the operations to be undertaken for develop* ing the mine more effective and less ex* pensive. Shares in tbe Homeward Bound changed bands yesterday at 4<t. Judgment was delivered in the District Court, Greymonth, on Wednesday last, in the case of Beeche v. Welcome Company, for encroachment. The ver* diet was for plaintiff, with £50 damages, an&s63 l9* costs. The Cfeorgia Mioistrels again had a fullhonse on Monday evening, and the programme ' being ' altogether di fferen t from the one dp Saturday night, it was equally • enjoyable- ' There is no doubt the company is i far anrl away above tbe average of travelling minstrel troupes, their nones are new, the choruses admirable, while the comio elerjbent ns represented by Messrs Easton and Wilson, .g as irrissistably funny as it could possibly be. The Just .inVTime Company will start a small Crushing of seventy or eighty tons tri-morrow! The stone in tbe mine is 1 of averaee thickness, and the directors have decided on having a smaller crush* ing than usual in order to determine the payableness of' 1 the stone in the south gtopes before employing more hands then are at present at' work, namely, eight. In the South Hopeful Company's mine on f be opposite side of Boatman's Creek from 'the JusMn-Time claim, work is now resumed. There is a large body of gold<<bearing ' stone exposed by a landslip under which a tunnel has been driven, but hot yet far enough to cut the reef; A few chains to the e»«tward a small l^de dirtying good ' gold ' is stripped. Stfroe'five or six tons of this «tone is broken" out, and will 1 probably be taken to tlie mill in a- week or so for trial crushing: !•• ' ■ '

In Russia all tho sons and daughters of 'rinces inherit their title. They are conequentiy as p'entful as sparrows. It is paid bat their is a village where every inhabitant i a Prince »r Princess Galitziii. The, ti/]e <£ 'rince in Russia i 9 about equivalent to that' f Enquire in England. ' Ouida's handwriting is startling, and two rords, or at most three, are all she gets in a inc. She has a woman's weakness for teedlessly underscoring, and has a predilecion for flourish. The mail states that there are in Oamaru to less than thirty-two sly grog-houses, iwelve houses of ili«fame, and twenty houses itensed to sell intoxicating liquors. The New Zealand Times has discovered irhat it calls a real China woman in* Wellingon. The reporting staff found her on the vharf, 10 she may have been formed of ihina ware. She is describe! aa an " almond >yed difficulty." It has often surprised us, says a Northern japer, that none of our botanical people ias ever taken the trouble to investigate the nedical properties of ~*our JSeir Zealand regetation. Bushmen declare that flat gum beals sores and cuts, and that a decoction of rimu bark is excellent for colds. The virtue >'f, koromiko for dysentery is well known, rod the water, after supplejack roots- has 3orae people tnix flax roots with the last and speak of it as an medicine. The Auckland Market is now .literally flatted with fruit of all descriptions. Time iras (says the Star) when we got the greater portion of our fruit from Sydney and tha [slands, but a slight alteration has been made in the source lately, and we have such & large quantity pent in from country districts that the quantity sent from Sidney and the Islands has greatly diminished. Whangarie seems to be a splendid fruit growing district. On her last trip from that port the s.s. Argyle brought no less than 250 cases of Assorted fruits, and like shipments are arriving every week. According to the Mount Ida Chronicle the retreat of Mr P. K. M'Ooughan, after his trip Home, w'll be Antrim. After having given this bit of information the Chronicle gushes thusly :— " May the lovely vales of Antrim prove a 'happy valley ' to the gallant menu her, and from these shores we sincerly wish him a prosperous voyage." The Bible in schools question is still ablaze in Dunedin. The newly elected committee we>e rather puzzled the other day by an application from theFr>ethou£hi Aisociation. Tbe ' association, it appears, are anxious to •tart a M Children's Lyceum," in which it may be presumed the works of Paine and Colonel Ingersoll are to be the text books ; and as. on the principle qijticiu anonjueendo they terra i this 'Vnidral otB Jeligwus 7 iiw struction," they claim the same privileges as the evangelical denominations. After a little discussion, the request was agreed with. Thus the committee, now find themselves committed to •'•(Fording facilities^' fdr the* propagation of infidel opinions. No Strouger testimony to the value of the mining industry of Tasmania need be asked for than is supplied by the annual returns of exports Bnd>.ijmp|>rts, %hich the Tasmania^ Mail speaitf of ißj'iblloits i—HDufing 1880: we sent away gold to the value of £199,6131 as against £145,723 in 1879, showing an increase of £53,890 ; as to tin We exported in 1880, £341736 worth as against £299,121 worth in 1879, or an increase of £42,615,. The value, thro, of onrmirerat exports: last year was over £540,000, leaving out of ao« count the quantities of gold which have left the colony in private hands, and whioh would very largely swell the total. It is interesting to note that in 1873 tbe export of gold from Tasmania was only worth*; £15 309 and of tin only £220. The increase of imports and exports generally is represented mainly by the mineral increases. In the year 1873 the imports were valued at £1,107. 167, and the exports, at £893,556. For 1880 the figures are, imports $1,369,224, and exports 1,497,767* The exports thus havei roughly speaking, been almost doubled during the last seven years, and it is noteworthy that the exports from Launce9ton alone in 1880 (£905,733) exceed those of the whole colony in 1873 by over £12.00. In the matter of exports for 1880 Hobart is no less than £313 699 behind Launceston. In imports Hobart is come £4,000 ahead of Launceston," Mr Conyers, it still esteemed and respected by his former subordinate*. Though not now in the Government service, be was last evening re-elected President pi the railway Employes Benefit Society, Tbe Taupeka (Otago) Times says that on bis way through the Blue .Mountain Gorge this week, Mr Urren saw a fine deer on the track. „£, £ . : _ .. •.- v ■ . •;■ The Timaru Herald says :—" Out of a cons signment of eighteen humble bees to Mrs H. Belfield, of Timaru, shipped by the John Elder to Melbourne*, and transhipped thence by the Arawata to the Bluff*, two were found to bo alive when tbe boxes were opened on their arrival here yesterday. A greater portion would have reached here safely were \ it not for the rough u«age they received on their journey from the Bluff.