The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1275, 23 May 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY.

WSDHXBDiY, MAY 23, fBB3. It is estimated that something over £100 was taken #t the Reefton telegraph uffloe for messages connected; with*, the *ao«Bt«totian, * .••/>• •" v\ : . '•• Mr. GilbOTt, ienlMfc h&8 arrived in Jtaftnn, and may' be oumwlUJ in the liroinbea adjoining Forayth and B|a«(en, . Bn«-lway. Mr. Gilbert's stay. will be very limited. .... The recent commital of a mine manager at Sandhurst on a charge of manslaughter, in oonneotion with the accidental death i>f two miners, ought not? to be without ivitrning in this^diatrict. The provisions «f "The MinoUAct" of New Zealand, are stringent enough, and it would be well tat managers of companiea here to keep

themselves thorougly posted in the law on the subject.- • • We have been shown a very ingenious and useful little mechanical invention, the work of Mr : Tweedie, blacksmith, of Black's Point. It consists of a self adjusting " saw-set," graduated to set six different kind of saws, from the finest tennon to the heaviest cross-cut. It is simple in construction, may be used to perfection by any novice, and performs its work in a manner which cannot bo equalled by the most practised saw-setter by the old method. The little instrument may be seen on application to Mr Tweedie, and will be found well worthy of inspection by all those interested in such matters. ' • His Lordship, the Bishop of Nelson, will deliver a lecture this evening, in the Oddfellow's Hall, taking for his subject "England Re-visited." Bishop Suter has just returned from a lengthened visit to the Old Country, and being a keen observer haa collected arich fund of information, the recital of which cannot but be in the highest degree instructive to colonial minds. We look forward to the lecture as an intellectual treat of « fiSghj order, and have no doubt that it will coin-' mand a very large audience. No charge will be made for admission. The sittings of the Warden's Court opened at Reefton on Monday morning last, before Mr Warden Revell, but the list was unusually light, the business consisting only of mining applications, none of which were opposed. The Magistrate sat yesterday, and disposed of a number of criminal and civil cases, but the business was devoid of public interest. Owing to the absence of Mr J. lynch, several cases in which that gentleman was engaged were adjourned till next court day. We publish in another column the views of a few of our contemporaries upon the result of the Inangahua election, and from which it may be gathered that there is a general concensus of opinion outside that the electors here have committed political suicide in the choice they have made. This is the contention we urged throughout the contest, and it is some satisfaction to see it so generally endorsed. Let us hope, however, in the interest of the district, that time may prove otherwise. The trustees of the Lecher and Alsted Memorial Fund have fixed upon the design of the monument to be erected in the Reefton Cemetery. It consists of a monolith of Oamaru fiee stone, and will stand on a pedestal of polished granite. The lower portion of the oblisk is square, or rather oblong, with carved recess . for the inscription, and terminates in a broken column, emblematical of the abruptness of the life of the unfortunate sufferers to whose memory it is erected. . The order* for the monument has been forwarded-to" Messrs Arnott and Sebrook, Greymouth,' and its arrival here may be looked for at at early date. The much wished for change in,' the weather! came last night, and from the low 'readings of the barometer there ia_evejx livelihood that we shall now'Kave an ex-' tensive rainfall. The want of water has operated as a terrible . drawback for months past to mining throughout the whole of the West Coast, and has caused a large amount of distress, particularly in alluvial localities, where hundreds of men have been thrown into idleness. Could an estimate be formed of the loss which the colony has sustained during the last quarter through the enforced idleness of the mining population of the West Coast from the cause stated, the figures would, we are sure, startle sumo of those who rail against the expenditure of pu lie money on goldfields for water supply works. The Auckland correspondent of the Bay of Plenty Times says : — Some excitement has been caused in polite circles this' week by the elopement of a suckling barrister of slender income with the lovely daughter of a worthy skipper not altogether unknown in Tauranga. The " happy couple" departed up the' Waikato, were made man and wife, and are now enjoying their honeymoon. The bridegroom, who is only nineteen years of age, is serving his articles to a legal firm, and is in receipt of the magnif cent salary af 15s per week, while the bride, half-a-dozen years his senior, brings a small dowry worth about 5s per week. The aspirants to matrimonial joys will thus have an opportunity of studying economy which they should profit by. The Stranger in London— That the Great City will ere long be hardly recognisable by its former denizens, all the world has heard. The visitor passing up the Thames now finds his eye gratified by the many edifices recently erected. As he reaches the famous Victoria Embankment, there rises over him on the right hand the new Times office, and on the left hand the new tower-crowned works of Messrs. James Efps & Co., both phases of Italian architecture. It may be said that these two buildings are types of the far reaching business energy of the nineteenth century, for it has resulted from such means that these two establishments haye.'brought themselves to the fore, and Jthat the annual issue of each has come to be estimated by millions. During the la*t year, the number of copies *.of. .the Tiraea^ .is estimated at 16,276,000, while .the number of packets of Epp's Cccoa »ent ofr.in the same period" is" computed at 14,749^95. The latter is a large total, when it is borne in mind that in 1830 ~the oooaumption of Cocoa throughout the whole kingdom was but 425^82 lbs., there then existing no" preparation of i$ Such as this, whkih by the sinj'pTe addition :of boiling water would yield a palatable, drink. Truly tiiuo may be" said to work, many changes. There are three Australian natives in the Service cum-Bervy Coalition Ministry,