The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1279, 1 June 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1883.

At the half yearly meeting of share- OI holders iv the Globe Company, held last w j evening, the following gentlemen were ra , elected directors for the ensuing half-year. Messrs M. Levy, W. Irving, J. Prentice, lie E. Solomon, C. Clifford, •T. Collins, tll (Reefton), andH. Law, (Danedin). Mc Sometime after midday on Wednesday' mi

last information was given to the police that a mau named James Montgomery, apparently out of his mind, was running about the river bed a mile or two below Reefton. A constable was at once despatched in quest of the man, and Messrs Quigley and Smith joined in the search. Arriving near the junction of Devil's Creek and Inangahua the unfortunate man waß seen on an island in the river. He had divested himself entirely of hia clothing, and in thig condition was wandering about. After a hard resistance the man was overpowered and handcuffed. Some clothing having been procured for him, Montgomery was brought into town and lodged in the lock-up. Later in the evening Dr Thorpe was called in and examined the man, and subsequently two Justices of the Peace attended, and, upon the recommendation of the medical officer, Sergeant Neville applied for a remand of eight days, which was granted. The day was bitterly cold, and it is certain that had the man not been rescued when he was he must certainly have perished during the night. He was evidently in the horrors, as he has been drinking heavily in Reeftou since the election. He is, we believe, a blacksmith by trade, and well known ' injftHß Grey: VaJJej^ undejL,. .the soubriquet, of JiPhummy." I^Y|Hmtne'^ itPthe knowledge that New Zealand, it seems, can lay claim to a monstrosity of the animal world, which is a fit rival to the bunyip of Australia. A. Wairarapa paper says : — " Some residents of Masterton while out shooting early in the week, were astonished at noticing a strange looking animal, quite different to anything they had ever seen, even in a museum. One of them was so horrified and alarmed that he had his hands and arms torn among the bush lawyers, and the other stood trembling behind a tree with his gun loaded, when he should have been using it. They describe it to be about the size of a dog, with short legs, and long hair curled at the ends, large eyes and jaws, and broad muzzle. The dogs pursued it, but one returned nearly flayed alive, and the others would hunt no longer. A Maori, hearing the animal described, at once declared it to be a ' taniwha ' — a sacred animal of amphibious habits, in which the spirit of the rivers and waters is said to reside." At a temperance meeting recently held in Wellington, Sir W. Fox (says the N.Z. Times) made an interesting, facetious, and characteristic speech, which he described as intended to " touch them up with a few matters of fact on the drink question." Seeing so many empty seats, he asked where were the professed members of the various temperance societies in Wellington— they who were fond of wearing medals, and sashes, and blue ribbons when inside the Lodge-rooms with the door locked, but who were so wonderfully shy in showing their colors outside? Sir -William had walked the whole length of Main gf.rnofr jr> W>l|jnortr.n m^fVimif nomi^cr a single blue ribbon as a' Confession of tee- ' total faith. Nay, he had seen just one ribbon champion— in a tram-car. It was not to the credit of a large number of temperance professors in this city tha they did so little to set a bold Christian example to others, by wearing the blue ribbon emblem on their coats, as he did, where it would be a dainty little ornament, and on those other garments worn by lady members of the temperance faith. Sir William said he felt ashamed of so much bashf ulness in a good cause. How different was it in the Old Country, where this blue ribbon disease had infected all ranks of society, and seemed as catching is the small pox or cholera morbus ! [Laughter.) A temperance sentiment had taken possession of Oreat Britain ; yet, tore, in the Empire City of Wellington, ihey could get only a thinly-attended nesting on a Saturday night. He had iddressed an audience of 6000 persons on ihe temperance question in the Free Trade 3all at Manchester ; but now he had to ell a small meeting of temperance friends n Wellington that they were too -Jack in he good cause ; that it was their duty to thow their colors and thereby encourage >thers to array themselves on the right lido in this universal war against the Irinking customs of society. The Bruce Herald quotes as follows from a letter received from a former Milton resident, who has had about a pear's experience in the Old Country :— "I do not care much for England, ilthough I have got on very well. It is ;oo poverty-stricken for my liking. What rauld Toko, people say if they were iharged Is }d perlb for mutton, and Is or I'eef, which were the prices charged lere last week. I generally take a stroll hrough the market on Saturday afterloon, and to Bee some of the poorer clases striking bargains with the butchers is a litiable sight. After viewing the conents of the stall for some time, they will sk for so many pounds of pluck, or to reigh them a cow's heart. These are acts I would not have^believed if I had tot witnessed them. Tt is a very hard hing for a poor man to live, but what rith rates, taxes, aud the high price for -he is almost eaten away, iancy a working man getting only from 8s to 22s per week, and out of this aving to pay rent and taxes. " " We all know by experience that the lective Licensing benches won't work a it." So said Sir William Fox, at the ihenreum Hall on Saturday night. He flded : " They have done a little good in ne way, by compelling publicans to have^ ider staircases to let the drunkards out iore easily (Laughter.) And they have srhaps prevented the issue of a new sense here or there. But where have tey ever so much as taken away one jense because there 'were already, too any in the place ? Not one. Such a

case did occur at the Thames under the old system, and a brewer who got the breath knocked out of him by seven of his licensed houses being struck off the list, then came to Wellington and made a great fuss in and about Parliament. These blessed elective Licensing Benches, which' are supposed to have been put in to carry out the public wish, have not seen their way to take away one license. That won't satisfy the temperance party. What we want is the actual public veto given to the people in a particular district or township or ward, to say whether intoxicating, liquor shall be sold in that place at all. (Applause.) And when we have got that, if you don't see one-half of the publichnuses snuffed out, I shall be disappointed." — N.Z. Times.