LATEST FROM INANGAHUA.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1152, 8 April 1872, Page 2

LATEST FROM INANGAHUA.

By Sadler's express, which arrived in town last night, we have received a copy of the Inangahua Herald of Saturday, from which we cull the following items :—

The machinery on Mace and Company's claim now works admirably. As a temporary expedientj-the dismantled chimney stack has been erected over the mouth to the furnace, so that there is now a stack at each end. The result is a thoroughly good draught, and the batteries are now working 75 beats per minute. The tables show very excellent results.

Anent the find in Flax-tree Creek, the claim is a point between the junction of two creeks, and the prospectors occupy the whole ground. It was in the Lyell Creek, and not Irishman's, where the party of five made their rise, which the men themselves exaggerated to much more than it really was.

Mr Thomson, agent for Langland's Foundry Company, has left Reefton for Greymouth, where he anticipates concluding arrangements for erection of machinery upon the Wealth of Nations and Energetic claims, both situated upon Adam Smith's line. Both claims will employ water as a motive power. The Wealth of Nations have a tolerably good supply from a tributary of the Inangahua river, and the Energetic take the tailwater of No 3. -1 and- 2 sou^h Shiel's. r The latter company beirig'eu'abled to obtain a fall of some 120 ft between their machine site and that of Nos. 1 and 2 south Shiel's will probably erect a turbine wheel in order to fully utilise the somewhat defective supply of water.

The accommodation-house at the junction of the Grey Saddle road and the Inangahua, recently occupied by Mr J. Logue, has been disposed of for L3OO.

The erection of a Post Office on the Camp Reserve will in all likelihood be decided upon in the course of a few days. On the arrival of M,r Bird at Westport he will communicate' with the Government relative to the mattfer, and on receiving a favorable reply, will proceed with the building immediately. Mr Bird left this place for Westport on Thursday morning. It is almost certain that the line of telegraph will be carried through from Greymouth, and will probably be commenced within a fortnight.

Publicana' licenses were applied for by Caroline Kerr and Ellen Kennedy. - His Worship stated that the police had reported upon the suitableness of each applicant to become ,the holder of a spirit license, and the reports handed in were not such as would justify his granting either application. A further ground for his refusal of the present or any similar applications was, that a memorial very numerously signed by the most respectable inhabitants of Reefton, conveyed a desire that care should be exercised in granting licenses to females. The applications therefore would be refused.