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Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 61, 8 January 1877, Page 2

We are glad to learn that considerable improvement has taken place of late in the prospects of the Welcome Company, Boat? man's. Monday (to-day) at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Court-house, Keefton. v the I time and place for all creditors to go in and ' prove their claims against the estate of the Rainy Creek Company. I It is elsewhere notified that all outstanding rates must be paid to the Secretary of the ' Local Eoad Board on or before the l<sth in» s'ant, after which date all defaulters will be proceeded against without further notice. We are informed by B£r Bull, Postmaster, that the closing of the English mail via San Eranoisco and Suez, is extended to Tuesday, the 9th instant, at 10 p.m. Tho duties of the Beefton Catholic school will be resumed this iroraing at the usual hour. As we hare already intimated, the Just-in" Time Company commenced crushing on Thursday last, and the result is looked forward to with considerable interest. Shares in the company are, we believe, jield firmly at 17s, and there is UsUe doubt that as the crushing proceeds the scrip will advance in price. The |ocal criket club having forwarded a a cha}lenge tj> the (Shreymouth oricketers to play a return match, the latter replied by telegram on Saturday night accepting the challenge, and appointing the 22, nd of January at Greymouth, as the time and place for the contest, but it is not yet known whether the appointment will be agreed to by the local men. " The bearing of the petition against tie return of Mr T. Gallagher, for the Biding of Antonio's, will be .commenced in the Courthouse at 11 o'clock to-day. We are informed that no counter petition has been filed) and that the allegations of the ibrmer wilj therefore be tried upon their merits. As the meeting of creditors of the Bainy Creek Company is called for the same hour and at the can c place, it is probable that an adjournment of either one or the other proceed* ings will be necessary. Applications are invited by the Grey County Council for the appointment of Clerk to the Council. Applicants to state salary re* quired. It is reported that the appointment was to be, or had been offered, to Mr Tennant, of Hokitika, at a salary of £600 per annum. We think that our own Council would have acted wisely in following the example of tbe Grey Council, and in inviting applications for a clerk should have left it for the applicants to fix the rate of saUry. It U, perhaps, not yet too late to act upon the suggestion. There was a sitting of the Warden'^ Court on Saturday last. Nearly the whole of the day was occupied with the hearing of 'a dispute between the Hopeful Company , Boat* man's, and one of i|s contractors. The latter (Brace) claimed £100 damages for breach of con tr not in being prevented from proceeding with his work. After a patient hearing the ' Warden gave judgment for £44 with £8 costs. The Jußt-in-Time Company applied for a special claim at Boatman's. Mr W. M'Lean opposed the application on behalf of the Boatman's Creek Company. The ground of objection was that the Court had previously refused a similar application, and that on general grounds it was impolitic and detrin mental to the district to lock up the only available water frontage thereabouts. Having heard the whole of the evidence, the Warden said he would attach bis remarks to it, and forward it on to the pnder Secretary for the Gold&lda. We understand that Mr E. J. O'Conor has withdrawn entirely from the service of the Provincial Government., His appointment of secretary to Mr Curtis has been transferred by him to Mr Soanlon, late of Karamea ; and Mr O'Conor will now apply himself exclui sively to his duties of birectorsGeneral of the Karamea settlement. At a meeting of the committee of the : County Council held on Saturday evening hurt, tenders were opened for the position of valuers to tbe Council for the ourrent year. The tender of Mr M'Sherry was acoepted for the Beefton division, Mr Fankin for tbe Antonio's division, and Mr Gillespie for the Hampden division. The amount of amalgam collected at the Wealth of Nations Cpnrp^ny's battery on Saturday last was 547 ozs li dwts, 130 ozs of which was from two days crushing in the previous week, but sundry stoppages having occurred during the past week, the above is the return for about six days crushing. We learn that the erection of the Italian i Gully Company's machinery is rapidly ap--1 prodching completion, and it is expected that by the end of this week the whole will be in readines* to start crushing. A considerable quantity of stone is stacked ready for the stampers, and from its general appearance tbe result of the trial is likely to be highly satisfactory. The County CnuncU would appear to have been thrown into something of a fix By tbe " Counties Act " it is required that the rate roll of the County shall be made up by the 15th of January in eaoh year. This allows from the first meeting of tbe Council but tea days to complete the assessment of the entire County, a time quite out of proportion to the amount of work to. be done. The Council hw endeavored to bridge the difficulty by calling application* from valuers at very short notice, and made three divisions of the County for the work. The rushing of the assessment is sure to result disudvant&geously, but it will be for tbe Council to see that no payments are made to the valuers whfre tho work is ineffiuinitly performed. We are under the impression that it would have been a great public eating in tho eatl for the

Council to nominate its own valuers, and have the roll compiled by specially paid officers. Mr Richard Beeves was to leave Beefton this morning en route to Nelson, ac a deputation from the residents of the Q-rey Valley to interview the authorities there respecting the application of GHlmer Bros, and certain other persons for land on Recce's Flat, Ahaura, and at Orwell Creek. G-ilmer Bros, have ap. plied for 1500 acres of land on Recce's Flat, which takes in the whole area generally understood to be reserved for commonage purposes. In addition a large number of agplis cations for land at Orwejl Creek, ostensibly for agricultural purposes, have been sent to, the Waste Land Board. The general impression is tjiat the latter is otily a ruse to secure tbe timber which will ultimately be required , for mining purposes. Mr Reeves is empowered to oppose the applications by every legitimate means. We stated in our last issue that a petition was likely to be lodged against the return of one of the members for Crushington Biding, and as intimation of the circumstance only reached us on Thursday last, it wijl perhaps be as well to say that it came from the gen* tletnan whose intention it was to move in |he matter. The petition was not lodged, and it may not he out of place to state why it was not. By the " Counties Act the petition must be lodged within fourteen daya of the day of the election; but before this is done, we are informed (sot having a copy of the Act at hand), that an affidavit has to be declared before a justice of the peace, setting forth the grounds of the petition abd so forth. Owing j to Mr Warden Shaw's absence from Rjoefton | upon his judicial duties, and there being no other justice of the peace in" the district, nothing could, be done in the matter until the eleventh hour, when Mr Shaw returned to Reefton. It became publicly known that the petition was to have been lodged on Thursday last (the last day), but before it could be prepared and a copy served upon Mr Dlavies, as required by the Act, that gentleman on that day -was cabled suddenly away from Beefton upon urgenf; business, and of course could not be served with the regular notice of the petition to render the proceedings valid, and consequently the intention fell through, and has since been perforce abandoned. That there was the alleged double voting on the occasion is verily believed, but from advice ta^en upon the point it is just doubtful whether the objection would be a sufficient bar to Mr Davies 1 election. In one case, it is alleged, an elector voted first at Crnshington upon a miner's right qualification, and then came to Eeeft,on and recorded a vote upon a property qualification, rendering it just possible that the first vote recorded would be held to be good. These are the simple facts of the case, and they are very instructive — first, as to the necessity of the appointment of a reei* dent justice of the peace ; and, secondly, as to the purity of elections generally. The ordinary monthly meeting of the mem« hers of the Hospital Committee will be held at Mr M'Lean's office, this evening, at 8 o'clock. A triumph of chemistry. Among the chemical triumphs of the nineteenth century none bus been traught with, more important results than the discovery, twenty»firo years ago', that by oombining with a certain stimulanji of absolute purity' ana agreeable flavor 1 special medicinal ingredients of vegetable origin, a remedy was obtained for ' local or generali debility, kidney disease, gravel, dyspepsia, constipation, and, many other ailments. The name of this remedial wonder is Udoipeq Womb's Shiedam Obcmatio Schhapps. '