THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARYS, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 62, 10 January 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JANUARYS, 1877.

The macbiue (writeß our Boatman's cor* j respondent) is busily engaged upon the Just" in-^ime etone, with every prospect so far of ] the result being exceeding good. The mine is well opened ouf. with prospects, of being able to keep the battery going for a considerable lime to come. Two men are employed putting an uprise in the Walballa, without, as yet, having' anything to report. The contractors in the El Dorado have driven about 80 feet, th® distance indicated by the survey where the reef shouldbe met. In the Fiery Cross winze- (deepest level) the reef is the full width of the shaft, and in two of the St'opes is from 4to 5 feet wide. The manager j of the Alexandra Company brought some very rich stor.e yesterday from the low level face where the leaders are joining together, ' and" a reef is expected very soon . The Hopeful con» tractors started work to-day, in the lower level, the face showing 15 inches of stone. Id the intermediate level the reef is muoh larger within 5 feet of the Welcome boundary showing gold in every piece. The Welcome Company will continue on the stone, and sink a winze without delay. Intimation is publicly given of the assignment of the estate of C. * Woolcock and Co., merchants, Greytnouth. The nett receipts of the Hospital Fete are £110 7s 6d, with a sum of £1 7s 6d still to come in. The net 1 , proceeds of the bajsaar were something over £80, and thjs with about £26 from the Good Templars' demonstration will make up a sum sufficient to place the hospital committee out of the hands of the Philistines. A most melancholy fatal accident happened at the Wealth of Nations mine, on Monday last, which resulted in the instantaneous death of a much respected miner named Pete r Campbell. It appears that the deceased was engaged upon a contract for supplying the battery with stone, and on the day named was employed with another man iri one of the Btopesi Campbell was in a stooping position, in the act of driving a wedge under a prop when the kiter < canted, unshipping the cappiece, which' Jell, striking deceased on the neck causing dislocation and almost instantaneous death. An inquest, before E. Sbuw, Esq., district coroner, was held upon the body at Ramsay's store, Black's Point, yeoterday, when the facts as above were elicited. Thj deceieed, who leaves a wife and large family, was an old and experienced miner, aud was a man of exemplary habits, and much esteemed. He was a memfecr of the St. Andrew's lodge, Beefton, in the foundation of which he took a very active interest. No blame appears to be attributed to anyone in respect to the accident, as the mine is ooe of the most care-

fully secured ones in the field. The funeral is announced to take place at 3 o'clock this day. In another column we publish an important judgment recetWy delivered at Hokitika, by his Honor Judge Weston. Absent husbands (says the Star) do not always prove so kind as Mr Bladkwood, for« merly of Wakatipu, more recently of the #>»■ mond Fields, Africa, and now of the world of spirits — let us hope of Paradise, for such a constant husband is deserving of nothing else. Durmg » long absence of ten years from the wife of his bosom, not even the fair charmer's of Africa's sunny clime, (at less the sable daughters of Kutia. the graceful Kaffresses, or the plump and adipose Hottentots could wean his affections from the light of other days. And when Blackwood, having amassed numbers of those shining baubles destined to deck the coronets of blue»bloocle3 duchesses and ball-room belles, pined amidst the sunnscorched valleys of Ca'ffe Colony, and shuffled off this mortal coil, he left unto his lonely widow sorrowing araidst the lakes of Otago for her absent hus« band the nice little solatium of £7000, and a diamond or two to shine amidst her widow's weeds. There is scarcely a newspaper published from one end of the year to the other that will not, if critically considered, give offence to somebody in the community. The politician objects to the way his speech is rej ported. The buyer of one set of shares are offended because the money column reports another set as going up or going down. Gen» tlemen who find, themselves in' the hands of the police are grieved at the license of the press, which reports their arraignment and trial among the " police proceedings. The newspaper thu9 offends some one, just as the weather— rainy today and sunshine to-mor* row — is sure to annoy son ebody. ' The common sense view 1s that the newspaper is the history of yesterday written to«day ; that it is the mirror of the time, and that those who conduct it care nothing for individuals, esn cept to do them justice. A lady named' Grooby, fo? over thirty . years a resident in Nelson, died there a few days ago, and at her funeral the blood rela» tives formed no inconsiderable portion of the cortege. The Mail says : — 01 lineal descendants of the deceased there are at present living ten children, sixty-four grandchildren, seventy-four great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren, without mentioning relations by marriage. Of this immense family, the eldest member is a daughter seventy-two years of age, who was present at the funeral.