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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 3, 16 April 1877, Page 2

The quantity of amalgam collected at; the health of Nations battery for the week ended on Saturday last was 3750z 12dwt. It is reported that the Energetic Company a^re taking out some excellent stone from the shaft now being put down on the reef. ! Mr Warden Sbaw being absent at West- ! port holding Court during Mr Warden I broad's absence, the fittings of theJCourt here i stand adjourned until Wednesday next. An adjourned meeting of the members of the Beefton Hospital Committee will bp held t at Mr M'Lean's office this evening at eight o'clock We understand that Mr R. Beeves hap. purchased the Star Hotel, Ahaura, and the building, it is said, will be henceforth used as an office by that gentleman. There will be a special meeting of the members of the Local Revenues Board to-day, when Mr Butler's detailed report upon the County roads, maintenance contracts, &c, will be presented. We have been requested to state that in consequence of illness Mr E. Donovan was unable to give his promised lectuie, upon Temperance, but the engagement will be duly fulfilled, of which notice will be givep. The danger of allowing children to play with edged tools, was again instanced on Saturday last when, a child of Mrs Sfcanton had two of its fingers chopped off by a tomahawk in the hands of a playmate. The Hopeful Company will, it is expected, conclude their present crushing on Saturday next, and on the followir.g Monday the Just-in-Time Company will take a turn at the battery, and will probably keep the stampers going for about a month. The No. 2 South Larry's Qqmpacy have recently obtained a favorable show of gold in two parts of the mine, and the indication is deemed of sufficient importance to warrant the runs being followed up, and these works together have giveu additional vigor to operations. ' Yesterday was an essentially wintry day, and it may be said that the period of great coats and back logs is once more upon us. It appeared, to be snowing heavily on the hills yesterday, and the air was freighted with a most insinuating chilliness, which kept all but the most devout church goers from venturing forth. To-moiTow hands will be set to work to overhaul the Macedonia battery aud get it into thorough working order. The water wheel will be overhauled aleo and strengthened, lhe water.race has already been put in complete repair, and as the tramway works are approaching completion, we may expect to see the stampers in full swing in the course of a very short time. A rumor obtained currency on. Saturday last to the. effect that the reef in the Caledonia mine had widened out to over three feet in thickness. lhe report is said to have emanated from one of the wages men working in the mine. Without, however, having heard anything to contradict the rumor, we have been unable to trace it to a source that would justify us in giving it publicity 'as a fact. We mention it, therefore, for what it is worth.

Both the National and New Zealand Banks escorted gold in the latter part of last week, but we haye no means of ascertaining the precise quantity forwarded. I{ is, hosrever, reliably reportedifchat the total quantify taken down represented money Tftlue of something like £30,0001 of £40,000. Tie escorts are said to be the largest ever fft warded frpt&,the Inangahua. At a meeting of the amateur? held a Dawson's Hotel on Saturday evening last, the programme of the forthcoming entertainment was decided upon. The entertainment will consist of three parts. First, drawingnroom performance ; second, a short sketch entitled " The 4ttractive Young Lady ;" and conclude with, a local piece styled "The Bachelor's Ball." The performance will take place on Saturday, 3§th instant. A rehearsal has been fixed for this evening at 8 o'clock sharp,, at Dawson's Hall. As an indication of th,a revival of m.in.ing operations in th,e direction of Murray Creek, \b may be mentioned that during the last week a large number of waggons with direct freights from, Greymou,th passed i^p to Black's Point. During the past eight or ten months the mining population of Mujruy Creek haa fallen oflf considerably. The sus» pension of work in the mines there, had led I to a general clearing out of miners, but that j portion of; th.c district is now entering upon an ' altered conilityra of things. Several of the j companies have recommenced work and many ■ otnera will no doubt shortly follow suit, and it | islikely that before the winter fairly sets in the whole of $he mines will be once more , manned. | During the polling for, the London Sohppl Board, a ratepayer arrived breathlesss and in %state of great excitement at one of the polling stations in Hackney, and said, " I want to vote for a woman." " Ah !" said a friend'y yoice, " I suppose you mean, Miss Miller ?" "No," said the ratepayer, " that's not her name. Let mejit down and think. 1 saw it on a placard Is I came along. (Thinks aloud.) I have it. Poll Eearly ; that's her." The Conference of Wardens at Wellington commenced last week. The Westport Times ha? permi-sion to note the alterations to be proposed by Mr Warden Broad, Bulter district, which include :— Reduction of the fee for miner's rights to Is per annum, to be valid throughout the colony. Miners' fran* ohise to be only by registration as occupier of a dwelling. A more speedy method of dealing with mining and agricultural leases, by extending the powers of Wardens in dealing with them. The gold duty to, remain for the present. ' Anglo»Auslralian " writes in, the European Mail :— " Sir Julius Yogel ha 9 taken up his quartern at the New Zealand Agency in the Victoria Chambers, . Westminster. He I came down one morning in a cab and took possession very quietly. There wa3 no, crowd around the door to welco ne him, as thero w,ould have been in New Zealand, and the only ' official ' he encountered on, the stairs was the house-keeper's head maid dusting the bannisters. After, making a tour of inspection of the offices, and impressing tho clerks vrith the ease and dignity of his bearing, he. retired to the AgenfaGeneral's ' own room,' wh-?re he is reported to have partaken of a substantial taffin. This over, he summoned one of the officials, and making certain pertinent inquiries as to the conduct of business, suid very biandly, that will do, a hint which the aforesaid official regarded as equivalent to the assurance that business was over for the day. Thus the office w,as entered upon without the least demonstration or exoitemen t, an 1 as its tenure is said to be but tempprary — possibly for a year — 'there seems no good, or valid reason why the business should not go on smoothly, or at least be conducted in a spirit of fairness and impartiality in regard of vested interests." A remarkable recognition of a long lost parent is reported by the Western Morning News:— Five and, twepty years ago, a gentle-, man left Devonshire for Australia, accompanied by his eldest, son, and commenced farming near. Melbourne. Subsequently two. younger sons emigrated, but the wife, with three other children, continued tp lire at Biahppsnymbton, receiving the rental of an estate in which her, husband, had a life interest. Three years after reaching. Australia the father left the hpme, and did not return, and, as nothing, respecting, him could be learut, it w.as concluded that he had been murdered. Three years since the wife died, the estate was so!d to, the husband of a daughter, and the purchase money distributed among, the childjeen r A few, weeks age one of the emigrant's sons was reading some } placards, when he entered into conversation ; w.ith an elderly stranger similarly engaged, and shortly afterwards they recognised each other as father and child. They proceeded to Adelaide togethpr to, see another son, but learned that he had been crushed to death by a r wagon a few, days previously. The dis* pensed estate, has now a claimant, and. a curious difficulty has been created. The W.estport Times of Friday last says :— "Four poverty-stricken and woebegone looking Karamea settlers arrived in town on Tuesday, having cleared out of the settlement, and were stuck up, in angry confabulation in the public street, by the Karamea DirectorGeneral. They, took passage by the p.s. Wallace on Tuesday nigh}; for Nelson, and so also did their angry chief. They tell a woeful tale of false bope3 held oat, of hard work and semi-starvation, but it would be bootless to, repeat their plaint for it would only be contradipted. Condensed in a few words the history of the Karamea settlement, as gleaned from other and more unbiassed sources than the tales told by, disappointed settlers, is just this: An, expenditure of several thousand pounds by the Government has opened up access to country which makes a very fair cattle,. run- That country is occupied by the present Director-General of the bo- called settlement as a cattle run. He boasis of being able within a short time to bring cattle to Westport for sale. He says that if Westport butchers will not buy cattle of him he will start a butcher'a shop in West

port and sell hU own, meat. A few sottlers will be encouraged to remain at Karamea, whose assistance in occasional station Work will be useful, and who, in the intervals of such work, will be able, by tireless, industry, to eke put aiding." The Paris corrospQndent qf the London Standard writes :— " It has often b,een said that the. science of telegraphy is as jet in its infancy. What will it be when it reaches the, age of maturity it would be difficult to say with certainty, but some jdea may be formed from, an extraordinary telegraphic discovery just made in Paris.. %t appears that some inventor has found out the means of sending portraits by telegraph. The modus operandi has not yet been disclosed, but cv pcriments have been made and— if wejaje to believe the pipers — with complete success. The trial was made by the police authorities of Paris andJLyone. The pprtra^t of a Lyons official was forwarded from Paris by the new telegraphic apparatus, and was at once re- I cognised. In return the Lyons police telegraphed $o Paris the portrait, accompanied by the usual description, of a clerk who had just absconded with his raasters's money, and the Paris police, thanks to, the telegraphic portrait, were enabled to, arrest the thief j on his alighting from the train at the Lyons railway station. The facts are published on the bcs.t authority, and, incredible as they may seem, are no doubt authentic. So far, the ingenious discovery is only being employed fct t le detection of criminals ; but it Is evident that the police authorities will not b,e able to monopolise it, and that it will be turned to account by society at large under the very trying circumstances of life, and more especially in the cases of deserted wives and husbands, missing heirs, disconsolate lovers, and similar interesting beings.