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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 5, 20 April 1877, Page 2

Tue amateurs are invited to meet Sot rehearsal in Dawaon's Bail to-morrow. ev.envig x at 8. o'clock sharp. The long pending " home case " of Campbell and Taylor v. M'Ouigan has at length been terminated by the Magistrate ordering the return of ttw aniwuil in. diaputo to the claimaut, Taylor. Only. £2 10s costs were allowed to the claimant* the Magistrate re* marking that he (Taylor) had been guilty of remissness in asserting hia right to the horse, and might consider himself lucky that be got it all. We pu,bish elsewhere a report ot the inquest hold upon the bacty of John, Harper. The facts elicited, showed that deceased) came by his death from cerebral apoplmy induced by abnormal enlargement of the heart, the latter organ being father more than twice the size of that of an ordinary healthy adult. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence. Most encouraging accounts were received in town yesterday and the day previous concerning the Welcome and JusUin-Time mines, Boatman's Creek. The Welcome reef, we ar» »eliably rafoimed, continues, to widea out with almost each day's progress, while the stone oontinues also to improve in quality. Some stone was taken from tho face on Monday last which is said to exceed in richnesß the bust of the Hopeful stone. Tho news concerning tho Just-in-Time mine is equally encouraging.

A miner nataed Thomas Jones, suffering from a broken leg nnd other bodily injuries, was brought into town from Boatman's on Wednesday last and conveyed to the Hospital. The unfortunate man was working in the Fiery Cross mine, and accidentally fell down a winze 90 feet in depth. The miner's escape from instantaneous death was littte short of miraculous, but beyond sustaining ft fraoture of both bones of the right leg, be is otherwise unhurt. Strangely enough, it is just about twelve months since the same man met with a similar acoidenfc. Under Dr Martin's oare the ■ pitient is progressing as favorably as could be expected. Four hundred and thirty pounds has been subscribed to tho relief of the widow and family of the late Peter Campbell, who lost his life by a mining accident some time ago. This amount is increased by a sum of £100 for which deceased's life was insured, and the total sum haa been vested in Messra Oxley, M'Gaffin, and Shanks a 8 trustees. It will interest subscribers to learn that it i has been decided to place'a certain propor- j tion of the money at fixed deposit, and out of the balance 30a per week will be granted for the support of the wife and family of deceased. The Hat of subscribers names will he published m our next issue. Says the Otago Guardian : — Could meanness further go :— " Late on Saturday night a swelliah looking man of middle age, accompanied by a nuggety young woman, was oscil« lating with a terrible swagger out of a pieshop in Frinces-street, when his elbow oaught against a valuable crystal show glass, and the article was demolished. The shopkeeper mildly suggested that he should pay for the damage, but was met with a stout denial, and an equally stubborn refusal. An appeal by his fair partner to his sense of honor produced no better result, and the ungallant smasher haring at length been induced to acknowledge that he had accidentally broken the glassware, walked away with the consciousness that he had enjoyed a pie and coffee, sat out half a crown's worth of gas, and destroyed 10s worth of property all for a sixpence. Under the heading " Extraordinary Death" the following telegram appears in last Tuesday's Oama.ru Mail from the Dunedin correspondent '<— George Smith, a gardener died on Sunday under extraordinary circumstances. Last Tuesday, while at work lifting the coffin of Dr Hulme, for the purpose of depositing it in a vault, he received a slight scratch from the point of a fellow workman's spade, which was wet with decayed matter exuding from the coffin. No. attention was paid to the bruise at first but on Thursday symptoms of blood poisoning exhibited them* selve?, and after suffering indescribable agony ho died on Sunday. Decomposition set in japidly, the body of deceased becoming immediately black. The Tuapeka Times says :— There wa9 a nice little bit of " divai-shun" at the Blue Spur on Friday evening being the sequel to the . day's election. The,friends of the defeated candidase were not quite satisfied with the result of tho poll, so they illustrated their disapproval of the day's proceedings by a goneral rougn and tumble in the evening. The vow began when the shades of night were falling fast, and as the fists of the Bastingites could not find the eyes and noses of the Claytonians, an adjournment was made to the Assembly, room, where a great exhibition of the " noble art " was witnessed. The combatants, fibbed away in real earnest, and kept it up with such spirit that they had to settle the diapute in the sam,e way as the Kilkenny cats did. Those representatives of the feline race fought till only their tails were left, while the Blue Spur men pummelled away till there was no one to fight, exhausted nature having to succumb. In the morning the room presented very much the appearance of a slaughter house after a lot of calves had been bled. So much for political enthusiasm.