THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY.MAY, 7, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 12, 7 May 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDA Y.MAY, 7, 1877.

The iron thly meeting of the members of tbe Hospital Committee will be held at ihe office of Mr W. M'Lean at 8 o'clock this evening. ! Rev. Father Carew visited Capeleston yes* ! terday morning, and conducted divine service thero tn the presence of a numerous congre- i gation. i In view of the increasing notice which the mines in the Boatman's district have been at* jti acting for some time past, our reporter paid a special visit to that locality oa Friday and Saturday last. A report upon the mines there will appear in our next issue. The contractors employed upon the short track to Boatman's are make fair progress with tbeir work, but scarcely more tban half the contract has yet been got through. The work ftppears, however, to be faithfully cxc* cuttid, cud when completed will form a per* manent work. Foot traffic to Boatman's is now very considerable, and there is no doubt that as soon as communication by that route is completed it will be still further increased. The entertainment given on Saturday evening last, for the benefit of Mr George Jacques, resulted as'we bad predicted, in an oyer- .owing house. The haU was crammed to its utmost capacity. We do not recollect to have before witnessed sucb scrambling at the door for admittance as on ike occasion in question. The various Societies mustered in great force, the Oddfellows and Good Templars being especially conspicuous in point of numbers. The public generally turned out equally weU, and it will be a matter of great satisfaction to the projectors of tbe entertain* ment, and equally to to those who so liberally aided it, that co much was achieved financially. Aa the entertainment was carried out free of all expense, it ia expected that a sum of about ;. 50 will be realised, but as the tickets have not yet beeu returned tbe exact amount cannot be stated. As to the concert itself, we need say but little. The Black's Point Glee Company performed their part most ably, and the same may be said in a greater or less degree of all the ladies ami gentlemen who lent their assistance. The accompaniments to the different songs were excellently performed by Miss Crumpton.. The accompaniments for the Glee Company were performed by Mrs Lawn very effici*. ently. We regret that a pressure of late telegrams debars us from giving a full report of the concert. AU ticket holders are requested to forward unsold tickets ta the secretary, Mr Martineiii, at once. A Provincial chemist has recently b -en a)> plyaig to Mrs Bravo for. the payment of the £500 reward which she offered to anyone who would prove the sale of antimony by which her husband was poisoned. The chemist in question positively states that he supplied Mr Bravo, with the exact poison, and on that ground claims the money. Mrs Bravo _> so licitor has recommended her not to pay it, as the chemist cannot show any entry in his book of any such sale. An enterprising Chinaman lately com- j menced the growth of tobacco and chicory on a small farm, close to the Pentridge Stockade, Melbourne.. A stream of water .passes through the iarm, and dams have been made so that the lower portion of the ground ! is well watered, and the crops, will look healthy in the driest season of the year. In the preparation of the ground the proprietor says the expense was very great j but as a reward for his trouble he expects to realise over £600 from tobacco alone this season. A correspondent ol an Australian contemporary says s— »" Squatters should collect all bones, crush them into pieces, from half to three ounces, and lay them in heaps on the camping grounds of sheep and cattle. These animals will consume the bones largely for the lime they contain at all times. This will be found more especially serviceable against J acidity. On the same principle the island , blacks eat ground coral as a corrective, when ' suffering from the effects of eating young cocoa nuts," Referring to the appointment of Bishop Selwyn, the Boaw News says : — " It will be oo easy task, especially for a man of only thirty-two years of age, to take the place of Bishop Patteson. That preiale falsified, both by his Hfe and death, a rash and foolish say* ing of a man otherwise just and temperate. We reft-r to. the late Sir James Stephen, who onc e stated that the Reformed Church of England could not produce saints. Pattsson deserted all hia prospects of fame in England though be might, had he chosen, have in*, dulge-l hs a refined and distinguished acade*. micallife until the end of bis days. Fellows of Oxford Colleges have strange and diver* gent destinies.. Manning and Patteson. were both Merton men. The former has attained the Roman purple,, tbe latter endured a bap* tism of blood at Santa Cruz. Tha New Zealand Times Of Friday last publishes an eloquent sub-leader deprecating frequent changes of Minis tiy, in which Sir Anthony Musgrave, late Governor of South Australia, an. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy are quoted as authorities upon tbis important question. Considering that two months have yet to. pass awoy ere Parliament meets, we congratulate our contemporary on taking w time by tbe forelock," for if rumor speaks truly it will require all the time and eloquence at the disposal of the " Colonial Journal " to prevent tho change so much deplored being one of the ooming session. There has been a mild sort of revolution at the Junior Athen»um Club. It seems that a certain Japanese, by name M. A. Hacbisaki, and calling himself <« Pr«^e of Awa," has put up for membership. If the "heathen Chinee" himself hud been proposed with three stacks Of cards tucked up his sleeve, there

could not bave been greater consternation. It was clear that a Japanese invasion was threatened j M Prince " Hachisaki would at once introduce Japanese manners and customs, end as many of his countrymen as be could collect, into the club. A grand remonstrance wm drawn up, and signed by about forty member!. For days there was no peace at the olub, owing to this confounded Japanese. Last week he was elected, aud great was tbe indignation among the Anti-Japs. But if I were asked why a Japanese gentleman should not be likely to be as inoffensive a member .of a club as a blathering stockbroker, I declare that I could conjure up no good reason.— i" Atlas" in the World. Regarding the health of the Pope, the Lancet's Bom an correspondent writes s— ' Like the majority of Romans, the Pope has suffered greatly from the extreme fall of the temperature. On the 24th ultimo, while giv« ing an audience, he labored so evidently under catarrh with hoarseness, amounting at times to positive aphonia, that Cardinal Bilio begged him to withdraw to his apartments. Tbis the Pope did, Snd Br Ceeearelli, who saw him shortly afterwards, counselled bim to keep his bed till the symptoms bad abated. Next morning, however, he arose, said mass, and gave an audience, but, bad again to take to bed shortly after three o'clock. The cough continued to .arras him, and on two occasions since, in attempting to receive visitors, the cerebral congestion induced by the coughing brought on a fit of vertigo with unconsciousness, which necessitated his withdrawal to his apartments. There, however, he continued to transact business, and had audiences of Cardinal Simeoni, his Secretary of State. He is now restored to his usual health, and has given orders for the reception of the French pilgrims who have come to Borne expressly to do him homage. A most important decision respecting the value of bills of sale has been given in the Supreme Court, Sydney, by the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Hargrave, and Mr Justice Faucett. Heretofore (says the Sydney Morning Herald) it hss too often been tbe practice of persons in difficulties to goto a ', money-lender behind the back of their creditors and obtain loans at exhorbitant sates of interest to enable them to carry on business. The better to conceal the transaction the bill of sale is not registered, as that was not required by law, within thirty days, and for this non-registration the borrower sometimes pays a fee. But before the expiration of that period of time the document is renewed, always with advantage to the moneylender and to the loss of the un fortunte, creditor. This goes on it may be from month to month, until, when the borrower is about ta collapse, the lender registers his bill of sale,, comes in and takes possession of the property over which it is given, and the other unfortunate creditors are left to whistle for their monay.. The elect of this state of things U simply to allow a business man,, iv insolvent circumstances ?- — ta denude himself of everything before going into Court witii a mountain af liabilities. The decision of the full Court the other day will check this practice. It was that a bill of sale renewed, as above described,, to one Cohen, by Carroll and Johnson, tnsol- , vents, over tbeir stock in trade in Hunter street, was really given as a past debt, and therefore had the effect of preferring Cohen to the other creditors of the insolvents-»a preference, it may be remarked, that is not allowed by law. Mr Cohen will, therefore, have to give up the proceeds of the goods which he sold, and come iv and take Ms dividend with other creditors. " Atlas" writes in the World as follows: — A member of the suite of the Prince Imperial,, named Philoa, who, in common with most exiled Frenchmen, appears to have been very hospitably received in England, has profited by his opportunities in a manner not usually considered in accordance with good taste. Ho . has drawn some pictures nf us which are not at all Mattering, and which I would fain believe are not half true, in a volume recently published, more for the amusement tban the instruction of hia countrymen. He was iuvited to a mess-dinner, and this is bow he describes, or rather caricatures it, while scarcely taking the trouble to conceal tbe names and position of his entertainers :— " The colonel who presided enjoyed a magnifi* cent military reputation. Be had never gone through a campaign, but he had highly distinguished himself year by year at the autumn manoeuvres, and he had once hud a horse killed under him with fatigue. When he rose to propose the first toast you might have thought there was fury in his face j but no j it was only his way of putting on a look of dignity. In the intervals between the toasts the band played the ' British Grenadiers,' 'Rule Britannia,' and the equally famous air, 'Britains r.ever will be slaves.' This, of course, fired the company with military enthusiasm. A lord, who had been at Toulouse and at Waterloo, deolared that the 21st Dragoons would never suffer Engs land to be invaded. The words were loudly applauded; and his hearers swore to exterminate the enemies oi Great Britain in every part of the world. Afterward they all went to the Casino." And thus history is written fort he Boulevards. Mdlle Titiens recently sang at the Guild-, hall, Plymouth, and in response to an encore gave the well known song, "Kathleen Mavourneen." I nnoticing this the Western Morning News tells the following story:— " The author of ' Kathleen Mavourneen ' was Mr Crouch, a Playmout musiomaster, who received for the copyright a£s note. He left the town a quarter of a century ago. Exactly a year ago, Mdlle. Titiens, helm ia New York, gave • Kathleen Mavourneen * as an encore the only time, she did so while in the States. It excited a furore of applause, and %hea it had subsided she was told that some man, presumed to be a lunatic, was fighting his way over the barriers from the pit to the flies (it was in tbe Opera House), saying he was I determined to speak to Titiens. The prima donna told them to let him come in. On entering, he burst into tears, sobbing out, *- Ob, Mdlle. Titiens, I never before heard my song

sung as you have just sung it !' ' Your song V was the reply, • why you are not Crouch, surely ?' ' I am, indeed, 1 rejoined the poor old composer, * and I felt I must thank you myself.' Crouch had scraped together the two dollars for a pit Beat, little thinking to hear his now famous song made the most telling morceau of the night,"