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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 23, 1 June 1877, Page 2

BBBM- „' '. ■ " . .2 It is announced by advertisement that Rev. Father Oarew having been detained at Matakitaki by floods, there will be no service at tho Catholic Chapel, Reefton, on Sunday next. There is another harvest in store for the gentlemen of the " long rob." We understand that an action involving heavy damages Ins been initiated between the Vulcan and Wealth 'of Nations Companies. The casus belli is a landslip, caused, as is alleged, by the break* ing away of the Wealth of Nations headrace. Intelligence reached- town on Wednesday last of the striking of the reef in the Victoria mine, Murray Creek, but owing to the quan* tity of water tapped work had to be suepended for some hours. In the course of a few days we hope to be able to-report more fully upon the nature and extent of the discovery. A new reef has also been struck in the Perse* verence mine, Murray Creek. Tbe most faverable news continues to come to hand concerning the prospects of the Hopeful mine. The winze is now down 80ft., the reef continuing from three to four feet in width, with, a splendid jshow of gold. It may now be fairly said that all doubt is re* moved as to the reef living down to the low level (No. 5) now going in. Our special reporter will visit the mine in the course of a lew days and report fnlly upon the workings, as also those of the other companies in that portion of the district. A petition to the Boad Board has been drawn up, and was yesterday circulated for < signature, praying that the proposed new suspension bridge should be erected at the southern end of Bridge street, instead of upon the site of the old bridge. The petition was numerously signed, and will be presented to | the meeting of the Board to-day. There is, however, we think, but a very slender prob- j ability of the Board agreeing to the request. While upon this subject we may state that an offer has been made to thoroughly restore the present bridge for £65. The R"«d Board, however, will meet this afternoon, when, no ; doubt, something will be done in the matter. ■ Mr Walker, the spirit and trance medium, has been lecturing on " Cf-enesis and Geology." The Press generally speaks of him as a rank impostor, but it appears he has almost made a convert of the Ber Mr Edgar, who occupied the cbair at the lecture held in Auckland. That gentleman, at the close of tbe discourse, declared he was puzzled, but asserted that if Mr Walker were an impostor he could wish that there were many more such impostors in Auckland. The Star says :— " The tend* ency of the lecture, amid a wild mass of words of extraordinary length, as far as we could understand it, was to undermine, if not to banish altogether, the principles of Christianity ; to- establish a belief in cold materialism} to sow the seed of scepticism in the minds of youth ; and to rob the world of their hope of a blessed immortality through the Saviour." It is an old but true saying that " One fool makes many," and Mr Walker appears to be galling a verj large number of people in Auckland, »

i Tbe 0 .^0 Daily Ti-nes, in an artiole drawing atteution <o the defenceless state of the colouial ports, thus refers to Duuedin in parlicular,— " Thejrich booty, moreover, that lies., at the meroy, of any privalsering vessel in those seas would tempt any power to come and td'ze it. Here in Dunedin there is money, as the phrase is, ' sticking out' for the first vet sel that ranges itself outs ; de the Oceau Reached tb^lerwfherilywithhombardment unless lis requni.ion meets with a prompt response. What defence have we uader suoh circumstances? Absolutely none. Let our volunteers be as valorous as they are held to be by their waraest'admJrers, they cannot all swim, and if they could ,they could not capture the ciuiser by deft natation. We have a Naval Brigade which is full of daring no doubt, but which would look very small indeed in the face of a decent cruiser with half a dozen guns. We have a few somewhat old, though, no doubt esee'lent guas, which are admirably adaoied for firing a salute, but which would be of little use for defensive purposes." The MVlbou.'no Argas sintes (lmt the rewards t>aid by the Victorian Government for the capture ef shark* in lhe waters of the bay now amouut in the aggregate to tbe sum ot £62 lis 6d. The number of sharks brough lo ibe various police st .tio is, since tbe offer of a reward was published amounts to 84i& Of these 733 were caught at Saodridge, &at iFootscay, 16 at Willia-nslown, 20 at Moraifls.vn, and 70 at Brighton. Tbe laiter place may a'lo be credited wiA six more which hare not been oß^ly returned. One of the bbaiks was a monster, measuring about IB'i in l«M2»h, »nd weigiog about a towj but .lie majority were ovee 2»lb and under sft in length. The sum eqje ided in the destruction of such a large number of fbose dangerous visitants to our shores has been well spent, and it is to be hoped that those engage! iv the pursuit of shark fi*biug will find it sufficiently ucratire to encourage them to persevere . CommoJore Hoskins, ia replying to the toast of " The Navy," at the Gubernatorial banquet ia Ijvercargill, the otber day said :— • ' As regards the daujer to this colony from a hostile attackj be considered it small. The work at the outbreak of a war between two great nations was so co.iceutrated that no large detach meats couM be spired to attack t&p oo'ccpm. The dagger was rather fron a small expeditionary fovea, or from privateers. In case of war hoiog d?o'u vj, our cormm'ce cou'd be cariieJJ'almost ejtirely in fatt steamers. As for fighting on land, the danger was a remote one, thou-h be agreed that the young men of the colony should be prepar ed for that. A little military (raining was an admirable thing for them, 83 it taught then B omethiog of oiscjrpKoe, and also how lo carry them selves well." The followiug is given by Vanity Fair as the t--ue story about Captain the Hon.A.C ITobart, better known as Hobart Pasha : — In 668 tho Turkish Government requested the British Government to send them a naval officer of rank to organise theu- .ft avy ; on J the Foreign Offi c granting thpir permission, the Admiralty was asked to find an admiral willi jg to go. Tfwo was Utile difficulty in finding one, the promised salary beiug some* I thing !'ke;£7ooO per annum, sal '. here was nnr amount of Eerainbllnjj for the tiri/e. Their Lordahios took such a long, time con, s'dermgtho claims of the numerous applicants that the Turks became tired of waiting,, ond they accepted tbe ; erv ices of Capt.r n lIobM. The authorities at Whitehall selected Admiral Sir Wiii: m Wise men, Bart., 35. 0. 1?., who conducted the navarl operations iv the lost New Zealard war, nnd informed" the Turks o' tbeir ichoice. Tlie latter declined t'-e offer •• with thanks," being already suUed, Their Lo:Jfh'i>3, ia great aivjer at losing &u<Tra piece of patronage, ordered. Captai i Hobart home, and 1 tie-in red ibey should erase h : s naooe from the' "Navy List" if he d*d notofeey the-.n. Naturally enough, tlftt gallant officer did not sco why he should give precedence to Sir William Wiseman, and he refused pout blankto retu a loErjlund. His name was there* fore 'struck oat of the Navy Lis". Three years ago the .injustice was recognised, and Caplain Hobart's na^ne was replaced on the Retired L'st; and as he sewed wish distinction in the Euss'a^ war, it seems very unfair to deprive him of his retired pay, wbich amounts to rather less tban £500 per annum. The following paragraph, clipped from the N. Z. Eeformer, shows that the writer daires to use strong language when he feels demanded of truth to do so :— Sir Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, lately sold his share of the business carried on in bis name for one million of money, We wonder has he ever reflected ou the number of happy homes transformed into hells, of the amount of plenty substituted by want, of fulness by hunger, of peace by fiendish contention, of love by hate, of virtue by criminality, of the number of broken hearts by souls lost, of tho past accumulation of human misery caused by the gain of his ill-gotten and blood reeking million ! Better be diseased, be fed by the crumbs of charity, be licked by the dogs, and die guiltless, than go down to the grave with a million gotten by the offering up of human sacrifice 1