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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 35, 29 June 1877, Page 2

special moeting of the County Council j was held yesterdny, for the purpose of dealing with the applications sent iv for the office of County Engineer. Five, applications were laid before the Council, and as no testimonials had been enclosed, ifc was ultimately resolved to I oommunicate by telegram with the gentlemen named as references, nnd to allow of this being done, tho further consideration of the appli* ] cations was adjourned until the next regular j meeting of the Council. A boat accident, resulting, it is feared, in tho death of five persons, occurred on tho Grey river, at the foot of Blackball Creek on | Monday last. It appears that on the day in question Michael Kinsella, boatman, accomI panied by a Mrs Began, two children, and a young woman, left the foot of Nelson Creek for the purpose of proceeding across the Grey river to Blackball. As Einsella did not put in an appearanco that evening, a search was made or. the following morning, and somo dis- , tance down the Grey river the boat was found on a snag with part of a woman's dress attached to it. Further search was made, but nothing additional was found as to the fate of the pprsons, and there is unfortunately very little^ doubt that tbey all mot with a watery grave. The Mrs Regan referred to is known in tho Inangahua, her husband in, the early days of the district having been in partnership with Mr P. O'Ragh. We are indebted to Mr R. Reeves for the foregoing particulars. Tho position of tbc reporter's " quarters " in.the local Court was all along a very inconvenient and decidedly uncomforable one, ; Placed between the Bench and the witnessbox, directly in the gang-way of counsel, the reporters' table stood as an obstruction to everybody that passed. On his last visit here his Honor directed that its situation should be i altered, and upon the opening of the District Court on Monday last the reporters were enabled to take up a position on the opposite sido of the building, out of everybody's wajF^ ancl what is not to bo despised in tim eoni, Weather— near the stove. Upon. taking his seat upon tho Bench, his Honor said that it had occurred to him that the provision made for the gentlemen of the Press wa3 not only uncomfortable but highly inconvenient, and he had therefore caused some alteration to be made. Ue said that the Press rendered im* portnnt service to the public, and it was only right that every facility should be afforded to those connected with it. Mr Button thought tho alteration a very necessary and desirable j one. Mr Pitt said that the stove, like the Press, was. in tho habit of blowing up sometimes, and tbe idea of putting two dangerous cxplosiv.es in contiguity was perhaps open to question, if not to collision. He was, however, of; opinion that if anybody was to be sacrificed at the shrine of the stove, it shpnld be the, gentlemen of the Press. Upon other groundp} however, he commended the forethought'of his Honor, and regarded the alteration as a most convenient one. For our ow.a pari we take this opportunity of thanking his Honor for the consideration shown in this matter. v