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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 40, 11 July 1877, Page 2

, Tendero are invited by the Hopeful Company for the ' conveyance of six tons of iron rails' from Greymouth to ; the Fiery Cross machine site, Boatman's. Tenders close to' morrow,' 12th instant. ' ' ' "The members of the Loyal Reofton Lodge of Oddfellow's, M..V., have 'decided to bold tHeir annual celebration ball and supper on the 3rd proximo. The price 1 of tickets has been fixed at 25s each. We understand that tho appointment of County Engineer is likely to' fal) to' a Mr Monro, of Christchurch, but nothing aba solutely definite has yet been done in the matter. ' ' ' ' Tenders are invited by the J^o. 2 South Company for various works upon the Company's mino. Tenders are also'called by the .Boatman's Creek Company for driving "tunnel. Advertisements rela. ing to each appear else* where. ' ' ■ The work of reconstructing the culvert across Broadway, in the vicinity of GMlmors' Hotel, is proceeding, and from the appearance and' bulk of the timber being used, the work should be a thoroughly permanent one. Tho share market has now" sobered down to a state of comparativd quiescence. A very ['.confident feeling, however, prevails in relation to'muny of the companies, and the slackness of cho market is therefore rather to be attributed to a scarcity of tho need ul than to any other cause. ' ' ' A miner named John Richards was injured ftt tho Wealth 6f Nations works on Monday last." Richards was brakesman at ono of the surface incline "tramways; arid white thus engaged some portion of tho coupling gear parted and bruised him rather severely.' Tho' sufferer Was conveyed to 'the Hospital, and is now" progressing favorably, his injuries not biing of such a serious nature as was at -first supposed. ' ' ■ ■ •• The' Westport mail arrived at 6 p.m. yesto'i'dny. On this occasion Mr Lines brought' his hew four hors6 coach right through. The turn out is really a handsome 6no, and wo hopo to 000 the proprietor's onterprse fully rewarded.' The Westport aa well as flio ' Greymouth "coach arrived after dark, and 'as they were driven through JBrbadwaywith their flaming lights, the event, to m'auy, revisited glimpses of Ei D g Cobb and the early days of ooaohing life in Victoria. Tho fact of two four horse coaches arriving hero simultaneously from two widely separated coastal' towns marks in itself a very satisfactory perio j in the progress oi* the district.

The bands employed I Company, Rainy Creek, have inaile considir. ! able progress with the' work of 'carrying in a * | new low level tunnel.' The distance to drivo is something over 200 ft, arid when completed I, the mine will receive what up to the present time it has not — a fair testi ' ' The special meeting of the County Council fixed for Monday last, ' to -confirm' the order made at a former fitting, for the merging of the Road Board, lapsed owing to the nonI. attendance of members in! time. The ordinary meeting of the body, also fixed for the same day, was adjourned until Friday next. , The whole of the formalities in connection with the Signing of the contract for the erec« tiori. of the' Suspension Bridge have been completed, and Mr G-ardiner, the contractor, has made a start at the work. The Clerk to the County Council, acting upon" instructions, has caused notices to be posted along the track from Reefton to the Energetio machine, oautioning porsons against a felling timber across or otherwise injuring the track. It is said that the lives of passers by i have been ' seriously imperilled' of late by persons felling timber along the sideling and rolling it on to the track. ' ' ' ■ The 'prosperous, turn which mining at , Boatman's lias taken during the last six months has turned attention" once more to 'that long* neglected and, in' times past, much til aligned^ ass of undertakings designated as " outside stows." Of ' these, the Eureka and Prince of Wales Companies respectively occupy a prominent place, the former being a ' broads'ider on to the Welcome lease, and the latter No. 1 north of the Welcome. Other ") interosto in the same locality are also being looked" after, and it is highly probable that i during the incoming summer Boatman's will be the seat of great activity in mining enters prise. • • ■ ■ t At the Road Board meeting on Saturday 1 last, amongst (he accounts presented was one . from Mr Brown for £15, for the construction of tho BoVn's Chair. Mr Kelly took exception to the' oharge as being altogether excessive; The chair had proved a miserable failure, and so far from being any convenience - :to the public it had nearly been the mean's of tho sacrifice of life. 1 The ' Chairman pointed out that the breaking d iwn of the chair' was rather to be attributed to the over-strain put upon the wire after it left' the contractor's hands. On the motion of Mr' Davies, the account was ultimately passed. We believe that a further oharge of some ' £17_has been oent in to the Council in respect to this now historical chair, which, from first'to last, will ; cost the 'ratepayers' 'something like £40. It is to be hoped that the' County Council will not in future encourage these wretched efforts at amateur engineering, for a more reckless » waste of public money than this has not come ' under our notice. ■ Mr M R. G-issinge, of this town, has, by ' ihe application of a very simple illustration in ' natural philosophy, been onablad to convey a very fair idea of the telephone. The " ap- , •paratus" consists of two empty wooden pill j boxes and apiece of ordinary sewing cot toil, j say afcpuj; twenty yards iii length. ' A small ) opening being mule in the bottom of the boxes with a pin, tlie ends of the cotton or; ( passed tbrbngh each" and knotted on the I msi'de.' By placing the hollow' of one box [ over the ear, and' standing sufficiently apart ; * to' tighten' the line, it will be found tliat a' person whispering in the box at the other en d > can bo heard distinctly, "tho 'sound passing 1 alo'ug the lino precisely as a current of ele> 1 tricity may be supposed to do in 'ordinary , 1 telegraphy. ' The illustration is very simple, but none the less interesting on 'that account. ■ I/rider the telephone system as recently' dv- . veloped in America, a form of speaking i trumpet; and metallic 'sounding bars are' pro* i vided afc the transmitting end, but of course 1 these luxuries will have to bo dispensed with in the telephones^)? the R-'efton sort. ' Wo • , shudder to think of the number of material " work boxes that will be rendered bankrupt of ; sewing cotton by this brief notice, i The' Thames Advertiser says : — lt now * turns' 'out that' Captain Stevens, of "H.M.S. " ? Barracoiita, who was 'dismissed the service, had played fas.t* and loose with John Bull's , cash box afloat by compelling the paymaster * of the'Barracouta to hand to him, for private purposes, somq,' of her Majesty's guineas. Arid,' for , this ' malversation and abuse of authority, a Court of Enquiry adjudicated the late opponent of Colonel 'Steinberger to have ] ■ booh guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer ( and a gentleman, and the Admiralty in corise- , .quenc'o struck his name off the Navy List. Tho ' ITurnel ' will dubtless have his laugh over the discomfiture of him by whom ho was once treated bo scurvily 5 but," alas the dollars — a million or so of which he claimed as a salve for his wounded feelings and loss of sovereignty — will not, unfortunately, bo nearer that bold Yankee's grasp. Mr Justice Williams, besides being versed 1 in what Shakespeare calls tho quips and . quiddities of law, is tolerably well acquainted with the more elusive subtleties, of woman's nature. 1 In the course of a case in the Supreme C6urt, recently (says the Southland Times), Mir Harvey'was laying it down to the jury that a husband, who assigned property . to his v/ife could not afterwards compel her to dispose of it in any way ; whereupon Sis " Honor Byronically . remarked—" Compel her, Mr Earvey ! Certainly not j but he may soft sawder her ! " The " Loafer in the Street," writing in the .Christehurcb Press, says : — " Mr Fox de. clin'es to be a member of committee to'conduct a colon ial regatta at Wanganui on the scoifo that there will be ' a publican's booth at the regatta, besides thimble-rigging, betting on the events, prick the garter, and other concomitants ' which his soul abhors. The ' first meeting of tho committeo is to be held in a public house, 'which is a practice Mr Fox says ho' always protests against. I cau understand this. Mr Fox is certainly consistent 1 but I don't go with him when he wants us k all to'bo'as oven total abstainers as ho is him- J self- I cam*? very near being a convert the t other day though. My conversion was nigh c on dating from the hour in whioh I perused 1

a pamphlet entitled " Docs our Liquor Ex. penditure pay?" I learned from this brochure that one fluid ounce of alcohol equal to two glasses of wine or one of whiakey will cause the heart to beat 4300 times moro in a day than in a normal condition it would do being work in excess equal to the' lifting oi three and a half tons brie foot. A friend oi minq to .whom t showed it reckoned that he was a moderate drinker, and calculated his heart would thud about 86000 times in excess, and raise 70 tons a day. l couldn't bear v overworking my heart in that style.' Apropos of this subject a friend of mine rebukes me for always, as he sajs, writing bacchanalian paragraphs. I don't admit the soft impeachment ; but even if it were co what a populat subject it is. You must study your readers a little j and tho number of people interested in drinks bore is astonishing. I like one myself.