THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 55, 15 August 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1877.

, The mooting of the County Council, was ; at tho last, sittmf; ffxod fpr today, but it is i likely, ijhat, an' adjournment. to to-morrow will 'be' made. ' '"

The work of reducing, the. gvadjerit of Broadway,' at, tlip intersection of.. Bridgoetreet, is boing prpceedpd with, and, good, progress fcas been maclo by tho contractor. It, is, we boljeyo, intended, to rrind, up tjie Reefton quadrlle assembly with^ a, " oalico ball." ■■"' ■■•■••• v ..,-...

'"GRhe.WoaUh, of, Nations Company, for the {•week ended on Saturday last obtainod 310pz Jl4JJwfc of, amalgam. Ihe Q^olden Fleece •Extended Company, fpr tho same period, pbJtained 5 14pz of amalgam; ' ' "

!, We bolievo it i*9 the intention of tho Inan« gahua County Council to subsidjso the pay of tho local polico to. an amount equal to the ro» ductipn lpteljr made by the Colonial Gfcovernn ment.

|! The practice of the Gloo Club was. again H well-attended on Monday evoning last, and passed off voi-y Batisfuctonly'. It is understoodj that at tha inaugural concert to be given in ri short timoby the Club, a number iof members of tbo Greymouth Gloe Club will | take part, having already expressed iheir i readiness to do so.

( The left-band branch of the Inangahutt river is said to ho teeming with fjsh, of the greylag specjejj. Quite recently no \eae tlwn fifty dozen of flic f}sh were ob.taine.d,, by a single djsuharge of dynamite. The) extreme, mjldness of th,e weather, of late has induced a number of gnrdncrs \\n the town \o chance early sowings of vegetables, and, the appearance of fruit trees, which h.aro already oommenced to bud, woi^ld. iqd.io.ate. a vory early spring. We leavn that Mr Hogg, who behaived so pluolcily on the occasion of the lato attempt to stick up the ißank of New South Wales, at Kumara, firs^ entered, the service ojf the bank at Boss, under the pupilage of Mr Colin Campbell, now of Beef ton. Mr Hogg was also a member of the Koss volunteers, and had the reputation of being a good marks-

man. ' The sittings of. {he District Court will com* tnence, before his Honor Judge Weston, this morning, at 10, o'clock. Jurors summoned are required to be in attendance punctually at the appointed hour. Judge arrived by coach on Monday evening. Mr Guinness, of direymouMi, and Mr Reid, of HoHtika, Mr'S.'M,. South,, Crown PjpsecutOT, were passengers by tbe same cbacb. A Chinaman afforde^ an hour or twos' amusement to a number of children, in Broad* way, yesterday morning. It seems that for Borne time past t't\e man had been forking as a "batter" at Landing Creek. Recently a piivijy of JSBuropeans jumped his headrace, i and he came into Reefton to seek redress. On Monday last, however, he scared the pro« prie^or of the hotel at which ho was staying out of, bis wits by cutting a series of capers about the dining-room, iatjer in tho day ho repeated the extraordinary antics, and betrayed other symptoms of mentjal derange- ! ment. Yesterday morning he jumped up j from' his breakfast in great alarm, 'protesting that the food had been poisoned, and rushing into' the otreot, took up a position in front of the hostel,' and there by a aeries of wild ges- , turos and exclamations endeavored t ; o make ' known tjbe 'macbinntiona with which the :flie P.evil sought 'to get hold of bun. Ul" timateiy his mates came to town and took the Chinaman home. 1 "Tho' Resident Magistrate of Invercargill i made, the following 'significant remark when ' aii unfortunate named John Biddle for the fourtli time was brought up for vagrancy, " S s cvo'n churches in town, and. not a place fo r tho destitute."

The new Victorian Commissioner of Tele* graphs is determined upon popularising the telegraph there. 'It ia proposed to veduce the tariff to sixpence for every ten words, with a proportionate reduction for Press messages. The following motion passed, aj; a iecent meeting of the Nelson Education Board will prove that there is no sleepiness tliere in tho matter of instructing the young:. — "That the Board give a' free education at the Nelson College for two years to twenty boys ; eeiectedfrpm Ipm and, country schools by ; annual competitive examination.". .Comparing the June quarter of 1877 with • that' of 1876, it appears that this year there has been an increase of 816. telegrams sent, ; : the tota(' being 295,453, But the catty ,rocoived was' £&&Z less than in tho same ! quarter la.st year, and. this is explained in ' the ' official record, of the samo by ! the note , tliat, on account of the abolition of ! provinces, revenue from Provincial Gtovornment telegrams ceased, on January Ist, 1877. iThe total amount of oash received, in the 'quarter was £16,2)96. 'The Hawke's Bay ' Wellington •correspondent Bays:,— "An amusing incident '. occurred at the Occidentalj Hotel, the other .morning. The " housekeeper of Bfy 1 TV^andeis M.H.R., orriveel unexpcctedlf , and demanded ,to see Mrs ivianders. ' An altercation enoued on the stairs, which was nrolpnged fpr some I time, much to l^'e enter^ninment of the by.[Btand'ers.' A,t length Mr Coker, the landlprd iof the hotel, cpinpelied. the. honorablo mem'bar;and, tho two 'ladies it,a seek fresh^ quarter^. iThe alEiir caused great arpusenjent in to.wn.". I Tho Canterbury Presß objects to some of !the arrangements' In t^e Charitable Ai^ Bill, | especially to. those regarding the maintenance jof hospitals. ",So. far, as' : they (the Gbvorni ment) are concerned '! says our contemporary, i « there might be, no hospitals ' in th'p country' {at all. Every thingas njadeto depend, o.n the {liberality and, activity " of a few individuals-^ oh their willingness to be at tho troublp of beating, up subscribers [and of seeing that the necessary fprms are complied, witlj ; TjTnless i is done the hospitals wiU not come into, 'or remain'in being ;, -w^ilja.tjio G-pverument, on 'behaif,of'tho States wash th.?ir hands^ of all. !ripßponsibHfty ( fpr the consequences." ;' A, sad from N^ew "^ork. is thus referred, to by M ,Atifw ". in the, Worl^ :.-iMany of, my readprs will, remember the unfortunate actor,. Walter Montgomey, wb^p shot himself on t his woddjng.day t a few years ago. It, appears that hW v^ido^, ma'rried'again, aftpr an ' interval. Hjsv. husband. Resorted, her ;and 1^ now learn that she has died, ina hospital in NowXork, after passing through almost oyery conceivable | stage of suffering and degradation short of

crime, i Tho 1 feeling in England, upon tho grca RusßQ : Turkißh War, appear much | divided, judging by the lilnglish papers :—_ Both combatants' hav/' many very ardent sympathisers thero;.but on tho whplo there a' great preponderance of feeling in favour of Turkey. Tho. fact that several distinguish^ Englfphraen aro serving in high coinmandj on the side of tho Turks may perhaps hare something to do with the balance ofEngliqh sympathies in fpor of th,at side. But it is imposwblo to forget that the interests' of England, aro terribly involved in the success or failure of tho Turkish arms.

In theSnpromo Court at Wellington his Honor Mr Justice Ejchmond drew attention to' "tho fact that a caso which had ; been reported, in the Jurist, and relied, on aa an anthority, had, boon ultogethor misvoported in 'that 'publication,' and ho had, mode up his mind to' place no reliance on it in future' aB an authority on leg>il mattprs. Ho considered it altogether absurd 'to depend, upon the reports, wiles* supplied by a 'barrister or Bomo other duly authorised capable person;

Th,o Wellington correspondent of tho Lyttelton Times says : "Mr Wooloqck has suddenly woke up {p find ljimself famoqs. His rn,otion iv favor of a change in, th,e iuoidouce of taxation, moyed as an amendment o.n going into Supply, did no,t at first attract much a^tension. Qq friday t^e d,eb,ate an. it got curiqusly raised i^p with the question whether Mr Bees' n^o^ion about the Waka Maori was or was not a vote of want of confidence, Ultimately the debate was adjourned. Since that the conviction seems to have forced itself on the minds of a very large number of mom. bers that Mr Woolcock's proposal affords an excellent platform lor tho formation of a party, and is preoisely the thing required at the present moment as a poiut on which a majority may agree. It is accordingly to bo taken up and discussed seriously, and if the Government oppose it, as they can scarcely fail to do, tho proposal not being in accordance with their own financial policy, it will bo pressed on to, a diyision, on which it is confidently stated a majority of four or five is certain in its favor. Messr.3 Ballance, Bryci 1 , Beetbam, Stafford, and many others of the usual supporters of the Government will, it is said support it.'* •