THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24,1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 59, 24 August 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24,1877.

, Shareholders in t^ie Parieverance Company, after a long sosson, of reverse, are now about to reap tjb,e reward, which sweetens patients no less tfyan toil. Shares in the company, ! which have long, lain as a drug upon the market, have suddenly jumped up to 3b, and, with ever^ prospect of,a still further advance. Interests in the company are largely held in Eelaon. W k e are informed, that tfye initiatory stops have already been taken tpw^rds carrying to tho Supreme Qourfc the. numerous claims 'againsfc tho Defiance Company. The property of this company, bidp "fair, to become a a very costly bone of contention. Tfoo heavy and continuous rain of Monday last caused, a rather strong fresh it the. Inan» gahua riverj, on a Tuesday, morqing, and the. Greymouth and. Westporl coaches were, in, consequence, unable to start. Both cpachee, , however, got away jester day morning. His Honor Judge Weston wasampngst the passengers bound northward. j In theDjstnot, Court, ori Monday last, Mr 'Guinnoss moved, that the. petition of the. ; National. B^nk praying for an order. tp wind, ;up thp. afifairq of the A^rgyle, Company', be, dismissed. He said thot, ajnee the pregentation of the petition the debt of -the B^njc had , been,paid. Mjc Eeid, who. appeared, for the National Bank, acquiesced, inthp application but appljed. for costs, which^ after arugment, were granted, £15 15s. We publish in another column, ono or two telegrams which, reached us too late fpr ineevtion in our last, iasue. The Inangahua Hearld haying discpntjn«jed the publication of al) introprovinciai telegrams, the telegrams ia question still possess interest. Wo notice that tho paper mentioned in the issue of yesterday reprints, without acknowledgement, cablegrams taken from this paper of the preceding day. The" following appears in Mayfair :— The lingual difficulties which might be expected to stand in the way of an Englishman visiting, Turkey we aetualjy less than is vulgarly sup* posed, A^ traveller who has just returned ifrom that interesting land tells mo that

UML- '" » ■' '1 .u. -■- ». '1.1 111 I L» amongst many other Englishmen holding office under the §ultyn, ho met a brother oi the editor and proprietor of n London doilj newspaper. In the, same connection \ heai an interesting narrative of a moving incident which happened \o a well-known special correspondent of a London newspaper. The correspondent who was attached, . the Russian side, (ell into, the hands of the enprny, and, was carried before a Pacha. Being exceedingly •nxiou? to explain thai; he wai a neutral, and therefore, not competent for bastinadoing or bowatringing, he managed tc , secure an * interpreter, * who could speak English. Qn the correspondent and hit companion being failed b'eforo the Pacha, tfaer interpreter began laboriously to explain he facts of the cage, Pacha was a itont, cheerful»looking man, who woro a fez, and other habilimeati proper to his office. After listening calmly for some moments, and making a fresh cigarette, he observed. " Ah ! now spako English. I w,as born in Cork, and ' haven't forgot my native tongue." Colonel Valftntine Biker's plans for the defence of, Constantinople are being elaborated to the minutest detail. The 2jTaval and Military G-age^te says :— The project of an English prince and Russian princesc' occupying tho throne of Constantinople htß, we understand, not found favor with either Germany, or Austria. It would, in al^ probability, result in Eussian influence predominating over English sympathies." The Auckland Bferald gives a long report of the ceremony of admitting Miss Elate Edger to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. "V^a are told that af^er the diploma had been presented to her, the Eight Rev. Bishop of Auckland, approached, her, presenting a white camolia of considerable size and beauty, which meant according to some who are skilled in such matters/ ". unpre(;«nding excellence.'.'. Cardinal Cullen^ in • pns^oral to his clergy, says :— }jf Russia be allowed <jo take posses* sion of Constantinople and to Turkish pro* vinces, there is every, danger that under, her influence Cossack barbarity will bo widely spread ;. that oiover,nMenl;B wilj become despotic ; that individual and faintly liberty, will be destroyed i and G,o&'s Church placed in pi eutj jeopardy. "V^riting about the English gift ty the 'Pope a home paper says that a complete list of tho amounts contributed in eacfy Catholic Djocose tjo be presented to the Pope has just been made, out, and it appears from it that Westminster contributed £1846; Beverly* £1080 ; Birmingham, £1230,; Clifton, £420 ; Hexham and Newcastle, £850,; Liverpool, £2702 ; Newport and Mjcnevia, £143. ; North* ampton, £307 ; Nottingham, £302; Ply. mouth, £260,;. Salford, £500; Talford, £500; Shrewsbury, £457 ;. Southwark, £1615; and the Catholic IJnion of, Groat Britain added £3056. Thus the total, amount was £14,770, The N^.Z. Herald, noticing, a sermon preached, fjy the Rev. A. W. Webb, Baptjat 'Minister in Aiio-land, says :, — Apropos ef the General, Asspmbjj, the rev. gentleman took occasion in the, devotional exercises to "mourn over, unrighteousness of many selected, if> t fill Beats in ijb."- This is rather rough, it must, be admitted, on " honorable members ;"but Mjr holds with good old i George HerbertFeed, no ( man in his sins :, for ad,ulatipn \ potb^make tp.o parcel, devil in damnation A proverbial belief in the.doctrine of Human ' B/epravitj, as applied to tfye Legislature, may be said to^haye hardened, in these degenerate days, int^ concrete, dogma,. Ifc was but the otljer day that a^ resby teripn diyine '{.pleaded" for the rejjormation of, the Nev/ South Wales Parliament, under the sanguine^ conviction tjiafc " nothipg was impossible" fy> Divine supernatural agency, A^nd, B^enry Ward 'Beecher, while "sit.ting, on the ragged edge of despair,"- could, give no otb.er, conception Of ; tbo Municipal Government of, the city, in j which ho dwelt than this :—-''ljn New 3(ork there are thirty thousands thieves, not count,* ing the City Council and, the aldermen !," The time, for a man to stand firmly b,y Job's examplp is when he washes hjs face with homenmade eoap and begjqs to paw around over the chairs with hjs eyes shut, inquiring for. a towel quick and is told.tjiat the towel is ip the drawer, but the keys are lost,. '"' '"' " ' At a ball given by Bsr Me Lean, the Com* missioner of Customs, w.hich toot place ip the Provincial Hal}, Sir W,, Ifjkzherberfc is said to have remarked that a, crowd of legislators and their partners were dancing on the grave of provincialism.