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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 70, 19 September 1877, Page 2

There was a sitting of the Warden's- Couvj. yesterday, wlion the following applications for goli mining leases were dealt with : — Louis Dacies, special ckim to Nil Desperandum Company, adjourned- for one week- Gk Wise lease, Magnet Company ; recommended. D. P, Anderson lease, Greymouth Enterprise Company ; recommended, and right to be trai shewed to A. D. Ba, fuild. John Trennevy lease, Gladstone Company ; adjourned for ono week. M. Bradbury,, lease adjoining North British Company : adjourned for ono week, W. Raithby lease, Victory Company ;. recommended. C, Evison lease ;. adjourned- for one week. W. Heapliy leuse, Maori Chief Company ; recommenrleil. Caledonian Company, per E. Oxley, leuse to include gnouna formerly held by Larry's Crook Company; recommended with m-tiiii) reservation!) as to riven. P. Broiimui leusu (Old National Comnuny) for Independent Company; adjourned foj:- ono month.. Q. Walsh lease Garden Chilly €i3m.«.

pany ; recommended. The application of D, | P, Anrlersou, for the cancellation of the Phcenix Company's lease was adjourned. The application of P, Disney for the cancellation of the loaso of the United Baud of Hope Company was heard, and the evklenco taken will be forwarded to head quarters. The applications of F, Butter* and A. I). Bayfeild, for the area North of the Persevorance mine, were adjourned, the Warden recommending tho case to be brought on in the form of an original application and; objection. At a meeting of the JusWn-Time and Fiery Cross Machine Committee, held at Mr. Wise's office yesterday, tho tender of James Brimble, was accepted for the conveyance of machinery , from Greymouth to Boatman's. Tho tender of Juines Mcßoan was accepted for the con* sbrneoion of burning, Tho folly of permitting excavations to be made in the streets for the purpose of obtaining gravel was instanced yesterday. A heavily loaded waggon bogged yesterday in Bridgestreet, and despite evory effort the waggon could not be released, and the driver had to unload* The hollow made had been filled in with loo3e rubble, and covered with metal* but tho original foundation having been removed, the waggon wheels sank to the axletrees. It is to be hoped tb.it the experience ttous gained will not be forgotten, 'Tho Inangahua Council yesterday received from the General Government a remittance of £187, being refund of amount advanced by the Council towards (he Local Hospital. The body of a man has been picked up on tho beach near Greymouth, whioh.. lias since been identified as that of Kinsella who, with" three others, was drowned in the Grey River, at Blackball some weeks ago. Tho Westport-Reofton road i 9 reported to be in a rather bad condition,, but the Buller County Council, has thirteen men employed effecting repairs. Tho increasing traffic on this line is breaking through all the weak spots in the formation, but as the fine weather is now Betting in, good progress is being niado with the repairs, The Hopeful Company will have- the next turn at tho Just in-Time battery, butas^ some alterations are now going on upon the Company's line of tramway, it will probably be Monday or Tuesday next before crushing will bo commenced. The- old wooden rails are being replaced by iron. ones. Should the battery not be required, the Hopeful have suffix cient stone for sevecol months continuous crushing. The lust-in-Time- Company's crushing was finished,, and the clearing up took place on Saturday last. The quantity of stone put through was 430, the gross yield being 870oz. an average of a trifle over two ouncea to. the ton. The return is. not quite so good as was expected from- the appearance of the stone, as it passed) to thx» battery, but on the whole is very, satisfactory,, particularly when taken- in connection with the appearance of tho mine, and the large quantity, o£ stone exposed. The Inangahua County Council is about to take .proceedings for- the- recovery, of all outstanding rates due to the Inangahtia Local Revenues Board. This process, will, we are informed, require the issue of upwards of 300. summonses. The weather for Borne days past has been Bingulaily inclement. On Sunday und Sunday night a heavy fall of enow took place on the Ajax and other surrounding hillk,. tind on Sunday night the ground in Reefton was covered to a depth of several inches by haij aud snow. The Kumara Times publishes a telegram, from Mr E. Burff, M.H.R., stating that tho Education. Bill will,. i.v all probability be thrown out. There was a tolerably good attendance at the Glee Club practice on Monday evening last,, and the programme was got through very satisfactorily, A marked, improvement is shown by many of the singers, and there is some probability that before v,ery long the Cluib will have sufficient conGdence to venture upon a concert. There are few communities in the Colony so badly off in the way of public amusement as. Reefton, and it would certainly be fcpleasiug relief to see the Glee Club aud amateurs come- forward to supply the voiob. > They- must hav.e a good fighting, man on the literary staff of the Westport Times,, for that journal observes : — " That shining but erractic light of the Colonial Government service, yclept ' Ye Bl'uetaited Fly.*.' having expressed the opinion that editors of newspapers ar& no good unless whipped once a month, he isre» speefcfully inforraedi that if at all inclined to fill up his spare time in. active- exercise, he cou be accommodated at thb office of this paper. Editor's fighting weight, 13. stone."' The Loafer, in the otreefc says:—" It does not fall to every mau-'s lot to go to Corinth) or — Koiapoi. It is- not ia mortals to command, success. It is not every one's, luck to-be-summoned to the bar of the house for libel. We learn that Mr Jones was- in clover.. A comfortable room furnished vith. every requisito,' evenito a. dressing table,.looking ; glasß,. and brush and comb (your Correspondent mentions those luxuries as if newspaper men were totally unused to. bucU, articles), was set apart for him. Refreshments, we, a-ro told,, were supplied ad UUtxmu The result of tbia will be that every paper man in the colony will now straightway go in, for libel. Fresh apartments in the House of Assembly, will have to.be prepared for the accommodation of editors. Enormous supplies of alcoholic and malt refreshment will have to be ordered), and thus libel will be quite common. There are libols and libels, however* I recollect some yearp ago writing a paragraph whioh somebody thought too personal. He said it was a soandalous libel, blacked- my left eye,, called' me a- low scoundrel, and left.. What a dif« fereufc experience from that of Mr Jones." A peculiar newspaper has j,ust appeared in Paris under the title of '' A'A-utro Monde." It is printed in green type- on. black paper,, and is adorned with) numerous emblems of death. Its contents correspond with, its exterior*. The leading articles*, news item?,, letters from correspondents,, and; advertisements,, all. refer to tho dead. 1 wonder, on.

what principle the editor intends running his journal. Will he go on the de wwtuis. nil nid idea or will his columns be a constant reminder to his readens of the truth of Mr Shakespeve's observation that " tho evil that men do lives after them." In anj case, what a strain it must be on the intellects of the staff to bo perpetually writing obituaries, and what nice cheerful reading the journal must be. Future p?isonevß in the Colonial gaols will not be close 1 shaveiij bat their hair and boards will be trimmed onoe a fortnight ° to a length proper to ensure cleanliness." Mr Woolcock has given notice of motion in the Assembly, instructing the Attoi'noyGeneral to introduce a Bill to " amend the existing laws relating to. the- franchise, the present system being exceedingly uusatisfuc* tory." Tho Ladies Benovolent Society at the Thames is said to have relieved as many as eighty {amilies, left destitute by runaway i husbands or fathers, in a twelvemonth, The Lyell Argus gushes forth thuslys — "We have to express our regret, that tlie Inangahua County Council has- thought fit to stop all works in the? Humpden. Riding, for tho present ; we do noUknow what tnay have caused them. to. adopt this,, course, but tbis. much we do know, via. — That if by adopting the plan indicated tho Council is under the impression that it will be the means- of doing, away witb,. tko aepcration movement, they are laboring under a great mistake. It is tho desire- of the inhabitants of Hampdea and Lyell Ridings that, these Ridings should he connected together and be formed into a seperate County, in plain English, there aro men in both. Ridings who knowing that:r— Not enjoyment, aad not sorrow y Is our destioned end or way, But to act that each to* morrow,. Finds us further than to*day. knowing this, we say can it be wonderedi at, that such, men, actuated by a high and holy desire to see their homes their wives and their children surrounded by the blessings of civilisation should look with fear and' doubt upon a body of men pitchforked together .by personal or party motine^ and to whose ■ tender mercy's their dearest interests are entrusted. We say once for all, (wlulst gladly acknowledging tlw able services- of the member for Hjampden Riding, and the liberal treatment that Ruling has received at the hands of the Inangahua County Council,) that Separation is as necessary tJ our existance and» future development! as a district as is the very air we breathe to our individual well being. Tho result of our- Petition well be 6oou known, and we shall then know what course to pursue, wo are neither to be browbeaten or persuaded iiito. adopting any course but the one we know to be right, and if the County Council to which we are annexed wene composed of men nbove the ordinary standard, they would recognise in our movement-", the deep heartfelt longing that exists in tho community, to raise itself out of a miserablo state of despondency, into one of healthy activity and prosperity, and knowing,, this j, we shouli receive their best assistance. The Wellington Argm says—" It is pretty i certain that the decisive bait'e of tho Kus*oTuvkish war has been lost and won. Though greater" eng igemonis have occured up to this time, and though greater may happen yet-, there is no doubt but that (he ono- fought on the Lam is the turning point of the contest. Its result nofc only threatens,, it almost precludes, destruction to tho Russian communications. It may be- noted that the movement is in exact, accord with the information telegraphed by. our correspondent some days ago. Tho Agent-General's telegram, published this afternoon, ia only ' an instance of a waste of money. In most items it. has been anticipated by Reuter's Agency j.- in that as to tho ultimate- action of England* k has been anticipated by ouu- special correspondent," The HawkesßayHeKttld' learns from private sources that Mr Stout said last year that he oould- not afford* to come to Parliament ; it so interfered 1 with- his private practice.. Since that time, however,, this has all been changed, He has married a pretty wife, with a dowry of £40,0001" We learn from tho Buller News that the miners who have been for some yeans working on the beach, at .Brighton- are idle for the past month tbo high. fcicJbs which prevuifed hating covered tho surface with a, thick coating of grey sand'; whereas tho claimholders on the Nine-mile Beach are making from £10 upwards per week, confirming tlia adage " It's an ill wind that blows nobody good." Whilst on duty on Saturday (says the N". Z. Times) Constable Smart met with a singular accident of a painful character. He wasputting a corpulent, heavy,, and inebriated--1 daughter of Eve into a cab— truthfully speak*. iDg, ho had to hoist a parael weighing- about 2501bs troy. Constable Smart, is a strong: man; but the situation was- trying. Bo got , a crook in. his back,, and' had to- be painted with iodine till tho injured part of his back and the surrounding districts, as- one might say, looked like- a new, guinea fresh from the mint. The path of a policeman is not strosvii with, roses altogether; or feneedi off from danger, trifling incidents, of the above class being ills to which tho- polioemen. ia- a, natural born heir.. The Canterbury Times says :; — 14,266>292: acres, comprised in 1099 runs are at prosent uuder leads in the ColoDy for depasturing purposes,, the rent and assessments upon them being £118.318, or a small fraction 2d an acre. In Canterbury on 568 rune, oontaining 4,676,400' acres, tho rents and assessments are £41,87.6 16s, ou a little over 2d pc» Boro. A female witness in the Dunedin Coroner's Count, some days ngo> deposed that she was a certificated midwife. " The next time you come across a case like tills — ' shrieked the coroner,' — ' just get proper advdoe, and don't fiddle over the ease yourself.' " /Ihe- Mayor of G-i-eymouth, Mr Franjj, Hamilton, was, on Friday ovening, presented with, a silver cradie,. accompanied with an ' address, by the Borough, couucillors. :

The following is from the Grey Argus : — Wo understand that a case will shortly be heard in the Divorce Court that will surprise many persons here, in which extraordinary disclosures will be made. The parties interested were residing here for some time and were well known, but the petitioner is now in Christchurcb. The respondent (who by the by is the mother of a family of daughters) is somewhere on the North Island, and the correspondent is at present on the East Coast of the Middle Island. A firm at Green Island, Otago, cure about one hundred pigs per month all the year round. At times men are scut into the interior of Otagoand Canterbury to kill pigs and forwasd the carcases in sacks to the works. This firm, and another in Dunedin, have sometimes thirty tons of ham* and bacon in their establishments- I The Napier -Telegraph says that laboring men there " are beginning to avail themselves I of the law which allows them, at a triOing expense, to declare their inability to meet theii debts." It is- mentioned that a man who only owed £13 applied to a lawyer to put him through the Court: At the last meeting of tho Invercargill Municipal Council not a B-ingte tender was received for quarrying 1000 yards of Btoue which had been duly advertued by the Corporation. This doeaJP 1 look aB if tliere was a glut of labor in Sh^?^ 11 -'