THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 93, 9 November 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1877.

! The project of forming a public crushing company for the purpose of facilitating mining operations in the upper portion of Murray Creek is being once more revived. The proposal is, we believe, to form a company with a capital of between £5,000 and £6,000, and to purchase the present Westland Battery. Bteam machinery, and all lights connected therewith. The purchase, we are told, can be effected upon very moderate terms and, if accomplished, the intention ia to replace the pre?ent light batteries by two of much heavier calibre with the addition of new amalgamating tables, berdans, and all other requisite appliances. The whole of the companies within the radius of the Crushing Company's operation*, wili be asked to assist the project either by bonus shares or pari iei pation in the ventuie, and this we believe can bo brought about. These are all the particulars relativ e to tho contemplated undertaking in our possession ns yet, but, no doubt, in the course .of a week or so the matter will come before the public in a more tangible form, when wo will take the opportunity of referring more particularly to it.

Ifc was reported in town "lust night Ihat Chester bad won both the Melbourne Oup and Derby. Savanaka and the Vagabond being second and third for tho former race, Whether this information is reliable or not we ore unable to say, as we have received no intelligence on the subject through the Press Agency. The Rose Brothers announce a farewell performance in Gilmer's Hall this evening, on which occasion an entirely new programme will bo submitted, consisting of startling novol* ties ill myrtb, magic, and mystery. Wo unr hesitatingly recommend all whom havo not yot had an opportunity of witnessing t1.13 really talented troupe to avail themselves of this positively last opportunity. Telegraph communications was restored yesterday, and we last nigbt received a heavy budget of parliamentary intelligence, but owing to the press of other matter it is un« avoidably held over. In substance, thia intelligence is of littlo interest. Tho privilege oase brought up by Mr Stout has interrupted the progress of the want of confidence debate, and ponding its settlement ordinary business of tbo House lias proceeded wliioh consists of a- few unimportant bdls. Tolegraphic communication with West port was restored yeslerday. We learn that cloven regular sittings of the District Court at Keefton have been fixed upon for the iuooming yoar. Ii the Wardon's Court yesterday, the application of B. W. 'Raithby, for a special claim on behalf of tho Victory Company, was furthor adjourned until Tuesday next. Tbo cause of the adjournment was alleged to be the inability of the applicants coii-isel (IVIQuinness) to be present. Tho costs of the adjournments are to bo borno by the appli cants. Some timo since tho Eeefton Criokot Club

forwarded a challenge to the Crushington tl Club to play a matoli at orioket on the Bth c November, Prinoe of Walw birthday, 'to r that challenge uo reply has yet been received, t aud as tbo oontemplated match lias thus ( fallen through, it is intended to play ft scraloli match on tbo ground, to-day. Wioketu to bo pitched at 1.30 o'clock sharp. AH players are requested to attend. We learn that a case of some interest to livery stable keepers and tbe travelling public generally is pending in the law Courts, The claim is by a livery stable keeper for a large ! sum said to be the value of a horse wbioh is alleged to have been over-ridden by tbe hiror. Tbe defence to tbe aotion, we under* i stand, is likely to be tbat tbe borse in ques< | i tion was deficient in legs, Tbe gentlemen of the long robe will, however, endeavour to bring the case into Court on " all fours," and assuming that the evidence does not tend to a complete severance of tbe bind legs, an instructive decision will probably be tbe result. We leavn that the flood down the valley of the Inangabua was tho highest experienced since tbe settlement tboro. B. Craig, farmer, lost about 00 chains of fenoing, and tho most of hia land has been covered by a heavy deposit of shingle, and' tbe river has cut a deep channel through one of his paddocks. Mr J. Williams also lost about 40 chains of fencing, as woll as several head of cattle. A good story comes to the Birmingham Po3t concerning a town bred curate, wbo had consented to do duty on Sunday for his friend, tbe rector ol a country parish in tbe Midlands. Tbe subject of tbe morning sermon was the parable of tho prodigal sou, and in the hope of impressing upon bis hearers tbe joy which tho patriarch felt on the return of his son, as instanced by bis ordering the fatted calf to be killed, the young curate felt a pardonable pride in dwelling upon a subject which could not fail to be comprehensible to the dullest ploughboy in tbe oon- ' gregation, " Remember," bo said, "this was no ordinary oalf which was to bo killed ; it was no common calf or beast suffering from ■ mnrrain ; no half-starved oalf, slowly awaiting death. No ! it was nofc even merely a fatted calf ; but," becomiug more impressive, « it was the fatted calf, which bad been prized and loved by tbo family for many years !" A sea of wido eyes and gaping mouths ar. rested for a 'moment the eloquenoe of tho fledgling parson, and in tbo next there was such a chuckling and grins and fluttering of old beads below, as had not been witnessed even in tbo memory of the quaint-logged sexton for more than " many years." The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald writes onthe 3rd Augusts — « We bave bad anothor, and if possible a worse scandal than that connected witb our Parliamentary proceedings. Tbreo of the detective inspectors from Scotland Yard are being prosecuted for aiding and abetting tbe five men charged some weeks ago with a turf fraud, whereby a Mudarao Gonoourfc was swindled out of £10,000. If tbo case for tbe prosecution bo true, one of tbe loading men at Scotland Yard, the prisoner Miklejobn, bas been standing counsel to a gang of turf swindlers for many years. He has dragged the other two prisoners (DruscovitoU and Palmer) int 0 tbo mire with bim, and bas placed nearly a dozen of tbe Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Postoffice police under tbe thumb of Kerr, the leader of the swindlers. Kerr is said to bavo paid during tbe last fivo years for bu»b» raeney and advice, to meu wbo ought to bavo come to light bad tbose whom bo * squared ' acted generously. Shortly aftcy the conviction of Benson, one of his children died. The mother wanted to pay for its funeral, aud the prisoner sent ber to Miklejohn. He refused to give ber anything. She informed ber husband, and be and Kerr determined to •peach' on the Scotland Yard gang. Tbo oaso has causod an intense sensation, and public opinion is already crying out for a Eoyal Commission to overhaul the whole of our police system. Tho sheet anchor of the debiliated.— Ordinary stimulants afford no pormanont benefit to personß deficient in natural vigor or weakened by disease. In fact the o'l'ect produced by unmedicated spirits, even when pure is injurious, as they produce an exhausting reaction upon the nervous system. But whero sucb excitants utterly fail to revive exhausted energy, tbat sheet anchor- of the debiliuted, Udolbho Womb's Schiedam Abomatio Sounapps, powerfully invigorates every life -sustaining organ, ,