THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 1877.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 11, 19 December 1877, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 1877.

There will be a sitting of the County Co.unoil tit the usual hour to «d ay. 1 We.remincJlhorsG owners that acceptances % the, handicaps also Trial Stakes, Ladies' ; ;{%Be> and othet* 1 'events at the forthoomir.j/ • Rc^^oa ' ruces olp3e on ''tvidayl evening next at ;8 o;clook.' „ *„.!.....»• %tnrdayaeveningi'on'OromJtvoll was o, grp.n% success. There was immense' enthusiasm and thfl. lecturer receired. a luwa'nimous ypt,e of ; thanks. vT.h.9i ifollowm<j is the i'ett of- Mr Croft's -lecture:^' Fifty English gentlemen sold as slaves— The Murder of Oluules the First on'd the Dute of Buckingham—^xepu-. tibnabf Go^ird/YoWl! SiingsbyJttn'U Hewitt —^holesalej Murder of 'lrish men, wdnu-n, j and-jChildren-ri Historians : Macaulny/'flollam,iD'Aroy/il'Gee,' Futher Tohi Bourke end Miss Cusaok;' M^BlpwiJr'B hbraei arrived ' from Nelson yestel'day'.'^ The ' team will be stabled at t Charles tj pn's,. on tli c B uller Road. '•:s&!ss course 'of the hearing of the case ofi^ooliey V; ( Jabdbsen, in the Wai den's Qdmi'jea'tteir&ajj the .Warden animadverted 'strongly upon the conduct bf the complaint who, as- a public official, he suid had tnaclo'use'of his pbsifcioh as'aguinsfc r de<endarit. We J regret- that 1 owing to a great pressure of advertisements, we are .unable in our present issue. A.O report the cas? fully /''. '^.:Ttie Inkerm'an Company, Rainy Creek, an still' driving iti the rbef wjtii.no appearance of (he^all. The stone is .reported ;to lotfk well. ' h The BalakWa Companyj'whioh i^'situated , north and east of Graham' and. Allen's lease, Rainy ; Creek; liave two men ' employed on tlie 'suWace' eiMpping the jree/.^t The stone has every Uppearahoe of being payable. The 1 position of tb'is mine i§ /uch that an expenditure of P £4o' or £50 will M oobne;cti it with Messrs "Graham and Allen's incline tram-rfW-ir """■ ' '" lt) ';"•'''.• .' ■" • : The Lyttelton .Times performed' '& journalistic <foati a few dayp ago, which !deserves to be mentioned. It issued a fourteen- column supplement of the jiietropplitan .show, corrected copies of which were placed before midn'glit in the hands of those who attended the society's dinner. The fourteen columns; were set up and corrected in about five hours, and bufc for an accident the " forme " would ,liavtV been' on the maohine Ijalf ifc/Kour dailier than it' was. „ i j , . i / . Mr R. Grant, an old and respected settler at Frankton, Otngoj hits been killed through his.toam of horses' having bolted. No one saw the begginihg of the accident, nor knew how serious it was uutil Mr M. Dwyer stopped the two runaway loaders — which had >roken away from the shaft horse — whpn the unfortunate man was discovered at their feet, his leg being linked in one pf the- tracing chains. The poor fellow, who was in the prime' of life is supposed' to have been drngged afc' least three-quarters' of a mife, and when released, was insensible, he was found taj>e fear* fully bruised, several of his hones werjlfisoken and nearly all his clothes torn off him. Dr Scott was shortly in attendance, but ,life was extinct about 'twenty minutes after theacci-, dent. 'Mr i3rant leaves a widow and three childrcu. '