OUR KUMARA LETTER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 July 1901, Page 2

OUR KUMARA LETTER.

[OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Kumaba, This Day. The Warden's Courts at Kumara as attested by the last sitting are in strong contrast to what they were this time twelvemonths. Then, it was granted, granted, granted, to a long list of special dredging claims and prospecting licenses, until people wondered if there was a square perch left for tent ground on the Coast. Now these doubts, if they ever had any real foundation, will be dispelled, for on Wednesday last there were no less than eleven special dredging claims either struck out or surrendered.

The jumping ease in Waimea that threatened to overturn the established order of things in that pioturesque town* ship, if reports are to be taken as any criterion, has been amicably settled out of Court by the payment to the offended party of £l2O and all expenses inourred. Rev. G. Whitehouse has, owing to a severe cold from which he is suffering, deferred his lecture on his trip to Christchurch during the Ducal visitation, until Friday, the 12th, at the Town Hall, instead of to-night,

Still another wedding in our midst. This time it is Mr Ralph Madaunt of Dillmanstown, and Miss Annie Meadoworoft of Blackball. The nuptial knot was tied by tbe Rev G. Whitehouse at Holy Trinity Cfluroh yesterday morning.

The Greenstone Oroek dredge is again threatened with a shortage of coal. His Worship Bishop Grimes is expected in Kumar a about the 24th of this month.

The friends'of Mr C Carlson manager of Bell Hill Sluicing Company's olaim will regret to hear that his wife underwent a serious operation on Wednesday for an internal complaint. She is, however progressing favourably. A correspondent of a Southern contemporary ventures quite a beautifully poetic explanation of a rather remarkable phenomenon in the shape of a large fire that occurred lately, on one of the mow*tain peaks in close proximity to our I am afraid that his imagination must have got the better of his judgement, or -*''' , else he was led to forsake the paths oUfc. rectitude by some designing person. The phenomenon referred to is capable of a very prosiac explanation, and certain «• tourists will be somewhat amused to find that a hallow of glory is thrown around their actions.