OUR KUMARA LETTER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 July 1901, Page 3

OUR KUMARA LETTER.

[OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

The Ecv. E, Whitehouse delivered an amusing and interesting lecture to a large and appreciative audience in the Town Hall on Thursday night. His "Worship the Mayor occupied the chair. The lecture was entitled “Fourteen days with the Kumar a Cadets.’’ It embraced the Lecturer’s exporienfces from the time of leaving Kumara, and while on board the Corinno, including his impressions of the Ducal reception, the Eeviow at Christchurch and the return home. The Lecturer dealt in a humorous vein with the overcrowding of the Corinna, remarking that although overcrowded there was plenty to cat. The experience at "Wellington was referred to, as also the improvement in the accommodation from Wellington to Lyttelton. The Speaker spoke in high praise of the conduct of the cadets. A vote of thanks was carried by acclamation. The friends of Mr J. Bennet, dredgemaster of the Greenstone Junction, will regret to hear that a wire yesterday morning brought him the sad news of the death of his mother. The deceased lady was the wife of Mr Bennet, M.H.R. for Tuapeka, and had passed the allotted span of three seore years and ten. The cause of the death was a general break up duo to advancing years. The Greenstone Junction will be afloat once again to-day. Both the Greenstone Creek and ThreeMile have had plenty of fuel this week an! should show an improvement, although the latter has not quite worked herself clear of the old workings. The Greenstone Creek dredge has, I learn just crossed the old Bung Tusk tail race, and is now on the opposite side of the creek from where she started