OUR KUMARA LETTER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 August 1901, Page 3

OUR KUMARA LETTER.

(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The report anent the improvement in Trooper Morgan’s condition was, I regret to say, premature. Dr Scott, his medical attendant, announces that the fever will not leave him for a week or ten days, and in any case, he will not be able to leave his bed for a month. An old man named Jacob Lawson was found dead in his hut on Hobs’s Hill on Sunday morning. He was about 75 yearn of age, had been close on half a century in the colonies, whither he came from Sweden, his native land. Deceased was an upright old man, and greatly respected by all who knew him. For some years he was in the employ of Messrs Keech and Malloy of Seddon street. There will be no inquest as Dr. Scott, who has been attending him, has, I understand, given a certificate of death.

His Lordship Bishop Grimes administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to to close on 60 candidates, at St Patrick’s church on Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. There was a crowded congregation. His Lordship in a brief discourse preceding ohe ceremony, explained the many forma used in this particular Sacrament in full, and exhorted the candidates to be faithful to the teachings of the church, and to lead virtuous fives. In the evening at 7 p.m. His Lordship again preached to an overflow congregation an eloquent sermon on “Final Perseverance”, and was listened to with rapt attention by all present. His Lordship left for Waimea yesterday and returns again on Wednesday, when ho will deliver his well known and popular lecture on “Venice and Disentombed Pompeii”. A crowded house may be expected at the Theatre Royal on that night.

There is no word to hand as to the result of the Greenstone Three Mile’s wash up on Saturday, though the secretary has been wired to on the subject asking for information.