OUR KUMARA LETTER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 9 December 1901, Page 4

OUR KUMARA LETTER.

(OOR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Intending competitors are once m ire reminded that nominations for the Kunura Christmas Sports are due tomorrow.

I regret to have to announce the death o£ Mrs Clarke, which occurred about 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Wesleyan jlarsonaw, Though ailing for soma considerable time back her death was somewhat unexpected. As a consequence her husband, the Rev J. B. Clarke, who had gone to Staffordtown, bad not returned in time to see her breathe her last. The deceased lidy who was cf a kindly a,nd gentle disposition, was held in high esteem by all the community. She leaves a husband aid a grown up family of two sons and two daughters to mourn tier loss. The greatest sympathy is felt for the family in tae irreparable loss, Midnight rovers had their attention drawn early on Sunday morning to a 1 irid glare that lit np the (Southern sky, following sharply on this and while it was still at its height a loud boom from the sime direction awoke the slumbering echoes. Speculation was rife as to the cause, and some fanciful spirits pictured a devastating fire as far afield as Kokataki Hurrying feet were soon directed towards the scene, but when their owners with bated breath drew up in front of the s noking embers of a smithy on the No 5 channel .many were the expressions of disgust that they should have been drawn so far from their homeward path for such a trifle. And such it was a fire in a smithy in which had been stored some dynamite by Burger and party and which taking fire gave off the glare and the boom that so star led people. Kumara State school examination commences on December 10th.