The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 170, 20 April 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1877.

Just before going to press we received a telegraphic summary of European and American intelligence to the 28th of March. We are compelled to hold it over till to-morrow.

The performances to-night at the Theatre Royal are for the benefit of the Oatholio School fund. Friends of the Institution will no donbt muster in great force and take. this opportunity of combining an evening’s amusement with the affording of substantial aid to the cause of education.

The Kumara Hospital Oommittee Intend to hold a ballon the night of the 24th of May, Her Majesty’s Birthday, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the Local Hospital. So charitable a purpose must enlist the sympathies of all, and there can be no donbt that the event will prove a great success. The Revd Mr Harper, Wesleyan Minister, has arrived in Kumara, to take charge of the district. The new chapel will be completed in the coarse of a fortnight, after which time the services will be regularly conducted in it.

Mr Byrne was engaged this morning In taking the levels for the new road to Dill man’s Town from the end of Seddon Street.

A telegram from Mr Warden Price at Wellington has been to-day received in Kumara.

Messrs Coles, Holmes, Learmonth, Seddon and Tabart have been elected permanent directors of the Okukn Race Company. The Rev. Mr Gilbert will conduct the Church of England services oh Sunday evening, at the Theatre Royal. Mr Seddon’a motion for the abolition of the special Licensing district of Kumara was agreed to, in the County Council last night.

The West Coast Times reports that during a discussion in the County Council last night Mr McWhlrter remarked that Mr Seddon “must be a liar,” and threatened to throw an inkstand at that gentleman’s head. The latter retorted by “ observations respecting ignorant remarks from ignorant persons,” The Most Reverend the Primate of New Zealand, the Right Revd. Bishop Harper, will arrive in Kumara on the 6th May, on which day he will take part in the usual Church Services here. His Lordship, during his stay in Kumara, will occupy apartments at the Club Hotel,

We understand that a soiree and concert will be held in the Hibernian Hall Goldaborough on Friday May 4th., when his Lordship the Bishop of Christchurch will be present. The Joint committees of Stafford and Goldsborough are making great preparations to render the entertainment a success.

Tenders for letting a suitable room for the Kumara Literary Institute are invited by the Committee,

Mr Gisborne, candidate for Totara, will arrive at Hokitika to-morrow evening by the Christchurch coach.

The Grey River Argus this morning says, “to insure the earliest publication of London messages in view of the war in the East, Government have acceded to the request of the Press Agency to open the Telegraph offices, throughout the Colony at 9.30 each night. This arrange* ment was commenced last night. Jeffcott’a coach was capsized this morning when going to Hokitika. One of the leaders, as the coach was passing Stanton’s shied at something in the road, and before the animal could be checked by the driver, it had caused the coach to run off the road, and capsized. The only passenger was Mr Hawkins, the barrister, who was thrown out, but we have not heard whether or not he was injured. At Palmerston, os a lad named Hopkinson was in the act of ramming home a charge, his gun went off, blowing three fingers and the thumb off his right hand.

Thfi Auckland Star speaks thus of Lord Henry Phipps, the third son of the Marquis of Normanby, who has returned to the colony, after an absence of some months in England. “We believe he went home with the object of making arrangements for the purchase of extensive station property in Queensland or New Zealand. Lord Henry Phipps is a fine specimen of the English gentleman, manly, frank, and endowed with a large share of enterprise and shrewdness. During his stay in Queensland he was not above being thoroughly colonised. He became learned in the mysteries of bullock driving, acquired a knowledge of farming, cattle and sheep raising, and generally “roughed it” in the bush, On one occasion he voluntarily worked for several days on a public road, which was much needed in order to open a way for cattle.

The reports from the prospecting parties in Victoria are not encouraging.

A Mr Sibbald, while working on his land at the Caledonian Flat, Inglewood, dug up a mass of living creatures, which he soon ascertained to be no less than sixteen black snakes, the longest being upwards of 7ft 6in, and the smallest 2ft. Mr Sibbald killed every one.