The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 191, 15 May 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1877.

Mr Sfcautoa of the Loopline is calling for tenders for a new hotel which is to occupy the site of his former hotel, destroyed by fire, a few weeks ago. Applications for publican’s licenses, renewals, bottle and wholesale licenses, within the special licensing district of Kumara, as defined in the “ New Zealand Gazette” of the 12th April 1877, must be lodged in duplicate on or before the 15th of next month. The district is thus defined : —On the Southward by the Chesterfield road, part of the Greenstone-road, and the Junction-road (Loopline) ; on the Southeastward by the Ohrlstchurch-road and the western bank of the Waimea or Blake River ; ' on the Northward by the south bank of the Teremakau River ; and on the Westward by the sea coast to the Chesterfield-road.

Another quadrille assembly holds its first ball to-night at the Public Hall. It is under the able management of Mr James S. Jolly.

Inconsequence of the new Wesleyan Church being not as yet quite out of the hands of the contractor its opening is postponed until the Sunday after next, the 27da inst.

TheArahura Road Board are to meet to-morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock, in the Court House.

A meeting of miners is called for the purpose of petitioning the Minister of Public Works to cause the branch race flaming &c., to the Larrikins Terrace, to be immediately completed. The meeting is to be held at Charles Goodwin’s, on Thursday evening, at 6 o’clock. So important a business should insure a large attendance of those interested.

The weedy meeting of the members of the Committee of the Kumara Literary Institute will be held this evening at Bulstrode’s Club Hotel. The time for meeting is 8 o’clock, and as the business to be transacted is of a highly important nature a punctual and full attendance is particularly requested by the officers. The recant fresh in the Grey River has carried away 600 or 700 tins of gravel from the new Harbor Works at Greymouth in 24 hours.

A telegraph station is now open a L . Sanson, in the County of VTanawatn. Telegrams for Australian Colonies, par Ringarooma, via Bluff, will be rec jived at the Kumara Telegraph Office up till 10 a m, to-morrow (Wednesday), 16th inst.