The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 218, 15 June 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1877.

The regular Monthly Inspection (Parade of the Kumara Contingent of the First Westland Rifles will be held at the Theatre, this evening. The' contractor for uniforms will be in attendance at the-same time to take the necessary measurements. All members are particularly requested to attend.

The tender of Mr Davis, Hokitika, for supplying uniforms to the Kumara Volunteer Rifles, has been twxieptod. There.were several other tenders received.

The Lioensing Commissioners of the Greenstone District have granted a liceese to D. Murpkj-, for u. new house on the Main-road, near the North Torem&kau rush, on the condition that the building is completed according to plan by the 30rh June.

One tiling is very' certain, : and that is that whether a bridge is to be built across ihe Teremakau or not, the existing punt ia approaching dissolution. It is absolutely unsafe,. rotten, and patched, and some day or other it will find its own grave arid provide that of its unfortunate passengers in the depths of the Teremakau.

Laet night D.iu. Henry's waggon came to grief, just after it had got across the TVremakm. The night waa intensely dark, and the driver misaed the right track on to the bank. The consequence was that one of (he wheels was jolted violently over a l«g into a deep rut, and the axle was broken. The wagon was heavily laden and had to be left. Today the loading haß been taken out; of it and brought on to/Kumara,. but the wagon still remains.

The only shipping news to-day is from Greymouth, where there was one arrival yesterday—the Crest of the Wave, from Oamaru.. . , r . . ...

In the Resident Magistrate's Court, at Greenstone, a case: was set down for hearing, this morning, which promised to afford lovers of scandal a tit-bit. This was " Riordan v. Johnston," an affiliation case,'in which Mr Perkins had been retained for the defenoe. His Worship, Mr Price,' after hearing the evidence of the plaintiff, asked' her if she could, produce any corroborative testimony. She replied that she cnild; not,., whereupon' the case was dismissed without any of the witnesses for the defenoe being examined.

The Grey' UWcv Argus of to-day says : Mr Richard Reeves telegraphs to us nnder yesterday's date, from Ahanra :—" I have just arrived her 9 from Reefton by a fluke. Nearly the whole of the recently constructed road, from Junction to Devery's Terrace, is washed away. The road at this aide of the Big Grey is washed away. It will require nearly a mile of road to be cut before any wheel traffic can <'et to Reefton. Considerable damage has been done to the land adjacent' to the River Ahaura."

A correspondence has boon published between. Mr .Tames Ashbury, M.P., and Mr Gladstone. relative to a statement made by the former regarding the larce profit alleged to have b«eu made by the sale of the late Premier's pamphlet on "Bulgarian Horrors." Mr Gladstone states that lie has an author for if) years, but all his gains during that period have not come near £10,000.Mr "Walter, M.P., proprietor of t!>:e ' Times,' has beer-n attacked and robbed by three men in Rome, armed with stillctos. He was not injured. Several arrests have been made.