The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 219, 16 June 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1877.

During the early part of this morning there were frequent very heavy showers of rain and hail,, accompanied with thunder and lightning. Similar weather has prevailed all day.

; Yesterday, about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, a cottage at the back of Preston’s, at the,end. of Soddon-street, caught fire and was completely destroyed.

The Church of England service will be Conducted at the, Uaaal hour to-morrow evening, by the Revd, H. J. C. Gilbert, in the Theatre Royal.

A tent belonging to a miner, named Haggart, was yesterday, some time during his absence from it. When he left for his work in Ithe morning he had made the place all safe and extinguished the fire. It is probable, however, that some embers were not thoroughly extinguished as the fire is known to remain smouldering in the peat-like ground for a long time after fires are apparently put out. We are sorry to learn that Haggart has lost everything but the clothes he was wearing. Amongst his losses are a watch Valued at £l6 ot £l7, and a clock, Monday is the day announced for the drawing of the prises in the Hokitika Hospital Art Union. At the Adelphi Concert Hall, to-night, in addition to the other attractions, which include the excellent singing of Mr Stewart, and the comic impenonations o,f Mr Carroll, there will be “ The Marionettes” which have been to long expected. There can be no doubt that the proprietor will he rewarded for his enterprise in catering for public amusement by having full houses.

Telegraphic communication between Adelaide and Port Darwin has been restored.

We lire sorry to learn that there are to be found In Kumara thieves, who prey upon the industrious and hard working. On Thursday night some mean spirited individual or individuals stole from the clothes lines of Mrs Thomas and Mrs Caird, in the Main-road, half a dozen shirts—three in eaoh case.

The County Council meeting which was postponed from last week will be held on Tuesday next. The only arrival at either Hokitika or Greymouth yesterday, was that of the 3arah and Mary, from Lyttelton. There were no departures from eith port. At the Wesleyan Church, to-morrow, The Revd. W. S. Harper will preach at half past two and at seven o’clock. The Teremakau is again uncrossable. The mail coach from Hokitika, to-day, had to turn back, and that from Greymouth, it is said, was stopped at the Greenstone.

“The most distinguished order of St. Michael and St. George,” as Sir Bernard Bourke designates it, was instituted in April, 1818, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for natives of the United States of the lonian Islands, and of the Island of Malta and its dependencies, and for such subjects of the Sovereign as may hold high and confidential situation in the Mediterranean. Within the past few years the Order has been extended to the colonies, and many leading men have been recipients of the distinction. The members of tho Order enjoy rank and precedency immediately . after the corresponding classes of the Order of the Bath, and wear distinguishing insignia of a star, collar, ribbon, and badge, with mantle of Saxon-blue satin, lined with scarlet silk, for the higher classes of the order; a blue satin chapeau, also lined with scarlet, and surmounted by a plume of white and black ostrich feathers. The motto of the Order is Auspicium Melioris which, being interpreted, aieaneth “A pledge of better times.”

A farmer named Ettiugerhs* recovered £4OO frota the New South Wales Government fot destruction of .his o-angery and vines by sparks from locomotives. The Parnell Borough Corporation have beset themselves with vigour to repair (he roads within their boundaries.

The total yield of gold from the Thames, exclusive of Coromandel, from the Ist of May to June 4th, is 84740zs Odwts 20grs, from 3374 tons. This includes numerous tribute orushinga. The principal returns are;—Albania Company and tributes, 20670zs 14dwts; Kuranui Hill tributes, 148 om Bdwts; Moauataiari Company and tributes, 32200za 17dwts ; Piako Company and tributes, 7370z5 ; Queen of the May, 3820z5; Queen of Beauty, 7020z5; Waitekauri, 7240za; West. Coast, 1390zs I Odwts.

Packing paper of. good quality is now being manufactured by Mr W. S. Symes, Mataura paper mills, Otago, from the fibre of the tussock grass, which grows so abundantly there. The paper is worth about- £39-per ton. About three'-tons a Week, are ..being manufactured. .....

Miners and public generally, attend the Theatre, Seddpn-rtreet, on Monday week 26th instant, and witness the Amateur Dramatic Performance in aid of the funds of the Kumara Literary Institute. Inr* menae Bill, see Advertisement and Bills. Come one, Come all.— {AdVt.] : Acetopathy.— -The best and safest cure for LutobacpvQhesfc and Throat-Diseases, Scarlet FerW, &c. Duncan Maih-road.^fAdvt.]