The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 262, 7 August 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1877.

The Kumara dramatic amateurs intend giving a performance, next week, for the benefit of the Fire Brigade. The pieces to be performed are well selected and judiciously cast. The Dunedin hospital, last week, received a donation of over a ton of potatoes, from a grateful patient, in token of gratitude for the kindness she had received at the institution.

Steps are being taken to fnrnish Dunedin with a supply of water sufficient for half a million of persons. The water will be brought from the Silver stream.

The mail coach from Greymonth, yesterday, was unable to cross the Greenstone. The Hokitika coach was sent to meet it and the mails and passengers were transferred and thus brought/on, the only inconvenience suffered being the unavoidable delay.

The South Australian Government offers a reward of £IO,OOO for the discovery of coal.

A writer in the Ross Guardian under the heading “My travels” says “amongst the passengers was a young and rather, eccentric Italian doctor, who used to dispense drugs at Stafford, but who was on his way to study at a Melbourne college, and take a colonial diploma, as a continental one would not pass current in the colonies. He seemed rather of a vain disposition, and was anxious to show what valuables he possessed. A pair of gold spectacles gave- him a great deal of trouble—he did not Hike, to wear them in their proper place as it might be thought he had weak eyes, but after a time he got over the difficulty by hanging them on his watch chain.” Mr Trestrail, well known as an importer of horses to this colony, has brought with him to Dunedin, by the steamer Ringarooma, the smallest entire

horse ever seen in the Southern Hein inhere. The little animal is only thirtytwo inches high, has l>een trained both to saddle and harness, and is said to possess a very kind temper.,

The M.S. of the American edition of Tennyson's “ Harold” was put into the hands of the printers at eight o'clock one Monday morning, and at twelve o’clock next day the publishers received the first copy of a magnificent volume of2oo pp. Some of the County Councils do not appear to stick at trifles in the way of expense, but of all those who have come under the Act, the Lake County, in Otago, may be awarded the palm of being the most reckless. The estimated expenditure of the Lake County, Otago, for the year to end bn March 31st, 1878, is: advertising and printing, £120; office and stationery, £700; election expenses, assessment, &e., £350: being a total -of £1270. The local organ says :—“ Some of the above items may appear very heavy—such as printing, advertising, stationery, and election expenses, but it must be remembered that much of the work and service done have been unavoidably incurred at the initiation of the County system, and will not be required again.” The Paris correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes:—A party composed ot two men and a woman went to Autenil t« pass the day. While the dejeuner which they had ordered was being cooked, they resolved to kill time by an excursion on the Seine. The light boat drifted against a pile and broke in two; the parties were precipitated into the river ; one of the men could swim, so he dived to rescue the woman, and after much difficulty brought her to the bank. Judge of his fright j it was the body of another woman that had lain six days in the water. His companions were drowned. —A man committed suicide by boring a gimlet into his neck, and going to a window’, invited the passers-by to make haste and fetch glasses to drink pure wine.—A Muscovite lady having ruu up a bill at an hotel for 500 francs, was called upon by the waiter for an im-

mediate answer. “ There it is,” replied she, as she plunged a dinner knife into his body. The Napier police has just completed a census of the town of Napier. From this it appears there are 911 inhabited houses, the total population being 5135. The house containing the largest family is the gaol, where on the day of the census there were 40 inmates. During the 14. months ending on the 30th of April last, upwards of £650 worth of rabbits, fish, and oysters were seized in the Melbourne fish market, and at the instance of Mr 6. Donald, the inspector, destroyed as being unfit for human food. The number of rabbits was 5704 pairs. The boundaries of the Borough of Kumara are specified in the following schedule, which appears in the New Zealand Gazette of July 26:—“ All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Westland, containing by admeasurement 842 acres, more or less, situate in the Arahura Survey District, and bounded as follows:—Commencing at a point on the Western side of the Greenstone Hoad, being the southernmost corner peg of Rural Section No. 1926; thencenorth-westerlyatarightanglewith said road for 40 chains; thence northeasterly at a right-angle to the southern boundary of Suburban Section No. 1309 nine thousand six hundred and eighty links; thence south-easterly following the southern boundaries of Suburban Sections Nos. 1309,1308,1307,1181,1180, 1179, 1178, five thousand two hundred and ninety links, thence across the Greenstone Road, and by the southern boundary of Ferry Reserve No. 68 (in red), and the north-eastern boundary of Educational Endowment Reserve No. 128 (in red), four thousand six hundred links ; thence south-westerly along part of the south-eastern boundary of said Reserve No. 128 (in red) One thousand one hundred and forty links and eight thousand One hundred links, and a line in continuation of the same; and thence, north-westerly at a right-angle in’ a straight line, to the commencing point, four thousand one hundred links ; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less as the same is delineated on the plans deposited in the Survey Office, West- , land.