The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 266, 11 August 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1877.

The usual Church of England services will be conducted by the Rev. H. J. C. Gilbert, at the Theatre Royal tomorrow evening. The Rev. Mr Morice will preach at the Public Hall to-morrow evening. The funeral of the late Mrs Stewart is to leave Kumara to-morrow morning at half-past nine. The deceased was a member of tbe 1.0.G.T. and tbe members of the Kumara Lodge are re : quested by the W.C.T. to attend her obsequies. A large number of burgesses assembled at the Brian Bora Hotel, last evening, for tbe purpose of taking steps to secure tbe return of Mr Peter Dungan as Mayoi. Mr H. Comfoot was voted to the chair, and Mr D. Hannan appointed secretary. The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to, viz., “ That a committee be appointed from tbe gentlemen present with power to add to their number for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to secure the return of Mr Peter Dungan as Mayor of Kumara.” Resolved, “ That the following gentlemen form the Committee, viz., Messrs H. Cornfoot, Gilbert Stewart, James Rugg, Kettles, Brown, Drummond, T, Roulston, J.J. Morris, W. Ryan, O’Hagan, Keenan, P. Adamson, Campbell, Delargy, and D. Hannan.” that the names of the committee be published in the Kumaua Times.” The meeting then adiourned.

fact that the robbers had possession of | one of the revolvers. This, of course, 1 rendered Mr Hogg’s gallant defence of property of the bank all the more praiseworthy, as that gentleman was fully aware of the risk he. ran in attempting to prevent the robbers making off with their booty, "With regard to the anonymeus letter, we hear that the night watchman Crams saw a man post a letter at about four o’clock the same morning, in fact a few minutes before the alarm was given. At King’s Adelphi Music Hall, which has been thoroughly renovated and furnished with new scenery for the stage, several novelties have been introduced and more are promised. Messrs Stewart and Driscoll are still nightly delighting their hearers and Mr Muirhead has been engaged to give his Negro delineations. A new contralto, Miss Chipindale, appears every evening. Miss Lizzie Martin, a vocalist “from the London and Melbourne music halls” and Mr E. C. Shipp, “ the champion clog dancer” are to arrive soon. At the Theatre Royal an attractive programme is announced for to-night. Mr Fox’s Local Option Bill has been printed. It makes it lawful for twenty persons in a licensing district to ask for votes to be taken as to the propriety of adopting the Act. The chairman of the Board is thereupon to define sub-dis-tricts, having a radius of 100 yards round public-houses in boroughs and of two miles outside of boroughs. Every male or female over twenty-one may vote. If the vote is against the adoption of the Act, a vote cannot be taken again for a year. If in favour of prohibiting, it cannot be taken again for three years. After the prohibition clauses coming into effect, no license can be granted in the sub-district. An amusing placard is exhibited in the window of a fishmonger in Princes street, Dunedin. In the centre is a carte de visite portrait surrounded with several electioneering appeals, while beneath is the significant request, “ Vo*e for A Haddock and education, immigration, consternation, and railway station.” The name suspended above a promiscuous display of lobsters, barracoota, and other kinds of fish, enabled the facetious to indulge their proclivities to an almost unlimited extent. Mr Haddock, it may be explained, is a tinsmith at Port Chalmers, and one of the candidates for tbe representation of that municipality. • The original estimate of the cost of tho Deborah tunnel was about £60,000, but the actual cost will only reach £41,000. The length of the tunnel is 146 yards; its height is 16fb 2in, and its width averages lift, the walls being slightly arched.; For a distance of twothirds the length of the tunnel, going from the south end, there is a rise of one foot in 60. .'and after that a fall of one foot in 995, until the tunnel, which is quite straight, leads out in the Parakanui Valley. The first sod was turned on March '26, 1874, and the work of tunnelling was commenced At the south end on June 1, 1874, and at the north end on Sept. lin the same year. At the Dunedin end of the tunnel, the miners have been driving for 22 months and 20 days, and at the north end 31 months. Upwards of 5000 cubic yards of masonry and brickwork have been put in, and over 3000 casks of cement have been used j while the cost of the candles used in the work will be about £2OOO ] and of blasting powder and litbofracteur about £6OOO. Nearly 80,000 bricks have been sent from Dunedin for the work, in addition to the large number made on the ground. Tbe members of the Goldfields Committee in the House of Representatives are Messrs Barff, Bastings, J. C. Brown, Button, Curtis, De Latour, Gibbs, Gisborne, SirG. Grey, Macandrew, Wanders, Pyke, Roue, Sheehan, Woolcock, and Reid. '