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Kumara Times, Issue 287, 5 September 1877, Page 2

The tenders for Drummond's eorner improvements must be lodged with the Borough Surveyor by noon to-morrow. The work to be done 1b principally carting material.

The Licensing Court for the Greenstone district will Bit at the Conrt House, Greenstone, at noon, on Friday. Telegrams for the Australian Colonies, per Ringarnoma, via the Bluff, will be received at Eumara Telegraph Station up till 10 am to-morrow, Thursday, 6th inst. The local b*nks have determined upon keeping, on and after Monday next, the business hours observed in other places. They will clos-j at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The op'v exc«nti«n will he on Saturday's when the h >ur for closing will be 8 o'clock in the evening. Important caution to parents.—The most serloas diseases arise from damp feet, look well to your children's boots : a fresh supply of colonial Bewn boots Ina just been received, and is now sellinovery faßt at "The Beehive,"—[Advt.] ° A. meeting of the committee of ths Literary Institute was held la*t night in the Club Hotel. Mr P. Birch, v:cepresirlent, occupied the chair. The S"crptary laid before the meeting a statement of the financial condition of the institute, which was duly received. The Secretary was instructed to appeal to the Borough Council and to the Education Board 'or subsidies. A sub-committeo was appointed to make arrangements for an entertainment in aid. of the funds.

The Claud Hamilton leaves M?lbourne. to-day for the West Coast, in place of the Albion.

The Wallace sailed from Greyniouth on Tuesday for Westport and Nelson.

The licensing; officer will sit to-morrow at the Court House,

The Borousjh Council will hold an ordinary meetiner in the Council Chambers, at half-past seven o'clock to-morrow evening. The complimentary benb6t given hy the Amateur Dramatic Club to Mr W. Bishop, or>e of the club's most active members, on the occasion of his departure from Knmara, will take place to morrow owning There is every probability, of a crowded house.

Prom the local paper at Waikato, we Jparn that dv.rins* the current q.iarter the Registrar for the Hamilton district has registered no less than live births of twins, ihis is a circumstance unprecedented, even for a year, in the Waikato district. A discovery of great geological intereat

and of importance to the mining industry haa been made, gold having been found in true granite in a dyke at Sandy Creek, distant about forty miles to the east of Beechworth, Victorw. The gold occurs in thin quartz veins, and also in what seemß to be quartz grains surrounded by felspar. The dyke at the surface is 24ft. in width, and is very soft in texture, but hardens as the depth inorease3. The.Goldfields Committee U sitting daily on the Goldfielda Bill, and has already agreed to amendments, providing . that District Judges shall re-hear cases from the Warden's Courts, and also has considerably reduced the costs in cases before Wardens' and other Courts. List of letters received at the PostOffice, Kumara, and unclaimed on the 31st August, 1877 :—Miss A. J. Dunne, George Gandin (2), William Greenland, C. Higgins, Joseph W. Jones, George Jarman, Thomas Mehegan. During the last Municipal year, the Finance Committee of the Corporation of Dunedin, passed accounts and signed cheques for the sum of £112,152, 5s 4d. The cheques numbered 1,775. The Corporation has borrowing . powers up to £600,000, and has already exercised them up to £400,000.

The following statement shows the distance cablegrams from London travel ere they reach Kumara : Miles. London to Falmouth (overland) wire) . . • , # } 269 Falmouth to Gibraltar (cable)* . 1,250 Gibraltar to Malta (cable) . ■ ... 981 Malta to Alexandria (cable). . 819 Alexandria to Suez (overland wire) 224 Suez to A.den (cable) . , . 3,308 Aden to Bombay (cable) , . 1,664 Bombay to Madras (overland wire) 600 Madras to Penang (oable) . . 1,213 Penang to Singapore (cable). . 881 Singapore to Batavia (cable) . 560 Batavia to Bangoewangi (over- ) AQr . land wire) . . I *°° Bangoewangi to Port Darwin > ntrn (cable) J 970 Port Darwin to Port Augusta) . (South Australian overland } 1,800 wire) . . . % I Port Augusta to Sydney (over- ) land wire) . . . f 650 Sydney to Wakapuaka (cable)' . 1,159 Wakupuaka to White's Bay) (overland wire) . . I $J White's Bay to Wellington (cable) 41 Wellington to Blenheim (cable) . 41 Blenheim to Nelson (overland ) wire) . . t 55 Nelson to Greymouth (overland J wire) • . . . i Greymouth to Kumara (overland ) wire) . . . } 22 Total . 14,706