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Kumara Times, Issue 469, 28 March 1878, Page 2

Mr Wylde, Town Clerk, has been appointed the clerk to make up the rolls under the Electoral Registration Act, 1875. Those whose names are not already on the roll should not forget that they can register up to midnight to-morrow by applying to his Worship the Mayor, Seddon street, or to Mr Stanhope, Dillxnan’s Town.

The Grand Jury have found a true bill against Ryan, charged with the murder of Daniels at Kumara.

The Public Works Committee of the County Council meet on Wednesday next, at 2p. m., to deal with tenders for various works. The claim of Henry Brown, for additional compensation for interference with tramway by the construction of the Dillman’s Town road, will be considered at this meeting.

The West Coast Times says that the County Chairman has arranged to take 4000 salmon fry from the Grey District Acclimatization Society at £2O per 1000. for the purpose of stocking the Westland rivers. The fry will be liberated in the Arahura, Hokitika, and southern rivers, and Mr Rae will probably go up to Greymouth to take charge of them next week, and bring them per Waipara to Hokitika. The County Chairman intends, after the salmon are safely disposed of, to take steps to procure trout, and possibly carp a£so. -The Grey Society intend to stock the Teremakau river themselves.

Writing of the Butchers’ Gully Reef, this morning’s West Coast Times says:— “ The locality has been visited by some miners from Kumara, and these parties have been so well pleased with the look of the lode that they have taken the necessary steps to secure leases north and south of those already taken up by the prospectors. There are now six areas marked out, and it is very probable that to-day application will be made for others.”

A Wellington correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay Herald says “It is understood the colony will get £50,000 in the shape of succession duties from the late W. B. Rhodes’s property. Who can say that wealth contributes nothing to the revenue 1 Miss Rhodes will have £25,000 per annum ; Mrs Rhodes £4000.”

The population of the town of Reefton is 1028, namely,. 614 males and 414 females.

A writer in the Wellington Argus says ;—They tell me that the scene on the Queen’s wharf when the the Soldene Opera troupe departed was touching. The last thing seen of them as the vessel rounded the outermost point was an adieu waved from a porthole by a lovely leg.

False guides! In quoting something from our Hokitika morning contemporary relative to Sir George Grey, the Christchurch Press heads it “Westland’s opinion of the Premier. ” How our usually wellinformed Canterbury contemporary can arrive at the conclusion that the opinions of the editor of the West Coast Times reflect those of Westland is a mystery. Does even distance lend so much enchantment to the view ?

Intelligence from Adelaide of March 4th states that on the previous night two sisters of St. Joseph, Mary Laurentia and Mary Maculator, were extinguishing the kerosene lamps in the Port Augusta Catholic Church, when one of the lamps • n koth the sisters wove enveloped in flames. Sister Laurentia died to-day, and the other is not expected to recover.

Typhoid fever is raging to a fearful extent near Sydney, and numerous deaths have occurred.

The following undated London telegram appeared in the Wellington PostA great fire occurred in the large manufacturing town of Bolton, in Lancashire, when 35 persons, who were residents in the burning houses, perished in the flames.

An on dit from the Mediterranean fleet is that, to check talk which is distasteful to him, the Duke of Edinburgh has had a legend written out large and stuck up in the captain’s cabin of the Sultan : ‘ Please to remember that the Emperor of Russia is my father-in law.’

It is stated that Pope Leo XHI., in an interview with the French pilgrims, discountenanced Ultramontane tendencies, and recommended moderate zeal.

A Rio Janeiro letter says : Much talk has been caused by the confession of a man that he was the real author of the murder and the burning of a family of eight persons in 1852, for which a wealthy planter and three of his slaves were executed in 1856. The tragedy occurred near Machai, and the murderer says that assisted by some dependents he forced the house in the dead of the night, secured all the members, outraged the ill-fated women and then, driven to desperation, as he foresaw the consequences, deliberately murdered the whole family to destroy their evidence, and set the house" on fire in expectation that their death would be ascribed to accident.