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Kumara Times, Issue 591, 19 August 1878, Page 2

It has been rumoured for some little time past that certain changes were about to be made in the Goldfields Department, and more than one of our contemporaries has called attention to the matter, each expressing its own peculiar views. Mr Warden Price was ordered to take charge of the Westport and surrounding District, but we now learn on reliable authority, that the proposed changes are postponed for the present. Surely the Government might have sufficiently considered the matter in all its bearings before putting our Wardens and Magistrates to the inconvenience of preparing for removals, the orders for which are subsequently countermanded.

A meeting of the members of the Prospecting Association will take place this evening, at which the second report of the prospecting party is expected to be received.

Wo would draw the special attention of those of our readers who are suffering with the New Guinea fever to our telegrams of to-day. From these it will be seen that instead of the splendid returns reported a short time ago, there is at present very little, if any gold discovered, but that misery and sickness predominate ; and this is from no less an authority than the captain of H.M. ship Sappho. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before R. J. Seddon, Esq., J.P., Margaret Glynn, alias Mary Anna Taylor, for being drunk and disorderly was, on the application of the Inspector of Police, remanded to Thursday next. This woman'is a perfect pest to the residents of Main Road south, and when under the influence, her language is, to say the least, disgusting. Too "remand wa.s applied for to produce evidence of this fact, and it is to be honed that, if proved, the neighbourhood wifi be cleared of a thorough nuisance for some time to come.

Travellers on the Christchurch road will be glad to learn that Mr Macandrew, in reply to Mr George, stilted that it was toy intention of the Govenimait to construct a bridge over the river Taipo, between. Christchurch and Hokitika.' The final game in the chess tournament for throe players to make up six to represent Kumara in the return match with Greyraouth was playoa at the Literary Institute on Saturday evening last, when Mr Gill won ills second game from Mr

Holst. There were three games played between these two well-matched competitors ; the first game, which resulted in a draw, did not count. As we stated previously, Messrs Ball and Wiesner secured respectively first and second places, and now Mr Gill, having defeated Messrs Petrie and Holst (who tied him with a score of 6 each) takes third place. The three first players for the match having been chosen by the Chess Club Committee before the tournament commenced, the team this time will consist of the following Messrs Gross, Janion, Palmer, Ball, Wiesner, and Gill. With one exception, it will be seen, the team is the same which represented Kumara on the last occasion ; Mr Wiesner takes the place of Mr Lowrie, who has left the district. This interest which has been manifested in chess (hiring the progress of' this tournament, and the not unequal calibre of the players has led some to suggest that another tourney on the same principle, for a sweepstakes, would be likely to be well patronised; whilst others favor the idea of a match between Hillman’s Town (including Larrikin’s) and Kumara. It is expected the match with Greymouth will take place during the present month; it therefore behoves the selected players to go in for practice if they are to sustain the reputation they won by the first match, for we understand the Greymouth team will be strengthened for this second contest. We learn that the unfortunate lunatic who escaped from the Asylum in Hokitika last Saturday has been recaptured, none the worse for his nadatory excursion. A Dunedin councillor paid a visit to Hokitika the other day. Being struck with the excellent quality of the gas-light there he determined (says the Morning Herald) to pay a visit of inspection to the works. In company with a friend, he entered the yard of the Gasworks. Noticing a man in his shirt-sleeves wheeling along a barrow-load of coke, he courteously enquired for the engineer. The man put down the barrow, pulled himself together so as to look as dignified as possible, and replied, “I am the engineer, sir.” Our Dunedin friend, with his Dunedin notions, was politely sceptical, and repeated his request. He of the wheelbarrow reiterated the information given, adding, “l and Jim there run this concern between.us.” And such was the fact. The Dunedin councillor has 'returned home, and this may account for the turn tilings have now taken in Dunedin.

The Hawke’s Bay Herald records an important decision. Mr Beetham, R.M., gave judgment in the, telegram case Keener v. Wilson, in the R.M. Court. It was a claim of one shilling as payment for a telegram sent to defendant by his wife at Dunedin, but was not paid for by him, the message not having been marked “collect.” It was afterwards found out by the .Dunedin office that the telegram had not been paid for, and, the sender of it having left for Ha - -ier, payment was demanded of Horace Wilson, the sender’s husband, but was refused by him. The Mfigistrate, upon several grounds gave judgment for the defendant. Mr W. Cook, the celebrated English bLUiard player, contemplates a visit to Australia, and is expected to leave England during the latter part of June. Cook considers that he was not fairly treated by Roberts, who had arranged with him to go to Australia.

The expenditure of the Russian army in Turkey is two millions sterling a week, and the loss of men 100,000. It is probable that the financial condition of the Empire, when the whole occupation comes to an end, will be one of considerable embarrassment. The necessity for coming to a speedy understanding with England and Austria must have been great. Yon can’t depend on American flour. A loaf of bread passed into Leavenworth Gaol, Kansas, contained t<vo files, a knife, a bottle of acid, and a roll of money. A country which grows such wheat as that cannot fail to go ahead very fast. For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Advt.] 6 Scipio said that “a valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen, than to destroy a thousand enemies. ” Gollah on a similar principle, destroys the thousand pains of rheumatism, sciaand lumbago, by his “ Great Indian Cures,” the wonder of the nineteenth century. Testimonials may be seen in another column, and medicines may be procured at all Chemists.— [Advt.]