The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 603, 30 August 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1878.

We are compelled to hold over additional San Francisco mail news.

From our telegraphic intelligence to-day we are glad to learn tliat the reported loss of the schooner Kaimna with ail hands at Kawahi is without substantial foundation.

Tlie adjourned special meeting of the Borough Council was held this afternoon to consider the advisability of the Mayor attending Christchurch re the railway question. Or. Oornfoot occupied the chair, and all the members were present with the exception of Cr. Hannan. After some discussion, the question was adjourned sine die. We understand that a letter has been received by the Borough Council from a firm in the town, representing the great damage done to their property by the footpath now under construction in Main street. To-day's meeting being a special one for another purpose the letter could not be received, but we presume that it will come under the consideration of the Council at their next ordinary meeting. A very narrow escape occurred to a miner at Larrikins yesterday. A bucket was being drawn up the shaft where he was working at the bottom when the rope broke. The man, however, happened to look up at the same moment, saw the danger, and stepped on one side thus saving himself from, in all probability, immediate death.

Intimation has been received by the officer commanding the Volunteers here that it is in contemplation to form a Colonial Rifle Association, which the Government seem willing to subsidize, and asking for the number of men here who would become members.

At the termination of the “fowl deed” t£ase in the Magistrates Court yesterday, a number of (.civil cases were disposed of.

I luxioli this iu<'.riui’.y mpiifi. anil the proceedings appear it; air (her .-art. of tin.-; paper. Tile maiden sab- of S. M. Goor-m ami Co., auctioneers, will take place at Dillman s Town at one o’clock to-morrow. Should the weilder of the hammer in the rostrum show the same indefatigable energy he exhibits in the Municipal Chamber, his first sale should be a convincing one.

The minds of many of our fellow citizens, inclusive of those on whom the municipal mantle lias fallen, are at the present moment greatly exercised over a notification issued under t!ie hands of the Returning Officer, for the election, on the 12th proximo, of three councillors in place of three who retire by rotation, and also that the nominations of candidates for the honor must be made before noon of this day week. As the mysterious workings of the rotation movement are unknown to the public at large, it is highly desirable that the names of the retiring councillors should be notified, as otherwise a member who intends to stand for re-election may probably be out in the cold on nomination day, and, on the other hand, one holding a seat may be again unnecessarily nominated for election. Rumour hath it that the Borough solicitor has been called in to settle this delicate question ; but we observe that in Ross tlxey interpret tlxe Act differently, and the whole .Council retire on the same day with the exception of the Mayor. It would seem that the return chess match with Greymouth will either not now take place or mxxst be considered as indefinitely postponed. The President Kuraai’a Chess Club to-day received the following letter from the Hon. Secretary Greymouth Chess Club “Dear Sir—ln my last letter I told you that I thought we should be in a position to play the return match with you sometime this month. 1 regret to say that such cannot now be done. We have unfortunately lost in Mr Cresswell one of our most promising players, and that, together with the unavoidable absence of oxxr President, Mr Greenwood, leaves our club at present very weak. It would therefore be impossible for us to pick a team that could compete with yours on anything like equal terms. We must therefore, I fear, postpone the match for a time.—Yours truly, F. Worsley, Hon. Sec,” Both the Hokitika and Greymouth bars have been unworkable lately, tlxe Waipara and . the Kennedy only succeeding in creasing the former after repeated trials. An attempt was made the Argus states to cut a channel through the North Spit, about 40 men being employed from 2 p.m. till 4 p.m., in cutting a gut through the shingle bank. At high water a good stream of water was running through the new channel, but as there was a very heavy sea on at the time, it will not be known until this morning, whether the efforts used to obtain tlxe object in view have been successful, or • whether the sea would be too strong for the water running out, and so block it up again. The same journal of to-day, says : —The attempt to cut a peniianent channel in the North Spit was not successful, the sea during Wednesday night having filled up nearly the whole of tlxe gap dug out. Yesterday afternoon a heavy gale from the north-west began, and still continues, and it is expected that this will have the effect of bringing home one of the spits, thus leaving a fair workable channel.

The prisoner Ellen O’Donnell, yesterday convicted of fowl stealing, was forwarded to the Hokitika Gaol this morning.

Tenders are invited before noon of the sth proximo for breaking road metal. Specifications can be seen at the Town Hall.

Several important personages, including ex-governors and judges, have recently bean arrested, and are now prisoners, for supposed disaffection to the Government, or complicity in the late murder of O’Keefe, the Home Secretary, who was buried with national honors on the 17th May.

A Greek gentleman who has recently returned from Athens says that the current of feeling in favour of England is wonderfully strong all over Greece. Not only is this the case in towns, but the peasants, who take a keen and intelligent interest in foreign affairs, are always arguing, “if only England will take us with her we shall be all right. ” 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, sciaticia, and 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.— [Advx.]