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Kumara Times, Issue 613, 14 September 1878, Page 2

j A public meeting will be held at the ' Town Hall this evening, at 8 o’clock, to ; consider if it be necessary to take any public action relative to the proposed railway route ‘ between Hokitika and Greymouth;- As the subject is one of great importance to the district at large, and . affects the interests of the community generally, it is highly desirable that everyi one who can possibly, should attend, and j by vote or otherwise express their | opinions on this question, i One of those singular and remarkable ’ dreams that wo sometimes read about but j rarely are able satisfactorily to prove, and j which science has as yet not furnished us ; a key to their solution, transpired a few j days ago ; and as the parties are or were well known to many people in this locality, we give the particulars as i furnished to us by a friend of one of the j persons alluded to, and we are also able to j furnish names and places. As is usual in j a h dreams, there are two parties directly ! concerned—the dreamer and the dreamt of. In this case the former is a miner | working at Reefton, and his name is Mat- | thew Walker ; the latter was poor William j M‘Levio, whose existence in this world ' terminated last Wednesday morning. M‘Levio was injured, and as it proved, fatally injured, on Thursday, September sth, in a claim on the Kumara .goldfield. I Walker, an intimate friend of M‘Levie’s, and at the time living at Reefton, dreamt , on the Friday night following that | M'Lovie was killed, and that ho had no : mark on his body showing the immediate . causa of death. So concerned was he ' about the dream that he told all his mates of it, who, of course, regarded it not. But it ’proved to be true, or nearly so, and IVFLevie’s body remained until after death without a mark to show the in jure ' he had sustained by the accident, it

may be stated that the two places are apart as the crow flies not less than 50 miles, and if we give the most direct route by road they are 60 miles distant. Walker had no means of knowing of the casualty which had befallen M‘Levie, for death not being immediate, and, in fact, the injury not being considered at the time even more than a severe shaking, no telegram was sent either to Press Agency or to M‘Levie’s distant friends. A day or two before his death, which took place at the Greymouth Hospital six days after he had sustained the injury, a telegram was sent to his friend Walker, who lost no time in hurrying to Greymouth ; but before his arrival the spark of life remaining in his now deceased mate had quitted its mortal shell, and the two friends spake to each other no more. A waggon will leave Rugg’s Hotel on Monday next, for Christchurch, carrying passengers and luggage., ■. Competition is the soul of trade and the means of reducing the,staff of life, as it will be seen by our advertising columns that there is another reduction made by the bakers of this town in their prices, As several fires have occurred lately through foul chimneys, thereby necessitating the owners appearance at the Magistrates Court, it would be advisable for any person whose chimney’s have been neglected to avail themselves of the services of a professional sweep now here from Greymouth, who is provided with all the necessary paraphernalia appertaining to this sooty occupation. Orders can be left at Gilbert Stewart’s Hotel Seddon street. The express train to run between Dunedin and Christchurch will leave Dunedin daily a 7.15 a. m. and reach Christchurch at 6.15 in the evening. It will stop at Timaru during twenty minutes, and at Oaraani ten minutes, and also at Palmerston, Waimate Junction, and Ashburton. Slow trains will also run daily between the intermediate stations, to act as feeders for the express. Hayes and Benhamo’s Circus is now at Christchurch. During the performance on Friday night, Mr Benhamp, in springing over Mr Hayes’s shoulder, slipped and fell in front of some galloping animals. For a moment it seemed as if he must inevitably be trodden under foot, but he had no sooner touched the ground than he threw himself out of the ring, landing amongst the chairs. Beyond a scratch and a shake he was unhurt, and resumed his part in the performance immediately. We have heard of many eccentric doings of Municipal Councils when attempting to frame laws, but an instance which has just come under our (Oamaru Mail) notice leaves all the others in the shade. The half dozen or so of wiseacres who constitute the Borough Council of Masterton (an inland • town in the Wellington Provincial district) solemnly framed a byelaw that “no person shall light a fire in the Borough of Masterton. ” This is certainly the richest thing of the kind that we have ever heard of. Brevity is no doubt the sr ul of wit, but when a bye-law is made so brief as to make it illegal for a man to make a fire for the purpose of warming his frozen toes, cooking his victuals, or obtaining the necessary hot water wherewith to warm his liquor, there is too much bevity if not wit about it. Surely the law makers of Masterton were anxious to avoid the possibility of getting into hot water. No doubt the people of Masterton were pleased to learn that the Colonial Secretary was opposed to such an amount of coolness existing in their delightful township, and has suggested the addition to the bye-law of the words” except in a properly constructed fire-place.” A Wellington paper states that it is reported that Dr. Hector is prepared ,to make an adaption of the telephone, so as to effect some important improvements in the accoustic properties of the House of Representatives, more especially with regard to the conveyance of sound to the galleries. The New Zealander has the following :—“We understand that His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby will really proceed to New South Wales as Governor for that colony,; upon his leaving New Zealand.” Gore aspired to send a congratulatory telegram to Earl Beaconsfield. THere was some difficulty in collecting the amount necessary to prepay the message. A genius residing in the locality suggested that the telegram should be. a “collect” one. The telephone was tried at Wimbledon for the first time this year. The ranges chosen were those of 800 and 1000 yards, and the communication by the new instrument was, of course, between the butt and the firing point. Rabbits are committing such depredations on the Hon. Neil Black’s estate, in .Victoria, that he is going to erect thirteen miles of rabbit proof fencing. Mr Black spends £3OOO a year in his war against the rabbits. A most lamentable affair has taken place in London. According to the police reports, it would seem that a woman having gone into the yard at the back of her dwelling-house in pursuit of a supposed hen-roost thief, was accidentally shot dead by her son, a lad of seventeen, who, being a Volunteer, had a rifle and ball cartridge in his possession, and, firing, out of the window at the robber, killed his own mother. Scipio said that 11 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.— [Advt.] For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, road fburrh _ [Auvr.J ' '