The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 618, 20 September 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1878.

Although not for one moment depreciating the interest taken by the citizens of this town in Municipal matters, we are strongly of opinion that the crowded state of the Town Hall last evening arose from some other cause. If those who did attend expected a scene on account of the recent election they evidently were disappointed, as the meeting, was of a particularly business-like and orderly character.

In our report of the proceedings of the Hospital Committee on Wednesday last we inadvertently stated the sum of £2 was received for the sale of annual tickets from the Rev. E. A. Scott, though correct in a pecuniary, sense we were in error in the individual one, as it should have read Mr J. Scott, of Larrikin’s. The first pile of the long-spoken-of bridge over the Teremakau river, connecting the Grey and Westland Counties, was driven yesterday afternoon with the usual amount of ceremony displayed on these occasions. The new six-horse vertical hoisting engine, imported expressly for this work from Melbourne by the contractor Mr Blake, worked splendidly. The chain usually employed to raise the monkey, was attached to the massive pile, and it was quickly hoisted from its recumbent position on the beach to a perpendicular one in front of the derrick. The monkey which weighs over 30 cwt was then brought into play, and its persuasive powers gradually and efficiently soon sent down eighteen feet of black birch, a foot square, into the hard shingle of the river bed. The piles now being driven are not the height of the intended bridge, as others have again to be scarfed on these before the first timbers are laid. Should the weather prove favorable there is little doubt but that the contractor will soon have the work well in hand, judging from the manner in which the first two piles were driven home yesterday afternoon. A sad accident happened at Stafford yesterday says the West Coast Times. Two men, named George Houldsworth and George Fyfield, were working in a claim there, when a fall of earth took place, completely burying the former and partially covering the latter. Assistance was quickly rendered, and the men soon extricated, but Holdsworth was perfectly insensible, and suffering from a very serious wound on the head. Fyfield, beyond a few bruises on his feet and legs, was not injured. Houldsworth was at once taken to the Hospital, being insensible all the journey, and Dr. James was promptly in attendance. He found the injured man suffering from a compound fracture of the skull and severe concussion of the brain. He visited the patient twice, and when he left at 10 o’clock last night the symptoms were more favorable, though there are very slight hopes of the unfortunate sufferer’s recovery. There are seventeen entries for the chess tourney. The list is open till ten o’clock to-morrow night for players desiring to take part in it. Sides are intended to be chosen, and all preliminaries arranged at a general meeting of the competitors to be held at Rugg’s Hotel on the Tuesday following. The chess consultation game is held over till to-morrow. 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.—[Advt.] For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.—