The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 619, 21 September 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.

A public meeting will be held at Stafford Town this evening, to take into consideration the advisability of asking the Government to have a survey made connecting Kumara, Goldsborough, and Stafford, with Greymouth and Hokitika by railway. We trust that our neighbours will fully endorse the resolutions passed at a public meeting held here on the same question. The disgraceful state of the road from the top of the Zigzag to where it passes the creek at the first sharp turn, requires the immediate attention of the authorities. Consequent on the building of the new bridge over the Teremakau a large amount of traffic necessarily passes over this road and its present shite not only necessitates additional labor were horses are engaged, but it is dangerous in the extreme, particularly at night, to pedestrians. We are informed that a petition will be presented to the Resident Magistrate, asking that the late election may be proclaimed null and void, on the grounds that one of the nominations received by the ■Returning Officer was not in with the Act. The opinion given by Mr Perkins, the Borough Solicitor, auent the late election, and which we published in last evening’s issue is throughly corroborated hv the Comptroller-General J. E. Fitz Gerald,

Esq., the drafter of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1870, who telegraphs today in regard thereto as follows :—“ Solicitor right. Evident mistake in Act. Have referred it to the Government. Act will probably be amended.” By the Taraura which sailed for Melbourne on Wednesday last, we observed that 24460z5. 9dwts of gold were forwarded by the Union Bank. Of this quantity the largest proportion is stated to from this district, and we are fully borne out in this idea by the returns that daily come under our notice. ■ A few days ago a party of five men washed up 460 z. for nine day’s work ; another well-known claim yeilded over 160 ounces, or almost similar to its last washing ; and we are credibly informed that the richest washing yet on the lead has taken place this week, giving its fortunate possesors £2O per week each.

A woman named Annie Smith who appeared at‘the Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday last for drunkenness, was early this morning arrested by the police on a charge of lunacy. She was forwarded to Hokitika this afternoon for medical examination.

The new Hospital building has been commenced by the contractors, and a large amount of the framework is already erected. As the new building compelled the taking down of a ponion of the old ward, the patients under the superintendence of the House Committee, were removed to a building in the Main street, where they state they are very comfortable and receive every attention. The Wellington Post has the following notice : —lt has been whispered that his Excellency the Governor and the Colonial magnates who occupied the special train from Lyttelton to Christchurch on the occasion of the opening of the Christchurch and Dunedin railway, had a narrow, if not a hair-breadth escape of summary annihilation in the'L • tteltoh tunnel, through which there is only a single line of rail. It appears from the statement made to us by certain of the passengers that one of the ordinary trains from Christchurch to Lyttelton on that occasion left the Heathcpte station,- which is just at the Christchurch end of the tunnel, and entered the tunnel on its way to Lyttelton. Suddenly the train was signalled to stop and back out of the tunnel, which it did, going into a siding at the Heathcote station. This was hardly accomplished, and the train only just off the main line when the “special” containing his Excellency the Governor, emerged from the tunnel and passed the station at full speed. Had the ordinary train been a minute later in getting back, a disastrous collision must have occurred. The explanation given is, that the telegram announcing the departure of the special train from Lyttelton did not reach Heathcote until just after the “ordinary” had started; hence both trains entered the tunnel at opposite ends simultaneously. The escape certainly was a very narrow one.

A Christchurch telegram in the Otago Daily Times says:—“Mr Rose has refunded £6 to the Canterbury Football Team which they paid to the coffee-stall keeper near the Athenaeum, on the .plea that the damage to the stall was done by Dunedin men. The Canterbury players are rather astonished, and naturally they have a delicacy about taking the money back. All this fuss has arisen from the bad taste and want of truth displayed by a Dunedin print, as the matter would have been quietly settled and never heard of but for its officiousness.” The telegram is perfectly true. D. Davidson and Co. beg to call the attention of their customers and general public to the arrival of a large stock of colonial boots, made by Lightband, Allen, and Co., .Christchurch, consisting of men’s watertights and elastic-sides, boys’ nailed (all sizes), and ladies’ kid and morocco; together with several cases drapery and clothing, making their several departments fully replenished.—D. Davidson and Co., Berlin House, Kumara,— [Advt.] 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.— [Advt.]