The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 620, 23 September 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1878.

A serious accident happened to a Chinaman named Ah Sara at Dillman’s Town last evening. Having obtained a situation as Cook, he was proceeding home for his swag, and in passing a largo sluicing claim known as the “ Snobs,” he unfortunately, in the darkness, went through the fence around the claim, and fell over a distance of forty feet to the bottom. Some persons living in close proximity heard the fall and moans, and speedily extricated him from his dangerous position. He was at once brought down to the Hospital and on examination it was found that besides several serious scalp wounds, four of his ribs were broken. There being at present no resident medical attendant, he was promptly attended to by the wardsman, and we should gather from the patient’s replies on being interviewed to-day, that the treatment he received, must not only have alleviated his pain but must have been otherwise beneficial, as he said it was “ welly good, soon makee better.” A miner named John Beostrode was admitted to the Hospital this morning suffering from a severe shock he had received. It appears that in company with his mates he was cross-cutting a tree on which another had lodged, and that seeing the other falling, he ran to clear himself, but in so doing came in contact with a stump, which, striking him .in the region of the heart, caused the injuries complained of. We hear he his progressing favorably, as the shock to the system was the chief injury he sustained.

We hear that there is every probability of the Government granting a subsidy to the Kumara Prospecting Association. At the meeting to-morrow evening, we shall no doubt learn the full particulars relative thereto. At the sitting of the Licensing Court at Greenstone to-day, the application of William Murdoch for a new license for his hotel at Greenstone was granted. Tha application of James Riordan for a bottle license was refused, on the ground that as there were five public houses in the district there was no necessity for a bottle license. We understand that there is every probability of the Erin-Go-Bragh water-race being opened during the ensuing week. As this is a work that will confer a great benefit on the mining community on the opposite side of the river, its completion has been anxiously awaited. . The monthly inspection of the local. Rifles will be held in the Public Kail tomorrow evening, at eight o’clock at which the attendance of every member is neces-. sary. ' There were no less than 21 entries for the chess tourney, in which sides will be chosen by two captains who may be appointed at the meeting which is to be held at Rugg’s Hotel at 8 o’clock to-morrow -night. This tourney promises to be a most successful affair, as these encounters over the board are freed from all the disputes which so frequently arise in telegraph, consultation, and correspondence chess matches. The chbosing of aides, the number of games to be played, and all other arrangements will be made at the meeting. We understand it is competent for any chessplayer who has not yet entered the list to do so at the meeting, the promoters being desirous of increasing the number to 24, if practicable. During the debate on the Electoral Pill' Mr Woolcock mentioned the fact that two Comishmen had been struck off the roll, on the ground that they were unnaturalised foreigners. The revising officer had judged by their name, Molitte, that they could not be Britons, and without further inquiry had drawn his pen through their names. The aggregate amount netted by the carnival in aid of the Dunedin Benevolent Society up to last Tuesday night was £I6BO. It is expected that £1760 will be reached. The band at the Christchurch banquet were rathe? hard on the Ministry, when the toast of His Excellency’s Advisers was proposed. The air they, considered appropriate to the occasion was “ The Vicar of Bray.” „ One of the members of the House of Representatives, in the course of a recent debate, spoke as follows “I am afraid to allude to anything scriptural, because we always get rebuked for doing so; but' when a great blessing was promised to a ; nation which had become the glory of all nations, there was no better land offered 1 to do it than that which we here possess—, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and: hills—a land of wheat and barley and vines—a land where we may eat bread without scarceness—a land where we shall not. want anything—a land whose stores are iron, and out of whose hills we may dig brass. All we want is wisdom in pur laws,” &c. Thereupon Mr Sheehan said that he thought his honourable friepd’s quotation was exceedingly appropriate, and fairly descriptive of this country—“a country which we cannot kill by bad legislation, or bad government, or it would have been killed long ago.” The captain of the Whittington complained to the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, that a clerk who hadgiven him a half-crown with a hole in it, in chatnge, had refused to accept the same in return in payment of a Court fee. His Worship declined to have the business of the Court interrupted by such a-com-plaint. The Chronicle says the Clerk of the Court was very lax in his duty in not demanding the usual fee for making an application to the Bench. , A lady teacher in a country school, who evidently as her own opinion as to the use of tobacco, has taken occasion, in a letter addresed to the Board of Education, to hint her objections to the practice of smoking pipes at thier meetings indulged in by members of the local School Committee. What effect, if any, her hint will have upon the Committee-men remains to be seen. The following advertisement is taken from an American paper—“A very quiet lady, housekeeping alone in a very • large house, well filled with steady paying gen-tlemen-lodgers only, desires to hear of some quiet, capable (New England preferred) lady who would be’glad to shoulder the housekeeping responsibilities, thus enabling the advertiser, untrammelled, to travel and return at will. Such a chance seldom presents itself to any. one willing to wink at a slight disregard of the conventionalities in their search for an opportunity to economise, and at the same time, at comparatively modest expense, to share really elegant quiet home comforts.— Trammelled, Box 152. Herald, up-town office.” A somewhat novel editorial difficulty was announced in an'lndian paper a few weeks since as follows; “We have to apologise to our readers for the paucity of matter in to'-day’s issue in consequence of some of our staff having absconded after having drawn more pay than was due to them.” Lord Rolle once commanded a regiment of Yeomanry cavalry. He was fond, says a contemporary, of addressing homilies to the men under his command from a hollow tree on the parade-ground, which hence came to be called “Lord Rolle’s pulpit.” On one occasion two of his men had been brawling and creating a disturbance, and, after reading them a long lecture upon the evils of drunkenness and

disorderly conduct, Lord Roile concluded by assuring the culprits that he would “ have no fighting men in his regiment.” Watch-manufacture in America continues to increase. The Waltham Watch Company, founded in 1854 in Massachusetts, employs 1,360 workmen, and turns out 425 watches a day. The Elgin Watch Company employs 970 wokmen, and turns out 300 watches a day. Altogether the United States, which manufactured only 15,000 watches 16 years ago, now turn out a quater of a million. These watches are formidable rivals to the Swiss and are bought in large numbers for Russia and England. D. Davidson and Co. beg to call theattention of their customers and general public to the arrival of a large stock of colonial boots, madebyLightband, 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.] For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.— [Adyx.J