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Kumara Times, Issue 621, 24 September 1878, Page 2

The steamship City of Sydney, bringing the English, European, and American mails, arrived at Auckland this morning, fully one day before contract time. The passage from San Francisco to Auckland was accomplished in 22 days. The more important items of news have been anticipated by our cablegrams. The Government have granted a subsidy to the Kumara Prospecting Association of cent, per cent, on a wage not exceeding five shillings per diem. The Volunteers will parade for monthly inspection at the Public Hall this evening at eight o’clock. .... . A meeting of the Prospecting Association was held last evening, when it was resolved to hold a public meeting . at Dillman’s Town- on; Friday evening next, to ascertain what support Would be given towards sending out prospecting parties on the Christchurch road. A full report .of last night’s meeting is unavoidably held over until to-morrow. We remind chessplayers of the meeting to-night at Rugg’s Hotel, at 8 o’clock, to make arrangements for the chess tourney. Messrs Girdwood, Lahman and Co sold yesterday, at their rooms, Greymouth the mining lease, known as “ Langdon’s Lease,” for £455, Messrs Learmouth and Co, Hokitika, being the purchasers. In the course of a “fencing" case at Wellington, Mr Mansford, R.M., said it was the duty of an owner to keep his cattle in, and it was not for the adjoining owner to keep the cattle out of his pro" party. The other day (says the Nelson Mail), about 1 p.m„ Thos Rider and James M‘Cormick who were employed at Byrnes’s saw mills, Takaka, had just returned from dinner and taken off their coats to commence cross-cutting a tree when they heard something crack above their heads and both men looked up at the same time! and saw a large limb of the tree falling.

They ran to escape it, but in the excitement they ran against each other and fell. The limb struck Rider and killed him instantaneously. M‘Cormick received a severe bruise on the leg, but was not dangerously injured. They were both sober steady men, and much respected. The Thames Star says that the Land Court has gladdened the heart and filled the purse of many a creditor of years’ standing. In one instance a gentleman has collected £6OO of money from his dusky debtors which had been owing for about seven years, and which he had long since ceased to regard as an asset. An Ohinemuri resident also recovered bad debts to the tune of £9O or £IOO, and many others are ■ now congratulating themselves on the recovery of money they had regarded as lost. “The gentlemen who speculated in the purchase of the wreck of the Loch Ard are,” states the Wamambool Guardian, “ scarcely likely to find the venture a profitable one. • In addition .to the original purchase money, we are informed that a further sum of £2OOO. has been expended, and with very little to show for it. There is no sign of the ship' breaking up, and the opinion of the diver, who made a survey on the 21st, lust., is not very encouraging. He reports that casks of cement and other things of little value were to be seen, but nothing worth raising, added to which the siltation going on will render the work a very slow 1 and expensive one. It. is not unlikely • that when a favourable opportunity presents itself the purchasers may try a charge of dynamite, with a view to bursting the deck. * - In speaking of the match Australians v. Cambridge University, the Saturday Review pays the following tribute to the capabilities of the Colonel Eleven :—“lt Is probable that no eleven, either of Gentlemen or Players, could beat the University. The Australians have received their most decisive lesson, and yet, so uncertain is cricket, that on another day, they might make a, very good fight with their victors. They have justified professional criticism based on their performances at home. They are more than a match for most country elevens, and it seems extremely probable that the best possible Colonial eleven could meet the best possible eleven of- England. For a travelling team, which several good players (Mr Evans, for example) were unable to join, they have done wonders,. Their visit has been a source of healthy enjoyment to many thousands of people, and we trust that it has-been no less pleasant to themselves.” : That native Hindoo students ate acquiring a mastery not only of correct expression, but of accurate English historical knowledge, is shown by the following extract from an essay on Cromwell by a Baboo, which appears in the Allahabad Pioneer:—“ Oliver Cromwell was a very stern man. He destroyed Charles.l. by repeated beheadals. After this he was never seen to smile, but was frequently heard pensively to murmur, ‘lf I had oply served my God as I have served- my king, He would not have deserted me in my old age.’ ” ! Scipib said that “a valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve orie 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.-—[Adyt.] For miraculous cures by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page.—