The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 624, 27 September 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1878.

A public meeting will be held at the Empire Hotel, Dillman’s Town this evening, to ascertain what support will be given towards sending out prospecting parties in the direction of the Christchurch road. As this is a matter that specially affects the mining community, it is to be hoped that all those interested will attend, and, by suggestions or otherwise, give their support towards this most desirable object. The sale advertised by Messrs F. A. Learmonth and Co., of the Teremakau dairy to-morrow at noon, is unavoidably postponed, as, in consequence of the flood in the river, it would be impossible for intending purchasers to attend. The. date on which the property will now be sold has been altered to Saturday, sth October.

The Christchurch coach did not arrive last night again, nor was it expected, the flooded state of the rivers utterly cutting off any possible communication. Up to yesterday afternoon the Post Office authorities had no idea of the whereabouts of the mails. . A telegram from the Bealey received at Hokitika stated that neither the ooach from Christchurch nor that from Hokitika has passed there,, also that that portion of the district was flooded more than five inches of water having fallen in a few hours. The telegram added'that it was hardley likely the mails would get through in a week: The weather still continues as bad as it can be, and that prophet of evil, as he may be called (Captain Edwin), predicts a continuation of it. .There has been no coach communication with Reefton for two days, (say’s the Argus) and it is doubtful if the mail will get through today. The s.s. Maori, which has the Suez mail on board, must have run for shelter down South, as she has not been reported at Westport The s.s. Waipara Is also supposed to have taken shelter southward. We understand that the water was turned on in the branch race to Mignonette Fiat this morning, and that the claim from which this name has been derived started to wash up for the first-time to-day—we trust with favorable results. At a crowded meeting held at Goldsborough re the deviation of the Hokitika and Greymouth railway line, a committee was formed, and telegrams, as follow, were decided upon, and forwarded to S. T. George, M.H.R., Edmund Barff, M.H.R., and to Sir George Grey :—“To S. T. George and E. Barff, M.H.R.’s. —At large and influential meeting held at Goldsborough, resolved unanimously that the only payable route for Hokitika and Greymouth railway would be via Kumara, Goldsborough, and Stafford. If constructed by ocean beach would be perfectly useless to six thousand of population in this district. Meeting expressed hope you would urge this view. Petition will be sent if required. Reply.— William Perry, Chairman Goldsborough Railway Committee.” Being always, by their contract, at the disposal of the Government, the Peninsular and Oriental Company could, if permitted to modify the mail service, on an emergency convey in their fleet of 44 vessels from 25,000 to 30,000 troops from India to Malta per month. Juan Gonzales, a Mexican living near Fort Concho, Texas is said-to -be-the best lasso thrower in the world. He throws a lasso 225 ft in length almost as accurately as a good marksman could shoot with a rifle. The Indian papers contain long accounts of the opening of the Empress Bridge across the Sutlej, in connection with the Indus Yalley Railway. This is described as a marvellous piece of engineering, consisting, of sixteen spans, each 250 feet long, and is the completion of one of the principal links of a vast chain of railway communication now in course of progress. The London Times thinks that women will get their rights when they ask for them. “The right to vote and sit in Parliament will be obtained when it is wanted, just as new bonnets and pony carriages and other luxeries are obtained now. Brothers and husbands will bo teased into granting what their female relatives are wishing for, and they will be j ust as able to refuse one kind of petition as I another. The woman will have her own way, whatever it may be. If they have I have not votes, it is because they do not 1 care for them. ”

In the late Russian campaign, 335 surgeons, out of a total of 2839, have died, being equal to about 12J per cent. In the Mexican expedition the rate of mortality among the surgeons was about 2d per cent., while that of the combatant officers was only about 4 per cent. Lightning struck the water at Wareham bay, Mass, the other day, and ploughing along for half a mile, narrowly escaped a fishing party in a boat. There are 80,000 Jews in New York, or more than ten times as many as in Jerusalem, and their wealth is estimated at £4,000,000. During 1877 no less than 1227 persons were killed on railways in the United Kingdom, the injured being nearly five times that number. More than 300 men are, it is stated by an Austrian paper employed in the torpedo manufactory of Messrs Whitehead and Co. at Fiume. The topedoes now being made are of three sizes, 14, 19, and 22ft. in length, and are capable of travelling at the speed of 21, 23, and 26 knots an hour respectively. As many as 7000 salmon are often taken at one haul of the seine in Alaska, some of them Weighing from forty-five to one hundred pounds each. For miraculous ernes by the use of Eucalypti Extract, read fourth page,— [Advt.J