The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 758, 5 March 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1879.

A meeting of the Hosptial Committee will be held at the Secretary’s office this evening, when the report of the House Committee, on certain charges made by' the medical attendant against the wardsman, will be brought up. The Commissioners of the Education Board evidently intend to bring matters to an issue relative to their legal rights to the revenue derivable from the ReserVe here, as we understand that a number of the occupants thereon have received notice that the amount of their yearly rentals must be paid forthwith. As, in many instances the rents are long overdue, the Board must have been extraordinarily negligent in their collection, or otherwise their title to the Reserve, of which So much has been heard, lias only lately been perfected. ; Another of those fatal accidents so common to a mining community (says the Grey River Argus of to-day) occurred yesterday afternoon to an old resident of Maori Gully named Dennis Hurley. It appears that the unfortunate man, who is a native of Clare, and a countryman of Doody and Welsh, from the burial of the former of which he only returned yesterday, was engaged in deepening a tail-race along with his mate (Thomas Hannon), when, striking a loose seam, the sides of the race, which were cut through a brown reef, gave way, and buried the deceased up to the shoulders, killing him instantaneously. Hurley was a single man, about 30 years, of age, and has been working on Maori Gully for the last 12 years. ° An inquest on his remains will be held to-day. This makes the third fatal accident in the Maori Gully district within the last five weeks.

A meeting of the Borough Council will be held at the Town Hall to-morrow evening.

Tenders are invited for additions to the Post and Telegraph Offices, Kinuara. Tenders will close at the District Engineer’s Office, Greymouth, on Thursday, the 13th instant.

A very valuable property will be submitted by public auction at Westbrooke, on Saturday next, consisting of Murphy’s well-known hotel, and ten acres of freehold land, laid down in English grass, making one of the finest dairy farms in the district. The auctioneer on this occasion will be Mr W. B. Moss, of Greymouth, whose reputation as a “ knight of the hammer ” of the sister town, combined with the fact that the property, as announced by advertisement elsewhere, is a very valuable one, offering a grand chance to any purchaser, should ensure a large attendance at Westbrooke on the day of the sale.

A meeting of the Jackson’s Bay Commission was held at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Hokitika, yesterday afternoon, when" the evidence of John Murdoch, who lodged various complaints against the Resident-Agent, was heard. A note of nil these complaints were taken by the Secretary to give Mr Macfarlano an opportunity of reply. It was arranged that Amos Nicholson should give evidence to-day, and Frar.v Snarz, a-Pole, and John Tobin, a German, for both of whom Mr Moyer acted as interpreter, Were requested to hold themselves in readiness t i attend after Mr Macfarlane’s arrival from South. Mr Patten was requested to have a statement of accounts of the Settlement prepared, and proceedings then stood adjourned till II a.m. this day.

The Hawke’s Bay Herald's Wairoa correspondent telegraphs as follows Te Kooti has warned the Natives at Onepoto, Lake Waikamona, not to eat or sleep in their settlement for a months or they will be destroyed by pestilence. The Natives have in consequence left their kiangas id a body, and are camped out On the banks of the Waikarehaki awaiting orders. At present there are only five men and a fiergernt stationed at Onepoto. It certainly seems like tempting Providence, to leave an important post in the heart of the Uriwera country, where Te Kooti's Word is law, so weakly garrisoned. The detective told off to take Mr Potter, the Glasgow Bank Director, into custody, had once been in his employ, and for that reason was selected for the duty. Mr P otter, like most of his brother Directors, numbered himself araongthe “unco’ guid,” and when the detective knocked at his door was engaged at family prayers, and in the act of leading off the hymn, “ the hour of my departure’s come,” to the tune known as “ Duke Street,” In a very few minutes the moarl of both hymn and tune was practically enforced, for the Bank Director did depart, not, however, for Paradise, but to Duke street Gaol.

Mr VV. Will way having sold his plant and interest in the Dyking Business to Mr R. Ui’John (who has become practically acquainted with the trade), begs to solicit the kind patronage hitherto afforded him to his successor.—Mrs Upjohn announces that she is prepared to clean and dye hats, feathers, gloves, &c. , in the best style. N.B.— Gentlemen’s clothes cleaned, dyed, pressed, and repaired on the premises. —Advt.

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