The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1879.

Kumara Times, Issue 871, 16 July 1879, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1879.

We are compeiloiT, through, pressure on our columns, to hold over several items of local interest, as also a full report of the animal meeting of the subscribers of the Kumare Hospital. We are requested to state that nominations for members of the new Committee of Management for the Kumara Hospital may be left up to 10 p.m. this evening with Mr Foldio, of Dillman’s Town, or at the Secretary’s office, in Main street. Telegraph Stations are now open at Normanby, in the county of Patea, and at Stratford, in the county of Taranaki. The chess match between twelve players of The Load (including Air It. Bent, of Wcstbrookc) and twelve of Kumara will take place on Friday and Saturday next. The following are the names of the competitors, showing against whom they are pitted : KUMARA. THE LEAD. Petrie v. Ballantyne Pearson Hanson Wyldu Schlateu Scott Ball Horn cman Nicholaison Wiesner Bent Barnett Morgan Huxtablo Gill Connell Kennedy Toms Holst Johnson Smart J anion (captain) Palmer (captain). One game each will be played, the total scores deciding the match. The games ' will be played, most of them, in the Institute, Kumara. A ship canal through the peninsula of : Florida, from Matanzas Inlet to the head : of navigation on the Suwauee river, to ; unite the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico 1 is proposed. The length of the cut is | sever ty-five miles. The distance by this j route would he about 100 d miles loss from ' New V ork to Now Orleans than the route ' now saded. i The Peruvian ironclad Independence, j which was mentioned in our cablegrams. ! tile other day as having sunk in the action with two Chilian frigates, was built at Poplar. Loudon, lie" armameiU con.-isted entirely of Armstrong guns, ;>u ihv .Juno principal. Tw A'c of lh< so were 7‘ poumi,..-;, i.vhb;; : ; i, and ;.Jar:: on her m bn deei: : ;h.; • A a is iug i.r) pounders, wei'/lrdw 7 ion.; , : ,e:h and situated on the upper deck.

The now an Catholic Cathedral, in New York, which is to exceed all other ecclesiastical buildings in the States, was to have been dedicated an the 25th May last, the marble and iilbastev tabernacle is d.oco_ rated with mosaics and precious stones.