The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1016, 3 January 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1880.

The Chi istchurch coach with one passenger and four bags of mails for Kumara passed the Bealey at the usual hour this morning, and will arrive in town this afternoon. We learn that Archdeacon Harper, of Christchurch, will visit Kumara, during the ensuing week, and will preach at Holy Trinity Church, on Sunday, the 11th inst. His Lordship the Bishop of Christchurch, will hold a confirmation in this town on the 18th inst., and a sacred concort will take place, we believe, during his stay here. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs Barff and Seddon, J.Ps., Isabella Nidcl. for drunkenness, was fined 10s, or 24 hours' imprisonment. The same prisoner was charged also with habitual drunkenness, and sentenced to j one month's imprisonment, with hard I labor, in the Hokitika gaol. Walter Williams, fur using obscene language, J was fined 20s, or the usual alternative. ° I The telegram we published last evening ! from the United Press Association gave Petrea aa -second, and . Yfelliilgton as third for the great Champion race. A ! subsequent Renter's message,: however, ! has been received which transposes the-1 second and third hdrses. Again, our last j

evening's; message stated that eight horses started, while, the other message gives .seven as the number. Although, doubtless* 1 there; is great excitement even among' telegraphic operators at the termination of^ tie 'champion ;race, -would more satisfactory '"if"" a telegram of this nature," and one "which is eagerly awaited throughout the 1 , colony,; was transmitted without these annoying mistakes.

. The first prize in Stewart's sweep on the Victorian Champion Race was won by Messrs Gilbert Stewart, of this town, and. .M'Beth, of Efelson Creek; the second goes to Messrs M l Dougall r and Jones, of Larrikins • and the third of the Greenstone. Strangely enough .the first prize was won with a ticket out of a book Mr Stewart sent to Nelson Creek, and which, when forwarding he as a matter of form .filled in a ticket conjointly for himself and the party who was to dispose of the remainder.

• The fortunate winner of the first prize in Hannah's Art Union, a magnificent gold'watch by Rotherham, with chain attached, was Mr Whatham of the Bank of New Zealand, of "this town.

A meeting of the Children's Picnic Committee will be held at the Town Hall on Monday evening, to finally settle all matters connected with the late picnic.

Mr Stanton notifies, in another column, that he will resume his scholastic duties at the Kumara Academy on Monday nest. On Wednesday evening- the body of a man was found "on the beach near the foot of the Waimea track. It was perfectly naked, and the skull was much battered and broken. The body was cbnVeyed to Stafford • Town, and oil Thursday Dr James made a post mortem examination. For some tune the remains were not identified, but subsequently they were recognised by Mr Harcourt to be those of a miner named William Frost, who has been working up the Arahura River beyond the gorge.. From what is known at present, it seems that Frost hurt one of liis legs about a fortnight ago when working at his claim. An attempt was made to bring him down to Harcburt'B, hut he preferred to remainr" It is supposed that subsequently, in attempting to cross the Arahura River he was drowned, and the body washed .out to sea. The skull is conjectured to have been broken by contact with the boulders in the river. An inquest was heid at Stafford yesterday by the Coroner, Dr Giles, on the body of William Frost, miner. The evidence of Dr James, who made a post mortem examination went to show that the deceased had met with his death by drowning, the condition of the air vessels forbidding the conclusion that the body had been thrown into the water after death. A verdict of " Found drowned " was returned.

As Mr Duncan M'Lean, of Greymouth, is relinquishing the wholesale business, heads of families and others can enjoy the same facility at the Kumara branch of laying in large supplies of groceries, &c, for cash, as he is determined to give the consumer the benefit of the large purchases made prior to the increase in the tariff.—[Advt.]