The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1067, 2 March 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1880.

The Hospital Committee will meet .it the Secretary's office this evening, when some important business in connection with the institution will be dealt with. On and after to-day the receiving postal boxes -\Vhich are placed at Messrs Seddon and Barnet's premises respectively, in Scddoil street, will be closed, and corres-

pcndence in future for transit by the mails will be required to be deposited in the chief Post Office. At the Resident Magistrate's Court 'this morning, Margaret Birch, for larceny, was remanded to Thursday next. Bail was accepted, her husband in £lO, and one surety of £2O. E. Barff, Esq., J.P., was the presiding Justice. A Telegraph station is temporarily opened at Brightwater, Nelson, during the meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association. A meeting of the Irieh Relief Fund Committee was held at the Town Hall, last evening, Mr Dungan in the chair. ' After the minutes of the Wt meeting had i been read and confirmed and the outward correspondence approved o'f, a sub-dom-, ( mittee, consisting of his Worship the Mayor and Messrs Dungari, O'Hagan,, Moran, and Duggan, were appointed to = prepare a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the fund for publication in Kumaea Times. It was resolved thatt should a balance still remain after paying all liabilities, the Treasurer should forward it to the Lord Mayor of Dublin. A unanimous vote of thanks was accorded tto Mr Duggan for his able services as honorary secretary, as also Mr Dungan for his valuable assistance in carrying out to object of the committee. The committee then adjourned sine dfe. A new consultation is announced, uri - - der the name of the "Grey District Sweep (unlimited)" on \hb Greymouth "Jockey Club Handicap which will be run on the Omotumotu racecourse oh St. Patrick's day. On this occasion those being fortunate enough to secure horses therein will be enabled to witness the performances of their respective prizes on the day in question. The usual weekly parade of the local Rifles will be held at the Adelphi Hall this-evening, immediately after which a meeting of the committee of management will be held. The Grey River Argus learns that E. Masters, Esq., M.H.R., who left Greymonth last week en route for San Francisc6 for the benefit of Ms health-, on arriving at Nelson, consulted Dr Farrell, and that gentleman strongly advised Mr Masters to give up his proposed trip, and proceed instead to -.Melbourne. . This Mr Masters intends to do, and will probably visit Greymouth before proceeding to Melbourne. We would.draw the special notice fcf every adult male resident of the district to a notice, under the hand of the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Hokitilca, which appears in another column. As every person of the age of 21 or over, who has resided in this Electoral district for six months, and one year in any part of the colony, is entitled, under "The Registration of Electors Act, 1879," to be an elector ; and as the claims to vote. Gan be obtained of Mr Barton, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, there is no excuse for any properlyqualified persons name being omitted from the roll, except through their own inattention to the matter. A rumour is afloat that Sullivan, who caused such a sensation in New Zealand some few years ago by the way he used to murder and rob the gold diggers, was seen a few days ago at a farm of Mr. J. Sloan, which is aboht three miles from Wangaratta. It appears (says the Wangaratta Dispatch) that some young men, who were harvesting in Mr. Sloan's farm, aud sleeping in the hut at night, were awakened by a knock at the door. Upon the door being opened a man entered, who was immediately recognised as being Sullivan, the New Zealand by one of the young men who had met him before on a station in New South Wales. He looked very miserable, and asked for something to eat, and which Was given him. He then demanded a coat and trousers* but these could not be given him, as the men had ho spare clothes; Sullivan said he would not leave the hut until supplied with them, and the young men, rather than argue the question out with him—for he was not unharmed, as he carried a long sheath-knife—went away and left him in possession of the hut. Before they left Sullivan a3ked them where he could-get a horse, as he Wanted to go out to Warby's ranges to transact a little business. On the young men returning to the hut in the morning Sullivan had decamped*