The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1072, 8 March 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1880.

The Christchurch coach, with ten passengers for Hokitika, arrived at Goodfellow’s shortly after noon to-day and the mails were delivered in Kumara at two o’clock. The delay was occasioned by the heavy floods in the rivers and creeks. As some misconception appears to exist relative to the new Roll to be compiled under “The Registration of Electors Act, 1879,” and that under this Act every person has to send in a claim to the Registrar to enable him to vote, we may state that such is not the case, as the Act reads, clause G—“ As soon as conveniently may be after the commencement of this Act, the Registrar of every electoral district shall form a new roll for such district, by placing thereon the names of all persons who are qualified in such district to vote for members of the House of Representatives, and who are on the roll of any electoral district in force at the time of the commencement of this Act.” The balance-sheet of the Irish Relief Fund, which .appears in another column, speaks volumes for the generous spirit that prevails throughout the district at large when the cause is a worthy one and the object the alleviation of real distress—no matter, as in this instance, should those suffering be separated from us by thousands of miles> Looking at,the large amount contributed the expenses incurred are highly creditable to the committee as they not only form a very small item in the disbursements, but they were expenses which of necessity arose in the collection of the distress fund. Compared with the Hokitika Carnival in aid of the same object, our Southern friends would do well to imitate this balance-sheet in the way of expenses on future occasions.

Yesterday information was received by the Police that the tunnel tail-race of Grogan and party, at Westbrooke, had been robbed of about GOozs. of gold. The robbery is supposed to have taken place between noon on Saturday and early yesterday mortiing, at which time it was discovered. Among the - names' successful pupil teachers in the distndpfcf Westland who passed at the last annual examination, we observe Miss Jaiiefc tiornfoot,, late of the Kumara State School, was second on the list of the first-class candidates, with 617 marks. In the candidates of the fourth class, Master R. Wylde took first honors, with 346 marks, and Miss M. J. Howe second, with 290, both being engaged in the State School here as pupil teachers. Tenders for eleven chains of fluming, labor only, required for the Okuku waterrace, will close at the manager’s office, Seddon street, this evening, at eight o’clock. “ There is not,” wrote the editor of the Deadwood Daily Champion, “a quieter, more peaceful, Well-regulated and orderly community in the whole western country.” And then as the .office-boy entered to say that there was somebody Wanted to see him, he took his bowie between his teeth put a Kelt’s new-pattern sevenshooter on the desk in ifront of him, and said, “ Jim, get out another coffin—plain one this time—and let the son of a gun in!” The heart (writes “Salvia” in the Canterbury Times) is probably the most efficient piece of physical apparatus knowti. From a purely mechanical point of view, it is something like eight times as efficient as the best steam engine. It may be described, mechanically, as little more than a double force pump furnished with two reservoirs and two pipes of outflow ; and the maiii problem of its action is hydrO-dyrianlical: The left ventricle has a capacity of about three ounces; it beats 75 times a minute ; and the work done in overcoming the resistance of the circulating system is equiyalent to lifting its charge of blood a, little short of ten feet (9 - 923ft)j The average Weight of the heart is a little under ten OuilcOs (9 : 390z); The daily work of the left ventricle is,, in round numbers, ninety foot-tons ; adding the work of the right ventricle, the work of the entire organ is nearly one hundred and twenty-five foot-tons. The hourly .work of the heart is accordingly equivalent to lifting itself .twenty thousand feet an hour.