The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1098, 7 April 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1880.

By the Christchurch coach, which passed the Bealey early this morning, there are two passengers and four bags of mails for Kumara, which, should the rivers permit, will reach here at the usual hour this afternoon. Some little excitement was caused in town late last evening by the report that a man had drowned himself in the Teremakau River. Information having been given to the police, a constable at once proceeded to the scene of the supposed suicide, and although the night was dark and tempestuous, a diligent search was made for the body. At daylight this morning the search was vigorously continued by the police and other persons, but without avail. Shortly after nine o’clock this morning, however, word was brought to the camp that the body of the missing man had been found ; and so it proved—but in this instance the supposed deceased was found to be almost as well able to walk home as those who had been in search of him. It appears that, provided with a bottle of brandy, he had quietly spent the-night under a log about four chains on this side of the river where he was found this morning. When discovered, he reported having lost some money last evening, but although the spot where he slept and the adjoining road and bush were searched, no trace of the missing cash could be found. The name of this unlucky individual who caused all this unnecessary trouble is,Owen M'Nally, and his residence at the present moment is the Police Camp. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, Elizabeth Campbell, for making use of obscene language on Sunday last in' Seddon street, ; was fined £5, or i n default two months’ imprisonment. E. Barff, Esq., J.P., was the presiding Justice.

In consequence of last night’s rain work was enabled to be resumed to-day at Blake’s saw mill, much to the gratification, we presume, of those employed therein.

A meeting of the Hospital Committee was held at the Secretary’s office last evening ; present—Messrs Bearn (in the chair), Mansfield, Agncw, Campbell, and Spyers. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence approved of. The quarterly balance-sheet was brought up and adopted,—as also the Medical Officer’s and Wardsman’s reports for the same period. The Secretary was instructed to write to the Greymouth Board of Health, re account for medical attendance and bedding supplied to Ah Kum, a Chinese leper, who recently died at Westbrook. Mr Drummond’s name was added to the Committee; and, accounts to the amount of £59 18a having been passed, the meeting adjourned.

From a private telegram received today we regret to that Mr Cornfoot, late of the firm of Cornfoot and Stenhouse of this town by the fire which occurred at Wanganui last night sustained a loss of £ISOO, as his property destroyed was valued at £3OOO and the insurance theron was only one-half that amount. By our telegrams from Gisborne we observe that Mr Matthew Price, the late respected Resident Magistrate and War* den of this district, has been indulging in some of his old eccentricities, which the Sergeant of Police there fails to appreciate.

The list of matches for the Australian Eleven have been received, and include the following :—Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Dublin, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Scarborough, Hastings, Sussex, Birmingham, Lancashire, Orleans Club, Marylebone, Daft’s late American Eleven, Northumberland, All England Eleven, Gentlemen of England, and Players of England. The New South Wales crew in the eight-oar intercolonial boat-race for April 10th have arrived at Melbourne, and started active work.

Another body was discovered among the wreckage of the Tay Bridge the other day, it was that of a young man named James Murdoch, who had been employed for some time as an engineer in London, and had written to his parents at Dundee that he intended to spend the new year holidays with them, and that he would leave London with the steamer on December 27. Unfortunately he missed the boat, but in fulfilment of his promise to be in Dundee on the Sunday night, he travelled by rail. Mdlle. Rosa Bonheur has received from the King of Spain a Commander’s Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic. This is the first instance of such a distinction being conferred upon a woman in Spain. Mr Ashmead Bartlett, who has been sent by Lady Burdett-Coutts to report upon the distress in Ireland, is the same gentleman who went out to Turkey for her lartyship during the late war, and distributed funds for the refugees from Bulgaria. It is said to be the baroness’s intention to raise a fund in London under her own auspices, she giving a large sum to start it with, should Mr Bartlett’s report show that relief on a large scale is necessary in Ireland.

He stood with his ear to the telephone, At a time when he hadn’t oughter, And caught the words in a distant room Of his only child—a daughter. The sounds he heard to his heart sharp went Like the stroke of a reaper’s sickle; “Oo! Oo ! good gracious! Neddie, dear, How your moustache does tickle !”

Then the father, he Went quite crazee, And bare his bosom throwing, He stabbed himself with the telephone

wu-e And set his life-blood flowing. —Andrew’s Bazaar.