The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1125, 7 May 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1880.

The entertainment to be given by the Georgia Minstrels at the Adelphi Theatre this evening, is one deserving of the patronage of the community generally, inasmuch as it is for the benefit of an association through whose efforts there is every probability that the district may be permanently benefitted. The programme is an excellent one and cannot fail to give amusement and satisfaction, and this, taken in connection with the fact that every person who attends the Theatre this evening is individually and indirectly assisting in developing the resources of this district, should be more than enough to fill the house from floor to ceiling.

A meeting of the Arahura Road Board will be held at the office of that body in Stafford Town, on Wednesday next, for the transaction of some important business.

Mr Kaurt, one of the proprietors of the Oriental Exhibition, which is now open at Hokitika, yesterday visited this town and made arrangements for opening the Exhibition at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday next. The. articles to be exhibited are far too to particularise, comprising as they do all the wonders of Eastern skill can produce in the shape of either Woodwork or jewellery. The Exhibition will be open daily from 10 a.m. to. 10 p.m., and every visitor attending will receive a souvenir of their visit in the form of a present.

A fatal accident occurred at Barry's Bay Akaroa, on Saturday evening last, to a young man named Malcolm Kegg. It appears that the deceased was returning to his home in Barry's Bay in company with several others on horseback, when his horse was seen to gallop. Shortly afterwards his companions heard .a heavy thud, and on riding up .deceased was discovered lying on the road with his skull fractured. Death must have been instantaneous. An inquest was held yesterday, when a verdict of "Accidental death" waa returned.

A new and very expeditious way of solving a Native difficulty is reported from Manawatu. It appears that some strangers came to the Ordiia River, over which they wished to crossj but found their passage barred by the Maoris, who prevented them from doing sa. Some altercation ensued, but as the Natives would not give way, the travellers determined to force their passage, and for that purpose freely used their stockwhips, the result being that they accomplished . their end. The Manawatu Times liighiy approves the remedy, and adds that if the habit of dealing satisfaction out to the Natives, when such occurrences take place,- were more common, there would be a considerable falling off of that obstructiveness now so rampant with the Maoris*