The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1144, 29 May 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1880.

The Christchurch coach with two passengers and eight bags of mails passed the Bealey early this morning. The Literary Institute at Stafford Town was crowded last evening to hear Mr Seddou’s account of his stewardship as one of their members in the House of Representatives. The chair was taken by Mr Robert Davidson, and a vote of thanks was unanimously accorded Mr Seddon on the motion of Mr Byrne, seconded by Mr R. Burgess, for his able address ; also an expression of renewed confidence in him as their representative, and approval of the independent action assumed by him as regarded the position of parties in the House. A meeting of the Borough Council was held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening, when, after the inward and outward correspondence had been read and received, Mr Crams was appointed lamplighter of the Borough. The auditors fees for the present year were fixed at £G Gs, and, after passing a few accounts, the Council adjourned. The persons whoso premises are built on the South Town Belt (which extends from Mr Tait’s photographic studio in the Main road to the Borough recreation ground) will probably find themselves in an akward predicament, as at tire last meeeting of the Board of Health the following resolution was passed unanimously : “That the persons occupying the South Town Belt be informed that they are liable to be removed at any time, and they must not continue to fence in the ground.” Fresh tenders for a section of the Mikonui water-race, at Ross, close at the the Public Works Office, Hokitika, on Monday next, at noon.

We would again remind all those intending apply to the Licensing Bench for a renewal of their hotel business in this district that the applicatioms must be forwarded- to the Clerk of the Bench not later than Monday next. The drawing of Hannah’s grand art Union, which was postponed on Monday last in consequence of St. Patrick’s school will positively take place on Monday evening next. The few tickets remaining will be swept off this evening in Main street. If the opinions respecting the present Government expressed by the West Coast Representatives during their late addresses to their respective constituencies are to be relied on, the Hall Ministry should receive a fair and justifiable support at their hands during the present session. On this subject we find Mr Ssddon saying ‘ 1 He would say that neither he nor the people of this district had any cause of complaint against the present Government, as in carrying out the details they wore even superior to their predecessors.” Mr Fisher sums them up as follows : —“ He gave credit to Ministers for being very good business men, and the sort required in the present condition of the Colony.” Referring to the Hall Ministry, Mr Reeves is thus reported : “ With regard to the present Government, he believed they were conscientious men, and intended to do what was right. At the same time he thought there Was not go enough in them. So long as they were going on right he would not oppose them.” Mr Masters’ views on this subject are too well known to require quoting, and the Hon. Mr Gisborne, as on previous occasions, may yet see the error of his political ways, arid uphold a Ministry he at present has not secured a portfolio in. The remaining Coast member, Mr Reid, is unfortunately so infatuated with Sir George Grey that his action in regard to this honorable gentlemen may be briefly summed up as—Whither thougoest, 1 will go ; thy party are my party ; my journal is thy journal; thy friends are my friends, but my friends are not thy friends, Oh ! great pro consul. Intelligence from the Lyell, states that the prospects of the quartz mine opened at New Creek are promising. The winze has been sunk on the reef a distaxiCe of 20 feet, showing throughout remarkably rich gold. The Lyell Times states that there is nothing in the district to equal it. The Corporation of the City of London have arranged to have a handsome pedestal constructed to mark the city boundaries at the site of the old Temple Bar. The structure, which will be of white stone, resting upon a granite base, will be sft. broad, 17ft. long, and 33ft. high. It will be placed in the middle of the roadway, making due allowance for the widening of the road on the north side. The immense coalfields of the Chinese empire are slowly being developed, the superstitions of this strange people being overcome. In a district near Tchang, on the Upper Yang-tsi-ltiang, a coalfield extending over 75 sqnai’e miles has been t ipped. At Wo-tze-kow 10 beds of coal have been discovered ; one of them, lying only a hundred feet below the surface, is being worked, and at least 1,200,000 tons of anthracite have been exposed.