The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1150, 5 June 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1880.

The Christchurch coach, with five bags of mails but no passengers for here, passed the Bealey early this morning. The new steam engine imported from Melbourne by Mr Maher, the contractor for the Kumara sludge-channel, to be utilized for raising the stuff from the tunnel by means of the shaft lately put down, left Hokitika this morning, and will probably reach here this evening. The engine we understand, will be conveyed to its destination by means of Mr Blake’s tramway. Mr D. 0. Cameron, G.W.T. of the 1.0.G.T., arrived here last Thursday evening from Hokitika, and presided the same evening at a meeting of the degree members of the district at Dillman’s Town. Last night he inspected the Juvenile Temple, and subsequently was present at a meeting of the Sons of Temperance. To-night the Grand Lodge degree will be conferred by Mr Cameron on all members who may be eligible and we understand that a united meeting of the Kumara Eagle and Greenstone subordinate Lodges will also be held. Mr Gilbert, dentist, of Greymouth, having arrived in town, may be consulted this evening at Mr Stewart’s Hotel, in Seddon street, on all matters in connection with dentistry. As Mr Gilbert leaves again for Greymouth, to-morrow, those requiring his services should interview him this evening. We would direct the special attention of all those desirous of enjoying a pleasant and amusing evening’s entertainment to the programme for the benefit of Mr George King, whose benefit will . take place on Friday next. Wo are requested to state that a plan of the drass circle seats can be seen and secured at Mr Shilton’s. A large sale of fruit is announced to take place on Tuesday next, at Hokitika, by Mr F. A. Learmonth, who, will submit a choice consignment of apples, pears, and oranges to public auction on that date. The drawing of Weisner’s art-union is announced as positively taking place this evening at his premises in Main street. We have to acknowledge the receipt from the publishers (Messrs West and Co., of Princes-street, Dunedin,) of the song “Swing on old pendulum,” which has been rendered so popular in this Colony by Mr Gordon Gooch’s excellent rendering of it. The song is got up in the most creditable manner, the music and letterpress being perfectly clear, and the title page tastefully illuminated. The following horses besides those placed (Banter, Lord Harry, and Savanaka) started for the Adelaide Birthday Cup Filibuster, Don Carlo, Caspian, Abbot, Pawnbroker, Rivalry, and Japan. An enormous Maori war canoe (says the Star) has arrived in Shortland from Whangamata, on the East Coast. The whaka is a present from the natives of the Whangamata settlement to Hohepa Paronna, a native minister at Parawai, and was brought round the coast a distance of over one hundred miles, by nearly sixty Maoris from the Thames. The canoe is highly carved and decorated, and is valued by the natives at about £3OO. Captain Barry has been severely handled by the Post. Referring to the Tay Bridge disaster the captain told a Dunedin audience that, had he been in the train, he was inclined to think that he would have come out all right, upon which the Post cruelly remarks : “ We also are inclined to agree with his sentiment. The amount of ‘ gas ’ in the gallant captain would probably have kept him afloat, even with a few tons of railway iron on top of him.” On April 1, a pair of horses drawing a carriage belonging to Sir John Walrand, one of the Parliamentary candidates, took fright and galloped through the streets of Tiverton in England. One horse jumped through the plate-glass window of an ironmonger’s shop, ami the other rushed through the doorway. One of the animals was so badly injured that it was ordered

to be killed, and its throat was cut. The operation, however, was so indifferently performed that it got up and rushed about the street with the blood flowing from its wounds. No person was injured. Brigandage appears to be increasing rapidly, not only in Turkey,”as reported in a recent issue of this paper, but also in the smaller states in Southern Europe, and particularly in the province of Macedonia. A few days ago (a correspondent of the Cologne Gazette writes) a band of robbers, some seventy in number, carried off the director of the teachers’ seminary in Seres from his private residence, which stands in the immediate neighborhood of the town, which is the capital of the district and a place with some 30,000 inhabitants, and refused to release their captive until he had promised to send them immediately on his return twenty new suits of clothes. This promise the unlucky man felt obliged to keep, the more so as the brigands had for their part promised—and lie knew that they, at all events, would keep their promise—to burn down or destroy his house sliould he fail to send the ransom.he had undertaken to pay. An oil City Irishman having signed the pledge, was soon after charged with having been drunk. “ ’Twas me absentmindedness,” said Pat, “an’ a habit I have wid talkin’ wid meself I sed to meself, sez I, ‘Pat, coom in an’ have a dhrink.’ ‘ Then, I’ll dhrink alone,’ sez I to meself. ‘ An’ I’ll wait for ye outside,’ sez I. An’ whin meself cum out, faith an’ he was dhrunk.”