The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1341, 18 January 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1881.

The accounts from the new rush at the Greenstone are of the most conflicting character as to its auriferous nature, although there is little doubt one or two parties are on good gold. We have been favored with a specimen of lignite taken from one of the shafts, the strata come across being three feet in depth. The lignite in question is of a very scaly slaty nature, and when burnt gives out a most peculiar and resinous smell. The meeting of the Hospital Committee to have been held this evening is unavoidably postponed until to-morrow night. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday as follows :—Expect bad weather any direction between south-east and east and north ; glass further fall; sea heavy after ten hours.

We are requested to state that in. consequence of the unfavorable state of the weather the ordinary weekly parade of the local Rifles will not be held this evening ; but we understand that the annual Church parade of the Volunteers will take place on Sunday next, when Archdeacon Harper will preach at Holy Trinity Church.

On Friday evening next, a tea meeting and concert will be held at the. State School, on the occasion of the visit of the Venerable Archdeacon Harper, of Timaru, to this diocese. As the Archdeacon has a very large number of old friends of all denominations in this district, we may reasonably expect a very large attendance. A Swiss postillion, named Meyer, was overtaken by a snowstorm last winter. He and his vehicle was hurled over a precipice ; the horse was killed, the carriage smashed. The man escaped with some contusions, yet in this piteous plight he contrived to scramble to Neufchatel with the mail bags. On his arrival it was found necessary to amputate both his legs and both his frost-bitten arms. The post-office requited this heroic sacrifice somewhat grudgingly, but a national subscription has just rewarded him with 200,000 f. The Rev. E. S. T. Daunt, Vicar of St. Stephen's, Launceston, England, a few weeks since invited Mr C. H. Surgeon to preach a harvest festival sermon in his church, but the illness of the latter prevented the acceptance of the invitation. Mr. Daunt holds -that he acted within his legal rights, and the Freeman very properly remarks that, if the law be as thus laid down, the responsibility for exclusive - nes3 rests solely with the clergy. At the the same time, it invites Mr Daunt to put his principles to the test by extending his invitation to some local brother in the nonconforming ministry.