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Kumara Times, Issue 1358, 7 February 1881, Page 2

In reply to a telegram forwarded by the County Chairman to the Minister of Public Works offering on behalf of the Council to tar the Teremakau bridge and construct the approach thereto provided the Government handed over the unexpended balance of the vote, the following satisfactory reply has been received by the County Chairman:—"The approach to the Teremakau bridge will be done under the officers of the department as I have now authorised it." The Borough Council have evidently been caught napping on this as the work to be constructed is mainly within the Borough and outside the jurisdiction of the County Council, who, however, in this instance, can but be congratulated on their action in regard to the interests of the inhabitants of this town.

A meeting of persons interested in oh' taining a larger water-supply on this goldfield. will be heldjit Reynolds' Hotel, Dillman's Town, this evening. The chair will be taken punctually at 8 o'clock. The Hospital Committee will meet tomorrow evening, when the applications for the office of medical, attendant to that institution will be considered. We understand that there are a large number of applications.

The second of Rugg's new line of coaches between here and Springfield left punctually at five o'clock this morning with several passengers. In future the return coach will not leave Springfield until Friday, on the arrival of the morning train. The coach, which was expected here on Saturday afternoon did not arrive in consequence of there being nine passengers for Hokitika, as, under these circumstances, it went through via the Arahura direct to that town. From one of the passengers we learn that although the mail coacli and Rugg's left the Bealey at the same hour the opposition one arrived at the Taipo half-an-hour before the contract one although.the same team of horses travelled the whole distance from Kumara to Springfield and back. This, in future, will be altered as Mr Rugg has now a change of teams on the road, which will ensure punctually and despatch in travelling by this line. A short passage-at-arms took place last : evening in Main street, which will probably result in an early interview taking place between the offending parties at the Resident Magistrate's Court. A Pernambuco paper reports that a man named JoapXiin Marreiro, living at Cabaceiras, in that province, has been married for seventy-nine years. He is himself 103 years of age, and his wife ninetyseven. They had twenty-three children, of whom nine sons and five daughters are still living, through whom they have become the ancestors of a large family, including already 126 grandchildren and ninety-one great grandchildren, all of whom are in vigorous health. The whole family amounts to 233 persons.