The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1393, 19 March 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1881.

The Christchurch coach, with the mail due on Wednesday, arrived this afternoon. The mail due this afternnon is expected to-night. In consequence of the Government race being damaged, the loss through a scarcity of water is very detrimental to the mining community. With a view to have the damage repaired, Mr Seddon, M.H.K, to-day telegraphed the whole facts of the case to the Minister of Public Works, and pointing out the urgent necessity there was for instructions being given to have •the necessary repairs effected immediately. We are glad to learn that the business .portion of the community of this town have most liberally responded to the call made to them on behalf of a fund for the purpose of assisting the miners engaged in extricating the body of the unfortunate man Edward Thomas from the slip under which it is buried at the Earn plough. Telegraph offices are now open at Takaka and Collingwood, iboth in the County of Collingwood.

The Court Minstrels will give their farewell entertainment at the Theatre Royal this evening, as they will open at Stafford Town on Monday night. As this is the last opportunity of seeing this clever Minstrel troupe, advantage should be taken of the opportunity this evening. Dr Thomas Lee Porter, the newlyappointed medical officer of the Hospital, announces that he may now be consulted professionally at Gilbert Stewart’s Hotel. In Scotland the frost has been very severe. Two fishing-boats were capsized during the recent storm in the Hebrides, and their crews of six and four men respectively were drowned. Houses were buried in the snow at Stornoway, and. sheep are reported to be dying by the hundred. A water famine prevailed in Plymouth for three days through the freezing of the Leat, a stream which supplies the town. Hundreds of soldiers and laborers -were engaged in opening a channel through the snow and ice, but very little progress was made in consequence of the water freezing as fast as it was uncovered. Several more deaths from exposure are reported from Farringdon, Northampton, Oswestry, and other places. Four arrests have been made in Ireland of persons suspected of the murder, or complicity with the murder, of Lord Mountmorris. Three were captured at Olonbur, bearing the names of Michael and William Bourke, and John Hanberry, and the fourth, believed to be the actual assassin, Patrick Hennelley, aged 23, was apprehended at Tipton, South Staffordshire, and taken back to Ireland. A clue to the identification of the murderer, was furnished in a letter from young Hennelley to his father, which came into the possession of the police. Lord Beaconfield’s Hughenden tenantry have learnt, through Mr Arthur Vernon, the agent, that his lordship will remit 20 per cent, on the Michaelmas rents at the audit at the end of January. This is the fifth occasion on which such a practical proof of the sympathy with the agricultural difficulties of the times has been shown to his tenants by the noble earl. The London correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser says, “The expense of returning Mr Duckham, the tenant-farmers’ candidate for Herefordshire, will probably encourage farmers in other counties to make the same experiment. ,Mr Duckham fought a sharply contested election, and his whole expenses amounted only to about £4OO, while his two Conservative opponents spent £SOOO between them. The smallness of the expense is mainly due to the fact that Mr Duckham worked with volunteer agents, and found them not only much cheaper but much more useful than hired canvassers. If a tenant farmer can be returned for an expense of £3OO or £4OO, there is no reason why there should not be thirty or forty of them in the Parliament.” The Daily Telegraph is responsible for the statement “that the physical condition of the Prime Minister gives some slight anxiety to his nearest friends and to his medical adviser. Vigorous, unwearied, and eager for the discharge of his high duties as Mr. Gladstone always shows himself, he still seems,” says our contemporary, “to bear with less power of resistance than heretofore the cares of Government and the vicissitudes of the weather, and would better consult the wishes of innumerable friends if he would seek to spare himself more.” Mr M'Laren, who has represented the city of Edinburgh in the Liberal interest for the last fifteen years, has issued an address stating that he has applied for the Chiltern Hundreds. Referring to a statement made by him when recently addressing the electors, that if he should feel himself unable from impaired health properly to discharge his Parliamentary duties he would resign his seat, Mr. M‘Laron says that circumstances have unexpectedly occurred which seemed to make it his duty now to place his resignation unreservedly in the hands of the electors. News from Cronstadt announces the destruction there of the theatre on Jan. 16. The building, primarily intended for the use of the Baltic Fleet, was only completed a few days ago at a cost of 200,000 roubles. All attempts to extinguish the flames were fruitless, and the building was completely gutted. Eight persons lost their lives for the want of fire-escapes to remove them from the upper part of the building. There was a severe earthquake shock in Thurgau in Switzerland a few nights since, accompanied by underground noises sufficiently loud enough to wake people from their sleep.

The mining town Alta, Utah, has been nearly destroyed by avalanches. Ten persons are reported to have perished. For list of prizes in a grand aft-iinibn at Hokitika see fourth page. —[Advt.] To those in search of merriment, visit S. S. Pollock’s, and obtain the great Irish song “The Babies in our Block,” or “Little Sally Waters”; price sixpence. [Advt.]