The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1407, 5 April 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1881.

The San Francisco mail arrived at Auckland yesterday afternoon. There was no business in the Resident Magistrate’s Court to-day. The Warden’s Court report appears in another column, A meeting of the Hospital Committee takes place this evening, at 8 o’clock, at the Secretary’s rooms. The local Rifle Contingent parade at the Adelphi Hall this evening. Captain Edwin telegraphs to expect bad weather between south and east and north-east. The glass shows a further fall, but is rising. Within ten hours the rivers will be flooded. At the Warden’s Court, Goldsborough, on Thursday and Friday last, before Dr. Giles and four assessors, the following mining case was heard Miro Oriolo and party v. Remgio Negri and party, for damage to head- race 4141, and dam 12,632, the property of plaintiffs, situate at Italian Gully, caused by defendants running tailings and sludge into same, for which plaintiffs claimed damages £7, and that defendants be ordered to desist from; further interference. Mr Byrne appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr Hannan for defendants. The plaintiffs are owners of a tenacre claim, and a network of races and dams leading on to their claim from the terrace or higher ground above were sc| situate that is was almost impossible for defendants to work their claim without a portion of their claim being intercepted in its course to the lower ground by plaintiffs’ head-race and thence carried to the dam. After the examination of fourteen witnesses on Thursday and the Assessors visiting the ground on Friday, a verdict was returned for the defendants, with £7 2s costs, on the ground that plaintiffs contributed to their own damage for not constructing their race either under or over the natural water-course, in order that defendants tail-water, which plaintiffs used, might pass by uninterrupted. Owing to the flooded state of the rivers between Reefton and Greymouth the Comedy and Burlesque Company will be prevented from making their re-appear-ance in Kumara before Thursday. Dr. Farrelle had the misfortune to have his trap smashed on the way dorm from Reefton, causing delay in coming here, but he has arrived at Greymouth, and may be consulted at Gilbert Stewart’s Hotel, Kumara, all day to-morrow. The following is a list of the successful and unsuccessful tenderers for the Bellgrove contract (permanent way), Nelson* Greymouth Railway : Accepted : H. Shepherd, Springfield, £lll6 6s Bd. Declined: P. Dey, Mosgiel, £1139 ; Stuart and Lamb, Dunedin, £1222 lls ; Mace and Bassett, Patea, £1283 14s 8d ; Freeman Brothers, Nelson, £131115s ; Wilkie and Crawford, Wanganui, £1336 12s; T. Denby, Wanganui, £1350 12s ; J Whittaker, Dunedin, £1353 18s ; M‘Cull loch and Co., Nelson, £1386 10s 8d ; W. Tendall, Wanganui, £1485 Is; Gorrie and Carter, Nelson, £IB6O ; John Scott, Nelson, £1877 ; Scalley and Co., Wellington, £1947 18s. The following important appointments are gazetted : —The Hon. John Hall to be Commissioner of Customs, vice the Hon. Major Atkinson, who has resigned that oflice ; Angus Macgregor, Esq., M.A., to be Librarian to the General Assembly of New Zealand. Sir Francis Dillon Bell entered upon office as Agent-General for the colony, in London, on the 18th February, 1881, in place of Sir Julius Vogel, resigned. Further and remarkable evidence of the wide distribution of gold about Wellington has been brought under the notice of the Times. On Thursday, says our contemporary, we inspected two samples of auriferous quartz, which we were assured

came from Kilbirnie—the quartz is compact, slightly crystaline, and impregnated with pyrites. One of the pieces shows two or three specks of gold, the other has gold running through it, in both cases the gold being coarse and of good quality. The person who has discovered it avers that he broke out a quantity of stone from the lode and roughly crushed a few of the more promising specimens, obtaining therefrom two thimblefuls of gold. The abundance of indications produced of late warrants a belief in the existence of paying quartz reefs somewhere about Wellington. There are indications that deer-stalking may become an institution in the North Island. The Wanganui Herald learns that a party of Natives have brought down the river a pair of antlers taken from a deer shot near Tongariro. The Natives state that there are close on 100 head of deer on the block known as Rangitawa, near Tongariro, their existence being unknown Until the last two or three weeks. At first the Natives were alarmed, not knowing whether the deer were dangerous to approach, but after a time they shot one, and brought the antlers to town with them. The flesh of the deer they consumed, enjoying a haunch of venison with great gusto. The failure of the crops in the southern and south-eastern provinces of Russia is reported to be so great that when spring arrives nearly two million people will be without food. For list of prizes in a grand art-Union 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.]