The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1412, 11 April 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1881.

The San Francisco mail arrived at Kumara yesterday, shortly after noon, and was at once sorted, so that owners of private boxes were enabled to obtain their letters and papers in the afternoon. The entertainment to be given at the Adelphi Theatre to-morrow evening is for an object that has always received the hearty support of all classes of this community, and we have no doubt that the same liberal patronage will be manifested on this occasion. The Committee of the Kumara Hospital, taking advantage of the presence of the best-talented company that has ever visited this Coast, solicited their services for an entertainment for the local Hospital, and the request was very kindly acceded to, noth withstanding that the Company had already, unsolicited, given their time and energies to the adjoining Hospitals of Greymouth and Hokitika—by which the funds of those institutions were augmented to the munificent amount of £IOO. The programme includes the popular drama in three acts, of “Struck Oil,” and a “Musical Bouquet,” in which the whole strength of the company will appear. The sale of boots and shoes advertised by Mr F. A. Learmonth to take place tomorrow, is postponed till further notice. Letters of naturalisation have been granted to Samuel Tadich, of Goklsborough;. William Sang, Gore; Fuh Ah You, Bald Hill Flat '; George Enoch Sass, Norsewood ; August Olsen, Ross; and Adolph Breur, Sherwood. It is intended to convene a public meeting at Reefton, at an early date, for the purpose of forming a strong committee there to co-operate with the East and West Coast Railway Central Committee in Christchurch. The Chief Commissioner of the Property Tax has supplied a correspondent of the Auckland Herald with complete returns of the property tax received, so far as included in the accounts of the financial year, which concluded on the 31st ult. The total sum i5£220,764, thus made up Auckland, £33,474; Wellington, £38,527; Canterbury, £58,081 ; Otago, 45,302; Hawke’s Bay, £14,250; Nelson, £10,960; Waitaki, £12,106 ; Southland, £8063. A very painful accident occurred on Monday last to Mr Henry Carr, an assistant guard on the Nelson and Foxhill railway, who, while engaged in his work, got three fingers of his left hand very badly crushed in the cogs of the crano. He was taken to Dr. Rogers, who at once amputated two of the injured fingers. The other, it is hoped, may be saved. A baby was left in the dead-house adjoining the Now Plymouth Hospital about a fortnight ago. The cries of the infant attracted a passer-by, but the police have so far been unable to discover the mother of the deserted baby. The Mataura paper mill is again at work, having undergone complete renovation and enlargement. There will now be a large output of brown and grey papers. But the alterations in the machinery of the mill have all been made with a future view to the manufactui’e of printing paper, an industry for which the native material is supposed to be highly suitable.

The Rev. C. M. Pym, daring his evangelistic mission at Nelson, was presented with an illuminated address and a handsome album. The address was signed by a large number of persons representing the various Protestant denominations in Nelson. The album contained several very prettily executed paintings of New Zealand flowers and ferns, and a few little sketches of Nelson scenery, the address being encircled with a wreath of the New Zealand mistletoe in flower. A monster shark, estimated to be 30 feet long, attracted some attention in the Napier harbor the other day. The fish at one bite took half the carcase of a sheep, which was lost overboard from the Sir Donald and was floating about the harbor. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Orari, is now taking in cargo at Lyttelton for London, iii which a compartment has been fitted up to hold upwards of sixty tons of cheese. The dairies in the neighborhood of Akaroa and adjacent bays are using every effort to make the shipment a success by forwarding every cheese they can get. No town in Africa can boast such rapid growth as Kimberley, the seat of Government in Griqualand West, and the headquarters of the Soufh African diamond diggings. Eleven years ago not a hut stood where now 16,000 people, with a trade of over £2,000,000 a year, form one of the most thriving communities on the African continent. It is now discovered that the town is built upon land which promises to be as productive of diamonds as the neighboring diggings, which have been the source of its wealth, and the very origin of its existence. 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.]