The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1414, 13 April 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1881.

The Christchurch mail coach arrived at the usual hour this afternoon. Advertisers are reminded that next Friday being a public holiday, advertisements intended for insertion on that date should appear to-morrow. All the Banks in Kumara are advertised to bo closed from Thursday evening next till Tuesday morning, so that business people, miners and others having bank business requiring attention during the intervening days must, of courso, see to it on or before Thursday. Leaseholders on the Kumara Education Reserve are notified that the officer appointed will be . in attendance at the Board's Office every evening, from 7 till 9 o'clock, up to the Bth instant, for the purpose of receiving the rents of sections.

Mr S. Osborne's racehorses York and Tout, Mr Jones's Warrigal, and Tandsticker (a Nelson hurdle-racer) passed through Kumara this morning, on their wayfrom Greymouth to the HokitikaEaster Meeting. Mr Brimble's Whalebone went through yesterday. The Union Company's s.s. Hero, Captain Logan, leaves Auckland for Greymouth and Hokitika to-night, and will be tendered at these ports on Saturday morning, taking passengers and gold for Sydney and Melbourne. The Hero this trip proceeds to Sydney direct, and returns again direct to the Coast with a largo number of Chinese passengers just arrived from Hong Kong, Passengers for Melbourne will be transhipped at Sydney. Greymouth coal must be in great demand, there were no less than sixteen vessels, varying in tonnage from 42 to 143, took their departure yesterday from the Grey river, and the sight outside the bar with two bound-in vessels gave a lively appearance to the mouth of the river. The sea having gone down during the previous night enabled the river current to scour out a wider and deeper channel. This (the Argus says) was promptly taken advantage of, and at about seven in the morning, the tug-boats Lioness and Dispatch were ready for work, and shortly after began towing out such vessels as were ready. Work went on very briskly with the boats during the morning's tide, during which they managed to tow nine out and bring one in. Altogether it was the largest day's towing that has taken place for years. The Ross advocate reports that an epidemic has broken out amongst the children of the place, and in consequence Dr. Gordon advised that all the schools in the district should be closed, and the Mayor accordingly caused St. Patrick's school to be closed for a fortnight. The disease consists of a swelling in the throat, and appears to partake of the nature of diphtheria, inasmuch as Dr. Gordon recommended the daily fumigation of the schools and houses by sulphur, a remedy often resorted to in cases of diphtheria. At a meeting of the Grey County Council last night, at Greymouth, after a good deal of discussion on the question of con* structing a road on the south side of Nelson Creek, the motion was rejected by 6 to 3, whereupon Councillor Ellis at once handed in his resignation to the Chairman, saying that " having striven for the construction of the road ever since he had been in the Council, he now found it was as far off as evor. He would therefore make room for someone who might be more successful." Boyd, of Middlesburg, repeats his offer to row Hanlan, of Toronto, over the Tyne course, for £SOO a-side ten weeks after signing articles of engagement. The present appears to be a good time for newspapers in Blenheim. The Express, the daily paper, has been enlarged to nearly double its late size, and the Times, hitherto a bi-weekly, now comes out three times a week. The second prize in the Wanganui Sweep on the Cup race was won by Ernest Wilkinson, who is awaiting his trial at New Plymouth on a charge of embezzling Government moneys. It is a strange fact that a similar occurrence took place in connection with North's sweep on the Wellington Cup of 1880, the third horee being drawn by a prisoner then serving a hard-labor sentence. 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.]