The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1440, 10 May 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881.

We regret that a very important sentence was inadvertently omitted yesterday from the Report of the deputation after their interview with the School Commissioners. It was in reference to the Occupancy of Business Sites. The whole paragraph should have read thus “The deputation urged upon the School Commissioners to accept the terms offered last September, namely : all rentals to be paid up to July, 1880, and the upset price to be £ls, with value for improvements added. The Commissioners stated that they understood the offer to mean that rents for the current year were to be paid, and then the upset price to be £ls per section. [After considerable discussion the Commissioners decided that six months of the current year’s rents are to be paid, with right to purchase at £ls per section.] In the case of those who had already paid the current year’s rent, half a year’s rent would be refunded immediately they purchased their sections. The time for receiving applications to purchase and pay up rents was extended to the 17th day of May.” The words in brackets were unintentionally omitted. The subject of the lecture to be delivered to-morrow evening, although withheld from the advertisement, seems to have awakened interest in the minds of many as to which novelist the Rev. T.

Flavell lias Selected for the entertainment of the audience. Our correspondent “Adam Bede” v'Tote Somewhat ambiguously yesterday, and yet he made a good guess himself, if he did not know. But then in what celebrated English novelist’s writings are the three characteristics mentioned humor so fully and so agreeably combined as in the late Mary Ann Evans’ (who for so long atime succeeded in evading her real name by adopting the sobriquet of “ George Eliot ”) ? It is unnecessary, we think, to say that a genuine treat is in store for those who avail themselves of the opportunity offered of hearing some general remarks on the life and writings of so talented an authoress. The sixteenth competition for the Ladies’ Challenge Gold Medal was completed yesterday under very unfavorable weather, and resulted in Yol. Robinson becoming the winner for the second time. This is the first occasion on which it has been won from scratch. We append the scores ■—

The usual parade at the Adelphi Hall will be held this evening. Applications for the appointment of Wardsman to the Kumara Hospital will be received by the Secretary (Mr W. Nicholson) up to the evening of the 16th inst. They are required to be accompanied by references of the applicant’s ability or suitability for such an appointment. We understand our local amateurs who delight in drama are preparing extensively for the production of Dion Boucicault’s popular domestic drama “The Colleen Bawn;” or “ The Brides of Garryowen.” The object for which this very entertaining piece is being got up has not yet transpired; but whatever that may be (and we have not the least doubt it will be a deserving one) we know very great efforts are being made to present the play in a manner that is likely to surpass all previous efforts of the amateurs, as well as in scenery and effects. The prizes in Gilbert Stewart’s Sydney Cup consultation will be delivered this evening. On Thursday last, David Charles M‘Gahey was charged before the Resident Magistrate, at Reefton, with the murder of John Bell, on the 16th April. There was a good deal of evidence taken, but it was mainly a repetition of that already published, and threw no additional light upon the case. At the close of the evidence, His Worship administered the usual caution to the accused, who said “ All 1 have to say is that I am innocent, and I reserve my defence.” The accused was then committed for trial at the September sitting of the Supreme Court at Hokitika. M‘Gahey was brought hither this morning, in charge of Constable Barry, from Groymouth, and was forwarded to Hokitika by the one o’clock coach in charge of Constable Chambers. The population of Grey County, which we yesterday published as 76G8, is made up as follows ;

The population of the City of Dunedin, according to the new census, is 12,182 males, and 12,067 females, being a total of 24,249. In 1878 the total was 22,525, so that the increase in three years has been 1724. If to this be added—Gaversham 3994, South Dunedin 2796, Roslyn 2874, North-east Valley 2748, Maori Hill 1135—a1l within two miles of the City, Dunedin may be said to have a total including the suburban boroughs of 37,796. Port Chalmers numbers besides 2181 '1157 males, and 1024 females ; and the West Harbour 1213—034 males, and 579 females. The Taranaki Budget of Saturday says: A large shark, fifteen feet long, encountered the whaleboat Faugh-a-Bal-lagli while out in the roadstead on Sunday morning. The monster attacked the boat and siezed hold of the stoer-oai’, capsizing the coxswain, and taking a piece out the oar of full}- eight inches. Making a second appearance alongside the boat, the

shark was rewarded with two severe thumps oii the head from the stroke-oar of the boat, and then disappeared. The suflerings endured by some of the miners on the road to the Wilcannia rush, New South Wales, were most terrible, and some extraordinary devices were resorted to in order to save life. Here is one extract from a letter published by the Dubbo Express “On Sunday we got a sleeping lizard and sucked its blood, and we found three young ones in it, and ate them with relish, but they did not do so much good.” The travellers were walking through “the desert*’ without water from a quarter to 4 on Friday morning until 10 o’clock on Monday i Their predicament may be imagined. They arrived at Wilcannia in the last stage of exhaustion, almost naked, and on the verge of madness, Mr Rothschild on his recent wedding with Miss Perugia, gave each in his employ a year’s salary in commemoration of the event. From the meanest scullion in the baronial halls to the confidential manager with his hundreds per annum the additional year’s salary was paid to one and all alike. 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.]

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Nelson Creek Riding ... ... 522 Waipuna ,, ... 601 Red Jack’s ,, ... 404 Brunnerton )( ... 813 Cobden ,, ... 656 Maori Creek „ ... 587 Paroa ,, ... 641 Marsden ,, ... 310 Hohonu ,, ... 338 Greymouth Municipality ... 2033 Total ... 7568