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Kumara Times, Issue 1447, 18 May 1881, Page 2

The mail coach from Christchurch arrived this aftefno'on.a't 3.20. The authorities are losing no time in carrying out the powers conferred under the clauses of the Land Act which have recently been put into operation in Westland, a Hokitika official having arrived in Kumara with the object of prosecuting persons who are cutting timber without holding a license* A Yolunteer Company Order is issued in another column notifying that “ Pending the acceptance of the resignation of Sub-Lieutenant Munyard and fresh elec" tion of officer, Sergeant Davies will take charge of the Kumara Contingent First Westland Rifles. —Jas. A. Bonar, Capt. Commanding F.W.R.” The following are the entries and handicap for the match to be fired on the Kumara range on the Queen’s Birthday ; —Sergeant Davies, Corp. Sampson, Yols. Coutts, Stennard, and Robinson, scratch ; Yols. Thorne and Kelliir, 2 points Vol. Marshall, 3; Sergt. Smith, 4; Vok Jones, 6 ; Yol. Carey, 7 ; Yols, Sumption and Dove, 8; Vol/ Green, 10 ; Vol. Brayshaw, 12 ; Yol. Stevenson, 15 5 Vol. Pollard, 18 ; Yols. M. Borlase, and Kicholson, 20 ; Yols. Close, J. Williams, Godfrey, King, J. Borlase, Harre, Lewis, Wood, and Rodgers, 25 points each. Acceptances must be paid to Sergt. Davies not later than 6 p.m. on Monday next. Teachers are required for the Greenstone and Upper Grossing (Arahura) schools. Applications will be received at the office of the Westland Education Board, Hokitika, till the 25th inat. Particulars as to salary appear in the advertisement elsewhere. To-morrow evening at the Theatre Royal, the talented Comedy and Burlesque Company will make their reappearance for three nights only. Already the favorite company with all admirers on the West Coast of legitimate drama, we find the company has secured engagements with the renowned American character actor Mr J. J. Wallace, and the accomplished Mrs Walter Hill. The piece selected for opening with to-morrow evening is the romantic drama, in four acts, “ The Irish Exile, ” in which, as a contemporary puts it, “after an exhibition of patriotism, expatriation, hardship, rascality, and so forth, the virtuous are rewarded and the wicked are punished—that is, a loving couple are married, and a

villain is in chains.” Mr Wallace is very highly spoken of by the Argus, and as Mrs Hill’s reputation as an actress is known to many West Coasters, these additional attractions should secure good houses. The Assembly will meet on the 9th June under somewhat better auspices than last year. The N.Z. Herald says “We can see our way now towards making ends meet financially, the taxation recently imposed has been paid much more easily than it was imagined could be done, the harvest has been good, and fair prices are being obtained for staple articles of produce. Above all, the peace has been maintained, we have had no Maori wars, settlement is making rapid progress, and large districts hitherto lying waste are being included in the area of cultivation. There is much legislative work to be done, • but next session is not likely to see any large proportion of it achieved. It is the last session of the present Parliament, and a great deal of time will no doubt be spent in posturing for the hustings.” The old prejudice against travelling by sea with clergymen, has been strongly revived (says Liberty) by the Tararua disaster. A certain Christchurch big-wig who intended to .proceed per the Te Anau to Melbourne, has put off his visit oil learning that at least one 'clergyman would be among his fellow-passengers. The friends of Mr James Ring, protographer (late assistant to Mr Williams) will regret to learn that he met with a nasty accident at Greymouth, last Saturday, while playing football, so much so (says the Argus) as to make “the human face divine” much less presentable than it had been before he disported himself in that exciting but rough and dangerous game. The Rugby Union has a deal to answer for. Several of the passengers by the Tararua had taken precaution to insure their lives. Mr John O. Eva’s life, it is stated, was insured in the National Company’s office for £SOO, and only ofte premium had been paid upon it. One of the stewards and one of the engineers had effected insurances for £SOO each in the Australian Mutual Provident Society’s office in December lash The following insurances were effected in the Government office Dr. Campbell, £1000; Rev. J. B. Richardson, £200; Mr W. Stewart Young, £3OO. The property of the Walsend Coal Company, situate at Collingwood, has been purchased by Mr J. A. Harley for £555. This is considered to be a great bargain. The mail brings intelligence of the death, in the Transvaal, of Captain Greer, R.A., who went out to Africa last year as aide-de-camp to Sir George Strachan, Acting-Governor of the Cape. The late Captain Greer served in the New Zealand campaign of 1863-4 including the attack on the Gate Pah and the action at Makettt. He received the. New Zealand medal, and was afterwards appointed to a battery in the 2nd Brigade. A disastrous collision occurred on March 12th, in the English Channel. The’ African Steamship Company’s steamer Benin, on her homeward Voyage, was run into oft’ Start Point by the Eastern Shipping Company’s steamer Duke of Buccleuch, from Calcutta, and was cut down so thoroughly that she foundered within forty minutes, carrying with her a very valuable West Indian cargo. Her passengers and mails had been fortunately landed at Havre, and she was en route for Liverpool. Both steamers were on the same course, but the Duke of Bnocleuch was going two knots faster than the Benin, and overtook her. There was no wind and the vessels had been following each other for an hour. The captain and crew escaped on board the Duke of Buccleuch, and were brought into Plymouth. The Vessel and cargo were worth £200,000. For the first time says the Melbourne Daily Telegraph, in the theatrical history of Australia, a stage play has had its hundredth consecutive representation. “ It is only the unforseen which happens” however, and the honor has fallen to the lot of Offenbach’s comic opera “La Fille du Tambour Major.” The Patea Mail describes a novel method of ha tching eggs. It appears that on the Momahaki block a Mr. Dickie- set a hen on eggs in a hollow tree. Higher up the same tree a cat had a nest of kittens. Mr Dickie put a sitting of eggs at the bottom of the cat’s bed, put the kittens on them and waited. Cats and kittens kept the eggs warm and in due time all the cat’s chickens were hatched without injury. These chickens were then lifted down amongst the lien’s own brood, and the whole clutch are flourishing like one family.

The sculling match between Hearn, of Wellington, and White, of Mercury Bay, Auckland, is arranged to come off at Wellington, on Saturday, July 9th. It is for £IOO and the Championship of New Zealand. It is believed other events will take place ph the same day. The Auckland Herald reports :—“ The girl Annie Carline, who was stabbed at Rivetkead by the sailor Simms, is, we “are glad to learn, now out of danger, making a good recovery under the medical care of Dr Philson, and will probably be up from her bed during the present week. Youth and a healthy constitution have been on her side, and are pulling her through. As the wounds on her neck are low down she is not likely to be disfigured by them, though the cicatrices, of course, will remain.” It is not often we hear of a four-footed animal bestowing its patronage so freely as a consumer of hardware ; yet the Auckland Star, ‘ declares that “in the stomach of a heifer recently killed in that city were the following articles :—Seven chain links (about one inch long), seven stones of various sizes, 15 thick screws (some two inches in length), 21 large nails (some of them three-inch), 84 iron and tin tacks, two bolts and washers, and several pieces of sharp-pointed tin.” The Tuapeka paper has been told rather a good sfnry in connection with the collection of papers for the recent census. The sub-enumerator, while on his rounds, had occasion to call at a Chinatnan’s hut, and in filling up the paper put the question—“ What is your religious belief 1 a Christian or a follower of Confucius 1” John replied—“ Ko, tio. Me Freethinker’; all same as Mister Stout. You savee ?” The-cost of the Melbourne Exhibition Was £311,169, and the receipts were only £43,426. ’ For killing a bullock a man at TamWotth, Victoria, got eight years, and for killing a brother another man got two years. , Mr Henry Kendall, who by Common Consent is regarded as the poet laureate of Australia, has been appointed Inspector of State Forests in New South Wales,' at a salary of £SOO and travelling expenses.It has been discovered that a certain Class of New York undertakers have been trading in human bodies. The principal business was done in the bodies of child-ren-for the New Yoi’k dissecting rooms. Dr. Carver, the celebrated American rifle shot, has challenged the equally celebrated Captain Bogardus to shoot 100 pigeons for £SOO and the championship of the world, the match to come off in’ April and near London. -