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Kumara Times, Issue 1460, 2 June 1881, Page 2

We remind our readers that this evening there will be an exceptionally good entertainment at the Theatre Royal, where Mr Hosea Easton will take a benefit prior to leaving Kumara. The company which will appear comprise the leading artistes of the Georgia Minstrels, also Signor Albini, the most pleasing baritone of New Zealand, who will on this occasion open his portfolio of ballads. The programme is a most attractive one, and those who desire to spend a really enjoyable evening cannot do better than be present at the last entertainment to be given by the most genuine troupe of vocalists which has ever visited Westland. The troupe includes Madame de Arthur, Messrs Hollister, Bowman, Easton, and Wilson. Each is particularly good in the part allotted to them, and as the entertainment is of a most Varied description, including solos, duets, trios, dances, a negro farce entitled “ Helen’s Babies,” local songs, &c., it is not unreasonable to anticipate a crowded house. The Chairnian of the Local School Committee has intimated to us his intention of explaining, oil Saturday next, why certain State School children Were yesterday sent away from school because they had not brought some required pence.

The election of two Auditors for the Borough of Kumara took place yesterday at the Town Hall, and resulted in Messrs Toms snd Nicholson being again chosen.

All the Banks in Kumara will be closed next Monday (Whit Monday). The comet was visible again last night from 6.30 till 9 o’clock. In consequence of its great southern declination, 34 degrees, it makes its re-appearance early in the mornings, and has on this account been taken for another comet. It rose this morning soon after 4 o’clock, and was plainly visible in the south-east, about 15 to 20 deg. above the horizon, at 6 o’clock. In appearance it resembles the great comet of 1858, and also Halley’s comet; but as the pei’iod of revolution of the former (generally known as Donati’s comet) is presumed to be about 2100 years, and the period of the latter 751- years, it cannot be either the one or the other. Halley’s comet is not due until 1911. We await with interest the computations of astronomers who have the necessary instruments for ascertaining the rate of motion and elements of the orbit of the mysterious visitor.

Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday as follows Indications ; glass fall soon, with northerly winds.”

In reference to the Tararua disaster, the following letter appeared in the Wellington Post Allow me, through the medium of your columns, to expose an injury which has been inflicted on me. I am the widow of the late George Wiltshire, who was drowned at the wreck of the Tararua, and I believe am the only person in Wellington who has suffered from that terrible catastrophe. I have five children to support, and as yet, for a period of nearly three weeks, not one has been near me to ask me if I wanted a loaf of bread. I have been several times to the Union Steam Ship Company’s offices, but can get no satisfaction from the clerks there engaged, and not knowing what to do in the matter, I appeal to you, sir, aware you are at all times ready to assist the distressed.—l am, &c., Susan Wilts hike.” The Post adds the information that “the local manager of the Union Company was absent when she called, and she did not afterwards take steps to obtain an interview with him. He informs us, however, that he is adopting means to ascertain Mrs Wiltshire’s position and needs, and that on being satisfied on these points, suitable provision will be made for her relief.” The Southland Times learns from Mr Brunton, of Otara station, that up to Friday last sixty-eight bodies in all have been recovered from the wreck of the Tararua. One body came ashore on the Sunday previous in a good state' of preservation, not being disfigured in any way. None of the persons present were able to identify it. A Canadian paper states that a young woman who left Dubuque, lowa, for New Zealand a few years ago, on the summons of her betrothed, has returned home unmarried. Finding her former lover disappointed because she was not as handsome as when he had last seen her, she released him.