The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1477, 22 June 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1881.

The Christelnirch mail coach arrived in town this afternoon, at twenty minutes past three. The Murray, from northern ports, arrived at Hokitika yesterday. The meeting of the Greenstone Licensing Bench which was to have been held yesterday was unavoidably postponed in consequence of the indisposition of Mr Gow, who was unable to attend. We acknowledge receipt from the Government Printer of a bundle of Parliamentary papers, including a voluminous "Report on the Management, Accounts, and Audit of the Public Revenues" of the several Australian colonies. A ball is to held at Mr Wilkinson's Albion Hotel to-morrow evening. An Oamaru telegram informs us that Longman, a farmer on the Tables, was killed by the wheels of a threshing machine passing over his body on Friday sen'night. He was in the act of jumping on to the machine when he got entangled in the reins and was jerked off. The Scientific American says that there was lately on exhibition in Boston a fish caught about twelve miles from the Isles of Shoals, by Wallace Wright, of the fishing schooner Jennie P. Phillips, from Swampscott. At the time of its capture it was loft, long, and weighed 2430fts. In its stomach were found a codfish weighing oOlbs, two smaller cods, and two coots.

It had a large moulh, containing seven j rows of sharp teeth, and in general ap- | pearance was somewhat like a shark, but what is most singular is the fact of its being uncommonly well supplied with respiratory organs. It had not only a mouth, but gills, nostrils, and blow holes. While on exhibition at Lynn the fish was examined by several scientific gentlemen, but no one has been able to classify it. In the County of Herve, formerly Austrian Limbourg, the cows are milked three times a day—at 4 o'clock in the morning, at 11 o'clock, and again at 6 in the evening. From time immemorial the cream has been allowed to rise in wide and shallow pans of earthenware, and latterly sometimes in tin plates. It is by the churning of cream so obtained that the butter is procured for which Lieger Veriers are so famous. Colonel William G. Gordon, of Chesterville, Ohio, is said to be 113 years old, and still a comparatively strong and active man. He is wealthy and manages all his own business affairs. In his youth he served in the British army, and says that he knew Napoleon I. He has but one peculiar habit—that of persistently eating crackers. He always has a large basket of crackers hanging on his bed post, and besides three hearty meals a day, he eats, upon an average, twelve pounds of crackers a week from this basket, taking several whenever he awakens in the night.