The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1512, 2 August 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1881.

Mr Singer, being yesterday evening informed that two of his art-union ticket books had been lost on their way up from Hokitika, could not possibly draw the union last night, not knowing the numbers of the tickets which had been sold out of said books. The Nos. have now been ascertained, and the union will be drawn to-night. The prizes have been reduced to correspond with the number of tickets sold, the first prize being £25. The list is corrected accordingly, and will be found in another column.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court last night, Jean Spindeler was charged with obstructing the footpath, by leaving thereon a heap of firewood. Sergeant Emerson gave evidence to the effect that a man named Harold had informed him

that he had fallen over a heap of wood on the footpath, opposite the defendant’s premises. On proceeding to the place indicated* the wood was found to be there, and was an obstruction. The evidence of a carter, named Gibson, was taken, and it was shown that he had placed the wood Where it was found. His Worship ruled that the wrong man had b’Sen summoned, and the case was accordingly dismissed. Several unimportant civil cases were disposed of, and the Court adjourned.

J. O’Hagatl, Usq. -, 4ftd A, Campbell Esq., J.Ps., disposed of the following small debt case in the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning :—Williams v. Atkin, a claim for £2. There was no appearance on the part of the defendant, and judgment was given by default for amount claimed.

The Hospital Committee hold their usual meeting this evening, at the Secretary’s room, at 8 o’clock.

A Kumara correspondent signing himself “Ground Sluicer,” writes to the West Coast Times:—“l am informed that the following is a verbatim copy of a telegram received by a capitalist of this town : — 1 Put yon up to a wrinkle worth a fortune ; Government willing to hand over, to private company, Waimea, and Kumara Water-races for £10,000; form company immediately. Tell , and except to our friends. My action must be put as against share of capital; I have telegraphed to Hokitika; take bull by the horns.’"

Last night there was a full rehearsal by the Amateur Dramatic Company of the drama “The Streets of London,” which is to form the principal piece of the entertainment to be given for the benefit of the Kumara Hospital on Friday, the 19 th August. We observe the programmes are put in circulation to-day ; and the scenery, which is in the hands of Mr J. H. King, is rapidly advancing towards completion. The officers of the Friendly Societies have all announced their intention of patronising the entertainment and there is every prospect of this the first effort of new Dramatic Club being a grand success.

The performances of Professor Lorenzo Tamburini, Wizard of the East, at the Theatre Royal last night, were well worth a visit, and those persons who availed themselves of the opportunity of seeing his marvelous powers of sleght-oMiand—-some of them performed in the body of the Hall in such a clever way that everyone failed to detect how they were done—seemed thoroughly satisfied that this clever necromancer was all that he professes to be. The “card tricks,” the “ bowl of fish trick trick,” the “ pigeon from a bottle trick,” and “ the crystalbox trick,” were wonderful illusions, and baffled the cutest observers. The Professor has signified his intention of changing the programme to-night ; and “ Cremation, its uses and powers ” is one of the new features. The charge for admission is reduced to 2s and Is.

The annual general meeting of the Greymouth Jockey Club was held last evening at the club room, Albion Hotel, Greymouth. The balance-sheet showed receipts amounting to £1247 8s sd, and the disbursements £1243 2s 6d, leaving a credit balance of £4 5s lid. From the receipts however the surplus credit balance of last year, amounting to £77 5s lid should be deducted. The liabilities of the club, which are due almost entirely to members of the club, amount to £l6O, being the unpaid balance of the cost of erecting the grand stand, the committee having cleared off during the past year £lB5 3s. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The following members were elected a committee for the ensuing year : Messrs Lahman, Kent, Tonks, Cameron, James Jones, Walton, Hildebrand, Arnott, M‘Beath, Card, Blackmore, Petrie. Votes of thanks to the retiring officers and committee for past year were carried. A meeting of the newly-elected Committee was thereafter held, and the following members were elected stewards for the ensuing year : —Messrs Lahman, Walton, Tonks, Cameron, and Arnott. The following officers were elected : Secretary, Mr James Payne ; treasurer, Mr F. W. Lahman ; judge, Mr F. Kent ; clerk of the course, Mr Hildebrand; clerk of the scales, Mr Petrie ; starter, Mr James Jones ; auditors, Messrs John M‘Millan and James Black ; course committee : Messrs Jones, Hildebrand, and Card. It appears (says the Inanganua Herald of Saturday last) that the man Humphreys, who was yesterday convicted of theft in M l Gaffin’s Hotel, has been for some time a suspected character. At MTnroe’s a sum of money was lost, but owing to the

impossibility of identifying the notes no action was taken in the matter, and at the Ahaura losses were sustained concurrently with the advent of the accused. In the present case, for which he is undergoing sentence, a conviction would have been impossible but for the prisoner’s admission.

Moa bones, mixed with human remains, were found lately at Whitehead Bay in such a conglomerate that scientists are puzzled as to whether the man eat the moa or the moa the man.