The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1535, 29 August 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1881.

The Charles Edward, with the Hokitika, Kuraara, and Greymouth portions of English and Foreign mails, received via San Francisco, entered the Hokitika river on the forenoon tide yesterday. The Kumara and Greymouth mails were brought up by the afternoon coach. The former were promptly sorted on arrival, at six o’clock ; the latter were forwarded per first tram this morning. The R.M. and Warden’s Courts will probably both open to-night. In the former an alleged assault case, W. B. Galland v. Toms, is set down for hearing. We remind subscribers that a meeting of the Kumara Prospecting Association takes place this evening at the Town Hall, at eight o’clock, the business being “ to decide on the mode of dealing with the balance of cash in hand.” Owing to their inability to cross one of the rivers in the Inangahua district, Mr R. Love, and his Juvenile Minstrels will not open their entertainment in Kumara till Thursday next. We perceive Mr Tait, the photographer, has resolved to stay in Kumara over tomorrow. Mr A. A. Cameron has resolved, it seems, to issue his annual consultation on the Melbourne Cup, which is to be for £6OOO. He says; “The Lotteries Act (if passed this session) is not to come into operation till Ist November; and there-

fore it in no way affects applications for tickets or the drawing of the above consultation.” During the year ending with the English Derby, of Ist June, 1881, Mr Cameron has paid away £21,825 upon the six consultations of that year alone. Particulars of Melbourne Cup consultation appear in another column. It will be seen that GO consolation prizes of L2O each are included.

The Kumara Contingent First Westland Rifles will parade for monthly inspection to-morrow evening. Official notification has now been received of the forming of the contingent into a separate company, and will, we presume, be read out at parade. There will no doubt be important business to consider, and every member is desired to attend.

At a crowded public meeting held at Nelson last Monday evening to consider the Redistribution of Seats Bill now before the House of Representatives, the following resolutions were passed :—(1.) “ That this meeting expresses its indignation at the endeavor of the Ministry to deprive this Provincial district of three'of its members, and earnestly protests against the injustice of the Redistribution of Seats Bill now before the House,” (2.) “That this meeting calls upon the members of the district to use every means in thwarting the proposals embodied in the Representation Bill, and pledges to support them in such action as they may think desirable.” (3.) “That in the event of the Redistribution of Seats Bill passing through all its stages in the Lower House, a Committee be requested to draw up a petition to the Legislative Council requesting them to use their prerogative and throw out the Bill.” (4.) “That copies of the foregoing resolutions be forwarded to the Premier and the members of the district. ” The Hokitika meeting was postponed till this evening “in consequence of requests received from several country members of the County Council, and others,” who wished to be present.

It is reported that Mr Douglas M'Lean, the son of the late Sir Donald M‘Lean, will be a candidate for the representation of Napier at the general election. Mr M'Lean is said to be now on his way out from England. The following paragraph is from the Auckland Herald of the 18th inst., received last night The latest illustration of “ Japhet in Search of a Father” is given in the following narrative In the beginning of last year a young woman named Elizabeth M‘Yeagh, who, with her parents, are natives of Newagh, County Tipperary, settled at Greymouth, bn the West Coast. From thence the young woman came on to Auckland to be confined, the event taking place in April of that year, when she gave birth to a little boy. About two months after her confinement she induced a poor woman to nurse it for her, paying so much a week, and took a situation with Mr Ballin, of Kihikihi, as domestic servant, in July of the same year. From that date to this she has never looked after the child or supplied it with necessaries. About December last Miss M'Yeagh got married to a man at Hamilton. During the first quarter the child was put out, Miss M‘Veagh gave the nurse some money, but after that she received nothing. This poor woman has the child now saddled upon her to maintain, while she can find no trace of the unnatural mother, who has left the Waikato district. As the child’s father is believed to reside at Greymouth, it is to be hoped that the Greymouth papers will give due publicity to this paragraph, so that he may be enabled to claim his offspring or to maintain it. The Akaroa correspondent of the Christchurch Press, under date 20th August, writes ;—“Four Maoris, whilst returning from Akaroa to Wainui last night, capsized their boat in the middle of the harbor. Two Maori women at Wainui, hearing their cries, launched a punt, one of them stopping the plug with her finger and the other pulling. They succeeded in rescuing two of the men, but Big Jmi and Billy Billy were drowned. The bodies have not been recovered. Young Tikau narrowly escaped.” The earnings of the Victorian railways from Januaiy 1 to June 30 of this year are £154,000 in excess of the same six months of 1880.

The sum of money placed in racing sweeps is enormous. Mr J. J. Miller states in his sporting pamphlet, which we have received by post, that last season he received and disbursed in sweeps £36,000 on the Melbourne Cup, £14,000 on the Champion Race, and £2OOO on the Australian Cup. “Have you read the new version 1 — Boston Post. “Yes. Have you read the old one ?”—Philadelphia News.

A young man living in Wright County, Minnesota, recently had a tooth drawn, and upon the cavity being tilled to prevent the flow of blood he commenced bleeding at the nose and mouth, and continued to do So uiitil he bled to death.