The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1568, 6 October 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1881.

Mails for the United Kingdom (via Naples) and the Australian Colonies, per Arawata, close at the Bluff on Saturday, Bth inst., at noon.

At the afternoon sitting of the Warden's Court yesterday, Thomson and party, by their agent Mr Barff, applied for protection for their claim for fourteen days. The application was granted.—On the application of Mr Barff, it was ordered that a notice be issued stating that a summons had been served at the last-known place of abode of William Llewelyn Richards,

but that his present address could not be found. His Worship ordered that the Kumara Times is the newspaper in which summons is to be advertised, in accordance with clause 8 Warden's Court Rules, under the " Mine 3 Act, 1877."

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before H. A. Stratford, Esq., R.M., Margaret Sheedy was charged with haying assaulted Margaret Mulholland. From the evidence it appeared that something very much resembling a free fight had taken place. Defendant was fined ss, ■with costs 9s.—Mary Sheedy was then charged with having assaulted the complainant in the former case. The case was dismissed.

It will be seen by a reference to the preceding column that Mr Seddon is not to have a walk-over. Mr Edmund Barff announces that he will be a candidate for the representation of the Kumara District at the ensuing election for the General Assembly. Mr Barff represented Westland in the Provincial Council of Canterbury from the time that representation was granted in that body up to the time that separation took place. He sat during the whole term of the old County Council, and sat in the General Assembly during the sessions of 1868, '69, and '7O, and again from 1876 to 1879.

From the Union Steamship Company's Pocket Guide for October we learn that the a.s. Taiaroa will leave Auckland for Levuka about Saturday, the 15th instant, returning on the 29th ; and that her next trip will be about the Ist November.

Messrs W. Wade and Co. having determined to sell their new and well-assorted stock at cost price, for fourteen days only, publish elsewhere a list of the principal articles, and the prices at which they will be sold. All goods are to be offered at great reductions during the sale for cash.

At the meeting of the Waste Lands Board yesterday, the application of Patrick Convery to purchase section 73, town of Dunganville, was granted, and section ordered to be put up to auction. Several accidents are reported by the Christchurch Press :—" On Friday last, a child of Mr T. H. Wallace, of Russell's Flat, was kicked by a horse in his father's stable, and his head was fractured. Dr Meadows was called in, but the little sufferer died before next morning. On Tuesday, 27th ult., Mr Wm. Thompson, of Killinchy, in catching his horse, received a kick in the thigh, causing a compound fracture. Dr. Malone was immediately sent for, and reduced the fractured limb.—On Friday following several accidents occurred. Mr Greening, of Doyleston, was driving some cattle to, the Leeston sale, when his horse fell on top of him, bruising him severely, but not seriously.—Mr Thos. Griffiths, of Lakeside, was standing in a pen where a cow and a calf were being sold. A dog was annoying the cow, and she rushed it, and, missing the dog, caught Mr Griffiths in the thigh, inflicting a large and dangerous wound. Mr Griffiths, who lost a quantity of blood, was removed to the residence of Dr Chapman, where he will remain till strong enough to be removed home.—A bicyclist going home from the Leeston sale also had a narrow escape from a cow, who rushed him. He stated that he never travelled so fast in his life, but the energy of the stockman materially assisted his escape. Letters received in Dunedin by the San Francisco mail from Bishop Moran (says |the Tablet), report his Lordship to have been in good health at the date of writing—that is about the middle of July. His Lordship was then in Ireland, and hoped to make arrangements by which a party of priests and nuns for the Dunedin mission would leave for this Colony by the Orient steamer in September. It was his Lordship's intention to visit Rome in October, and, if possible, to start on his return journey to his diocese early in November.

A lunatic named M'Guire, an Irishman, about forty years of age, escaped from Sunnyside Asylum, Canterbury, but was recaptured. A man named W. Smith sustained a severe rupture whilst indulging in the exercise of jumping, at Zalatown, a few days since. He proceeded to the Westport Hospital for medical treatment.

A number of bad half-crowns are being put into circulation in Wellington. They are said to be very bad imitations. An oil painting of the signing of the Treaty at Waitangi is being disposed of by art union at Christchurch. The mountain of food collected at Parihaka for the last meeting was said to be one chain long and several feet high, made up of potatoes, fish, and flour.