The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1570, 8 October 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1881.

The mail coach from Christchuvch left the Bealey this morning, at the usual hour, and arrived at the Kumara postoffice at 3.13 p.m. A money order and savings bank office has been opened at Barrytown (Chief Office, Groymouth). At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before E. Barff, Esq., J.P., John Sweeney was charged with having been drunk in Seddon street at an early hour thiß morning. The arresting constable stated that at the time he took the man to the lock-up, he seemed to have been fighting, and his appearance in

Court certainly justified the statement. He was discharged with a caution.

Tenders are required by the Borough Council for making a drain through sections to the north of Seddon street. Specifications can be seen at the Town Hall, where tenders must be lodged before noon of Wednesday, 20th inst. Mr John Tait, photogi apher, will be in attendance at his studio, opposite the Education Board's Office, Main street, on Tuesday next for a few days. He has resolved on reducing his former charges for first-class likenesses, specimens of which may be seen at Mr Drummond's corner. A meeting of subscribers to the East and West Coast Railway enterprise was held last Monday evening at Christchurch. The attendance was not very numerous, but it transpired (the Press reports) that the promises of support were not inconsiderable. The Reefton people would, in all probability, take from 1500 to 2000 shares, whilst a squatter in the. Amuri district, had, it is said, expressed his willingness to take 2000. The Christchurch subscription list represented 2500. Mr Weston, the chairman, explained the action of the Government and the two Houses in regard to the passing of the Bill, and paid a compliment to the Hon. the Premier for the interest he evinced in the matter. It was finally arranged that a public meeting should be held early next week at one of the public halls, with a view to eliciting public opinion upon the matter.

The Inangahua Times says that a requisition ha 3 been forwarded from Reefton to Mr T. S. Weston, asking him .to allow himself to be nominated for the Inangahua at the approaching general election.

A miner named Hartigan, met his death on Thursday last while proceeding from Boatman's to the Welcome claim. It appears (the Argus informs us) that while going along the track he fell off at an abrupt"face of rock, about seven feet deep, and broke his neck by the fall. Deceased worked in the Welcome mine, was a quiet, steady, hardworking man, and was highly esteemed throughout the district. He leaves a wife and two children.

An Addison's miner named Clifford received injury by a fall of earth recently (the Westport Times reports). He was working alone in his ground-sluicing claim, situated about three miles the Charleston side of Addison's Flat, when a slip came down and covered him in, breaking one of his legs. His cries attracted the attention of the men working in M'Taggart and party's claim, and the sufferer was rescued by them. A party was at once formed there and Clifford was brought down to the Hospital. If he had remained undiscovered for another hour, we hear that it is likely the sluice water would have smothered him.

The Inangahua Herald says—"Mr James Stevenson who engaged to return from Canterbury to Reefton by the Ada Pass, met with an insurmountable obstacle when only 48 miles from Reefton. At that point for a distance of two chains, the snow lay to a depth of 12ft. owing to the track through a pass having been cut on the shady side of the gorge. The opposite side exposed to the sun was perfectly free from snow. Mr Stevenson had to return by Top House, making a detour in consequence of this unexpected obstacle of nearly 150 miles." It is ascertained that the full Maori census shows an increase of 500 natives during three years.

A foot race for £SO a-side, on Monday last, at Dunedin, between Delaney and Hill, was won by the latter after a dead heat at 100 yards.

In a lecture on the revised edition of the New Testament, delivered in Dunedin last week, Dr. Roseby said :—" And now, as we close, let us lift the whole question out of this strife of controversy, and, apart from all questions of disputed leadings and discrepant translations, let us look at the book itself. Here is a book eighteen centuries old. It has been translated into all the tongues of the children of men. It has been quoted, preached, controverted, attacked, defended, as no other book has ever been. Men have cursed it and believed it, and burnt it and buried it, but still it lives, and never was more full of life or fruitful of blessing, than it is today. It is the home-book, lying upon the domestic altar. It is the child's book, and infants love to hear from mothers' lips its story, and at mothers' knees its prayer. The dying sinner lias snatched from it a word of hope even in his late repentance. The saint has been borne to heaven on its chariot wheels of ecstasy and triumph. There are disputed

readings* there are errors of transcription, there are errors of citation, there are errors of translation, in the various au- i thorities for its text. Yes, and I was looking a few days ago and saw some spots on the sun. But the more thoroughly one investigates these variations, these points touching the literary form or history of the book, the more one will be impressed with a sense of the protection which, by God's providence, in the Church's care, and even in the Church's controversies, the book has provided." A meteor of extraordinary size and brilliancy shot over Melbourne from the zenith due west the other night. The streets were lighted up as by the electric light. From the Argus we learn that one of the Victorian mines has increased in value over one hundred thousand pounds owing to lodes having been discovered by using the diamond rock drill which were not known to exist previously. A Victorian paper says that the diamond drill will be the means of ante-dating the mineral history of the Australasian colonies by fifty years ; will save the expenditure of millions of money on barren enterprises, and give to mining investment much greater security than is to be found in many other of the great channels, of commerce. A " happy father" inserts the following birth notice in a New South Wales paper :—" On the 22nd of August, at her residence, Bombala street, Cooma, the wife John E. P. Walker, of a son. Persons indebted to the father will kindly look upon this as an appropriate occasion to settle their accounts." A cherry-stone, snapped from the fingers of a skylarking member of the Twentythird Regiment at Creedmoor a few weeks since, nearly killed Lieutenant W. A. Moore. The missile struck him full on the eye. It hit the optic nerve, causing paralysis and congestion of the brain. A novelty in cricket is reported from Birmingham. A match was played between an eleven of the Edgbaston High School for girls, and an eleven of the girl 3 of Sandwell Park School, the latter being victorious by 19 runs.