The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1582, 22 October 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1881.

The Christchurch mail coach left the Bealey this morning, at the usual hour, and arrived at the Kumara post-office at 3.15 p.m. Mr Rugg’s coach also arrived at about the same hour. The Kumara portion of San Francisco mail arrived by the Christchurch coach this afternoon, and was promptly sorted

and delivered in town ; the Lead letters also being forwarded to their usual destination.

An accident which might have been attended witli the most serious consequences, occurred at Cape Terrace yesterday afternoon. A min named Andrew Fahey was working in a shaft at a depth of about twenty feet from the surface, and was sending up a bucket of dirt, which, when it was about half way up, by some means or other became detached from the hook, and fell, striking Fahey on the shoulder and back, bruising him a good deal, but fortunately doing no very serious damage.

A case of sunstroke occurred yesterday afternoon to a man working on the road leading from the Dillman’s Town Christchurch road to Blake’s upper saw-mill. Charles Burgess, lately from Stafford, is the name of the unfortunate sufferer. He was conveyed in an express to his lodgings in Kumara, and medical aid sent for. Although the patient has slightly improved to-day, he is not altogether out of danger, the immediate effect of sunstroke being congestion of the brain. The Electoi’al Roll for Kumara, the compilation of which was completed a few days since, contains no less than 2034 names. This number will probably be supplemented in the course of a few days. The new Hokitika Roll contains 1404 names, with a probable addition of about 100 on the Supplementary Roll. There are 1935 voters’ names on the Inangahua new electoral roll.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, before R. J. Seddon and A. C. Campbell, Esqs., J.Ps., Francis William M‘Mahon was charged with the larceny, about three weeks ago, of two pairs of truck wheels, valued at £l, the property of James Guild, miner, and taken from Quinn’s Terrace. He was remanded to the 26th inst., for the production of further evidence, and to enable accused to avail himself of the services of counsel. Bail was allowed, himself in £2O, and two sureties of £lO each.

To-night, at the Theatre Royal, Madame Lotti Wilmot will again lecture to a Kumara audience, the subject being “Forbidden Fruit.” The price of admission has been reduced to Is for back seats. To-morrow evening, at the same place, Madame Wilmot will lecture on “Freedom of Thought, or Atheism after which, if wished, she will discuss the subject with any person who may feel disposed. Ten minutes only are to be allowed to each speaker at a time ; and, to ensure regularity and order, the audience will be asked to select a chairman.

We are pleased to learn that Mr John Maher, who, during his absence on the East Coast, experienced a severe relapse of his former complaint (intersusception of the bowels), has so far recovered as to be enabled to return home, and he is expected to arrive at Hokitika by the mail coach from Christchurch this evening. As will be seen in another column, Sub-Lieut. Robinson has been successful in winning the Ladies’ Gold Medal, for which there have been eighteen competitions. It appears that certain members of the company, hearing of Robinson winning it for the third time, went out on the following Monday, and two of them made a larger score than Robinson (Upham being one of the two). These scores were not allowed, being against the conditions laid down at the outset. But, in reasonable justice to Volunteer XJpham, it must be stated that when he for the third time won the medal, and parties went out on the following Monday to head his score, and did so, their score was allowed by the officer then in command. Upham and his friends protested, but the protest was not allowed Had Upham, however, referred his claim to a higher authority, it would, we think, have been allowed, but he went on firing in subsequent competitions, thus annulling his own protest and forfeiting his right to claim the prize.

The three hours’ walking match between W, H. Jenkins and J. Coutts, the former conceding 20 minutes’ start, will take place at the Theatre Royal on Monday next. Both pedestrians are in excellent trim, and a good contest is expected. The entertainment to be given by the Amateur Dramatic Club on the Prince of Wales’ Birthday (Wednesday, 9th November) promises to be as great a success as those which have already characterised the efforts of our local dramatists. Rehearsals are frequent, under the management of Mr W. Warren ; the scenery, which is being executed by our talented artiste, Mr J. H. King, will be replete and striking, as heretofore ; and the number of performers will be increased. .The object is a laudable one, being the

liquidation of the debt on St. Patrick’s School, where a large number of the rising generation receive their first rudimentary education.

At a meeting of the Grey County Council on Thursday last, Councillor Foley moved “ That the Road Overseer be instructed to lake the necessary steps for erecting a bridge over Blackwater ; to report if necessary, and examine the bridge over the Three Mile Creek, and see what repairs are inquired to render it safe for traffic,” The motion was carried. —The question of surveying a track from Cameron’s to Cape Terrace was deferred to the next meeting of the Council.

The annual celebration of the Bible and Crown Loyal Orange Lodge will be held in the Public Hall, Kumara, on Thursday, the 3rd November. Tickets may be obtained from any members of the managing committee whose names appear in the the advertisement announcing the festival. Mr Joseph Petrie announces himself as a candidate for the Greymouth constituency. At the funeral of a Mrs Jamieson (says the Melbourne Argus), which took place at Campbell’s Creek, on August 30, the ancient custom of women carrying the dead was witnessed for the first time at the cemetery. The corpse was carried by elderly matrons from the house to the road, and from the gate of the cenietery to the grave. A medical journal has found that there are from 100,000 to 200,000 hairs in a woman’s head. A benedictine wag assures us that the number of hairs in a man’s head depends considerably on the time he has been married.

On a recent Saturday night two frolicsome Balmain girls, clad in male attire, paraded George street, Sydney, for over three hours.

The system of underground telegraph communication throughout the German Empire is nearly completed. More than 800,000 acres of land have been reclaimed from the water in Holland since the beginning of the sixteenth century, and the work still goes on at the rate of about eight acres per day.