The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1881.

Kumara Times, Issue 1589, 31 October 1881, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1881.

Letters posted before 10 o’clock this evening will be in time for the Homeward mail via San Francisco. Mr R. J. Seddon, M.H.R., will address the electors at Reynolds’ Hotel, Dillman’s Town, this evening, at 8 o’clock. In another column we reprint an interesting account of some of the events which occurred during the war with the Natives in 1864. Mr R. P, Whitworth, the writer, visited this goldfield when it first broke out as a special correspondent of the Victorian and Dunedin Press. Wednesday, the 16th of November, is the day appointed for the election ’of members for the Westland County Council. The nominations for the return of three members to represent the Aralmra Riding will be received at the Court House, Stafford, up to noon on Tuesday, the Bth November. The nominations for the Grey County Council took place on Saturday last. The following gentlemen worenominatedforthe various ridings : —Brunner: R. Gregory, J. M. Morris, J. Taylor, Paroa ; A. R. Guinness, Jos. Kilgonr. Marsden : John Kain, John Warren. Waipima ; Jas. Marshall, Denis Noonan. Oobden ; Denis Ryall. Maori Crook : David Madden. Nelson Creek : Arthur Ellis, George M'Beath. At an interview which Mr L. Davies had with the Hon. the Minister of Mines on Tuesday last, that Minister, it was stated, agreed to give a subsidy to the Inangahua County Council of £ for £ towards the purchase of a diamond rock-boring machine. Mr Rolloston at same time informed Mr Davies that lie would visit the Inangahua district before the end of the year.

At the special parade of Volunteers last Friday evening for the purpose of ascertaining how many members were willing to engage for active service in the North Island, the following volunteered :—Sergeants Sampson and Brayshaw, Volunteers H. J. Williams, F. W. Thompson, Jas. Borlase, H. Hope, Thoa. Brown, H. Jenkins, Samuel Lee, Thos. Jones, Geo. Woods, Thos. O’Loughlin, F. Byrne, M. O’Loughlin, Thos. Shaw, J. C. Simmons. The last-named and the two O’Loughlins have been objected to by their parents as being under age, and it is doubtful if they could go. Captain O’Hagan also received four or five applications from old Volunteers at the Waimea to join in with the company, some of whom ■will probably parade to-morrow night. Their names are John Mundy, Edward Thirdhorn, James Rosewarren, John O’Keefe, Arthur Clifton. In reference to a question put to Capt. Bonar, the officer-commanding the district, the following reply has been received; “Have no instructions re protection to claims, but am sure there will be no difficulty in getting it.—J. A. Bonar.” By a telegram from Wellington, it will be seen tlmt the Government have the full number of Volunteers they require for the present. For some time past it has been currently reported that the Rev. E. A. Scott, the present pastor of the English Church in Kumara, was about to be removed. These rumors have been too well founded. But the loss of the services of so eminentlyqualified a minister for this community are not to pass without some kind of protest, and accordingly we find a petition of a highly eulogistic character to the reverend gentleman, but nevertheless well-merited and earnest in its tone, was to-day being signed, praying his lordship the Bishop of the diocese that Mr Scott may be retained at Kumara, where he has won the good-will and esteem, not only of his own congregation, but of those of other denominations who have from time to time been watchful admirers of his zeal and earnestness in all things pertaining to the intellectual and social welfare of the district, in which he has now been for so long an active and sympathetic worker. Persons who have observed the immense posters which are placarded in various parts of the town will be aware that the Lyons’ Tourists or Pleasure Party, about ■whom they concern, must be something more than ordinary theatrical travellers” and that an uncommon treat is in store for those who are fond of good acting and good singing. These Tourists, who -were organised in Melbourne for a tour through New Zealand, will positively be in Kumara and open at the Adelphi Theatre on ■Wednesday evening next. They comprise Miss Amy Horton, the charming Character Vocalist and Danseuse ; Miss Nina Tulloch, the pleasing Specialty Artiste ; Miss Emily Fox, the bewitching Soubrette ; Miss Jessie Leon, the sparkling Songstress ; Miss Annie Lyons, the seriocomic Sketch Artiste ; Little Amy, the Vital Spark ; Master Sammy M‘Lean, the youthful Son of Erin, in his great Hibernian characters and sketches; Master J. S. Parlato, the juvenile mirth-provoking German and Dutch impersonator ; Young Farron, the eccentric Irish Character Artist; and Messrs Lynch and Wyburd, of old fame. The Tourists will appear nightly in their sparkling musical entertainments—“ Patchwork,” “ Musical Moments,” &c., intespersed with the latest songs and dances, quartettes, and duets.