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Kumara Times, Issue 1606, 19 November 1881, Page 2

The Returning Officer (A. F. F. Etheridge, Esq.) has kindly informed us that after going through the various deputies’ official returns, he finds the total number of votes polled for Mr R. J. Seddon was 337, Mr Sandle 289. Mr M'Whirter’s totals are the same as first recorded in this journal on Thursday last. So the result is : Dungan, Peter 467 M‘Whirter, John ... ... 364 Seddon, Richard John ... 337 Sandle, Henry William ... 289 The official declaration will be made known on Monday next. The annual meeting of the new County Council will take place at noon on Wednesday next, in the Council Chambers, Hokitika, when the election of County Chairman will take place. The mail coach left the Bealey this morning at the usual early hour, bringing mails from Europe and America, forwarded in the usual course via San Francisco. The Kumara portion of the mails, which arrived at 3.15 p.m., were promptly sorted and delivered. Mr Rugg’s coach arrived at about the same hour. In reference to an article which appeared in our last issue, it may be mentioned that the words “tonsillitis,” and “quinsy” have exactly the same meaning. Gentlemen favorable to the return of Mr R. J. Seddon to the General Assembly are invited to meet at the Public Hall, on Monday evening, at 7 o’clock, for the purpose of forming a committee. A painful and distressing accident happened yesterday to Mr M'llroy, storekeeper, of the Seventeen-mile Beach, and by which he lost his left hand. The Argus reports that he was engaged in shooting a bullock, ard stood on one of the upper rails of the stockyard, his brother-in-law being alongside of him. When he fired at the bullock, the gun burst, blowing his

hand completely to pieces. Singular to say he killed the bullock, and although the gun burst into pieces his brother-in-law, who Was alongside of him, did not receive a scratch. A messenger was at once despatched for Dr. Smith; who went out yesterday evening to attend the injured man. It appears that the gun, never a very good one, had been known for some time to be not a safe implement to use. Great sympathy is felt for Mr MTlroy on account of so unfortunate an accident. Mr Wright, of Dunedin, is advertised to preach morning and evening in the Presbyterian Church, to-morrow. During the week he has been holding evangelistic meetings in Hokitika, and intelids doing the same next week in Kumara. The Hokitika meetings were largely attended. Messrs Mansori and Co. are clearing out a few lines in each Of their departments; to make room for new goods from the Horae markets. The programme of the entertainment to be given by the old Kumara Minstrels at the Theatre Royal, on Friday* the 23th inst., as a farewell benefit to Mr Tom Muirhead is published, and will be found sufficiently long to satisfy the most inveterate patronisers of sentimental and comic recreative pastime, With Mr D. Williams as Bones, Mr Muirhead as Sambo, and Mr W. Warren as Interlocutor, there must be lots of fun and laughter. There are also to be Chinese delineations, songs and dances, and all winding up with the farce of “ A Row in the Club. ” A large orchestra is arranged for' under thd direction of Mr A. Miller ; and, with Mr W. Warren as stage manager, nothing should be wanting to make this farewell benefit a good success. It is not necessary for us to dilate upon the object of all this. Mr Muirhead is well known to have beert for several years here an active and useful servant of the public whenever any entertainments foT charitable objects have been required to be produced, and one of the foremost to aid in their success. He is about to quit this field of labour; and the present benefit is tendered by his brother Minstrels in the hope that he may be enabled to land at his intended destination with some token left of his services in Kumalra. We observe that a quadrille assembly will open in the Public Hall, Main street, on Tuesday next.