The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1882.

Kumara Times, Issue 1648, 10 January 1882, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1882.

An information was laid to-day against a man named Haylock, who resides at the Kawhawa Accommodation House, on the Christchurch Road, and is charged with having attemqted to murder one Andrew Curie, by firing at him with a doublebarrelled gun. The offence is alleged to have been committed at ten o’clock last evening. It is asserted that Haylock went to the house of Harris, a settler, and demanded if Curie was there. Curie attempted to escape, but was fired at, the shot luckily taking no effect. A warrant has been issued, and doubtless by this time the accused will be in custody. The Inangahua Times reports :—“The Hon. Mr Rolleston, Minister of Mines, accompanied by Mr Barron and Mr J. Browning, Chief Surveyor, Nelson, arrived in Reefton on Saturday evening last. The visitors came from Foxhill to Hampden, thence to the Cannibal Gorge, via Manna, and down the route of the proposed East and West Coast Railway to Reefton. The journey was made on horseback, and the fact that the stage from Hampden to Reefton—some forty odd miles, of rather rough travelling, was made in one day, would show that the Hon. Mr Rolleston is no featherbed traveller. It is said that Mr Rolleston was much struck when passing through the Hampden and Upper Buller district, at the fact of residents thereabouts carrying on the joint work of mining and farming, in many localities the claims and farms being in the same paddock. According to the Times, Mr Rolleston was to leave for the Lyell at three o’clock yesterday. From the Lyell Mr Rolleston is to proceed to Westport, returning to Reefton on Friday evening, en route for Greymouth.” Sealed tenders are invited for a timber tramway, a mile and a half long, together with horse, two trucks, and all other appliances. Applications will bo received by Mr Foldi, Dillman’s Town, till Saturday, 14th inst. A match at quoits for £5 aside was played at Sheffield on Tuesday last between Mr W. Bankside, of Kirwoe, and Mr B. Askew, of Oxford. The judges were Messrs G. E. Jebson and J. Horner. The match was played during a high wind, and was utterly devoid of interest, as the Oxford man was much too good for his opponent. The distance was twenty-one yards, and the game twenty-one up, the scores being -.—Askew, 21 ; Bankside, 8. An instance of a boy being nearly eaten alive by ants is given in a telegram to the Sydney Evening News : —“ A boy named Spann, residing near Ipswich, was sent out to bring in some cows, and not returning, the neighbours searched the country for 40 miles round. In the evening the boy’s mother heard a faint scream in the paddock near the house, and on going to the spot found her boy with his left arm broken, his spine injured, and his face, arms, and hands' eaten raw by ants, which were found carrying away small particles of skin and flesh. The boy is getting on pretty favorably,”