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Kumara Times, Issue 1655, 18 January 1882, Page 2

In honor of the visit of the Minister of Mines (the Hon. W. Rolleston) his Worship the Mayor requests that to-morrow (Thursday) may be observed as a public holiday. Mr Rolleston will visit the public schools in the morning. The children attending St. Patrick's School are requested to be in attendance at half-past nine o'clock. Miners of the district are requested to meet at the Metropolitan Hotel, Upper Seddon street, near the Kumara town boundary, at 11 o'clock to-morrow (Thursday) morning, where they may expect to have an opportunity of interviewing the Hon. W. R,olleston, the Minister of Mines. The mail coach from Christclmrch, arrived at the Kumara Post-office at 3.10 o'clock this afternoon. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise Margaret, now Duchess of Connanght, whose name is associated with an interesting event in our cablegrams to-day, is a daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia. She was married to His Royal Highness Arthur William Patrick Albert, third son of her Majesty Queen Victoria, on the 13th of March, 1879. A committee has recently been formed in Westbrook for the purpose of raising funds for the benefit of the Kumara Hospital. The committee met last evening, at Mr P. Foley's Hotel, Westbrook, and resolved to give a concert and ball on the 17th of next month. As the programme will be a large one, the object aimed at one of the best, and admission fees small, it is anticipated that the public will liberally respond to the call. It is necessary to state that miners who are daily exposed to danger should not only attend, but use their best endeavours to induce their friends to buy tickets. The Kumara Hospital has been a home to many a poor sufferer, and so recently as Monday last an unfortunate man who was almost killed at Cape Terrace was carried there to share its hospitality and the able and kind attendance of a good doctor and wardsman. Some months ago, yesterday's telegrams inform us, the seal of the colony was found to be worn out, and application was made to the Home Government for a new one. The new seal reached here in clue course, the old one being, as required, sent home. However, application was made by the New Zealand Government (through his Excellency) to the Secretary of State, asking that the old seal might be returned to the colony as a memento, it being the first seal used in the colonies under representative government, and was sent out with the Constitution Act in 1852. The Home Government agreed to return it, and the seal arrived by the mail, having been slightly defaced by order of the Queen in Council. Fresh written tenders will be received at the Public Works Office, Greymouth, until noon of Monday, 30th instant, for Section No. 1 Argyle water-race alterations contract. Drawings, specifications, and general conditions may be seen at the before-mentioned office. Elsewhere tenders are invited for the removal of the School building at Maori Gully. Specifications can be seen on application to Mr W. H. Perkins, Mawhera Quay, Greymouth. Tenders to be sent in to the office of the Central Board of Education, Greymouth, by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Ist February. To a person possessing a moderate amount of capital, a tine opportunity is presented of entering upon hotel premises without delay, where there is every requisite for carrying on a thriving business, which includes billiard room and table with all requisites thereto belonging. The Masonic Hotel is the name of the house ; it is situate in Main street, not far from the Pos-t Office. Particulars can be obtained from S. S. Pollock. A return issued in London on the 2nd January instant, shows that the value of English and colonial property lost at sea by wrecks during 1881 was £18,000,000,

One of the occupants of a cutter reported to be missing from Glenelg is Mr H. J. Coope, aged 23, son of an English clergyman, and nephew of Mr E. 0, Coope, M.P., now in Sydney. Coope went to Edithburgh by the steamer, on Boxing Day, intending to return the same way, but he exchanged places with an acquaintance named Mair, who returned in the steamer, while Coope sailed in the cutter, which has not since been heard of. A girl, four years of age, named Annie Moylan, was run over by an omnibus in Pitt-street, Sydney, on the 2nd inst., while crossing the road. She was conveyed to the Infirmary, and died an hour after admission.