The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1882.

Kumara Times, Issue 1681, 17 February 1882, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1882.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before R. J. Seddon, and T. Connell, Esqs., J.Ps., Mary Anne Morris was charged on the information of Ellen Simpson with having used indecent language. A fine of 10s was imposed. The defendant in the former case was then charged with using threatening language. The information was dismissed. Patrick Rooney was fined £1 for allowing four goats to wander in the borough ; and Daniel Lewis, for keeping a pig in the town, was fined ss. It is scai’cely necessary to remind the public of the entertainment that is to take place at Westbrook this evening for the purpose of augmenting the funds of the Kumara Hospital ; it seems so generally known and talked about. Mr Foley, at whose hotel the performances are to be given, is doing his best to ensure the happiness and comfort of those who will to-night invest his premises to hear the amateur vocal and instrumental performers that have resolved on assisting in this common cause of benevolence and charity. The weather is all that can be desired, and we confidently expect to see a very large gathering on the occasion. A ball will be held after the entertainment is over. Tenders have been let for the new Post and Telegraph offices, Wellington, the price being £22,444. Dunedin has been all alive with Victorians the last few days, nearly 200 of whom arrived by the Union Steamship Company’s boat Te Anau. The saloon must have been crowded, notwithstanding the passenger-carrying capacity of that vessel. But the most cheering and noteworthy circumstance was the advent of 82 steerage passengers, from which we (Herald) judge that the exodus from New Zealand has ceased and the tide of return has set in. Special attention is directed to the prices at which Messrs Smith and Barkley are now offering their present stock prior to introducing their Winter shipments. Mr Hugh Adamson notifies elsewhere that in consequence of Mr Robertson relinquishing the shop in Main street where the hungry and thirsty were wont to appease their appetites and thirst and the jovial to strengthen the inner man, he has resolved to carry on the .business ; so that pies and coffee will be supplied as usual; and the best bread manufactured and sold at the most reasonable prices. We observe that Sergeant O’Malley, so long and favorably known in Westland, has been appointed Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Waipawa, Hawkes Bay. Alex. M‘Rae, shepherd at Matakanui Station, was found dead two miles from homo on Sunday, 22nd ult. He was returning home from Blacks, having gone there for the purpose of getting some teeth extracted. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of death by apoplexy. The Australian pedestrians made their appearance at the Caledonian Grounds, Dunedin, last Thursday evening, and attracted considerable attention while engaged in their training. Although a high wind was blowing, O’Brien ran 10 miles at a rare pace, and was comparatively fresh | a t the finish, while O’Connor indulged in ; some extraordinary spurts. Freeman is I rather on the stout side, but is a splendid j runner, combining speed with stamina, i An enormous black shark was caught 1 recently in the inner harbor at Napier. The Telegraph says that two nets were broken in landing the monster, and the i third one used would probably have met

the same fate had not the shark become entangled therein by ■ floundering about after finding itself captured. The men, after successfully landing their prize, opened it, and found in its stomach a hat (rather suggestive), two sinkers, three hooks, and a bone about ten inches long (also suggestive). Mr John Dun ward, a waggoner in the Mount Ida district, recently lost four horses out of his team of seven through the team bolting. The Chronicle states that having lost some rugs out of the waggon ‘ ‘ he tightened the brake, tied the reins to it, and went back on foot. When he had gone some distance something startled the horses, and they dashed off with the waggon. The shaft horses were thrown and dragged, and the body horses were also fearfully knocked about. The waggon did not capsize. The shatters were killed outright, and the body horses have since died. Out of a team of seven horses four were killed.” A dynamite explosion occurred at Mudgee (N.S.W.) the other day by which a young man was terribly injured. A messenger was sent for a doctor, but he met with an accident by being thrown from his horse, and was severely cut and bruised. The doctor, found at last, hastening to the scene of the explosion, was also thrown, and much bruised and shaken. An exchange says At a recent dairy show, held in London, a New Zealand cheese received the highest encomiums. The Lord Mayor publicly referred to it in most flattering terras. We have in Victoria and New South Wales ate excellent cheese. The wonder is that one rarely gets decent cheese in New Zealand. A ring of large emeralds and brilliants, now in the possession of the Berkcly family of England, and which once belonged to the renowned Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel, drowned off the Scilly Islands in his warship in 1707, has quite a history. An old woman once confessed to her pastor on her deathbed that she found the Admiral exhausted on the shore, and killed him for the plunder.