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Kumara Times, Issue 1694, 4 March 1882, Page 2

In answer to the telegram sent by Mr Seddon asking that the miners be allowed to go on working into the sludge-channel, and that the order to stop work be countermanded, the following reply has been received : To-R, J. Seddo*, Esq., M.H.R., Kumara. In reply to your telegram yesterday I have to inform you that the Government sludge channel is not yet completed but that as soon as it is finished arrangements ■will be made for giving the miners the use of it. Oliver Wakefield. Wellington, March 4, 1881. Ifrom this it would appear that the de-

partmentin Wellington know very little about the sludge-channel, or about the orders given to stop working, so .that we presume the local management or the District Engineer is to blame for the injudicious step taken to atop work. The Christchurch mail coach and also Mr Rugg's coach (with eleven passengers) left the Bealey at the usual early hour this morning, and arrived in Kumara at 3.15 o'clock. The Waxworks Exhibition was opened at ten o'clock this morning, and will be kept open till ten this evening, and during the first few days of next week. The Hobart Mercury thus speaks of the shipment of New Zealand coal, which arrived at that port by Mr Vautier's threemasted schooner Frank Guy, on the 13th ult. :—"The first shipment .of Westport (New Zealand) coal arrived at Hobart yesterday by the Frank Guy. The coal, which is consigned to Messrs A. M'Gregor and Co., is said to be admirably adapted for steam purposes, and eclipses Newcastle coal for that use, but does not come up to the N.S.W. article for domestic purposes. The consignment of coal is a trial one. We understand that the Railway Company, the Gas Company, and the steam companies intend testing it." Special attention is called to Smith and Barkley's genuine cheap sale. Great reductions, and 2s 6d cash in the pound returned to every cash buyer.—See price list.—[Advt.]