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Kumara Times, Issue 1729, 15 April 1882, Page 2

TTie mail and Rugg’s coaches left the Bealey this morning at the usual early hour, the former with eleven and the latter with twelve passengers. Both arrived in Kumara shortly after 3 o’clock, Mr R. J. Seddon, M,8.R., who acted as a delegate to the Minister of Mines with Mr G. G. Fitz Gerald, M.H.R., in the matter of the payment in advance for water question, was a passenger. The Rev, Mr Hoskin, the newly-ap-pointed Wesleyan minister to the Kumara circuit will preach in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow, morning ami evening. A sale of Crown sections of land in the towns of Kumara and Dnnganville will take place at the Crown Lands Office, Hokitika, on Wednesday next, the 19th April, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The Kumara sections are 732, 733 j and 753, which are outside- the South Town Belt; and 142, which is* nearly opposite Mr Wylde’s house, on tire Main; road, and within the Town Belt, The upset price of each section is £s> ;• but three of them have improvements to- the extent of £5, £lO, and £ls- respectively.

Cobb and Co.’s special coach for Springfield and Christchurch, which it was yesterday announced would leave Kiimara and Hokitika to-morrow morning, will not leave till Monday morning, starting from Hokitika at 5 o’clock, and Kumara at 6 o’clock, via the Loop-line, joining the Hokitika coach at Goodfellow’s. The Inatigahua Herald, which owing to the destruction of the plant and premises by fire has been printed as h half-sheet, now appears in its old form and size—the size of the Grey River Argus. A painful accident is, reported by the Inangahua Herald to have occurred at the Keep-it-Dark mine on Wednesday last, to a miner named William Lamberton while employed underground. It appears that he had charged a hole in the rock with powder, and after igniting the fuse retired to a distance of about fifteen feet. Not seeing the fuse “spitting” he concluded that it had gone out, and was in the act of returning to the face when the charge exploded. The poor fellow appeared to be much injured, but could see with one eye until reaching the head of the shaft, so that at any rate his sight is not lost. He was at once put in a conveyance and driven to the Reefton Hospital by Mr Watson, manager of the Wealth of Nations works. On arrival at Reefton, Dr. Thorpe was quickly in attendance, and on examination found that the breasts and arms were burnt, as also the face, which appeared to have received the most injury, a piece having been cut out of the upper lip. The full extent of the injuries will not be known until the inflammation has subsided, which will take a few days. A first meeting of the creditors of J. M. Shepherd was held on Wednesday afternoon, April sth (says the Timaru Herald). Very little beyond preliminary business was done. Three trustees were elected, Messrs J. Shepherd and W. Davidson, of Timaru ; and G. L. Denniston, of Dunedin. A number of claims against the estate, to the amount of about £SOOO were received and noted; but others to a greater total amount are yet to come in. Some discussion took place as to the propriety of offering a reward for the apprehension of the defaulter, but no decision could be come to, as the consent of all or most of tlie creditors would be necessary, as the liability could fall only upon those consenting. “ ‘ The National Encyclopaedia of Business and Social Forms’ I consider a most valuable work, containing much useful information which cannot be readily obtained elsewhere.”—T. L. Porter, M.A.j M. 8., &c. “I consider ‘The National Ency. clqpaedia ’ a very useful book, as it contains such a variety of information, and forms a library in itself. I heartily commend it to all.”—Rev. W. West. Francis B. Sapsford, A.A., Oxford, is the Kumara agent; address, Rugg’s Hotel.— [Advt.]