The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.

Kumara Times, Issue 1774, 8 June 1882, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.

j The Christchurch coaches succeeded iu I getting through to the Bealey hist night, I left there at the usual early hour this : morning, and arrived here at 3.10 p.m. j The new road from Uillmau’s Town to ; the Christchurch road, constructed by the ; County Council of Westland, was opened , for traffic yesterday. It is six miles in j length. The distance from the Kumara j post-office to the Waimea bridge, which j is on the Christchurch road near the Junej tion of the new road, and also adjacent to I the house known as “ Old John’s” aceom- | modation house (but which is now kept j by the owner, Mr Harris), is about 7k j miles. As the distance between these two places hy the Looplinc road is from Ilf, I to 12 miles, there will thus be a saving of j between foil)- and five miles, besides the ; long pull up-hill between the Waimea i oridge and (loodfellow’s. Mr Ilugg is in--1 tending to use this road in future, and in

all probability Mr Binnic will soon adopt the same route for the mail coach. The road has been widened from an ordinary track, and the cost was about £2OOO. Applications from persons willing to fill the offices-of caretaker to the Town Hall and borough offices, and sexton at the Kumara Cemetery are invited by the Town Clerk, to be sent in before noon of next Wednesday. Specification of duties to be performed can be seen at the Town Hall. We are informed that our industrious townsman Mr A. Webber has been appointed Manager to the Ross Goldmining Company. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board held at Hokitika yesterday, it was resolved to make a road reserve between Stafford and Goldsborough, at the request of the County Council, according to plana furnished by the Chief Surveyor. The application of James Pollard to have an island of 35 acres in the Teremakau river, thrown open for agricultural le:ise purposes was adjourned. A serious accident is reported by the West Coast Times to have occurred on Tuesday evening at Woodstock Hill, to a miner named James Carr, who had that day sold out his share in a claim on the Woodstock rush. It appears he was wandering down the hill about midnight, when he fell over the precipice, a distance of sixty feet, breaking his leg and severely injuring himself otherwise, particularly about the head, and nearly losing one of his eyes by its coming in contact with the stump of a tree. The poor fellow remained in his dangerous position all night, and was discovered in the morning in an exhausted condition. He was immdiately conveyed to the Hokitika Hospital, where he was promptly attended to by Dr. James. His escape was truly miraculous, and it is considered that the injuries will not prove fatal. The Mataura Ensign chronicles an amusing typographical error that occurred in its report of the last meeting of the Southland County Council. It was stated that “Mr J. H. Smith was granted permission to place a flood-gate in the ditch adjoining his property, to dam back the tidal waters that now enter his brains.” The latter word should have been drains.