The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 1984, 8 January 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1883.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before A. C. Campbell and. T. R. Connell, Esqs., J.Ps., Edward Murphy was charged with refusing to leave a licensed public house when requested so

to do. He was also charged with being drunk and disorderly. Accused pleaded guilty and was convicted of both offences. For the first he was fined 10s., and Court costs 2s ; and for the second he was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment (without the option of a fine) with hard labour to the Hokitika Gaol. After the hearing of the above case, an application was made, under section 167 of the Licensing Act, 1881,” to the Justices to forbid any licensed person to sell to Edward Murphy any liquor for the space of one year. The application was granted. Mr R. E. Wylde’s night school for young men, or boys unable to attend school during the day, will re-open at the State School this evening at eight o’clock.

The Westland County Council meet on Wednesday next, at 2 p.m. The Finance Committee will meet the same morning at 11 a.m. to revise the accounts for December.

Tenders for the construction of the track from Austrian Terrace to the head of Greek’s Gully, close to-morrow at 4 p.m. at the Council Chambers, Hokitika.

Mr W. C. Gilbert, dentist, of Greymoutli, is on a visit for a few days to Reefton. Dr Brnen and Miss Annie Elizabeth Collins, both of Westport, were married, at Charleston, on New Year’s Day. The Westport Times remarks :—As an old resident of Westport, the bridegroom will have the congratulations of the townspeople upon his entering the ranks of the Benedicts.” We learn that similar felicitations will shortly be accorded to Dr. Porter, of this town. The following tenders were received for permanent way and stations contract, west of Timaru:—No. 1, Albury to Fairlie Creek and Burke’s Pass—Accepted : J. Whittaker, Dunedin, £215111s lOd. Declined : J. Cranston, Dunedin, £2637 10s ; J. Coates, Christchurch, £2939.

The Lyell Grand Handicap Foot Race, run on Tuesday and Wednesday, 26th and 271 h December, was won by John Carroll, with 16 points, M. O’Loughlan being second with 15 points. H, Bell and E. Griffiths divided third and fourth money, being each 5 points. The firemen of the City of New York struck before leaving Auckland, owing to the alleged grievance of being short-handed —nineteen men doing duty for twentyfour. They came ashore and were arrested, sixteen being put in the lock-up. The American Consul got additional hands shipped, and the recusants were then taken out of the lock-up by the police and put on board. One refused to submit on the ground that lie had been threatened by his officer, and remained in prison. The steamer was delayed till the evening, when she sailed for San. Francisco.

A handsome mural tablet and basrelief, executed by Count Gleichen, to the memory of the 189 officers and men who were lost in the wreck of H.M.S. Orpheus, on the Manukau bar, has been erected by private subscription in the chapel at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and was unveiled on the 9th October.

Bates, the cricketer, intends to settle in Sydney when his engagement with the Hon Ivo Bligh’s team is fulfilled. He will bo a valuable accession to the New South Welshmen.

A statement has appeared in a Canadian paper that Hanlan has decided to visit Australia, taking Plaisted, the sculler, as his trainer. He hopes to arrange contests with both Rush and Laycock, and to give a series of exhibitions of his extraordinary skill as a sculler. No confirmation of this statement has appeared. The damage done to public and private property in the fourteen inundated districts of the Southern Tyrol is estimated at 1,559,300 florins. The amount sub-

scribed up to the present in aid of the sufferers is 250,000 florins, exclusive of the contribution from the Emperor’s private purse.

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