The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 1985, 9 January 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1883.

We regret to notice by our cablegrams that the Hon. W. Gladstone, British Premier, is seriously indisposed.

A cablegram this afternoon announces that Sir William Jervois, the New Governor of New Zealand, has left Adelaide for Sydney, en route for New Zealand.

The work of constructing the new Kapitea clam near the Loop-line road has been fairly commenced. About thirty men are at present employed, and this number will probably be doubled when adequate room for working has been made.

It is notified for general information that Money Order and Savings Bank Offices have been opened at Rimu (Chief Office, Hokitika), and Te Puke (Chief Office, Thames), since the Ist inst. At the regular meeting of the Greymouth School Committee, held last night, Mr J. E. Warner and Mr R. Nancarrow were nominated as candidates for election to the Central Board.

We regret to notice the death of John Gambirazzi, of Waimea, one of the boys who played in the band from that district at the Kumara Christmas Sports. It appears that he caught a severe cold, which settled on his lungs, and became so bad last Thursday and Friday that medical aid was sent for, and Dr. Rosetti, who attended him, found that bronchitis had set in. The boy died on Friday night. He was interred in the Stafford Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, and the funeral is said to have been one of the largest that has ever taken place in the district. Mrs Elizabeth Mackay, defendant in the divorce case lately tried at Nelson, writes to the Evening Mail complaining of the curt manner in which evidence was taken at the trial, and says :—" I think it is a pity that such a serious case as a divorce should have been hurried over so quickly. It seems to me a shocking thing that a man should be allowed to sell his soul and his wife for £300." The editor replied:—"We will publish no more letters on this very unsavoury subject. The respondent and co-respondent in the recent divorce case declined to give their testimony on oath, and we do not care to throw open our columns now to fragmentary details of the domestic differences which culminated in the appeal to the law courts."

The Hon. Ivo Bligh's team meets the Australian eleven twice more—at Adelaide and Sydney. The Sydney Mail says : "In addition to meeting the Australian eleven three times, the Hon. Ivo Bligh is anxious to arrange a match against the strength of Australia, including Evans and Allan. The English cricketers are determined to reprieve their lost laurels, and have cabled for Mr A. P. Lucas to join them. One match is hardly a sufficient test of supremacy, and with two matches the honors may be divided ; but three contests between the same two elevens will most likely settle the question, particularly as the matches are to be played out. Whatever may be the result, the meeting of two such grand Elevens on our fine-weather wickets, and under our bright sky, will draw forth the finest cricket to be seen ha the world. The cricketing prestige of both England and Austi'alia will be well maintained, and the teams will meet as two well disciplined forces, each of which has gone through a preparatory campaign. These champion matches are bound to be the most interesting matches ever played in the colonies." A proposal (says the Times) has been mooted for supplying the town of Reef ton with the electric light, and from the measure of encouragement already offered it is very probable that the project will be carried into effect. It is estimated that a plant of sufficient magnitude to meet the requirements of the community for many years to come can be set at a cost of something under £SOOO, inclusive of patent rights, and this, it is shown, is less than it would cost to erect a gas plant of equal capacity. The idea was set on foot by Mr Wylde, jun, who has just returned from "Victoria, bringing with him samples of both the Edison and Swan electrical lamps, and a canvass of the town has shown that the business people and householders are unanimously in favour of the introduction of the system.

Murdoch, the captain of the Australian Eleven, will, it is stated, at the finish of the tour, resume his practice as a solicitor in Cootamundra. The Dunedin Star of the 23rd inst. reports as follows on the labor market:— Wages : Day labor, 5s to 7s ; superior, 8s to 9s ; grooms, boots, waiters, 20s to 30s ; cooks, billiard-markers, barmen, 20s to 255, and up to 50s ; station and farmcouples, L7O to L 8 0; shepherds, L6O, LGS, and L7O ; station cooks, 30s to 60s ; shearers, 20s per 100 ; shed hands, 20s to 30s per week ; hotel females, L 52, LGS, L7B, LlO4 ; girls (for stations), ploughmen (ordinary), L 52 ; skilled ditto, L 65 ; farms, and ordinary towns, L3O, L 35, and L4O ; bushmen, 7s, Bs, and 9s ; dairymen, lads, gii'ls, boys, 10s, 12s, 15s, and 20s ; boys (town and country), 5s to 10s ; builders' tradesmen, 10s, lis, 12s, 13s ; storemen, shopmen, and clei'ks, 30s to 50s; country carpenters, and smiths, 40s to 50s and found.

Ada Mantua's chief gift of £4OO in her last venture proved a somewhat appropriate windfall to the successful investor. A young lady who is under engagement to change her name a fortnight hence was the winner. The two Chinamen, who, it was reported by last Australian mail, had been buried by a fall of earth in an old shaft at Hard Hills, Buninyong, were rescued by the meritorious exertons of sixteen men. The Ballarat Courier says : " These are all miners who have worked on the Hard Hills previously, and there is no doubt that if they had not been employed the two Chinamen would not have been alive to-day, as the nature of the ground would not allow for any mistake to be made. The distance they drove in about 13 hours was over 40ft., which had to be closely timbered, and having to work in air so unbearable that the candles would burn only at the air pipes. The broken ground also for hundreds of feet around made the risk still greater, for if the shaft had collapsed there was no hope for them whatever.

The Salvation Army has beeen introduced into Sydney. New South Wales fitted out five parties to observe the transit of Venus.

Sir Henry Parkes has occupied the position of Premier of New South Wales for seven years and twenty days. Cetewayo before leaving England was desirous of taking some presents home for his wives, and the authorities made a grant for that purpose ; but upon his explanation that twenty-nine shared the honour, the original sum was increased to £SOO, which enabled the Zulu King to lay in a good supply of ribbons and bonnets.

Miss Quarterman, the daughter of a settler on the Albany road, West Australia, fell off her horse recently, and her foot catching in the stirrup, the young lady was dragged a couple of miles through the bush, and when found she was dead. The ladies of Perth, Western Australia, have recently had conferred upon them the privilege of voting at municipal elections.

Of all the men-of-war in Europe Italy has the most heavily h'on-plated and is possessed with the most formidable guns. The Duilia and the Dandolo have armour twenty-two inches thick, and they each carry 100 ton guns.