The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 1986, 10 January 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1883.

The steamship City of Sydney, with the San Francisco mails arrived at Auckland at half-past six yesterday morning. At 10.45 the Tairoa left for New Plymouth with the southern mails. The mail coach arrived this afternoon at two o’clock., A small rush has set in to ground some 200 yards back from the English Church, Seddon street. Several parties have worked adjoining ground for months and even years past, bottoming at 12 to 15 feet, but it was poor, yielding only one or one and a-half pennyweights to the load, and some abandoned their claims. A miner named MTnveney, however, with his two sons, sunk his shaft 30 feet, and haa been tjuiotly making throe to three

and a-half pennyweights to the load ; and this coming to be known has caused the rush. Several shafts are in course of sinking to the same depth, and the lead is expected to cross Seddon street in a westerly direction from the prospectors’ claim. A few days will suffice to test the value of the ground. We are pleased to learn that Mr Gladstone’s indisposition is not of such a serious nature as that it should cause alarm. He is merely suffering from insomnia, or sleeplessness, occasioned by overwork.

“The North New Zealand Settler” is the title of a weil-printed and useful publication for squatters and farmers ; and though intended more especially, as its name implies, to assist agriculturists in the North Island, there is much valuable information for the yeoman wherever located in New Zealand. No. 5 has reached us, in which the editor remarks :—“We have many improvements in contemplation for the coming year, for instance, a special page interesting and useful to settlers’ wives, and if possible an athletics and field-sports department.” We extract the following old maxims on “ Earliness There is much in that good old Saxon word “early.” It is the early sun that ripens the corn ; the early bird that catches the worm ; the early cabbage that catches the prize ; the early lamb that makes the money ; the early chicken that pays the hen wife; the early gooseberry that commands the market; the early swarm that makes the honey ; the early sown wheat that filles the bushel; the early sown barley that pleases the malster ; the early sack of wheat that attracts the miller ; the early peas that pay the rent; the early potatoes that fetch the money ; the early shepherd that fattens the sheep ; the early carter that pleases his master ; the early farmer who grows rich ; the early housewife who keeps her maids, and the early maid who keeps her place. Earliness is the true road to success, and the fact that so few succeed in the race of life is that so few can shake off dull sloth and early rise. There are some avocations in life in which early rising is not necessary, but they are chiefly of the kind to which another wise saying applies, that you cannot “burn the candle at both ends.”

Bishop Moran is a candidate for the Peninsula seat in the House of Representatives, rendered vacant by the death of Mr J. Seaton, who was killed by a buggy accident in Dunedin. Tenders are required by Friday night next for cutting and delivering 100 blocks. For particulars apply to Mr R. J. Seddon.

A plain gold shirt stud has been lost—by a bachelor, we expect. A reward is offered to the finder, on delivery at this office.

At the ordinary meeting of the Grey County County Council, held last evening, the tender of Patrick Casey (£IOB 2s 6d) for repairs to the bridge over the Threemile Creek, Greenstone, was accepted. Referring to this bridge Cr. Taylor asked the somewhat ludicrous question—- “ Would it not be possible to do away with some of these bridges, as they were a constant source of great expense V’ The Chairman said he thought that particular bridge oould not be done without. It was on the main road from Hokitika to Greenstone.

One usually hears in connection with children’s picnics, that one or two are left behind, but the opposite (says the Akaroa Mail) was the case in one from Gebbie’s Valley to Rabbit Island lately, where one of the ladies had an addition to her family during the day. Mother and child are doing extremely well.

Difficulty is being experienced at Wellington in obtaining competent men to load wool ships. Good men can earn from X2s to 14s a da} r . A nasty accident is reported to have happened at Foxton on New Year’s morning. A ship’s gun was being used to welcome the new year, and one charge had been fired. The men in charge, however, omitted to sponge out the barrel, and on the second charge being inserted the gun went off immediately. Mr Clarke, the engineer of a steamer, was badly hurt about the face, as was also a young man named Lebatt.

The Thames Star of a recent date contains the following paragraph : A wonderful freak of nature is on exhibition in the premises near the Exchange Hotel, Shortland, formerly occupied by Messrs Durham and M‘Loed, drapers. It was, our informant says, calved by a cow in Botany Bay, on March 10th last. It has one head, that of a kangaroo, and a formation representing the place nature apparently intended for another, eight

legs, four ears, three eyes, two of which resemble a calf’s, the other being unlike them, but, it is said, similar to that of a kangaroo, and two tails. There are several other points in which .this lusus naturae differs from the usual order of things; for instance, the ears are under the eyes. To lovers of the extraordinary and wonderful this montrosity is well worth seeing. A sulphur mine in Sicily was recently set on fire in a very curious manner. A waggon loaded with sulphur was being drawn up an incline, when the rope supporting it broke, and the waggon rushed back into the mine at a frighful speed. The rapid motion developed heat enough to set on fire the highly combustible ore, and the flames spread so quickly through the mine that thirteen of the workmen were unable to escape, and thirty to forty others were seriously injured. Rome has been celebrating her 2635th birthday, on which occasion the new excavations at the Pantheon and Forum were thrown open to the public. The Wonderful Wertheim Sewing Machine may be had upon Time Payment, easiest terms for any part of the country, no matter where you live. With perfect ease and simplicity they will make very fine double seams or fells, will kilt, braid, make their own braid and stitch it on at the same time, bind, cord, ruffle gather, sew on ribbons and trimmings, tuck, hem to any width, bind scallops, and fold dress material with raw edges, bind on the bias, embroider curtains or antimacassars, stitch heaviest tweeds or moleskins, muslin or calico. Every kind of family or factory sewing. The Wertheim machines wind their own bobbins without guidance as level as reels of cotton. They are guaranteed for ten years, but will last a a lifetime. Easy to learn, light in running, strong, handsome, and durable. Catalogues, samples of work, and particulars free by post from James Renton, sole agent, Kumara and Hokitika.— [Advt.]