The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 1988, 12 January 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1883.

The Warden's Court opened at ten o'clock this morning. Several applications were heard, a report of which is held over.

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council which should have been held last evening was deferred (there being not a quorum at 8 p.m.) till this afternoon at 2 p.m. To-morrow (Saturday) is the day appointed for the poll to be taken for the election of one Borough Councillor to fill the vacancy occasioned by the l-etirement of Mr W. Barnett, who has since then become Mayor of Kumara. Mr S. S. Pollock having withdrawn from the position of being a nominated candidate, there remain but two gentlemen to contest the seat; these are Mr Denis Hannan and Mr John O'Hagan. The poll will be taken between tlie hours of 9 a.m. and G p.m. The Union Company's steamer Hawea with the San Francisco mails on board arrived at Lyttelton at noon yesterday. The Westland portion of the mails will be forwarded by rail and coach from Christchurch to-day, and will arrive to-morrow. The following weather warning was received yesterday afternoon (12.25) from Captain Edwin : between east and north and north-west; glass further fall, anl within 12 hours, sea heavy, and after that time river in high flood." A private letter (says the Times) has been received by a resident in Reefton stating that Mr Milner Stephen will visit the Inangahua early in February. Rush and Laycock row for the Championship of Australia and £SOO a-side, on the Clarence River, New South Wales, on the 10th of March.

The examination for a Masonic scholarship to be presented by the District Grand Lodge of Westlnd, takes place at the State School, Hokitika, on Wednesdaynext. We understand there are five candidates to complete for the above. Important letters are lying at Greymouth for W. L. Macalaster. Any information of his whereabouts will be thankfully received by James Payne, Greymouth, or W. J. Potts, Times Reefton.

To shear 154 sheep (says the Wanganui Chronicle of a recent date) in nine hours is a notable feat, and one which to verj T many persons will seem quite incredible. Yet we are informed that this was done at Messrs Moore and Carrie's Bushy Park run, by George Brough, and who learnt his shearing in Canterbury, and who is well known as one of the quickest and neatest wielders of the shears in the Wanganui district. A German arithmetician has been calculating the aggi'egate number of combinations in the game of dominoes, and has shown them to be 284,528,211,840. Two players, playing four games a minute, would only exhaust these combinations in 118 million years. 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.]