The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2004, 31 January 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1883.

The mail coach arrived at about two o’clock this afternoon, from Christchurch. We have received Part 11. of “ Picturesque New Zealand.” In addition to the very interesting descriptive matter, this part contains four nicely-tinted lithographs of the noted pink and white terraces of Rotomahana, the Lake of that name, and a view of the Entrance to Auckland Harbour. It is a cheap shilling’s worth to tourists and others interested in the typography and products of New Zealand.

A special summons meeting of the Court Pride of Kumara Ancient Order of Foresters will be held in the Court Room to-morrow evening, at half-past eight o’clock, on business of importance.

Messrs Gordon, Mining Inspector, Doyle, Government Inspector of Works, and Thomson, County Overseer, left Westport for the Mokihiuui reefs on Wednesday afternoon. A theatrical company, the Pritchard Troupe, are reported to playing in the Greymouth district. Under date 24th January, 1883, his Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to make the following appointments : —Chief Wai’der James Donaldson, of Mount Pleasant Gaol, Wellington, to be Gaoler at Hokitika ; and Mrs Mary Ann Donaldson to be Matron at Hokitika.

Margaret Cox, a woman who has been giving some trouble to the police lately, has been arrested on a charge of lunacy. The Westport Coal Company’s new steamer Kawatiri arrived at Westport direct from Glasgow, on Friday morning last. She sailed from that port on the 28th October. The Kawatiri was built by H. Mclntyre and Co., of Paisley, with engines by Fleming and Ferguson, of the same place. She is an iron boat 280 tons register, 170 ft. in length, 20ft. beam, and 90 horse-power nominal, and (the Westport Times says) should be able to take between 450 and 500 tons of coal across the Bnller bar. She seems eminently well suited for the trade for which she is intended. Of course hold room lias been the end aimed at In her construction, and as a consequence the saloon is small, but at the same time neat and comfortable.

The officer’s cabins and passengers’ berths are commodious. A noticeable feature is that the deck is of iron (with the exception of the quarter-deck). The steamer seems to be very substantially built everything aboard having the appearance of strength. The sad news was brought to Westport on Wednesday, the Times relates, that the dead body of a man named Patrick Walsh had been found in the bed of the Waimangaroa river, beneath the railway bridge. He had evidently fallen through the undecked structure, when crossing on the foot plank, on the way to Mr Syron’s, where he was working. A melancholy and fatal accident happened at Kiama, south of Sydney, on January 13th, which cast a gloom over the town and district. During the forenoon the Rev. Father M‘Grath, of Shoalhaven, and the Rev. Father Clark, of St. Mary’s, while bathing in the breakers near Kendall’s Beach, were carried seawards by the returning tide and perished before any assistance could be rendered to them. Both bodies were recovered shortly after, but life was extinct. During the year 1882 Greymouth exported 56,905 tons scwt. of coal, 1854 tons lOcwt. coke, 331 tons of fire bricks, and 102 tons Bcwt. of fire clay. The Otago Daily Times’ Waitahnna correspondent writes as follows : “It may be of interest to note that the bread corn called spelt, which is grown in Switzerland or thereabouts, is growing here. Mr H. Hagen, of Waitahuna Gully, has, from one seed-husk containing two seeds, 91 heads somewhere about eight inches in length. It was imported by Mr Christine Leoffler, of the same locality, who also has some growing. From what I learnt, it will grow where other wheat will not.”

A bluejacket at Alexandria, in carrying out one of the multifarious duties which fell to Jack’s lot during the Egyptian expedition, was assisting to remove some trusses of hay from the quay and stumbling along under the weight of a small haystack, not beingable to see wherehe wasgoing, pushed against a commissariat officer, irreproachably clad in review dress. “ Who the devil are you 1 and what are you doing here?” says the gentleman. “Who am I?” says Jack, “ well I don’t altogether know, I used to be a British sailor, but now it strikes me I’m turned into a d d commissariat mule !”

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