The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2009, 6 February 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1883.

The steamship Australia, with the San Francisco mail, arrived at Auckland yesterday morning, and at five in the evening the Union Company’s steamer Wanaka sailed for New Plymouth with the south-|j ern portions of the mails. I The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the! Hospital Committee will be held in thej Secretary’s room, Main street, this even-1 in", at 8 o’clock. A full attendance is] particularly requested. The Union Company’s steamer Mahinapua is expected to arrive at Greyraouth some time to-day. A meeting of the Kumara Local School Committee was held last evening at the Town Hall. The sub-committee brought up a Report, being a reply to the Central Boards’s circular giving notice of a reduction of the staff of the Kumara State School. The report is a very exhaustive one, and will appear in to-morrow’s issue. It is intended to furnish each member of the Central Board with a copy, and it is sincerely to be hoped it will have the desired effect of Mr Harre, the assistant teacher, being retained in his present position in the State School.

The sixth annual ordinary meeting of the shareholders in the Grcymouth and Kumara Tramway Company, Limited, took place at Kilgour’s Union Hotel, Greymouth, last evening. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The two retiring directors, Messrs Kerr and Perotti, were unanimously re-elected. Messrs J. M'Millan and J. Hogg were reelected auditors at the same salary as last year, namely, £4 4s each. The directors’ fees were fixed at £lO each, being the same as last year. The manager, Mr Cheverton the secretary, and servants, received a vote of thanks for close attention to the business of the company ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the meeting. In the Warden’s Court, Greymouth, yesterday morning, before H. A. Stratford Esq., M. Philips sued five Chinamen for working without miners’ rights. Two who took out rights immediately after being discovered without them, were fined 5s each and costs of Court, 14s ; the other three were fined 10s each, with 14s cost on each conviction.

An article on the Hon. Mr Rolleston’s tour through Central Otago in the Lyttelton Times concludes as follows:—“In New Zealand we are generally supposed to enjoy some measure of local self-govern-ment. But how utter is the dependence of most districts of the colony on the Central Government appears plainly from the records of Mr Rolleston’s tour. Everything from a railway, costing a million, down to a grant of twenty pounds to a village library, a town pump, or a bridge across unknown creek, are the business of the General Government, and must be provided by them. Provincialism was swept away on the pretext that it caused continual scrambling between localities for doles from the Colonial Treasury. But the days of Provincialism never saw anything so utterly contemptible as this. Cabinet Ministers were not then transformed into beadles doling out parish relief. Yet Mr Bumble’s was an honourable position compared with Mr Rolleston’s. Beadles, at least, do not have to buy votes with the funds they distribute. Mr Rolleston has to do so systematically.”

Mondiy January the 15th (says the Argus was the hottest day yet experienced this summer in Melbourne. The thermometer at the Observatory registered 165 deg. in the sun at half-past three o’clock in the afternoon, and 105 deg. in the shade. This has only been exceeded three times since the observatory was established, namely in 18G2, 1870, aud 1876,

when the records were llldeg., 109 deg., and HOdeg, respectively in the shade. Everybody was interested in the weather on Tuesday, for one and all were affected by the oppressive heat. The expected and anxiously-looked-for change had not come during the night, and the morning was ushered in with what remained of the sweltering temperature of the previous day. The business of the day was commenced with the thermometer standing at 90deg. in the shade, and during the day the indicator at the Observatory gradually rose until 104 deg. was registered and 164 deg. in the sun. This was one degree less than on the previous day, yet the heat was more intolerable. Even the sparrows were silenced, the stray dogs lay panting under whatever shade they could find, the houses of public entertainment were besieged for cool drinks, and a general languor prevailed over the whole community. As it had been alleged that the temperature in the sun on Monday, viz., 165 degrees, was the highest ever experienced in Melbourne we may state that in January last year 168 degrees was registered at the Observatory. Arabi Pasha and his colleagues the] party numbering in all 58 persons—were expected to reach Colombo on the 10th inst. The Ceylon Government has received instructions from the Home authorities that Arabi is to be allowed £BOO per annum, and his colleagues from £4OO per annum upwards. The Government is also authorised to obtain residences for them in Colombo, where the exiles are to live free from supervision. Their parole is to be taken not to return to Egypt under pain of being shot. The 300,000 Mahommedans of Ceylon were said to be slightly excited at the prospect of the arrival of the Egyptians. 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.]