The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2011, 8 February 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1883.

Wc regret to learn that our esteemed R.M. and Warden, Dr. Giles, has sprained an ankle. He consequently cannot travel this week, but hopes to bo able to hold Courts at Kumara next Wednesday. The Courts which were to have been held tomorrow will therefore be adjourned till the 14th inst. The ordinary meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening, at halfpast seven o’clock. The total amount of the Creswick fund, received and promised to date, is stated to be between £12,000 and £13,000.

To-day being the first day of the Chinese New Year, a large number of Celestials were to be seen at various times of the day parading the town in their best attire. We have received the Union Company’s Pocket Guide for February. The following steamers are intended to call at Milford Sound en route to and from Melbourne : —From the Bluff, the Rotomahana on the 16th February ; and from Melbourne, the Te Anau, on the 20th February. A telegram from Dunedin yesterday states that “the.steamer Tarawera left to-day on a ten days’ pleasure excursion to the Sounds. Applicants for passage were so numerous that next year the Union Company will arrange for two trips. Among the excursionists are persons from all parts of the colony, and some Home and Victorian tourists. The former include Lord J. G. Lennox and Mr Watney, M.P.; the latter, Sir Michie and Professor Strong.” Mr S. S. Polleck signifies his intention of leaving the Coast, and notifies that allaccounts dne to him in connection with his late Dillraan’s Town store are required to be paid before the end of the present month, Mr Joseph Petrie addressed his constituents in the Public Hall, Greymouth, on Tuesday night. The representative received a patient hearing, and at the conclusion received a unanimous vote of confidence, amidst applause. The Union Company’s steamer Mahinapua, which arrived at Greymouth on Tuesday morning, had a large quantity of cargo, which took her nearly all the time between the tides to get landed. She took in no coal having arranged to coal at Westport. She left on the evening’s tide. The following is the declaration of the weights for the Greymouth Jockey Club Handicap i—st. lb. Satellite ... ... ... 9 2 Greyhound ... ... 9 1 Levant ... ... ... 8 8 The Field 8 8 Lady Harris ... ... 8 0 Rore ... ... ... 713 Albion ... ... ... 7 9 Hercules ... ... ... 7 8 Marie Stuart ... ... 7 4 Lady Grey ... ... 7 0 Zulu C 4 The Lyell correspondent of the Inangahua Times says : —“ The body of a man named Denis Quinlan was found about 4 p.m on the 3rd, near the town, about 50 yards from the scene of the late attempt at suicide. He was last seen alive on the 28th January, about 10 p.m. in company with Mrs Grammatica. There is no evidence yet to show how death occurred, or how the body came where it was found—viz, down the embankment, about 80 feet below the road. The body is much decomposed.” Quinlan was at one time working at the sludge-channel, and was well-known here.

The bridge over the Little Grey, at Lardi’s will be completed in about four weeks. A considerable portion of the planking has now been laid.