The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2024, 23 February 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1883.

This evening, at the Theatre Royal, the public are to be favored with the reappearance, for two nights only, of Mr Frank M. Willmott’s Combination. From strength to strength these talented artistes seem to go on, for now we find Mr Mack Alexander, whose delineations in Kumara has been so thoroughly appreciated, has joined this company and will appear with them this evening. Mr Hesford, whose tact as stage manager was so much admired here on their late visit, continues to act in that capacity, and, with the exception of the acquisition referred to, the company is virtually the same. It wants not words from us to extol the merits of this company ; those who had the pleasure of listening to this superior Combination on their last tour will be sure to be found taking their seats in the Theatre Royal this evening, where they will be welcomed by the much-esteemed gentleman who at great cost endeavours to please the people wherever he goes. Captain Edwin wired about noon yesterday the following weather warning : “Watch barometer; bad weathe is approaching from any direction between south and east and north east; glass to rise.” It is said that the Minister of Public Works has informed Mr Fitz Gerald that the delay in completing the railway between Hokitika-Greymouth was occasioned through the scarcity of rails. Instructions have now been given to the Engineer-in-Ohief, to call for tenders for the sleepers, and on the arrival of the rails, the plate-laying will be proceeded with. We understand the charge against John Davidson and Mary Gramatica of murdering Denis Quinlan was to be fully investigated at the Magistrate’s Court, Lyell, to-day. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company, will be held in the Public Hall on Monday, 19th March, in order to test the desirability of letting the company’s claims on tribute. Mr Burger announces that he has now the finest selection of fruit obtainable in the colonies. He draws special attention to peaches, and eating and cooking apples, which are in splended variety. The trade and families will be liberally dealt with. The estate of the late F. Davidson, alias Sarah Ross, who died at Greymouth on the 29th of last July, has been estimated to be under £IOO. It is just as well (says to-day’s Argus) for the master of the Elibank Castle that he is a muscular Christian with a formidable pair of biceps. Quite an interesting little scene was enacted on her deck yesterday morning as she was being towed across the bar. Some of the crew seemed to have had a parting glass or two with their friends before leaving, and treated the captain’s orders with a nonchalance not usually tolerated on board ship. These pot-valiant fellows seemed to have their own ideas as to what ought to be done and who was in command of the vessel, and after an apparent difference of opinion upon these matters advanced in a body towards the captain with threatening brows and in a fighting attitude. In a very short space of time all were busily engaged in picking themselves up from different parts of the deck, all having been knocked down one after another. Captain Grant weighs 15st, and apparently knows how to hit out when necessary. Before the Dispatch got out of sight the unruly

members of the crew of the schooner had settled down to their work quite cheerfully. By an Order in Council dated Ist February, 1883, the regulation made on the 22nd May, 1877, relating to the destruction, in a particular manner, of original telegrams after they had been kept a certain time, is revoked, and in lieu thereof the following regulation is made :—“All original telegrams shall be safely kept in the custody of the Superintendent of Electric Telegraph Lines, at Wellington, for the space of one year from the date thereof respectively, after which period they shall be either burned or reduced to pulp by a paper-making or other machine, in either case in the presence of some person appointed from time to time in writing by the said Superintendent.” By the disaster at Bradford, Yorkshire, when a tall chimney fell upon a building full of operatives, it was found that thirty-six persons had been killed and fifty others injured, mostly women children. The total damage is estimated at over £60,000. About three thousand persons were thrown out of enployment, eight mills, having flue connections with the demolished chimney, being brought to a standstill.