The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2038, 10 March 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1883.

The Union Company’s steamer Hawea, with the San Francisco mails, reached Nelson yesterday morning. The Westlaud portion of the mails are to be forwarded by the Murray, which leaves Nelson to-morrow morning. The Christchurch coach, with Australian and East Coast mails, arrived at two o’clock this afternoon. This evening, at the Theatre Royal, Captain William Jackson Barry will deliver a lecture on ‘.‘A Tour round the World.” It was Captain Barry’s intention to have lectured here two weeks ago, but (though he was announced to do so) in deference to the Willrnott Combination he altered his course. Captain Barry is reported to have held forth in the Home country on a hundred platforms, hobnobbed with “real nobility,” identified the Claimant —though he could not release Mm —and altogether was as great a “lion ’ in his way there as Archibald Forbes is out here. It will be understood that the lecture will not be after the manner of the Rev. Charles Clarke ; it will be given in the rough and ready style, reminding one of the saddle or camp-fire ; but, we venture to say, none the less acceptable on that account. We are told that “ His life is as full of incident as an egg is full of meat, and although some of his stories are of a ‘tall’ order, the veracity of the narrator is never doubted or classed as Munchausen.” We advise our readers to go and hear the Captain for themselves,-when they will be in a better position to judge of the vicissitudes of his strange eventful career as told by himself. He has lectured at large towns in England, on one occasion to 5000 people, Dr Kenealey in the chair, and over twenty noblemen present. Some of our contemporaries say he is worth walking miles to hear. Ladies are invited to attend. Assessment Courts for the revision of local Valuation Lists are appointed to be held at the Resident Magistrate’s Courts, as follows :—For the Arahura Riding, at Goldsborough, on Thursday, sth April, at 11 o’clock a.m.; for the Borough of Kumara, at Kumara, on Friday, Gth April, at 10 o’clock a.in. We learn that Mr R. IT. Godfrey, assistant at the Post and Telegraph Office, Kumara, has received notice of his intended removal to the Telegraph Office at Christchurch. Whilst wo are not aware whether there is any pecuniary advantage accruing to Mr Godfrey by the change, it may be taken as indicative of his eligibility as an operator in being thus transferred to a large office like that of Christchurch. During his two and a-half years’ service in the Kumara office we can testify to his attentive and obliging disposition, his skill as an operator, and his general stability of character ; and wherever his lot may in future be cast, he will bear with him the best wishes of the public, and particularly that portion of this com-

munity whose business is carried on so largely through the departments mentioned. He leaves by Tuesday morning’s coach ; and his place will be temporarily filled by Mr O’Meara, a very efficient operator. Miners are reminded that, in reply to a requisition to the County Chairman of Westland, signed by a goodly number of claimholdersthat he would call one, a public meeting will be held at Dillman’s Town Monday evening, for the purpose of giving the miners an opportunity of discussing and devising the means necessary to get the carrying capacity of the sludge-channel increased so as to accommodate all the parties having tail-races registered into it. The chair will be taken at 8 o’clock. A meeting of the committee of the Literary Institute is to be held at their room, Main street, this evening, at 8 o’clock. The subject and synopsis of the lecture to be delivered at Kumara next Monday week by Archibald Forbes, the famous War Correspondent, appears in our advertising columns this afternoon, and will give to our readers and the public a very good idea of the treat which is in store for us all. Mr Forbes will give only one lecture here, and that will be the one which we believe is the most interesting of his series, viz., “The Experiences of a War Correspondent,” and which Mr Forbes writes us he will enlarge upon by the most interesting parts of his lecture on “Kings and PxTnces I have Met.” The vicissitudes of this great traveller’s extraordinary career range over a wide field. From Paris, in her hunger after the siege, to the lecturer’s ride from Ulundi ; from Plevna to the Kyber Pass ; from Deligrad in Servia to Paris, seething in the throes of the Commune ; from the Shipka Pass to the ghastly spectacle of Isandula — such are a few of the strange contrasts which, judging from the published synopsis, the lecture promises to present. Tickets for this lecture will be procurable on and after Monday next at all the principal hotels and stores in Kumara and Dillman’s. The latest telegrams received by Captain Edwin show indications of a further fall in the glass, with a strong easterly gale, and after 12 hours much rain and heavy sea ; but there is no evidence of a disturbance of unusual character—no signs of the approach of the great storm which it was said would pass over Australia on the 10th inst. A meeting of the promoters of the electric light in Reefton was held on Wednesday, when Mr Prince, the Engineer to the New Zealand Electric Light Company, attended and gave a full exposition of the advantages and cost of the system of lighting. His statements bore out thoroughly the estimates previously prepared by Mr Wylde. He recommended the use of a 100-horse-power turbine, to be driven by water from the Inangahua river, and pointed out that the same power coidd be utilised to supply the town water, and that the electricity generated by the dynamo machine could be transmitted to work machinery at any of the mines in the neighbourhood, as the electricity would only be required for lighting purposes at night. The estimate of 500 lamps of 20-candle-power each, exclusive of cost of water-race, is £IBOO, and the number of lamps could be doubled by the expenditure of an additional £2OO. Arrangements are so far completed that there can be no doubt that in a short time Reefton will be lighted up by electricity. Mr Clarke’s three horses —Levant, Lady Harris, and Half-Caste—arrived in Kumara yesterday, and, after resting the night at Rugg’s stables, proceeded on to Greymouth this morning, where they are engaged to run in the annual Easter Races. Mr Harcourt’s Zulu came through the day previously ; and Mr Muir’s Albion, which spent Monday night at Harris’s, Christchurch road, passed through here on Tuesday morning for the same destination. Mossi’s Girdwood, Lahman, and Co. will sell at the Preston "Yards, Greymouth, on Monday next, prime seasonable bullocks, sheep, lambs, and pox’kers of weights to suit all classes of trade. Mr W. C. Gilbert, dentist, is now on a visit to Hokitika, and may be consulted till about the 19th inst., at Mr Churches’ cottage, Sewell stx’eet, opposite Government House. A miner, named Carson, is stated to have beexx taken to the Hokitika hospital yesterday, suffering from a broken leg, caused by a stone falling on him while he was at work. The fracture is said to be a severe one. A return cricket match takes place this afternoon betweexx Greymouth and Reefton, on the Greymouth Racecourse ; and

a return match between the Rimu and Hokitika Quoit Clubs takes place this afternoon on Cass Square, Hokitika. A recent telegram via the Bluff from Melbourne states that several cases of erysipelas are admitted to have occurred in the Melbourne Hospital lately, and that a meeting is to be held to consider the advisability of burning the Hospital. A singular change of fortune has just happened to a poor man entirely without means, who has recently been working in gardens at Forbes, New South Wales. Last mail bronght him a letter stating that he had been left by his father, a wealthy Irish gentleman, property to the value of £200,000; also, £30,000 to another brother who is swagsman. 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 then* 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.]