The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2063, 10 April 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1883.

The Hospital Committee will hold their usual fortnightly meeting at the Town Hall, this evening, at eight o’clock.

There were ten passengers by the coach for Christchurch this morning, among whom were Chief Justice Preridergast, and Mr Harper, solicitor.

A sad accident occurred at the Greymouth protective works this morning. Whilst, a number of men were engaged in lifting a heavy stone with the crane, the stays of the crane gave way, and the jib fell on one James Forrest. His body was frightfully mangled, and he died immediately after he had been carried home. Another workman named David Austin, had some of his ribs broken. Forrest leaves a wife and seven young children. The Civil Jurisdiction sittings of the Supreme Court were brought to a close yesterday afternoon shortly after two o’clock. From ten o’clock in the morning his Honor the Chief Justice and a special jury were engaged in hearing an action by Raymond Positch, tha father of a nursemaid named Catherine Positch, aged 15, to recover £ISOO damages from F. G. Perrotti for three distinct assaults committed by Mrs Perrotti, wife of the defendant, upon the girl, the daughter of plaintiff, at Greymouth. Mr Guinness appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Perkins for the defendant, who pleaded a general denial. The evidence disclosed some very severe and cruel treatment on the part of Mrs Perrotti. After counsel had addressed the jury and his Honor reviewed the evidence, the jury retired, and, after an hour’s consideration, returned into Court with a verdict for the plaintiff for £275 and costs.

Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday afternoon as follows :—Bad weather is expected between north and east and southeast ; glass falling soon, and after twelve hours considerable and increasing sea. Continued indications for high tide.” It appears that the sum we mentioned yesterday as having been handed over to the Hospital Committee should have been £8 17s 6d, instead of £8 7s 6d. Three lucky tickets, representing horses in Robin Hood’s Great Fidelity Company’s sweep in Christchurch, were drawn in Kumara, and the holders receive between them a gross amount of £156 16s. Mr E. Shaw left Wellington for Reefton yesterday afternoon to open his electioneering campaign for the Inangahua seat.

We (Westport Times, April 6) have to chronicle the occurrence of a melancholy fatal accident at Denniston. On Tuesday afternoon a little boy named John M‘Lellan, five years of age, fell from the viaduct to the ground, a distance of nearly 30 feet. His head came in contact with a projecting piece of wood, which caused a frightful gash. The lad lingered until 5 a.m. on Wednesday, when he expired.

From the Detroit Evening News of the 28th February, we learn that Hamm and Conley, Halifax oarsmen, challenge Hanlan and Lee, to row five miles for 2000 dollars a-side.

Mrs Qninquivet, wife of a cook of that name in New York, was arrested on February 28th for the murder of a man named Hourette, who attempted to take liberties with her. When told to stop he replied with an oath, and the woman seized a cook’s knife and plunged it into his heart, killing him instantly. He was born in Sydney, N.S.W., and has had eight children all dead.

The District Court at Reefton was opened yesterday, when then the only criminal case for hearing, Regina v. James Hollyrows, for perjury, was formally sent to the Supreme Court, Hokitika. The correspondent of the Greymouth Star telegraphs : —“His Honor Judge Broad in his remarks stated that in this case a point of great importance and of public interest had cropped up, namely, whether a Warden had the power, under section 105 of the Act, to put witnesses under oath when hearing applications for mining privileges. The question had never been tried before, and he would like to see it argued in Court to the fullest possible extent, as section 153 of the laws for the District Court gave him power to do so. The case would be remanded to the Supreme Court at Hokitika. Defendant was admitted to the same bail with the previous sureties, and the witnesses were bound over to appear at the next sittings of the higher Court.” In Baltimore, on February 24th, during a set-to between Jem Mace and the Maori Slade, the men lost temper and went to work at each other in earnest. Mace came out with a black eye and battered nose. Coburn and Sullivan, the pugilists, have also quarrelled, over the I’elative old and new schools of boxing, and propose to test the question in a ring. 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 gent, Kumara and Hokitika. — [Advt].