The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2068, 16 April 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1883.

Parliament is further prorogued until the sth May next, by a supplementary Gazette issued at Wellington last Wednesday. The sentence of death passed upon Joseph Brady, one of the assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke in Phoenix Park, will doubtless strike terror into the hearts of accomplices, whether they be cold-blooded murderers or wanton destroyers of public buildings which may take away the lives of foes or friends. It seems almost surprising that no lives were lost in the wreckage of the Local Government Board Offices at Whitehall, where a very large staff of well-paid officers are employed. Our cablegrams this afternoon contain the announcement that Gallagher, recently arrested at Glasgow, and a brother to one of the men captured in London and charged with being in unlawful possession of explosive material, has intimated to the police his willingness to turn informer. A collision occurred yesterday between two trains on a railway bridge near Brisbane. Several officials were severely injured. True to Captain Edwin’s prediction about noon on Friday, a gale from the south and west visited us late on Saturday and Sunday. We have no damage to report from its effects here, where the worst <>f it was felt early on Sunday morning ; but at Hokitika, shortly after eight o’clock on Saturday night, the Times reports, “the sportive wind blew down the timber structure erected by the contractor for painting the front of the Town Hall. It is a fortunate circumstance that no one was hurt, which is owing probably to the warning creak or crackle which the structure gave shortly before its fall.” The Union Company’s steamer Mahinapua is at Wellington on her way round the ports, and is due at Greymouth tomorrow. She will leave the following day on her return trip, as advertised.

The attention of contractors purposing to tender for the Hokitika sleeper contract of the Greymouth-Hokitika railway is specially called to alterations recently made in the specifications for this contract. They are to be seen at any District or Resident Engineer’s office. The remainder of the business transacted at the last meeting of the Education Board having reference to these parts, and not already reported, is as follows The question of dealing with the letter from Nelson Creek re franked envelopes was

held over for next meeting by 5 to 4. The annual report was agreed to, the Board refusing by 6 to 2 to strike out Greymouth in favour of Hokitika as a place for a high school. The Finance Committee’s report was read and adopted. Mr Petrie’s motion that the salaries paid to masters of all schools under the 88th clause be not less than £l2O per annum was seconded by Mr Perkins. Dr. Morice moved and Mr Grimmond seconded that the consideration stand adjourned until next meeting, when the salaries would be dealt with as a whole. Amendment carried. Division : Ayes M‘Whirter, Taylor, Morice, Rudkin, Grimmond, Kane arrow. Noes —Perkins, Petrie. The Board then adjourned until the second Thursday in May, when a special meeting will be held to settle question of salaries.

Thomas Smith, watchmaker, Reefton, who has for several weeks past been suffering from acute attacks of asthma, died at Reefton somewhat suddenly on Tuesday evening last. He was about 60 years of age. Deceased had arrived from Dunedin only about three or four months ago. Frederick S. Nicholls, journalist, formerly of Tasmania and Dunedin, died last Monday night at Wellington, He had been ailing for some months past.

Julian Thomas, “The Vagabond,” sails for New Zealand this week. At the sale of racehorses at Sydney on Monday, 2nd inst., Willeroo was sold for 260g5., Kelso, for 130g5., Brian Boru for 100 gs., Delos for 100 gs., Musjid for lOOgs., Silver Arrow for 80gs., Dreamland for 50gs. Archbischop Vaughan leaves for Rome per City of New York on the 19th inst.

Mr Redmond, has been lecturing at Gyrapie and Rockhampton. A considerable amount has been subscribed for his object. At a meeting which he recently addressed at Gympie £3OO was collected from an audience of about 500 persons. Mr Redmond has sent £2OOO to the Treasurer of the Irish National League, and promises “more to follow.”

On Wednesday afternoon last a serious gun accident happened to Mr Aquilla Ivory, grain merchant, whilst out with a party of gentlemen in the neighborhood of Mount Thomas Station, near Rangiora. The Press states :—“ Mr W. A, Burt and Mr J. George were with him at the time, and had been driving together in a double buggy. In getting into the buggy one of the guns discharged, lodging the full charge in Mr Ivory’s thigh, inflicting a most painful wound. Medical aid was sent for, and Dr Downes attended the unfortunate gentleman. It is feared that the wound will take some time to heal. The barrel of the gun was found to be broken in two.”

The Arrowtown correspondent of the Wakatip Mail says “The subscription nuisance has recently received an expose of an extraordinary character in this town. Two gentlemen undertook to collect subscriptions on behalf of a family suddenly bereaved of its bread-winner, with the ostensible purpose of relieving the necessities of the family in question. It appears that £4O 13s had been raised, and out of this sum the gentlemen who collected the money paid themselves accounts owing to them and to others, as it is stated, at the request of the widow, to the amount of £39 14s 9d, handing to the relict for her relief and that of her eight children the magnificent sum of 18s 3d. It is stated that a number of subscribers will ask to have their money returned, as they consider it was taken from them under false pretences.

Anew potato, known as “Brownell’s Beauty,” is likely to become a favorite in New Zealand. It is an American importation, and has already been grown in small quantities in the neighborhood of Wanganui with considerable success. It is said to be an enormous cropper, and it is early, medium, and late, according to the time of planting. It has a thick skin, few and shallow eyes, firm, and snowywhite flesh, and produces very little top. From two pounds one grower has received 345 potatoes, 320 of which were fit for the table and the rest for seed.

Mr Murray, paper manufacturer, at Liverpool, New South Wales, recently gave a picnic to his workpeople and their friends. In a speech he made on the occasion, Mr Murray said “During the nine years his factory had been in operation, 8500 tons of paper, principally for news printing, had been made and supplied to the leading journals in Australia ; 40,000 tons of coal had been used in the manufacture ; £50.000 had be r n paid ’.n the purchase of rags, which to a great extent was a waste article in the colony ; £45,000 had been paid in wages; £28,000

had been paid for railway carriage and freights, principally to Government railways ; 4500 tons of straw had been used ; and last, although not the least of Colonial production, he had trained several apprentices to the trade, of whom he would not be ashamed were they to be placed in the best paper-mills in Europe.” The death is announced, at the early age of 35, of Mr Henri Ketten, the eminent pianist, who made such a brilliant and successful tour through the colonies a few years ago. Mr Ketten was a native of Hungary, having been born at Baja (on the Danube) on the 25th March, 1848. His musical talent showed itself at an early age. In 1860 he played at Osborne before the Queen, and subsequently visited Germany, Austria, Russia, Switzerland, and Turkey, remaining for three years at Constantinople as conductor of the Imperial Theatre. In 1879 he visited America, and on the 12th June, 1880, he first presented himself before a Melbourne audience at the Opera House. He had no other artists to assist him, the programme consisting entirely of his own performances. The experiment was brilliantly successful, and Mr Ketten’s tour through the Australian colonies may be described as a triumphal progress, his reception everywhere being such as no former musician had ever received. His untimely death will be deeply regretted by all who have had the privilege of hearing his wonderful performances.

The Waitara Press records the following : —“ A practical joke was perpetrated on some of our enthusiastic hoodlums the other evening. A resident, newly returned from a brief honey-moon, was threatened with a “ tin-kettling ” unless he “shouted,” and on the interesting occasion invited his well wishers indoors, where they were entertained with buns aud beer, the latter commodity being judiciously strengthened with Epsom salts. The happy pair drank cold tea.” A physician rented his stable, in Chicago, to some men who said that they desired to roast over again some coffee that had been damaged by wetting ; but (the London Free Press states) he soon discovered that they were engaged in treating worthless coffee with poisonous chemicals, so that it could be deceptively sold for the very best Java. He informed the Health Board, and one of the largest grocery firms in- the city has been exposed as the real promoter of the fraud. While James Berry was being married at his own house, at Tracy City, Tennessee, to the daughter of Wm. Eller, the latter, who opposed the match, appeared. Berry and Eller exchanged four shots. Eller then fled, and the wedding proceeded. Ontario boasts of having sent the tallest man to the present Canadian House of Commons in the person of Mr James Armstrong, of Westminster, the member for South Middlesex, who stands 6 feet 5 inches high. Then come three Nova Scotians, Messrs Kirk, Ray, and Dodd, each 6 feet 3 inches.

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].