The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2070, 18 April 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1883.

Parliament stands further prorogued until the 15th of May. It is not expected, however, that the session will commence before the end of June or beginning of July. The Christchurch coach arrived early this afternoon.

Supplementary mails for the United Kingdom, Europe, America, &c., close here to-morrow, at 1.45 p.m. It is very desirable that when contractors or the public works committee of any corporate body undertake to receive drayloads of stones or gravel for tho repairs of streets, that they should see that someone be appointed to receive the same within a given time, or else affix a light where the heaps may be seen. On Monday evening a girl sustained sucli a violent shock through falling over one of these obstructions in the Main road, as to cause fears that she has received internal injury. We trust the Borough Council will see to this matter at once.

Captain Barry will deliver a lecture at the Theatre Royal this evening. The trial of Daniel Curley, the second of the prisoners charged with the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in May last, was commenced in Dublin on Monday morning. On the opening of the Court, our telegram last evening stated, “eight jurors who had been summoned were found to be absent and were ordered to pay fines of £IOO each.” At the preliminary examination at the Kilmainham Police Court in February, James Carey, the informer, repeated Curley’s description of the murder as given to him, and for the first time during his examination showed some trace of human feeling, his voice being almost inaudible. He stated that Curley told him after the murders had been committed, when giving a description of them, that he (Curley) “ thought there was going to be another failure.” In his evidence on Monday, a cable message which appears to-day states that the informer Carey has testified to the fact of twenty distinct ploLs having been formed for the assassination of the Hon. W. E. Forster, late Chief Secretary for Ireland.

A robbery has been committed at the Colonial Bank of Australasia at Brunswick near Melbourne, £715 having been stolen.

Sergeant Eraraerson took his departure at noon to-day, with his family to Hokitika, en route to Paeroa, in the North Island, to which station he has been appointed. Sergeant Russell, who succeeds him here, arrived yesterday. The construction of a bridge over the Grey River at Cobden will be hailed with satisfaction by all residents in or near Greymouth. Tenders for the important work are new called for and will be received up till noon on Saturday, the 19th May. They are to be marked on the outside “Tender for Cobden Bridge Contract,” and addressed to the Hon, the

Minister for Public Works, Dunedin. Drawings, specifications, and general conditions may be seen at the Public Works Office, Greymouth, on and after the 25th inst.

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