The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2072, 20 April 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1883.

After the lapse of two ordinary fortnightly meetings of the Borough Council, one being quite unavoidable through the absence of most members at the sittings of the Supreme Court in Hokitika, a full attendance was looked for last evening. The proper hour for meeting is at halfpast seven o'clock. Near to eight o'clock there being a quorum present, viz., the Mayor, Councillors Burger, Home, Anderson, Mulvihill, and O'Hagan, the business would have proceeded ; but the Town Clerk, who should have been present at 7.30 p.m. did not make his appearance until after the clock had struck eight. In consequence of his absence the Council adjourned for half-an-hour. By reason of this half-an-hour of seven or eight tradesmen's time had to be frittered away through want of punctuality on the part the Town Clerk.

The proceedings of the Borough Council were frequently interrupted last evening by the unseemly conduct of a man named Reuben Toms, who formerly held the position of Borough Auditor. This individual, after being several times cautioned by the Mayor to desist, refused to obey, and had to be forcibly ejected by a constable before the business of the Council could be proceeded with. On attempting to re-enter the hall, he was arrested on the charge of drunkenness, and was brought up at Court this morning before the Resident Magistrate, and fined 20s, and costs 4s.

Several applications were heard in the Warden's Court to-day, particulars of which duly appeal*. There was a sitting of the Assessment Court at noon to-day at the Court House, for the revision of the local Valuation List for the Borough of Kumara, J. Giles, Esq., Judge of Assessment Court, presiding. Several appeals were heard by ratepayers against what they considered an unfair valuation of their properties. A report is unavoidably held over. Captain Edwin wired the following telegram yesterday afternoon : —"Expect bad weather between north-east and north and west; glass further fall, and within 22 hours considerable and increasing sea." A partial eclipse of the moon will occur on Sunday night, the 22nd inst., but it will, even if the weather permit, be a very insignificant one, its magnitude being only (the moon's diameter = 1) 0 - 085, so that very little more than one-twelfth of the full moon's disc will be obscured at the middle of the eclipse, which happens at 8 minutes past 11 o'clock. The following phases of the eclipse are reduced to New Zealand mean time :

h. m. First contact with penumbra. 8 38 p. m First contact with shadow ... 10 33 ~

Middle of eclipse 11 8 ~ Last contact with shadow ... 11 44 ~ Last contact with penumbra . 1 39 a.m. The first contact with the shadow occurs at 32 degrees from the lower point of the moon's limb towards the east, and the last contact at 3 degrees towards the Avest; in each case for direct image. At the last meeting of the German Society' of Kumara a letter was read from Mr J. G. Rtiddenklau, Mayor of Christchurch and Chairman of the Canterbury Committee formed to collect subscriptions for the Relief of the Sufferers by the Inundation of the Rhine, requesting the co-operation of the several districts of the Westland Province. It was stated that speedy help is urgently required, as the magnitude of the calamity has rendered many thousands of families houseless aud homeless and reduced them to absolute beggary. Uuprecedentedly high floods, not alone in the Valley of the Rhine but also in the adjoining districts, have spread the misery over so wide an extent that local help is quite insufficient to cope with the difficulty. The German Society of Kumara have therefore appointed a committee consisting of Messrs Kroener, Denfeld, Reilia. Peters, Ziegler, and Wiesner to receive subscriptions for this object; and Messrs Reiha and Wiesner, under instructions from the commit-

tee, will, at an early date, wait on the inhabitants of Kumara and the surrounding districts to receive donations for the above purpose. All subscriptions will be sent to the German Consul, Dr. Julius von Haast, in Christchurch, who will forward them at once to the Central Committee in Berlin. We observe that £165 has been collected for this object in Dunedin.

Inspector Emerson (the Times reports) is only slowly recovering from the injury to his leg, sustained at the recent coach accident. Even up to the present moment he is unable to walk.

It is notified in the Government Gazette that the name of the Rev. Howe Fennell has been removed from the list of Officiating Ministers for the year 1883, under "The Marriage Act, 1880," belonging to the Wesleyan Methodist Society, at his own request. The Ross Advocate reports that an accident happened to Mr P. Gribben a settler, on Saturday. It appears that Mr Gribben on that day was on horseback after wild cattle in the bush, and the road being rough the horse fell and rolling over him crushed him considerably, besides inflicting with its feet a nasty scalpwound. A hook of the pack-saddle used passed through the luckless man's foot and caused an ugly wound. Mr Gribben arrived at the hospital on Tuesday last, when his hurts were attended to by Dr. Monckton, and he is doing well under the circumstances.

The Times of March 10th says :—" We have good reason to believe the inquiry now proceeding will implicate the Land League beyond doubt in the immediate patronage of crime in Ireland, even if it does not establish its direct connection with the principles. The flight of Patrick Egan, unless explained, is a moral acknowledgment of guilt, from the damning consequences of which none of his associates can escape, unless Egan can clear his own and their characters. We shall not be surprisrd to learn that the leaders of the Land League who still remain in the United Kingdom may shortly find it convenient to follow Egan's example. " Celery boiled in milk and eaten with the milk served as a beverage, is said to be a cure for rheumatism, gout, and a specific in case of small-pox. Nervous people find great relief in celery. 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 nre 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 particulate free by post from James Renton, sole gent, Kumara and Hokitika.—[Advt].