The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2085, 7 May 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1883.

Whilst many if not most of our miners are crying out for water for sluicing purposes, the contractor and the men at work in the construction of the new Loopline or No. 2 Kapitea Lam are thanking Heaven for the prevalence of fine weather; and should the latter be fortunate enough to have another week or ten days’ absence of rain, the temporary dam which the contractor, has made to protect his work during the construction of the permanent embankment will be completed, and from that time it will be in Mr O’Connor’s power, if asked by the department, to supply almost if not quite as much water to the lower dam as it is at present capable of giving, thus doubling

the supply of the present dam before the completion of the new one. There were about 25 Government heads running from this temporary dam, all day yesterday. At the Theatre Royal this evening, the Hon. Mr Bromby will deliver his popular and interesting lecture on ‘ ‘ The English in Ireland.” We learn that Mrßromby’s principal object in coming forward, as he is doing after a long course of study of Irish history, is mainly to induce Englishmen and Scotchmen to give a little more attention to the study of Irish history than has been the custom. He adds that if they do that—and allowing that they examined both sides —he had sufficient confidence in their sense of justice to think they would admit the magnitude and cruel nature of the wrongs inflicted upon the sister country in the past. This is a subject which at the present time will be interesting to all classes, creeds, and sects, and we may therefore expect a very large attendance to-night. The lecture commences at eight o’clock. Timothy Kelly, the third of the prisoners on trial for the Phoenix Park murders, and in whose case the jury were unable to agree upon a verdict, was to be again brought up for trial to-day. In this his (Kelly’s) second trial, the prosecution will now have the additional evidence of Joseph Hanlon, the informer, who was one of the gang of seven deputed to commit the assassinations, and therefore an accessory to the crime. Sir John O’Shanassy, K.0.M.G., a famous Victorian politician, who was reported in our Saturday’s issue to be suffering from gangrene in the toe and in a prostrate condition, is now reported to have died. There "was a clear sky this morning during the whole time of the partial eclipse of the sun. It commenced a little before 7 o’clock. The greatest obscuration of the sun’s disc took place at about five minutes past 8. The magnitude of the eclipse at this time was much greater than that given (“ one-third ”) in some of the almanacs, and must, the sun’s diameter being equal to 1, have been ’774, or nearly three-fourths of the whole solar disc. The last contact of the moon’s shadow with the sun’s disc took place at about ten minutes past 9 o’clock. The eclipse was total in some parts of the South Pacific Ocean. The nomination of candidates for the Inangahua electoral district was to take place at Reefton to-day at noon. Mr L. Raphael, of Stafford, who is now at Melbourne en route for Home, received news at that place of the death of his mother whom he had not seen for thirty years. The chief object of his trip Home was to see that lady. The Wonderful Wertheim Sewing Machine may be had upon Time Payment, easiest terms for any part of the country, no matter where yon 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].