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Kumara Times, Issue 2087, 9 May 1883, Page 2

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon- at the usual hour. Our respected old fellow-townsman Mr Edwin Blake was a passenger. To-night at the Town Hall a public meeting is convened by the Mayor in answer to a requisition to consider the advisability of forming a prospecting association to prospect between Kumara and the Sea Beach. The chair will be taken at eight o'clock. We have received the Union Steamship Company's Pocket Guide for May. The s.s. Mahinapua, which sailed from Greymouth yesterday, took away with her 52930z5. ldwt. of gold for the National Bank of New Zealand. The fire-bell rang out an alarm at about a quarter after five o'clock last evening. The fire proved to be in a chimney at the rear of the Empire Hotel. The Fire Brigade were quickly on the spot, and the tire was extinguished before any damage was done. Mr W. J. Steward, M.H.R., who has submitted to State School Committees a "Schedule of Questions" re the proposed " School Committees Election Bill," addressed his constituents at Waimate last night, and received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. His questions have been replied to by our Local Committee. They are too long to print in full, but most of them are embodied in the following: approve of the present system of cumulative voting in the election of School Committees ?" To which the Committee have replied—" No." "2. Do you approve of the proposal of the School Committees Fllection Bill of last session, viz., to give each elector a maximum of seven votes of which only one can be received for any one candidate V The reply was "Yes." The Bishop of Nelson, who has just returned from England, starts to-day from Nelson overland for the purpose of visiting the south-western part of his diocese. He is expected in Reefton on Friday night, and will hold services there on Sunday next. He will then come on to Greymouth in time to consecrate the new church there on Thursday, the 17th. The Bishop has just received news of the loss of his venerable father, Mr Richard Suter, who died on the Ist March, at Castle Hill, Maidenhead, England, at the good old age of 84.