The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2088, 10 May 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1883.

A cable message has been received stating that the mail steamer Australia left San Francisco for Auckland on the Gtli May, or one clay after time-table date. As the list of subscriptions to relieve those persons who suffered losses by the late fire will positively close to-morrow evening, the geentlemen who kindly promised aid, or whom the canvassers may have omitted to call upon and may be desirous of assisting, arc respectfully requested to interview Mr W. K : rkpatrick, the treasurer, befove 8 p.m. on FiiJay, as at 8.30 p.m., in the Town Hall, a meeting

of all subscribers will be held to distribute the fund as to them may seem best. Captain Edwin wired yesterday forenoon as follows:—"Watch barometer; bad weather is approaching from any direction between north-east and north and west; glass to further fall, and within ten hours increasing sea, and heavy after twelve hours. There are indications of a flood after twenty hours." A meeting of the newly-formed Prospecting Association will be held in the Town Hall, this evening, at 8 o'clock. A quadrille assembly will be held in the new spacious room at Dillman's Town/tomorrow evening. Dancing will commence at eight o'clock, to the strains of the usual good music. We regret to learn of the death of Dr. Irvine, a prominent homceopathist, of Nelson, which occurred early last Saturday morning. He leaves a large circle of friends, by whom he was highly respected. We have received from Mr Hookham, the Hon. Sec. Canterbury Chess Club, a copy of the rules and regulations for the conduct of a Chess Problem Solution Tourney, open to chess players throughout the colony of New Zealand. The competition is to consist in the solution of 26 problems to be published in consecutive numbers of the Canterbury Times, commencing on May 5, and terminating on October 27, both days inclusive. The prizes, which will be given by the proprietors of the Canterbury Times, will be of the amount of three guineas, two guineas, and one guinea. No entrance fee will be charged, and any chess-player male or female, resident in New Zealand, can enter for the competition. The rules are too lengthy to be given in full; they may be seen at this office, or in the Canterbury Times of the sth inst. The entertainment at Greymouth for the benefit of the Porrest family realised £lO Is 6d. The receipts were £2l 14s, expenses £lll2s 6d. A cablegram to the Melbourne Age states that the Czar has definitely resolved to abandon all idea of coronation. Upwards of a thousand persons assembled on the hills around Lyttelton last Sunday afternoon, in search of the boy Lilly. The party included Inspector Pender and a detachment of police, a large number of horsemen, and some members of the Christchurch Volunteers ; but although the hills were thoroughly examined in the direction supposed to have been taken by the unfortunate lad, no traces could be discovered, and the searchers returned home once more unsuccessful. Mr Archibald Forbes has been the guest of Sir W. J. Clarke, Ruperts Wood, Victoria. He visits Queensland, and returns to England by the San Francisco mail.