The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2107, 31 May 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1883.

Telegraphic communication along the Australian overland line has been resumed, and to-day we are enabled to publish a budget of European news. The coronation of the Czar has passed off safely and with great pomp and enthusiasm. There seems to have been an entire absence of hostility on the part of Nihilists, his Imperial Majesty driving through the streets of Moscow without an escort. —The French mean to resist Chinese intervention in Tonquin, having ordered three ironclads to proceed to the gulf of that name. —Michael Fagan, the third of the Phoenix Park murderers was hanged on Monday last.—The anti-Jewish agitation in Russia continues. At Rostoff the Jewish quarters of the town have been plundered and burnt, and hundreds of Jews driven from their homes.—The Standard states that Earl Derby has declined to annex New Guinea as a Crown colony. The Charles Edward left Nelson at four o’clock yesterday afternoon with the West Coast portion of the San Francisco mails. Captain Edwin wired yesterday : “ Watch barometer ; bad weather is approaching from any direction between north and west and south-west; glass falling soon and increasing sea ; every indication of wind backing within ten hours.” The Borough Council hold their usual fortnightly meeting this evening. Sittings of the R.M. and Warden’s Courts will be held at the Court House to-morrow morning. The annuul election of two Auditors for the Borough of Kumara will take place to-morrow, Ist June, at the Town Hall, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. The names of the candidates are as follow :—W. H. D. Barrett, C. Bernard, T. A, Queale, L. J. Spyer, W. Wiesner. The amount collected by the German Society of Kumara in aid of the sufferers by the late overflow of the river Rhine was £27 6s 6cl. This sura has been forwarded to Dr. ‘Julius Yon Haast, the Imperial German Consul residing in Christchurch, whose receipt for the amount is now in the possession of Mr Wiesner, one of the Committee appointed to canvass this district. The prizes in the Robin Hood Great Novelty Company arrived by yesterday’s mail, and are as follows : —B2O, £lB4 14s 4d ; 816 and 578, each £36 18s lOd ; 1475, £lB 9s 5d ; 810 and 812, each £3 13s lOd ; and 586, 1473 and 1950, each £1 16s lid; making a total of £289 19s lOd, less a small sum for exchange. The second horse went to Waimate, and the third to Christchurch. The first prize in the Hunt Club went to Waikari, and the second to Alcaroa, while cash bonds were distributed all over New Zealand. The Attorney-General of New South' Wales refuses to surrender the lunatic Cress well, now confined in the Paramatta Lunatic Asylum, , to the applicants from England, \yhtfinsist that he is the verit-able,-Arili nr Orton, and want to take him home.

The Governments of New Zealand and New South Wales have yesterday agreed that a deed shall be prepared renewing the San Francisco mail contract for two years, but to terminate at the end of one year should the United States Government decline to contribute. Some time ago there was a considerable exodus of miners from all parts of the Australian colonies to the Transvaal rush. This field has turned out a perfect “ duffer,” and a gentleman writing from Cape Town to a friend at Christchurch states that there are at present 700 miners waiting for the Orient Company’s steamer, which leaves on June 15th, to return to the Australian fields.