The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2110, 4 June 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1883.

The San Francisco mail arrived in Kumara yesterday morning by tram from Greymouth, and, with commendable promptitude and kindness of the postmaster, were sorted into private boxes, had half-an-hour's delivery at the window, and the letters were delivered through the town. The annual licensing meeting for the Borough of Kumara will be held in the Court House, Kumara, at noon to-morrow. In replying to a deputation of the Council of the Colonial Institute which waited upon him to urge the annexation of New Guinea, Earl Derby said that the statement which had been circulated that he had declined to annex New Guinea as a Crown colony was entirely imaginary. He stated that he was in favour of annexation, and that the matter would be decided by the Cabinet as soon as Sir Arthur Kennedy's despatches had been received. Thomas Caffrey, one of the Phoenix Park murderers, was hanged at Dublin on Saturday last. He confessed his guilt. Patrick Delaney, who was sentenced to be hanged on the same day, had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for ten years. Both these men pleaded guilty. It will be remembered that Patrick Delaney stated—"l was brought into this foolishly, not knowing what it was, and I was forced from my work to the Park. We had to obey the orders of the Society or take the consequences. When I got into the Park I could not get away. I saw the murders c--v"mitted, but took no part in them. The murders were committed by Joe Brady and Timothy Kelly, and by nobody else." Caffrey, on the contrary, wore a' smile, but on the consequences of pleading guilty being explained to him a second time, he also replied—" All I have got to say standing on the brink of the grave is

that I did not know what was going to happen until ten minutes before the murders were committed. I was bound to go to the Park under pain of death." Applicants who may be prepared to prospect for gold in terms of the advertisement of the Kuraara Prospecting Association are reminded that applications must be sent in to the Secretary, Mr D. Hannan, this evening. A meeting of the Association will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow night. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before W. Barnett, and A. C. Campbell, Esqs., J.Ps., George Knapp was charged with habitual drunkenness. He was dismissed with a caution ; but a prohibition order against supplying him with drink for the space of twelve months was applied for, under section 167 of the "Licensing Act, 1881," and granted, and will be immeediately issued to all publicans. It may be stated that section 169 of the same Act prohibits any other person selling or procuring for prohibited persons any such liquor, under a penalty of £5. A sixth share in Reynolds and party's well-known sluicing claim, Dillman's, is for sale. Tenders for the purchase of same, addressed to Mr D. Hannan, PostOffice Hotel, Kumara, will be received till Saturday next, 9th June. 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 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, Kuinara and Hokitika.—[Advt].