The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2112, 6 June 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1883.

Frederick Napier Broome, Esq., 0. M. G., the new Governor of Western Australia, arrived at Perth yesterday, and was well received. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour, about 1.45 p.m. With regard to driving cattle through the town a special meeting of the Borough Council is convened for to-morrow week, for the purpose of revoking bye-law No. 27, and amending the same by allowing additional hours for driving cattle through the streets, as follows :—between 9.30 and 11.30 o’clock in the morning, and between 1.30 and 3.30 in the afternoon. There were three applications forwarded to the Committee of the Prospecting Association from persons proposing to prospect for gold between the Lamplough Road, Kapitea Creek, and the Teremakau River, Kumara, and the Beach. An application from Raby and party, who are working outside of the Chesterfield track was not, on that account entertained. Hassel and party’s application to sink shafts at 3s a foot was considered altogether too high. The remaining application, that of Berdiner and party, seemed the only one the Committee could entertain, and that was referred to a sub-com-mittee, to-arrange terms. The ordinary meeting of the local Hospital Committee was held in the Town Hall last evening. Mr W. Nicholson, the active and efficient Secretary, announced his resignation of that office. His resignation was accepted, and a vote of thanks for his long services was given him by the Committee, and ordered to be recorded in tbe minutes. A report of the business will be published to-morrow. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before W. Barnett, Esq., J.P., Henry Clarke appeared, charged with being drunk and disorderly. He was convicted and fined 10s, and 2s costs of Court.—Walter Williams was charged with the larceny of a purse, and, on the application of the police, remanded till to-morrow for the production of further evidence. There are eight entries for the Krug Champagne Sculling Trophy, to be rowed on the Paramatta River, at Sydney next Saturday week. An accident occurred at the Coal Pit Heath Mine, at Brunnerton, yesterday, by which Mr Murdoch M‘Kenzie sustained a rather severe scalp wound over the left eye. The Argus states that the accident occurred as a truck of coal was coming down the incline. M'lveuzie, who

was waiting to put the break down, by a sudden movement struck a projecting iron bolt with his head, and in the recoil from that he was severely grazed by the passing truck. He came to town and had his wound dressed by Dr Morice, and then went back home. Mr Gilbert, dentist, who has been on a visit to Reefton, returned to Greymouth yesterday evening. 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, Kumara and Hokitika.— [Advt]. The Stranger in London. —That the Great City will ere long be hardly recognisable by its former denizens, all the world has heard. The visitor passing up the Thames now finds his eye gratified by the many edifices recently erected. As he reaches the famous Victoria Embankment, there rises over him on the right hand the new Times office, and on the left hand the new tower-crowned works of Messrs Jambs Epps and Co., both phases of Italian architecture. It may be said that these two buildings are types of the farreaching business energy of the nineteenth century, for it has resulted from such means that these two establishments have brought themselves to the fore, and that tbe annual issue of each has come to be estimated by millions. During the last year, the number of copies of the Times is estimated at 16,276,000, while the number of packets of Epps’s Cocoa sent off in the same period is computed at 14,749,695. The latter is a large total, when it is borne in mind that in 1830 the consumption of Cocoa throughout the whole kingdom was but 425,3821b5., there then existing no preparation such as this, which by the simple addition of a little boiling water would yield a palatable drink. Truly time may be said to work many changes.— [Adyt.] ____________