The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2116, 11 June 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1883.

In our report on Saturday of a meeting of the Committee of the Kumara Pro. spocting Association an important omission was made in the second clause of the report of the sub-committee appointed to make arrangements with Messrs Berdiner, Anderson, and party, who are now working under the assistance of the association. It should have read:—"That an allowance of £2 be made for baling and cleaning the 40-feet shaft; and that an agreement be entered into with the prospectors to allow them Is 6d per foot for sinking fresh shafts to a depth of 30 feet from the surface; from 30ft. to 40ft. [deep, 2s per foot; and from 40ft. to 50ft.] 2s Gd per foot; and at similar rates for driving and hauling up from shafts already sunk, or to be sunk." The words in brackets were unintentionally omitted. The following letter in reply to an application for a rock-boring machine has been received from the Mines Department, Wellington : To Mr D. Hannax, Secretary of the Kumara Prospecting Association. Sir—l am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, upon the subject of assistance towards the purchase by the Kumara Prospecting Association of a i-ock-boring machine for prospecting in the Arahura district, and, in reply, to request that you will be good enough to state what kind of machine it is intended to purchase, and where and how it is proposed to apply it. I have the honor to be, Sii 1 , Your most obedient sei'vant, Oliver Wakefield, U n de r- £ ecretary. Wellington, 30tii Iviay, 1883.

The electors of Kumara are reminded that this evening, at the Theatre Royal, Mr Seddon, M.H.R., will deliver a presessional address, having reference more particularly to his intentions with regard to the supply of water to this goldfield. Miners returned from the new rush, at Scotchman's Terrace are very hopeful (the Argus reports) that it will assume extensive proportions. They say if payable prospects should be obtained on one or two of the terraces on the same level north of Scotchman's, there is every probability of gold being got right up to Razorback. As the ground is generally very shallow, little time will be required to prospect it, and ascertain whether it is a lead or merely a patch. An impudent thief entered the back door of the Criterion Hotel shortly after seven o'clock last evening, and abstracted the sum of £2 9s from the landlord's bedroom. Mrs Preston was in the front part of the house at the time with the children. The depredator is supposed to have been disturbed in the burglarious act as other valuable articles were left; but the servant girl, on entering the room to put the baby to bed, stumbled over some of the bed-covering, which thus led to the discovery of the robbery. It therefore behoves all housekeepers to be upon their guard. An unfortunate mishap befel one of Mr Thomson's daughters, of the Metropolitan Hotel, last evening. With a lighted candle in her hand, she opened the back door of the hotel at about 10 p.m., when she observed a man standing within a few paces of the door. He decamped very quickly, but the poor girl, in the sudden start, held back the candle, which set fire to her hair. Her screams soon brought help, but as a matter of course she is somewhat burnt about the back of the neck, besides losing a quantity of hair. Mr A. M. Hornby, the celebrated Lancashire cricketer, has announced his intention of contesting the general election, in the Conservative interest. E. Hughes, alias Edwards, who has been discharged from Dunedin Gaol, after serving a term of imprisonment for the robbery of several hundred pounds' worth of jewellery from George Hooper, of Cashel street, Christchurch, was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Wellington, on June Ist, charged with having pawned a diamond ring which he knew was the property of George Hooper, now of Nelson. After hearing the evidence of the pawnbroker and Mr Hooper, the Magistrate committed the accused to stand his trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. John Holden, residing in Christchurch, dropped down dead last Wednesday, whilst in the act of washing himself. The deceased, a hawker, lived with his widowed mother (who was relying upon him for support), and had for some considerable time past been suffering from heart disease, but did not appear any worse than usual at the time of his de. cease. 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 olfactory sewing. The Wertheim machines wind their own bobbins without guidance as level as reels of cotton. They nre 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.—[AdvtJ.