The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2321, 5 February 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1884.

The poll for the election of one councillor to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of late Councillor Hannan to the Mayorship will take place in the Town Hall to-morrow, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6p.m. Mr Henry Burger and Mr George Stewart are the only two candidates. The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Committee will take place in the Town Hall this evening, at eight o'clock. As well as of the Greymouth State School, we learn that bailiffs are in possession of the Hokitika State School, and have also, it is understood, .levied upon the properties of the Ross, Waimea, and Stafford Schools. The Government has, however, we learn by telegraph, instructed Mr Purkiss, solicitor, Hokitika, to issue interpleader summonses in the cases of seizures of schools. Government will not be coerced into paying liabilities, but will, on the contrary, contest every case. Sales of advertised properties will therefore be withdrawn, and the bailiffs will have to clear out. A hut at Larrikins belonging to a miner named Bergstroom (better known, perhaps, as " Quiet Bill") was burned down at about nine o'clock last night. Everything was destroyed. The owner was at Dillman's Town at the time. It has not transpired how the fire originated. Eugene Rouher, the eminent French statesman whose decease is announced in a cablegram to-day from Paris, first distinguished himself as an advocate at the bar of his native town, Riom, in France, In the negotiations in 1859 of the Treaty of Commerce between France and England, which were conducted by M. Rouher and M. Baroche on the part of France, and by Lord Cowley and Mr Richard Cobden on the part of England, the arrangements involved immense labour and manipulation of details, and the chief part in adjusting them devolved upon M. Rouher and Mr Cobden. The treaty was signed on the 22nd January, 1860. In 1863, M. Rouher was appointed Minister of State, in which office he had to represent the Government as "talking Minister " in the Corps Le'gislatif, and it was admitted that he had no superior as a debater among the great orators trained under the constitutional system, and these were able rivals ; in fact a good authority has stated that it might be safely said that he had no superior, if any equal, liability among the French politicians of the time. Being born on the 30th November 1814, M. Rouher has lived to 70 years of age. Woodyear's Circus is announced to open in Kumara on Friday next, for two nights. The machine for the exhibition and diffusion of the electric light in the large marquee which will be erected arrived iu

Kumara at nine o'clock last evening, drawn by four horses from Greymouth, where it had been landed by one of the coastal steamers. It was driven on to Hokitika early this morning, in which town the Circus is to be exhibited for two nights.

A new general store has been opened k> Main street, by Mr Robert M'Glone, who has hitherto been carrying on that business in a small way at Larrikin's Terrace. The new store is opened in the premises recently occupied by Mrs O'Grady, which adjoins Mr "Woods' bakery, establishment. Mr M'Glone states that he opens with an entirely new stock of goods, of best quality, which he will sell at the lowest remunerative prices. He will continue the store at Larrikins as formerly, where goods of best quality are to be obtained at Kumara prices.

Persons having dogs are notified by Mr Monahan, Borough Inspector, that all such animals found not registered on or before the 20th instant, the owners will be proceeded against. The registration fees are payable to the Town Clerk, at his office, Borough Chambers. News from Red Jacks is to the effect that a fatal accident occurred at that place last week. The Argus reports that a man named Patrick Malloy, who worked asa" hatter" in one of the back gullies, was missed on Saturday last. He had been missed from his hut, and as his claim was generally considered dangerous to work in, it was examined and the unfortunate man was found a corpse in the tail-race. By the appearance of the body and the aspect of the surroundings it is supposed that he met his death on Thursday last. The body was fonnd washed down the tail-race about 150 yards, much cut and bruised, with one of the legs fractured from the knee to the ankle.

An astounding discovery is reported by an American correspondent in the Allgemeine Zeitung. He states that in the virgin forests of Sonora, a province of Western Mexico, near Magdalena, a pyramid has been found measuring 4350 ft. at its base, and rising to the height of 750 ft. A carriage road winds about this enormous structure from base to summit. The face consist of granite blocks carefully cut and perfectly fitted together. Not far distant stands a hill, which, we are told, is honeycombed with cells of various sizes, all cut out of the solid rock. They are without windows, several are on the same level, and the walls are adorned with fantastic shapes and symbols. Monday (14th January, it is stated in the Australasian) was one of the hottest and most oppressive days throughout the colony (of Victoria) that has been experienced this summer, and bush fires have occurred in several districts. Our correspondents at Tatura, Colac, Donald, Chiltern, Numnrkah, Gordon, and Wycheproof, and Daylesford, report the heat as having been very great, in most cases accompanied by a hot north wind and clouds of dust. At Colac, the thermometer registered 142 deg. in the sun and 108 deg. in the shade, and at Chiltern the temperature in the shade reached HOdeg.