The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2333, 19 February 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1884.

A special telegram from the Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Morning Herald, dated February 12, states: “The Government express their determination not to pay the illegal expenditure of the Westland Education Board, and will propose legislation next session to prevent the occurrence of any such misfeasance in future.” The usual fortnightly meeting of the Hospital Ujuuuittee will "be held at the

Town Hall this evening, at eight o’clock. The delegates appointed by the Friendly Societies will also attend, there being important business to take into consideration. The official declaration of the result of of the polling on Saturday last, at Dillman’s Town, Goldsborough, and Stafford, for the election of a Licensing Committee for the Licensing District of Arahura is published this evening. It is as follows: Tennant, John 95 Byrne, James Francis ... 86 Murphy, James 75 Williams, John J. ... ... 67 Fitzgibbou, Michael Henry 63 Cox, Barth 59 Murray, Roderick 58 Lyons, Benjamin 46 The five first-named gentlemen are now constituted the Licensing Committee, and they will meet to elect a Chairman, on Thursday, the 28th instant, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon; and the first quarterly meeting of the Committee will be held on the following Wednesday, sth March. We regret to notice the death of Mr Daniel Falvey, which occurred last Friday morning at Hokitika. The Guardian of Saturday stated that as the deceased gentleman had been ailing for a considerable time, little hopes were entertained of his recovery. Mr Falvey was one of the pioneers of the Coast, and for many years carried on business as a carpenter, painter, and glazier at Ross. Subsequently he went to Kumara, where he went into business as an undertaker. During his early life he spent many years in the Army, and, being strangely imbued with martial ardor, he was an enthusiastic Volunteer. Mr Falvey leaves a wife and two sons to mourn his loss, as well as many sorrowing friends. He had not quite reached the allotted span of three score and ten, having died in the sixtyfifth year of his age. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon. Captain Edwin wired yesterday about noon to watch the barometer, as bad weather was approaching from any direction between north-east and north and west; glass to fall again within ten hours, and after 12 hours sea considerable and increasing. A woman named Adelina Mackay, aged 45 years, engaged as a domestic servant at Spencer’s Hindon Bush estate, is reported in a telegram from Invercargill to have been found drowned in the well near the house on Thursday. At the inquest there was no evidence to show how deceased got into the well, and no reason to suspect suicide. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased had been in the situation several months, and went there from Dunedin. The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star writes Mr Thomas Bracken’s new volume of poems, “Lays of the Land of the Maori and Moa,” has just been published by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, at the modest price of ss. It is a very tempting little book, sumptuously bound in olive green cloth, with gilt edges, and exquisitely printed. The poems include many old favourites, which have appeared at apropos periods in the Dunedin newspapers, and will doubtless be warmly re-welcomed. The most ambitious are the “March of Teßauparaha” and “ Waipounamuhu,” but “ M‘Gillivray’s Dream,” and the “Excelsior” elegy on Longfellow will probable be liked best. The Rev. Rutherford Waddell supplies a special introduction to the poems, which are dedicated to Sir George Grey. Two of the yearlings that were passed in at the New Zealand Stud Company’s sale at Sydney recently were afterwards sold privately. These were Musket— Bergere colt, who brought 200 guineas, and Musket—Realisation, who found a purchaser at 100 guineas. The latter fell sick during the voyage. The Hon. Ivo Bligh left Gravesend on December 29th, en route for Australia. His visit is a happy one—to marry Miss Murphy, to whom he was engaged last spring. Amongst the list of the new companies brought out last year four were worked in connection with Australia and New Zealand, as againt eight in 1882. The total authorised capital of these four was £3,900,000. They were as follows :—The Anglo-Australian Steam Navigation Co., with a capital of £600,000 ; the Australian Loan and Agency Co., with a capital of £1,000,000 ; Nelson Brothers, with a capital of £300,000 ; and the N.Z. Mortgage Co., with a capital of £2,000,000. The nominal amount of capital for the whole of the companies brought out in London last year was only £35,241,500, or rather less than half the nominal amount of the issues in 1882.

The third new steamer of the Hew Zealand Shipping Company, the Ruapehu, has arrived in the Royal Albert Docks, and was to sail on January the 10th, via St. Vincent and Hobart, for the four chief ports of New Zealand. On her trial trip on December 28th she made the splendid speed of 15 knots, and she went round from Greenock to Gravesend in 15 hours, or about 14J knots. The Ruapehu will be followed by the lonic on January 24th. Belgium has the largest area of land under cultivation of any country in the world, that is, sixty per cent, of all its territory, including rivers, mountains, etc. The sewage of the cities is used to fertilize the soil, so that land which has been under cultivation continually for centuries has got rich enough to yield wheat-crops as fruitful as those of the most fertile regions of America.