The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2350, 10 March 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1884.

Telegraphic communication with Port Darwin lias been restored, and to-day we publish all the European and war cablegrams which have accumulated. The cause of the interruption is explained to ns and the Press generally in the following brief sketch of a traveller’s fate : “ The repairing party on the Darwin line report having found a man dead under a line, 120 miles north of Peake. In despair he had cut the wire to bring assistance. A horse was dead alongside the body. The nearest water was 20 miles distant."

Miss Georgie Smithson appeared at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening to a fair audience. In her introduction she challenged to £IOO any lady to excel her in the rapidity of her changes of dress and character, of which shq has a good range. She appears as a colored servant, and suddenly transforms herself into the Duchess of Devonshire ; from the Lancashire Lass (who shows a good specimen of English pluck) she appears again in a few seconds as her mistress. As a Scotch lassie in search of her sweetheart, as an aesthetic lady, or a Knight in shining

armour, Miss Smithson appears equally quick, arid must be seen to be appreciated. The entertainment concluded with the burlesque of “Robinson Crusoe,” in which she is assisted by Mr Hennessey, who is excessively humorous. There will be another entertainment this evening, when all who wish to spend a good night’s pleasure may do so at the Theatre Royal. The burlesque this evening will be the “ Harlequin Telegraph Old Mother Shipton.” The first Victorian Champion Stakes run at the Autumn meeting at Flemington were decided on Saturday, and after a good start and a grand race, were won br Mr D. S. Wallace’s bay colt Le Grand, who was apparently last in the betting, even at the post. The time was smins. 26jsecs., which is only half a second over Commotion’s time in the Champion Race last year, and First King’s time (also 5 mins. 26secs.) in 1878, the fastest time in Australia for three miles. The newly-elected Executive Committee of the Miners Association will hold their first meeting at the Templars Hall, Dillman’s Town, this evening. There were one or two errors in the list of the names of the new Committee as printed on Saturday ; corrected, they are as follow :—President, P. Dungan, Esq. ; VicePresident, Mr G. Voysey ; Secretary, Mr F. Marshall; Treasurer, Mr W. Morris ; Committee Messrs R. Morgan, A. Crebar, Jas. Tait, John Nicholas, W. Fraser, W. Wells, G. Watson, C. Harris, and John Hay. The meeting will take place at half-past seven o’clock. The Kumara and Dillman’s Town Brass Band Committee will meet in the Town Hall this evening, at eight o’clock. The cricket match, Hokitika v. Greymouth, played on the Camp Reserve, Greymouth, on Saturday last, the Bth instant. Hokitika, first innings, 50 ; second, 25. The Grey men, who went in first, made 74 ; second innings, 90. There were a good many spectators on the ground. It was a little sloppy while the second innings were being played. The tenders for tarring the Kapitea bridge and widening half a mile of the Greenstone-Christchurch road track close at the Council Chambers, Hokitika, tomorrow, at 5 p.m. A sad accident is reported by the Christchurch Press to have occurred on Tuesday morning to an elderly man named John M. Moorhouse, residing near Flaxton, who was returning from Kaiapoi with a load of straw. It appears that by some means the unfortunate man, who had been riding on the straw, fell off the rear of the load, and was dragged for some distance by his leg having caught in a rope. Mrs Patcheil, living near the skew bridge on the Drain Road, saw a horse and cart, apparently without a driver, and in looking closely discovered the body dragging on the road. She at once got help, but before medical assistance could be had, life was extinct. It is supposed that the skull was fractured, as the head and face were much bruised. Hales, the well-known Victorian jockey (according the Melbourne Sportsman), is now, after his 12 years’ successes on the turf, a very wealthy man. Besides other property, he has a half-share with Yeomans (also a jockey) in a large station on the Lachlan, on which 15,000 sheep are running. It is said by those in a position to know that he can write his cheque for £50,000. At present he has a retaining fee from the Hon. J. White of £4OO a year. During the whole of his professional career he has never once been reprimanded by the stewards for foul riding or malpractice of any description on the turf.