The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1884.

Kumara Times, Issue 2487, 9 June 1884, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1884.

Telegrams received very late this afternoon from Wellington are as follow : All the members have now arrived except Pyko, Driver, Cabman, Smith, and Fergus. The excitement is great ; the general concensus of opinion is that Government goes out. Fitz Gerald and Scddon have arranged to interview, to-morrow, the Minister of Mines re sludge-channel; also for an interview with the Minister of Justice re Stafford and Goldsborough Courts. Seddon has had a long interview with Gordon and M'Kerrow. The cost of the sludge-channel last year exceeds the receipts by £SOOO. The general difficulties are in administering the new regulations.

In reference to the fatal accident near the mouth of the Teremakau on Friday last, by which Charles Klees, a miner, was suffocated by a slip of sand falling on him in his open tail-race, we have been requested to contradict a statement appearing in the Grey River Argus on Saturday morning last, which, had it been true, would have reflected very discreditably on the Europeans who were nearest at hand at the time of the terrible calamity. The whole paragraph read thus :

Charles Clease, a miner, while working in his tail-race on the Teremakau, about two miles above where the cage crosses, was smothered by the tail-race falling in on him yesterday between one and two p.m. Mr Cheverton sent some men to extricate him, but when they reached

there they found that the remains had been dug out by a Chinaman, singlehanded. These are all the particulars of the affair yet to hand. In the first place the scene of the accident is only about one mile from where the cage crosses, and below, not above. It is near the mouth of the Teremakau, where in former years the late Mr Klees kept an hotel, which was a great resort for cattle salesmen, and particularly so in time of flood. But the obnoxious part of the paragraph was that poor Klees was " dug out by a Chinaman, single-handed." The particulars of the inquest are given in another column. Hans Petersen was the first man to the work of extrication ; next to him was John Brampton ; then the Chinaman, TongYung (known as "Joe North," who is a mate of Brampton's). Then came Daniel Ogier, who, it may be assumed from the evidence, being the only male witness, did a large share in the work of extrication, which we are informed he really did. Jeremiah Gilbert and Martin Ryan also assisted. So that how a Chinaman, " single-handed," could have been said to have dug out the body of Klees, was a sad error, which we are—and we have no doubt our contemporary too will be—only too ready to contradict or set right.

Miss Augusta L. Dargon, concerning whom most of our readers will recollect we lately quoted an extract from the Australasian speaking of her in the highest terms as an elocutionary artist and tragedienne, is to favour residents of Kumara with an exhibition of her powers at the Theatre Royal on Thursday next. As we also issued circulars concerning the merits of this lady, it is scarcely necessary for us to say more. She is at present in Hokitika, where she is highly spoken of by the local press. One of the local Greymouth doctors reports several cases of diphtheria at Brunnerton and Paroa, and recommends the schools at those places should be closed for a few days, for cleaning and fumigating.

William Marney (the Argus reports) did not long survive the amputation of his leg. He never rallied from the time of the operation, and died in the course of Saturday afternoon. The crushed leg was not the only injury sustained by the unfortunate man, as his side was badly crushed. An inquest on the remains will be held at the Hospital at one o'clock this afternoon, after which the funeral will take place. Deceased was a member of several benefit societies, as well as a Freemason.

The editor of the World, who is under sentence of four months' imprisonment for libel, is just now the subject of a good deal of comment in London. Many severe criticisms appear in the newspapers upon the conduct of Lady Stradbrooke, the author of the paragraph that got Mr Yates into trouble, and on the fact that she has been permitted to escape punishment. But Truth assures us that she has not so escaped. The Court has given her the cold shoulder in a most unmistakable fashion, her name having been struck off all the invitation lists ; and it is said that she has been very severely cut by the people at Marlborough House. Society is sure to follow these hints, and to be particularly severe upon anyone in their midst known to be writing for a society paper at the rate of two guineas a column.

In the desk of the Duke of Albany a paper was found with these words on it : "I wish to be buried in St. George's Chapel, where I was so happily married, and where I shall always have beautiful music played over me." Mr M. Creenwall has shown to us (Argus) the following letter received by him from Mrs Langtry, dated New York, February 2G, 1884 :—" Sir,—l do not feel equal to going to Australia the coming summer, and must ask you to postpone my proposed theatrical tour to that country, to another season. I write you thus early that you may be put to as little inconvenience as possible. I regret feeling obliged to write to you to this effect, but I am quite worn out this spring, and feel it is necessary for my health to spend the summer in England.—Yours faithfully, Lillie Langtry.—To Mr Morris Green wall."

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