The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2604, 10 January 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885.

Wo are pleased to loam from Mr Gow, the manager Waimea-Kiunara water-race, that the leakage at the Loopline dam is not of so serious a character as at first supposed. An excavation down to the top of the box has been made, and the gravel adjoining the bank on the west •side of the box shows a clean-washed appearance, indicating of course that the water has passed between the box and the

solid bank; but nothing more can be seen till the excavation is further advanced, which would probably be effected some time to-day. Men are now employed sinking down to the bottom of the box. Only £398,000 of the New Zealand million loan was tendered for yesterday. The coming of age on Thursday, Bth inst., of Albert Victor Christian Edward, eldest son of the'Prince of Wales, was the occasion of great rejoicings at the Prince of Wales’ residence at Sandringham, yesterday.

The Italian Government, we leam by cablegram, has decided to garrison its station at Assab Bay, in the Red Sea, near the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. This station was first acquired by a private company of Italians, but was taken over by the Government of Italy in 1881.

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour, with East Coast, Australian, and Suez mails. Commander Edwin wired at 1.47 this afternoon “ Bad weather may be expected between north and east and southeast, and heavy rain.” At the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, before J, Giles, Esq., R.M., Luderco Martini was charged with a breach of the Borough bye-law, No. 4, section 2, by permitting a chimney of his house to be on fire. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s and 7s Court costs.—John Hampton, charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s, and 2s costs, or 24 hours’ imprisonment. The alternative was preferred.

At a meeting of the Board of Education held last evening, at Hokitika, Mr Smith, the only applicant, was elected Secretary and Inspector, at a salary of £3OO a year.

The Rev. C. Abernethy, of Hokitika, will preach in the Wesleyan Church, Third street, to-morrow morning and evening, at the usual hours. A meeting of the Children’s Picnic Committee will be held at the Town Hall on Monday next. It is desired that all accounts be sent in by that date. Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, have been issued in favour of Antonio Rada, miner, Goldsborough, and Peter Neilson, miner, Westport. John Griffiths Thomas, Esq., Mayor of Greymouth, and Wellington Llewellin Fowler, Esq., Mayor of Hokitika, are gazetted to be Justices of the Peace under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876.”

Major Bonar, of the First Westland Rifles, has received a communication from Major Pitt, commanding officer of the Nelson district, informing him that the next Volunteer encampment will be held in the Nelson district at Easter, on the property of Hugh Martin, Esq., of Stoke, and within a quarter of a mile of the Stoke railway station, with a plentiful supply of good water. The letter invites the Westland Rifles to join the encampment. The duration of the camp will be from the evening of Thursday, 2nd, to Monday, 6th April, inclusive. All corps in the Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui, Taranaki, Marlborough, Westland, and Canterbury Districts have been invited to join the encampment.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the fifth section of “The Westland Education District Subdivision Act, 1884,” his Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, is gazetted under date 31st December, 1884, to have appointed Jackson Keddell, Esq., Richard Naucarrow, Esq., and Thomas Ronayne, Esq., to be Commissioners to exercise, in respect of the Education District of Grey, the powers, authorities, functions, and duties in the said sections mentioned ; and has declared that at any meeting of the said Commissioners two shall form a quorum.

The Greymouth Harbor Board have appointed Mr W. H. Scott as Engineer of the Board, subject to the approval of the Government. There were eighteen applications.

It will be interesting to the subscribers to the New Zealand Tablet to learn that Mr J. E. Redmond, M.P. for New Ross, is now the Irish correspondent for that journal. From the well-known ability of the gentleman in question, all matters of interest to his countrymen in New Zealand are sure to be carefully noted. Messi’s Girdwood, Lalmian and Co. will sell on Monday next, at the Preston Yards, Greymouth, prime fat cattle and heavy-weight cross-bred wethers.

The Army and Navy Gazette says “ Major-General Gordon is a British officer on full pay. He is also an Egyptian officer of State—the Khedive’s Yiceroy of the Soudan. Question No. I—Has he any right to surrender his master’s territory to the rebels? Question No. 2~ o‘>nld he he tried by court-martial, and subjected to pains and penalties, for refusing to obey the orders of Lord Wolseley

to hand over the property and lives of the Egyptian troops in garrisons, and the other Egyptian subjects, with the property which he has been sent to protect and save in Seunaar, Kordofan, &c., to the enemy ? We do not know what the answers to these questions may be, but we do know one thing. It may be asserted without presumption that Charles Gordon would die a hundred deaths before he would betray what he believed to be his duty and his trust.”