The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2658, 14 March 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1885.

Latest news from Soudan this afternoon, by cable, states that Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Graham, with his staff, and a battalion of the Grenadier Guards have arrived at Suakim, to operate in the direction of Berber. A serious accident befel a miner shortly after he started work this morning. His name is Michael Bourke, of Bourke and party. Whilst attending to the nozzle and endeavouring to remove a big stone out of the way, some pug came down from the face and jammed his left leg so severely as to break the bones. He was speedily extricated by his mates, and, with the assistance of other willing hands, brought down to the Hospital at eight o’clock, where on examination, Dr. Monckton found he had sustained a comminuted fracture of both bones of the leg. He is now doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances. It is reported that Mr Blackett, the Engineer-in-Charge, North Island, will shortly retire from the public service, on his pension, and that he will be succeeded by Mr 0. Y. O’Connor, at present Undersecretary of the Public Works Department. On the 2nd of this month a challenge was sent to the Ist Westland and Grey Rifles to fire a friendly triangular match on the 3rd April (Good Friday). - The challenge has been accepted by both companies. The conditions are as follow : Ranges, 200, 400, and 500 yards ; seven shots at each range. Teams to consist of ten men a-side. Each competitor to pay 10s towards range and other prizes. The following Volunteers have been elected for the Kumara team :—Lieuts. Davies and Borlase, Sergts. Coutts and Close, Corpls. Keller and Jones, and Yols. Stennard, Ellery, Schulstad, and Hopkins. Emergency men ; Yols. W. Evenden, Watters, A’Court, and Mansfield. Commander Edwin wired at 12.10 p.m. to-day : between east and south and south-west; glass further fall, and heavy rain after 12 hours ; rivers and creeks will be in high flood.” There will be an annular eclipse of the sun on the morning of Tuesday next, the 17th March, but it will be invisible to all places west of Greenwich and south of the equator. The line of central eclipse commences in west longitude 150° 42' at 4.39 p.m. (March 10), Greenwich time, and passes over North and British America, Hudson’s Bay and Davis Strait. There will be one other eclipse of the sun this year, on the morning of the 9th September, and which will be a total one, but only in parts of New Zealand near to Cook Strait. The breadth of the moon’s shadow where the sun will be totally obscui’cd at one time will be about 114 miles, and will first occur at West Wanganui Inlet and three miles north of Collingwood, in this island ; then across Cook Strait; at Masterton the total phase will last nearly two minutes, and at Wellington Hmins. No doubt

several noted astronomers will visit localities in the line of the central eclipse, for the purpose of taking observations of the sun’s corona, but not so many as if the total phase was of longer duration, which would have been the case could the eclipse have occurred a day sooner, when the moon is in perigee. It will be observed as a partial eclipse all over New Zealand, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, but not westward of the last-mentioned colonies. The boys (three) who were removed to the Police Camp yesterday to undergo 48 hours’ imprisonment with hard labour, for throwing stones, were set to work in the afternoon to weed the ground, and during the temporary absence of the officer in charge they placed a wheelbarrow alongside the fence, jumped over, and skedaddled up the main road and along Blake’s tramway. Two of them were recaptured by seven o’clock in the evening, and Bernard Sheedy and Michael (his brother, who also was summoned for a similar offence) were captured at about 10.30 p.m. They were all four placed in the lock-up, and brought before A. 0. Campbell, Esq., J.P., this morning, and sentenced to 24 hours’ imprisonment, sentences to run concurrently with previous sentence. The Union Company’s new steamer Ohau arrived off the Grey bar last night; and was to be brought to the wharf this morning. A portrait of the Hon, R. Stout appears in the London Graphic of 3rd January. The Greymouth draught-players will this evening meet the representatives of Brunnerton to contest a friendly match. There will be six players on each side, and play will commence at 6.30 p.m. at KilgouPs Hotel, Greymouth. Messrs Gird wood, Lahman and Co, hold a large sale of prime bullocks and crossbred sheep and ewes at Arahura, at Monday next. The 200 ewes, two-tooth, will be submitted in lots lo suit purchasers. A victory has been gained by Fan Ryslleberghe, in Belgium, by the solution of the problem of transmitting a telegraphic and a telephonic message along the same wire at the same time. A trial of this has been made at the Antwerp Universal Exhibition, where concerts held in important towns in Belgium were heard; the transmission being made with an ordinary instrument along an ordinary telegraph line and with earth returns. Count Pahlen, who recently died at Cannes, aged 69, was at one time a celebrated whist player, and on one occasion whilst travelling to Russia be won £20,000 from Prince John Lichtenstein at a single sitting. A miser died in Paris in 1880, leaving property supposed to be worth £6O. Some time elapsed before the heir presented himself, but on his doing so a search was made of the miser’s apartment, and no less a sum than £38,000 was discovered in a cupboard. Ladies should not fail to visit J. Manson, and Co.’s clearing sale. A great reduction has been made in all Classes of drapery.—[Advt.] Now is the time to secure a large parcel of drapery for little money. Genuine sale. J. Mansou and Co.— [Advt.]