The Rumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2694, 11 May 1885, Page 2

The Rumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1885.

The Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of the Benevolent Society for the year ending 30th April, 1885, is published in another column. From it we find the society has been enabled to give relief to the poor and needy to the extent of £lB7 12s lid, out of a total income of £207 13s Id. There was a balance in bank at the end of the year of £6 10s 9d, so that the actual cost of disbursing charities has amounted

to tbe very small sum of £l3 9a Bd. The annual meeting of the Society for the election of committee and officers for tbe ensuing year is appointed to be held at the Town Hall to-morrow, at 7.30 p.m, sharp.

The Christchurch coach, carrying the San Francisco West Coast mails, started from the Bealey on Saturday morning, but the rivers were too high, and it had to return. The weather cleared up during the night, and it made another start on Sunday, and reached the Taipo at halfpast five in the evening. Why it did not come on last night, and continue its journey through to Hokitika, when, we understand, there was a coach on this side of the Taipo River, and thus nothing to hinder it from doing so, we are at a loss to understand. As it was it did not reach here till nine o’clock this morning, missing the Greymouth tram, which starts at 8 a.m. It proceeded on to Hokitika at 10 a. m.

There was no regular service yesterday at the Presbyterian Church, but in the evening, one of the communicants, Mr Campbell, read prayers and one of Dr. Guthrie’s sermons. There was a fair attendance.

An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Oriental Hotel, Greymouth, before Major Keddell and a full jury, of which Mr Robert Kilgour was chosen foreman, on the body of John Carl Wermick, when a verdict of accidental death, while engaged in his ordinary calling, was returned. The jury attached a rider condemning the inadequate way the wharf was lighted, and the danger to men loading vessels on dark nights. On Friday night, when the accident happened, it was dark and tempestuous. About seven o’clock on Saturday night Stephen Walshe, storekeeper, Hatters Terrace, Nelson Creek, was drowned while trying to ford Nelson Creek, on horseback. The creek was flooded at the time. His body was found yesterday morning about 25 chains below the ford where he tried to cross. The horse was found on the same side of the creek that he went in. He was drowned almost in sight of his own home. He leaves a widow and one child.

A pedestrian match came off at Reefton on Saturday afternoon last between O’Loughlin, of Brunnerton, and Cochrane, of Reefton. The match was for £25 aside, 200 yards. O’Loughlin was the winner, rather easily by about five yards. It was only the previous Saturday that O’Loughlin beat M'Farlane, of Reefton, in a match for £SO aside. There is some talk (the Argus says) of getting up a match for £SO or £IOO aside between O’Loughau and Joseph Steuhouse, formerly of Greymouth, but now of Kumara. This should be a most interesting event, as both men have first-class records of past performances on the sward. If both men should come together equally fit it should be a very close thing between them. Each seems to be equal to any distance from 100 yards to a quarter of a mile, and both are very game runners, who usually finish first or very close to it.

The New York papers state the cancerous growth at the root of General Grant’s tongue is hardening and becoming worse. The malady is described as malignant epithelial cancer by the doctors, who declare an operation would be useless. The ulcerations are on the soft palate just above the root of the tongue, and are extending rapidly. The General is only able to take chopped and liquid food, and can only swallow these with difficulty, He is gradually growing weaker and is losing flesh, and it is generally considered that he cannot survive more than a few months. The last act of Congress before its final adjournment was the passage of the Bill putting General Grant on the retired array list, with the full pay and rank of general.

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