The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2720, 10 June 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1885.

The debate in the British House of Commons on the financial proposals of the Government were brought to a close at an early hour yesterday morning, and a division taken, with the result that the Budget was rejected by a majority of 12. The Premier, Mr Gladstone, had previously announced that Government would make its acceptance a Cabinet question, so that the resignation of the Ministry is now expected. The proposed increase of the duty on British beer and spirits is the immediate cause of the rejection of the Budget. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon at half-past three o’clock. There are some hazy rumors afloat about rapprochement (writes the Wellington correspondent of the Press) between oir George Grey and Mr Montgomery, >vith the view of bringing about the down-

fall of the Ministry, Sir George Grey taking the leadership and Mr Montgomery supporting him. It is commonly reported that much correspondence has already passed between these two leaders, and Mr Macandrew is expected to join. Please understand, however, that I only mention this as rumor, and that I express no opinion as to its truth or falsehood. A youth named William Webdale, about fourteen years of age, who was sent to the Burnham Industrial School by the Westport Bench four years ago, escaped on the 24th ult., and worked his passage from Lyttelton to Wellington in the Ringarooma. After sleeping out one or two nights, and being very tired and hungry, he gave himself up to the police in Wellington on the following Sunday. The demand for house property in Wellington at the present time, says the Post, is rapidly becoming greater than the supply. One night lately an advertisement notifying that two houses, one with four rooms and one with five rooms, were to let, was inserted in the Evening Post, with the result that during the following day no fewer than forty-five applications for them were received. Before evening both houses were let to tenants who had secured priority of claim by each paying a year’s rent in advance. The Colonial Secretary has received a voluminous mass of correspondence touching the Christchurch Hospital scandal, including a resolution passed by the Christchurch Medical Association, expressing sympathy with Dr. Stewart under the irritation he must suffer from the “ terrible and scandalous article” in a Wellington paper. The time for receiving tenders for felling grubbing, and draining a piece of ground on the Borough Reserve for the purposes of a racecourse is, owing to the unfavourable nature of the weather lately, extended from the 11th to the 18th inst. The Dillman’s Town quadrille assembly will be held at the Empire Rooms this evening, at eight o'clock. Another name has to be added to the list of newspaper correspondents who have lost their lives in the Soudan. Captain W. H. Gordon, who acted for the Manchester Guardian, was lost in the desert some twenty miles from Korti, and never afterwards seen. The Arabs of the Soudan grind their coffee as fine as flour, and boil it in a copper saucepan without a lid. They would not on any account boil it in a covered vessel, as any lid or cover would prevent the deleterious qualities from escaping, and make the coffee bitter. It is reported from Brussels that the number of colliers on strike in the collieries of the Mons. district amounts to 7000. A perfect skeleton, to which was attached a ball and chain, was lately unearthed twenty-five feet below the sarface of the earth near Savannah. The Freemasons claim to have 138,065 lodges distributed throughout the world, with a membership of 14,160,543. Yance Klaus Hassalaer is now selling by auction a large stock of Groceries, Drapery, of every description, Wheat and Flour ; which must be sold by June 20th. Special Notice to Miners.—Yance Klaus Hasselaer has two tons of dynamite, caps, and fuses coming, which will be offered at 20 per cent below wholesale cost.—The above must be sold out quickly, as Yance Klaus Hasselaer will be leaving again in a few days.— [Advt.]