The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2766, 3 August 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1885.

Cablegrams reaching Wakapuaka station at 12.45 p.m., but not received till 4.20 p.m. state the cholera continues to spread in Spain with unabated vigour, and the mortality is very great throughout the country. —The trial of Louis Riel, the insurgent, is concluded ; the jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of his weak state of mind.—The drivers in the employ of the Melbourne Omnibus Company have struck work, demanding the eight hours per day system. . We have received from the Government Printer No. 10 Hansard, part of which comprises the finish of the first volume and which will contain 615 pages. At the Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday last, before A. C. Campbell, Esq., J.P., Mary Lowe, alias "Taipo," was charged with being drunk, and convicted and fined 10s and costs, or 12 hours' imprisonment with hard labour ; and this morning, before H. Burger, Esq., Mayor, Annie Oust was brought up charged with being drunk and disorderly, and convicted and fined 20s and costs, or 24 hours' imprisonment. The alternative was preferred in each case by the accused. Tenders are invited up to Monday next, 10th August, for the supply and delivery of props, caps, sills, laths, for the construction of No. 2 sludge-channel, and also for sinking a shaft on channel in Borlase and party's claim. Specifications may be seen at either Mr J. S. Pearn's, or Mr R. J. Seddon's. Tenders to be to the contractors Messrs John W. Martin and Co. The Wellington Exhibition is a successful affair, much more so than most people expected. The Argus correspondent telegraphed on Saturday that " The arrangements for the opening ceremony were very badly carried out. It took the Governor five minutes to get to his seat after he entered the building, although he could have done it in less than one minute if the way had been properly cleared. The passage was blocked up by a regular sea of people, Ministers of the Crown and members of both Houses being unable, to to reach their l'eserved seats. There are general complaints as to the way the whole affair has been carried out—no enthusiasm or flags fiying- The feeling is that though a large number of Committees were appointed they were treated as mere figure-heads. They accordingly allowed Sir J. Vogel and Dr. Hector to have their own sweet will. Exhibitors from all parts of the colony have come to the rescue, and the Exhibition as a whole is a credit to the colony. The displays of cabinet - making, ironwork, machinery, and woollen goods, would reflect credit on a much older country." The agents of the steamship Coptic, which was fitted out by the British Government as an armed cruiser, have not received any advice of her arrival at the Capo of Good Hope.

"Still another accident!" reports the Westport Times "A waggoner named Koarna got his leg broken, on Sunday, 20th ult., near Hawk's Crag. He fell off the waggon, sustaining the accident mentioned, and was lying under the vehicle (where he dragged himself for shelter from the weather) for three hours before his ' coo-oos' were heard by Mr Oroawcll, by whom he was brought down to the Hospital in a canoe. Dr. Thorpe expresses great satisfaction at the manner in which the injured limb was adjusted by Mr Croawell, the carefulness in this respect being calculated to considerably assist Kearns has a wife and eleven children at Lyell."

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