The Kumara Time. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2792, 2 September 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Time. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1885.

The tempestuous weather with which Ave have been visited for the last few days, the like of which we wrote was on Monday the severest experienced on this part of the West Coast for many months—(by a typographical error "months " was made "years")—still continues, although the squalls are not so frequent. The rivers are in heavy fresh, and at Greymouth, the Argus reports, " there is no doubt that had it not been for the width of the entrance to the river, caused by the last heavy flood, the river would have been much higher than it is. Still, the lower part of the town (of Greymouth) was flooded for some time yesterday, and it was nothing but the wide entrance that saved the lower part of the town from being under, water, as is usual with heavy floods. Some fear was entertained that the two last cylinders of the Cobden l bridge would go under the flood pressure, but fortunately the morning found them intact, though the water was raging around them. Warned by previous experiences, Mr Watson took off the airlock and put it on the stable portion of the bridge, in case the cylinders should come to grief, which they were in great danger of." It will be seen by a telegram from Christchurch that there has been bad weather at the Bealey. The coach from Springfield was not able to come on further than the Cass, owing to a big landslip at the Waimakariri cutting. The coach hence yesterday morning had not this afternoon reached the Bealey, so that we cannot expect any mails from the East Coast to arrive by coach to-day. The parliamentary correspondent of the West Coast Times telegraphed yesterday ; —" Mr Conolly this afternoon asked for a further extension of time to bring up the Committee's report on the Kuinara Sludge-channel inquiry. Much dissatisfaction is expressed at the great loss of time occasioned by the Opposition, who do not take their defeat in a manly way." Commander Edwin wired at 12.7 p.m. " Bad weather may be expected between north and west, and south-west; glass fall, but rise after 12 hours from now. Indications bad." A sixth share in Darby and party's six acre sluicing claim, Dunedin Flat, is for sale by tender. Tenders, addressed to Mr P. M'Grath, Dillman's Town, will be received till Monday week, the 14th inst. The Marlborough Express notes that Sir John Hull, Sir E. W. Stafford, and Captain Baldwin, three old identities who made their money out of New Zealand land transactions, arc settling their sons in farms on the River Plate, South America. A large Newfoundland dog, supposed to have jumped or fallen from the mail steamer on her last voyage from Auckland, was picked up at the Little Barrier Island a few days ago by a settler residing on the island. The dog when found was thoroughly exhausted, but after the administration of a few stimulants soon recovered. The dog is said to have swam seven miles before reaching the shore. The Maoris are making excellent progress with the new inland road near Parihaka. The Dunedin Star has chronicled the funeral of David Jones, formerly in charge of the Hon. W. Robinson's horses, under the head of "Sporting Intelligence." A rich silver mine is reported fifteen miles east of the Selheim diggings, Queensland. Its ore is valued at £lO per ton. Water is so scarce at Silverton that it is being carted from Mingarey dam, South Australia, and sold at i'l per 100 gallons. The Quc.in has sent her best thanks for the tnagniliount album of photographs of New Guinea sent to her by the New .South Wales Government. A motion for the enfranchisement of women was lately carried in the South Australian House of Assembly, without a division. A Scoldtxo Woman.—The bai'barities of the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by la\«-j are now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women scold only when J

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