The Kumara Time. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2800, 11 September 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Time. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1885.

Some time ago, owing to the late accident which occasioned his lameness, Sergeant Russell applied to the Chief Commissioner of Police for his discharge from the force, with the intention of settling down in life. Yesterday he received a reply from Colonel Reader, Commissioner of Police, Wellington, stating that his application had been entertained and he would be relieved from duty at the end of the present month, September. The Sergeant has been 21 years in the service. He was a mounted sergeant most of this time in the North Island, where he held trustworthy appointments, such as clerk of R.M. and Warden's Courts at Paeroa and Te Aroha, in the Thames mining district. He served in both the late New Zealand wars ; in that of 1863-66 in the late Colonel Nixon's cavalry, Auckland, and was in several engagements with the Maoris in the Waikato and East Coast campaigns. In the wars of 1868-71 he acted as mounted sergeant in the Armed Constabulary field force, under the commands of Col. J. M. Roberts and the late Cols. Mould and Fraser ; and subsequently served in the Police Force in the Thames district up to the time of his coming to Kumara. Prior to his leaving that district he received several testimonials from magistrates and officers, and also a long one from the miners where he had acted as clerk. Sergeant Russell has been stationed in Kumara for now two years and five months, and has proved himself a very efficient and obliging officer ; and we trust that in the new sphere of life in which he is about to engage, he may be as successful as he has been in the one ho is now terminating.

Wc acknowledge receipt from the Government Pi-inter of Nos. 10, 20, and 21 Hansard.

Commander Edwin wired at 12.11 this afternoon—" Every indication of sharp frost to-night." By a telegram from Masterton, it appears after all that Messrs M'Kerrow, Beverley, Humphries, and party were successful in taking five photographs of the eclipse of the Sun on Wednesday morning for the most important result of their expedition. At Masterton, a heavy south-west gale, with rain, set in on Tuesday night and the morning of the eclipse broke without any sign of the sky clearing. Mr M'Kerrow and party, who had camped at the foot of Otahuto, proceeded, however, to the top and fixed their instruments amid driving snow and hail. Just before totality the sky cleared and all the phenomena were fairly visible. One photo was taken before totality, three during, and one after the corona was visible. For fully a minute an encircling ring of light, radiating to a distance of about half the diameter of the Sun was seen. It was a pale white, like the electric light, and of a uniform width except at the earth's equator, where it slightly protruded. It was evidently of greater extent, but the pale extra light was invisible owing to the watery state of the atmosphere. Darkness was scarcely noticeable owing to clouds hanging about. The holder of ticket No. G96u in the late Robin Hood consultation will be glad to learn that his ticket also drew a prize

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