The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1885.

Kumara Times, Issue 2834, 31 October 1885, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1885.

The case of Sellars and party v. James Dand, Manager of the Kumara Sludgechannel, on behalf of her Majesty the Queen, whereby the complainants claimed £BOO for damage through their tailingssite being encroached upon by reason of

debris from the sludge-channel, occupied the Warden's Court all yesterday. Mr Jones appeared for complainants, Mr Purkiss for the Government race manager. In the evening the Court adjourned till seven o'clock. After counsel's addresses to the assessors, Warden Giles summed up, and at a quarter-past eight the assessors retired. They returned to Court at ten minutes past nine with a verdict for complainants, as follows : Damage for injury to registered site, £2OO ; damage to boxes, £64 ; counsel's fee, £5 5s ; two witnesses, £2 2s ; Court costs, £3 16s—total, 3s. A full report is unavoidably held over.

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour, bringing East Coast and Australian mails.

We are pleased to learn that our esteemed Post and Telegraph Master, Mr W. C. MacDermott, has received a special mark of favour and distinction in recognition of his ability and aptitude in departmental work, having been appointed agent to take charge of the homeward mail to San Francisco. He will leave by Tuesday morning's coach to Christchurch for this purpose, and will join a steamer at Lyttelton to connect with the steamer at Auckland. Another satisfactory evidence of Mr MacDermott's management may be noticed in the fact of two young men under him making such good progress in a short time as to receive well-merited promotion. Mr W. H. Bowden, who left the Cadet Office at Wellington only a few months ago, has so improved here as to be now promoted, and leaves for Reefton on Tuesday ; whilst young Martin Hansbury has in a little while at Wellington become an efficient operator, and is returning to the Kumara Office to act as cadet in the Telegraph department. Mr D. S. Miller, chief clerk in the Hokitika office, will have charge of the Kumara office during Mr MacDermott's temporary absence. Commander Edwin wired at 2.17 p.m. to-day :—" Bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west; glass fall very soon. Indications bad." The Prospecting Committee of the Westland County Council will meet at Hokitika on Monday next, at 11 a. m., to consider some routine business. The Hospital and Charitable Aid Conference takes place at the Town Hall on the same day (Monday) at noon. In the afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Public Works Committee and the Finance Committee of the County Council will meet to consider some questions referred to them by the Council.

It is notified elsewhere that all outstanding claims under the "Forest Trees Planting and Encouraging Acts " may be sent in to the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hokitika, before the 31st December next.

Messrs Girdwood and Co. will sell by auction, at the Preston Yards, Greymouth, on Monday next, prime bullocks, cross-bred wethers, and lambs. In noticing the calling for tenders for the construction of a cart bridge across the Aorere river, near Collingwood, the Golden Bay Argus remarks:—"This is the first step in the direction of obtaining through communication with the West Coast, and, when that is once established, Collingwood, instead of being a terminus on the map of New Zealand, will become an important centre of one of the main lines of road in the Middle Island."

The Hot Lakes Chronicle announces the arrival of "a really competent fiddler, or rather violinist, at Rotorua."

Mr E. Ashton, of Greymouth, had the misfortune to lose one of his best horses on Thursday night. He lent it to a customer, who tied it up by the roadside. Two wandering horses frightened it and it broke away, and, getting in front of the engine it had a leg cut off, and had to be shot.

Sir William and Lady Fox left in the steamer Sardinia for New Zealand, via San Francisco.

A Mr Mooseman, of Wanganui, calculates that he lost £75 by his efforts at tobacco growing last year, the expenses more than eating up the low prices obtained in Auckland. He is going to abandon the crop.

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