The Kumara Times. Publish Every Evening. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2891, 11 January 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Publish Every Evening. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1886.

The Union Company’s steamship Hawea, with the southern San Erancisco mails, was detained six hours outside New Plymouth, on Saturday morning, the weather being thick, caused by the bush fires referred to in our telegrams to-day. She left at 7.15 a.m. yesterday, and arrived at Wellington at 10.30 p.m. The Grafton left for Lyttelton at

one o’clock this morning with the southern and West Coast portions of the ’Frisco mail.

Admirers of Burns, desirous of celebrating the anniversary, are requested to meet at the Globe Hotel, Hillman’s, at 8 o’clock this evening. The friends of Mr James Drummond, late of Kumara, will be pleased to learn that that gentleman has established himself in business in Auburn, in the Hawthorn district, six to seven miles from the city of Melbourne, where there is a large and constantly increasing population. Auburn is the residence of many Melbourne city business people who, on account of splendid railway arrangements and cheap fares, are able to go to and fro night and morning. There is also a large working population at Auburn, who all seem well employed and prosperous. We wish our late fellow-townsman success in his new sphere of business. Elsewhere in this issue will be found some particulars of the Taipo bridge contract.

We have received the Union Steamship Company’s pocket guide for January.

To-morrow, at 11 a.m. Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. will sell at Mr Millson’s Yards, Union street, under instructions from Mr W. Passmore, 12 well-bred quiet heifers, 10 fat lambs, and one light draught mare.

The tenders for works invited by the Council close at 5 p.m. to-morrow. These consist of—l, Raising crate work, Goldsborough; 2, Extension of Kumara Eastern Boundary, Borough Road ; 3, Extension of Kokatahi road; 4, Fulfilling the office of Pound-keeper, Arahura road. Tenders for the supply and delivery of blocks for the No, 2 channel close tomorrow.

A meeting of the Christmas Sports Committee will be held in the Town Hall tomorrow evening, at eight o’clock.

The Rifle Volunteers will parade at the Adelphi Hall to-morrow evening, when the election of a lieutenant to succeed Lieut, Brayshaw, who has resigned, will take place. A few parties of miners, availing themselves of the County Council regulations, are out prospecting the Arahura river in the direction of Browning Pass and towards the Taipo.

Death (the Greymouth Argus reports) has been busy at the Hospital already this year, no fewer than four deaths having occurred there within the last ten days, and two of these are announced iu this morning’s paper. One of them, John Carswell, was a very old stager, having taken a hand in the Papinau Rebellion in Lower Canada in 1837. Although put dowiji as aged 64, he must have been considerably older. He was well known at Reef ton, and was usually called “Doc,” and was a hard-working old fellow. The other recorded decease is that of George Matheson, native of Liverpool, England, and late of Maori Creek, aged 52 years.

A meeting of the Committee of the Greymouth Jockey Club was held at the Albion Hotel on Saturday evening, at which the programme for the St. Patrick’s meeting was decided on. The amount to be run for is £490 for the two days ; the stakes in the two big events being respectively 120 and 100 sovs. each.

The two young Furnesses, brothers of the young jockey of that name who was recently reported dead, were passengers for Wellington by the Maori yesterday. Dr. Morice was kind enough to give the young fellows £4—purely out of sympathy, he said. Their parents were killed some years ago, up the Hokitika River, by the falling of a tree across their hut.

“ Chiffonier ” in the Guardian writes “A Hokitika bachelor, hitherto unharmed by Cupid’s darts, has at last been transfixed by the ever young archer's skill. As the wounded one is in a good position, and not bad looking, there is great rejoicing by the friends of the victress, while disappointment and wrath reign in the bosoms of many erstwhile lovely aspirants to the hand of the captured one.”

One of the Nelson papers says that both Mr Fell and Mr Scott have expressed their strong belief that there is no likelihood of any company taking the East and West Coast railway up without a colonial guarantee. At present there is not much hope of that.

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