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Kumara Times, Issue 2891, 3 February 1886, Page 2

We have received a long telegram from our Hokitika correspondent relative to the Governor's reception; but the late hour at which it was received prevents its insertion to-day.

Cablegrams this afternoon state that the Victorian £1,500,000 loan, and the Wellington Harbor Board loan of £50,000, have been successfully floated. We give to- day the second portion of the second interesting letter from our Rotorua correspondent, who promises another.

By post this morning Mr R. E. Wylde, Secretary to the Hospital Committee, received a circular from Mr R. H. Govett, Secretary in the Premier's Office, Wellington, dated 29th ult., stating that the substance of the petition for the incorporation of the Kumara Hospital as a separate institution was, in terms of section 43 of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Act, gazetted yesterday (28th January). We received said Gazette by the same mail. If there be no objections within one month, the Governor in Council will then declare said hospital to be a separate institution under the said Act.

Mr M'Ennis, our worthy R.M. and Wardens' Clerk, lost a promising boy, a little over nine years of age, yesterday. He had been not well for some time, through cold ; and yesterday, at about one o'clock, the immediate cause being croup, "Bertie" M'Ennis breathed his last'. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon, at half-past four o'clock. Another old and well known resident of Hokitika has just joined the majority, in the person of Mr J. Pamment, who has been ailing for some time, and expired at four o'clock yesterday niorniii" the immediate cause of death being byseutery.

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour.

The model of the celebrated Strasburg Clock will be exhibited at the Theatre Royal this evening, at seven o'clock, and following clays of the week, between 2 and 5 in the afternoon, and 7 and 10 in the evening. Mr Gerald L. Dillon intends introducing into his entertainment "Sweet Memories of Ould Ireland" next Friday evening at the Empire Hotel Hall, Dillman's Town, Lady AVilde's poem "The Brothers (Henry and John Sheare)." A scene from '9B. It is spoken of as a most powerful and feeling composition and one sure to win public favour.

Commander Edwin wired at 4.5 yesterday afternoon:—"Bad weather may be expected after 12 hours from now, between north and east and south-east, and much rain ; glass further fall."

Neither young Batty nor King, the fisherman, both of whom are missing from Greymouth, have been heard of. It is supposed that King met with an upset in the river, and the boat either filled or drifted away. The Dispatch was away all Saturday night and Sunday, returning to Greymouth on Sunday night, and saw no trace of him. One of his sculls was found on the north beach broken, and the other on the south beach, near the Hospital. Of young Batty, the Argus says it is supposed that he fell from the bridge into the river, striking his head on some of the timbers in his descent. He was a good swimmer, and unless injured, could easily have got ashore ; his hat has been found on the north beach. The most touching thing in connection with this unhappy affair is that he was shortly to be married to an estimable and amiable young lady. He had been of prudent habits, owned some 20 head of cattle, held a life policy of £4OO, and had made a will in which he bequeathed to his betrothed a liberal portion of his worldly store.

William Russell, formerly a butcher at Hokitika, was arrested yesterday at Westport charged with being of unsound mind. He had property on board the s.s. Mahinapua, which the police took charge of as soon as the Mahinapua arrived. At a meeting of policyholders in the Government Insurance Association, held at Hokitika on Monday evening, resolutions werre passed condemning the appointment of Mr Driver as agent in Dunedin, at a salary of from £IOOO to £ISOO, and the erection of palatial buildings for Government Insurance purposes in Wellington and Christchurch. In the course of his address to his constituents, Mr Larnach, the Minister of Mines, is reported to have said:—" As to the East and West Coast Railway, he had been very much opposed to its construction, but having visited the West Coast and seen its wonderful forests of timber, he had come to the conclusion that it would be a very desirable work for the Colony to undertake. The timber alone would pay for the cost of line, apart from the fact that the district would be of immense value as a mineral country. If the work had to be undertaken, it was better that it should be constructed by the colony than under the arrangement of last session."

The two girls who stood highest for a scholarship at the High School, Dunedin, are twins, and if they had been born a day later, would have been disqualified by age.

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