The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2901, 15 February 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1886.

Some person or persons, not content with removing old timbers from the Long Tunnel Company’s claim, have lately been evincing a little more audacity in the art of theft by removing working materials therefrom, truck wheels, and even new boards from boxes in the said claim. As this company is spending something like £2OO a month in wages, &c., their property has a right to be respected as much as any other private company's or indivclual’s. We observe the company offer a reward of £lO to any person who will give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the offender °r offenders, who deserve severe punishment.

The third cricketing contest between Greymouth and Hokitika clubs for the Griffon and Smith Challenge Cup came off at Cass Square, Hokitika, on Saturday last, and resulted in a win for Greymouth by four wickets. It is expected that the fourth contest will take place in Greymouth next Saturday. The score now stands for the cup : —Hokitika, two wins ; Greymouth, one win. The Argus says that —“ should the Greyitcs win the next match, there will bo a final trial of skill, as the absolute possession of the cup depends on its being won three times.” The pedestrian contest between Arhuckle and Henderson came off on the Greymouth racecourse on Saturday afternoon, and resulted in Arbuckle winning the 100 and 200 yards’ distances. The GOO yards’ distance was won by Henderson. The Argus says the contest was anything but satisfactory to the sightseers, of whom there were not manv. The Mariposa made the run across to Sydney in three days eleven hours, over five hours below- the Alameda’s time, and the quickest on record. The chief engineer, Mr Fergusson, states that but for having shipped 200 tons of weatherbeaten coal at Auckland, which did not

get up steam readily, the trip could have been done in three days five hours, or a run of from 385 to 390 miles daily.

The Napier Town and Suburban Racing Club’s meeting was held on the Ist instant, and was confined to hack races. A sensational dividend of £306 was paid on one horse, only one ticket being taken on him. This is the largest totalisator dividend we have yet hoard of. Many old West Coasters (the West Coast Times states) will learn with satisfaction that Mr Carl Schultheis, one of the early pioneers of Westland, has once more determined to settle on the coast. After a residence of five years at the Cape of Good Hope, he regards New Zealand as the most promising colony, and consequently will shortly return to the scenes of his former enterprise, accompanied by Mrs Schultheis. He has recently left London with that object in view. The Cobden bridge (the Argus reports) has received Mr Watson’s last touch, and is now ready to be taken over. Mr Butler, who has the contract for making the approach on the south side, has had men blasting at the Cobden end of the bridge for some time, and has several hundred tons of stone for the work lying ready to be taken across the bridge. The work of constructing the approach will therefore be commenced without any delay, the bridge way now being quite clear.

The Marlborough Express says :—“ The public will be glad to hear that the worthy old sportsman and father of the New Zealand turf, Mr Henry Redwood, is writing a book upon the history of racing in the colony. His own recollections alone should prove as interesting to the public this side of the world as the Greville Memoirs were on the other.”

W. J. M‘llroy and Co., Main street, Kumara, beg to announce that they are purchasers of gold. —[Advt.]

Moral Turpitude.— Blame attaches to a jury of intellgent men when they condemn a man for crime whose moral nature has been perverted by indigestion, diseased liver and kidneys. A thoughtful j udge may well consider whether society would not be better served by ordering a bottle of American Co.’s Hop Bitters for the unfortunate in the dock instead of penal servitude. Read