The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2960, 28 April 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1886.

Owing to the length of our report of the meeting of householders for the election of a local School Committee for the Kumara district, which took place at the State School last evening, other matters of local and general interest are unavoidably held over.

The meeting of the Hospital Trustees, adjourned from Friday last, will be held in the Town Hall this evening, at eight o'clock.

There was a large gathering of people on the Recreation Ground yesterday afternoon to witness the handicap footrace and other Easter sports. Stewart Sherman took first prize, £4 ; George Sherman second, £2 ; and F. Smith third, £l.

The fancy goods and curiosities remaining unsold yesterday in the Recreation Gound in connection with the Hospital fete have been removed to the Masonic Hall; and to-night at seven o'clock will be offered to public competition in that hall.

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon.

The Grey River Argus says it is understood that Dr. M'Carthy was sufficiently well on Monday to leave his bed in the Hospital. To-morrow Messrs R. W. Wade and Co., under instructions from the Public Works Department, will sell by public auction, at the Teremakau River, near the bridge, the punt lately used on the river, wire rope, and other things connected with the working of the punt. The sale will be without reserve, and at 12.30 p. m.

Remarkable accuracy (says "Iron") is now attained by engineers in cutting tunnels through mountains, working from both ends. Thus, at the Musconetcong Tunnel, on the Lehigh Valley Railway" the alignment tested to 0 - 04 foot, or less than half inch. In this case levels were run over a mountain 5000 ft. long, and 450 ft. above the line ; also, into the tunnel at each end about 2500 ft. to the point where the headings meet. These tested to 0 - 015 foot, or less than one-fifth of an inch. The chaining carried by steel tape measurements over the same distance tested, on the headings coming together, 0 "52 foot or 6"4 inches. This accuracy is to a large extent a development of recent vears.

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