The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 2967, 6 May 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1886.

Owing to the Empire Room and Public Hall, Dillman's Town, being both engaged last evening, Mr R. J. Seddon, M.H.R., had to defer his intended post- and presessional oration at that township till this evening, when at 8 p.m., he will address his constituents in the Public Hall. His address to his Kumara constituents will be given in the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening.

The labour riots in Chicago have assumed a very serious phase. A cablegram this afternoon states that the police authorities called upon the Socialists who were holding a large meeting to disperse ; a stubborn resistance was offered, which resulted in five police and forty Socialists being killed and a large number wounded. A late cablegram states that in spite of the vigilance of the British troops another immense fire has occurred in Mandalay. A force of 200 Sikh police have started for that city. Mr Marshal M'Cahon, who some eight months ago went to Melbourne to be treated for the restoration, if possible, of his sight, returned to Greymouth in the barquentine St. Kilda early this morning, and has arrived in Kumara. Friends will be pleased to learn that his sight is partially restored. The comet was visible again last night. It is traveling with immense velocity, being about nine degrees higher in the heavens than at the same hour on the preceding night. It is, therefore, as we stated on Tuesday as probable, receding from the sun. Commander Edwin wired to-day, at 12.32 p.m.—"Every indication of sharp frost to-night." At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board atHokitika yesterday, Emil Peters, J. Tennant, and others, by their agent, W. Duncan, applied to obtain title to their holdings, under appendix F of the Land Act, 1885. The Board resolved that the Chief Commissioner correspond with the Warden for the district in the matter, as the Act gave them no definite power to deal with the applications.—Mr Bevan was granted leave of absence from the sittings of the Board during the forthcoming session of Parliament. Mr C. F. Holmes' lecture at the Theatre Royal is deferred till Monday next. The Kumara quadrille club will hold their usual weekly assembly at the Adelphi Theatre, to-morrow evening, at eight o'clock.