The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3006, 22 June 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1886.

A meeting of the Benevolent Society was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening last j present—Bis Worship the Mayor (H. Bilrger, Esq.) in the chair, and Messrs Dungan, W. Nicholson, and Rudkin. Mr Rudkin was appointed Secretary and Treasurer. The Chairman reported that the Government had undertaken to provide for Mrs Phelan's case, by placing a sum on the Supplementary Estimates. With regard to the case of Andrew Carlstrom, it was resolved that the Secretary write to the Colonial Secretary, and also to R. J. Seddon, Esq., calling the attention of the Government to their promise to provide free quarters at Rotorua for Carlstrom for six months. The following weekly payments were confirmed :—Henderson, 7s 6d; Talbot, ss; Doonan, 2s Gd, rent. The business concluded with a resolution that the meetings of the society be held on the last Wednesday in the month, and that four members form a quorum. Sir Alexander Stuart, Ex-Premier of New South Wales, at the cenemony of whose funeral it was announced in last evening's issue all the Colonial AgentsGeneral, a large number of colonists, and delegates from her Majesty the Queen and the Prince of Wales, were present, was born in Edinburgh in 1825, educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and afterwards at the Edinburgh University. In early life he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Leith, Glasgow and London. He then went to India. In 1851 he came to Sydney, and entered the Bank of New South Wales as Assistant-Secretary. In 1855 he resigned his post in the bank in order to join in business the late Captain Towns, of the firm of Towns and Co. He was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1874 as representative of East Sydney. In 187 Ghe accepted office as Colonial Secretary, and retired with his party in 1877. He was Premier at the time the A ustral ian expedition was despatched to the Soudan, and was knighted not many months after this event. Sir Alexander Stuart was noted more as a financier than as a debater. His brother is the Bishop of Waiapu.

Tho death is announced of another Indian nafcivj prince, the Maharajah Sindia. cf Gwjdicr. i,j t lis uvctic tho two most important of the Central Indian States, Gwalior and Indore, have lo3t

their chief rulers Sindia and Holkar, within two days of each other. These two princes owned between them one-half of the whole area of the Central Indian States. Gwalior fell into the hands of the British on the 4th January, 1844, and Sindia submitted to the demands made of him, besides maintaining a contingent force of Sepoys at Gwalior. In 1853, Sindia wss declared of age by the East India Company, and in 1858 he took the field at the head of his own army against the Gwalior contingent, which had joined in the great Sepoy mutiny. But the most of his troops deserted him during the battle (June 1) and he narrowly escaped by fleeing to Agra. Sindia was subsequently reinstated by Sir Hugh Rose, and received from the British Government numerous testimonials of its grateful respect. He was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

At the inquest held yesterday at the Teremakau on the body of Salvadore Peprill, who died suddenly on the previous day, Dr. Acheson, who held a post mortem examination, stated that deceased died of heart disease, one ventrical that was no thicker than tissue paper having burst. A verdict in accordance with the evidence was returned—namely "death from natural causes."

The following gentlemen were yesterday nominated for the Kanieri Riding in the County Council, the seat rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr W. Spence .-—Messrs G. Willets, C. Rose, A. Cumming, and H. J. Hansen.

Commander Edwin wired yesterday at 3.11 p.m.—"Bad weather may be expected between north-west and west and south; glass fall, but rising after 12 hours from now. Weather will continue very cold." And to-day, at 12.36 p.m.— "Same as wired yesterday, with glass further rise, and weather very cold."

The Feilding Star of a recent date, makes very kindly reference to Mr Ellery's poem, lately published in these columns. It says:—We have had the pleasure of perusing a poem entitled "The Birth of New Zealand," by Mr J. Ellery, of Dillman's Town, Kumara. We are delighted with the work, and feel convinced it is the best epic poem yet penned by a New Zealand poet. The author is a gold miner, and almost a self-educated man.

Mr George Fisher, the member for Wellington, has introduced a little Bill to amend the Licensing Act. In it he proposes to make it penal for any licensed person to allow to be supplied in his licensed premises, by purchase or otherwise, any description of liquor to any person apparently under the age of thirteen years. The penalty is not to exceed £lO, and it can be inflicted on the person who actually gives or supplies the liquor, as well as on the licensee. For a first offence the licensee may have his license suspended for six months, and in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, not only may the convicted person's license be forfeited, but the licensed premises themselves may be disqualified from being licensed for not less than two nor more than five years.

The London special correspondent of the Melbourne Argus thus refers to New Zealand at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition :—"New Zealand is well forward, Dr. Von Haast having given his court most unremitting attention. Several suites of furniture, entirely composed of native woods, are shown in a series of stalls, and all through the court are interspersed handsome show cases, stands, and other fittings made exclusively from the same materials. Prominent amongst the exhibits is an enormous geological map of the colony, which shows every mountain, river, and plain in New Zealand on a much larger scale than has ever been attempted before. The fern gully is nearing completion. It is on a more extensive scale than anything else of the kind in the Exhibition, and is sure to prove a highly popular resort."

The Dillman Town quadrille assembly will meet at the Empire Rooms to-morrow evening, at eight o'clock.

Mr Edmund Wickes, of Gueymcmtli, lias just invented a new coal waggon with self-shutting trap doors, or bottoms, that isllikely to make a name for itself, and most p.iopably create a complete revolution in the manufacture of coal wagons. Tlio Argus says a working model was on view at Mr Wiekes's oflice, and it acted in the most satisfactory manner. The gain of this invention is that when the body of the coal waggon is lifted off the wheels and lowered over a vessel's hatch, the pulling of a small clutch releases the two t-.v.n doors which f„ rni the bottom, and t:-i-j iiintant the coal is dischunad—which oeei'.p!.?s only a moment—both trap doors fly back into their places and fasten themselves a'.itomaticallv.

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ' ♦♦♦ : [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. WOOL SALES. MANIFESTO BY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES TREVELYAN. A FENIAN MANIFESTO. DEATH OF MAHARAJAH SINDIA. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (Received June 21, 10.30 p.m.) London, June 20. At yesterday's wool sales the catalogue submitted comprised 12,100 bales. The various lots were offered wilh a firm and active demand. (Received June 22, 1 a.m.) Juue 21. Lord Randolph Churchill has issued a manifesto iu which he denounues the boundless egotism and senile vanity of Gladstone, and exhorts the electors to overthrow the disastrous autocracy of the Premier. The death is announced, aged 70, of Sir Charles Trevelyan, the well-known Indian statesman. (Received June 22, 11.30 a.ra.) Evening. The Times to-day has announced that a Fenian manifesto has been issued, disavowing Parnell, and expressing the acceptance of Gladstone's scheme for Ireland as a mere instalment of measures for the eventual complete separation of that country from Great Britain. The manifesto endorses the murders which have taken place in the past, and utters threats against all opponents of the rights of Ireland. (Received June 22, 1 a.m.) Bombay, June 20. The death is announced of Maharajah Sindia, of Gwalior (Central India). New York, June 19. Arrived, Annie Reed, from Auckland, March 5. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter's Association : London, June 20. Arrived, Margaret Galbraith, from Port Chalmers, March 5.