The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3028, 17 July 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1886.

It will be seen from our telegrams that the first section of the Midland Railway, that from Brunner to Reefton, lias been let. "A bolt," which fortunately was unattended with any serious results, occurred last evening, at about twenty minutes past six o'cloock. Mr Seddon's horse and buggy were taken down to the Tram Station at that hour, to meet Mrs Seddon, who was returning from Greyinouth. After lifting two young children, a boy and a girl, out of the vehicle, the driver proceeded to ascertain the station time, and whilst so doing something seems to have frightened the horse, which made a start off at such a rate that it was dangerous to attempt to stop it. It passed .Seddon street, at its junction with Main street at a great pace, and continued along the Main road. It happened that Mr William Green, groom at the Taipo, was near the Main Road, and having a good steed, he quickly remounted, set spurs to his horse, and succeeded in passing the buggy and getting hold of the runaway's head as it was ascending Sandy Stewart's hill. The plucky capture was effected without the least damage being done, and the horse and buggy brought back safely to town. This is not the first instance we have had to chronicle of Mr Green's pluck ; for it is not many months since he rescued a deaf hawker and his vehicle from being carried down the Taipo River. The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, at the usual hour. The disappearance of A. L. Levy, J.P., secretary of the Temperance Alliance, Wellington, is still shrouded in mystery. At first the general opinion was that Levy had taken his passage to Sydney by the Hauroto, which left here the same day as he disappeared ; but, after inquiry, there was no trace of him on the Hauroto, and the supposition now is that he has met with a fatal accident, and a search party is making an examination of the foreshore of the harbour, it being feared that he may have been drowned. Richard Bell, a bailiff, was found dead in his bed yesterday. Ho was in possession of an hotel at Kaiwarra, near Wellington, in the interest of the Official Assign eo. ; ': writing iu the European Mail, considers that "xTew Zealand may be congratulated on the scheme at present iu operation of assist-

ing farmers with capital to emigrate. Five more families of farmers, each a small capitalist, went out to New Zealand in the Tongariro, and some more leave in the s.s. Arawa. They are in all ways likely—nay, I may say, morally certain—to prove highly beneficial additions to the population of the colony, and, above all tilings, they obviously add, and that very immediately, to the producing power of the colony. This is an important consideration, to my mind. These men, domesticated, thrifty, and fairly thriving, industrious, and skilled in agriculture and pastoral matters, add at once to the true backbone of any country. They do not swell the town population, but, by going right up country, materially aid the true development of the most solid and permanent resources of the country they select for their new home, and by their exertions very soon tend greatly to augment the work to be had for the mere laboring classes or emigrants." The longest word in the English, or rather Welsh, language has, after a long period of oblivion, been once more exhumed. bgllgerchwyrnbyllgogerbwllzanttvsiliogogogoch. This awful word of 72 letters and 22 syllables, the name of a village in Wales, constituted the subject of a lecture lately given by a reverend Master of Arts, at the Museum, Berwick, in which he showed that it means : —"St. Mary's white hazel pool, near the turning pool, near the whirlpool, very near the pool by Llantsilio, fronting the rocky islet of Gogo."