The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3051, 13 August 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1886.

Tho Salvation Army tea meeting will be held at the Theatre Royal this evening. Tea is announced to be on the tables at 6.30. There will be six of them, and presided over by married and single ladies of Kumara, who have kindly come forward to assist the Army in making the most of this social gathering. After the tea, at about 8 p.m., addresses will be delivered by some of the Hallelujah Soldiers. The Salvation Army Brass Band will enliven the proceedings with their presence, and altogether an enjoyable entertainment may be expected. A fire broke out yesterday in M'Kullow's parcel office, Melbourne, which resulted in the destruction of the building and its contents. The bodies of Daniel Turner, passenger, and William Shaw, stoker of the train which came to grief at Bridgewater, uear Hobart Town, have been found in tne River Derwent. Commander Edwin wired yesterday at 4.24 p.m., that bad weather may be expected between north-east and north and west after 12 hours from how ; glass to fall and wind backing within that time. And to-day, at 1.26 p.m.—"Bad weather is expected between north and east and south-east; glass further fall, and heavy rain." The Cogill Bros.' American Minstrels will give their first performance at Kumara in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening. The programme of songs, choruses, &c, which appears in the preceding column, is a very full and atttractive one, and should draw a large house, particularly as it is for one night only, the Minstrels being billed to appear in Greymouth on Monday and Tuesday. The performance will conclude with the laughable farce of "The Mystery." A sad accident, a correspondent of the Nelson Mail reports, happened at Collingwood, on Saturday, 31st ult., by which a promising lad, son of Mr J. G. Lash, of Rockville, lost his life. It appears that the boy was carrying out meat, which he had delivered safely, and on his return homo by some means he got thrown, and his foot slipping through the stirrup leather the poor lad was dragged nearly a mile, his head being literally smashed to pieces. Good samples of coal have been taken to Melbourne from Boolara, Gippsland. It is alleged that the seam has been proved to be 150 feet wide, and three feet foin inches thick. A company has been formed with a capital of £20,000 to work the seam.