The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3069, 3 September 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1886.

Shares in the Wheel of Fortune Gold Mining Company, Stafford, may be obtained on application to Mr Ambrose Crebar, at Mr Pearn’s Buck’s Head Hotel, to-morrow, up to 11 p.m. The prospectus states that this company’s property consists of a special claim of twenty-eight acres situated at M‘Leod’s Gully, Quinn’s Terrace, and Piper’s Flat, and adjoining the Kelly’s Terrace Company’s lease and Gibson and Co.’s extended claim, both of which are known to be highly payable. The Kelly’s Terrace Company recently struck some rich ground on the boundary, the layer being 160 feet wide. The present proprietors have also good plant and machinery. The object they have in offering the 1098 reserved shares (or nnetlrrd) <>f this most valuable property to the public is that having proved the payable nature of the claim they are desirous of further increasing the capital to enable them to push on to completion the various works necessary to permit of their working the deep rich ground known to exist. Persons desirous of investing in this splendid mining property should see Mr Crebar, to-morrow evening as the share list will close shortly. Commander Edwin wired yesterday at 3 p.m. “Same as wired yesterday; glass further fall, but rise after 12 hours iron now; wiro ehrngo by tbr oa'sr wo-V oast and south ; heavy gale and heavy rainfall. ’’

At the meeting of the Borough Council last evening, the tender of L. J. Spyer for forming and metalling the boundary road, being the lowest, was accepted. The price has not yet transpired. Mr Higgins, the Grey Road Overseer, yesterday showed the Council a nice sample of the gold being got at Owens Look Out, Nelson Creek, by Halpin and Cahill. The Argus says:—“lt is a fine sample of stream gold, and somewhat coarser than the average obtained in that neighbourhood. It may be described as heavy flaky gold, and rusty looking, as if with a coating of oxide, a feature not uncommon with lead gold. - It may be mentioned that of all the parties subsidised by the County Council, Halpin and Cahill only struck payable gold. The indications so far at Owens Look Out give good hopes that a lead exists there which will find work for a good number of miners, and possibly lead to the discovery of other payable ground in the vicinity,” Theer was a gathering of the friends of Mr and Mrs Lichfield, on the Greyraouth wharf yesterday, as the Mawhera was leaving, to bid adieu and wish bon voyage to Mrs Lichfield, who, by the way, was the first European female child in Greymouth. Mrs Lichfield goes to join her husband at Adelaide who has lately been appointed a bank manager in that colony. Mrs Trice, widow of the late Mr Trice, harbor-master at Hokitika, yesterday received an allowance of £2OO from the Government. The Tyr Connel Company, Lyell, cleaned up on Saturday last, after a crushing of 31 £ tons of stone, the return being 3130z5. of gold, or an average yield of over eight ounces of gold per ton. In a campaign speech, an enemy of Mr Gladstone made a violent attack upon Mr Herbert Gladstone, the Premier’s son. In closing his denunciation, he said, “I am, in fine, thoroughly convinced that we would never have heard of Mr Herbert Gladstone if it had not been for his father.” He was utterly unable to comprehend the uproar of laughter which followed. A Scolding Woman.— The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law, are now oftentimes practised by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women scold only when they are ill. Instead of blaming them we should prescribe Am. Co.’s Hop Bitters. The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change. The nerves will be quieted, and acerbity of word and thought will give place to amiability and affection. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Read