The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3085, 22 September 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1886.

Further particulars of the great and desperate sculling race between Beach and Gauclaur will be found in this issue. It appears the stoppages made by Beach were one to evh.io.-vso i. Brdh m j'; were '■owed out -'f tW. np'/'o, and Beach only resumed rowing when his coach told him that Gaudaur was done.

Tlxe Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon at the usual hour, bringing the Westland and Grey Valley portions of the San Francisco mails.

Commander Edwin wired to-day at 12.40 p.m.—“Bad weather is expected within 12 hours from now between north and west and south-west. Glass further fall. Indications of rain.”

In reply to the County Chairman’s telegram to the Minister of Lands, relative to the restrictions on the sale of Crown lands preventing settlement, the Hon, Mr Ballance replied yesterday to the following effect:—“ln reference to the restrictions on Crown lands, I recognise they are obstructing settlement, but, as you are aware, they remain on, pending a valuation of the land, between the Government and the Railway Company. I hope the valuation will be made, and the restrictions lifted, at an early date.” Another sad fatality (the West Coast Times reports) occurred yesterday, by which a young girl about 11 years old, named Houston, living at Woodstock, lost her life. It seems that the deceased, with two girl companions, went to the river at the back of the Waodstock school during the dinner hour, for a drink. When there they amused themselves playing on a log, and the deceased slipped off into ten feet of water. The other girls ran screaming for help, the brother and father were soon on the scene, and the former at once plunged in and brought the body to the bank. Every effort was made to restore animation, but without success. The deceased was an intelligent, amiable girl, and greatly liked. Her parents have resided a long time in the district, and are much respected. By the Ruapehu there came to Auckland some three or four farmers of the class which (the Herald remarks) are so desirable as settlers—namely, middle-class farmers with some capital. Some previous arrivals of this class were so well satisfied with the land which they had taken up that they have since nominated their relatives and paid the necessary deposit of passage money.

Mr and Mrs Lohmann invite their friends and the public to a farewell ball at the National Hotel, Dillman’s Town, on Friday evening next. A Mr Kenrick, who took passage in the Aorangi to England, believes he is heir to a million and a-half of money now locked up in Chancery ! and has gone home to prosecute his suit. A large karoro, or sea-goose, was shot by Mr W. A. Marriner, on the Wairoa River, opposite Mount Wesley, a few days ago. It weighed 181 b., and measured eight feet from tip to tip of the wings. A Sydney paper remarks : has been a motion before the South Australian Parliament to reduce the Governor’s salary to £4OOO. There is not a Governor in Australia who is worth anything like £4OOO to anybody but the snobs who hang round every viceregal residence.”

The London correspondent of the Irish Times says “ The story goes that Mrs Crawford received over a dozen offers of marriage during the hearing of the case, and that one of these was from a gentleman learned in the law and eminent in its practice, who had been captivated in court during the proceedings. Sir Charles, it seems, has decided to take his critics at their word, and “to leave his country for his country’s good. ”

Judge Docker has been severely handled by the Sydney Press for giving a sentence of ten years to a lad convicted of embezzling a small sum of money. George Augustus Sala’s last comparison : Sydney, like Boston ; Melbourne, Chicage ; Adelaide, fair Adelaide, resembles Baltimore; and Brisbane, Charleston.

Another Alpine accident is reported from the scene of Marquis Pallivicini’s recent fatal fall. Three gentlemen and two ladies on July 26 attempted to proceed from Klom to Heiligenblut. They took no guides, nor any of the usual precautions. On reaching the Gaisrcuken, one of the ladies, Mdlle. Pauline von Sonklar, of Innspruck, slipped and fell over a rock four hundred feet deep, and was killed on the spot, The unfortunate lady, who was only twenty-six, was the daughter of the late Major-General von Sonklar, the renowned geographer of the Alps. The magnificent white brilliant which Messrs. Och Brothers, of Hatton Garden, submitted to the Queen, has, in cutting, turned out a thoroughly good stone, weighing in its perfect shape 180 carats, of the finest water, free from flaws and imperfections. It is said that it surpasses in weight and quality all the historical diamonds on record. Some idea of its v tin • car bo red fro-., Ihe hu-t that a little piece sliced oil' the end to improve its shape, producing a brilliant of 10 carats, was at once sold for about ,£4OOO to a merchant.