The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3100, 9 October 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1886.

The Christchurch coach arrived this afternoon, bringing large mails, including the English mails by the steamship Kaikoura, which arrived at Port Chalmers on Thursday morning, and which were despatched from Dunedin by special train to Christchurch on the same day. Commander Edwin wired at 12 26 p.m. to-day—“ Bad weather is expected after 16 hours from now between north and cast and south-east, and heavy rain; glass further rise, but fall again within 10 hours. ” Mr Rosewarne, of Christchurch, has received a letter of a very encouraging character from his partner at Derby. It stated that some of the Canterbury men had returned from th diggings to Derby for provisions, -..A aft.-v sacking would travel back to the lie id. Ail .ho Now Zealanders arc reported to be getting along well with their horses, and have reached the field. At a Cabinet meeting it was decided to recommend the Governor to sanction the release of P. K. Watty, now undergoing a sentence of five years for forgery, on January 1, when he will have served ihout half-time. Watty has shown exemplary conduct in gaol, where he has rendered considerable assistance to the authorities,

A special meeting of the Stafford School Committee was held on Thursday night to select a head-master to fill the present vacancy. Mr Binning, from Timaru, a Victorian-trained teacher, was finally chosen from fifteen applicants. Thursday’s Government Gazette notifies that the sittings for 1887 for the trial of criminal and civil cases and of causes under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act will be held at the Supreme Court House, Hokitika, to commence on the 14th March and 12th September. Business in Chambers may be disposed of in the court of these sitttings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint. Tenders close this evening, for removal and re-erection of buildings, for Mr Seddon; on Monday, for additions and painting to the Westbrook School; and, on Wednesday next, for a sixth share in Romas and party’s extended claim. The Wanganui papers note with regret the death, at the age of 29, of Mr Fred. Bryce, son of the Hon. John Bryce. He was the victim of consumption, resulting from a neglected cold. A coroner’s warrant was issued on the 23rd June for the arrest of John Caffrey and Henry A. Penn, who were found guilty of murdering Robert Taylor on the 19th of June at Tryphena Harbour, Great Barrier Island, and a reward of £2OO was offered for the apprehension of the above offenders, or a reward of £IOO to any person who would furnish information that would lead to their apprehension. At the Auckland Supreme Court on Thursday morning, George Harcourt, late mine manager at the Thames, was sentenced to twelve months’ hard .labor for embezzlement, to which he pleaded guilty. Henry Williams, for the larceny of pig iron, received six months’ hard labor. A Wellington telegram states that application was made again to all the officials and Ministers on Thursday morning who could possibly know anything about the result of the analysis of Cain’s body, and one and all either professed ignorance or inability to say anything. Enough, however has leaked out to show that there is some truth in the rumour of antimony being found, but up to the present it is impossible to get details. The New Zealand Times says that they obtained the information upon inquiry, and that it is perfectly correct, though the analysists were bound to secrecy. The Wellington police have not found any evidence of Hall or Houston buying poison in Wellington. The statement telegraphed yesterday that Mr Hamilton’s horse Meteor, was dead, was afterwards telegraphed as incorrect. Meteor, 6 yrs., is entered for the Melbourne Cup, at 7st. 41b. It is supposed that when the betting was 20 to 1 on Gaudaur some of those in the “know” made a big haul. An elderly man named John Finlayson, who has been missing for a week, was found drowned in the river, at Gisborne on Thursday morning. Deceased was well known and highly respected. He is known to be possessed of considerable means, and has property both there and down South. He is supposed to have committed suicide, as he had been in a despondent state for some time past, and used to live by himself. In his house three £1 notes were found on the table, covered by a billy. At the inquest evidence showed that he possessed considerable property, but was of a despondent turn of mind. In a firm of Dunedin auctioneers’ advertisement of their twenty-fifth annual sale of stallions, etc., appears the name of “Sir Robert Stout, foaled 2Gth December 1884.” ’ A little girl named May Williamson, daughter of a lengthsman on the railway line, Townsville to Charters Towers (Q.), was bitten by a snake recently, and died two hours afterwards. Arthur Glaney, six years of age, while playing on a barge in the river in Bourke, fell into the water and was drowned. His mother, who lived in a tent close by, heard the child’s cries and witnessed his dying struggles, but was unable to render him any assistance, as she had been delivered on the Sunday previous, and could not rise. Her screams were appalling. An extraordinary phenomenon was recently witnessed at Cupar, Fife, Ireland. About eight o’clock in the morning an immense shower of Hies fell, completely covering the road near the railway station to the extent of some GOO yards. The dies wore dead when they fell, and were larger than the ordinary house fly. There has been lately a very groat increase in the number of suicides in Russia. In so far as those are the result of insanity, the increase may be looked upon as evidence of the growth of the Muscovites in civilisation. Paris stands at the top of the hst with 402 suicides in I. o; ir.ha.-.imuts. St. Petersburg conus next with 20G, then Berlin with 170, and, last of the four stands London with only 87.

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