The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3110, 21 October 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1886.

There was a large attendance at the Adelphi Theatre last night, where Mr Walter Prince, the electrical engineer, was announced to give an exhibition of electricity, and demonstrate the transmission of power for practical purposes. There was a dynamo-machine fixed on the stage of the theatre, which was connected with Messrs Nicholson and Fairbairn’s saw-mill (quarter of a mile distant) by means of a copper wire, and, after describing how he had successfully applied electrical propulsion by this means to practical use at Skipper’s Reefs, Queenstown, Otago, Mr Prince essayed to illustrate his remarks by the machine on the stage. Apparently, however, there was no connexion, and the lecturer was in the unpleasant position of having to make apology, without a satisfactory cause. There were also on the stage a miniature battery and a sewing machine, intended to be driven by the electrical force given from the mill through the agency of the dynamo-machine; and there were also six, seven, or eight electric lamps suspended in various parts of the theatre, all connected by wires with the dynamomachine, and which were to have given out brilliant incandescent lights. But the one thing failed—there was no connexion, and the machine refused to respond to the wishes of the electrician. Mr Prince stated that he had had several unexpected difficulties to contend with, but that at a quarter before eight o’clock the connexion was perfect, and a test proved successful. He regretted the absence of power; he felt sure there was a break somewhere in the wire ; but the night was dark, and it was impossible to find out where it could be. However if the people would come again to-morrow night, he. would promise them a real exhibition of power. There were murmurs of dissatisfaction; and then some one in the audience asked if the same tickets would serve them for Thursday, for many had come a long distance. Upon being answered in the affirmative, there was a corresponding measure of applause. On visiting the Adelphi Hall at noon to-day we found the machine going at a good speed, and the lamps lit simultaneously at the will and pleasure of the electrician. No cause was assigned for the disconnexion last night, and it was mooted that the wire had been tampered with between the mill and the hall. We are very much disposed to doubt this, as we can scarcely believe that anyone would willingly thwart the efforts of a stranger to exhibit for the first time in this town the great advantages which might be derived to the town and goldfield by the application of electricity for practical purposes. If this were done, it was a very dastardly thing to do, and we hope the culprits will be found out and punished. At latestadvices this afternoon, the machine was tried again with success, so that visitors to-night may be pretty well assured that they will not be disappointed in witnessing that which is destined to revolutionise present steam and hand-power machines for a multitude of purposes. A tea meeting in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds is announced to be held on Friday, 12th November, in the Theatre Royal. Addresses will be delivered on “he occasion, and there will be selections of music given by the choir. Tenders will be received up to Ist November, for the purchase of two shares in Brogan and party's claim, between day; > . ertcco ai-l *(■ vllv, They mo to ho fulflvorsGtl to Afv fr. F'T, T-AWsoiij jiumara. The reason for selling is that the holders are leaving the coast.

A sitting of the Court of Appeal is appointed to be held at Wellington, on Monday, the Bth November next. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Peter Dungan, Esq., J.P., to be Deputy Inspector of the Lunatic Asylum at Hokitika, under “The Lunatics Act, 1882, vice B. Clapcott, Esq. Appointment to date from the Ist October, 1886. The Prospecting Committee of the County Council met last evening in the Chamber, Hokitika. A number of applicants asked for aid for prospecting various localities. These were all referred to the County Engineer to report. The reading of the various reports of work done by the twenty-nine parties at present subsidised, concluded the business. Miss Houston, who was acquitted of complicity in the Hall poisoning case, is a native of Birmingham, and is the daughter of a well-known medical man. Penn, the accessory to the Great Barrier murder, and his paramour, Lizzie Graham, were arrested within two miles of Maclelly Bar. Penn had a loaded revolver in his possession, and the woman carried a gun. They had been about the beach since the cutter was scuttled, having parted company with Caffrey in consequence of a quarrel about the woman. A chess match by telegraph has been arranged to take place between the Canterbury Chess Club and an Otago team, selected by Mr D. R. Hay, which is to be commenced on Saturday next, 23rd inst., and continued on the following Saturday. Each side will be represented by ten players. The following players have been chosen to play for the Canterbury Club :—H. Hookham, A, M. 01livier, R. T. Searell, A. L. Smith, A. H. Todd, W. Acton Adams, P. Guinness, A. Cant, J. J. Milner, and J. G. L. Scott. There are 1011 Post offices in New Zealand. The numbers of articles which were posted and delivered last year were : Letters, 35,829,855; postcards, 1,313,993; books and parcels, 3,265,960 ; newspapers, 14,233,878. The Inangahua Herald says ;—A most important discovery of a gold-bearing reef has been made by Messes Crabb and Fitch, in a lease formerly held by Mr M. Byrne and known as the Murray Creek lease. It is now named the Prince of Wales lease. Where sunk on, it is eight feet thick and shows gold very evenly distributed. The shaft is about ten chains on the Black’s Point side of the Energetic battery, and about 300 ft. above the road, near the high bridge of the Dauntless tramway. The find of a large gold-bear-ing reef so conveniently situated is most valuable, as a number of hands can be quickly employed. At Mount Pisa, Lakes district, Otago, there is a cleft in the rock four or five feet wide at the surface, but so enormously deep that huge stones cast in can be heard crushing against the sides, the sounds getting fainter and fainter, until lost in silence, not because the stones have reached the bottom but because they are so far down that the sound cannot reach the surface. Professor Black says the crevice is caused through shrinkage of volcano actions. News from the Northern (Australian) Territory states that at the Circuit Court, held at Palmerston recently, Wright Woodward Heath, Manager of the Daly Plantation Company’s estate, on the Daly River, was charged with the murder of Donald M'Kinnou on 31st August. He had shot M‘Kinnon dead with a revolver, and was found guilty of manslaughter, with a strong recommendation to mercy on account of the great provocation he had received, M'Kinnon having accomplished the dishonour of Heath’s wife, who was a woman of considerable personal attractions. He was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. Alderman J. D. Stewart was unanimously re-elected Mayor of Melbourne for the ensuing year, but it is not expected he will consent to accept office again. Captain Baldwin supplies the Otago Daily Times with particulars of an extraordinary loss of sheep in Buenos Ayres. Between the effect of an epidemic and drought the loss is said to be nearly twenty million sheep, representing a value of £3,000,000. According to the Northern Miner the. King of Croydon mine, Croydon (Queensland), is now turning out stone that gives 4Gozs. to the ton. A wager was recently made that a man with a dolly could crush out 6ozs. of gold at this mine in two hours, and though the proceedings were interrupted by a free fight, and the dolly was upset, siozs. were actually realised. This story may hardly be credited, but it is certainly a fact that there is some enormously rich country in Queensland. An assr.yor of our acquaintance, residing in Now South Wales, received a sample of stone from there some years ago for analysis. The result showed over 1200 oz.

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