The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3122, 4 November 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1886.

A public meeting is announced to be held in the Town Hall to-morrow evening to organise a Committee for carrying out sports in Kumara during the Christmas holidays. We observe our neighbours north and south are already advertising programmes of athletic sports and horse racing to attract visitors to their towns; and we are glad to see that a move in the matter is being made here three or four weeks earlier than last year. So far as the big handicap foot races of 1884 aud 1885 were concerned, the competitors had only a few hours’ notice given them either to enter, or to accept after the handicap was declared. Considering this is always the most important event in the Kumara annual festivities ample time should always be given to those who are likely to take part in the various pedestrian contests : nothing is lost by timely notice, whilst much may lie gained to ensure the complete success of the general meeting. Those gentlemen, therefore, who desire to see some really good sport in Kumara during the approaching festive season would do well to put their shoulders to the wheel at once, and attend the meeting to-morrow night.

The Kumara Rifles will parade for inspection by Colonel the Hon. Sir George Whitmore, K.C.M.G., at the Adelphi Hall this evening. We understand the distinguished visitor will le accompanied by Majors Laillie, Webb, and Bonar, so that there should be a large turn out of Volunteers on the occasion.

Mr Suttor, Postmaster-General of New South Wales, has notified by advertisement in the Sydney papers that until further notice it will be necessary to prepay all telegraphic messages, press included, handed in at Sydney for transmission to New Zealand. This may account for the absence or delay to-day of any messages from Reuter’s agents. Commander Edwin wired shortly after noon to-day—“lndications that glass will further rise.” Instead of carrying matters to the bitter end, as is mostly done in assault cases, by an appeal to a Court for satisfaction, Messrs H. Langridge and W. Morris mutually agreed on Friday last, the former to give and the latter to accept a public denial of certain accusations made against Mr Morris. This is now done through the medium of an advertisement which appears on the next page. The Christchurch road people who have made themselves notorious visitors to the Resident Magistrate’s Court are again, we learn, on the war path. We wish they could be persuaded to adopt the civil and sensible course Messrs Morris and Langridge have done to settle their grievances; it would be much cheaper for them, and save both parties a lot of time and trouble, besides bringing oil to our machine, without defrauding her Majesty. Mr Adam Blair and a party of Greymouth gentlemen arrived last evening from Greymouth, and took their departure again in a waggonette at four o’clock this morning, for Christchurch, to see the races. To-morrow evening an opportunity will be offered to young persons in Kumara of joining classes for instruction in French, calisthenics, and dancing, Miss Fosbery, a lady who has for some years been practising and teaching those really useful and healthy and agreeable exercises and accomplishments, being about to offer her services here once a week for those purposes. Application should be made either at this office at once, or to Miss Fosbery personally early to-morrow evening. The Sheffield correspondent of the Christchurch Press telegraphed on Monday that a boy named William Donald MTntosh, nine and a-half years old, fell off a horse he was riding on Sunday, and was dragged about a hundred yards with his foot in the stirrup. He was kicked and was trodden on by the horse, dying very soon after the accident at his home, near Waddington. Mr Beswick, the Timaru Coroner, is to hold an inquest on Captain Cain’s body at the Timaru Court House to-day, with a view to ascertain how and by what means Captain Cain came by his .death. It is understood a good many witnesses will be called. The Wellington Ministerial paper says : —“The Government have no intention whatever of abandoning the prosecution of the case, if there is any evidence to connect anyone with the administration of the poison. This is what the police have been endeavouring to find out.” Commenting on the Timaru poisoning case, the Auckland Bell, referring to Mrs Hall, asks “ What will be her position now 1 By the laws of the country, she is tied to that man as long as she lives. He tried to poison her, but he has done nothing that the law regards as exempting her from the vow to love, honour, and obey him till death do them part. Surely this is a condition of things that will not be tolerated, and we sincerely trust that, in the absence of any other remedy, the Legislature may be moved to pass an Act of Parliament to sever the tie between this poor woman and the wretch that tried to compass her death, and who is now rightly parted from her for ever.” We learn from the Evening Post that among recent arrivals in Wellington are the Hon. S. Lyttelton and Sir Robert Fowler, Bart., M.P. The Hon. S. Lyttelton is the son of the late Lord Lyttelton, whose name is so intimately associated with the Canterbury Settlement, and brother of the present Lord Lyttelton. Mr Lyttelton is a nephew of Mrs Gladstone, and for a long time he filled the post of private secretary to Mr Gladstone while Prime Minister. Sir Robert Fowler is well known as an ex-Lord Mayor of London, and one of the Conservative members of Parliament for the City of London. The following is the return of gold entered for exportation for the quarter ending September 30, 1886 : ... , Oza. Value. Auckland ... 6,994 £27,428 Marlborough ... 420 - 1 443 Nelson ... 1,104 4071 '■Ve'.t Coast ... 29.2(51 112 848 Otago ... Total ... 60,296 £235,871 Corresponding quar--1 ter, 1885 ... 59,313 236,860

A man named Montcrieff S. Horne, poundkeeper at Lincoln, met with a severe accident on Friday evening. The Press reports that “ Horne was crossing a stile when his foot slipped, and he fell back with all his weight resting on his right leg, which hung over a part of the stile. He lay in this position for nearly an hour before assistance came in answer to his calls. Mr D. Broom was the first to render aid, and he took Horne home and then drove him in to the Christchurch Hospital, where he arrived at 4 o’clock on Saturday morning. It was found on examination that one of the principal arteries of the leg had been ruptured, and there was a very considerable extravasation of the blood. Horne is in a very weak state. The medical staff of the Hospital held a consultation over the case at five o’clock on Saturday morning. On making inquiries last evening we learned that Home was still in a very critical state, " A fatal accident occurred at the Matakanui Goldmining Company’s claim, Tinkers, Otago, on Sunday forenoon, the following particulars of which are given by the Ophir correspondent of the Otago Daily Times;—Mr Alexander Sutherland, the working manager, was taking a look around the claim seeing that all was right, and is supposed to have been trying how the gold was looking in the tail-race, when a lump of earth rolled down on the top of him and either killed hi m or pinned his head down in the bottom of the race, so that he was drowned. He was found soon after, but life was extinct. He leaves a widow and eight children, all under 13 years. His life was lately insured in the Government Office for £3OO, he only having paid the first premium. A boy, nine years of age, died at Townsville, Queensland, of alcoholic poisoning caused by drinking half a tumbler of raw spirits given him by his mother, who is of intemperate habits. Several persons in Auckland have made tidy hauls over Arsenal’s win, two or three bookmakers having written him. Valentine Yousden (better known as Val Yose) the one time clever composer, mimic, and ventriloquist, whose entertainment “The Unity of Nations,” brought him several fortunes, which were lost in dissipation, and who has since been an inmate of the workhouse and the gaol, attempted to end a miserable existence by throwing himself into the harbour at Kingstown, Dublin. He was, however, rescued by a boatman when in an exhausted state, and is now in the hospital. Every effort to reclaim this once brilliant man has been made. The American correspondent of the Auckland Star writes.:—A New Zealander, whose name I cannot give just yet,! made the acquaintance of a Yankee girl in Boston, after a few days proposed to her, was accepted, married, and proposed to spend their honeymoon at Niagara Falls. The third morning after the wedding the groom rose early, took £IOOO of his wife’s money, and skipped by the light of the moon. The oldest person in France, or in the world, is a widow who has been twice married. She was born March 16, 1761, and is therefore 125 years old. The authentic record of her birth is to be found in the parish register of St. Just de Claix, in the department of the Isere. Three sailors who went on a fishing voyage to Greenland in 1869 have just returned to Dunkirk, Prance. They report that their vessel was wrecked, and that they had since been held in captivity by the natives. Their wives, supposing them to be dead, have since remarried.

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