The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3130, 15 November 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1886.

The repairs to the approach of the Teremakau bridge are completed, and the bridge is now open for traffic. The adjourned meeting of the Christmas Sports Committee will be held in the Town Hall at eight o'clock this evening. It is desirable that as many of the gentlemen as can who were nominated on the Committee should be present, as much of the success of the sports depends on the programme, and this will be submitted at the meeting to-night. We append the names of the gentlemen who were nominated to form the Committee :—His Worship the Mayor, Messrs Pearn, Ziegler, Fitzsimons, 0. W. Anderson, Mulvihill, Killeen, Home, G. Anderson, Hannan, Rugg, M'llroy, Sprinz, Denfeld, Hudson, Jorgensen, Benyon, Maloney, Bremond, Olden, Jas. Woods, Jas. Galbraith, and Dr. M'Brearty, with power to add to their number.

A meeting of the Barff Memorial Fund Committee will be held in the Town Hall this evening at eight o'clock, or before or after the Sports Committee meeting, as may be most convenient.

The state of the Bealey River prevented the departure of the coach westward yesterday, as intended, and it left the inland township at 1.30 p.m. this afternoon. The driver, Arthur Davis, who has had great difficulties to contend with during the lash week, in slips and floods may probably reach Jackson's this evening, and be in here by 1 p.m. to-morrow, but all depends on the state of the weather.

Mr R. C. Reid, formerly of Hokitika, returned to New Zealand by the Tongariro. It will be remembered that Mr J\-'A<\ was ntts'ckM with n sevfr? illness in Jji'iidon, bat ■•>o iiio plfciinea 10 learn that he has thoroughly recovered, and is now in first-class health.

Mails for the East Coast of South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, for transmission by the direct mail steamship Kaikoura, close to-morrow, at 7 a.m.

There were two nominations for the Kumara Mayoral chair to-day, viz., Mr Henry Burger and Mr Francis A. Olden. The Returning Officer announces that the poll for the election will take place on Wednesday week, the 24th inst. Mr J. W. Pocock, insurance canvasser for the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria, is again in the Grey district, accompanied by Dr. T. L. Porter, who was formerly resident in this town.

Mr Harvey, late District Judge, is about to commence the practice of his profession at Hokitika.

Mr V. H. M. M'Lymont, who has now been appointed permanently as Government Instructor to the various Schools of Mines of the district, arrived by the Christchurch coach, on Friday last, and is to make a start at once, commencing at the Kanieri district to-day ; Ross, on Monday, the 29th; and afterwards Stafford, Kumara, Greymouth and Hokitika, probably in the order named. From the Manawatu Times of the 30th ult. we regret to learn that Mr John Kennedy, in the employ of Mr Beale, butcher, of Palmerston (and formerly in the employ of Messrs Keech and Malloy, Kumara), has mysteriously disappeared. It seems, our authority says, that "he came into Palmerston three days ago on horseback, and placed his horse in Mr Beale's stable, but has not since been heard of. His whereabouts is not known, and no idea can be formed to account for his disappearance. His wife and friends are naturally greatly distressed at his disappearance."

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamship Aorangi, which left Plymouth on the 23rd October, arrived at Capetown on Saturday last, and left in the afternoon for New Zealand.

Notice is given that Mr Hans Nicolaisen is authorised to collect all accounts due to Mr N. Nicolaisen, late of Mignonette Flat, Kumara.

Tenders will be received by Mr James Rugg till Wednesday next, at 8 p.m., for cutting 100 cords of rata, in 2ft. and 3ft. lengths.

By the wreck of the steamer Tui, which plied between Wellington and Wanganui, another is added to the long list of illfated vessels whose names began with a "T." The Tui was a diminutive passenger vessel, carrying a crew of six men and a boy, and having in prosperous times as many as ten or twelve passengers. The wreck was sold on the sth inst. for £370. It is reported in Paris the Empress Eugenie has left the bulk of her large fortune to the Princess Beatrice. The Empress has cut off a large number of the allowances which she has been in the habit of making to her adherents in Paris. A few years ago it was impossible to go to the post office there without meeting with someone waiting to cash a post office order from Chislehurst, and so numerous were these contributions that printed slips were used for the remittances. But the Empress has awakened to the fact that the Imperial cause in France is almost hopeless, and she has revised her "secret service" list.

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