The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3133, 18 November 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1886.

The programme of the entertainment, on Friday, the 26th inst., for the benefit of the Church of England Sunday School, promised yesterday, was received too late to appear in this evening’s issue, and is deferred till to-morrow’s. The annual general meeting of shareholders in the Long Tunnel Gold Mining Company Limited, will be held at the Company’s Office, Seddon street, on Wednesday, 24th inst., at 9 p.m. There was a meeting of the Hospital Trustees on Tuesday evening; but the business was only of a formal character, and uninteresting. Receipts were handed in as follow :—By Mr W. Morris, £llos ; Mr Burger, £3 10s ; Mr Voysey, £3 10s ; by Mr Ziegler, £l. At the meeting of the Waste Lands Board at Hokitika yesterday, the application of Messrs Montague and Wilson for a timber lease was heard. The Board granted provisional license for a term of ;hveo years at annual rental of £1 per ac -o over an area of 20 acres—First year's rent to 17th November, 1887, paid and license ordered to be made out. A foot race, for £5 a-side, took place in the Maori paddock at Greymouth on Monday evening, between two local peds, E. Perkins and J. Curran. The race resulted in a victory for Perkins, who won by about half a yard, after a very close contest. The result, the Star thinks, mi jht have been different if Curran bad stripped. Distance, 100 yards; time, 1H secs.

Measles are astonishingly prevalent in Greymouth at present. This is said to be the first time that that town has ever been visited by the complaint; and for the short time that has elapsed since it made known its presence (the Argus says) it has spread with wonderful rapidity. It is estimated that it will cost £4OOO to launch the steamer Mawhera, wrecked at Greymouth. Mr Wentworth, of New South Wales, who is at present residing with his family in England, has, on behalf of Beach, accepted Hanlan’s challenge to row Beach for £IOOO and the championship of the world on the Nepean River, and has offered to lay Hanlan £IOOO to £BOO on the result, provided the race is rowed on the Parramatta River. Stewart’s Island is the scene of the latest discoveries in the way of gold. The Southland Times of a recent date says:—“By the tug Awarua, which arrived from Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island, yesterday, we learn there is a probability of a goldfield being opened there. A small party from Half-moon Bay, who have been prospecting up the Murray River (which is about six miles west of that bay), returned there on Monday with a nugget of gold weighing 7dwts. and several coarse pieces. When the tidings became known, several parties at once started for the field, which lies on the slope of Mount Anglera, from which the, Murray River flows. There are now about 25 men there, fully equipped, so that in a few days the results should be known.”

Tenders will be received till 8 p.m. on Saturday next, for the purchase of 1000 shares in the Kelly’s Creek Gold Mining Company, in lots of not less than 20. The shares compriss 400 paid-up, and 600 contributing,, of which 12s 6d is paid up. Particulars can be obtained on application to Mr D. Hannan. The steamer Kaikoura, which sails for London to-day, takes 10,000 carcases of mutton from Wellington. In referring to the past history of Thomas Hall, the convict, the Temuka Leader has the following;— Some time before this there was a married couple on his father’s station. The husband came home one day and caught Hall and the wife under equivocal circumstances. The man shot his wife on the spot, and is now serving a life sentence in Lyttelton gaol. When Hall arrived at that stronghold, this unfortunate man was the first to see him. “Ha! you wretch,” he exclaimed, “you’ve come at last, have you ]” The Westport Times understands that Mr H. J. M‘Connell has returned from Kimberley to Sydney, and is now recovering from a serious illness. It is stated, but we cannot trace the authority, that Mr Thomas M‘Auley, well known on the West Coast, had died on the Derby road.

The telegraphic chess match, Otago v. Canterbury, was concluded at an early hour on Saturday morning, when the score stood—Canterbury, 7 games; Otago, 2 games, one unfinished. The last-men-tioned game was the one between the captains, Messrs Hookham and Hay. It has extended to 54 moves, but as the result would not affect the result of the match, further play was not persevered in. The game will either be declared drawn or referred to Mr C. W. Benbow, of Wellington, for his decision. “A member of the Otago Chess Club ” writes as follows to the Dunedin Star : “In justice to the Otago chessplayers it should be understood that the recent severe defeat in the match with Canterbury was sustained by a team selected by Mr Hay from players in Otago, it is true, but which did not represent the full strength of this province. The Otago Chess Club, of Dunedin alone, could have provided a stronger team from amongst its own members.”

By a fire at the rear of the Turf Hotel, Stoke, near Nelson, on the morning of the Bth inst., a valuable racehorse, The Marquis, the property of Mr T. H. Harley, was burned to death, and another, Good Friday, was severely burned. It appears that when the fire was discovered, the flames had got such a hold of the building that no assistance could be rendered in liberating either The Marquis or Good Friday, that were stabled there, but the last-named horse (Good Friday) must have dashed through the burning wall and so, although dreadfully burnt, have saved himself from sharing the same sad fate that befel his stable companion, The Marquis. Good Friday escaped from the burning building, but ran about the yard in a frantic manner with his rug all ablaze. Mr Norgate removed this, and took the horse to Mr Charles Harley’s stables close by. His injuries a>*o rsi"? serious, but Mr John Gay, who was sent for to attend to him, holds out hones of his ultimate recovery. The worst injuries are about the legs and head, and to give

some idea of the narrow escape the horse must have had, the Mail states that both the mane and tail hair was burnt off completely.