The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3152, 10 December 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1886.

In reply to the resolutions passed at the public meeting at the Town Hall on Monday evening last re the deviation of the Grey-Hokitika Railway so as to connect Kumara, and also in reference to the question of connecting Kumara and Greenstone with the Midland Railway at Lake Brunner, his Worship the Mayor this afternoon received the following telegram, which he has kindly handed to us for publication :

His Worship the Mayor, Kumara,

In reply to your telegram of 7th inst. re Hokitika-Grey Railway deviation, I cannot say any more on this subject until I see locality. Hope to be in Kumara early in January. Will look into the question of survey of Railway from Kumara to Rocky Point at same time. Edward Richardson. Wellington, December 10, 1886, 1.56 p.m. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning before J. Giles, Esq., R.M., Richard Straight was summoned by C. E. Olsen for balance of account, £5 6s 9d, for goods supplied. Defendant admitted the debt. Judgment was given for amount claimed, and costs 10s.—Wra. F, Wilkinson v. James Dand : claim £71,. Os lOd. The case was withdrawal, but too late; and Mr Purkiss, for defendant, asked for professional costs, £3 3s, which were granted.

Commander Edwin wired to-day, at 12.34 p.m.—“Bad weather may be expected between north and west and southwest ; glass fall again soon.” In Court this morning, Warden Giles remarked that as this would be the last sitting of the' Court this year, he would take the opportunity of cautioning miners and business people that the new “Mining Act, 1886,” made no provision for ante-dating miners’ rights and business licenses. He was pleased to observe that the local paper and the member for the district had drawn attention to the omission in the new Act of this previously-existing provision (section 28) in the “Mines Act, 1877,” and the public wore indebted to them for so doing. The matter was very important indeed to those whose rights and licenses would expire during the holidays, when the public offices and courts would be closed, for unless renewed and post-dated before then, the holders of such were liable to forfeit all the rights and privileges they held under such miners’ rights and leases. It was possible, as the attention of the Minister of Minos had been called to the omission, that some provision might be

made to meet such cases ; but at present there was no protection offered by the new Act, which would come into force on the Ist day of January next. It behoved miners and others, therefore, to take heed of the timely warning, and renew their rights to the holdings and properties they wished to continue to occupy. Sergeant Watson, who was recently transferred from Ross to this town, has received, through Inspector Emerson, an illuminated address, sent by the Mayor and inhabitants of Ross. The address testifies to Sergeant Watson’s strictly impartial manner of attending to the duties of his office and to his general efficiency. The Times remarks The knowledge of such satisfactory relations with the people of a place in which he has been residing a number of years must be eminently pleasing, because all who know that officer are forced to admit that if he erred at all it was in the rigid discharge of his duties, and hence the address reflects great credit on the Ross people for promptly recognising the desirability of such action in police officers as it also does on Sergeant Watson for having, whilst maintaining strict order, still retained the esteem of those amongst whom he has lived so long.”

Dr. Watson, of the Ross Hospital, has forwarded his resignation to the Westland Charitable Aid Board. The Times explains matters as follows:—“It appears that when that gentleman took office he was requested to sign his name to an agreement, one of the clauses of which provided that the Surgeon-Superintendent should dispense the medicines required in the institution, and which the Board were to supply, as part of his ordinary duties and at no extra charge. Dr. Watson, in making a claim against the Board for dispensing, contends that at the time of signing the agreement he objected to the clause, and was only prevailed upon to attach his signature on the understanding that the clause would not be enforced. The Board, on the other hand, in refusing to grant the doctor the extra renumera* tion, submit that the only understanding existing between the doctor and themselves was that a small allowance would probably be granted if the local committee specially recommended it. It would appear that this is just what the committee have not done. Hence the attitude of the Board and the doctor’s resignation.” Mrs Mary Brown, a lady minus one eye, but with more than compensatory volubility, was arraigned yesterday at Greymouth (the Argus reports) charged with drunkenness. The statements were a little conflicting, of which accused got the benefit, she being dismissed with a caution. Although this was her first appearance in court here, the lady and her bland persuasive ways are not unknown in some of the hotels.

Tenders are invited by the Sports Committee for the rights to erect on the Recreation Ground, for use during the Christmas Sports, two liquor booths, Nos. 1 and 2, and a fruit stall, also the right of games. Specifications can be seen at Mr H. Burger’s store. Tenders close on Thursday, 16th inst. The Southland News comments on the disparity of sentences passed on Hill at Napier, and Dale at Invercargill, for similar offences, and suggests that “if the ends of justice are met with in Napier by the application of the Probation Act in Hill’s case, they might well be so here. Possibly Justice Williams himself, when he conies to compare the case he has just decided with that dealt witli by his brother judge, will deem it incumbent upon him to recommend Government to take such steps as will equalise the punishment.”

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