The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1886.

Kumara Times, Issue 3161, 21 December 1886, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1886.

The following telegram has been handed to us for publication by the member for the district;—

R. J. Seddon, Esq., M.H.R., Kumara. Sir—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th ultimo, relative to an increased grant of free water to Messrs Conochie and Thomas ; and the handing over of the Mignonette flume to Government.

I am disposed to think that they are entitled to further consideration; but they should be prepared in the meantime, to allow any other parties who may apply, to be supplied with water, if not interfering with their own working ; and to hand over the flume and plant complete to Government, when their claim is worked out. If they will agree to this, they may have additional free water to the value of £6O, making a total grant of free water to the extent of £l5O. This is the most that can be done for them.

I have, &c., W. J. M. Larnacii, Minister of Mines. Wellington, 13th December, 188 G. R. Bonner alias J. Calthrop, who on Friday last was committed to Hokitika Gaol with hard labour for two months for issuing a valueless cheque, was charged at the Resident Magistrate’e Court, Hokitika, next day, before Messrs Northcroft and Rae, with forgery of £2 and obtaining money under false pretences, and remanded until Wednesday. This culprit seems to have earned his living lately by forgery. About nine o’clock on the morning of his capture at MTnerney’s, a ooy picked up a portion of a cheque for £3 10s, signed “T. Learmonth,” Kanieri, evidently in the same handwriting as the one on which “Calthrop” was charged and convicted with forging at Kumara,

and which, we understand he essayed to change in this town, but did not succeed in doing so. This will be produced in evidence at the Hokitika R.M. Court to-morrow. The man is supposed to have come lately from the North Island, and to be well connected at Home.

Excluding the much-vexed railway deviation business, which (the Argus states) has no interest for us, except in so far as it may be a means of delaying the work of connecting Greymouth with Hokitika, we append the last word of the Minister of Public Works on the matter : Hon. H. H. Lahman, M.L.C., Greymouth. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your joint telegram regarding the Grey-mouth-Hokitika railway, and shall be obliged by your informing Messrs Guinness and Bevan, M.H.Rs, that I am taking steps to put as much work in hand on that railway as the appropriation of Parliament will permit.

Edward Richardson. Wanganui, December 18. After a good deal of consideration on the part of Mr Alan Scott, Mr Brodie Hoare, and the Board of Advice (the Argus reports), the Bth January has been fixed as the day on which the first sod of the Midland Railway will be turned. It has also been arranged that the utmost expedition will be used in pushing on the construction of that portion of the line between Brunnerton and Reefton. The Teremakau section will not be pushed on with quite so much expedition. At the recent meeting held in the Town Hall, Hokitika, the West Coast Times states, “Mr Seddon complained that the Minister of Public Works had promised to send a competent engineer from Wellington to report on the proposed deviation of the Hokitika and Greymouth Railway, and that no such report had been made. It now transpires, as a matter of fact, that Mr Knorp, the Inspecting Engineer of the Public Works Department, arrived at Greymouth one evening a week or two ago, and started early the following morning, in company with the Resident Engineer, and went over the whole route. He has since returned to Wellington and reported unfavorably of the project, owing to the rough nature of the country, and the costly work it would entail. The public, therefore, must give credit to the Government for having caused a thorough investigation, and for having kept good faith in this matter.”

Eighteen tenders have been received for the first section of the Brunnertou railway, most of them hailing (the Argus understands) from Greymouth, Hokitika, and Wellington. Estimates are now called for a second section to Arnold Creek. Both contracts must be completed by the Ist of June next, which means the engagement of a large squad of men. It was reported in Greymouth last evening that Mr J. M. Watson was the successful tenderer.

The ordinary meeting of the Hospital Trustees takes place this evening at eight o’clock.

Any one wishing to procure some choice flowers, hothouse and out-door plants and shrubs may do so now on application to Mr Netzband, at Larrikins, as that wellknown florist is about to leave this colony for South Australia, and will therefore dispose of his varied stock of choice flowers and plants.

A man named P. O’Neill, residing at Boatman’s, who it will be remembered appeared lately at Greymouth Court changed with lunacy, and was discharged by the doctors, again appeared at Reefton Police Court before F. Bird, Esq., J.P., on the 17th inst., charged with violently assaulting his wife. The accused was found guilty and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in Hokitika gaol.

The Rev. J. H. Bateman, vicar of Haile, Cumberland, was convicted at Carlisle assizes of feloniously solemnisin'* the marriage of a youth under age, and without license or preevioua publication. A sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment with hard labour was passed.

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