OUR KUMARA LETTER

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 May 1906, Page 3

OUR KUMARA LETTER

(Our Own (Mi-respondent.) In a post-card in a friend m Kuinara, .Mr .Inlin Davidson, who left for Fuglaiid via Frisco a couple of months hack, says ho was in the halter place until the May before the earllnptake. He then left for New York. The hob I where he stayed in Frisco was wrecked. Word was bronchi into town on Tuesday morning that an old ago pensioner named 1 honnas Hughes was lennd dead in his hut tin’ previous evening on the Christchurch Koad. Dei-eased lived alone in an old house known as I-red (Icorge's. Wlfen found he was lying across the lirepla.ee. Fariii r in lie- day he was alive, so he could not have been many hours dead when found. An iininest was held before Coroner Acheson yesterday. Deceased was a Very old resident of the Christchurch Koad and worked for years in tin Seven Mile Creek, a tributary of the Taipo. The body was brought, info town by Constable Kyan yesterday. To tin- lovers of the Terpsiehoivan art our advice Is to attend the dance in Fng'eri's Hail this i veiling". No stone has been left iintnrind and in-i tier time nor inotn-v spared to promote an enjoyable gathering. That favorite pastime, skating, will he indulged in at the Cohdell Kink to-nighf, when, as usual, everything will he in order to ensure a I night's enjoyment for patrons. .Messrs Tobin and lirelan have purchased the Tot nra Flat butchery from Mr McDonnell, and intend to carry on the business. Oil the very best of meal will be kept in slock, and will be sold at (lie lowest possible figure. A representative of Hie firm will make periodical visits to Nelson Creek and Blackwatcr. Messrs ilanraban Bros, have taken over Air Cressey’s butchery business in Hospital Street. Both partners tire well known locally, highly respected and deservedly popular, and we have no doubt bill that they will he accorded a fair share of public patronage. A woman, who appeared before the Benevolent Trustees at Wellington on Tuesday afternoon, stated that sue was paying 6s a wook for Uic privilege of orcopying a bathroom will) her cnihl, and was cooking food for herself and little one on an nil lamp. The Trustees granted her assistance. The Gisborne correspondent ol (lie Christchurch Press states that the story telegraphed from Auckland last week about the sighting of a sea serpent by the officers of the Union Company’s steamer Taviuui, is declared by the captain of the steamer to be fictitious.