The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 281, 29 August 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1877.

la consequence of the very heavy Police case to be heard to-morrow at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, his Worship will hold a court on Friday this week, at Kumara instead of at Greenstone. It is announced in our advertising columns that a grand bazaar will take place at Christmas, in aid of the funds of St. Patrick’s school. Mr W. Todd will sell by auction, on Saturday next, a large quantity of drapery on account of Mr S. S. Pollock. At the same time he will sell several sections and business premises in Mainstreet. The local Board of Health met last night, at the close of the Road Board meeting. A report from the Inspector of Nuisances, as to the sanitary condition of Stafford, was read and received. An amateur Negro ministrel entertainment is likely to be given soon, for the benefit of the Kumara Volunteer Contingent. , In consequence of the resignation of Mr Dungan the Burgesses will have to elect next month four instead of three councillors. A public notification on the matter appears in our advertising columns. Messrs Rohloff and Brauer’s ball is to take place to-morrow evening in theif hotel Main-street. The Local Option Bill is looked forward to by many as a panacea for the ills that trouble the body politic, just as the Maine Liquor Law was years ago. The following from the “ Portland Argus,” if true, should qualify expectations from the Local Option Bill. “In 1855 there were 250 arrests for drunkenness; population, 25,000. In 1856, after four years of Maine Law, there were 650 arrests; 27,000. Since that time the city has ceased to grow, and the State likewise has stood still, but the arrests for drunkenness have increased. In 1876 there were 1850 arrests; population, 35,000. Neal Dow, in his report of 1852, predicts that the office of State Prison Inspector will go begging, because the “ emoluments depend on the number of prisoners,” and also that the gaols of the city and State “will need no enlargement for many years;” yet the State prison has been enlarged four times since, and they still lack room. Twenty-five amendments in the meantime have been made to the law, all intended for its better enforcement; yet crime has never been so rampant as at present in the history of this State.” The “ Lyttelton Times” of the 16 th August says:—“A somewhat novel sight was witnessed after dark by passengers travelling along the Southern line last evening, a very large tract of the plain being literally for miles on fire on both sides of the railway, extending from Hordon Junction to the Horarata, a distance of nine miles. It was distant some miles from the main line, and presented the appearance of a perfect sea of fire, and strongly reminded passengers of what they had read about burning prairies. A part of the plain was also on fire on the eastern side of the railway, but not nearly to so large an extent. It was chiefly on the Bangor and Home Bush Stations. Every miner likes to hear of a good rush where gold is plentiful, but in the present day there are sa many claims that yield only good wages that it becomes necessary to find out where money will go furthest. It is universally acknowledged that one pound will buy as much at the Beehive as thirty shillings will buy elsewhere as the Beehive sells a single garment at wholesale price. —[Advt]..