The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1877.

Kumara Times, Issue 282, 30 August 1877, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1877.

The following telegram, relative to the keeping open the Telegraph office in the evening, was to-day received by his Worship the Mayor. E. J. Seddon, Esq., Mayor, HCumara.— The officer in charge has been instructed to open office to the public each evening, Sundays excepted, from halfpast seven till eight p.m., on and after Ist Sept. prox.—C. Lemon, General Manager. On Saturday afternoon, Mr Todd will sell by auction the household furniture, &c., of Mr Walter Bishop*, who is leaving the coast. The Literary Institute has now been open for some time, and is found to be a most agreeable resort for its subscribers. Its tables are loaded with magazines and periodicals from all parts of the world, and its cosiness during the winter evenings should be very attractive. It is well managed in every respect, and the wonder is that there should ever be a vacant chair to be found in it after night-fall. The drama of “ The Ticket of Leave Man,” to be played to-morrow night at the Theatre Royal, is one of Tom Taylor’s best plays. The piece opens with a scene in the Bellevue Gardens. A Lancashire lad (Bob Brierly) has fallen in with bad company:. .in the persons of Dalton and Moss; they ffeece him of his money, arid 'then in the way of friendship press upon him a loan of £2O in forged notes. Biierly protects May Edwards, a poor girl, from insult from the landlord. A row ensues, and the act ends in Brierly’s arrest for passing forged notes. The second act opens with May Edwards’ lodgings, and the return of the •convict, after four years’ penal servitude, and ends with his being engaged by Mr Gibson, a banker, as office messenger, without the knowledge of his being a ticket-of-leave man. The third act is highly dramatic, there is a bank robbery, where Brierly finds his old associate Dalton breaking open the safe. He arrests him, but lets him as. he is afraid Dalton will expose him as- a convict. Dalton- eventually does so through Moss, and he is discharged.The last act Brierly and May Edwards, now his wife, are brought tp great poverty. Eventually he get& work as a nawie, but Moss and Dalton again denounce him, and he is again cast adrift. At length Dalton end Moss propose to him to join them in a robbery of Gibson’s Bank; he pretends to yield, they start for the old churchyard where the house-breaking too)s are concealed and it is in this scene where retribution is meted out and the play ends satisfactorily to all parties concerned.