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Kumara Times, Issue 301, 21 September 1877, Page 3

ASHA NTEI MINSTRELS. ." Young man-," said he, solemnly, '** I'm sorry t 6 foe you smoking tebacco." "The young man assuted him it -wasn't, that it was a Connecticut cigar." The American Express Company is settling <up for the loss by the Ashtabula disaster. That is, it is denying the worth of lost parcels, and that's settling, isn't it I . " Mamma," said an old lady's daughter, "don't you think that modern stable is out of place in that ancient "Oh, la, no; they had >modem tables in them days as well as siow." -As ; has already been noted, the profljositionTis --seriously made to form a sea •of the Desaet of Sahara by cutting a •channel to 'let in the waters of the Mediterranean —an enterprise regarded ;as entirely feasible, mdre so in fact *-~than. the cutting of the Isthmus of Darien, which may be said to be an assured project. A, German scientific "writer, however, goes so far as to assert iihat the Sahara project, if carried out, 'would eventually turn Europe into ••another Greenland. He alleges that the diversion, of the Gulf Stream, by iihe cutting of the Suez Canal, has to have an immense influence on the climate of Europe, and that the of the burning sands of the African desert with water would destroy the hot winds, which are necessary Ifor the melting of the Alpine snow and ace, and would finally result in a glacial that would overwhelm Italy. He instances the changes in Australia 'and New Guinea, by the deviation of a warm current of water which formeily <ran through Torres Straits, as a practi«cal illustration of hia theory.—New York Sun. THEATRE EOYA L, OCTOBER 28. jg© ROUGH OF KUMARA. NOTICE is hereby given, that an ESTIMATE has been made and approved 'by the Borough Council, of the >expendiftnre of the Council <for Ifhe remainder of the finanoial year •endiug 31st March, 1878, and that 'the estimate is open for inspection at the Borough 'Counosl <ofnce. And NOTICE ids 'further given, that it is ithe intention of the Council to MAKE A RATE for one year -of ONE SHILLING in the POUND on the valuation jroll as set forth in the rate book, payable in •ne -sum «n *he 15th October, mn. The Ratebook is open for inspection sat the .Borough Council Office. JAMES WYLDE, Town Clerk K«umara, September 14th, 1877. jQAZETTE IN BANKRUPTCY. IN THE ESTATE OF MARTHA LEACH, of Elumara, Hotelikeeper, a Bankrupt. A DIVIDEND 5b now payable in the above Estate at the office of "William Todd, Wharf-street, Hokitika. <G. F. HAWKINS, 'Solicitor for the 'Trustees. V, E. jpiRST WESTLANB RIFLES. KUMARA CONTINGENT. DISTRICT ORDER. "Members of the above Contingent will PARADE for MONTHLY INSPECTION, at the Theatre Royal, Seddon-street, on FRIDAY, the 21st inst., at Eight pjl Every member must attend and produce, en parade, all Government property issue! to him. W. H, EEVELL, Officer Commanding District. September 19,1877. A GRAND MUSICAL and LITER&BY ENTERTAINMENT will soon be »given by a number of Ladies and Gentlemen Amateurs, for the benefit of the Kumara Public Library and Reading-room.—For full particulars see future advertisements. Ty ANTED, Fifteen or Twenty Men by Ist next, month.— Apply Butler and O'Connor, Greymoufch. GRAND CONCERT.