The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 410, 18 January 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1878.

The coach from Christchurch due at Hokitika last Wednesday evening was unable to cross the Taipo this morning owing to the flooded state of the river. Upon the conclusion pf the Borough Council meeting yesterday evening, after His Worship the Mayor had left the Chamber, an informal meeting pf the Councillors was held at which the opinion was strongly expressed that the Minister of Justice should place the name of Mr Seddon on the Commission of the Peace. No formal resolution was passed, but it was understood that Mr Wylde would communicate with the Government on the subject. The only reason we can imagine that the Government had in not paying Mr Seddon andtheßorough the usual courtesy was that at the time of his election Mr Seddon held a licence. As this objection no longer exists, doubtless the Minister of Justice will comply with the wish expressed last night by the Council as soon as he is put in possession of the facts. As we anticipated, the storm that passed over Kumara early on Wednesday morning has been pretty general over the colony. From our telegrams it will be seen that in Christchurch some damage was done, and that Masterton suffered severely. An advertisement in another column intimates to persons desirous of nominating relatives or Mends in Great Britain for passages to Naw Zealand that the monthly lists will be closed at Hokitika on the 20th inst. Mr D. Lynch, of Hokitika, to-day advertises his sweep on the Dunedin Cup, to be run in Dunedin on the 28th Feb. The last practice of a course of Musketry Instruction, given by Lieut. Spence to our local Rifles,-will take place this evening, at the Theatre Royal. The yearly class firing will also shortly commence, and from the scores made, our volunteers will probably show that the amount of attention paid to the District- Instructor’s efforts to make them successful marksmen has been appreciated. The Grey River Argus agrees with us that nothing short of a miracle can prevent England, becoming directly implicated in another great war. It is particularly tantalizing that at this most critical period telegraphic communication with Europe should again be interrupted. Mr Fitzgerald has resigned the appointment of Resident Magistrate at Hokitika. It is not yet known who his successor will 1 be, _ The West Coast Times says of the Grey*. mouth Coal Mining Company’s coal tW. it is equal to any sample yet landed at Hokitika and superior to any supplied the Gas Company for some length of time* past. ■ • / l Indian journals are discussing in whale religion the thousands of children who have been made orphans by the. famineare to be brought up. _ It is eighteen hundred and odd years.* since & Christian gentleman named Raul wrote to one Timothy, “I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” And now as many as twenty-nine women are; advertised in the Chicago papers as conducting religious services and preaching on a single Sunday.