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Kumara Times, Issue 413, 22 January 1878, Page 2

Through an inadvertence it was stated in yesterday's Kumara Times that the formal opening of the new State School would take place that evening. It is this evening that the interesting ceremony will take place. The children and their parents will assemble in the school-houce at 6 p.m ; and at half-past seven they will be marched down to the Theatre Royal, where Mr Button M.H.R. will exhibit his magic lantern views to them. His Worship the Mayor will preside on the occasion. The Ladies Benevolent Society has already found some work to do. Yesterday a deserving case of distress was reported to them, and steps were promptly taken to afford the needed relief. The usual weekly parade of our local Rifles will take place this evening at the Public Hall, when arrangements will we understand be made for holding a monthly contest on the rifle range for a medal or some similar trophy. The settling on Stewart and Bulstrode's Two Year Old Sweep takes place this evening. It will be remembered that at the last meeting of the Committee of the Kumara Hospital Ward gentlemen were appointed to thoroughly canvass the town and district. These will enter upon their duties to-morrow, and we trust will meet with the success that so worthy an. object deserves. Referring to Sir George,Grey's I ted visit to the Maori King, Tawhiao, the West Coast Times questions whether "it be consistent with the dignity, either i of the past or present position of Sir George to wait on a blackamoor ppten- ] tate of the kind, no matter what beneficial may arise from the acceptance ■ of such a doubtful honor " During the week ended 19th inst. there were shipped 338 tons of coal from Greymouth, of which 213 tons were shipped coastwise and 125 tons foreign. A very interesting experiment with the telephone was recently made in Melbourne. The;use of a wire between Melbourne and Geelong having been obtained through the courtesy of the Telegraph department, an attempt was made i to transmit messages to and fro, the tele- | phone at the Melbourne end being one of those recently manufactured by Mr Josephs, and that at Geelong being the instrument made by Mr W. J. Thomas. It was found that the disturbing influence of the electric current circulating through the adjoining wires interfered with;the transmission of intelligible messages ; .but sounds could nevertheless be heard, and the operators were able to exchange w cooeys" very distinctly. The Resident Magistrate at Greymouth has inflicted the well-deserved punishment of one month's hard labor upon a fiend named Jane Leonard, who brutally assaulted her seven years of age. The Argus says the poor child was covered with bruises from head to foot, handfids of hair had been torn out of his head, and his body bore distinct marks of having been bitten by human teeth. The West Coast Times extracts a paragraph that appeared in these columns the' [ other day relative to the Burns Anniversary festival to take place in Greymouth shortly, in which it was said-—" There is to be a general-Ywell,. a general rejoice ing." Our contemporary adds. "Ithas been reported to us that Sandy "Stewart on the Craigelachie hill considers our contemporary's blank in the last line to be a vile slander against whiskey and bagpipes." The editor of the Grey River Argus is also exercised about the matter, and says that he "scorns the bage insinivation." In the Resident Magistrate's Court, Reef ton, Muller, the proprietor of a panorama of the Franco-Prussian war, sued Alexander Constantine, earner, in action for detenu and damages, in which the yalue of the goods detained (a panorama) was laid at £IOO, and damage in consequence of such detention, £SOO. After hearing evidence, the Resident Magistrate gave judgment for the full amount claimed ; and said that so strongly had he been impressed with the grossness of the defendant's conduct that he had felt strongly inclined to commit him for perjury. Mr Fox has been down upon the licensed victuallers again. He caused the whole of them at Marton to be prosecuted for opening their houses on New Year's night between 12 and 1 o'clock, although they took no payment for the liquor they supplied. Mr Fox adjudicated upon the cases, and fined each defendant 40s and costs. The severe weather that has lately occurred will be the forerunner of (indisposition —such as rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, and muscular sliifting pains. "Ghbllah's Great Indian Cures" have been pronounced by numbers of well-known Colonists to be the wonder, of the Nineteenth Century, through the extraordinary cures that have been effected in their own cases by these Indian medicines ; amongst these may be mentioned M. B. Hart, Esq. ex-Mayor of Christchurch; Melville Walker, Esq.-,-J.P., of Lyttelton ; John Griffen, Esq. J.P., of Dunedin { and Mr Alex. Mackintosh, of Mackintosh Bay, a very old colonist, and now 76 years of age, who had been sufferj ing from rheumatism for fourteen years, ! but is now quite cured. Testimonials may be seen and Medicines procured at all ' Medicine Vendors.—[Advt.]