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Kumara Times, Issue 416, 25 January 1878, Page 2

I Cable communicationbetween Singapore aadßatayia has been interrupted Bince •yesterday morning;, ' | This evening, at the Theatre Royal, a j complimentary benefit is to be given to ) J ; H. Stewart, who has so frequently given his assistance upon similar occasions. He has just recovered from a severe illness. ....'■■'. _ The Vem Archdeacon Harper has arrived in Kumar%_: from Hokitika and will preach in the Theatre Royal on 'Sunday evening.' ! The Rev. Mr Kirkland, of Otago, is to preach in the Presbyterian Church, Third street, on Sunday evening. Mrs Shiel and Miss Connel invite their friends to a farewell ball, to take place in th* Greymouth Hotel this evening. The full report of the proceedings at the R.M. Court on Thursday will be found on our fourth page. No important civil cases have been heard during this week's sitting of the R.M. Court. The meeting of the Borough Council: to have been held on Thursday evening was rather hastily adjourned until ■ tins' afternoon. There have been occasions on which His Worship the Mayor has exhibited the most exemplary patience in waiting for Councillors to roll up—what was the.reason of the hurry this time, Mr Seddon? ' The gentlemen appointed to canvass the town for subscriptions in aid of the local Hospital Ward have entered upon their work with spirit and are, we are glad to learn, meeting with a fair amount of ; encouragement. We hope to see the time when Kumara will support a hospital independent of any other in the County. Mr and Mrs Tavares made their second appearance in the Theatre Royal yesterday evening, when a carefully-selected programme was splendidly performed. For to-morrow (Saturday) night a most attractive bill is in preparation, and as it will "be the last opportunity that the people of Kumara will probably have for a long tune of witnessing the legitimate drama, it is to be hoped that there will be a*bumper house. The Librarian of the Kumara Literary Institute acknowledges receipt of a number of[Parliamentary Papers and Reports from Mr BarfT, M.H.R, , , The sale of the. European Hotel, Seddon street, was held this morning, and, after a spirited competition, the buildings, stock, &c., were knocked down to Mr Pollock for £IBO. letters of "Fairplay" and Thomas W. Brown with reference to the Hokitika sweeps are scarcely-admissible. Enough we imagine, has already been said to ensure theanaking of arrangements for drawings in future that-will not be open to suspicion The man named Grachan, whose attendance is sequired here for the purpose of giving evidence in cases of sly grog-sell-ing, was arrested, by the, police constable stationed at the Bealey, on Wednesday and forwarded 16 Kumara. ' The Grey River Argus states that a cablegram has been received from Melbourne by the agents, Messrs Girdwood, Lahman, and Co., stating tfiat ihe,. s.s. Albion had broken down,- and that there would be ho direct steamer to the Coast from Melbourne for three weeks.. Mr A! Burger, of Kumara, is one of the drawers of starters is Lynch's Sweep on the Champion Stakes, the settling on which took place satisfactorily last night. Each of ±he four-starters received £32 6s, j and forty-nine non-starters drew £2 12s j 9d each. The West Coast Times learns on reliable [authority, that Dr. Giles is to receive the I appointment of Resident Magistrate at Hokitika, in place of Mr Fitz Gerald, 'resigneS. It is understood, says the Post, that Mr Bunny is likely soon to nave his hopes ■realised of ebtaininga permanent Govern-

ment appointment. It is not now the Oemmissionership -of Annuities that is talked of, but a new office, viz., that of Commissioner of Railways for the North Island. Rangitikei possesses a very old settler in the person of Mr Cockburn, who has now attained the age of 105 years. He recently lost the use of his right arm, but previously to that he had enjoyed excellent health. A Poverty Bay organ thus relates a miraculous draught of fish :—" Te Papiha and the Maketu natives cast the great net (nearly a mile in length) on New Year's Day at the mouth of the Maketu River. About four hundred natives, men, women, and children, took part. When the net was drawn close in to the shore it'parted several times from sheer weight of fish, great numbers escaping, yet over twenty thousand kahawai, yellowtail, mackerel, and doheriheri were hauled on the beach, arid counted out in heaps of eight hundred each. The fish were hv fine condition, and Maketu will b« redolent with the 'odour of brine from the.ocean' for. some time to come ; indeed, any person coming from that part of the coast will be easily recognized. This haul denotes the untold wealth of fish-which abounds on the coast,' and I make bold to doubt if the windfall which befel Simon Peter of old on the shores of Lake Gennesaret was a * circuriistance' to it."

The "Australasian" concludes an article on the progress of New Zealand with the following paragraph {^-Itwill beseen from the foregoing figures that the people of New Zealand are making'.rapid strides along the path of prosperity ; and that under favor of a fiscal system which levies taxes for revenue and not for protective or confiscatory purposes, and with the aid of a steady influx of population from without, her progress is all that her best friends could and offers a reproachful contrast to our own slow rate of advance, thanks to the blundering incompetence of the men who have seized the reins of power "in Victoria, and are making us' the laughing-stock of our neighbours. The great blaze of animosity Which broke out at. Constantinople recently against Hobart Pashas was caused by his distinct: refusal,to bombard the peaceful towns oh the enemy's coast. The Turkish Government is naturally indignant at the destruction of its merchant vessels by the Russians,, but is even more wroth at Hobart's refusal to retaliate. "Let them fire but one shot and the case is altered. I will do my duty then; but bombard peaceful villages and destroy innocent people, I wont," Baid the Admiral sturdily, and he has. kept his word. An American lady coming from Canada assured the Customs officer that she had nothing but wearing apparel in her trunk, but he went to the bottom of the institution, where he found a dozen bottles of brandy stowed away. " Madam," demanded he, sternly, "do you call these wearing apparel?" "Yes" the lady demurely replied, "they are my husband's 'nightcaps.'" The estimated population of the globe is, according to Professor Dieterici, of Berlin, 1,200,000,000, or thirteen hundred millions. He reckons that of these the Caucasian race numbers 369,000,000 ; the Mongolian, 552,000,000.; the Negro and Ethiopian, 196,000,000 f the Malay, 200,000,000; the American Indian, 1,000,000.

The severe weather that has lately occurred will be the forerunner of indisposition—such as rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, and muscular shifting pains. "Ghollah's Great Indian Cures" have, been pronounced by numbers of 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 suffering from rheumatism for fourteen years, but is now quite cured. Testimonials may be seen and Medicines procured at all Medicine Vendors.—[Abvt]