The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 418, 28 January 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1878.

Owing no doubt to the splendid weather prevailing yesterday, there was a large influx of visitors from both Greymouth and Hokitika. This evening Thompson's Southern Diorama of the American War will open at the Theatre Rdyal, and from the very flattering notices this entertainment has received from the press of Hokitika and elsewhere, we may fairly predict a bumper house. A novelty is introduced in connection with this exhibition in the shape of various prizes to be distributed amongst the audience, the chief ones this evening being a papier-mache, table tea and coffee service (4 pieces), a handsome hunting watch a sovereign, and 70 or more others. Mr* W, T. Smythe late manager of the Lydia Howarde Troupe is the agent, and Mr Thompson the proprietor is lecturer. On the fourth page will be found a table showing the value of any parcel of gold, from a grain to 3000z5., at the prices current in Kumara, viz., £3 16s for rough, and £3 17s for melted; also, the new Mining Regulations under "The Mines Act, 1877." .Attention is dhjected to a large number of sales by P. A. Learmonth and Co. to-morrow morning, comprising a first class hotel, business premises at'Dillman's Town, a cordial manufactory, and also two cottages, full particulars of which can be obtained on reference to our advertising columns. Tenders are called for by the Borough Council for forming streets and footpaths and building culverts. We understand that the Rev. Mr Gilbert has resigned his charge of Kumara, Goldsborough, and Stafford, and will, in future, be employed in clerical work in another part of the diocese. Another clergyman will be provided as quickly as possible, and till his arrival no services will be held, as it is probable that a month or two may elapse before suitable arrangements can be completed, of which due notice will be given in these columns. •Constable Clarke, recently in charge at Ahaura, has been arrested, the offence he is alleged to have committed being the appropriation of business licence fees collected by him. There are several charges against him, on some of which he has been remanded to Greymouth and on others to Reef ton. The body of Mr Zachariah Boult, who •was drowned a few weeks ago in the Arahura river, was found yesterday, by two persons who were out shooting, at the mouth of the Flowery Creek where it joins the sea. The body was greatly decomposed, but could be identified by the clothing, as. also by a book and some money found, in one of the pockets. In- , formation was at once given to the police, and the body was removed to Stafford Town, where an inquest will probably be held to-day. The following is a copy of the letter received by the Hon. Mr Sheehan from " King " Tawhiao :—" To you, the parent ofjthose who are dead, this is my letter i I have written to you and telegraphed to you before, but you have not listened to what I have said, I hear you left for Wellington without coming to see me, and I now ask you again to come and see me, that we may settle the affairs of this island. ' I will remain' here until the latter day of this month. • This is sufficient." _ A Canterbury paper states that information has reached its editor from a former resident on • the West Coast that the "prince of pickpockets" had just been liberated from the Hokitika gaol, tod had chosen Canterbury for a new field of enterprise. An Otago paper says that Inspector Mallard of Dunedin is to be shifted to a second-rate inland police command for . not being amenable to the influences of the ;' Dunedin clique in the notorious Proudfoot case. This is how the Oamaru Mail takes a i contemporary to task:—"A paper published in Dunedin, called the Herald, 1 infers that people who do not advertise in it have "no stuff in them." It must •be hard times mdeod • when the usual suavity of a canvasser ia stultified by the , iibusiveness of an editor."

Mr M 'Liver, of the Thames, has gone to England intending to assert his claim as heir of the late Lord Clyde. It is said thai his case is a very good one. The Geelbng Advertiser states that "the military authorities are about to place heavy ordnance at Port Phillip Heads for the purpose of defending the entrance to the bay from the seaboard.

When Sir James M'Culloeh was in office, says jJCgles in the Australasian, his private secretary was a son of Garibaldi, the Liberator of Italy. This office the youngest Garibaldi lias efficiently filled. But the spirit of retrenchment having seized upon the Hon. Graham Berry, this is how he, in this instance, retrenched. Garibaldi junior is made a truant inspector in Gipps Land, an office for which his lameness (from a wound on the battle field) unfits him. And how does the stern, inflexible, and pure patriot deal with the created vacancy? He increases the salary of the office from £l5O to £2OO per annum, and then confers it upon his son-in-law. It was his father-in-law on a previous occasion.) All this, of course, in the character of a reformer unflinchingly carrying out a scheme of economical entrenchment. The heat in New South Wales has been something fearful this summer, as will be seen by the following telegrams to the Australasian :—The weather at Walgett to-day is intensly hot and water is very scarce. The rivers are drying up fast, and stock is dying. There is no appearnce of rain. The thermometer registered 120 ,in the shade to-day. The average temperature lor six Aveeks at Coonamble has been 102 in the shade.

Plevna contained about 17,000 people, 2 churches, 10 mosques, 9 minarets ; 1427 houses inhabited by Christians,-and 1627 by Mussulmen. A curious point has recently been decided in London. Thomas Phillips and Robert Cable were charged with being drunk and incapable in a public thoroughfare. They were in a cart, Cable lying down on the bottom and Phillips having the reins, but quite incapable of driving. The magistrate fined Phillips, but discharged Cable, observing that he could not fine a man who was simply drunk in his vehicle. It would be monstrous if a gentleman going home from dinner in his carnage were to be taken out and charged because he had drunk too much wine.

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 well-known Colonists to be <the wonder of the Nineteenth Century, through the extraordinary oures that have been effected in their own cases by these Indiali medicines ; amongst these may be mentioned M. B. Hart, Esq. ex-Mayor of j Ghrist- ■ church; Melville Walker, Esq., 'J.P., of Lyttelton ; John Griffen, Esq. J.P., of Dunedin ;" and Mi* Alex. Mackintosh} ;pf 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 cared. Testimonials may be seen' and Medicines procured at all Medicine Vendors.—[Advt.]