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Kumara Times, Issue 419, 29 January 1878, Page 2

The first election of a School Committee for the district of Araliura, under the Education Act of 1876, took place yesterday evening in the school-house, Waimea. About 8' o’clock, when 85 persons had assembled, the chairman, Mr |M‘Whirter, ordered the' doors to be locked,, anci after explaining his interpretation of that portion of the Act referring to the election of committees, distributed 84 ballot-papers, the “odd man’out” being a constable who said he was only there ex officio. Messrs Wyldeand Galland, two of the Kumara contingent acted as scrutineers, and the result of the poll was.—M‘Whirter, 109; Seddon, 83; Duhgan, 66 ; Lyons, 67 ; Wilson, 81; George, 59 ; Zeigler, 55 ; Pollock, 30 ; Stanton, 9. .- The first seven were, therefore, declared duly elected. Several of the successful candidates having addressed the meeting, the proceedings terminated. Mr Price R.M.. has plenty of business before him when he visits Kumara on Thursday. ' Twenty informations for slygrog selling have been sworn ; there are several criminal charges to be heard, and nearly fifty civil cases. Mesers Learmonth hud Co., held a sale of property! to-day, when the Albion Hotel was knocked down to Mr Paterson for £260, and the cottage recently occupied by Mr Mcllroy to Mr Cornfoot for £6l. We ;are informed by a gentleman who counted heads as the congregation emerged from the Theatre;-0n..-Sunday evening, when Archdeacon Harper preached, that it numbered nearly seven hundred persons. ■ A -meeting. of;, tjho ladies of the newlyformed Kumara Ladies Benevolent Society is to be held this evening. The final drawing:in Evans and Hansen’S Sweep concluded,'we learn by telegram, at 5.30 this morning. The first prize went to Ross, the ; second to Mr John Cameron, ; of Hokitika, and the third to Christchurch. ......... At the R.M. Court, Greymouth, yesterday,':F..l. Davis was charged, iht' information from Wellington, with embezzlement, and, remanded' for eight days, bail allowed. Reefton his already moved in the matter of making arrangements properly to receive SirGeorge' Grey and Mr Macandfew.' The Iriangahita Times states that the-members of the County Council have been appointed a reception committee. ,; Does the Kumara, i Borough Council mean to play second fiddle to Reefton? .: i