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Kumara Times, Issue 432, 13 February 1878, Page 2

In consequence of the comments we have considered it necessary to make on the extraordinary news received relative to an alliance between Russia and Turkey, we must again hold over an article on the Hospital question “Good news for the million’’ is announced in our advertising columns by Messrs Morgan and Love, in the fact that they are willing to supply first class meat at the most reasonable prices. The Drawing of Lynch’s Sweep on the Dunedin Gup will take place on Wednesday next the 20th inst. As there are but few tickets now remaining, speculators will require to invest early to secure them. The following accident, related by the Bendigo Advertiser, bears a family resemblance to one that occurred a few months ago on the Christchurch road, near Kowai Pass;—“A Chinaman was driving a covered dray at Sydney Flat when a whirlwind came rushing along and lifted the dray three feet off the ground. The top of it then gave way, and was earned heavenward, while the body came down with a bump which broke one of the shafts and made the horse bolt'”' A little girl has been drowned at Stoke, near Nelson, by falling into a tub of water. Describing some of the experiments with the telephone in Dunedin, the Daily Times says :—“ What seems strange about the telephone is, that when attached to the ordinary line wire the ticking of the ‘ keys ’ while sending messages from the central station along the other wires was all distinctly heard through the telephone at North Dunedin, Some five wires were working at once, and the messages being transmitted were all heard through the telephone— not in a jumble of sound, but each message on the several lines, altogether disconnected with the telephone was audible. The telephone was also tried between Dunedin and Mosgiel a distance of eleven or twelve miles, and Mi* Logan, inspector of telegraph lines not only sent spoken messages here, but

sang ‘ Annie Laurie,’ the words of which all came out perfectly clear.” The Lyttelton Times hears that the Most Rev. the Primate intends to visit England shortly, for the purpose of taking part in a conference of Bishops of the Anglican Church, to be held at Lambeth Palace. The following advertisement appears in the North Canterbury News of the 6th instant. “ Wanted next Sunday, during divine service, four good old swipers to drink beer in a stable. They can have a few old sacks to hide them, and a dummy to bring the beer. Apply, personally, to —.” Perhaps if this were inserted in these columns it might bring a satisfactory response. The Sun this week is critical on the subject of barmaids. The following opinions are expressed ex cathedra. “Her smiles should be frequent and impartially bestowed, as sweet to the cabman who calls for a glass of ale as to the capitalist who orders baskets of champagne. Spooning she should by all means eschew, for a spooning barmaid is an abomination in the sight of everyone but the “cup of tea” she is stirring. Graceful should she bo and faultlessly attired, not gaudily but quietly with a neatly fitting boddice, and not too prolific a skirt; above all she should attend to the interests of her employer and bear herself modestly.” The Penge starvation case is likely to be reopened. Evidence has been obtained tending, it is said, to exculpate the three convicts, which is being submitted to eminent * counsel for their opinion and advice. ■ ■ A telegram from Palmerston in the Northern territory of South Australia, reports that a party of police and volunteers had returned from the search after Ellis’s murderers. They surrounded the natives, who refused to surrender, and offered I strenuous resistance. Seventeen natives 1 were shot, and one volunteer wounded; not dangerously. One of the blacks, who speared a Chinaman lately, is a notorious character, and is supposed to have murdered James May some time since. A large number of natives are hovering about, evidently intent on mischief. The Fiji Times reports an occurrence that should not be allowed under the British flag, which “ never floats over a slave,”; at Waitovu a few weeks back. A Cakandrovi chief met with a young girl from his own district in the native town at Waitovu, and ordered'her to go on board his vessel, which was anchored off the town. The girl well knowings for what she was wanted, refused, when this worthy, in a spirit suitable to past times in Fiji, sent four men to bring her by force. This they did, but not before the girl was perfectly exhausted from struggling, and all her clothes tom in tatters. She. was then thrown into the bottom of a boat, taken on board, and the vessel at once sailed. 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” nave been pronounced by numbers of well-known Colonists to be the wonder of the Nineteenth Century, through the extraordinary, cures tliat 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.— [Advt.]