The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1878.

Kumara Times, Issue 434, 15 February 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1878.

Reuter’s despatches from Europe up to the latest date tend strongly to support the view advanced by us on Wednesday, to the effect that a complete change of front had taken place, and that the war upon which Europe is now entering will be one between the allied Russian and Turkish forces, and a combination of the Western and Central European Powers, led by Great Britain. Russia’s complacency towards the Porte; Gortschakoff’s menacing telegram to the English Government; and finally Turkey’s protest against an English fleet entering the Dardanelles—all point to this conclusion. At any moment we may expect to learn that the gun has been fired that will prove the signal of a general conflagration. Happily, the lethargy into which it was feared by many the Mother-country had fallen, is being shaken off, and Her Majesty’s Mimisters seem ready at any moment to vindicate the honor of our country, and to maintain the prestige of her arms. The next news from the scene of these momentous events will be looked for with almost breathless anxiety in all parts of sjat Empire on which, it is our proud boast, that the sun never sets ; and nowheie more so than in this “ Greater Britain of the •South.”

(2) “ That the Arahura Road Board be informed that this Borough Council declines to interfere in the collection of the Road Board rates, the responsibility of collecting them, or otherwise, lying with each local body.” The Council then adjourned for a week. The special meeting, called for the purpose of revising the byelaws, lapsed for want of a quorum. At the meeting of the County Council yesterday, the following resolution was passed : —“ That a Committee, consisting of the Chairman, Mr Seddon, and the mover, in conjunction with Messrs O’Connor and Clarke, be appointed to endeavour to settle the dispute between the Council and Mr Wylde. ” The total value of imports received at Hokitika in 1877 amounted to £122,326, against £116,652 in the year 1876. The total value of exports for the past year amounted to £110,331, against £90,831 in the year 1873. During the quarter ending 31st December, 1877, there were forwarded in New Zealand 302,977 telegrams, being an increase of 23,682 over the corresponding quarter in the previous year. The cash revenue was £17,942 14s 4d, as against £16,286 9s 2d in the other period, an increase of £1,656 5s 2d. The value of General Government telegrams was £4,084 15s, being a decrease of £175 4s 6d. Mr P. T. Finn, a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court, in writing recently to the Southland Times on the subject of appeals and Magistrates, says, and every sensible man will agree with him, that “it would be a reasonable and rational improvement of our practice to require that Magistrates should be required to prove, by certificates of examination, that they are acquainted with the rudiments of the law which they have to administer.” If tills were to be made the rule, and it will have to be made sooner or later, the sooner the better, the doings of Magistrates would give rise to less odium and contempt than they now do, unfortunately with too much frequency. The Otago Daily Times, in giving statistics of the rainfall of the Colony, appropriately refers to the “Wet” Coast. That comp, must have been a bit of a wag in his way. In connection with the visit of Sir George Gx-ey to the King, it is stated that Winiata, the murderer of Packer, lives in hourly dread of capture, and his alarm is increased lest the renewal of old relations between the Government and the Kingites should result in his being surrendered. 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 cures that have been effected in their own cases by these Indian , medicines ; amongst these may be mentioned M. B. Half, Esq. ex-Mayor of Christchurch; Melville Walker, Esq., J.P., of Lyttelton ; John Griffen, Esq. J.P., of Dunedin ; and Mr Alex. Mackintosh, of Macldntosh 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 Yendors.—[Ajxvt.]