The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1878,

Kumara Times, Issue 459, 16 March 1878, Page 2

The Kumara Times. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1878,

It appears that we are indebted to Mr Duggan for the letter left at this office, reference to which was made in yesterday’s issue. Tho following is the document :—“ Copy of Resolutions passed at a meeting of Catholics of this district; Mr P. Dungan hi the chair :—Proposed by Mr Griffith, seconded by Mr P. W. Ryan, ‘That in the opinion of this meeting the conduct of the Kumara Times in its issues !of Monday and Tuesday of this week is highly offensive and insulting to Catholics, and quite uncalled for, and unjustifiable, and calculated to disturb the peace of the community; and further, that under present management, it is unworthy of our support.’—Carried unanimously. Proposed by Mr P. W. Ryan, seconded by Mr B. Delargy, ‘ That a copy of the foregoing resolution be forwarded to the Kumara Times for publication.’— Carried unanimously.” It is not our intention further to carry on a controversy that is now of interest only to a very small section of the community. Our opinion of the proceedings, of which the above purports to be a report, Is expressed in the concluding lines of our leader of the 14th inst. By-the-way was not the schoolmaster even more than usually, “abroad” when the above resolutions were drafted.

Mr D. Virtue will preach at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening.

The drawing of Ollivier’s “Flutter” on the Greymouth Races will take place this evening.at Greymouth. There are a few tickets remaining in Kumara which can be procured at Messrs Bulstrode’s or Gilbert Stewart’s Hotels.

We regret to learn that William Fraser had. his arm broken in the accident that occurred at Dunedin Flat reported in our issue of yesterday evening.

We remind those concerned that tenders for the headworks at Kawhaka of the Waimea Water Race will be received at the Public Works office Hokitika up to Mopday evening, the 18th inst. There are over fifty horses in Greymouth to take part in the coming races. It is unfortunate that, everything else being favourable, the weather should at present be so threatening.

The population of Westport, according to the late census returns, is 1164. The Ashburton Mail not inappropriately designates Invercargill'“ the jejune metropolis of the South.” . . ' -»

Captain S, E. Read, the first settler in Poverty Bay, dropped dead the other day. He leaves a widow, but all the property goes to his nephews. It is supposed to be worth £200,000 at least. The Ross Guardian seems to have a curious notion of what “ sportsmen” are. It designates by this title pothunters who during this, the close, season in Ross “may be seen wending their way home, loaded with game after their day’s sport.” The Wellington Post, referring to the lynching of the man Joseph at Nelson, says “We applaud the action of Mr Morris Levy,- the father of one of the . girls,'.whom this ruffian Joseph attempted to outrage. We sincerely hope that the hunting whip was properly applied, and that there is not a single inch of the carcass of the infamous Joseph which is not covered with welts. In his own way, Mr Morris Levy has been literally a scourge to the wicked, and all right-think-ing people will concur in the verdict with respect to Joseph of ‘ served him right.’ ” The Canadian correspondent of the London “Times,” referring to a rumor that the present Governor of New Zealand was likely to succeed the Earl Duffcrin as Governor-General of Canada, expresses the opinion that all such conjecture is premature. The Duke of Manchester and the Marquis of Lome have also been mentioned for the same post. Socrates used to say that it was pleasant to grow old, with good health, and a good friend, and he might have reason as health is the greatest of all possessions and ’tis and an old maxim, that a hale cobbler is a better man than a sick King, but unfortunately diseases of a painful and violent nature attack all, from the Prince to the beggar, and then will a golden staff help gouty feet, or a wooden stick, rheumatic legs to walk'? Reader—should you suffer with rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia or muscular stifling pains, use “Ghollah’s Groat Indian Cures,” the wonder of the Nineteenth Century. Testimonials may be seen and Medicines procured at all Medicine Vendors.—[Advt.]